Weakness isn't a flaw. It's where hope begins. In a place for weakness, Michael Horton shows how the cross and resurrection of Christ don't just explain suffering. They overcome it. This isn't a book about cliches or quick fixes. It's about real hope for real pain. Hope that quiets guilt, silences, doubt, and outlasts every storm. Whether you're grieving

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at solomedia.org slash offers that solomedia.org forward slash offers. So if you've been going to church

for any amount of time, I guarantee you that at some point, especially if you've gone through the

Gospels, you've heard about the Pharisees.

They're the bad guys, the antagonists in the Gospels, oftentimes, you know, bumping up against

Jesus in his teaching. At various points, they want to kill him or stone him. They're the epitome of,

right, a religion, religious observance without a personal relationship with God.

And sometimes in the church, you'll hear people say things like,

don't be such a Pharisee.

Well, what does that mean to be a Pharisee?

Who were the Pharisees?

And I want to give you three things that if you do these things,

you might actually be a Pharisee.

Okay. you might actually be a Pharisee. First things first, who were the Pharisees?

The Pharisees were a religious and political association that developed probably around the

second and third centuries BC.

Jews who wanted to be faithful to the Torah

and to push back against the Greek influence on their religion separated themselves into

nonconformist sex in order to follow God. In fact, some people think that's where the word

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