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Is it possible for us today to rejoice when we face disappointments, tragedies, persecutions, bereavements and setbacks? In an engaging and highly readable style, Ian Rees shows us that suffering is a normal part of the Christian experience, and that Christians down the ages, from believers in Old Testament times right up to the present day, have often had the experience of their faith being put...

resigned to the process, perhaps grimly determined, perhaps successful, but never joyful. However, knowing that these events are part of a process that proves my faith to be genuine indicates that there is a design (and a Designer) behind them. If only for this reason, I can welcome them with joy. But there is, of course, more than just this. Putting it bluntly, this painful process gets results. James says that it produces ‘perseverance’ (v. 3), or the
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