As I finish a sermon series on Lamentations, I have been reflecting on the nature of prayer and hope. It seems that there is something inherent in prayer that would include lament and grief over the way things are longing for renewal and transformation.
Here is a film with Pastor Scotty Smith, my pastor in college. I still remember after Easter in 1996 he was grieveing the loss of his mentor, Jack Miller. I remember how that impacted me so greatly, though I did not even know it at the time. I ended up at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, PA and being a called pastor at one of the church's of the movement that Jack Miller had begun. Here, Scotty calls the artist or the one "living the artful life" as he calls it to grieve for renewal. I hope you enjoy!
