Tag Archives: suffering

Are you thinking why me God? Why do I have to go through so much pain? Why are things so hard? For what purpose must I bear all this pain? Are my tears flowing for no reason? Have you thought about giving up but realized you can’t? No man in ...

Recently my Japanese friend, a missionary in Japan, asked for prayer about her troubled feeling aroused by the movie, Silence, shot in Taiwan by Hollywood director, Martin Scorsese. According to Time Magazine, “Silence is a somber epic about Jesuit priests struggling to keep their faith in violently anti-Christian 17th century Japan”. ...

It’s a “God-Thing”. How many times over the course of your day do you reference this contemporary terminology? Do you use it when you sleep through your alarm and yet amazingly the traffic is a breeze and you arrive to work with time to spare? Maybe you murmur it to ...

Second Corinthians 1:3-5 “Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God. For just as we share abundantly in the suffering of Christ, so also our ...

Many still ask the question: “If there is a God, why is there so much pain and suffering in our world?” To those who still are asking this question, I respond with a question of my own—What kind of world do you want to live in? God could have made ...