Sessions Include:

Lesson #1:
Why So Much Suffering?
Genesis 3.16 – 19; Romans 8.18 - 25

Lesson #2:
How Can God Use Me When Others Suffer?
Isaiah 58.1 - 11

Lesson #3:
Why Am I Suffering?
Job 11.13 – 16, 23.8 – 12; John 9.1 - 3

Lesson #4:
God’s Answer to Suffering
Job 40.1 – 8; 42.1 - 6

Lesson #5:
Does God Get My Suffering
Isaiah 53

Lesson #6:
Comforting One Another In Suffering
2 Corinthians 1.3 - 11

Modern society is like that boy in the house of detention. We have killed off our Father. Few thinkers or writers or moviemakers or television producers take God seriously anymore. He’s an anachronism, something we’ve outgrown. The modern world has accepted The Wager and bet against God. There are too many unanswered questions. He has disappointed us once too often.*

It is a hard thing to live, uncertain of anything. And yet, sobs can still be heard, muffled cries of loss, such as those expressed in literature and film and almost all modern art. The alternative to disappointment with God seems to be disappointment without God. (“The center of me,” said Bertrand Russell, “is always and eternally a terrible pain—a curious wild pain—a searching for something beyond what the world contains.”)

I see that sense of loss in the eyes of my friend Richard, even now. He says he does not believe in God, but he keeps bringing up the subject, protesting too loudly. From where comes this wounded sense of betrayal if no one is there to do the betraying?

Philip Yancey, Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2009).

We have just released a new Bible study on topic: When Life Gets Hard (And It Will).

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