Pain, Suffering, Death

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October 24, 2014

Triumph Over Tragedy

Thoughts from daily Bible reading for today – October 24, 2014 “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.” Romans 8:35, 37 Tragedy can strike [...]

September 11, 2014

Persecuted Christians

Thoughts from daily Bible reading for today – September 11, 2014 For you have heard of my previous way of life in Judaism, how intensely I persecuted the church of God and tried to destroy it. Galatians 1:13 Today there are religious terrorists like Paul (before he encountered Christ), whose aim is to destroy the [...]

May 30, 2014

Sickness for God’s Glory

Thoughts from daily Bible reading for today – May 30, 2014 Jesus said, “This sickness will not end in death. No, it is for God’s glory so that God’s Son may be glorified through it. John 11:4 Sickness is an opportunity for God to be glorified and for observers to believe in Jesus, God’s Son. [...]

May 21, 2014

Emotional Suffering

Thoughts from daily Bible reading for today – May 21, 2014 “Then he said to them, ‘My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with me.’ Going a little farther, he fell with his face to the ground and prayed, ‘My Father, if it is possible, may [...]

May 6, 2014

Suffer Grief

Thoughts from daily Bible reading for today – May 6, 2014 In all this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that the proven genuineness of your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined [...]

April 26, 2014

Suffering Savior

Thoughts from daily Bible reading for today – April 26, 2014 I offered my back to those who beat me, my cheeks to those who pulled out my beard; I did not hide my face from mocking and spitting. Isaiah 50:6 The sufferings of Jesus cannot be totally comprehended. One thing is clear: Jesus experienced [...]

January 28, 2014

Mocked and Ridiculed

Thoughts from daily Bible reading for today- January 28, 2014 They mocked and ridiculed us. “What is this you are doing?” they asked. “Are you rebelling against the king?” I answered them by saying, “The God of heaven will give us success. We his servants will start rebuilding. Nehemiah 2:19-20 Sometimes servants of God are [...]

September 30, 2013

Game of Thorns

Thoughts from daily Bible reading for today- September 30, 2013 Therefore, in order to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. But he said to me, “My grace is [...]

August 14, 2013

When Helping Hurts

Thoughts from daily Bible reading for today- August 14, 2013 But the pot he was shaping from the clay was marred in his hands; so the potter formed it into another pot, shaping it as seemed best to him. Jeremiah 18:4 Those who follow Jesus are shaped by the hands of their Heavenly Father. He [...]

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