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Where Is God When It Hurts?

A sermon given on the Virginia Tech campus two weeks after the shootings.

Philip Yancey | posted 6/06/2007 05:31PM

We gather here still trying to make sense of what happened in Blacksburg, still trying to process the unprocessable. We come together in this place, as a Christian community, partly because we know of ...

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Nathaniel

Posted: June 12, 2007 7:56 AM

I always think that as Christians we should not pay so much attention to pains and sufferings, God will heal us. This is the first time that I find we should honor pain because it shows life. Thanks for this information. God loves us, He promises to redeem us, but not keep us from pains. Compared to the suffering and pains our Lord endured on the cross, what happen to us in our daily life really does not matter. We should always prepare ourselves well for the tragedies in the future cause we live in a falling world. But we always have hope, finally we will meet Him and the tears on our faces will be wipe by Him.

CMAIOCCA

Posted: June 10, 2007 11:10 AM


Phillip Yancey, long time hero, seeker of God, not satisfied with glib answers. Thank you my friend...praying for your healing.

wmfla@aol.com

Posted: June 09, 2007 8:05 AM


This was beautiful and truthful. I thank God for the way Brother Yancy presents the Lord. Let us remember that the memories of this will live with these individuals for the rest of their lives. Bathe them in prayer. Bobby

martha

Posted: June 08, 2007 9:38 AM

I am thankful that God spared Phil Yancey's life! We need the results of HIS connections with God--with life. My daughter's three-year old child, my grandchild, died four years ago. My daughter's life has been immersed in pain since then. Beginning today, I will encourage her to read this "sermon" no less than once a week, until her pain begins to be her healing balm. Thank you, Phil Yancey. Thank you, Lord, for Phil Yancey's life, love for you, and for his intellect.

H. D. Schmidt

Posted: June 08, 2007 9:06 AM

However, and with all due respect, what are Christians really doing all over America and even all over the world, to avoid such evils? Oh yes! There is much said in the pulpits as to how God is in all of it, yet I feel there is great delinquency within the Christian pulpits, about what must be done to avoid these evils the likes of Virginia Tech. The public schools are now nothing really but where God is treated no better than a stray dog. Yes, Joseph Califano in his book entitled: High Society, he states the following on page 9: America comprises only 4% of the world population but consumes more than half of the mood altering and painkilling of all pharmaceutials and 2/3rds of all the world's illegal drugs. What does this say about America the Nation under God and calling itself the Christian nation above all of the nations in the world? Yes, I am ever impressed with Yancey's sermons! But the real issue is: Where is the Christian expertize demanded by Scriputre in preventive actions?

Eunice kassim

Posted: June 07, 2007 1:30 AM


It is wonderful and comforting to learn from this sermon that even in our deepest pain and confusion, God's love still sorrounds us in the form of friends , family and church.Thanks Mr. Yancey.

MT	Posted: June 06, 2007 1:34 PM


Simply put, he's the best lay theologian alive. I would love to meet and speak with him.

Kelly Klepfer

Posted: June 06, 2007 12:47 PM


Thanks. Powerful grace-infused thoughts, beautifully written.

John	Posted: June 06, 2007 12:41 PM

Very eloquent. Are american lives more important than the lives of people in Iraq? I can't help thinking that if Christians in our country had the same empathy for the Iraqi people who have suffered the equivalent of 2 or 3 Va Tech tragedies every for the past 4 years, the present would have to immediately end the occupation of Iraq and make a geniune effort to bring security and re-build the country.

Steve Cuss

Posted: June 06, 2007 12:17 PM


This article is all the evidence we need that Phil Yancey is THE writer for todays Christians. Thanks Phil and heal well.

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