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Suffering Opened Job’s Eyes

July 3, 2019 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - Job, Suffering

Job’s three friends had a very legalistic view of the world and of God. They thought everything worked according to a clear and simple law of moral cause and effect—of reward and punishment—in which good people are blessed, and bad people suffer. So when they saw Job suffering, the only explanation for it, given their

Three Ways to Comfort Your Suffering Friend (Job 2:11-13)

June 14, 2019 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - comfort, Job, ministry of presence, Suffering

I was reading an article by a woman who lost her brother, sister, and her sister’s children in a car crash. Horrific. She was stunned. She walked around as if in a fog, unable to think clearly. Of course, friends offered to help. Several said, “Let me know if there’s anything I can do to

Dramatic Irony in Job

June 7, 2019 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - bible, Job, Suffering

Have you ever seen a performance of Romeo and Juliet? Near the end of the play, Juliet takes a drug that induces a temporary, but deathlike, sleep, to avoid marrying a man she does not love. To add to the drama, her body is placed in a tomb. To all appearance she seems dead. But

Update on Sharon’s Battle with Cancer

May 22, 2019 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - Cancer, Grief, Suffering, Surgery

On December 19, 2018, Sharon, my wife of 42 years, went in for a fairly routine surgery to remove a football-size benign ovarian cyst. It turns out that the cyst was filled with cancer. And then the cyst burst and spread the cancer. Since then Sharon has had five chemo treatments. The first four lasted

In the Midst of Trials

December 31, 2018 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - 2 Corinthians 5:9-10, Cancer, Grief, Suffering, Surgery

My wife of 42 years, Sharon Dallas Wilkin, went in on Dec 19 to have a large ovarian cyst removed. All the tests indicated that it was benign. Here is a short catalog of some of the trials since then. We had to wait four extra hours (6 total) before the surgery started. The three-hour

The Captain of Our Salvation

November 10, 2016 by GES Webmaster in Blog - Captain of our Salvation, Perseverance, Suffering

by Zane Hodges, excerpted from The Journey of Faith: Sermons on Hebrews My Christian friend, we are saved freely by the grace of God through faith in Jesus Christ. But the road to glory and dominion over the creation is a tough road. We often encounter on that road, trouble, hardship, frustration, and suffering. But,

For the Sake of His Name

September 12, 2016 by Bill Fiess in Blog - Christianity, Suffering, theology

originally published in the July/August 2015 edition of Grace in Focus The expression “for My [or His] name’s sake” occurs eleven times in the New Testament, in all four Gospels (seven times), Acts (once), John’s first and third epistles (once each), and Revelation (once).1 It is not found at all in the epistles of Paul,