The Painted Door Church - Chicago
The Painted Door Church is church family that gathers in Chicago, IL. We are a people who share the same story; we are sinner, saved by grace. We draw our name from the Exodus account in the Hebrew Scriptures, when God spared his people from judgement, passing over all homes that had the blood of a spotless lamb painted across their doorways. Jesus is the new spotless lamb, his death on a Roman cross sparing the people of God from judgment once for all. He reconnects us to our Maker and to each other and invites us to participate in his grand work of restoring all things.
The Painted Door Church - Chicago
The Resurrection and the Life: Embarrassing Faith / 2 Kings 4:18-37
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Pastor Mark Bergin
The modern world tells us that doubt is more authentic than faith. That uncertainty is the noblest disposition. Yet God would lead us to the ignoble place of desperation, where we have no choice but to cast ourselves fully onto his mercy. The story of a mother grieving the loss of her only son is our story, everyone of us. We are all that desperate, all in that much need of a miracle. And embarrassing as it may be to put all our hope in the power of Jesus, there is life to be had there. Desperate, risky faith will never be in fashion. It’s too pathetic, too weak, too irrational. But grieving mothers care little for fashion. Just give us life, Lord.