The Lord of Endurance and Encouragement: Suffering and the Sovereignty of God

This book presents a God-centered perspective on suffering and prepares us to be good students in God’s school of suffering. By focusing our attention on Jesus Christ, it shows how knowing Him and His sufferings illuminates and sustains us in our own. It also draws lessons from biblical examples of suffering saints and mines the riches of the Reformed divines on the topic. It closes by showing how the God of patience and consolation strengthens weary pilgrims in hope and with a longing for heaven. In the darkest of times, believers are reminded that their hearts can be satisfied by nothing less than the infinite God.

Publisher: Reformation Heritage Books
Type: Paperback
ISBN: 9798886861266

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Joel R. Beeke is president and professor of homiletics and systematic theology at PRTS and a minister in the Heritage Reformed Congregations. Paul M. Smalley is teaching and research assistant to Joel Beeke at PRTS.

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“Another book about suffering? Yes and no. It’s not just ‘another’ book about suffering but one etched in the realities of the Christian life written from the experience of the godly. Paul’s first lesson that he learned following his first missionary journey was ‘we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God’ (Acts 14:22). What have the saints learned from ‘much tribulation’? The consolations of God! Paul again: ‘For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ’ (2 Cor. 1:5). Deeply experiential, eminently practical, soul refreshing, these essays will prove of enormous value. Not just another book about suffering—this is top shelf and worth careful reading. You will be blessed, I promise you.” Derek W. H. Thomas, author of Strength for the Weary