Part 1 focuses most specifically on the sovereignty of God in and over suffering. In chapter 1 John Piper celebrates the biblical truth that God is sovereign over Satan’s work—including Satan’s delegated world rule, angels, hand in persecution, life-taking power, hand in natural disasters, sickness-causing power, use of animals and plants, temptations to sin, mind-blinding power, and spiritual bondage. In chapter 2 Mark Talbot takes up the issue of how God’s will relates to
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