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From Gospel Translations
Pain: God's Megaphone
By Alistair Begg | Ligonier Ministries
My God, My God
By Robert Murray M'Cheyne | Editora Fiel
The Heart of Depression
By Edward T. Welch | Ligonier Ministries
The Gospel Cure
By Elyse M. Fitzpatrick | Ligonier Ministries
The Dark Night of the Soul
By R.C. Sproul | Ligonier Ministries
The Book of Job: Why Do the Righteous Suffer?
By R.C. Sproul | Ligonier Ministries
Don't Waste Your Cancer
By John Piper | Desiring God
A Sign: United and Fearless with the Gift of Suffering
By John Piper | Desiring God
God's Undeserved Gift to the World: Christian Sufferers
By John Piper | Desiring God
Why do the Just Suffer?
By R.C. Sproul | Editora Fiel
Twenty-One Ways to Minister to Those Who Are Suffering
By John Piper | Desiring God
The Suffering Church
By Tom White | Ligonier Ministries
Christ and Cancer
By John Piper | Desiring God
Faithful Suffering
By Ligonier Ministries Staff | Ligonier Ministries
Old Covenant Martyrs
By Ligonier Ministries Staff | Ligonier Ministries
An Unworthy World
By Ligonier Ministries Staff | Ligonier Ministries
Receiving the Promise
By Ligonier Ministries Staff | Ligonier Ministries
Called to Suffer and Rejoice: For Holiness and Hope
By John Piper | Desiring God
That I May Share His Sufferings
By John Piper | Desiring God
Three Gifts We Need, But Hate to Receive
By Christina Fox | Desiring God
Arming Yourself with the Purpose to Suffer
By John Piper | Desiring God
Blessed Are the Persecuted
By John Piper | Desiring God
Called to Suffer and Rejoice: For an Eternal Weight of Glory
By John Piper | Desiring God
Called to Suffer and Rejoice: That We Might Gain Christ
By John Piper | Desiring God
Called to Suffer and Rejoice: To Finish the Aim of Christ's Afflictions
By John Piper | Desiring God
Can faithful living exempt me from suffering?
By John Piper | Desiring God
Can we learn something from Job's friends about how to help the hurting?
By John Piper | Desiring God
Preparing for the Storms of Life
By Christina Fox | Desiring God
Does suffering always make sense?
By John Piper | Desiring God
Embracing the Pain of Shame
By John Piper | Desiring God
Fail Not to Obtain the Grace of God
By John Piper | Desiring God
He Trusted to Him Who Judges Justly
By John Piper | Desiring God
How can I comfort my brother whose daughter has cancer?
By John Piper | Desiring God
How do you talk about suffering with people who are in the midst of it?
By John Piper | Desiring God
How God Teaches the Deep Things of His Word
By John Piper | Desiring God
How the Supremacy of Christ Creates Radical Christian Sacrifice
By John Piper | Desiring God
I Will Sing of Thy Might and Mercy
By John Piper | Desiring God
If we suffer does that mean God is our enemy?
By John Piper | Desiring God
Is it crazy to think that we can rejoice in suffering?
By John Piper | Desiring God
Job: Rebuked in Suffering
By John Piper | Desiring God
Job: Reverent in Suffering
By John Piper | Desiring God
Job: Reversal in Suffering
By John Piper | Desiring God
Job: The Revelation of God in Suffering
By John Piper | Desiring God
Job: Wrestling with Suffering
By John Piper | Desiring God
Let Us Go with Jesus Bearing Reproach
By John Piper | Desiring God
Thanksgiving in Suffering
By John Piper | Desiring God
The Painful Discipline of Our Heavenly Father
By John Piper | Desiring God
The Passion of Jesus Christ and the Passion of Auschwitz
By John Piper | Desiring God
The Price and the Preciousness of Spiritual Power
By John Piper | Desiring God
Suffering for the Sake of the Body, Part 1
By John Piper | Desiring God
Suffering and the Second Coming
By John Piper | Desiring God
Spreading Power Through Persecution
By John Piper | Desiring God
Spiritual Depression in the Psalms
By John Piper | Desiring God
Should we question our salvation if we hate the idea of suffering?
