RoboPreacher

we sat down & wept I couldn’t have been here more than a month; I was making a hospital visit, when out of nowhere she asked: “what do you think, why would God let Pastor Chuck die so young.” That was the first time I touched, for myself, the scar that had ripped across this place. I knew that Pastor Chuck’s sudden and tragic death was a part of this place’s story. That day, though, I learned that the scar was still raw. That day I learned that tragedy had ripped across you all and left sorrow and that terrible question in its wake, “why.” That day in the hospital, the woman I was visiting had known me for as long as about ten minutes, and Pastor Chuck’s death had happened over ten years ago. Yet, when she was confronted with someone from Trinity, the first question on her lips wasn’t “how are you,” but “ how could God let something like this happen.” We all know what that’s like, too; to be tormented by some tragedy that prods at what we think we know about G...

from exodus for exile   As we noted during earlier, we're moving through a lot of time, quickly.... Last week we had Exodus , or liberation. What happened between that story last week and the story of exile this week is that those people of God, after some years wandering in the wilderness did, finally, come into the promised land! Before the people came into the land, though, Moses stops them and gives a sermon . A sermon reminding the people who they are, and reminding them of the laws God gave them at that mountain. It is almost as if Moses is saying, it is important to pause before we get to the promise because should we ever forget God's commands, if we should forget who we are and where we came, from it will be all to easy for us to turn into the Egyptians ourselves... There's the tragedy of the story of exile; Something happened once God's people finally reached the promise... Have you ever heard that rhetorical question: What...