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Biblical Lament — with Mark Vroegop

Joyful Journey

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How to Complain to the Lord

In our lingo, complaining is bad. We tell our kids don't complain. Be grateful. Can you help us understand how is biblical complaint different than being at the complainer or the child that we're trying to tell to stop complaining, but be grateful? Yeah. So want to be clear, you can be a sinful complainer big time. Complaint in a lament is different. It's more like a legal proceeding where the complaint is filed. Something is wrong. And yet at the same time, I don't want to diminish the real pointed language that the psalmist sometimes use when they are kind of getting in God's grill a little bit. Like this doesn't make

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