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When Suffering Is Redemptive: Stories of How Anguish and Pain Accomplish God’s Mission is unavailable, but you can change that!

When Suffering is Redemptive offers hope when life is difficult. The eight stories of this book do not seek to explain the “why” of suffering but rather the present ways that God transforms and redeems suffering, particularly how suffering leads to ministry opportunities. Though the stories are personal and sometimes difficult to tell, the authors are transparent with their struggles and honest...

Missio Dei (mission of God) is a Latin phrase that “focus[es] our attention on God’s redemptive purpose and action in human history.”4 “In a sense, we might think of God the Father as the sender, and both God the Son and God the Spirit as the divine missionaries.… Both are the ministering hands of God to bring humankind to salvation and into the family of God.”5 As God’s children we are the instruments used to forward His mission. Sometimes we are unwilling, shunning the
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