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Podcast: Parish Presbyterian Church
Episode: Habakkuk 1:1-17 How Long, Lord?
Description: Over the next three weeks, Pastor Grant will be leading us through the book of Habakkuk. This prophet, like his contemporary Jeremiah, was writing on the cusp of one of the climactic moments in Old Testament history: the destruction of the Kingdom of Judah and the Babylonian captivity. He begins his oracle (what the King James Version poetically renders as a "burden") with a question for God: why do You seem to be silent in the face of wickedness (Habakkuk 1:2-4)? The psalms and hymns we sing this morning mirror Habakkuk's questioning, as well as God's answer to him...