Clifford Denton Schutjer
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"Tough Hope," like "tough love," that must sometimes go beyond warm sentimentality, endearing wishful thinking, and feel-good optimism, is hope that i
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s tough enough to operate in the dark, to endure constant ambiguity, and keep a practical edge to its trust.It is that tough kind of hope-hope for each of us as individuals, for our shared life, and for our world-that is a common thread through the majority of these sermons by Reverend Clifford Schutjer. Those "promised lands" in life are nice, and some people are lucky enough to arrive in them and live there for awhile. What our lives turn out to have meant, and what turns out to have been their real worth, is left up to God.
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