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Heaven: A Comprehensive Guide to Everything the Bible Says About Our Eternal Home
Con: Pain & Suffering
Brief Overview: One of the most potent arguments challenging the existence of God, or at least a "good" God, is the reality of pain and suffering in the world, especially among the young and innocent. These are profound questions without easy answers. To explore the rationale behind how a benevolent God might permit suffering while providing guidance on how to cope with it, CLICK on buttons below (Complete Overview or "Display by Category/All" or Author Name)
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Where Is God When Bad Things Happen?: Finding Solace in Times of Trouble
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Evil and the Cross: An Analytical Look at the Problem of Pain
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Have I not commanded you? Be strong and of good courage; be not frightened, neither be dismayed; for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.
Joshua 1:9
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Happily Broken: Discovering Happiness Through Pain and Suffering
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that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, that if possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead.
Philippians 3:10
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The Furnace of Affliction: How God Uses Our Pain and Suffering for His Purpose
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he will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning nor crying nor pain any more, for the former things have passed away.
Revelation 21:4
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For All Who Grieve: Navigating the Valley of Sorrow and Loss
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"Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal which comes upon you to prove you, as though something strange were happening to you. But rejoice in so far as you share Christ’s sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed."
1 Peter 4:12-13
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Walking With God Thru Pain And Suffering
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Where Is God in All the Suffering?
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Naked I came from my mothers womb, and naked shall I return; the Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.
Job 1:21
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“For I am sure that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Romans 8:38
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Christian Reflections on Suffering and Evil
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Hearing Jesus Speak into Your Sorrow
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Whatever troubles are weighing you down are not chains. They are featherweight when compared to the glory yet to come .
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Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not rely on your own insight. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.
Proverbs 3:5-6
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Why Does God Permit Evil and Suffering
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Suffering and the Sovereignty of God
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Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself.
- C. S. Lewis -
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Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
Matthew 5:4
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The Problem Of Suffering and Evil (Part 4)
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Be Still, My Soul: Embracing God's Purpose and Provision in Suffering
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Suffering is nothing by itself. But suffering shared with the passion of Christ is a wonderful gift, the most beautiful gift, a token of love.
- Mother Teresa (Nobel Prize) -
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Let not your hearts be troubled; believe in God, believe also in me."
John 14:1
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The Problem Of Suffering and Evil (Part 3)
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Arise From Darkness: What To Doe When Life Doesn't Make Sense
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Adversity introduces a man to himself.
- Albert Einstein (Nobel, PhD) -
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For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation and brings no regret, but worldly grief produces death.
2 Corinthians 7:10
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The Problem Of Suffering and Evil (Part 2)
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Not the Way It's Supposed to Be: A Breviary of Sin
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Suffering will come, trouble will come - that's part of life; a sign that you are alive. If you have no suffering and no trouble, the devil is taking it easy. You are in his hand.
- Mother Teresa (Nobel Prize) -
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they returned to Lystra and to Ico′nium and to Antioch,, strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and saying that through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God.
Acts 14:22
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The Problem Of Suffering and Evil (Part 1)
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Surprised By Suffering
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Here is a mystery: one man's experience drives him to curse God, while another man's identical experience drives him to bless God. Your response to what happens is more important than what happens.
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For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant; later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
Hebrews 12:11
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Suffering For The Sake Of
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Making Sense Out Of Suffering
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True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor.
- St. Ignatius of Loyola -
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Count it all joy, my brethren, when you meet various trials, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness.
James 1:2
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Why Does God Allow Suffering
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Holding On to Hope: A Pathway through Suffering to the Heart of God
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You may never know that Jesus is all you need, until Jesus is all you have.
- Corrie ten Boom -
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And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, establish, and strengthen you.
1 Peter 5:10
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The Real Answer to Why God Allows Suffering
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The Path of Loneliness
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Let us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a medicine for salvation, not a punishment for damnation.
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"And to keep me from being too elated by the abundance of revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan, to harass me, to keep me from being too elated. Three times I besought the Lord about this, that it should leave me; but he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.”(Paul)
2 Corinthians 12:7
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God, Tsunamis And The Problem of Evil
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Heart Made Whole: Turning Your Unhealed Pain into Your Greatest Strength
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Any discussion of how pain and suffering fit into God's scheme ultimately leads back to the cross.
- Philip Yancey -
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Cast all your anxieties on him, for he cares about you.
1 Peter 5:7
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When God Weeps
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Suffering in itself does not make us holy. It is only when we unite it, out of love, to the suffering of Christ that it has meaning. Suffering without love is wasted pain.
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In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth, a life full of the most atrocious tortures on earth, will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.
- Mother Teresa (Nobel Prize) -
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"For this slight momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, because we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen; for the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal."
2 Corinthians 4:17-18
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Why Would God Allow Evil And Suffering
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A Place of Healing
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The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
- Rumi -
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Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.
- Garth Brooks -
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Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil; for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.
Psalm 23:4
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With All This Suffering, how could there be a God?
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The Understanding of Suffering in The Early Christian Church
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A Grace Disguised Revised and Expanded: How the Soul Grows through Loss
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This is one of the sad conditions of life, that experience is not transmissible. No man will learn from the suffering of another; he must suffer himself
- James H. Aughey -
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The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
Psalm 27:1
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Good God? Reason In The Face of Suffering
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Suffering, Death and Eternal Life
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Where Is God When It Hurts?
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Pain removes the veil; it plants the flag of truth within the fortress of a rebel soul.
