The older I get, the more I find that the evil and suffering of this world weighs heavy on me. Friends get cancer. Drunk drivers cross lines and destroy families. Children are murdered attending at school, even while going to chapel services. Political figures are assassinated. Injury. Illness. Suffering. Turmoil. Death. This seems to be the constant state of the world and we always seem to be teetering on the edge of falling into a great pit, brimming with chaos and evil of every sort, entirely powerless before it
And when we feel trapped and powerless, we seek solutions. What can we do in the face of such terrors?
Find out in this sermon for Holy Cross Day from St. John's Lutheran Church of Oakes, ND!
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