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In the summer of 1988, wildfires consumed nearly 800,000 acres of Yellowstone National Park. Visitors wept at the blackened ridgelines, the skeletal lodgepole pines, the...
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Generate a sermon →On February 15, 2015, twenty-one men knelt on a beach near Sirte, Libya, wearing orange jumpsuits, facing the Mediterranean Sea. They were Coptic Christians —...
"The new creation begun in resurrection is completed: heaven and earth joined, tears ended, death destroyed. This is not escape FROM creation but its RENEWAL. God dwells with humanity in a remade world. Every tear wiped because creation is finally whole." — N.T.
"Christ wipes tears—He who wept at Lazarus' tomb, who sweat drops of blood, who cried on the cross. He knows tears; He ends them. His resurrection is the beginning of this new world; His return completes it. All things are...
"Every tear wiped—tears of injustice, oppression, exploitation. No more death from poverty, from violence, from neglect. This vision indicts present arrangements and energizes present resistance. The coming world without tears judges the tear-causing systems of this world." — Walter Brueggemann.
"This is eternal Pascha—Christ is risen, death is trampled, tears are ended. The paschal victory extends to all creation; the new heaven and earth participate in resurrection. 'Let no one fear death'—it is destroyed. Paschal joy becomes eternal reality." — St.
"God wipes the tears of the martyrs, the poor, the persecuted. No more death from poverty; no more mourning from violence; no more pain from injustice. Liberation is complete; the kingdom has fully come. The blood of martyrs becomes seed...
"HE will wipe every tear—God Himself, personally, tenderly. The ultimate comfort is not absence of pain but presence of God. He makes His dwelling among us; that is the joy. Tears cease because HE is there. God with us—this is...
"He will wipe every tear—personally, tenderly, finally. No more death; the last enemy destroyed. No more mourning; sorrow turned to joy. No more pain; suffering ended forever. The old order passes; all things become new. This is our hope; this...