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Suffering, Evil, and Providence

Entries that face pain, loss, evil, endurance, providence, and lament under the sovereignty and goodness of God.

30 published entries in this category.

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Suffering, Evil, and Providence

Feeling Abandoned

The feeling of absence must be answered by the promises of God.

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Suffering, Evil, and Providence

Bereavement

Christian hope does not cancel tears; it forbids despair from becoming the final word.

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Suffering, Evil, and Providence

Calamity

Calamity is not polite; it tears away the stage props of self-sufficiency.

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Suffering, Evil, and Providence

Crisis

Crisis does not create your theology; it reveals the theology you were already living.

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Suffering, Evil, and Providence

Death

Every funeral preaches what the modern world spends its life trying not to hear: you are dust, and you are not in control.

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Suffering, Evil, and Providence

God’s Silence

When God seems silent, the first danger is not unanswered questions; it is letting felt silence overrule revealed truth.

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Suffering, Evil, and Providence

Groaning Creation

The world is not just inconvenient; it is groaning for the liberty only God can bring.

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Suffering, Evil, and Providence

Humiliation

Humiliation feels like death because pride was trying to live as king.

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Suffering, Evil, and Providence

Loss

Loss hurts deeply because gifts matter; loss destroys us when gifts have become ultimate.

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Suffering, Evil, and Providence

Persecution

If the world never feels contradicted by our Christianity, we should ask whether our Christianity has learned to hide.

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Suffering, Evil, and Providence

Suffering

The real question in suffering is not first ‘Why me?’ but ‘Will I worship God while I am not in control?’

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Suffering, Evil, and Providence

Temptation

Temptation rarely says, “rebel against God.” It usually says, “you deserve this now.”

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Suffering, Evil, and Providence

Testing

Testing strips away the speeches and shows what the soul actually worships.

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Suffering, Evil, and Providence

The Problem of Evil

Any answer to evil that protects human comfort by reducing God’s sovereignty has already failed biblically.

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Suffering, Evil, and Providence

Trial

A trial does not create the heart; it reveals what the heart trusts when comfort is removed.

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Suffering, Evil, and Providence

Unanswered Prayer

Prayer is not magic with Christian vocabulary. It is request before the Father, not control over the Father.

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Suffering, Evil, and Providence

Long Waiting

Delay is not denial when God is governing the waiting.

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Suffering, Evil, and Providence

“Why Me?”

The sharpest answer to “Why me?” is often “Why not me?”—not because pain is small, but because creaturely entitlement is large.

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