Tag: Suffering
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‘Nuisance’ Suffering Still Builds Endurance
One of the main lessons I’ve been learning while in South Africa is that suffering that seems to be a nuisance is still building endurance in my heart. Most of the time, when I have to wait in line for a very long time, when my car breaks down, when communication is slow and sporadic, […]
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Psalm 119:116
Uphold me according to your promise, that I may live, and let me not be put to shame in my hope! We cry to God because he hears us. God does not save us because we call out to him. Instead, we call out to him because we his word promises to us he is […]
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Experiencing Other People’s Pain as Opposed to Feeling it
There’s a differencing between saying “I feel your pain” and “I’m experiencing your pain with you.” I leave for South Africa in three weeks for a 28 day missions project with Campus Crusade. I’ll be going back there for a year in January as a full-time, short term missionary. I only have one goal for our […]
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Missions and Suffering
I am currently reading Let the Nations Be Glad! by John Piper. Chapter 3 is on suffering. As I think about my life as a American Christian, sometimes I feel bad (honestly) that I don’t suffer. There are so many “comforts in the den” as Piper puts it. I can pray for missions, yes. But […]
JAMES PRUCH 