By John Piper | Desiring God
Should suffering lead to self-examination?
By John Piper | Desiring God
Should Christians use anti-depressants?
By John Piper | Desiring God
Putting My Daughter to Bed Two Hours After the Bridge Collapsed
By John Piper | Desiring God
The Sacrifice of Suffering
By John Piper | Desiring God
Treasuring Christ and the Call to Suffer, Part 3
By John Piper | Desiring God
Three 9/11's We Need to Know
By John Piper | Desiring God
Today You Will Be with Me in Paradise
By John Piper | Desiring God
Today's Mercies for Today's Troubles
By John Piper | Desiring God
Treasuring Christ and the Call to Suffer, Part 4
By John Piper | Desiring God
Treasuring Christ and the Call to Suffer, Part 1
By John Piper | Desiring God
Treasuring Christ and the Call to Suffer, Part 2
By John Piper | Desiring God
Waiting for My Husband After the Bridge Collapsed
By John Piper | Desiring God
When Satan Hurts Christ's People
By John Piper | Desiring God
When There's Crisis at Christmas
By Noël Piper | Desiring God
Where Is God?
By John Piper | Desiring God
Where the Great King Keeps His Wine
By John Piper | Desiring God
A Letter to the Suffering Saints in Beslan, Russia
By John Piper | Desiring God
Your Hospital Visit Is Coming
By Joni Eareckson Tada | Desiring God
Why We Can Rejoice in Suffering
By John Piper | Desiring God
Why would a Christian choose to suffer?
By John Piper | Desiring God
Filling Up What Is Lacking in Christ's Afflictions
By John Piper | Desiring God
Job: When the Righteous Suffer, Part 1
By John Piper | Desiring God
Job: When the Righteous Suffer, Part 2
By John Piper | Desiring God
Luther, Bunyan, Bible and Pain
By John Piper | Desiring God
Sheep, Wolves, Snakes, and Doves
By John Piper | Desiring God
Sore Throat, Sympathy, and Sonnet
By John Piper | Desiring God
Beloved and Yet Afflicted
By Charles H. Spurgeon | Public Domain
The Sick Man Left Behind
By Charles H. Spurgeon | Public Domain
For the Sick and Afflicted
By Charles H. Spurgeon | Public Domain
For the Troubled
By Charles H. Spurgeon | Public Domain
For My Good?
By R.C. Sproul | Ligonier Ministries
Difficult Truths & Deep Love: Pondering Sovereignty, Suffering, and the Promise of Heaven
By Randy Alcorn | Desiring God
Christ's Hospital
By Charles H. Spurgeon | Public Domain
Does God Balance Blessings with Hardships?
By Christina Fox | Desiring God
A Future So Bright
By R.C. Sproul Jr. | Ligonier Ministries
The Most Precious Treasures Are in the Most Difficult Things
By Jon Bloom | Desiring God
How Our Suffering Glorifies the Greatness of the Grace of God
By John Piper | Desiring God
How Does Jesus Come to Newtown?
By John Piper | Desiring God
Trouble: Faith's Best Friend
By John Piper | Desiring God
Talking to Your Tears
By John Piper | Desiring God
Sorrowful Yet Always Rejoicing
By John Piper | Desiring God
When Words Are Wind
By John Piper | Desiring God
Suffering and the Glory of God
By R.C. Sproul | Ligonier Ministries
Together in Suffering
By R.C. Sproul Jr. | Ligonier Ministries
How Christians Prepare for Suffering
By Jonathan Parnell | Desiring God
How the Bible Answers the Question, “Where Is Your God?”
By John Piper | Desiring God
What If I Never Get Better?
By Vaneetha Rendall Risner | Desiring God
Sweet Providence
By Sam Storms | Enjoying God Blog
Prepare Now for Your Pain
By Bryan DeWire | Desiring God
Death: Shall We Weep or Rejoice?
