[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"cat-redesign:suffering:en":3},{"categoryInfo":4},["Reactive",5],{"id":6,"name":7,"description":7,"slug":8,"background":9,"thumbnail":10,"supercategory":7,"created_at":11,"updated_at":12,"embed_thumbnail":13,"embed_icon":14,"featured_category":15,"name_es":16,"description_es":17,"playerembed":18,"order":15,"name_fr":19,"description_fr":19,"name_ko":20,"description_ko":20,"answers":21,"testimonials":109,"isVideo":59},10,"Suffering","suffering","https:\u002F\u002Fs3.amazonaws.com\u002Ftruelife1\u002Fbackgrounds\u002F10\u002Fcategorybackgrounds\u002Ffull.jpg","https:\u002F\u002Ftruelifeorg.s3.amazonaws.com\u002Fresources\u002F1671841616645_Screen%20Shot%202022-12-23%20at%207.26.03%20PM.png","2019-12-19T19:24:45.184Z","2023-08-03T07:00:16.703Z","https:\u002F\u002Ftruelifeorg.s3.amazonaws.com\u002Fresources\u002F1671841617498_Screen%20Shot%202022-12-23%20at%207.26.03%20PM.png","https:\u002F\u002Ftruelifeorg.s3.amazonaws.com\u002Fresources\u002FSuffering.png",null,"El Sufrimiento","\n\nSufrimiento","\u003Ciframe src=\"https:\u002F\u002Fplayer.vimeo.com\u002Fvideo\u002F8680986?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0&color=BF1E2E&autoplay=1\" width=\"935\" height=\"526\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen>\u003C\u002Fiframe>\n","\n\nSouffrance","\n\n재앙",[22,41,55,74,90],{"id":23,"title":24,"description":25,"featured":26,"transcript":27,"subtitle":27,"playerembed":27,"category_id":6,"slug":28,"answertype":29,"created_at":30,"updated_at":31,"thumbnail":32,"embed_thumbnail":33,"embed_icon":34,"title_es":35,"description_es":36,"playerembed_es":15,"transcript_es":15,"title_fr":37,"description_fr":38,"playerembed_fr":15,"transcript_fr":15,"title_ko":39,"description_ko":40,"playerembed_ko":15,"transcript_ko":15,"question_id":15,"category_slug":8,"category_name":-1},38,"Transcript: Help, I'm Suffering","\u003Cdiv>\r\n\t\t\t\u003Cdiv>\r\n\t\t\t\t\u003Cdiv>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\u003Cdiv>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003Cp>\u003Cb>Help, I’m Suffering\u003C\u002Fb>\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>A Study Guide\r\n\u003C\u002Fp>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003Cp>\u003Ci>“When pain is to be borne, a little courage helps more than knowledge, a little human sympathy\r\nmore than courage, and the least tincture of the love of God more than all.” - \u003C\u002Fi>\u003Ci>C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain\r\n\u003C\u002Fi>\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Ci>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003C\u002Fi>\u003Cp>A Christian Response to Suffering: There is a God: the infinite personal God, who loves you. The God who is not indifferent to your suffering. It is not His intention that you should have to suffer. This is not the way God intended humanity to live. He is the one who is available if you will look to Him for: His grace, His comfort, and His mercy. . . in a sense, God weeps with us in our difficult times. As we see Jesus outside the tomb of Lazarus, for example, and he’s weeping. He’s weeping over what death and sin ha[ve] done to the human race.\r\n(B) It gives God no joy that you should be in this situation.\u003C\u002Fp>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003Cp>Possible Objections: You may be questioning: “If God is this way, then why won’t He stop [the\r\nsuffering]?” A Christian Reply: That’s not the way the world is. That is not what God has ever made a promise to. His promise is that if we know Him in a personal way, He never leaves us.\r\n(ii) He never forsakes us. His grace and comfort is always available for us. [Knowing these things] can help you see beyond the moment. [They] can help you\r\nunderstand, if not fully, to have something to hold onto that’s greater than yourself.\u003C\u002Fp>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003Cp>How do I know that God loves me? A Christian Reply: Look to the cross. There, He never loved you less, and He can never\r\nlove you more. We know by historical acts that God loves us.\u003C\u002Fp>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\u003C\u002Fdiv>\r\n\t\t\t\t\u003C\u002Fdiv>\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\u003Cdiv>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\u003Cdiv>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003Cp>It’s a matter of turning to Him, even in our difficulties. But we don’t just turn to Him because\r\nwe’re in difficulty. It’s because our difficulty has brought us to realize: “Things are really\r\nbroken in the world [where] I live.” [It makes us ask], “Is there any way beyond this?” And, of course, the Christian answer is yes. It’s through Christ, the One who died and gave\r\nhimself for us.