Suffering

“in order that through his suffering he might provide for us hope. But please be sure that you understand this. Jesus did not suffer so that we will not suffer, but that our suffering would be one that we would not lose hope. He did not suffer so that we will not suffer. Don't ever get the idea that to know Jesus and be in good standing with God means that somehow you're going to get a, you know, get out of jail free card, that you're going to just pass by suffering in life. No, you're going to go through the jail experiences,”

“Eugene Peterson said, among other things, pastoral work is a decision to deal on the most personal and intimate terms with suffering. It does not try to find ways to minimize suffering or ways to avoid it. It is not a search after the cure for suffering. Pastoral work engages suffering. It is a conscious, deliberate plunge into the experience of suffering. We suffer. We struggle.”

“Knowing that he suffered for us, that he suffered with us, that he suffered that he might deliver us beyond our suffering. Such that Paul wrote in the book of Romans, I suppose that the sufferings of this present life are not worthy to be compared with the glory that will be revealed in heaven. John, suffering in particular, was identified in his location. He said, I am bearing tribulation and patient endurance”

“who is born of woman is few of days and full of trouble. And Jesus did not promise us an easy life. In fact, we know from our Adventure Week verse in John 16 that Jesus said, in this world you will have trouble, you will have suffering, you will have trials and tribulations. The Bible is very clear that all of us will suffer. So the question is not what or who or will I suffer? The question for us that we need to begin to ask is what will suffering produce in us? What will our suffering,”

“and to experience and to do really hard things. To go to places where suffering is the day-to-day life. And I don't mean suffering like we as Americans think suffering is, like, oh, my Wi-Fi's out today. I mean true suffering. Suffering where they don't know where their next meal is coming from. I think I've told this story before, but I've went many years over to Haiti.”

“And when sin came in, violating God's word, what happened? suffering entered the world there's a sense that you can say that suffering is unnatural but then at the same time you can say it's natural so now as romans 8 says all of creation is suffering so every bit of suffering is as a result of sin let's get that clear however a person's particular suffering is not necessarily a result of their sin that's where”

“have and yet I am grateful that as a part of this calling that God has given to me as a pastor that I can be a part of helping others struggle in Hope suffer in Hope Eugene Peterson said among other things pastoral work is a decision to deal on the most personal and intimate terms with suffering it does not try to find ways to minimize suffering are ways to avoid it it is not a search after the cure for suffering pastoral work engages suffering it is a”

“through their trials and so we've got to understand suffering does not deplete us but it often completes Us number two suffering According To Jesus is not something that needs to be feared suffering is not something that needs to be feared he says do not fear what you are about to suffer and then he goes ahead and he tells them what they're going to suffer 10 days you're going to have tribulation and I don't know if you noticed but he doesn't”