Christ's saving work in overcoming the enemy was accomplished through Christ himself being overcome. This article explains that we should reflect in our own lives this paradoxical pattern of the Lord's life, where we overcome through faith while suffering. For God causes all things to work together for our good.

Is it acceptable to complain in prayer when God feels far away in your suffering? This article discusses the matter of lament in prayer, explaining that it is appropriate, yet needs to be done in the right way.

What do you do when you are experiencing affliction and pain? Many people feel sorry for themselves and crumble under the pain. The article carefully reminds us that the Lord Jesus is bigger than our suffering, and our weaknesses are nothing Jesus cannot handle.  

Are you suffering or perhaps you know someone who is suffering? This open letter seeks to encourage a hurting believer to seek our compassionate Father in prayer.

How are you responding to the suffering, hardship, and death of a person dear to you? Many times we ask God, Why me? or Why now? This article provides an answer that will help in how you respond to suffering.

In this life there will be suffering. What is the cause of suffering? How should we respond to suffering? This article looks at suffering from 1 Peter, and explains ten things you should know about suffering.

How should we respond to suffering? This article explains from Revelation 2:8-10 that our response must be shaped by the knowledge that Jesus is the "First and Last."

The author shows how 1 Peter, along with other Bible passages, helps believers to gain perspective on their suffering, so that in their suffering they come to know God in his love, mercy and grace.

This article addresses the natural tendency to judge God when we’re suffering, and gives advice on how to lead people to trust in him.

The author makes the point that those who are suffering are comforted by the silent presence of fellow believers.

This article provides a biblical perspective on suffering. It is intended to equip those who minister to believers who are enduring some kind of trial.

This article was written in the aftermath of a mass shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada (U.S.) in 2017. It includes a list of thirty-six revealed purposes of God in his people’s suffering. The list, together with the Bible references, will be useful in caring for believers who are experiencing a crisis.

This article provides sound biblical advice for providing discipleship to those are suffering.

This article presents five essential truths that form a filter through which we view suffering, and that therefore impact how we minister God's grace and truth to each other. The author's overarching concern is to contribute to a theology of disability.

The Christian life is a cruciform life. Christians are called to sacrifice themselves. This article offers two reasons why Christians can be joyful even in trials and suffering.

The Christian life is presented in the Bible as suffering that leads to glory. Based on this understanding this article evaluates the claims of the health and wealth gospel with a specific focus on Joel Osteen.

How do you reach out to hurting Christians? This article outlines ten practical tips you can use to bring comfort to Christians facing suffering or pain in their lives.

The unity of the church has implications for caring for each other as the church. This article explains what this means for weeping and suffering with Christians who are weeping and suffering, locally and globally.

How should Christians respond when suffering hits? There are two responses they must avoid and one response to embrace. This article explains how the gospel shapes the way Christians face suffering.

Suffering is not easy. What is even more difficult is to understand why God allows his children to suffer. This article gives four reasons why God allows suffering.

This article shows some of the unhelpful counsel people offer for those suffering, and advises on some helpful things to say.

Christians should be able to see beyond their suffering and pain, because the resurrection of Jesus shows that suffering is not the end. Here are ten things you should know about suffering to help you see this.

How do you gain hope in afflictions? Understand the reality of suffering, the reason for affliction, and then respond with hope.

When Christians face suffering, does it mean that God is punishing them? There is a difference between punishment and discipline, as this article explains.

There are two things that Christians should know about suffering and trials: God has a purpose for them, and we are not able to figure out what that purpose is in the moment.

What is God doing with your suffering? From 2 Corinthians 1:3-7, this article explains that God wants to comfort you, comfort others, and draw you near.

Suffering can actually liberate you and help you grow deeper in your relationship with God. How? This article explains four ways that Christians can perceive God is with them in suffering: they can do so through the gospel, God's Word, prayer, and worship.

The goal of discipleship in the midst of suffering is to bring comfort in Christ. Knowing that people suffer differently, what are ways to comfort the suffering? This article looks at eight of them.

This article explains how very difficult suffering can be an incredible blessing, and encourages church leaders to prepare their people for suffering. It is a present reality, produces sanctification, increases fellowship, and produces hope.

How can help those face suffering in a way that they do not become hopeless]? You need to apply Scripture to the aches of suffering. This article offers three ways to do so.

When facing suffering and pain, what is it that you can hold on to as a Christian? Romans 5:1-5 offers four anchors Christians can hold on to in such circumstances.

The suffering of Christ is essential to the comfort of the believer in his suffering. This article examines the nature of Christ's suffering, the reason for it, and how it relates to the believer’s suffering.

Do your pain and suffering drive you away from the body of Christ? Hurting church members are still part of Christ's body and they are needed for the health of the church. This is what the article explains.

With an eye to Job, this article reckons with the question, where is God in your suffering? It discusses three truths about suffering: God doesn't promise to keep us from suffering, he doesn't promise earthly goods, and he works through suffering. So the article shows how we can find hope in suffering.

How should Christians face their suffering? 2 Corinthians 11:23-28 gives three lessons for our experience of suffering and dealing with suffering.

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.

 From Isaiah 43:2 this article shows how the sovereign God is actively involved in your suffering.

Does suffering prove that Christianity is logically incoherent? If God is omnipotent, omniscient, and completely good, why is there evil? Does the existence of suffering mean that God is either powerless or not good? This article tackles these questions.

This article reflects on the impact the Holocaust has had on Jewish-Christian relations. The problem of evil is recognized as an age-old dilemma for biblical theists; it does not take on special meaning in light of the Holocaust. The same issues as are found in the book of Job.

