Suffering and adversity will come to every Christian, as Christ promised. How should you prepare? Know God as your Father, trust the promise of His presence, give thanks always, and pray.

This article gives ten reasons why hardship or adversity is beneficial, especially for young men.

A deeply distressed father sat for two weeks in a pediatric ICU, watching his three-year-old son slowly die. During those two weeks he read through, quite surprisingly, a book on the Gospel. He later wrote to me, “I want to say to you the Gospel really is for real life.” This article is about sin and the forgiveness of sin.