By John Piper | Desiring God
Disability and the Sovereign Goodness of God
By John Piper | Desiring God
Disability and the Sovereign Goodness of God/Editor's Preface
By John Piper | Desiring God
Disability and the Sovereign Goodness of God/John 9:1-38
By John Piper | Desiring God
Disability and the Sovereign Goodness of God/Why Was This Child Born Blind? (John 9:1-23)
By John Piper | Desiring God
Disability and the Sovereign Goodness of God/The Works of God and the Worship of Jesus (John 9:1-38)
By John Piper | Desiring God
Disability and the Sovereign Goodness of God/One Father's Journey to Understand God's Good Design for His Disabled Son: John Piper Interviews John Knight
By John Piper | Desiring God
Disability and the Sovereign Goodness of God/Born Blind for the Glory of God: Eugenics by Abortion Is an Abomination to God (John 9:1-7)
By John Piper | Desiring God
Disability and the Sovereign Goodness of God/Healed for the Sake of Holiness (John 5:1-18)
By John Piper | Desiring God
What If the Worst Happens?
By Vaneetha Rendall Risner | Desiring God
When God Does the Miracle We Didn’t Ask For
By Vaneetha Rendall Risner | Desiring God
What Not to Ask Someone Suffering
By Nancy Guthrie | Desiring God
The Greatest Gift Is God Himself
By Vaneetha Rendall Risner | Desiring God
God Brings Us Suffering for Others’ Sake
By Dave Zuleger | Desiring God
Your Shattered Dreams and Shaken Faith
By Vaneetha Rendall Risner | Desiring God
Even in Setbacks, God Is Lacing Your Life into an Infinite Storyline
By John Piper | Desiring God
When the Detour Becomes Your New Road
By Vaneetha Rendall Risner | Desiring God
Lessons from a Hospital Bed
By John Piper | Desiring God
Lessons from a Hospital Bed/Forward: Before You Begin
By Joni Eareckson Tada | Desiring God
Lessons from a Hospital Bed/The Setting
By John Piper | Desiring God
Lessons from a Hospital Bed/Part 1: Ten Beliefs I Brought to the Hospital
By John Piper | Desiring God
Lessons from a Hospital Bed/Part 2: Ten Lessons from My Hospital Bed
By John Piper | Desiring God
Lessons from a Hospital Bed/Concluding Prayer
By John Piper | Desiring God
Secret Wisdom in the Wake of Suffering
By Marshall Segal | Desiring God
How Do We Prepare Our Children for Suffering?
By John Piper | Desiring God
God Shouts to Us in Our Pain
By Daniel Ritchie | Desiring God
Being Sensitive in Sharing Scripture with the Suffering
By Randy Alcorn | Eternal Perspective Ministries
Where Is God When Things Keep Getting Worse?
By Vaneetha Rendall Risner | Desiring God
Christians Never Suffer Alone
By Sheila Dougal | Desiring God
You Are Not Your Pain
By Kaitlin Miller | Desiring God
Lament Helps Us Hold on to Him
By Vaneetha Rendall Risner | Desiring God
Though You Slay Me
By David Mathis | Desiring God
Joy Comes in the Mourning
By Calley Sivils | Desiring God
Embrace the Life You Have
By Vaneetha Rendall Risner | Desiring God
When You Can’t Hear God, Keep Talking to Him
By Dave Zuleger | Desiring God
Jesus Wants Your Weakness
By Charlene Nelson | Desiring God
God Wounds Us Because He Loves Us
By Marshall Segal | Desiring God
God Has a Purpose for My Lyme Disease
By Sarah Walton | Desiring God
Where Is God When I Need Him Most?
By Grace Rankin | Desiring God
My Name Is “Beloved”
By Christine Chappell | Desiring God
God Will Keep You Through Dementia
By John Dunlop | Desiring God
What Good Can Come from Suffering?
By Vaneetha Rendall Risner | Desiring God
Ordinary Gifts for Extraordinary Trials
By John Knight | Desiring God
One Day at a Time
By Tabor Laughlin | Desiring God
Can the Word of God Really Ease My Pain?
