Why does God allow suffering?
Yesterday we looked at the old and important question of the existence of God. But there's one...
Today's devotional: Life-saving pain
When disaster strikes our lives, it's natural for Christians to pray for relief from it—we...
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How To Have a Quiet Heart--Psalm 131
How can you have a quiet heart in the midst of a busy life, throughout pain and turmoil? Nancy points to just three verses in Psalm 131 that list three heart attitudes--humility, simplicity, and quietness--that will help you trust in the Lord no matter what you're going through.
http://reviveourhearts.com/topics/series.php?series=161&topic_name=Suffering
Dealing With Depression and Doubt
Have you ever felt like you were out in the stormy sea? That you couldn't make it back to shore? Nancy shares from the Psalms as she offers hope for the storms of life as you learn to lean on God alone
http://reviveourhearts.com/topics/series.php?series=56&topic_name=Suffering
Walking Through Life's Deserts
Nancy looks at the desert as a picture of certain seasons in our lives. Through this study of two different desert experiences recorded in Scripture, we'll learn what God has to say about how we get into the desert, why He allows these experiences.
http://reviveourhearts.com/topics/series.php?series=191&topic_name=Suffering
Enduring Life's Hardships
When life gets hard and our circumstances are overwhelming, we all face the temptation to be discouraged or to give in. Nancy shares insights from 2 Timothy about how to endure and grow through hardship.
http://reviveourhearts.com/topics/series.php?series=195&topic_name=Suffering
Suffering and the Hope of Healing (part 2)
Article reflecting on suffering and hope, through the perspective or Lazarus. Jesus own resurrection surpassed Lazarus' temporary resurrection to give us all hope through suffering and loss in this life and the one to come.
http://soulation.org/library/articles/suffering_hope_healing_2.pdf
Suffering and the Hope of Healing (part 1)
Article on suffering and hope. Drawing from Jesus encounter with Peter's mother-in-law, in Mark 1, we see how Jesus came as the ultimate conquerer over suffering and death.
http://soulation.org/library/articles/suffering_hope_healing_1.pdf
Greg Gordon : Broken And Bruised Yet Not Beaten!
John Cennick was punched in the nose, beaten until his shoulders were black and blue, dunked in a dirty pond, sprayed with ditch water and blackened with musket smoke when he preached. Hecklers tried to drown his voice by beating drums and pans. Or they set dogs barking by swinging...
http://sermonindex.net/modules/articles/index.php?view=article&aid=20452
How Did Defense/Attack Structures Come About? - Answers in Genesis
Many people question the goodness of God when they see “nature, red in tooth and claw,” and therefore, they accuse those who believe in the Bible of not seeing reality in nature’s fight for survival, which in the view of the secular scientists substantiates evolution.
http://answersingenesis.org/articles/nab/origin-of-attack-defense-structures
Basilea Schlink : Avoiding the Cross: Unwillingness to Suffer
How can these things be compatible: we want to be Christians, disciples of Jesus Christ, who bore the cross for the whole world and chose to do so voluntarily, and yet we reject our own cross? Jesus says, "He who does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me" (Matt. 10: 38)...
http://sermonindex.net/modules/articles/index.php?view=article&aid=832
A.W. Pink : Affliction and Glory
These words supply us with a reason why we should not faint under trials nor be overwhelmed by misfortunes. They teach us to look at the trials of time in the light of eternity. They affirm that the present buffetings of the Christian exercise a beneficent effect on the inner man...
http://sermonindex.net/modules/articles/index.php?view=article&aid=1147