How can you make the best of your suffering? You can pursue certain means by which your faith may be strengthened. This article identifies several means, such as knowing God and his goodness.

How can you make the best of your suffering? This article suggests avoiding the temptation to succumb to idolatry—hanging contentment on Christ plus something. The article explains this by looking at possible idols from your past, present, and future. It issues the call to train ourselves to delight in all that Christ has done for us.

This article considers three ways we can waste our suffering, all of which have to do with our eyesight. Suffering exposes the nature of our trust, as in, how much or little we look to God. There are two common sources that weaken our faith: looking too much at the problem, and listening too much to our emotions.

If God’s providence embraces all things, does it mean that God is the one who sends suffering and afflictions? This article’s answer is: yes.

This article shows from 2 Corinthians 1:8-10 that one of the reasons for suffering is that we would rely not on ourselves but on the God of the resurrection.

This is a short article on Psalm 56:8 and the matter of suffering.

This article includes exegetical remarks about Colossians 1:24 and the role of suffering.

Understanding the relationship between body and spirit and how they affect each other is important to answering the question of suffering. When is suffering the result of your personal sin and when is it not? This article gives two principles to think about.

This article offers nine reminders for Christians as we minister to those who are suffering. It brings Scripture to bear on the matter, urging great wisdom in how we speak to the suffering.

This article considers 2 Corinthians 1:8 and the theme of suffering and affliction in the life of the apostle Paul.

This article shows from passages like Philippians 1:29 how suffering for Christ is a gift of God's grace, established and used by him.

Is there a relationship between suffering and the discipline of God? Looking at Hebrews 12:3-17 this article shows how at times suffering goes together with discipline in the Christian life.

Does God have a purpose for your suffering? This article shares thirty-six purposes of suffering.

At times it is difficult to see how God is at work. This article explains that one day we will see the tapestry that God is weaving through our suffering and good works.

Christians should expect persecution and suffering. Is there a way to avoid being persecuted? This article explains that there are two ways, both of which are less than godly.

This article argues that suffering produces gospel weariness: it creates a desire of wanting to see suffering ended.

This article discusses the suffering of John Calvin, and what Calvin himself had to say about suffering.

Many Christians have come to spiritual maturity through suffering. Does it mean every Christian must suffer in order to be mature? What is the relationship between maturity and suffering? It is this questions that this article answers.

Do you battle to understand how God works suffering for your good? This article mentions eight ways he does.

Christians in their suffering and pain should not find comfort by comparing themselves to others. Their comfort must come from God. The article explains how.

What is the purpose of the use of modern medicine? Should all attention be given to the relief of pain and suffering? Does the quest for health and the prolonging of life at all costs become a way for health-care providers to function as modern priests, dispensing immortality?

What would you say is the first wise step when God visits you with suffering? Read this article for a helpful reflection on humility, as it finds biblical direction from 1 Peter 5:6–7.

What is a godly way of working through suffering? This article begins by discussing a treatment for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, yet it goes beyond promoting certain techniques by encouraging biblical ways of examining pain and suffering.

What is the purpose of Acts? House gives a short survey of the approaches to the purpose of Acts, which helps us to see a number of main motifs of the book. The article wants to link the historical and theological aspects of the book. Five different functions of suffering and persecution in Acts are discussed.

How can you help those who are suffering? What is needed to counsel those who are suffering is a theology of suffering. Such a theology considers who God is, the origins of suffering, the why of suffering, God's response to suffering, and the end of suffering.

How can God allow us to suffer if he loves us? This article shows how God works for the good in our suffering, from the story of Lazarus' death as recorded in John 11.

How can you make sense of pain? Based on 2 Corinthians 11:24-28 this article shows that pain, evil, and suffering can make sense when one acknowledges the reality of it, the purpose of it, and God's providential involvement in it.

Why is there evil in life? Understanding the relationship between the existence of evil and the sovereignty of God and his goodness is essential for every Christian. From the book of Job this article show how suffering relates to God, with focus on the purpose and way of dealing with suffering.

How to be comforted in suffering? The answer is found in knowing the sovereignty of God. This article explains what the Bible means by God's sovereignty and it shows how this is the source of comfort in suffering.

This article is a study of C. S. Lewis's reflection on the problem of pain and suffering.

This article argues that a lot of discussions on theodicy make no reference to Jesus Christ; they simply theorize on the nature of a deity who can scarcely bring meaningful comfort to people. Rather, the problem of evil and suffering in the world should be resolved in Jesus Christ and his cross.

This article examines how Peter in 1 Peter 4:12-19 uses the imagery of Malachi 3 of the Lord coming as the refiner's fire to refine his servants. By using this imagery Peter identifies believers as the new temple of God, and encourages them in their suffering.

How can severe calamity exist in a world governed by a good God? The author reads Revelation 6:1-8 as an answer to the question whether suffering is merely part of a chaotic world.

If we are justified by faith, why must we still do good works or works of righteousness? The article attempts to answer this question from the point of view of 2 Peter 2:5-10 and also includes aspects of the believer's attitude in a context of suffering.

The article discusses the problem of suffering among believers. By reference to 1 Peter, the author dismisses unbiblical views about suffering and provides guidelines to follow for Christians to be able to handle suffering.

How should believers view suffering, especially the kind that comes as a result of them being followers of Christ? With a focus on the relevant passages in 1 Peter 4, the author addresses this issue and points towards the glory that is to be attained at the end.