By Vaneetha Rendall Risner | Desiring God
Finding Courage in the Shadow of Cancer
By Leslie Schmucker | Desiring God
Pain Will Not Have the Last Word
By Sarah Walton | Desiring God
God Is More Precious in the Valley
By Jon Bloom | Desiring God
Learn to Laugh When Life Hurts
By Hannah Grieser | Desiring God
What God Says to Your Tears
By Scott Hubbard | Desiring God
But If Not
By Greg Morse | Desiring God
Every Hard Day Will Be Beautiful Someday
By Christine Hoover | Desiring God
How to Discourage a Grieving Friend
By Vaneetha Rendall Risner | Desiring God
Surprised by Trials
By Adrian Warnock | Desiring God
We Take the Next Step
By Cameron Cole | Desiring God
Suffering Revealed How Weak I Was
By Paul Tripp | Desiring God
God Will Sustain You a Day at a Time
By Vaneetha Rendall Risner | Desiring God
If God Is with Me, Why Did This Happen?
By Vaneetha Rendall Risner | Desiring God
What If Evil Does Befall Me?
By Vaneetha Rendall Risner | Desiring God
Did God Write the Story You Didn’t Want?
By Vaneetha Rendall Risner | Desiring God
When the Future Feels Impossible
By Vaneetha Rendall Risner | Desiring God
When Suffering Falls on Our Children
By Sarah Walton | Desiring God
My Suffering Has Not Defined Me
By Joni Eareckson Tada | Desiring God
Seven Things That Transform Suffering
By Vaneetha Rendall Risner | Desiring God
God Will Answer in Your Crisis
By David Mathis | Desiring God
God Knows What You Don’t Have
By Abigail Dodds | Desiring God
The Joy We Know Only in Suffering
By Marshall Segal | Desiring God
When God Does Not Draw Near
By Marshall Segal | Desiring God
The Good We Never Ask For
By Randy Alcorn | Desiring God
I Learned to Read the Bible Through Tears
By Vaneetha Rendall Risner | Desiring God
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By Andre Yee | Desiring God
How Not to Be Desperate
By Marshall Segal | Desiring God
‘Just Have More Faith’
By Vaneetha Rendall Risner | Desiring God
The Sufferer I Want to Be
By John Piper | Desiring God
The Waves of Grief Will Give Way
By Sarah Walton | Desiring God
When We Want to Give Up Waiting
By Vaneetha Rendall Risner | Desiring God
God Wants Your Weakness
By Vaneetha Rendall Risner | Desiring God
Each Day Is More Impossible
By Sarah Walton | Desiring God
My Joy Rose as Sorrows Fell
By Vaneetha Rendall Risner | Desiring God
‘It Doesn’t Make Sense’
By Jon Bloom | Desiring God
How to Suffer Without Grumbling
By John Piper | Desiring God
God Is Bigger Than My Cancer
By J. Todd Billings | Desiring God
If God Doesn’t Heal You
By Kathryn Butler | Desiring God
Facing Death Faithfully
By John Piper | Desiring God
Cancer Is a Parable About Sin
By John Piper | Desiring God
When Should We Pray for God to Take Us Home?
By John Piper | Desiring God
None of Our Misery Is Meaningless
By John Piper | Desiring God
Dare to Hope in God
By Desiring God Staff | Desiring God
Someone Needs to See You Suffer Well
By Marshall Segal | Desiring God
God Uses Everything
By Vaneetha Rendall Risner | Desiring God
Even When It Hurts
By John Piper | Desiring God
Will God Ever Give Us More Than We Can Handle?
By John Piper | Desiring God
If I Only Knew Why
By Vaneetha Rendall Risner | Desiring God
The Precious Furnace of Affliction
By Vaneetha Rendall Risner | Desiring God
My Rope out of the Pit
By Vaneetha Rendall Risner | Desiring God
Grab Hold of God
By Vaneetha Rendall Risner | Desiring God
Is My Suffering Meaningless?
