Contributed by Bradley  Kellum on Aug 25, 2009
                
                
                
                    SUFFERING FOR THE RIGHT REASONS
Richard Wurmbrand is the founder of a ministry called "Voice of the Martyrs."  Some of you receive their publication.
Richard Wurmbrand was a Romanian Pastor who was imprisoned by the Russians and tortured for his faith in Christ. In May of 1966 Pastor Wurmbrand
                    
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                    Contributed by James Pless on May 22, 2006
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    SUFFERING
 
12433. Beaten Into Higher Value
A bar of steel is worth five dollars. When it is wrought into horseshoes, it is worth ten dollars. If made into needles, it is worth three hundred and fifty dollars. If wrought into penknife blades, it is worth thirty-two thousand dollars. And if it is
                    
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                    Contributed by Davon Huss on Jul 3, 2011
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    THE SUFFERINGS OF THE PILGRIMS
The sufferings of these pilgrims has been a theme often repeated and yet it remains an amazing story. Within three months of the Mayflower landing in December 1620, only about fifty of the original hundred survived. Their graves had to be unmarked and grassed over to
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 31, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    THE MARK OF SUFFERING 
In the real world of pain, how could one worship a God who was immune to it? I have entered many Buddhist temples in different Asian countries and stood respectfully before the statue of the Buddha, his legs crossed, arms folded, eyes closed, the ghost of a smile playing
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 2, 2004
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    THE SUFFERING OF THE TRINITY
In the National Gallery of Art in London there’s a picture of the Crucifixion that is so dark that when you first look at it, you can’t see anything. But if you stand and ponder it, and if you do not permit your gaze to falter, eventually you will see in the darkness a
                    
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                    Contributed by Mark Armstrong on Jun 10, 2009
                
                
                
                    SUFFERING=SERVICE
Roger Staubach is an American football player. He was once asked when injured, "How do you keep on keeping on if you’re playing professional football"? Roger said something important, "If you’re not playing hurt, you’re not playing football."
Paul expresses a similar
                    
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                    Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on May 31, 2012
                
                
                
                    THE ALLY OF SUFFERERS
The author and church minister Ray Ortlund says this: 
"Sometimes there is no way to get out of suffering; but there is a way to get through suffering, because God is the ally of sufferers." He also says that
                    
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                    I could never believe in God if it were not for the Cross. In the real world of pain, how could one worship a God who was immune to it? I turn to that lonely, twisted, tortured figure on the cross—nails through hands and feet, back lacerated, limbs wrenched, brow bleeding from thorn-pricks, mouth
                    
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                    88 REASONS 
  
     You might remember a man by the name of Edgar Whisenant. He was
a NASA engineer who used his mathematical skills to set a date for the return of Jesus. He wrote a book called, "88 Reasons Why the Rapture Will Take Place in 1988" The book caused a real buzz in the Christian
                    
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