Riding The Storm-Trusting God in Suffering

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By Os Guinness on September 5, 2009 ,

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Riding the Storm - Trusting God in Suffering

A prisoner from Auschwitz was saved from the most horrific persecution this world has ever seen only to take his life years later after finding no answer to his question, "Why?" A pastor prays at his son's funeral the truth found in Romans 8 that, "...we know that for those who love God all things work together for good...", but later admits that the internal struggle about losing his son left a far deeper mark on his life. The life we live is full of utterly inexplicable evils that beg us to ask, “Why?” The answer we often receive is like a door slammed in our face saying, “Here, there is no why.” How can one trust God in the midst of these sufferings?

Dr. Os Guinness provides a perspective on the problem of theodicy--the problem of evil--and offers some reflections on how to trust God in the midst of these evils.

Os Guinness

Author Os Guinness, is the author and editor of more than thirty books, including Fool's Talk, Renaissance, The Global Public Square, A Free People's Suicide, Unspeakable, The Call, Time for Truth, The Case for Civility and his most recent book, Zero Hour America. A frequent speaker and prominent social critic, he has addressed audiences worldwide from the British House of Commons to the U.S. Congress to the St. Petersburg Parliament. Guinness has had a lifelong passion to make sense of our extraordinary modern world and to stand between the worlds of scholarship and ordinary life, helping each to understand the other - particularly when advanced modern life touches on the profound issues of faith. (Photo By Deryck Chan 2013)  

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