Suffering
May 21, 2025
Questions in this episode: – Is there a limit to how many times we can sin and ask God for forgiveness? – Who is truly in control of your soul and are you able to “sell your soul?” – As a Christian is there a limit to God’s grace in forgiveness for sin? – In …
April 10, 2025
Questions in this episode: – If we aren’t suffering, does that mean we aren’t a Christian? – Does Scripture command us to go out in pairs in a covenant promise to do the Lord’s work? – Is the Sermon on the Mount only relevant to the disciples in talking about the narrow path in Matthew …
April 2, 2025
Questions in this episode: – Why did God require a perfect sacrifice to satisfy the penalty of sin? – When do we stop believing doctors and start believing God will heal? – What does it mean that pastors, leaders, husbands, etc. will be judged more harshly? – How do we respond to a pastor that …
March 6, 2025
Questions in this episode: – Can you please elaborate on cremation versus burial after death? – How do you answer someone who says they are going to heaven because they are a good person? – Why did King Ahab and King Josiah disguise themselves and what should we take away from that? – Proverbs 26:4 …
If God is Good…
Is This Part of God’s Plan?
As a Christian, we are not promised that everything will go right for us all the time. In fact, we may face even more hardship, persecution and trials. But why would God allow this? Is this really His plan for me?
The presence of suffering and evil shouldn’t extinguish our faith, it should strengthen it. Learn how you can gain assurance, strength and comfort amidst the pain of this world.
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January 22, 2025
Questions in this episode: – Can you help me how to trust God and his promises even during difficult times? – Does sentimentalism or emotionalism have any place in the church? How should our feelings inform our thoughts? – In the Book of Isaiah verse 43:66, is this passage written as prophecy or was it …
The Reciprocity of Comfort
If we are cognizant of the ways God helps us through our trials, we can then become skilled at helping other Christians through their seasons of suffering.
Suffering and Trust
If we read through the God-breathed songbook of Israel we’ll find plenty of psalms which remind us that in this life God’s favored people are in no way exempt from serious pain and intense suffering. It is how the psalmists’ deal with their pain…
Clinging to God’s Faithful Promises
God’s promises to us must be believed with a tenacious, God-fueled confidence no matter what might tempt us to doubt them.
No Exemption from Trouble
The Christian life will be filled with various difficulties which can be endured with great courage as we cling to God with an accurate understanding of who he is.
Rejoice Always
The Bible tells us to “rejoice” (Phil.4:4). While that may be expected, what comes next in that little verse is astounding—the Apostle Paul tells Christians that we are to rejoice “always.” If we didn’t know better, we’d think this seemingly unrealistic command was coming from some pampered optimist who had been blessed to live an …
Grace, Patience & Persistence
We should give thanks for all of God’s kind provisions as we patiently and uncompromisingly stand up for Christ in our increasingly hostile culture.
Seizing God’s Opportunities
We should look for every opportunity to be strategic and faithful to serve the needs of those around us, even when we are in difficult seasons of life.
Well-Meaning but Misguided Friends
We will have well-meaning friends who, out of love for us, will inadvertently tempt us to abandon the course of Christian obedience God has laid out for us.
Caring Less about Your Own Comfort
We must evaluate our competing desires to serve God and our own comfort, resolutely deciding to persist in fulfilling the particular calling he has laid on our lives as Christians.
Rightly Depending on Our Comrades
Active, strategic, and frequent encouragement among Christians is biblically essential and should be the priority for all of us.
Needful Lessons for Life’s Ups & Downs
We must revitalize our engagement in prayer, knowing we have access through Christ to bring our requests to a holy and omnipotent Creator.
Tenacious Endurance
A faithful and fruitful Christian life requires a tenacious endurance, which God supplies those who are resolute in trusting him and serving him.
Worship Always
The suffering of Job was intense. To bury all of your children after a catastrophic storm is doubtless a devastating pain that would cause many to shake their fist at God. Instead, as you know, Job did not. He did take on the ancient near-Eastern sign of a person in…
Pain and Suffering
Like any good parent, there are times when God brings difficulty, pain and loss to the lives of his children. The biblical reasons vary, but the hurt is always real. And when those times come it is good to remember
Motivated by the Martyrs
No matter how much pressure and opposition we get from our culture to be quiet about our Christianity, we must resolve to continue telling the truth about Christ and his gospel.
Suffering and God’s Plan
So often we are surprised that God “would allow” suffering, pain and death. But actually, these unpleasant realities are the promised outworking of God’s response to sin in Genesis 3. Our Creator has clearly and consistently maintained that the wages of sin is death – and all the painful
And Our Suffering
Being faithful and obedient to Christ in a fallen culture will always come with painful consequences for which we should be prepared and be willing to gladly endure for Christ’s sake.
Expecting Opposition
We must keep the prize of Christ’s growing and victorious church in view as we courageously incur any of the adverse consequences of engaging in the good fight of promoting the gospel in our generation.
Proclaiming Christ’s Power
We must be more attuned to the effects of sin in our world and boldly proclaim the power of a Savior who will not only instantaneously forgive our transgressions, but will one day reverse all the systemic consequences of sin.
When Our Light Shines in the Darkness
We must always remember that the biblical Jesus is an offense to the world so that we can remain joyful and resolute when our alliance and loyalty to him cause conflicts with non-Christians.
Evil in the World Cont’d
If God is a good and loving God, why is there evil, pain and suffering in the world?
Evil in the World
If God is a good and loving God, why is there evil, pain and suffering in the world?