Why does suffering exist? Why do we, in all our complexities, endure pain—emotional, physical, or mental? It is one of those questions that has been asked for millennia, yet its answer often feels ...

In the face of suffering, those who turn to Christ find a purifying effect that transforms their pain into a deeper relationship with Him. This profound truth is illustrated in ...

Suffering, whether physical, spiritual or psychological, is often an opportunity when many question the existence of God, or at the very least whom this God is who allows suffering, in particular ...

This notion of suffering to obtain eternal glory is also found in Roman 8:17-18 where Paul is speaking of receiving the Spirit of sonship whereby we become children of God and co-heirs with Christ.

God is God and you’re not, it says. There may be a reason why you’re suffering, but you wouldn’t understand it even if you were told. Thanks, biblical scribe. That clears everything right up.

Yet we also experience the closeness and compassion of God, who, in Jesus, shared in our human suffering. God does not abandon us and often amazes us by granting us a strength that we never ...