\u003Cbr>\u003C\u002Fp>\u003C\u002Fdiv>\u003C\u002Fdiv>\u003C\u002Fdiv>\u003C\u002Fdiv>\u003Cdiv>\u003Cdiv>\u003Cdiv>\u003Cdiv>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003Cp>What Else We Need: But we need. . . Christians, to be: Reaching out to embrace you, to comfort you, to share with you what it is like to put your hope in God. It [in many cases] won’t make [your suffering] go away. It won’t mean that you won’t cry. It does mean that you have a hope when the day comes that you think you cannot go another day through this world, that there’s nothing worth living for.\r\nWhen you know God, you know that there is something worth living for. It is that that can be a real comfort to us, and an encourage for us to . . . put one foot in front\r\nof the other.\u003C\u002Fp>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003Cp>\u003Cbr>\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\u003Cb>Recommended Further Reading:\r\n\u003C\u002Fb>\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cb>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003C\u002Fb>\u003Cp>How Long, O Lord?: Reflections on Suffering and Evil, by D.A. Carson\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Be Still, My Soul: Twenty-Five Classic and Contemporary Readings on the Problem of Pain, by David Martyn Lloyd-Jones; D.A. Carson; J.I. Packer; Nancy Guthrie\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Surprised by Suffering: The Role of Pain and Death in the Christian Life, by R.C. Sproul\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>A Place of Healing: Wrestling with the Mysteries of Suffering, Pain, and God’s Sovereignty, by Joni Eareckson Tada \u003C\u002Fp>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\u003C\u002Fdiv>\r\n\t\t\t\t\u003C\u002Fdiv>\r\n\t\t\t\u003C\u002Fdiv>\r\n\t\t\u003C\u002Fdiv>",false,"","transcript-help-i-m-suffering","article","2019-12-19T17:42:47.160Z","2023-08-03T05:28:56.938Z","https:\u002F\u002Fs3.amazonaws.com\u002Ftruelife1\u002Ficons\u002F75\u002Fanswerthumbnails\u002Ffull.jpg","https:\u002F\u002Ftruelifeorg.s3.amazonaws.com\u002Fthumb.png","https:\u002F\u002Ftruelifeorg.s3.amazonaws.com\u002FMarriage+Icon-01.png","Transcripción: Ayuda, estoy sufriendo","\u003Cp>Guía de estudio\u003C\u002Fp> \u003Cp>\u003Cbr \u002F>\"Cuando se debe soportar el dolor, un poco de aliento ayuda más que el conocimiento, un poco de simpatía humana más que aliento, y la menor tintura del amor de Dios más que todos\". - CS Lewis, El problema del dolor\u003C\u002Fp> \u003Cp>\u003Cbr \u002F>Una respuesta cristiana al sufrimiento: Hay un Dios: el Dios personal infinito que te ama. El Dios que no es indiferente a tu sufrimiento. No es su intención que debas sufrir. Esta no es la forma en que Dios pretendía que viviera la humanidad. Él es quien está disponible si lo buscas por: su gracia, su consuelo y su misericordia. . . en cierto sentido, Dios llora con nosotros en nuestros tiempos difíciles. Como vemos a Jesús afuera de la tumba de Lázaro, por ejemplo, y está llorando. Está llorando por lo que la muerte y el pecado le han hecho a la raza humana. (B) No le da a Dios ningún gozo por estar en esta situación.\u003C\u002Fp> \u003Cp>\u003Cbr \u002F>Posibles objeciones: Tal vez se esté preguntando: \"Si Dios es así, ¿por qué no detiene [el sufrimiento]?\" Una respuesta cristiana: Aunque el mundo sea asi. Eso no es a lo que Dios quiere. Su promesa es que, si lo conocemos de manera personal, nunca nos dejará. (ii) Él nunca nos desamparara. Su gracia y consuelo siempre están disponibles para nosotros. [Conocer estas cosas] puede ayudarte a ver más allá del momento. [Ellas] pueden ayudarlo a comprender, si no completamente, tener algo a que aferrarse que sea más grande que usted.\u003C\u002Fp> \u003Cp>¿Cómo sé que Dios me ama? Una respuesta cristiana: mira a la cruz. Allí, Él nunca te amó menos, y nunca podrá amarte más. Sabemos por actos históricos que Dios nos ama.\u003C\u002Fp> \u003Cp>\u003Cbr \u002F>Se trata de recurrir a Él, aun mas en nuestras dificultades. Pero no solo nos vamos a Él porque estamos en dificultades. Sino porque nuestra dificultad nos ha llevado a darnos cuenta: \"Que las cosas están realmente mal en el mundo [donde] vivo\". [Nos hace preguntar]: \"¿Hay algo más allá de esto?\" Y, por supuesto, la respuesta cristiana es sí. Es a través de Cristo, el que murió y se entregó por nosotros.\u003C\u002Fp> \u003Cp>\u003Cbr \u002F>Lo que más necesitamos: necesitamos. . . cristianos, que lo alcancen y lo ayuden, que lo animen, que compartan con ustedes cómo es poner su esperanza en Dios. [En muchos de los casos] no hará que [tu sufrimiento] desaparezca. No significará que no llorarás. Significa que tienes una esperanza cuando llegue el día en que crees que no puedes pasar otro día más en este mundo, que no hay nada por lo que valga la pena vivir. Cuando conoces a Dios, sabes que hay algo por lo que vale la pena vivir. Es eso lo que puede ser un verdadero consuelo para nosotros y un estímulo para nosotros. . . pon un pie delante del otro.