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Surprised by Suffering: The Role of Pain and Death in the Christian Life is unavailable, but you can change that!

Suffering often seems to catch us by surprise. One day we are healthy, comfortable, and happy. The next we find ourselves ill or injured, struggling, and distraught. The pain that invades our lives may come from our own suffering or that of a loved one. But no matter the source, we didn’t see it coming. All too often, our perplexity prompts us to suspect God of wrongdoing. In this classic book,...

There is a theological undercurrent that runs through the book of Ecclesiastes and breaks through again and again. We see it when Solomon affirms that “To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die …” (Eccl. 3:1–2), but it appears elsewhere, too. Solomon writes: “I know that whatever God does, it shall be forever. Nothing can be added to it, and nothing taken from it” (3:14); “Consider the work of God;
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