Don’t Waste Your Suffering
Here are five questions I’m learning to ask when I suffer. These questions won’t make your suffering go away, but they can turn your suffering into redemptive opportunities to grow in the grace and knowledge of God.
Suffering
Why We Get Overwhelmed
It sounds like the beginning of a painfully obvious question, but I want to ask it anyway: Why do you get overwhelmed? I’ve been thinking more about this as my responsibilities have grown over the past year. It’s encouraging to know that an overwhelming season of life is something we all experience, but I’ve been …
Your Tears Are Not in Vain
Last week, I wrote about how I became a daddy. I have a son now and I’m in full swing on the dad life. I love it and I love to see him happy. But I hate to see him cry. Call me a newbie, but I’m just not used to all the crying. When …
May It Not Be Charged Against Them!
Excuse me for starting an article with an exclamation point. I don’t usually do that, but today I want to make an exception. After all, the title of this article is directly pulled from one of my favorite sentences from the Apostle Paul. The reference I have in mind is Paul’s second letter to Timothy. …
John Calvin’s Joy in Suffering
“There is nothing in afflictions which ought to disturb our joy,” proclaimed John Calvin. The fact that John Calvin said these words might not surprise you. But what you may not know is that Calvin suffered from chronic asthma, migraine headaches, pleurisy, kidney stones, hemorrhoids, gallstones, severe arthritis and frequent influenza accompanied with raging fevers. …