\u003C\u002Fp> \u003Cp>\u003Cbr \u002F>Lecturas recomendadas adicionales:\u003C\u002Fp> \u003Cp>\u003Cbr \u002F>¿Cuánto tiempo, oh Señor ?: Reflexiones sobre el sufrimiento y el mal, por D.A. Carson\u003C\u002Fp> \u003Cp>\u003Cbr \u002F>Be Still, My Soul: veinticinco lecturas clásicas y contemporáneas sobre el problema del dolor, por David Martyn Lloyd-Jones; D.A. Carson JI. Envasador; Nancy Guthrie\u003C\u002Fp> \u003Cp>\u003Cbr \u002F>Sorprendido por el sufrimiento: el papel del dolor y la muerte en la vida cristiana, por R.C. Sproul\u003C\u002Fp> \u003Cp>\u003Cbr \u002F>Un lugar de sanación: luchando con los misterios del sufrimiento, el dolor y la soberanía de Dios, por Joni Eareckson Tada\u003C\u002Fp>"," From an Identity Crisis\n\nAidez-moi, je souffre d'une crise d'identité.","\r\n\r\nAidez-moi, je souffre\r\nUn guide d'étude\r\n\"Quand la douleur doit être supportée, un peu de courage aide plus que la connaissance, un peu de sympathie humaine aide plus que le courage, et la moindre teinture de l'amour de Dieu aide plus que tout. \" - C.S. Lewis, Le problè"," From an Identity Crisis\n\nI'm not sure who I am.\n\nI don't know what I want to do with my life.\n\nI feel like I'm lost.\n\n도움이 필요합니다. 저는 정체성 장애로 고통받고","\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n",{"id":42,"title":43,"description":44,"featured":26,"transcript":27,"subtitle":27,"playerembed":27,"category_id":6,"slug":45,"answertype":29,"created_at":46,"updated_at":47,"thumbnail":48,"embed_thumbnail":33,"embed_icon":34,"title_es":49,"description_es":50,"playerembed_es":15,"transcript_es":15,"title_fr":51,"description_fr":52,"playerembed_fr":15,"transcript_fr":15,"title_ko":53,"description_ko":54,"playerembed_ko":15,"transcript_ko":15,"question_id":15,"category_slug":8,"category_name":-1},23," Why Me? The Bedrock of Suffering","\u003Cp>Why Me?: The Bedrock of Suffering\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\u003Cspan>Dr. Thomas\u003Cbr>\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\u003Cbr>\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>       The world is unnerved but captivated by the wave of massive, indiscriminate destruction that befell Asia. In the protection of our society where pat answers are the drug, we meet face to face with the fragility of life, feel compassion, and return to business as usual. The reality is that we too are in the path of life’s devastations.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>       It is suffering to even consider the tragedies that could befall us. Yet, suffering comes to all without prejudice… on the just and unjust.1 When faced with the heartache of rejection, emptiness of loss, the bite of physical pain, the brokenness of regret, or the betrayal of violation, we reel in the wake. Pain and fear mingled with confusion breed a litany of questions that have no apparent answers and deathly silence from God only serves to tighten suffering’s grip. And yet we continue to ask. Just as Job, we want that which is out of reach: both instant relief and that God explain Himself. Even if God provided answers, would we really accept them as justification for our suffering?\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\u003Cspan>  \u003Cbr>\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Our Internal Navigation: The Bedrock\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\u003Cspan>       The main window to one’s internal system is the reaction to difficulty. Thus, suffering does not create our attitude, it reveals it. Usually we can absorb afflictions but when our internal world is rocked, the crucible of calamity shatters our beliefs about life. Three of these beliefs that must be assessed are \u003Cem>I deserve ease and comfort in life, the world must be predictable\u003C\u002Fem>, and \u003Cem>the world must be fair.\u003C\u002Fem>\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp> \u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>I Deserve Ease and Comfort\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\u003Cspan>       Our nature compels us to seek pleasure, comfort, and ease. But life works against our desires. Consider the opening sentence of Scott Peck’s book, \u003Cem>The Road Less Traveled\u003C\u002Fem>, “Life is difficult….” Comedian Jerry Seinfeld observed that perhaps the road less traveled is less traveled for a good reason. He was right. Our drive for pleasure seeks a smooth and trouble-free route.\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\u003Cspan>       There is nothing inherently wrong with creature comforts and ease. The problem is we demand them and when we lose comfort and ease, we assume God is not good. Even Job questioned God’s goodness by accusing God of mistreating him. In others words, if I am uncomfortable and unhappy God is NOT good. C. S. Lewis wrote, \u003Cem>“If God were good, He would wish to make His creatures perfectly happy, and if God were almighty, He would be able to do what He wished. But the creatures are not happy.