Embrace the will of God, however painful, daily, hourly, continually. From The People's New Testament , B.W. Johnson, 1891. Peter denies him, the other ten flee from him when he is arrested. It reveals just how easy it is to confuse adulation and truth. Sermon Preparation Thoughts and Questions by Wesley White, St Luke's United Methodist Church, La Crosse, Wisconsin.
Christians still have a bit to learn from Buddhists and others around the issue of suffering.
Self-help is no help at all. Theology I, pp. Robert Ellsberg at The Living Pulpit . At Religion Online . In Mark we are confronted by both suffering and exaltation, defeat and victory, weakness and power, death and life in its fullness.