Suffering (209)
  1. There is true help in the midst of our pain. Someone who suffered as we suffer, who embraced all our pain in his suffering and death on a cross.
  2. The following is an excerpt from "Finding Christ in the Straw," written by Robert M. Hiller (1517 Publishing, 2020).
  3. Suffering is hard, but does it have meaning? Craig and Troy begin this new series with a basic conversation on the Biblical understanding of suffering.
  4. God hides from us on purpose so he can be God for us without limits or measures in the way of faithful, loving-kindness.
  5. Your faith is not dependent on whether or not you suffer well. Your faith is dependent on the fact that Christ did.
  6. The real power of his hymn comes from the fact that Bonhoeffer does not offer a rosy picture of life or any of the tropes so typical of cheap piety that tell us that everything is always right, that things happen for a reason, and that we should try to stay positive.
  7. On the other side of Christmas, we find (1) senseless suffering and (2) unstoppable salvation. A sermon on these verses should be honest about both.
  8. Should we really be surprised that it would happen this way, that the servant would suffer for our salvation and die for our forgiveness?
  9. While we are promised that God will always be with us, we are also told of the benefits that can come to us even in our pain.
  10. Most days, we're not okay. We're not good enough, strong enough, or "Christian" enough.
  11. Jesus isn't just "the reason for the season." He's the reason we don't have to cross off "spiritually bankrupt," "mentally compromised," and "physically vulnerable" from our Christmas list.
  12. Our brokenness cuts deeper than just the times when we recognize it needs to be fixed.
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