Stories tagged with: suffering

• FIRST-PERSON: Adversity, suffering & Christ's healing

  by David Jeremiah, posted Friday, March 08, 2019 (5 years ago)

  Adversity is inevitable for everyone on earth, David Jeremiah writes, noting that the Bible says we should not think it strange when it happens to us -- and that Jesus is the only one who can heal our deepest hurts. Read More

• FIRST-PERSON: The problem of evil -- for atheists

  by Adam Groza, posted Monday, May 21, 2018 (6 years ago)

  It is more difficult for atheists to deal with the problem of evil than for Christians, Adam Groza writes. "If there is no God … then moral outrage is reduced to collective emotionalism, social posturing or political maneuvering." Read More

• Suffering, persecution & Christian preparedness

  by Zane Pratt, posted Wednesday, April 26, 2017 (7 years ago)

  

  Image from "The Insanity of God" film

  Suffering is normal throughout the world, Zane Pratt writes. For Christians in Islamic, Hindu and communist parts of the world, persecution also looms, though people in the West haven't yet faced its severity, he notes in setting forth keys for preparedness. Read More

• FIRST-PERSON: Teaching children about suffering

  by Jill Waggoner, posted Friday, October 07, 2016 (7 years ago)

  "Seeing and trusting God's purpose through difficulty is one of the greatest joys and freedoms of the Christian life," Jill Waggoner, a mother of two, writes. "I pray for the day that my children know and embrace this truth in their own hearts." Read More

• FIRST-PERSON: Suffering & endurance

  by Susie Hawkins, posted Wednesday, August 10, 2016 (8 years ago)

  A severe injury to her grandson's eye has given Susie Hawkins and her family a deepened awareness of the biblical truth in James 1:3-4 that "the testing of your faith produces endurance … so that you may be mature and complete, lacking nothing." Read More