Language Of The Heart

The psalms meet us where we are, even when our feelings are less than godly.

The Sunday after Easter in 1995 I was going to give my pastor a break and preach. My text was from the end of John, but something happened that week that changed my sermon plans. On Wednesday, a bomb demolished the Federal Building in Oklahoma City. Innocent men and women, preschoolers, even babies, were ravaged by the explosion, and they were no more.

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