\u003C\u002Fem>\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\u003Cspan> \u003Cem>      Therefore God lacks either goodness, or power, or both\u003C\u002Fem>.”4 Corrie ten Boom, the famed survivor of Ravensbruck keenly understood God’s goodness. She penned “…\u003Cem>God is good when He sends good weather. But God was also good when He allowed my sister Betsie to starve to death before my eyes in the German concentration camp\u003C\u002Fem>.”\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>       As long as we assume that life must be comfortable, we will never come to accept trials and adversity as normal, even those considered undeserved. Rather than looking to God, we will rely on our own strategies to find comfort again. If unsuccessful, we will wallow in self-pity and misery.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp> \u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The World Must Be Orderly and Predictable\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>       Our nature assumes that non-physical realities are orderly and predictable, that misfortune is not haphazard, and that events are mostly positive in outcome. We know of misery in the world, but innately distinguish between the “world in general” and “our world.” The way we live in our world conveys the sense that we have little value for the invisible world. It is the measure of our reality that occupies our thoughts. Treating problems as a matter of skill or choice, and shrinking problems to manageable size feels more comforting than considering the deeper purposes of God. Thus, life is reduced to a series of steps, with cause and effect. The assumption is that we can directly control what happens to us through our own behavior.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>       Because effort, practice, or planning have an effect on outcomes that we can control, we believe that they can determine chance outcomes as well. Research indicates that people assume that they have more control of their lives than they actually have. Those who think they are captains of their own ship, live with an illusion of safety. We know that bad things happen; but in our gut we believe we are exempt. We think we can control life and that our strategies protect us. Even in the midst of adversity we tenaciously cling to this assumption because, if it is not true, then we too can experience random difficulties. Thus, living right is the strategy, and discipline and diligence the formula.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>        We seek to understand the distribution of good and bad and, in the service of order and predictability, impose seemingly natural consequences between people and what they experience. One study showed different endings of a woman’s return to her home to two groups.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>        The group that saw the woman arrive home without incident observed no risky behaviors, but the group that saw the woman attacked reported that she did not exercise caution. To protect the illusion that our world is predictable and thus controllable, we place blame to impose an illusion of control. The unpredictably of an event challenges that illusion, resulting in confusion, panic, and despair. Because a predictable world requires logical order, when we cannot reason out cause and effect suffering becomes random and unpredictable. In the midst of suffering we demand explanation and justification for our pain. Without these, we conclude that God cannot be trusted and feebly return to attempting to control. In our minds and hearts, God is trustworthy only to the extent that things go the way we expect them to go.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp> \u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The World Must Be Fair\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>       Our innate sense of fairness is marred by sin. We twist fairness into a formula in which people get what they deserve and deserve what they get. In our world, individual decency and goodness determines what happens to a person. Like our need for order and predictability, this too helps us minimize the role of randomness.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>        As adults, we know that our world is not fair and that we will be treated unfairly. Therefore, we don’t expect fairness but to be treated differently; to receive treatment that we define as fair. Research found that people want mercy when they transgress, but desire retribution when wronged. Perceived unfair treatment makes us bristle with contempt for our offenders; even for God. Our tendency to doubt God’s justice is not rational, but emotional.