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Land of My Sojourn: The Landscape of a Faith Lost and Found
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Amanda E. (aebooksandwords)'s review
Jun 03, 2024
Read 2 times. Last read June 1, 2024 to June 3, 2024.
** spoiler alert **
I truly enjoyed this read and related to many things he shared as he interspersed the experiences of Elijah and Peter alongside his own valleys. I gleaned a lot from these examples from Scripture, and enjoyed Cosper’s writing style and honest disclosure that was coupled with wisdom and grace.
Highlights:
"The fundamental arc of the Christian story does not ascend from glory to glory. It bends to the cross."
“This is one of the most complicated elements of our faith; the very people who can help us meet and know Jesus are also the ones who can hurt us at the deepest levels.”
“The old cliché ‘God is in control’ turns out to be true, but it may be something we only truly learn and that only liberates us after things fall apart.”
“Maybe the true gift of suffering is tuning our ears to hear God’s whisper even when pain is shouting.”
“Grief was not (as I often joked) the need to sit around and feel bad for a while. Rather, grief was an encounter with reality. Something was really and truly over. Even with the hope of resurrection my life on this earth will from here on be different; it will be without him [Cosper’s father], and no act of will or imagination can change that or make it easier.”
“…many evangelicals also love a persecution narrative. Kids in our movement grow up with them, whether they were invited to be Jesus freaks, to indulge fantasies of being martyred for their faith in a school shooting, or to pick fights with professors and tell them ‘God's not dead.’”
“We, like Peter, want to imagine that should the crisis come, we'd stand strong.”
“Sometimes our expectations are the source of our pain.”
Readability: 5
Impact: 4
Content: 4
Enjoyment: 5
Total: 4.5
Highlights:
"The fundamental arc of the Christian story does not ascend from glory to glory. It bends to the cross."
“This is one of the most complicated elements of our faith; the very people who can help us meet and know Jesus are also the ones who can hurt us at the deepest levels.”
“The old cliché ‘God is in control’ turns out to be true, but it may be something we only truly learn and that only liberates us after things fall apart.”
“Maybe the true gift of suffering is tuning our ears to hear God’s whisper even when pain is shouting.”
“Grief was not (as I often joked) the need to sit around and feel bad for a while. Rather, grief was an encounter with reality. Something was really and truly over. Even with the hope of resurrection my life on this earth will from here on be different; it will be without him [Cosper’s father], and no act of will or imagination can change that or make it easier.”
“…many evangelicals also love a persecution narrative. Kids in our movement grow up with them, whether they were invited to be Jesus freaks, to indulge fantasies of being martyred for their faith in a school shooting, or to pick fights with professors and tell them ‘God's not dead.’”
“We, like Peter, want to imagine that should the crisis come, we'd stand strong.”
“Sometimes our expectations are the source of our pain.”
Readability: 5
Impact: 4
Content: 4
Enjoyment: 5
Total: 4.5
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