Suffering & Hardship

When God Doesn't Answer "Why"

Job never got an explanation. He got something better — God Himself. Reflections from the final Bible study of a deployment, and what it means to trust when the answers never come.

Community of the Broken (Life is Short. Live It Well.)

At a Switchfoot concert, Pastor Kent Keller found himself seated among strangers with disabilities who moved over, made room, and grabbed hands together when asked. A small picture of church.

But What About Suffering? - 1 Peter 4:12-19

Don't be surprised by suffering — the Bible was written by suffering people to suffering people, and the pattern is always suffering, judgment, glory.

Don't Judge Others: What Jesus Really Meant About Judgment and Grace

Jesus' words 'judge not' aren't a ban on moral discernment — they're a warning against playing God. Here's what the Sermon on the Mount teaches about judgment, grace, and the log in your own eye.

Finding Jesus in Your Broken Pieces - Luke 24

Finding Hope on the Road to Emmaus: How Jesus Reveals Himself Through Scripture

Breaking Free: When Jesus Breaks Every Chain - Mark 5

A man no chain could hold, a woman who had spent everything on doctors, and a father whose daughter was already dead. James Drake on the authority of Jesus over what binds us.

Greater Than Ourselves - Colossians 4:2-18

Paul wrote Colossians in chains and never once prayed to be released. David McCloud on Colossians 4:2-18 — looking up, looking out, and the friend who never said a word.

Are You Covered? The Passover, the Cross, and the True Lamb

An Army chaplain writes from deployment about the night in Egypt when blood on a door, not goodness in a heart, meant life or death, and the seven ways Jesus fulfilled it on the cross.

The Shroud of Turin*

Is the Shroud of Turin really the burial cloth of Jesus? A young friend's question sent one writer digging into the dating controversy, the blood evidence, and how its image was even formed.

Learning to Love Your Enemies: Lessons from the Second Mile

Jesus commands us to love our enemies and go the second mile - a standard only grace can meet. Here is what it looks like to forgive, let go of bitterness, and keep following Christ.