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Jonathan Darville: Making Sense of Suffering

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In the Christ and Culture podcast with Ken Keathley and Benjamin Quinn, we explore how the Christian faith intersects all avenues of today’s culture through conversations with leading thinkers.

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Suffering is something few of us want to think about, but all of us will experience. How can we navigate suffering well as Christians? Jonathan Darville endured years of intense suffering. He tells us about his journey and what he learned about God in the process.

Also, in “Headlines” Aaron Earls talks about Thor: Love and Thunder and Stranger Things: Season 4, and in “On My Bookshelf” Dr. Julia Higgins recommends George W. Bush’s memoir, “Decision Points.”

Further Resources:

Spiritual formation and sanctification are cross-shaped.

Highlights:

  • “You don’t really know what obedience is until you’ve had to be obedient in the face of intense suffering where it’s going to cost you something.”
  • “That hope behind the horizon of death can anchor you in your season of suffering.”
  • “I learned that Christ is supremely trustworthy. What I often say is the cross is God’s no to claims that he doesn’t care about our suffering. The resurrection is God’s no to claims that he’s powerless to do anything about it.”
  • “We suffer to share the one who suffered to save…. Suffering has a missional character to it.”
  • “Suffering deepens and enriches our intimacy with Christ and drives us to the means of grace because we desperately need him.”
  • “Spiritual formation and sanctification are cross-shaped.”

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