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp> \u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Helping Counselee’s Make Sense Out Of Nonsense\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>       Our internal system cannot accommodate aberrations. In the face of aberration, the comfort and complacency provided by our internal guide is lost. The new puzzle piece does not fit into our system no matter how hard we push. Therefore, we must entirely modify our systemto move forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>       In trauma’s wake, people seek counseling to increase their sense of control. But as counselors, the problems brought to us have no clear answers. We face paradox, ambivalence, and anger. We must explore the polarity of the human heart, postpone quick answers, and make sure the complexity of the new reality is acknowledged. It is through the dialogue about the counselee’s questions and pain that healing comes. We must resist being taken hostage by their cry for certainty. To value struggle, entertain maddening questions, and work with intolerable pain is difficult. Our own instinct may also move us toward safe subjects, to reach for instant recipes, to stop the bleeding. We must learn to value struggle over prescription, questions over answers, anxiety over comfort, and desire over fulfillment.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>       Godly helping means being fully present with sufferers. In due time, we must gently lead them into the darkness of their internal world. Be patient as you invite them down the treacherous path of healing that takes them through the ugliness of the soul. Their overwhelming fear may paralyze them. The route to healing is less obvious than a formula or action plan. It is more strenuous and uncertain. Since suffering is applied theology, it will bring them face-to-face God’s grace.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp> \u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>References\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>1 Matthew 5:35\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\u003Cspan>2 M. Scott Peck (1985). \u003Cem>The road less traveled. \u003C\u002Fem>New York: Phoenix Press. (p. 15)\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>3 Job 16:12-14\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\u003Cspan>4C. S. Lewis (1967). \u003Cem>The problem of pain\u003C\u002Fem>. New York: Macmillan. (p. 26)\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\u003Cspan>5 Corrie ten Boom (1982). \u003Cem>Clippings from my notebook\u003C\u002Fem>. Minneapolis, MN: World Wide Publications. (p. 56)\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>6 See 1 Peter 4:12-13\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>7 See Ecclesiastes 8:14\u003C\u002Fp>\r\n","why-me-the-bedrock-of-suffering","2019-12-19T17:40:51.425Z","2023-08-03T05:32:32.941Z","https:\u002F\u002Ftruelifeorg.s3.amazonaws.com\u002Fresources\u002F1662478712234_20_0921_DISCIPLESHIP_If-You-Want-to-Follow-Jesus-You-Can-Expect-Suffering_1021x640-93187087","\n\n¿Por qué yo? La base del sufrimiento","¿Por qué yo?: La base del sufrimiento\r\nDr. Thomas\r\n\r\nEl mundo está nervioso pero cautivado por la ola de destrucción masiva e indiscriminada que azotó Asia. En la protección de nuestra sociedad donde las respuestas sencillas son la droga, nos enfrentamos cara a cara con la frag","\n\nPourquoi moi? La base de la souffrance","\u003Cp>Pourquoi moi ? : La base du souffrance\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\u003Cspan>Dr Thomas\u003Cbr>\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\u003Cbr>\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>       Le monde est perturbé mais captivé par la vague de destruction massive et indiscriminée qui a frappé l'Asie. Dans la","\n\n왜 나요? 우리의 재앙의 바탕","\n왜 나요? : 고통의 기반\n\n세계는 아시아에 내린 거대하고 무분별한 파괴의 파도에",{"id":56,"title":57,"description":58,"featured":59,"transcript":60,"subtitle":61,"playerembed":62,"category_id":6,"slug":63,"answertype":64,"created_at":30,"updated_at":65,"thumbnail":66,"embed_thumbnail":33,"embed_icon":34,"title_es":67,"description_es":68,"playerembed_es":69,"transcript_es":15,"title_fr":70,"description_fr":71,"playerembed_fr":15,"transcript_fr":15,"title_ko":72,"description_ko":73,"playerembed_ko":15,"transcript_ko":15,"question_id":15,"category_slug":8,"category_name":-1},64,"Does God Care If I Suffer?","\u003Cp>\u003Cspan style=\"color: inherit; font-family: inherit;\">Come hear Dr. Bruce Little poignantly share what God's perspective is on suffering. Learn how God is always there to share His care and love with you. Dr. Bruce A. Little is the Director of the L. Russ Bush Center for Faith and Culture and Professor of Philosophy at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary.