Young Adults Evening Service. We welcome back Dan Kroon from the Wollongong Reformed Church to speak to us on the topic “Why is there Suffering?”
The question: is God all good? addresses the topic of why a good God lets bad things happen. Phil’s sermon covers three main points: Past history: Satan and a Sovereign God Present reality: Suffering lasts a lifetime Future hope: Salvation lasts for eternity
Colin walks the congregation through Psalm 6. Life is full of suffering, how do you respond? The Bible has the answer, the cure for suffering.
This morning we are looking at the very last word of Jesus, which is… “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.” These words have everything to do with our comfort!
In this sermon, we concentrate on Jesus’ sixth word from the cross, “It is finished.” In it we learn that Jesus’s suffering, work and atonement are all completed and that prophecy is fulfilled.
Even though it was a terrible question that the disciples asked Jesus when they asked the question, “Who sinned, this man or his parents?” we can be grateful for Jesus’ answer. This answer helps us to understand the relationship between suffering and sin.
Paul opens up this section of Romans 8 by acknowledging that the result of sin has brought suffering. Yet compared with the glory to come for the Christian, our suffering and trials are not worth comparing. As God’s children, we must expect suffering, even as evidence that we are truly God’s children and disciples. So […]
“Later, knowing that everything had now been finished, and so that Scripture would be fulfilled, Jesus said, “I am thirsty.” A jar of wine vinegar was there, so they soaked a sponge in it, put the sponge on a stalk of the hyssop plant, and lifted it to Jesus’ lips. When he had received the […]