Musing on “Victory Theology” “Victory theology” falsely claims that “all things can be overcome now in this life.” Yet, Paul said that some things were “beyond his ability to endure” (2 Cor. 1:8). Luther negatively called victory theology “a...
Our Unbiblical Thinking About Suffering Much of our thinking about suffering is unbiblical. We tend to think that spiritual maturity somehow inoculates us against the pain of suffering. We falsely imagine that the more spiritually mature we are, the less emotional...
Jesus: Man of Suffering, Soul Physician of the Suffering, and Sympathetic High Priest Follow this link for your free 50-Page PDF: The Gospels, Traumatic Suffering, and the Embodied-Soul. If you’d like to share the link with others, here it is:...
Jesus: The Man of Suffering and the Soul Physician of the Suffering Follow this link for your free 40-Page PDF: The Gospels and Suffering: Jesus—The Man of Suffering and the Soul Physician of the Suffering. If you’d like to share the link with others, here it is:...
The Life-Long, Chronic Suffering of Jesus When we think of Christ as the “man of sorrows” (Isaiah 53:3), we often think primarily of Christ’s suffering on the cross. Of course, the four Gospels do consistently depict Christ’s Passion Week of suffering, crucifixion,...
The Double Trauma of Suffering The trauma of suffering is two-fold. In God’s Healing for Life’s Losses, I introduce the biblical concept of two levels or layers of traumatic-suffering: Level One Suffering: What happens to us. What we experience. “The world is fallen...
