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Tue, Feb 18, 1986
Aggie Hurst
Missions, Suffering and Evil
missions, perspective, suffering, true missionary stories

A Story of Eternal Perspective

Back in 1921, a missionary couple named David and Svea Flood went with their two-year-old son from Sweden to the heart of Africa—to what was then called the Belgian Congo.

Wed, Jun 02, 1993
John Piper
Missions
orphans, street children, suffering, true religion

Does It Pay to Visit Vermin?

“Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.” (James 1:27)

Is (2 Cor. 12:9)

“My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness. Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.” (2 Cor. 12:9)

It had pleased God to remove my youngest child under circumstances of peculiar trial and pain; and as I had just laid my little one’s body in the churchyard, on return home, I felt it my duty to preach to my people on the meaning of trial.

Finding that this text was in the lesson for the following Sabbath, I chose ...

Wed, Sep 01, 1999
John Piper
Christian Life, Persecuted Church, Suffering and Evil
church, persecution, suffering

By What Death Will You Glorify God?

worship September 1, 1999 Fresh Words Edition

When John wrote his gospel, Peter had probably already been killed by the Roman emperor, Nero. So when he recorded the words of Jesus about Peter’s coming death he was able to look back and interpret the symbolism Jesus had used. Here’s what Jesus said to Peter, with John’s interpretation.

“Truly, truly, I say to you, when you were younger, you used to gird yourself and walk wherever you wished; but when you grow old, you will stretch out your hands and someone else will gird you, and bring you where ...

Mon, Apr 09, 2001
Randy Alcorn
Culture and Worldview, Doctrine and Theology, Suffering and Evil
ethics, evil, god, nature of god, suffering

How Could a Good God Allow Evil and Suffering?

A year and a half ago I walked through the Killing Fields in Cambodia. I saw the skulls piled up, and stood by the mudpits where hundreds of bodies were thrown. I saw a human jawbone lying at my feet. I picked it up, held it in my hand, and wept. The darkness was overwhelming—the ground cried out at the tragedy in which two to three million Cambodians, nearly one third of the country’s population, were murdered by Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.

I was escorted by a gentle Cambodian couple, Vek and Samoeun Tang, who survived the Killing Fields. Samoeun’s parents both starved to death. One of her brothers was known dead, another brother was never seen or heard from. Presumably he was murdered and thrown into one of the thousands of unmarked graves, many of them containing hundreds of bodies each.

Tue, Sep 11, 2001
Dr. Woodrow Kroll
Culture and Worldview, Doctrine and Theology, Suffering and Evil
death, evil, hope, panic, suffering, terrorism, war

A Christian Response to Terrorism

This is the most difficult day of my life. That apparent terrorist attacks could bring such death and destruction to unsuspecting people is absolutely unthinkable. Yet the numbers of the dead and wounded from these attacks will be extraordinary.

Wed, Mar 20, 2002
Dr. Clive Calver, Doug Nichols
Persecuted Church
church, martyrs, pakistan, persecution, suffering, world relief

Pakistan: Christians Murdered in Church Service

On Sunday, March 17. 2002, Christians were gathered for worship at the non-denominational Protestant International Church in Islamabad, Pakistan.

Mon, Dec 01, 2003
John Piper
Christian Life, Culture and Worldview, Suffering and Evil
counseling, counselor, psychology, suffering

Counseling With Suffering People

Counseling With Suffering People

The Journal of Biblical Counseling • Winter 2003

I begin with five assumptions. Without them, what I have to say about counseling and suffering will not stand.

1. Counseling is conversational exultation in the manifold mercies of God.

2. Mutual counseling is a normative event in the conversations and relationships of the body of Christ.

3. The aim of true counseling is the glory of God through Jesus Christ.

4. God is most glorified in our lives when we are most satisfied in Him.

5. Suffering is a universal human experience, designed by God for His glory ...

Thu, Dec 30, 2004
Anonymous
Christian Life, Heaven, Salvation
death, eternity, heaven, salvation, suffering

Death Swallowed up in Victory

(The following letter was written to a friend's parents who had lost their son in a tragic accident. Names and identifying information have been changed to protect privacy.)