Suffering, Lament, and The Grace of God

Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2017

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Kelly Kapic, professor of Theological Studies at Covenant College, talks about suffering and bravery. Bravery exemplified by his courage to return to have old skeletons exposed by Aimee. His latest book, Embodied Hope, highlights where grace and goodness is found when suffering from illness and chronic pain strikes. He gives biblical perspective when we ask “why us?” and on finding the right place to lament in the body of Christ. Join the conversation as Kelly shares his next project. Oh yes, and learn how Carl became the hero of his own story in a restaurant fire in Amsterdam. There are pictures to prove it!We have a several copies of "God So Loved, He Gave" by Kelly Kapic published by Zondervan that we are giving away. Be sure to enter for your chance to win.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Mortification of Spin, a casual conversation about things that count with Carl Truman, Todd Pruitt, and Amy Bird.
0:25.5	Mortification of Spin is a weekly podcast from the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.
0:30.6	Let's join this week's conversation.
0:32.8	Thank you. Well, thanks for joining us for another installment of Mortification of Spin.
0:48.6	We are so glad you chose to be with us today.
0:50.4	Today is a very special day because we actually talked someone in to coming back on this program a second time, which is today. Today is a very special day because we actually talked someone in to coming back on this
0:55.8	program a second time, which is typically very, very difficult for us. So I don't know if that
1:01.9	says something about us or something about our guest, but I like our guest. And so I'm thinking
1:07.1	that what he's doing here is actually very wise and perhaps set a trend for past guests on mortification of spin.
1:14.2	Our guest today, and we are very happy to have him back, is Kelly Capik.
1:17.9	Dr. Capick is a professor of theological studies at Covenant College, which is located in a beautiful place overlooking Chattanooga, Tennessee.
1:26.2	It's on Lookout Mountain, Georgia.
1:28.1	It is the four-year college of the Presbyterian Church in America.
1:32.1	And he is also author and editor of a number of excellent books that you ought to get your hands on,
1:38.0	one of which we will be giving away the end of the program.
1:41.4	Another one is his brand new book called Embodied Hope,
1:45.1	which we're going to be talking about in just a moment.
1:47.4	But Kelly, thank you so much for coming back on with us.
1:52.2	I'm kind of thinking I should say it's good to be here.
1:57.6	It's almost like sometimes you thank God for the food
2:00.2	and think you should wait till after the meal.
2:03.9	I'll tell you what, Kelly, this is going to do wonders for your mental and spiritual health and for your career.
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