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Trust Jesus with What You Don’t Understand Now

article April 7, 2021

Jesus spoke many profound and important words to his disciples the night before his crucifixion. But there’s one statement we might easily pass over, because of the context in which he made it. Yet it is loaded with personal meaning for each of us who follows him.

Randy Alcorn and Vaneetha Risner Interview on Suffering

video February 25, 2021

In the following video, Randy Alcorn is interview by Vaneetha Risner on the subject of suffering and God's goodness. 

Jesus Turns Our Crosses into Crowns: An Update from Joni Eareckson Tada after Fighting COVID

video January 20, 2021

My wife Nanci and I love Joni Eareckson Tada. With her warm-hearted exaltation of God’s sovereign love, she has profoundly impacted our own lives and ministry, along with countless others. We were deeply touched by this recent update from Joni, who not long ago was in serious jeopardy with COVID due to her quadriplegia and its effects on her lungs.

Letter to a Parent Grieving the Loss of a Child

article December 17, 2020

For those who love Jesus, your relationship is not ended but interrupted by death, and will resume. Once it does, in the presence of Jesus, it will never be interrupted again.

God Is Enough for You and the Emptiness You Feel

article November 6, 2020

Nancy Guthrie says so often we see emptiness in our lives as our biggest problem. But when God looks at the empty place, He sees it as His greatest opportunity.  

Romans 8:28 in the Lives of Job, Joseph and Jesus

article October 1, 2020

God does not permit evils arbitrarily, but with purpose. Everything he permits matches up with his wisdom and ultimately serves his holiness, justice, love and grace. As Joni Eareckson Tada puts it, “God permits what he hates to achieve what he loves.”

Would a Loving God Purposely Wound Us Through Trials?

article August 5, 2020

God does not love us on our preferred terms, but on His own. We think to “love” means to “do no harm,” when it really means “to be willing to do short-term harm for a redemptive purpose.” A physician who re-breaks an arm in order for it to heal properly harms his patient in order to heal him.

Temporary Darkness, Eternal Light

article June 19, 2020

Some depression comes from simply feeling the crushing weight of pain and brokenness in one’s life and the lives of others around the globe. Of course, self-preoccupied woe-is-me depression quickly becomes deeply unhealthy. But sometimes when we feel burdened, we may simply be joining the whole of creation in groaning because of a suffering world. In that case, we’re in good company, for “the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express” (Romans 8:26).

Discovering the Wonders of God in the Low Tides of Life

article June 12, 2020

Over the years, God has been faithful in what I call “the low tides” of life. In those times, I’ve seen Him in ways not always visible during high tides—periods of relative ease and comfort. As the wonders of underwater tide pools are only seen at low tide, so the wonders of God and depths of our need for Him can become visible to us in our own low tides.

Suffering, Sovereignty, and the Coronavirus Crisis

video May 15, 2020

Three weeks ago I did a 45-minute video chat with my friend Scott Lindsay of Faithlife, the makers of Logos Bible Software. We discussed suffering, God’s sovereignty, and the coronavirus crisis, and also talked about the good things that God is doing through this time.