Randy Alcorn on Suffering and Evil

Interview with Randy Alcorn on Suffering and Evil

Does God Love You If You Stray Because Of Suffering?

Does God Still Love the Wayward Christian?

New Book: Counsel from the Cross

Counsel from the Cross

How others benefit from your suffering

Your Suffering Does Not Just Belong to You - Challies.com

Discount Personal Feelings

Tim Challies offers us a quote from Jim Andrew’s Polishing God’s Monuments.

New Book

Does Grace Grow Best in Winter? by Ligon Duncan

Suffering and What's Important

Suffering has a way of reminding us which things in life really matter, forcing us to depend radically on God, and thus purifying our obedience to God's will.

--Craig Keener, The NIV Application Commentary: Revelation

Blog for chronic pain sufferers

Shauna's Life In Pain And Other Fun Things

Dear friends, do not be surprised at the painful trials

Dear friends, do not be surprised at the painful trials

God is good

Arguing about why bad things happen to good people.

Secrets of Contentment

Secrets of Contentment by John MacArthur

William Cowper Bio

Here is a short video of a bio of William Cowper:
William Cowper Bio

Sermon Audio

Restless, Moaning, Pained and Horrified by Russ Sukhia

How Should We Pray When We Suffer?

How Should We Pray When We Suffer? at Resurgence

Suffering, Grace and Joy

A post on my other blog. (Don't tell anyone it's me.)

I haven't written anything personal for quite a while. I hope it blesses somebody out there.

Book: A Shelter in the Time of Storm

A Shelter in the Time of Storm: Meditations on God and Trouble

See the video and sample pages.

Passion in the pulpit, prayer and conversation

Let the River Run Deep

Habakkuk's God

Faith-based Religion: The Example of Habakkuk

The last part of this post is most related to this blog but please read the whole thing if you have time.

How to Pray for Joni Eareckson Tada

How to Pray for Joni Eareckson Tada

Suffering for the Sake of the Body

Suffering for the Sake of the Body, Part 1

Worshipping a God who “lets you drop,” who lets you get hurt

Interview with Tim Stoner 2: Longing for the Untamable God

Trevin Wax: You write about worshipping a God who “lets you drop,” who lets you get hurt. How does this view of God counter the popular belief that “God is always there for me”?

Timothy Stoner: God is not safe; nor can He be manipulated. He is perfect in His wisdom and love and knows much better than we what we really need. And He is not averse to allowing/causing pain, struggle and disappointments that He knows are essential for our maturation, growth, refinement and strengthening.

He tells us that He is like a gardener who will not let sympathy for his plants dissuade Him from trimming or cutting off (sometimes ruthlessly) branches that are unproductive or that are preventing maximum fruit bearing.

Because of our inveterate selfishness and idolatry it is not unusual for God to orchestrate deep suffering that we might learn to draw our comfort from Him alone and to shape us into vessels filled with comfort for others.

God is always there for me only in the sense that He is working all things: pain, sorrow, loss, sickness, defeat, sins and successes, together for my maximum good and His ultimate glory.

When we suffer...

Will There Also Be Faith?

See others here.

The Mystery of Iniquity

Right Now Counts Forever by R.C. Sproul

One thing we know for sure is that evil does exist. It exists, if nowhere else, in us and in our behavior. We know that the force of evil is extraordinary and brings great pain and suffering into the world. We also know that God is sovereign over it and in His sovereignty will not allow evil to have the last word. Evil always and ever serves the ultimate best interest of God Himself.

Institute for Nouthetic Studies Blog

Institute for Nouthetic Studies Blog - Jay Adams

Jay Adams Biography

What is Nouthetic Counseling?

I like this one:
Elijah’s “Depression”

Enduring Trials

Enduring Trials - Part 1
Enduring Trials - Part 2
Enduring Trials - Part 3

When healing does not come...

When healing does not come...

New Book: Suffering and the Goodness of God

Suffering and the Goodness of God (Theology in Community)

Suffering and the Goodness of God presents biblical truths concerning suffering and challenges believers to promote justice and to emulate God’s grace as they minister to others.

Famine. Sickness. Terrorist Attacks. Natural disasters.

Each day horrific scenes of suffering are streamed before us through television, the Internet, and newspapers. Believers are taught that God is good, and they believe this truth. Yet when they are faced with suffering and hardships, the one question believers most often asked is, Why?

Suffering and the Goodness of God brings insight to many contemporary concerns of suffering by outlining Old and New Testament truths and tackling difficult questions concerning God’s sovereignty, human freedom, and the nature of evil.

Suffering and the Goodness of God offers believers biblical truths concerning suffering and then challenges them to promote justice in the harsh, unsure world around them and to emulate God’s grace as they minister to those who are suffering.

Power and Priority of the Word

We all know that life is filled with painful, heart wrenching experiences. Sometimes these experiences are spread out and sometimes they occur concurrently. The question is never ‘if’ but ‘when’ we think of pain and suffering. After all, we live in a cursed world.

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Maturity does not happen overnight. It takes time. However, when folks are built up in, sustained by, and clinging to the Word of God they are mountains in the church of God. They stand with confident assurance in the steadfast love of the Lord God.

--Irish Calvinist Blog

Quote by Richard Baxter

He never brings them (the saints) into so low a condition that he does not leave them more cause of joy than sorrow.

-- Richard Baxter