Resources by Topic: Suffering and Evil

Randy Alcorn was a featured speaker at the 2013 Desiring God National Conference, where he spoke about C.S. Lewis on Heaven and the New Earth: God's Eternal Remedy to the Problem of Evil and Suffering. In this clip, Randy talks about our longings for the New Earth and for God. Watch the full clip here. 

Randy Alcorn was a featured speaker at the 2013 Desiring God National Conference, where he spoke about C.S. Lewis on Heaven and the New Earth: God's Eternal Remedy to the Problem of Evil and Suffering. In this clip, Randy talks about the continuity between our present earth now and the new earth that is to come. Watch the full video here. 

Randy Alcorn was a featured speaker at the 2013 Desiring God National Conference. Watch his message titled "C.S. Lewis on Heaven and the New Earth: God's Eternal Remedy to the Problem of Evil and Suffering."  

If you spell God with a capital G you will always spell tragedy with a lowercase t. 

When the hard things come upon us, we tend to use them as a way of saying, “This is so bad, that if God really is in charge and He sent this to me—or even just allowed this to come into my life—He’s being cruel to me.” 

Randy discusses what Scripture teaches in Romans 8 about the suffering of creation as we wait for ultimate freedom from bondage, in an interview with pastor Greg Laurie at Harvest Church in Riverside, CA, November 2011.

Randy discusses what Scripture teaches about how God refines us through times of adversity from Job 42, in an interview with pastor Greg Laurie at Harvest Church in Riverside, CA, November 2011.

Randy discusses how being a student of God's Word prepares us for unexpected suffering. From an interview with pastor Greg Laurie at Harvest Church in Riverside, CA, on the topics of Heaven and suffering, November 2011.

Hope is a much stronger word in the Bible than it is for most of us today.

Where was God September 11? Where He always is.

I think of 1 Peter 5:7 where it says, “Cast your cares upon Him, because He cares for you.” God is intimately involved in our lives. 

Randy Alcorn talks about the dangers of comparing our losses to those around us. For more information, please see Randy's book If God Is Good.

In this 3 minute clip, Randy Alcorn talks about different Scripture references to use at different times. The Bible is full of comfort for those who are grieving, and there are appropriate times to use various verses.

Some of the things that have created stress are things that we’ve chosen, and we felt God’s leading to do so. Other stressful things God has brought into our lives or allowed into our lives (or whatever terminology you want to use).