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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...

That something else is ‘the testing of your faith’ (v. 3) and the results it brings. I am not convinced that this way of putting it is the most helpful (nor in verse 12 where it appears as ‘when he has stood the test’), even though it also appears in Genesis 22 where we are told that God tested Abraham (v. 1). Testing conjures up images of a teacher springing an unexpected exam on pupils to keep them on their toes, or a malicious dungeon-master who lays
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