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This is a new feature on the blog.  Usually on Mondays, I get caught up on my favorite podcasts.  This usually results in a lot of tweeting on that day.  However, if you are at work and not checking Twitter during that time, you might miss some of the great truth being shared by others.  So, I am sharing some of best tweets from the previous week which include great wisdom and truth. When people are in pain or suffering, don't use cliches or moral platitudes or throw a book at their pain/suffering @Byronyawn  The church is not a house of law where we rent out one of the rooms to grace. @birdchadlouis The nicest person you’ve ever met and the most hateful person you’ve ever met have one big thing in common—they need God’s grace. @BrandonSmith85 The remedy for our deadness to God's grace is more grace. @RayOrtlund Christianity is not about what I can do to make myself worthy of His acceptance, but what God has done to make me worthy of His acceptan...

How many of us have wondered what to say to a friend or family member who has lost a loved one to death?  We rehearse what we are going to say over and over.  But many times, what people want is your presence not a well articulated speech.  This past week, I finished reading Scandalous by D. A. Carson.  It is book on the resurrection, but he had a great section on death.  I wanted to share a few quotes from that section.  "Jesus is outraged not because he has lost a friend but because of death itself. Death is such an ugly enemy. It generates endless and incalculable anguish." "We are sinners, and we will die. Every time there is death, it still hurts. It is still painful. It is still ugly. . .This is not the way God made the creation in the first place. Jesus is outraged by the whole thing. Christians must adopt something of this same stance toward death." "Death is an enemy, and it can be a fierce one. Death is not normal when you look at it from ...