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    Courage Under The Cross in Troubled Times
    Courage Under The Cross in Troubled Times
    Courage Under The Cross in Troubled Times
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    Courage Under The Cross in Troubled Times

    By Hazlett Lynch

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    Are you depressed and worried about what is happening to you, and God seems very far away? Do you think that maybe He has forsaken you? Is it your belief that bad things do not happen to good people?
    This pastoral book was written for you. It was born out of profound trauma caused by terrorism. Dr Lynch, himself a victim of terrorism and as a Christian minister, points you to the only real help.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHazlett Lynch
    Release dateJan 17, 2012
    ISBN9781465888884
    Courage Under The Cross in Troubled Times
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    Hazlett Lynch

    Northern Ireland man, Dr J. E. Hazlett Lynch, is happily married to Margaret (in 1973), and they have two sons together, David and Stephen. Dr Lynch has a wide range of experience, expertise and abilities, having university qualifications in Building, Theology, Education, Reconciliation Dynamics, Terrorism, Victimhood, and Workplace Bullying. This explains why he has written and published books with wide-ranging subject matter. He is keen to share this information with the wider reading public.

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      Courage Under The Cross in Troubled Times - Hazlett Lynch

      Courage Under The Cross

      In Troubled Times

      A Word from the LORD for distressed people

      By

      J. E. Hazlett Lynch

      Copyright 2012 J. E. Hazlett Lynch

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      Courage Under The Cross

      In Troubled Times

      A Word from the LORD for distressed people

      J. E. Hazlett Lynch

      CONTENTS

      Introduction

      Jesus – Absent and Present

      Trouble Working For Us

      Afflictions Are God’s Servants

      God’s Special Interest In His People

      That Thorn In The Flesh

      Divine Grace And Divine Power

      Strength Renewed

      Looking Unto Jesus

      INTRODUCTION

      In the Border counties of Northern Ireland, and especially in Co. Armagh, many families live in a state of constant fear, not knowing what the next knock at the door may bring. After some fifteen years of what is euphemistically called, The Troubles, there is scarcely a family circle which has not been affected by some terrorist-inspired calamity. Usually this results in a friend or relative being maimed for life or having the gift of life cruelly and violently taken away.

      There have been many innocent victims of the terrorist violence, and in November 1983, the world’s newspapers were filled with the atrocity carried out by terrorists under the name of the Catholic Reaction Force, a ‘cover name’ for the republican terrorist grouping, the Irish Nationalist Liberation Army (INLA), and led by Dominic mad dog McGlinchy (now deceased at the hands of fellow-terrorists), on the Sunday evening of 20th November 1983, at the Mountain Lodge Pentecostal Church, outside Keady, Co. Armagh. Several of the congregation’s elders were murdered and others wounded as they gathered for worship. Christian people in all denominations were stunned at what became known as The Darkley Murders, and ministers in the Border Counties had to minister God’s Word to a fearful people.

      In this booklet, we have a series of sermons preached by the author, Rev J. E. Hazlett Lynch, minister of First Keady and Armaghbrague Presbyterian Churches, situated right on the border. Members of his congregation were related to some of those murdered at Darkley. As Hazlett Lynch says, These are not scholarly works, but simply a Pastor’s preaching to very ordinary folk at a time of intense fear and uncertainty. Mr Lynch conducted two of the funerals of the Darkley victims.

      These sermons are truly Timeless Truths for Troubled People, and they are sent forth with the prayer that they may speak to troubled hearts, giving a steadfast faith to those who may yet have to face increased troubled times in our beloved Province.

      The success of this book of pastoral sermons was such that quite a number of people were helped as they faced difficult times in their lives. The messages were prepared and preached to bring encouragement to people who were living in what is arguably one of the most dangerous areas for terrorist violence, to be found in Northern Ireland - South Armagh.

      However, people who live right along the border with the Irish Republic know what it is to be fearful and even afraid, to check their cars before going on even the shortest of journeys, to watch around their home for suspicious activity, to be vigilant about where, when and how they travel from place to place, etc. The border counties of Tyrone, Fermanagh, Armagh and Down are as dangerous today as they were in the worst years of the terrorist campaign. Not a few people have unwelcome intruders in their gardens, and by that I mean paramilitary terrorists who target ex-security force members for murder.

      The Northern Ireland ‘Peace’ Process, hailed by so many as a great success and a model that can be transported to other areas of ‘conflict’ in the world, has not brought the ‘peace’ dividends that both those who supported it and those who suffered desired, and that was promised by community, political and church leaders.

      Today, the lives of many have not changed much for the better. It must be remembered that it is not necessarily the purpose of terrorists to kill people, though they have done this; it is to terrorise them, to hold them in fear, to keep them under threat. In fact, in West Tyrone, at least 64 people have informed the West Tyrone Voice office (a group that is dedicated to offering support for the innocent victims of paramilitary terrorism West of the River Bann) that they are currently under death threat from paramilitary terrorists; this number does not include the many former soldiers and police who are as vigilant today as ever they were. Sadly, this number is growing steadily. Targeting of ex-security force members, both police and army, as well as non-security force personnel, is going on apace, and there are ongoing terrorist activities by republican terrorists throughout Northern Ireland on a daily basis. Currently serving and ex-security force personnel see themselves as being under death threat continually, and any man would be a fool if he did not keep his personal security under constant review.

      With the passage of the years, and with the current uncertainty that holds the country in its grip, people are asking, Is there a Word from the Lord?

      Formerly a Christian minister within the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, Rev. Dr J. E. Hazlett Lynch, believes that there is. Only God in His grace can heal the hurts of traumatised people. The healing balm of Gilead is to be found only in Christ and He is discovered only in the Gospel. Only a personal relationship with the mighty Son of God, the

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