Finished: A Journey to the Resurrection — Week 1

John 11 opens the journey to the resurrection with a confronting theology: when the sisters send word that Lazarus is sick, Jesus deliberately stays two more days. He does not merely leverage a trial—he creates the circumstance. This message sits in the discomfort of Jesus' words, for your sake I am glad I was not there, so that you may believe , arguing that in God's economy belief can matter more than immediate relief. James 1 frames the testing of faith as producing perseverance. Yet at the shortest verse—Jesus wept—the teaching shows a Savior who pauses to feel our grief. Drawing on C.S. Lewis and Philip Yancey, it holds that we can be disappointed with God while still trusting him.