Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel tells a haunting story from the concentration camps. One day some Nazi guards ordered their Jewish prisoners to leave their barracks and assemble in a courtyard. They informed them that some were now to be executed by hanging. They announced no particular offenses. The guards were apparently drunk and thought this would be entertaining. They had arranged a gallows and chose several Jews, among them a sixteen-year-old boy, to die. As the rest watched in horror, the prisoners were executed one by one, the boy last. Wiesel said the young man stepped onto the trapdoor, both courage and non-comprehension on his face. As the trap was sprung and the boy plunged to his undeserved death, one elderly Jew in the crowd, his faith faltering, cried out: "Where is God?" But…
The Sadness Of God
Isaiah 51:17--52:12
Isaiah 51:17--52:12
Sermon
by E. Carver McGriff
by E. Carver McGriff
CSS Publishing Company, TIMES OF REFRESHING, by E. Carver McGriff