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Podcast: Parish Presbyterian Church
Episode: Lamentations 3:19-26, 39-41, 49-50, 55-58 Great Is Thy Faithfulness
Description: Today marks the 504th anniversary of Martin Luther's launching of the Protestant Reformation in 1517. At the beginning of the 16th century, the Western church was coming to the end of a long period of forgetfulness, corruption, and turmoil. Similarly, the book of Lamentations presents a picture of a people trusting in their own righteousness— which only brought disappointment, grief, fear, and sorrow. They were inhabitants of a land "with devils filled." In the midst of all of this, the prophet can nevertheless declare, "The Lord is my portion … therefore I will hope in Him" (Lamentations 3:24). Do you bear a cr...