- C. S. Lewis -
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Have no anxiety about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which passes all understanding, will keep your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Phillipians 4:6-7
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Why Does God Allow Pain And Suffering
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A Christian Understanding of Pain and Suffering
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One Minute After You Die
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We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.
- Augustine of Hippo -
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Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid."
John 14:29
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Where Is God In Suffering?
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Suffering
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Divine Disruption: Holding on to Faith When Life Breaks Your Heart
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Pain and suffering have come into your life, but remember pain, sorrow, suffering are but the kiss of Jesus - a sign that you have come so close to Him that He can kiss you.
- Mother Teresa (Nobel Prize) -
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Bless you prison, bless you for being in my life. For there, lying upon the rotting prison straw, I came to realize that the object of life is not prosperity as we are made to believe, but the maturity of the human soul.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Nobel Prize) -
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God uses chronic pain and weakness, along with other afflictions, as his chisel for sculpting our lives. Felt weakness deepens dependence on Christ for strength each day.
- J. I. Packer -
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Blessed are you that hunger now, for you shall be satisfied. Blessed are you that weep now, for you shall laugh.
Luke 6:21
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Why Doesn't God Stop All Evil, Pain and Suffering
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How Could a Loving God Allow So Much Suffering?
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Walking With God Through Pain and Suffering
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God never wastes a hurt.
- Rick Warren (PhD) -
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"But we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep."
1 Thessalonians 4:13-14
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Why Does God Allow Evil, Pain and Suffering
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St. Paul Explains The Meaning of Suffering
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Suffering Is Never For Nothing
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A Christian is someone who shares the sufferings of God in the world.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer -
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He heals the brokenhearted, and binds up their wounds.
Psalm 147:3
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Suffering and Jesus
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Hope Thru Suffering
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Hope in the Dark: Believing God Is Good When Life Is Not
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But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
- C. S. Lewis -
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The Lord is near to the brokenhearted, and saves the crushed in spirit.
Psalm 34:18
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God and Suffering (Debate-D'Souza vs Ehrman)
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Where There is Pain, There Is God
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Trusting God
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The Christian Meaning of Human Suffering (PDF)
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Pain is never permanent.
- St. Teresa of Avila -
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Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Matthew 11:28
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Nothing but my faith in the Lord Jesus Christ could have carried me through this, my terrible time of trial and sorrow" (at the death of his father).
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What Jesus Said About Suffering
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Theology of Suffering and Why It Matters
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Through the Eyes of a Lion: Facing Impossible Pain, Finding Incredible Power
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The Mystery and Necessity of Redemptive Suffering
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God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
- Augustine of Hippo -
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"In this you rejoice,[a] though now for a little while you may have to suffer various trials, so that the genuineness of your faith, more precious than gold which though perishable is tested by fire, may redound to praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ."
1 Peter 1:6-7
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Why Does God Allow Pain And Suffering
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A Different Perspective On Pain and Suffering
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The Problem of Pain
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How To Cope With Pain and Suffering (PDF)
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God will not look you over for medals, degrees, or diplomas, but for scars.
- Elbert Hubbard -
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While 21st Century technology and medicine have dulled our physical and mental pain, the only long term therapy for our anguish and loneliness will be when Christians come home.
- Chris D. Cisions -
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Be sober, be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking some one to devour. Resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same experience of suffering is required of your brotherhood throughout the world.
1 Peter 5:8-9
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God and Suffering
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10 Things You Should Know About Suffering
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Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved
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Suffering and The Sovereignty of God
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Some suffering is given in order to chastise and correct a person . . . some suffering is given not to correct past wrongs but to prevent future ones . . . and some suffering has no purpose other than to lead a person to love God more ardently . . ..
- Timothy Keller (PhD) -
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Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me, cannot be my disciple."
Luke 14:27
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Suffering is Not For Nothing
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Jesus
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Hey God
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800 Pound Jesus
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When Bad Things Happen To Good People
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Suffering: Gospel Hope When Life Doesn't Make Sense (PDF)
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"I have said this to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.
John 16:33
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I am not a theologian or a scholar, but I am very aware of the fact that pain is necessary to all of us. In my own life, I think I can honestly say that out of the deepest pain has come the strongest conviction of the presence of God and the love of God.
- Elisabeth Elliot -
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The Shock of Suffering
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Monday Morning
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Why God (Do People Have To Die)
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Something In The Water
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Hands
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Will The Circle Be Unbroken
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Ten Thousand Angels Cried
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Footprints In The Sand (I'll Carry You)
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Back To God (Give This World)
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How To Cope With Pain And Suffering
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A Grief Observed
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The Problem of Pain
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I am certain that I never did grow in grace one-half so much anywhere as I have upon the bed of pain.
- Charles Spurgeon -
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I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.
Romans 8:18
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Why Does God Allow So Much Evil and Suffering
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Jesus Take The Wheel
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Oceans (Where Feet May Fail)
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Hero
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Hurt
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Purpose
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I Can Only Imagine (When I Meet Jesus)
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Stop Trying To Be God
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Have I Told You Lately
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Seeing God Thru Pain and Suffering
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It's Not Supposed to Be This Way: Finding Unexpected Strength When Disappointments Leave You're Shattered
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Study Guide For Suffering (Free PDF)
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The Scar's That Have Shaped Me
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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
- C. S. Lewis -
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More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope,
Romans 5-3-4
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A God of Love in a World of Suffering
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Tortured For Christ
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John Piper (PhD)
Alvin Plantinga (PhD)
Joni Eareckson Tada
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