Recommended Resources
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Carl Ellis
John Piper
- John Piper, The Hidden Smile of God: The Fruit of Affliction in the Lives of John Bunyan, William Cowper, and David Brainerd
- John Piper, The Misery of Job and the Mercy of God
David Powlison
- David Powlison, Power Encounters: Reclaiming Spiritual Warfare
- David Powlison, Seeing with New Eyes: Counseling and the Human Condition Through the Lens of Scripture
- David Powlison, ed., Journal of Biblical Counseling
Steve Saint
- Russel T. Hitt, Jungle Pilot: The Gripping Story of the Life and Witness of Nate Saint, Martyred Missionary to Ecuador
- Janet Benge and Geoff Benge, Nate Saint: On a Wing and a Prayer (Christian Heroes, Then & Now)
- Elisabeth Elliot, The Savage My Kinsman
- Elisabeth Elliot, Through Gates of Splendor
- Elisabeth Elliot, Shadow of the Almighty: The Life and Testament of Jim Elliot
Mark Talbot
- Mark R. Talbot, “Redemptive Curveballs” (chapel address at Wheaton College)
- Mark R. Talbot, “True Freedom: The Liberty That Scripture Portrays as Worth Having,” in Beyond the Bounds
Joni Eareckson Tada
- Joni Eareckson Tada and Steve Estes, When God Weeps: Why Our Suffering Matters to God
- Joni Eareckson Tada, The God I Love: A Lifetime of Walking with Jesus
Other Recommended Books
- James W. Bruce, III, From Grief to Glory: Spiritual Journeys of Mourning Parents
- D. A. Carson, How Long, O Lord? Reflections on Suffering and Evil
- John Currid, Why Do I Suffer?: Suffering & the Sovereignty of God
- Elisabeth Elliot, A Path Through Suffering: Discovering the Relationship Between God’s Mercy and Our Pain
- Sinclair B. Ferguson, Deserted by God?
- Dan McCartney, Why Does It Have to Hurt?: The Meaning of Christian Suffering
- J. I. Packer, A Grief Sanctified: Through Sorrow to Eternal Hope (Including Richard Baxter’s Timeless Memoir of His Wife’s Life and Death
- Paul David Tripp, Suffering: Eternity Makes a Difference (booklet)
- Paul David Tripp, Grief: Finding Hope Again (booklet)
- Thomas Watson, All Things for Good (Puritan Paperbacks)
- Edward T. Welch, Depression: A Stubborn Darkness–Light for the Path
Articles by John Piper
- Is God Less Glorious Because He Ordained that Evil Be?
- Don't Waste Your Life
- How Shall We Minister to People After the World Trade Tower Terrorism of September 11, 2001
- Suffering for the Sake of the Body: TBI Booklet
- Brothers, Our Affliction Is for Their Comfort
- A Letter to the Suffering Saints in Beslan, Russia
- Lessons From Lisa
- Whence and Why the Earthquake in Turkey?
- Being Loved and Being Hated
- Luther, Bunyan, Bible, and Pain
- Embracing the Pain of Shame
- By What Death Will You Glorify God?
- The Church Was Spoken Against Everywhere
- It Is Sown in Dishonor, It Is Raised in Glory
- Storms Are the Triumph of His Art: Away Despair!
- Terrorism, Justice, and Loving Our Enemies
Sermons by John Piper
- A Kingdom that Cannot Be Shaken
- Christ and Cancer
- Two Ways to Respond to Suffering
- Ruth: Sweet and Bitter Providence
- Sermons from the Book of Job
- I Will Sing of Thy Might and Mercy
- Suffering and the Second Coming
- Unless You Repent You Will Likewise Perish
- Thanksgiving in Suffering
- The Death of a Spirit-Filled Man
- Spreading Spiritual Power Through Persecution
- He Saw the Grace of God and Was Glad
- Execution, Escape and Eaten by Worms
- Called to Suffer and Rejoice (4 sermons)
- The Noble Army of the Martyrs Praise Thee
- Things Are Worse and Better Than They Seem
- Joy Through the Fiery Test of Genuine Faith
- Strengthened to Suffer
- Arming Yourself with the Purpose to Suffer
- Why We Can Rejoice in Suffering
- Sustained By Sovereign Grace: Forever!
- The Present Power of a Future Possession
- Bless Those Who Persecute You