\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Cbr>\u003C\u002Fp> \u003Cp>TrueLife.org would be more than happy to help introduce you to a pastor so you can experience the great blessing of being in a church family. Please use our \u003Ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.truelife.org\u002Flocations\">Church Finder\u003C\u002Fa> to easily locate and email a pastor near you.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\u003Cbr>\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Ftruelife.org\u002Fanswers\u002Fhow-can-i-be-forgiven-and-go-to-heaven-video\">Click here if you are ready to be forgiven and go to Heaven\u003C\u002Fa>!\u003C\u002Fp> \u003Cbr>\u003Cbr>\u003Cbr>\u003Cbr>",true,"\u003Cp>Does God Care If I Suffer?\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Dr. Bruce A. Little\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>I often say if you want to know the mind of God is about sin and death and suffering go to the widow Nam, as Jesus is walking in and the widow is bringing her only son out. He’s died and they are going out to bury him. Jesus comes along. Nobody asked Jesus to do anything. Nobody says “oh, can’t You bring him back to life.” No, Jesus just looks at what is going on and without anybody asking He reaches down and He touches the young man and He says “rise up.” That’s the heart of God with view to suffering.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>We as Christians at least do not expect everything to be perfect on this earth. Our hope is that the coming of the day when Christ will return and there will be a rule of righteousness and the Bible says that no more death. No more sorrow. No more tears. No more crying. That’s what we look for but until then we live in a broken place and we have a God Who is not indifferent to what is going on.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>He is also a God who is true to Himself. He is true to what He has given man. I give you freedom of choice within boundaries. If you use that to do wrong then somebody is going to get suffering. God may intervene and reverse circumstances. He can do that. I don’t say He can’t. I don’t think that is the rule. I think that is the exception but He is always there with His care, His love, His comfort to see that we can get through this.\u003C\u002Fp>\r\nSUBTITLE\t","Come hear Dr. Bruce Little poignantly share what God's perspective is on suffering. Learn how God is always there to share His care and love with you.","\u003Ciframe src=\"https:\u002F\u002Fplayer.vimeo.com\u002Fvideo\u002F8678596?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0&color=BF1E2E&autoplay=1\" width=\"935\" height=\"526\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen>\u003C\u002Fiframe>","does-god-care-if-i-suffer","video","2023-08-03T06:14:00.413Z","https:\u002F\u002Fs3.amazonaws.com\u002Ftruelife1\u002Fthumbnails\u002F10\u002Fcategorythumbnailimages\u002Ffull.jpg","¿Le importa a Dios si sufro?","\u003Cp>¿A Dios le importa si sufro?\u003C\u002Fp> \u003Cp>Dr. Bruce A. Little\u003C\u002Fp> \u003Cp>A menudo digo que si quieres conocer si la mente de Dios se trata del pecado, la muerte y el sufrimiento, ve a la viuda Nam, mientras Jesús entra y la viuda está sacando a su único hijo. Ha muerto y van a enterrarlo. Jesús llega. Nadie le pidió a Jesús que hiciera nada. Nadie dice \"oh, no puedes traerlo de vuelta a la vida\". No, Jesús solo mira lo que está sucediendo y sin que nadie le pregunte, se agacha y toca al joven y dice \"levántate\". Ese es el corazón de Dios y como ve el sufrimiento.\u003C\u002Fp> \u003Cp>\u003Cbr \u002F>Nosotros, como cristianos, al menos no esperamos que todo sea perfecto en esta tierra. Nuestra esperanza es que la venida del día en que Cristo regresara y habrá una regla de justicia y la Biblia dice que no más muerte. No más dolor. No más lágrimas. No más llanto. Eso es lo que buscamos, pero hasta entonces vivimos en un lugar roto y tenemos un Dios que no es indiferente a lo que está sucediendo.\u003C\u002Fp> \u003Cp>\u003Cbr \u002F>También es un Dios que es fiel a sí mismo. Él es fiel a lo que le ha dado al hombre. Te doy libertad de elección dentro de los límites. Si usas eso para hacer algo malo, entonces alguien sufrirá. Dios puede intervenir y revertir las circunstancias. El puede hacer eso. No digo que no pueda. No creo que esa sea la regla. Creo que esa es la excepción, pero Él siempre está allí con Su cuidado, Su amor, Su consuelo para ver que podamos superar eso.\u003C\u002Fp>","\u003Ciframe src=\"https:\u002F\u002Fplayer.vimeo.com\u002Fvideo\u002F464434257\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen>\u003C\u002Fiframe>","\n\nDieu se soucie-t-il de ma souffrance?","\n\nVenez entendre le Dr Bruce Little partager avec émotion ce que Dieu pense de la souffrance. Apprenez comment Dieu est toujours là pour partager son amour et sa sollicitude avec vous. Le Dr Bruce A. Little est directeur du L. Russ Bush Center for Faith and Culture et professeur de philosophie au Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary.