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Job: A Book With No Easy Answers
The book of Job raises many important questions about the role of suffering in God’s world. Why do people suffer? How can we suffer well? Is God just? This video gives a concise explanation of how the book of…
What Kim Davis Shows Us About Troubles Yet To Come
The Bible clearly commands that Christians respect the rightful authority of civil governments, understanding that the institution of human government is itself a part of God’s design. At the same time, the rightful power of government is not absolute.…
Sunday Sermon: How Suffering Sanctifies
Eric Mason explains how suffering plays a vital role in the sanctification process. We tend to want to avoid suffering at all costs, but we often fail to recognize that one of the costs of avoiding suffering is the…
Imitating Christ, The Suffering Servant
The only Christian theodicy which I find credible is the confession that God does not exempt himself from the horror of human suffering, but is fully baptized into it. God in Christ joins us in a solidarity of suffering,…
Where Is God In The Midst Of Suffering?
In the face of affliction we commonly ask, “Where’s God? How could He let this happen?” One place to find the answer is 2 Peter 3:9: The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness.…
What If The Persecution Of American Christians Is More Imagined Than Real?
Persecution has an allure for many evangelicals. In the Bible, Christians are promised by Saint Paul that they will suffer for Christ, if they love Him. But especially in contemporary America, it is not clear what shape that suffering…
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