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    30 Days to a More Resilient Faith
    30 Days to a More Resilient Faith
    30 Days to a More Resilient Faith
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    30 Days to a More Resilient Faith

    By Barb Wooler and Wayne Hannah

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    The oldest book of the Bible, Job, deals with the oldest question of man: why do seemingly bad things happen to good people? Or put another way, if God is good, why is there suffering?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBMH Books
    Release dateNov 1, 2016
    ISBN9780884693208
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      30 Days to a More Resilient Faith - Barb Wooler

      30 Days to a More Resilient Faith

      Embracing the God of the Storm

      Copyright © Barb Wooler and Wayne Hannah, 2016

      ISBN: 978-088469-317-8

      REL022000 RELIGION / Devotional

      Published by BMH Books, Winona Lake, IN 46590

      bmhbooks.com

      All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV®. Copyright ©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.™ Used by permission of Zondervan.

      All rights reserved worldwide. www.zondervan.com

      The NIV and New International Version are trademarks registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office by Biblica, Inc.™

      INTRODUCTION

      THE OLDEST BOOK OF THE BIBLE, JOB, DEALS WITH THE OLDEST question of man: why do seemingly bad things happen to good people? Or put another way, if God is good, why is there suffering?

      A thousand generations have asked this question, and their sages have done their best to answer, to make sense of suffering, pain, and evil. Part I includes 30 short readings – one for each day of the month – drawn from two sources: the Bible and the wisdom of contemporary thinkers. In Part 2 consists of reflections on the role of pain and suffering in life as told by a man who has lived most of his life with a painful disease.

      While there are many facets to this complex issue, the conclusion drawn from both the Bible and the sages is this: God is in the midst of crisis and suffering, drawing people to Himself and into His purposes.

      CRISIS

      a difficult, often dangerous situation or event

      SUFFERING

      the anguishing impact of crisis on humans

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Introduction

      PART 1: 30-DAY CHALLENGE

      Day 1: The Crucible of Crisis

      Day 2: God Uses Crisis to Move People – Geographically

      Day 3: God Uses Crisis to Move People – Changing Hearts

      Day 4: God Uses Crisis to Move People – Changing Minds

      Day 5: The WHYs and WHATs Behind Suffering

      Day 6: All That We Don’t know About Trouble

      Day 7: The Uncomfortable Truth About Trouble: God Could Stop It!

      Day 8: The Uncomfortable Truth about Trouble: God is Complicit!

      Day 9: The Strategic Place of Prayer in Crisis

      Day 10: A Crisis Prayer God Didn’t Forget

      Day 11: The Blessing of ISIS

      Day 12: Groaning, Part 1: Groaning Spoken Here

      Day 13: Groaning, Part 2: An Aria Breaks Forth

      Day 14: Cleaning House – Chaff, Dross, and Dust

      Day 15: An Argument from Silence: The Un-Prayer

      Day 16: No Graven Image, Part 1

      Day 17: No Graven Image, Part 2: Crises of Faith

      Day 18: No Graven Image, Part 3: Obedience is The Highest Service

      Day 19: No Graven Image, Part 4: Which Image Will We Embrace?

      Day 20: Sometimes Knowing What the Reason Is Not Is Enough

      Day 21: Survivor’s Guide to Suffering, Part 1: Wonder

      Day 22: Survivor’s Guide to Suffering, Part 2: Worship

      Day 23: Survivor’s Guide to Suffering, Part 3: Staying Under His Wings

      Day 24: Splash Overs of Hell

      Day 25: Prayer, Part 1: When the Heavens are Like Brass

      Day 26: Prayer, Part 2: Worship in Reverent Submission

      Day 27: Watch Your Mouth, Part 1: Job

      Day 28: Watch Your Mouth, Part 2: Jeremiah and Jonah

      Day 29: Our Happy God

      Day 30: The Parable of the Little Kite

      PART 2: DISCIPLED BY PAIN—ONE MAN’S STORY

      The Nazareth Syndrome

      When times are good, be happy; but when times are bad, consider this: God has made the one as well as the other.

      Ecclesiastes 7:14

      PART I

      30-Day Challenge

      DAY 1

      The Crucible of Crisis

      Read Psalm 119:67; James 1:2-4

      WHO IN THEIR RIGHT MINDS WOULD PREFER HARD TIMES TO EASY? Ask 100 people which they prefer, and 100 would answer the same: give me the GOOD TIMES!

      So how does one account for two very strange statements I heard recently? At a small group meeting a woman started her word of praise to God by saying, I thank God for my stroke. Then in May, while in Nepal assisting earthquake victims, I heard a man say, I thank God for the earthquake.

      Crazy, right? But consider the fuller context of both.

      In the case of the woman, she was thankful for her stroke because it brought her back to the Lord and also was healing her relationship with her estranged son. Though walking is now a bit of a challenge for her body, in a figurative sense, her spirit has a new spring in its step!

      The man in Nepal is a pastor, and he has good reason to thank God for the April 25, 2016, 7.8-magnitude earthquake! Though his life became very difficult since that fateful day, he rejoices because the earthquake has brought his neighbors to their church in search of a safe place to sleep. The close contact between believers and unbelievers has resulted in quite a few of his formerly lost neighbors finding Christ!

      It makes one wonder if, as Paul and Silas left Philippi, they, too, were thanking

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