If God is treated as God during suffering, then suffering can reveal and present him in all his greatness.

A person's faith can collapse almost overnight if she failed over the years to listen patiently to her own doubts, which should only be discarded after long reflection.

Gifts are abilities God gives us to meet the needs of others in Christ’s name.

The world is polarizing over religion. It is getting both more religious and less religious at the same time.

We modern people think of miracles as the suspension of the natural order, but Jesus meant them to be the restoration of the natural order. The Bible tells us that God did not originally make the world to have disease, hunger, and death in it. Jesus has come to redeem where it is wrong and heal the world where it is broken. His miracles are not just proofs that he has power but also wonderful foretastes of what he is going to do with that power. Jesus' miracles are not just a challenge to our minds, but a promise to our hearts, that the world we all want is coming.

Jesus is the ultimate Job, the only truly innocent sufferer.

Suffering is the stripping of our hope in finite things, therefore we do not put our ultimate hope in anything finite.