D. A. Carson at Omaha Bible Church on Making Sense of Suffering.
Dr Carson spoke 3 times on Saturday on the topic of Making Sense of Suffering. The messages were not stand alone but rather they built upon each other. Carson gave us 6 theological pillars for understanding suffering. Carson helped us to see suffering [...]

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Open Doors believes that every Christian who is persecuted should be remembered and supported by other Christians. One way that you can help is to buy a pair of “Walk in their Shoes” shoelaces.
The funds will go towards financially supporting and raising awareness of the THOUSANDS of ’secret’ persecuted Christians. To visit the [...]

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Welcome to Secret Church. Close the door behind you and step quietly. Here in this secluded place, under cover of night, we join together to study God’s Word, the Bible, and to identify with our brothers and sisters in Christ who are persecuted even now in countless places around the world.
Right now, more than 200 [...]

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John Piper – You Must Suffer from I’ll Be Honest on Vimeo.
From John Owen’s “The Glory of Christ”:
“WE MAY, in the next place, behold the glory of Christ, with respect to His office, in the actings of God toward Him after His discharge of it in this world, in His own exaltation.
These are the two [...]

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Tim Challies shares some heartbreaking-though-hope-filled emails about the lose of this little newborn girl.
Update.
(HT: BTW)
Paul Schafer, a fellow Brother and blogger, recently lost his daughter, Abigail Schafer. Please keep his family in your prayers along with the Rainey’s.

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John Piper speaks at the 2008 New Word Alive Conference in Pwellheli, Wales on the topic “Treasuring Christ and the Call to Suffer”.
Part 1.
Part 2.
Helpful resource:
Suffering and the Sovereignty of God: Read this book online (927KB PDF).

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Dr. David Calhoun, Professor of Church History, Covenant Theological Seminary, speaks from personal experience on sickness and suffering.
Dr. Calhoun, a cancer survivor of over 20 years, shares a biblical perspective on sickness and suffering.
In 1987, Dr. Calhoun was diagnosed with Mantle cell lymphoma, an aggressive non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma that historically has been resistant to current standard [...]

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If you are a Christian, it is not a question of whether, but when.
John Piper is at Wheaton College this week doing a series of messages on “Treasuring Christ and the Call to Suffer.” He began this morning, exhorting the students that “if you are making it your life ambition to avoid suffering, you will [...]

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Jonathan Edwards on Suffering and the Sweetness of Christ
In September, 1725, I was taken ill at New Haven, and while endeavoring to go home to Windsor, was so ill at the North Village, that I could go no farther, where I lay sick, for about a quarter of a year. In this sickness, God was [...]

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From The Christian Post
A Taliban spokesman said Saturday that face-to-face negotiations with the South Korean delegation over the fate of 19 kidnapped aid volunteers have failed and future talks are unlikely.
After two rounds of in-person talks – with the last meeting held Thursday – the Taliban complained of lack of progress and said on Saturday [...]

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Please continue to pray for the safe return of these hostages and for the name of Christ to be lifted high.
Read this story from Baptist Press.
Eun Jo Park is senior pastor of Saemmul. Park has been criticized for allowing the trip to proceed in spite of the potential dangers. He has publicly apologized on two [...]

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Jon Bloom, Executive Director of Desiring God in Minneapolis, shares his personal story, reflecting on the 20 minutes of uncertainty he faced the evening that I-35W bridge collapsed.

Why Did the Bridge Collapse?
35W Bridge Collapse LIVE VIDEO ACTUAL Minneapolis Minnesota

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Michael Stohlmeyer knows what it is to suffer. Living more than thirty years with a debilitating, chronic illness has given him a deep longing for the comfort that is found in the Bible.
Watch Mike’s interview with John Piper’s Desiring God ministry

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