\n\nTrueLife.org ser","\n\n신은 나가 고통받는 것을 신경 쓰나요?","\n\n지금 바로 이동하여 Dr. Bruce Little가 어떻게 하나님의 심미적인 고통에 대해 공유하는지 들어",{"id":75,"title":76,"description":77,"featured":26,"transcript":15,"subtitle":15,"playerembed":78,"category_id":6,"slug":79,"answertype":64,"created_at":80,"updated_at":81,"thumbnail":82,"embed_thumbnail":83,"embed_icon":15,"title_es":84,"description_es":85,"playerembed_es":15,"transcript_es":15,"title_fr":86,"description_fr":87,"playerembed_fr":15,"transcript_fr":15,"title_ko":88,"description_ko":89,"playerembed_ko":15,"transcript_ko":15,"question_id":15,"category_slug":8,"category_name":-1},178,"If God is Loving and  Merciful, Why is there Pain and Suffering in the World?","Enjoy a brief, but powerful answer to a hard question that effects all of us. ","\u003Ciframe src=\"https:\u002F\u002Fplayer.vimeo.com\u002Fvideo\u002F594660057?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0&color=bf1e2e&autoplay=1\" width=\"935\" height=\"526\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen>\u003C\u002Fiframe>\n\n","if-god-is-loving-and-merciful-why-is-there-pain-and-suffering-in-the-world-video","2021-08-30T16:04:45.969Z","2023-08-03T06:10:26.682Z","https:\u002F\u002Ftruelifeorg.s3.amazonaws.com\u002Fresources\u002F1630339482662_Screen%20Shot%202021-08-30%20at%2012.04.04%20PM.png","https:\u002F\u002Ftruelifeorg.s3.amazonaws.com\u002Fresources\u002F1630339485000_Screen%20Shot%202021-08-30%20at%2012.04.04%20PM.png","\n\nSi Dios es amoroso y misericordioso, ¿por qué hay dolor y sufrimiento en el mundo?","\n\nDisfruta de una breve, pero poderosa respuesta a una difícil pregunta que nos afecta a todos.","\n\nSi Dieu est aimant et miséricordieux, pourquoi y a-t-il de la douleur et de la souffrance dans le monde ?","\n\nProfitez d'une réponse brève, mais puissante, à une difficile question qui nous concerne tous.","\n\n신이 사랑하고 자비로운라면, 세상에서 왜 고통과 재앙이 있을까?","\n\n다양한 어려운 질문에 대해 간단하지만 힘찬 답변을 즐겨보세요.",{"id":91,"title":92,"description":93,"featured":59,"transcript":94,"subtitle":95,"playerembed":96,"category_id":6,"slug":97,"answertype":64,"created_at":98,"updated_at":99,"thumbnail":100,"embed_thumbnail":101,"embed_icon":34,"title_es":102,"description_es":103,"playerembed_es":104,"transcript_es":15,"title_fr":105,"description_fr":106,"playerembed_fr":15,"transcript_fr":15,"title_ko":107,"description_ko":108,"playerembed_ko":15,"transcript_ko":15,"question_id":15,"category_slug":8,"category_name":-1},75,"Help, I'm Suffering!","\u003Cp>\u003Cspan style=\"color: inherit; font-family: inherit;\">Are you in the midst of a tragedy that is making you suffer? Come hear Dr. Bruce Little compassionately express to you the truths of our loving God. Dr. Bruce A. Little is Director of the Francis A. Schaeffer Collection and Senior Professor of Philosophy at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary.\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Cbr>\u003C\u002Fp> \u003Cp>TrueLife.org would be more than happy to help introduce you to a pastor so you can experience the great blessing of being in a church family. Please use our \u003Ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.truelife.org\u002Flocations\">Church Finder\u003C\u002Fa> to easily locate and email a pastor near you.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\u003Cbr>\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Ftruelife.org\u002Fanswers\u002Fhow-can-i-be-forgiven-and-go-to-heaven-video\">Click here if you are ready to be forgiven and go to Heaven!\u003C\u002Fa>\u003Cbr>\u003C\u002Fp> \u003Cbr>\u003Cbr>\u003Cbr>\u003Cbr>","\u003Cb>Help, I’m Suffering\u003C\u002Fb>\u003Cdiv>\u003Cdiv>\u003Cp>A Study Guide\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\u003Ci>“When pain is to be borne, a little courage helps more than knowledge, a little human sympathy more than courage, and the least tincture of the love of God more than all.” - \u003C\u002Fi>\u003Ci>C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain\u003C\u002Fi>\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Ci>\u003C\u002Fi>\u003Cp>A Christian Response to Suffering: There is a God: the infinite personal God, who loves you. The God who is not indifferent to your suffering. It is not His intention that you should have to suffer. This is not the way God intended humanity to live. He is the one who is available if you will look to Him for: His grace, His comfort, and His mercy. . . in a sense, God weeps with us in our difficult times. As we see Jesus outside the tomb of Lazarus, for example, and he’s weeping. He’s weeping over what death and sin ha[ve] done to the human race. (B) It gives God no joy that you should be in this situation.