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Why Does God Allow Suffering?

 

Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight. (Proverbs 3:5-6)

 

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Where is God When the World is Out of Control?

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Articles on Suffering and Illness

Articles by Joni Eareckson Tada www.joniandfriends.org

º Is God Really In Control?- Addresses questions of suffering and God's sovereignty.

º Joni's Story- Shares Joni's testimony. 

º Making Sense of Suffering- A compilation of scriptures related to subject of suffering. 

º When You Can't Escape.- Finding joy, contentment, and grace in the context of difficult times. 

º Where's The Miracle?- Addresses the question of healing and the sovereignty of God from Joni's personal experience. 

º Who's in Charge?- The sovereignty of God raises difficult questions for many believers. This essay by Joni tackles how and to what extent God oversees accidents, injuries, and everyday problems. 

º While We Wait- Excerpts from A Step Further, focusing on suffering and God's comfort. 

º Why?- Joni's essay which tackles the heart-wrenching questions we ask when assaulted by perplexing hardships. It addresses the goodness of God in the midst of pain and evil. 

Be Still--and know that I am God... www.suffering.net/psalm46.htm 

By Saying the Right Formulas, Can People Control God? By B.M. Rocine: http://withchrist.org/misplace.htm

Did Jesus promise to give literally anything we ask for in faith? By Ron Rhodes: http://home.earthlink.net/~ronrhodes/qjesuspromise.html

 

Eternal Perspective www.suffering.net/eternal.htm

Finding Joy- Excerpts From Be Joyful by Warren Wiersbe www.suffering.net/joynow.htm 

God's Purpose in Suffering Pastor Rick Warren www.pastors.com/RWMT/?ID=140

Hope For Those Who Suffer - A website that deals with the subject of suffering. www.suffering.net 

How Can I Live With My Loss? www.rbc.org/bible_study/discovery_series/booklet/31135.aspx

How God Uses Suffering -Part 1 www.biblebb.com/files/MAC/47-83.htm 

 

How God Uses Suffering -Part 2  www.biblebb.com/files/MAC/47-84.htm  sermons by John MacArthur.

How Much Does God Control? www.rbc.org/bible_study/discovery_series/booklet/30996.aspx

Paul's Thorn in the Flesh- Analyzed www.suffering.net/thorn.htm 

Peter J. Kreeft: Author of Making Sense Out Of Suffering www.peterkreeft.com  

The Problem of Evil www.WhereIsGod.net/evil.htm 

The Problem with Suffering by Mark A. Copeland is a good site that gives Biblical answers to the following questions www.ccel.org/contrib/exec_outlines/suf.htm :

Screams of Faith - Sermon on suffering. It's topic is limited to one question, but an important question-My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Are you mad at God because of the tragedy? Then let Him know. He is big enough to hear your screams. www.backtogodhour.org/sermons/screamsoffaith.htm 

Sickness, Suffering & The Sovereignty Of God (Audio Tape) By Hank Hanagraff: http://www.equip.org/store/topical.asp?Div=Keyword&Keyword=sickness&K2=

The Suffering of Saints! David Wilkerson from Times Square Church answers the question of Why Christians suffer. www.tscpulpitseries.org/english/1990s/ts940856.html 

10 Reasons To Believe In A God Who Allows Suffering www.rbc.org/bible_study/ten_reasons_to_believe/reasons/7378.aspx

Violence: Why It Happens www.rbc.org/bible_study/discovery_series/booklet/31095.aspx

What is Faith? Where it Comes From, How It Manifests Itself and How It Triumphs in Adversity! www.WhereIsGod.net/faith.htm 

What Will You Do When Disaster Comes? Billy Graham www.suffering.net/graham2.htm 

When Life is Crazy and God is Silent is based upon Job 23:1-9. Job is bitter with God, but He knows God is with him. www.ourmeetinghouse.org/sermons/sermon119.html 

When We Are Afflicted- Charles Stanley www.suffering.net/afflict.htm

Where is God's Perfection? A father asks, "Where is God's perfection in my disabled child?" www.suffering.net/perfect.htm 

Why All the Suffering? Pastor Wormbrand www.suffering.net/wurmy.htm 

Why Christians Suffer- J. Hampton Keathley III www.suffering.net/websuf~1.htm 

Why is There Suffering in the World? Notes on Lee Strobel's sermon www.suffering.net/strobel.htm 

Why is Life so Unfair? www.rbc.org/uploadedFiles/Bible_Study/Discovery_Series/PDFs/

why_is_life_so_unfair.pdf

Why God, Why? Why does God allow terrible things to happen in this world? www.suffering.net/whygod.htm 

Why Me? asks "Why should I be exempt from suffering?" The reality is that this is a sinful world and we are sinful people, so maybe the question is "why is there not more suffering?" www.backtogodhour.org/sermons/dealingwithsuffering.htm 

Why Would a Good God Allow Suffering? www.rbc.org/bible_study/discovery_series/booklet/30993.aspx

Why Would a Good God Allow Bad Things to Happen to Good People?

www.rbc.org/bible_study/answers_to_tough_questions/answers/30869.aspx

Why Worry Now? www.suffering.net/worry.htm 

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