April 2020

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God Who Suffers

Palm Sunday’s drive-through food drive at Ginghamsburg Church’s Tipp City Campus

A global pandemic. Near empty streets. Millions unemployed. Daily updates on new infections and mounting deaths. Passover and Easter celebrations in this holy season will have a much different meaning.

This Holy Week has me reflecting on the meaning of suffering. Why God? What did the Apostle Paul mean when he said, “I want to know Christ, yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings…?” How can resurrection and suffering be part of the whole? Need I say that I would prefer the power of resurrection minus the suffering?

Here are a few of my reflections from my journal meditations this week:

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