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How Can I Find Peace When My Life Has Been Terrible, and I’m Afraid of Dying and Going to Hell?

article - Doreen Button

You’ve been through a lot of stuff, and searching for relief from the pain is totally understandable. The difficulty comes when you search in the wrong places. There isn’t a human on this planet who can remove your pain—not even you, because if you think about it, trading this life for a life in Hell means your pain is multiplied throughout eternity.

Our Inability to Understand God’s Purposes in Suffering Should Not Surprise Us

article - Randy Alcorn Randy's blog

Sometimes we make the foolish assumption that our heavenly Father has no right to insist that we trust Him unless He makes His infinite wisdom completely understandable to us. But if God offered us constant explanations for the circumstances we face, our lives would not be free or normal, and would not allow for faith or trust.

Did God Say No to My Desire to Have Children Because I Need to Suffer to Be Like Christ?

article - Eternal Perspective Ministries

God uses our suffering in this broken world, in many forms (including infertility and grief), to conform us to His image and to cause us to place our hope in Him alone. Only He can bring beauty out of such ashes.

Find Your Identity in God, Not Your Suffering

article - Randy Alcorn Randy's blog

We live in a time when we are defined as disabled, bipolar, alcoholic, ADHD, victims of lupus, cancer, Parkinson’s disease, and nearly everything else. Our condition easily becomes our primary reference point.

Praying for and Weeping with Those Suffering in Texas

article - Randy Alcorn Randy's blog

The news out of Texas has been so tragic, where the results of flash floods on July 4 have claimed more than 100 lives. There’s such heartbreak—I’ve been trying to imagine if it were one of our daughters now, and even more so when they were children.

Why My Diabetes Is One of the Best Things That’s Ever Happened to Me

article - Randy Alcorn Randy's blog

As God demonstrated in giving Paul his thorn in the flesh, He sometimes has better things in mind than our health.

What It Cost to Redeem Us Is the Clearest Indication of Our Evil’s Depth

article - Randy Alcorn Randy's blog

Anything that violates God’s nature is evil. Sin is not merely a minor deviation from a negotiable standard. It is, in the eyes of a holy God and the holy angels who serve Him, a despicable aberration from God’s nature.

Our Ultimate Destination: The New Earth

video - Randy Alcorn

In Randy’s conversation with Davey Blackburn from Nothing Is Wasted Ministries, they discuss what it will be like to live on the New Earth—finally free from the curse, in awe of God’s glory! Randy explains how looking forward to life on the New Earth shapes how we view this present life under the curse.

God Is Just as Good When He Doesn’t Do What We Want

article - Randy Alcorn Randy's blog

There is a great phrase many say: “God is good.“ That is certainly true and an appropriate thing to proclaim. However, many of us say it routinely only when life goes our way.

One Conspiracy Theory That Is Grounded in Scripture

article - Randy Alcorn Randy's blog

Evangelist and author Greg Stier writes, “Behind every evil in this world there is a closely knit network of highly resourced influencers who are conspiring to take down evangelical Christians and destroy the global church.”

Why Would God Allow Me to Suffer with Bipolar Disorder?

article - Doreen Button

Living with a chronic neurochemical issue successfully is exhausting, as you well know. You asked why God allows this, and it’s an honest question which everyone who’s ever struggled with the effects of Adam’s choice asks.

How Does Evil Differ from Suffering?

article - Randy Alcorn Randy's blog

In a culture that so often switches the price tags so what’s valuable looks worthless and what’s cheap demands a high price, we must regularly withdraw to Scripture and ask God’s Spirit to train our minds and consciences to recognize what’s truly good and what’s truly evil.

Why Do I Have to Suffer So Much? What Resources Do You Recommend?

article - Doreen Button Randy's blog

A reader wrote our ministry, “Why do I suffer in pain so much? Is there something I can read to gain perspective?” This is a wonderful answer from Doreen Button, one of our EPM staff.

Trusting Jesus in a World of Suffering: A Message to High School Graduates

video - Randy Alcorn

Randy gave a baccalaureate message to the 2024 graduates of Sam Barlow High School, including one of his grandsons. Randy also graduated from Barlow in 1972.

God Knows Exactly What Suffering He’s Called Each of Us to Endure

article - Randy Alcorn Randy's blog

Sufferers commonly ask, “Why me? Why not someone else? Why haven’t my friends lost a child or their husband? Why can they walk and ride bikes while I’m in a wheelchair? Why have you treated me differently, God?”

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