Making Wounds a Source of Healing

Making one's own wounds a source of healing ... does not call for a sharing of superficial personal pains but for a constant willingness to see one's ...

The Advantages of Hardship

Only one professional football team that plays its home games in a domed stadium with artificial turf has ever won the Super Bowl: The St. Louis Rams ...

The Development of Character

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition ...

Misfortune Isn't Always Unfortunate

Misfortune does not always come to injure.

Adoniram and Ann Judson

Adoniram Judson (1788-1850)

Ann Hasseltine Judson (1789-1826)

America's unlikely missionaries to the Far East

He had been a cynical actor who rejected ...

Times of Improvement

Suffering times are a Christian's best-improving times.

A Prayer for Affliction

O may God put me into one furnace after another, that my soul may be transparent; that I may see God as he is.

Let the Winds Blow

We cannot be established except by suffering. It is of no use our hoping that we shall be well-rooted if no March winds have passed over us. The young ...

Preach to the Suffering

Preach to the suffering, and you will never lack a congregation. There is a broken heart in every pew.

The Democracy of Suffering

The kingdom of suffering is a democracy, and we all stand in it or alongside it with nothing but our naked humanity.