First Question

Why Does God Allow Suffering?

This is the first, and possibly the hardest question that we’ll be answering during this series on Questions. This one was pretty popular, as a lot of people asked one variation of this or another.

Think Ahead:
You don’t have to look far to find suffering. Scripture says that there are basically THREE types of suffering that we humans must endure:
>Suffering caused by particular sin
>Suffering leading to God’s greater good
>Suffering caused by cosmic evil forces

Read Ahead:
Psalm 102:1-28 (what the psalmist says about suffering and crying out to God)
Hebrews 12:5-12 How does God use suffering in our life?

Listen Ahead:
These are some of the songs we’re singing on Sunday morning
My Glorious
We Are Hungry
Sing Sing Sing

Faith in the midst of suffering:
We had some very powerful testimonies along these lines just a couple of weeks ago at our Lord’s Supper service… You can download the podcast right here from our server, or here from iTunes.