The following moved me deeply. We asked permission to post it. It speaks for itself. My thanks to John Knight, John Piper and Desiring God.

When it comes to having perspective in this world, there are “look-at-ers” and there are “see-through-ers.” It was Norman Grubb who coined those terms, and he’s expressing the idea that you can look at something and just evaluate it on the surface, or you can look deeper.

I am currently going through a season of renewed suffering after a brief respite in the midst of many years of intractable pain...and frankly was struggling to accept God's purposes in allowing my suffering to be reintroduced in my life. I found comfort in this booklet as well as some chagrin that I had even questioned the purposes and wisdom of our amazing God.

Randy Alcorn teaches on Job 19 to staff at Family Life.

I appreciated this thought from Samuel Davies, an evangelical pastor and educator from the 1700's, especially as we seek to remember and celebrate Christ's death and resurrection in the coming days. 

Do you have any resources for an agnostic friend who says he can't believe in a good kind, loving God who would allow such terrible things to happen to people (abuse, famine, floods, etc.)? Randy's book If God is Good deals with your friend’s questions as well as many others agnostics may have.

When most people speak of what a terrible notion Hell is, they talk as if it involves the suffering of innocent people. That would indeed be terribly unjust—but nowhere does the Bible suggest the innocent will spend a single moment in Hell.

In this 3 minute audio clip, Randy Alcorn talks about gaining a better perspective through understanding the greatness of God's grace.

In this audio clip, Randy Alcorn explains Romans 8:28.