Tag Archives: pain

Seven purposes for pain

Posted on August 18, 2014 by

“God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pain: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world” (The Problem of Pain, C. S. Lewis). Continue reading →

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5 purposes of pain (C. S. Lewis)

Posted on March 13, 2014 by

There are at least 5 ways that this “momentary, light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison” (2 Cor. 4:17) Continue reading →

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Will Heaven solve our problems?

Posted on March 8, 2014 by

“Whenever we are confronted with something utterly and dreadfully evil, appallingly wicked, or just plain tragic, we should resist the temptation that is wrapped up in the cry, ‘Where’s the sense in that?’ Continue reading →

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Questions about forgiveness

Posted on August 6, 2013 by

Does forgiveness require us to become morally neutral about right and wrong? Is forgiveness an imaginary zone of forgetfulness? Continue reading →

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