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Christ Community - Leawood Campus

With God: In Darkness and Hope - July 12 | Leawood

Lamentations - 9:00, 10:30 AM & ON-DEMAND

Locations & Times

14200 Kenneth Rd, Leawood, KS 66224, United States

Sunday 7:00 AM

Lamentations 3:1-18 CSB

Title: Lamentations
Reference: Lamentations 3:1–18
Speaker: Ben Beasley, BenB@cckc.church

Now that punishment has arrived. It marks the most horrendous national catastrophe in the history of Judah, the most colossal break in the entire relationship between God and Israel since its beginning. The very foundations of Judah have crumbled: the country has been conquered, the Davidic monarchy brought to an end, the temple destroyed, and the people exiled from their land. No matter that Deuteronomy had envisioned it and the prophets had foretold it; nothing could prepare one for the cruel reality and the apparent finality of the situation. The burden of Lamentations is not to question why this happened, but to give expression to the fact that it did. - Adele Berlin, Lamentations

What do you say to God when your world falls apart?

– Radical, Unflinching Confession

To confess your sins to God is not to tell God anything God doesn't already know. Until you confess them, however, they are the abyss between you. When you confess them, they become the Golden Gate Bridge. - Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking

– Uncensored protest.

Numb out, flame out, or go deep. - Tish Harrison Warren, What Grows in Weary Lands: On Christian Resilience.

– Long Waiting in the Dark.

The task of the prophet is to convey the word of God…[but] one cannot understand the word without sensing the pathos…an analysis of prophetic utterances shows that the fundamental experience of the prophet is a fellowship with the feelings of God. - Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Prophet’s

For you, O divine life, never kill unless to give life, never wound unless to heal. When you chastise, your touch is gentle, but it is enough to destroy the world…You have wounded me in order to cure me, O divine hand, and you have put to death in me what made me lifeless, what deprived me of God’s life in which I now see myself live. – St. John of the Cross, The Living Flame of Love: Study Edition

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