Sometimes our

and circumstances are desperate and full of despair. Pastor Mark Rogop points us to our merciful and faithful God.

I never, ever, ever, ever, ever run out of the mercy that I need.

Every day there's fresh mercy available even when life looks like a wasteland.

This is the Rebuty of Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMasse Walgum Podcast with author of Surrender, The Heart God Controls.

For April 26, 2023, lifeless war zone you can imagine.

Sometimes our hearts seem that desperate and broken.

Over the last few days, Nancy Demas Walgemuth and Pastor Mark Vrogop have been helping us learn the language

of biblical lament.

Mark is the senior pastor of College Park Church in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Let's listen as he and Nancy continue their conversation.

I think Mark that it may come as a surprise to some people to discover that we have a God who gives us permission to express the deep pain

and anguish that we experience living in a fallen broken world. And you see that all through the

scripture. I don't know if most people know that there's a book called

Lamentations to Lament. And if they do, it's probably not one we turn to very often but this is an important

part of our whole journey as believers it's it's a means of grace God is given to

us yeah it's a means of grace where we're able to find our voice in suffering, but the book of

Lamentations is also a memorial. It's meant to remind us that our world is broken, that

God is holy, and it helps instruct us to both remember that that's

true because pain will suddenly remind us that that's true, but we need to be reminded of that

more often than we probably even realize.

But then also to be encouraged that even when the bottom falls out,

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