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Book Review of The Darkness and the Dawn

The Darkness and the Dawn
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Why did it please God that his son was brutalized? Why does a loving God allow us to hurt so deeply? What made Jesus death any different from thousands who died just as He did? darkness covered the earth that day. The sun fled, from noon until three the darkness of death however over the hill where the Son of God was drying. As Christians we know the story well--the nails in his hands, the throns on his head, the gambling soldiers, the taunting thieves. charles Swindoll invites us to "Return with me to those epochal days when out Lord walked into the awful darkness--which he did not deserve --only to arise into the sunlit dawn of triumph, Proving us victory from which we shall never know defeat.