Finding Hope and Healing in Grief and Loss
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### Quotes for Outreach
1. "The gospel alone stands as our hope. Atheism tells you, too bad, you lost the life. There's no order. Everything's accidental. Religion says you didn't try hard enough. You didn't give enough money. You didn't say enough prayers. Karma says you did something in your past. That's how it works. The gospel alone says God loves you. He loves you enough to come to the cross, not to provide a temporary solution for our immediate happiness here on earth, but to provide the only, long-term solution to the brokenness in the world." [19:30] (51 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
2. "Our hope is not that somehow we will get through life unscathed, without any sorrow or difficulty or heartache, that somehow your road, that if you're good enough or spiritual enough or holy enough, if you're lucky enough, that somehow you'll somehow navigate life and you'll avoid all of the heartache that goes with being human. That's not our hope. Our hope is not that we will not go through heartache, because Paul says, that God turns evil to good, which requires that many times we go through the evil." [15:31] (42 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
3. "If you're here and you don't know Jesus Christ as your Savior, that you've never entrusted your life into His care, receiving the forgiveness that He offers through His death on the cross, and making Him the leader of your life to become a Christian, I can think of no better place or time for you to surrender to the call of Christ on your life than this morning." [46:34] (22 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
4. "We have a God who draws near to us in our hurt, in our pain, in our disappointment, in our suffering. And so whether the heartbreak you shared this morning is related to Jared and Ellie's passing, or whether your heartbreak is something else that you carried with this morning, the Lord is close to the brokenhearted. You will never find God to be more close to you when you feel like your world has been shattered." [19:30] (47 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
### Quotes for Members
1. "Tears and grief are one of God's ways of helping us process loss. We find at least three stories about Jesus in the Bible, where He's grieving deeply. One, is when His friend Lazarus dies, and He shows up at the grave, and it says that Jesus wept, and He even knew He was going to raise Lazarus from the dead, but He was human, and there was grief there, and He wept." [06:03] (34 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
2. "When we're faced with things we don't understand, tragedy, we pray. I think of Ephesians chapter 6. The Apostle Paul is talking about spiritual warfare, and how there are evil spiritual forces battling, and he says, you know, put on the armor of God. the reason you need the armor of God is because our struggle, he says in verse 12, is not against flesh and blood, but it's against the rulers, the authorities, and the powers of this dark world, and against the spiritual forces of evil in the spiritual realms." [07:49] (44 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
3. "Jesus understands our grief. He hears our grief. He hears our prayers, but he has also endured the cross. That's why he went to the cross, and we are to look to him as our example, as the one that we hold on to when all of life seems to fall apart." [11:53] (26 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
4. "In Romans chapter 8, the apostle Paul is kind of waxing eloquent about how the whole earth is waiting for redemption. He says that all of creation is groaning like a woman in childbirth. He, you know, she, she, she has hope that the baby is going to be born, but right now it just really, really hurts, and she's enduring, and every woman here goes, yeah, yeah, yeah, and all the guys are like, thank God it's not me, and he says the world is like that. The world is groaning because of the evil, and because of the hurt, and because of the sin, and because things are not the way they're supposed to be." [13:37] (43 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
5. "So yes, we grieve, and yes, we pray, but we also hope. Our hope is not that somehow we will get through life unscathed, without any sorrow or difficulty or heartache, that somehow your road, that if you're good enough or spiritual enough or holy enough, if you're lucky enough, that somehow you'll somehow navigate life and you'll avoid all of the heartache that goes with being human. That's not our hope. Our hope is not that we will not go through heartache, because Paul says, that God turns evil to good, which requires that many times we go through the evil." [15:31] (51 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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1. "The gospel alone stands as our hope. Atheism tells you, too bad, you lost the life. There's no order. Everything's accidental. Religion says you didn't try hard enough. You didn't give enough money. You didn't say enough prayers. Karma says you did something in your past. That's how it works. The gospel alone says God loves you. He loves you enough to come to the cross, not to provide a temporary solution for our immediate happiness here on earth, but to provide the only, long-term solution to the brokenness in the world." [19:30] (51 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
2. "Our hope is not that somehow we will get through life unscathed, without any sorrow or difficulty or heartache, that somehow your road, that if you're good enough or spiritual enough or holy enough, if you're lucky enough, that somehow you'll somehow navigate life and you'll avoid all of the heartache that goes with being human. That's not our hope. Our hope is not that we will not go through heartache, because Paul says, that God turns evil to good, which requires that many times we go through the evil." [15:31] (42 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
3. "If you're here and you don't know Jesus Christ as your Savior, that you've never entrusted your life into His care, receiving the forgiveness that He offers through His death on the cross, and making Him the leader of your life to become a Christian, I can think of no better place or time for you to surrender to the call of Christ on your life than this morning." [46:34] (22 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
4. "We have a God who draws near to us in our hurt, in our pain, in our disappointment, in our suffering. And so whether the heartbreak you shared this morning is related to Jared and Ellie's passing, or whether your heartbreak is something else that you carried with this morning, the Lord is close to the brokenhearted. You will never find God to be more close to you when you feel like your world has been shattered." [19:30] (47 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
### Quotes for Members
1. "Tears and grief are one of God's ways of helping us process loss. We find at least three stories about Jesus in the Bible, where He's grieving deeply. One, is when His friend Lazarus dies, and He shows up at the grave, and it says that Jesus wept, and He even knew He was going to raise Lazarus from the dead, but He was human, and there was grief there, and He wept." [06:03] (34 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
2. "When we're faced with things we don't understand, tragedy, we pray. I think of Ephesians chapter 6. The Apostle Paul is talking about spiritual warfare, and how there are evil spiritual forces battling, and he says, you know, put on the armor of God. the reason you need the armor of God is because our struggle, he says in verse 12, is not against flesh and blood, but it's against the rulers, the authorities, and the powers of this dark world, and against the spiritual forces of evil in the spiritual realms." [07:49] (44 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
3. "Jesus understands our grief. He hears our grief. He hears our prayers, but he has also endured the cross. That's why he went to the cross, and we are to look to him as our example, as the one that we hold on to when all of life seems to fall apart." [11:53] (26 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
4. "In Romans chapter 8, the apostle Paul is kind of waxing eloquent about how the whole earth is waiting for redemption. He says that all of creation is groaning like a woman in childbirth. He, you know, she, she, she has hope that the baby is going to be born, but right now it just really, really hurts, and she's enduring, and every woman here goes, yeah, yeah, yeah, and all the guys are like, thank God it's not me, and he says the world is like that. The world is groaning because of the evil, and because of the hurt, and because of the sin, and because things are not the way they're supposed to be." [13:37] (43 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
5. "So yes, we grieve, and yes, we pray, but we also hope. Our hope is not that somehow we will get through life unscathed, without any sorrow or difficulty or heartache, that somehow your road, that if you're good enough or spiritual enough or holy enough, if you're lucky enough, that somehow you'll somehow navigate life and you'll avoid all of the heartache that goes with being human. That's not our hope. Our hope is not that we will not go through heartache, because Paul says, that God turns evil to good, which requires that many times we go through the evil." [15:31] (51 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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