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Possible Objections: You may be questioning: “If God is this way, then why won’t He stop [the suffering]?” A Christian Reply: That’s not the way the world is. That is not what God has ever made a promise to. His promise is that if we know Him in a personal way, He never leaves us. (ii) He never forsakes us. His grace and comfort is always available for us. [Knowing these things] can help you see beyond the moment. [They] can help you understand, if not fully, to have something to hold onto that’s greater than yourself.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>How do I know that God loves me? A Christian Reply: Look to the cross. There, He never loved you less, and He can never love you more. We know by historical acts that God loves us.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003C\u002Fdiv>\u003Cdiv>\u003Cp>It’s a matter of turning to Him, even in our difficulties. But we don’t just turn to Him because we’re in difficulty. It’s because our difficulty has brought us to realize: “Things are really broken in the world [where] I live.” [It makes us ask], “Is there any way beyond this?” And, of course, the Christian answer is yes. It’s through Christ, the One who died and gave himself for us.\u003Cbr>\u003C\u002Fp>\u003C\u002Fdiv>\u003C\u002Fdiv>\u003Cdiv>\u003Cp>What Else We Need: But we need. . . Christians, to be: Reaching out to embrace you, to comfort you, to share with you what it is like to put your hope in God. It [in many cases] won’t make [your suffering] go away. It won’t mean that you won’t cry. It does mean that you have a hope when the day comes that you think you cannot go another day through this world, that there’s nothing worth living for. When you know God, you know that there is something worth living for. It is that that can be a real comfort to us, and an encourage for us to . . . put one foot in front of the other.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\u003Cbr>\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\u003Cb>Recommended Further Reading:\u003C\u002Fb>\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cb>\u003C\u002Fb>\u003Cp>How Long, O Lord?: Reflections on Suffering and Evil, by D.A. Carson\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Be Still, My Soul: Twenty-Five Classic and Contemporary Readings on the Problem of Pain, by David Martyn Lloyd-Jones; D.A. Carson; J.I. Packer; Nancy Guthrie\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Surprised by Suffering: The Role of Pain and Death in the Christian Life, by R.C. Sproul\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>A Place of Healing: Wrestling with the Mysteries of Suffering, Pain, and God’s Sovereignty, by Joni Eareckson Tada \u003C\u002Fp>\u003C\u002Fdiv>","Are you in the midst of a tragedy that is making you suffer? Come hear Dr. Bruce Little compassionately express to you the truths of our loving God. PLAYEREMBED\t","\u003Ciframe src=\"https:\u002F\u002Fplayer.vimeo.com\u002Fvideo\u002F8680986?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0&color=BF1E2E&autoplay=1\" width=\"935\" height=\"526\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen>\u003C\u002Fiframe>","help-i-m-suffering","2019-12-19T17:46:20.070Z","2023-08-03T06:18:53.654Z","https:\u002F\u002Ftruelifeorg.s3.amazonaws.com\u002Fresources\u002F1630339639247_Screen%20Shot%202021-08-30%20at%2012.06.39%20PM.png","https:\u002F\u002Ftruelifeorg.s3.amazonaws.com\u002Fresources\u002F1630339640567_Screen%20Shot%202021-08-30%20at%2012.06.39%20PM.png","¡Ayuda, estoy sufriendo!","\u003Cp>¿Está en medio de una tragedia que le está haciendo sufrir? Venga y escuche al Dr. Bruce Little expresarle compasivamente las verdades de nuestro amoroso Dios. PLAYEREMBED\u003C\u002Fp> \u003Cp>\u003Cbr \u002F>¿Está listo para descubrir qué es la verdadera vida? Si es así, haga clic aquí.\u003C\u002Fp> \u003Cp>\u003Cbr \u002F>¿Está en medio de una tragedia que le está haciendo sufrir? Venga y escuche al Dr. Bruce Little expresarle compasivamente las verdades de nuestro amoroso Dios. El Dr. Bruce A. Little es director de la Colección Francis A. Schaeffer y Profesor Principal de Filosofía en el Seminario Teológico Bautista del Sureste.\u003C\u002Fp> \u003Cp>\u003Cbr \u002F>En TrueLife.org estamos muy contentos de ayudarle y presentarle a un pastor para que pueda experimentar la gran bendición de estar en una familia de la iglesia. Utilice nuestro Buscador de iglesias para localizar y enviar por correo electrónico fácilmente a un pastor cerca de usted.\u003C\u002Fp>","\u003Ciframe src=\"https:\u002F\u002Fplayer.vimeo.com\u002Fvideo\u002F464435717\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen>\u003C\u002Fiframe>","\n\nAidez-moi, je souffre !","\n\nÊtes-vous en plein milieu d'une tragédie qui vous fait souffrir? Venez entendre le Dr Bruce Little vous exprimer avec compassion les vérités de notre Dieu aimant. Le Dr Bruce A. Little est directeur de la collection Francis A. Schaeffer et professeur agrégé de philosophie au Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary.\n\nTrueLife","\n\n아주 아프요! 도와주세요!","\n\n사랑하는 신의 진실을 들으면서 슬픔에 잠기고 있나요? 브루스 리틀 박사가 여러분에",[]]