“Dear brothers and sisters, when troubles of any kind come your way, consider it an opportunity for great joy. For you know that when your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow. So let it grow, for when your endurance is fully developed, you will be perfect and complete, needing nothing.” JamesContinue reading “Suffering Intelligently”
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God’s Good and Perfect Gifts
I often hear people say that the bad things that happen to them are God’s punishment for something wrong they have done. I have a friend who desires to find someone to marry, but has said she doesn’t think God will ever bring her a mate because of all the wrong she has done inContinue reading “God’s Good and Perfect Gifts”
How Well Do We Suffer?
“Some Christians are called to endure a disproportionate amount of suffering. Such Christians are a spectacle of grace to the church, like flaming bushes unconsumed, and cause us to ask, like Moses: ‘Why is this bush not burned up?’” –John Newton It seems that pain is the best teacher. I suppose as we navigate throughContinue reading “How Well Do We Suffer?”
Christ and Cancer
by John Piper Before I entered college I hardly gave a thought to cancer and terminal illness. But ever since those college days death by disease has walked beside me all the way. Two of my college acquaintances died of leukemia and cancer of the lymph glands before they were 22. At seminary I watchedContinue reading “Christ and Cancer”
Broken Believers 