Suffering (33)
  1. The point Luther made, again and again, was that distance between God and sinners is collapsed when the crucified Christ himself comes to sinners through a preacher.
  2. As a parent listens for the cry of a hurting child, our heavenly Father waits for our cry of weal and woe.
  3. Jesus overcame sin, death, and Satan on the cross. His bloody suffering and death marked this sinful world's defeat.
  4. Jesus will strengthen and encourage us because he is true life, and life has defeated death.
  5. Satan and the old Adam don't want Jesus to bear our crosses for us because that means we can't claim that we've done anything to merit God's mercy and salvation.
  6. Jesus is a real person talking to you and feeding you, which is beyond intellectual Christianity!
  7. His word is what strengthens and changes our hearts. The Lord God will bring us victory.
  8. What a person quickly realizes when sin, death, and Satan attack in concrete reality is how inadequate and ill-equipped they are to fight them off.
  9. There is true help in the midst of our pain. Someone who suffered as we suffer, who embraced all our pain in his suffering and death on a cross.
  10. God hides from us on purpose so he can be God for us without limits or measures in the way of faithful, loving-kindness.
  11. Most days, we're not okay. We're not good enough, strong enough, or "Christian" enough.
  12. Jesus isn't just "the reason for the season." He's the reason we don't have to cross off "spiritually bankrupt," "mentally compromised," and "physically vulnerable" from our Christmas list.
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