suffering & perseverance Articles

• Love: God Cares for the Smallest of Us
  Do you ever feel insignificant? A look at Psalm 8 reveals God’s thoughts about His Creation—and your place in it.
• Reading God’s Lips by Charles R. Swindoll
  From the chancellor.
• Semper Fi by Mark L. Bailey
  
• Gauges and Blinking Lights: Warnings Signs for Christians
  Are any lights blinking on your personal dashboard? Especially if yours is a leadership role in which many people look up to you, consider the following warning lights.
• Faith that Goes the Distance
  The Sub-Sahara Desert west of Sudan and south of Libya is a no-man’s land. Travel nine hours by truck due east from N’Djamena, capital of Chad, and you’ll come to the tiny village of Korbo. There you’ll meet Tchere Ouday.
• Petition: "Bring Our Community Together"
  A few years ago as Valerie Simonds was walking through her Dallas neighborhood, which is full of diverse, young professionals, she asked the Lord to somehow bring that community together in the fellowship of Christ.
• Love Mercy
  
• Can Anything Good Come from Suffering?
  
• On Hold
  
• Living on Borrowed Strength
  
• La Babiña de la Navidad
  NavidadIn Bogota, Colombia, a poor woman had lived a life of hardship since childhood. When she was two, her mother left her in the arms of a stranger and walked away. She has carried the pain of that rejection into her adult life.
• Why Does God Allow Suffering?
  
• Lessons of a Long-Distance Runner
  An official marathon must be exactly 26 miles, 385 yards long. For the average runner with a 28-inch stride, this race requires 58,215 consecutive steps. If running on a high school track, the marathoner would make 105 laps. Every year, tens of thousands of people willingly subject themselves to this physically punishing event, finding great satisfaction in the process.
• Stay the Course by Charles R. Swindoll
  
• In the Face of Danger
  
• Feel Trapped? A Biblical Perspective on Suicide
  
• Forget Me Not: Caring for God's Aging Children
  
• When You Feel Like a Failure by Mark Wheeler
  
• Why Can’t I Change? by Steve Spencer
  
• Great Expectations? by Robert A. Pyne
  
• Why Does a Good God Allow Suffering? by Kenneth O. Gangel
  
• When You Don’t Fit In Because of Your Faith: An Exposition of 1 Peter