By Vaneetha Rendall Risner | Desiring God
The Manger
By Vaneetha Rendall Risner | Desiring God
When Every Hope Seems Lost
By Vaneetha Rendall Risner | Desiring God
Have You Felt Forsaken by God?
By Vaneetha Rendall Risner | Desiring God
Can Sickness Be Better Than Health?
By Vaneetha Rendall Risner | Desiring God
Suffering Will Always Change You
By Vaneetha Rendall Risner | Desiring God
How Do We Make Sense of the Coronavirus?
By John Piper | Desiring God
Nothing I Suffer Surprises God
By Vaneetha Rendall Risner | Desiring God
If God Wants Me to Be Happy, Why Do I Have So Much Suffering?
By John Piper | Desiring God
Coronavirus and Christ
By John Piper | Desiring God
What Only Suffering Can Say
By Vaneetha Rendall Risner | Desiring God
My Baby’s Heart Stopped Beating
By Jasmine Holmes | Desiring God
Pray for Those Who Abuse You
By John Piper | Desiring God
What Do We Say to Grieving People?
By Nancy Guthrie | Desiring God
When Suffering Only Gets Worse
By Desiring God Staff | Desiring God
Infertility in the Arms of the Church
By Liz Wann | Desiring God
Miscarriage Changed Me
By Desiring God Staff | Desiring God
There Is No Shame in Loss
By Jasmine Holmes | Desiring God
Your Suffering Is Working for You
By John Piper | Desiring God
When Suffering Drives Joy Away
By Vaneetha Rendall Risner | Desiring God
The Loneliness of Suffering
By Vaneetha Rendall Risner | Desiring God
How to Care for Women Who Have Miscarried
By Jasmine Holmes | Desiring God
To Anyone Who Has Lost a Child
By Vaneetha Rendall Risner | Desiring God
Nothing Is for Nothing
By Vaneetha Rendall Risner | Desiring God
Five Truths About Christian Suffering
By Joseph Scheumann | Desiring God
How to Harm a Heavy Heart
By Vaneetha Rendall Risner | Desiring God
The Hardest Time of Year
By Vaneetha Rendall Risner | Desiring God
We Cannot Cling to Bitterness and God
By Vaneetha Rendall Risner | Desiring God
God Has Not Forgotten You
By Vaneetha Rendall Risner | Desiring God
You Are Still a Mother
By Desiring God Staff | Desiring God
Sometimes God Just Closes Doors
By Benjamin Vrbicek | Desiring God
If You Could See the End
By Greg Morse | Desiring God
Ten Words That Changed Everything About My Suffering
By Joni Eareckson Tada | Desiring God
God Never Makes a Mistake
By Vaneetha Rendall Risner | Desiring God
The Lord Gave and Took Away
By Vaneetha Rendall Risner | Desiring God
Paralyzed and Blessed
By Joni Eareckson Tada | Desiring God
You Don’t Have to Suffer Alone
By Vaneetha Rendall Risner | Desiring God
My Cancer-Free Answered Prayer
By Desiring God Staff | Desiring God
Lord, Let Me Die
By Greg Morse | Desiring God
No One Knows My Pain
By Vaneetha Rendall Risner | Desiring God
God Gives Our Waiting Purpose
By Vaneetha Rendall Risner | Desiring God
When God Took Away
By Desiring God Staff | Desiring God
When Suffering Doesn’t Make Sense
By Vaneetha Rendall Risner | Desiring God
Someone Knows Your Pain
By Vaneetha Rendall Risner | Desiring God
Our Children Need to See Weakness
By Vaneetha Rendall Risner | Desiring God
When Praying Hurts
By Vaneetha Rendall Risner | Desiring God
No Suffering Is Unseen
By Vaneetha Rendall Risner | Desiring God
Comforting Lies About Suffering
By Vaneetha Rendall Risner | Desiring God
Your Suffering Is Not Meaningless
By John Piper | Desiring God
Earthly Loss Is Heavenly Gain
By Vaneetha Rendall Risner | Desiring God