Product Description: Suffering can strike anyone at any time -- an illness or accident, a separation or divorce, the death of a loved one, the loss of a job. No one would suggest that you should seek out suffering. And, no one would say that you should love suffering...read more

Product Description: In the wake of a historic earthquake in the fragile country of Haiti, Kent Annan considers suffering--from the epic to the everyday--as a problem for faith. Less than two weeks after the release of Kent's book about his work with Haiti Partners, he heard the news...read more

Product Description: Could your past disappointment be the source of your present trouble?Many people are living aimless lives, suffering from depression, anxiety,doubt, cynicism, and fear because of disappointments they have experiencedin the past.  Y ou may even be affected without realizing it—completelyunaware that events that happened long ago are still simmering in thebackground...read more

Product Description: Could your past disappointment be the source of your present trouble?Many people are living aimless lives, suffering from depression, anxiety, doubt, cynicism, and fear because of disappointments they have experienced in the past...read more

Product Description: What Can You Do When Life Doesn't Turn Out Like You Planned? How do you respond when your husband or wife tramples your emotions?  When your boss fires you unexpectedly?  When you lose your life's savings?  When the child you've loved and prayed for turns his back on you and your values?  When disappointments like these smash their way into your life, you may want to scream, 'How could God let this happen?' But what if God didn't just 'let it happen'?  What if the things you call disappointments are really His appointments--events He is using to make you more like Christ?  What if your circumstances are actually the flames of His grace, intended to melt and burn away the undesirable elements in your life, leaving you pure and radiant--like refined silver? You can be defeated by life s unavoidable disappointments, or you can become stronger because of them...read more

Product Description: This eloquently written book interweaves biblical insights and personal narratives to show how God uses suffering and desert experiences to shape us into the image of Christ.

Product Description: Most people see trouble as something negative and seek to avoid it whenever possible. But what if it’s those troubles that actually lead to greater blessing and purpose? In The Blessing of Adversity, a retired U.S. Navy admiral and the 62nd chaplain of the U...read more

Product Description: Having survived the hurricanes of life, Pastor Peter Chin offers powerful, personal ways we can understand and even redeem the suffering we all experience in our lives.

Product Description: Many Christians mistakenly believe that true Christians don't get depressed, and this misconception heaps additional pain and guilt onto Christians who are suffering from mental and emotional distress. Author David P. Murray comes to the defense of depressed Christians, asserting that Christians do get depressed! He explains why and how Christians should study depression, what depression is, and the approaches caregivers, pastors, and churches can take to help those who are suffering from it...read more

Describes the feelings of futility that may overtake one in the midst of an active, successful life, and suggests ways to use the experience to find God and deepen one's spiritual life

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Product Description: Through the passion of Christ, a psychologist and theologian struggles to understand and respond to the ongoing practice of torture.

Product Description: Making Sense of Pain and Suffering “When the loom is silent and the shuttles cease to fly, then the Weaver will explain why the dark threads were as needful as the threads of gold and silver. As the skies continue dark and overcast, and shades of night obscure the light, may grace be ours ever to remember that the God who cannot err is able to make us perfect through suffering...read more