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Grief and Gratitude: Holding the Tension (Vespers)
Mark Crawford
3-27-22
The Grief and Gratitude series is based on a podcast series on the Allender podcast.
Holding the Tension: You should also watch Corey and Colleen’s sermon from this morning!
Today we will talk about holding the tension between grief and gratitude: last week we talked about these two disciplines. How do we hold the tension? What does that look like? We’re going to look at a few of my stories and expand on how we understand grief and then we will read Psalm 77 together and talk about why it’s my favorite psalm.
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