Suffering

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Growth Through Suffering

C.S. Lewis once said, “God whispers to us in our pleasures, but shouts to us in our pains.” Those words capture a truth that the Scriptures put forth from Genesis to Revelation. It seems that whenever God would do his…
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Episode 109: “Suicide Prevention” with Karen Mason

Download the podcast as an .mp3 by clicking here. RSS FEED – click here. Access from iTunes. FURTHER RESOURCES Resources, links, or other helpful tools mentioned in the podcast: Karen Mason Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary Preventing Suicide Book Bites Video Discussion…
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Yearning for Heaven in our Suffering

One of the great Christian truths that we’ve overlooked and even forgotten in our day is this: that God does his best work in our lives when he brings us to the end of ourselves through the gift of suffering.…
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Suffering and the Favor of God

Over the course of the last couple of months, my time spent in God’s Word has been richer than I can ever remember.  For me, the clear and unmistakable reason for this has been the fact that living in a…
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Benefits of Suffering

As I’ve continued to look around at a world where people’s lives are being ravaged by our current pandemic, I can’t help but be reminded that for the Christian, suffering is seen as something that can be redemptive as opposed…
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Difficult Providences

Years ago, I was expressing frustration to a friend regarding some trying circumstances. He challenged me to look into the Bible to discover how God uses the challenges we face in life to take us out of ourselves and form…
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