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Counseling the Hard Cases: True Stories Illustrating Sufficiency of God’s Resources in Scripture is unavailable, but you can change that!

Biblical counselors have worked for decades to demonstrate that God’s resources in Scripture are sufficient to help people with their counseling-related problems. In Counseling the Hard Cases, editors Stuart Scott and Heath Lambert use the true stories of real patients to show how the truths of God’s Word can be released to bring help, hope, and healing into the lives of those who struggle with...

I began by clarifying that Sarah was not called to rejoice at the suffering but to rejoice in the suffering. This distinction is essential. In other words, we are not called to rejoice at suffering in and of itself. Suffering is bad, suffering is hard, and suffering often comes at the hands of wicked people (though not in Sarah’s case). Therefore, we do not rejoice in suffering because we love the suffering in and of itself. We rejoice in suffering because we look forward to what God is able to do
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