{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/656fd0cb4030a60011809ebf/6ac132620d8a4841443e2a84?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Only the Suffering God Can Help","description":"<h4><strong>Scripture</strong></h4><p>John 11:25-26 (NRSVUE)</p><p>Jesus said to her,</p><p>&quot;I am the resurrection and the life.</p><p>Those who believe in me,</p><p>even though they die, will live,</p><p>and everyone who lives and believes in me</p><p>will never die.</p><p>Do you believe this?&quot;</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>Refrain</strong></h4><p><em>Christ shares my sorrow and holds my future.</em></p><p><br></p><h4><strong>Quote</strong></h4><p>Dietrich Bonhoeffer, from <em>Letters and Papers from Prison</em></p><p>&quot;God lets himself be pushed out of the world on to the cross.</p><p>He is weak and powerless in the world,</p><p>and that is precisely the way, the only way,</p><p>in which he is with us and helps us.</p><p>Christ helps us, not by virtue of his omnipotence,</p><p>but by virtue of his weakness and suffering...</p><p>only the suffering God can help.&quot;</p>","author_name":"City Arts Dept"}