and the profound goodness of God while exploring the age-old questions of suffering and divine goodness and how it can be reconciled to God’s promises and His unchanging character. As we ...
Further on in Romans 8 he tells us, “We know that in everything [suffering] God works for good with those who love him who are called according to his purpose” (v. 28). Those who suffer are ...
The word good means different things ... understand how an all-loving and all-powerful God can allow humans to suffer in such horrific ways. Suffering is the bearing or undergoing of pain or ...
Is anyone in good spirits? He should sing praise ... It could be argued that suffering is God’s way of punishing, but it could also be argued that suffering is part of God’s mercy.
Notable Bible teacher and author John Piper recently addressed the question of whether there is a point to praying for protection when suffering ... because God “loves to give good things ...
Earthquakes, volcanoes, illness and so on are not caused by humans but they result in human suffering. Some people cannot believe that a good God would have designed a world with natural evils in it.
Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out! Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his ...
Hello from Flatirons Church. This is a summary and some reflections on a sermon brought by Pastor Karl. We are in a series answering questions people of the church have submitted. Today we ...
and it is not useful to measure suffering against the goodness of God. After all, why should we seek to justify God: This would make God merely a moral agent just like us and not the Creator ...