Book Recommendations
Trusting God by Jerry Bridges
How Long, O Lord?: Reflections on Suffering and Evil by D. A. Carson
Being There: How to Love Those Who Are Hurting by Dave Furman
Holding On to Hope: A Pathway through Suffering to the Heart of God by Nancy Guthrie
Suffering and the Sovereignty of God
Surprised by Suffering: The Role of Pain and Death in The Christian Life
Beside Still Waters Words Of Comfort For The Soul
Making Sense of Suffering by Joni Eareckson Tada
A Place of Healing: Wrestling with the Mysteries of Suffering, Pain, and God’s Sovereignty
When God Weeps: Why Our Sufferings Matter to the Almighty
Article Links
Articles organized under the general outline of Love, Know, Speak, Do (See Paul Tripp’s Instruments in the Redeemer’s Hands). You can find more resources on other subjects here.
Love
10 Ways Not to Help a Hurting Friend
3 Mistakes to Avoid When Helping the Hurting
Don’t You Dare Be Caught Rejoicing with Those Who Weep – Justin Taylor
What Not to Ask Someone Suffering | Desiring God
How to Write a Good Sympathy Card | Counseling One Another
Help in Overcoming Church Hurt | Desiring God
Personal Stories
All His Breakers and His Waves: Our Church, Suffering, and Stubborn Faith – Gospel Driven Church
Bedeviled by My Wife’s Dementia | Christianity Today
Broken But Grateful | Desiring God
Carson: The most painful things I’ve ever borne are betrayals by Christian friends | Andy Naselli
Everyday Transcendence: The 99 Balloons of Eliot Hartman Mooney | Philosophical Fragments
Family Slant: Cambodia: The Unexpected Surge
God Is Bigger Than My Cancer | Desiring God
How It Feels When Your Epileptic Child Gets To Make A Wish
Me, the Lord, Pizza, and Celiac Disease | TGC
The Beauty of Faithful Suffering – The Gospel Coalition Blog
The Promise of God in Threatening Pain | Desiring God
The Truth About Living with an Invisible Illness | Her.meneutics | ChristianityToday.com
Know
36 Purposes of God in Our Suffering | Counseling One Another
Help to the Hurting: A Response to the Shooting in Las Vegas | Biblical Counseling Coalition
6 Pillars of a Christian View on Suffering – The Gospel Coalition Blog
Affliction Evangelism – Reformation21 Blog
God’s gifts in suffering (#1) Introduction | The Briefing (#2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8)
Grief — A Forgotten Apologetic | NWBingham.com
Ministry and Suffering | The Proclamation Trust (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5)
Suffering, Chastisement and the Fatherly Love of God – Feeding on Christ
Book Reviews
Big God | TGC | The Gospel Coalition
The Hardest Peace | TGC | The Gospel Coalition
“That happens to be my place of healing.” « The Works of God
Speak
12 Things To Thank God For In The Midst Of Affliction
A Message to the Men of My Church: Ten Things I Learned Through Triple Bypass Heart Surgery
Borrowed Light: Joy in the Midst of Hope Deferred
Credo Magazine » Reflections: One Year Later (Fred G. Zaspel)
Don’t Waste Your Suffering | Gentle Reformation (#1, #2, #3, #4, #5)
He Knows Your Sorrows | For The Church
Hiding the things that hurt. | Stuff Christians Like – Jon Acuff
Hope for Chronic Suffering – Desiring God
Lessons Learned from Aortic Replacement Surgery | The Cripplegate
Moore Prayers – White Horse Inn Blog
Seeing Beyond the Suffering – Trevin Wax
The Days of Darkness Will Be Many :: Desiring God
The Grace of Affliction | joethorn.net
The Theology of Suffering and Reformed African Americans – Reformed African American Network
The Upward Call – The Upward Call – Afflictions sanctified by the word
Together in Suffering – Highlands Ministries Online
When You’re in a Spiritual Storm, Trust Your Instruments – Desiring God
Where Is God When Things Keep Getting Worse? | Desiring God
WORLDmag.com | Praising God for my troubles | Andrée Seu Peterson
Worship in the Dark | Desiring God
Do
20 Approaches to Battling Depression-Anxiety as Suffering | Brad Hambrick
5 Ways to Make It through a Difficult Season
A Note to Moms in Crisis | En Route
Ten Lessons from a Hospital Bed | Desiring God
Resources
Videos
A Thousand Sorrows Teaches a Man to Preach – The Gospel Coalition
Following God Can End Badly | TGC
Sermons
“Treasuring Christ and the Call to Suffer” John Piper (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4).