For Your Weekend: The Vulnerability and Divinity of Jesus

Dig Deeper into Sunday’s Gospel: Read John 11:1–45

As I wrestled with my faith as a young twenty-year-old, one of the things I had trouble grasping was the concept that God knew and loved me personally. I had no trouble accepting that there was a God, a Creator. But that He could know me and see the depth of my heart, my fears and failures, my hopes and dreams—that seemed impossible. In a sense, what I was grappling with was the goodness of God. I know I am not alone in this. From my time in par...