“Lament is missional because it keeps the world before God, and it draws God into the world – with the longing that God should act, and the faith that he ultimately will.” — Christopher J.H. Wright Copy Share Image
“Since we seem to have lost the willingness, the vocabulary, or even the capacity, to engage in authentic biblical lament (at least in public worship and certainly in the West), what use have we for a book with such a… — Christopher J.H. Wright Copy Share Image
“There is one voice we never hear. God does not speak in the whole book of Lamentations.11 Heaven is silent. Which does not necessarily… — Christopher J.H. Wright Copy Share Image
“When we connect the death of Christ to the Old Testament, as Paul tells us we should,45 we can see the destruction of Jerusalem… — Christopher J.H. Wright Copy Share Image
“Lament is missional because it keeps the world before God, and it draws God into the world – with the longing that God should… — Christopher J.H. Wright Copy Share Image
“At the heart of Deuteronomy stands chapter 15, with its laws on the release of debts and slaves.” — Christopher J.H. Wright Copy Share Image
“To dwell in love with saints above— Oh that will be glory! But to dwell below with saints we know— Ah! That’s a different… — Christopher J.H. Wright Copy Share Image
“It is well known that great art, great music and great literature can emerge out of great pain. This does not lessen the reality… — Christopher J.H. Wright Copy Share Image
“It is surely very ironic and tragic if those who speak most loudly about the gifts of the Spirit are themselves failing to show… — Christopher J.H. Wright Copy Share Image
“Since we seem to have lost the willingness, the vocabulary, or even the capacity, to engage in authentic biblical lament (at least in public… — Christopher J.H. Wright Copy Share Image
“So then, we must not read Lamentations without the rest of the Bible. But equally, we should not read the rest of the Bible… — Christopher J.H. Wright Copy Share Image
“relationship between God and Old Testament Israel. In fact, as Jeremiah and other prophets pointed out, the catastrophe of 587 BC was not a… — Christopher J.H. Wright Copy Share Image
“the whole Bible is itself a missional phenomenon. The writings that now comprise our Bible are themselves the product of and witness to the… — Christopher J.H. Wright Copy Share Image
