Where Is God When It Hurts?

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Where Is God When It Hurts?

A sermon given on the Virginia Tech campus two weeks after the shootings.
Philip Yancey


We gather here still trying to make sense of what happened in Blacksburg, still trying to process the unprocessable. We come together in this place, as a Christian community, partly because we know of no better place to bring our questions and our grief and partly because we don't know where else to turn. As the apostle Peter once said to Jesus, at a moment of confusion and doubt, "Lord, to whom else can we go?"


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