On Thursday as they ate the Passover meal with Jesus, the disciples believed that the kingdom was coming and they were on the front end of a revolution.
He pastors Theophilus church in Portland, Oregon, and is the author of A Glorious Dark and coauthor of Introducing Evangelical Ecotheology ..
Swoboda (PhD, University of Birmingham) teaches biblical studies, theology, and church history at George Fox Evangelical Seminary and Fuller Seminary, among others.
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He invites readers to develop a faith that embraces the Tension Between what we believe and what we experience, showing that the very Tension we seek to eliminate is where God meets us.
Swoboda puts into sharp focus a faith that is greater than our personal comfort or fulfilment.
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Tackling tough questions like Why is faith so hard? Why do I doubt? Why does God allow me to suffer? and Is God really with me in the midst of my pain? A.
Real, raw, and achingly honest, A Glorious Dark meets readers in the ambiguity, doubt, and uncertainty we feel when our beliefs about the world don\'t match up to reality.
And then there was Sunday morning.
Yet, within the grave, God\'s power was still flowing like a mighty river beneath the ice of winter.
They despaired.
They doubted.
They ran.
Then came the tragedy of Friday and, somehow even worse, the silence of Saturday.
On Thursday as they ate the Passover meal with Jesus, the disciples believed that the kingdom was coming and they were on the front end of a revolution
