“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 in 587 BC as a portent of the cross (both of them acts of human wickedness… — 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
