TOPIC INDEXSuffering (7)

  1. God's Command to Save You

    book
    03/29/22
    6 mins
    By Bruce Hillman
    The promise here is that God is present with us in our troubles, issuing commands to save us before we ask. God does not ignore our suffering and cries.

  2. Inspiration from Mr. Rogers about Coping with a Pandemic

    book
    12/30/20
    14 mins
    By Bruce Hillman
    Fred Rogers did not teach children how to live through a pandemic, but he had many profound things to say about loving our neighbors and finding our identity in that calling.

  3. All the Suffering, Evil, and Pain in the World Comes Down to Love

    book
    10/02/20
    23 mins
    By Bruce Hillman
    Sin is driven by disordered love, and it is love in this sense that leads to all the pain and suffering in the world.

  4. You Can’t Always Outrun the Pain. That’s OK.

    book
    04/12/19
    19 mins
    By Bruce Hillman
    Have you ever read the Old Testament book of Lamentations? It’s not one of those Bible books that tend to make it too often onto devotional lists, sermon schedules or motivational posters.

  5. When God Wounds

    book
    08/01/18
    11 mins
    By Bruce Hillman
    Life is certainly unfair. But in Christ, at least in part, we rejoice at such a notion. Grace, that great descriptor of God’s devotion, is a word that only finds its purpose, only exists at all, because it exists as a response to guilt.

  6. Behind the Satanic Curtain:

    book
    05/17/18
    23 mins
    By Bruce Hillman
    There are a few occasions in the Bible where the curtain lifts, and we get to peer into the inner workings of the Divine Court.

  7. God’s Fixed Courtroom

    book
    06/13/16
    16 mins
    By Bruce Hillman
    A crisis of faith always occurs when we begin to believe that God has betrayed us.