Resource Type | Title | Description | Author | Sessions/Format | Location |
SG Study | Secret Church - Suffering | An indepth look at suffering as a theme THROUGHOUT Scripture and looks at atleast 1 passage in every book of the Bible. | David Platt | Free .pdf study guide, 4 - 1 hour video sessions | Free .pdf is available on www.desiringgod.org |
SG Study | Suffering and the Sovereignty of God | “So my prayer for this book is that God would stand forth and reassert his Creator-rights in our lives, and show us his crucified and risen Son who has all authority in heaven and on earth, and waken in us the strongest faith in the supremacy of Christ, and the deepest comforts in suffering, and the sweetest fellowship with Jesus that we have ever known” | John Piper | 12 Week Study Guide is available also and a teaching series on audio/DVD. | Free .pdf is available on www.desiringgod.org |
Book/Study | The Misery of Job and the Mercy of God | A study of suffering by studying the book of Job. | John Piper | | Free .pdf is available on www.desiringgod.org |
Book | How Long, O Lord? | See link | D. A. Carson | | |
Book | Don’t Waste Your Cancer | Study of suffering and a journal by John Piper as he personally walked through cancer. | John Piper | Study Guide is available also and a teaching series on audio. | Free .pdf is available on www.desiringgod.org |
Book | If God Is Good: Faith in the Midst of Suffering and Evil | In such difficult times, suffering and evil beg questions about God--Why would an all-good and all-powerful God create a world full of evil and suffering? And then, how can there be a God if suffering and evil exist? | Randy Alcorn | | |
Book | A Grief Observed | Written after his wife's tragic death as a way of surviving the "mad midnight moment," A Grief Observed is C.S. Lewis's honest reflection on the fundamental issues of life, death, and faith in the midst of loss. | C. S. Lewis | | |
Book | The Problem of Pain | Why must humanity suffer? In this elegant and thoughtful work, C. S. Lewis questions the pain and suffering that occur everyday and how this contrasts with the notion of a God that is both omnipotent and good. An answer to this critical theological problem is found within these pages. | C. S. Lewis | | |
Book | Suffering and the Goodness of God | See link | Christopher Morgan and Robert Peterson, eds. | | |
Book | Filling Up the Afflictions of Christ | The Cost of Bringing the Gospel to the Nations in the Lives of William Tyndale, Adoniram Judson, and John Paton | John Piper | | FREE pdf of both the book and study guide are available. |
Book | Why, O God? Suffering and Disability in the Bible and the Church | See link | Larry Waters and Roy Zuck, eds | | |