{"href":"http://player.captivate.fm/services/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.captivate.fm%2Fepisode%2Fe3a6126c-5164-4587-b63b-d67994ec4e47","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Captivate.FM","provider_url":"https://www.captivate.fm","width":600,"height":200,"type":"rich","html":"","title":"Holy Words \u2013 Psalm 44","description":"Jonny Morrison begins a new series for the season of Lent, walking through the Psalms of Lament, entitled \"Holy Words.\" This is going to be an interesting work for us because the American Church is not all that good at Lament. We don\u2019t have tools to lead us into unknown and hard places. Instead of practicing Lament we tend towards:\r\n\r\n\u2022 Easy answers \u2013 trite, clich\u00e9, or superficial explanations for our experiences.\r\n\u2022 Quick Fixes \u2013 what we often call coping mechanism. Ways to deal and manage but not heal.\r\n\u2022 Ignore \u2013 which is how we tend to approach pain in other people\u2019s lives. We don\u2019t want to make it worse, so we ignore it all together.\r\n\r\nWe do all three of these things with good intention, but untended pain doesn\u2019t heal. That is why we need the practice of Lament instead of shortcutting around the difficult space, Lament helps us enter in. On Sunday we named 5 ways Lament is a better way of first dealing with the hard parts of life:\r\n\r\n\u2022 Lament names pain that our quick fixes tends to hide.\r\n\u2022 Lament gives voice to people who suffer the most\r\n\u2022 Lament joins the body together in solidarity.\r\n\u2022 Lament reveals to the world a different way of engaging.\r\n\u2022 Lament leads us into the deep places of our faith where we are challenged to trust.\r\n\r\nLament is a practice of trust: will we trust God in the unknown? Will we trust God even when we feel abandoned by him? This is the same question being asked of Jesus during the season of Lent. Will Jesus trust all the way to and through the cross, where he, like Israel in Psalm 44, will ask, \u201cWhy have you abandoned me?\u201d The good news of Lent is that Jesus choose to trust, and because He does, our Lament always gets to be different.","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/e688b764-4a20-4b0f-8baf-4ceb1efa1013/zyVEA70frgonJf8QuSf0Z2ye.png"}