RESOURCES: Suffering & Trials
Here’s another recommended resource list for you. There are many more resource list links in the right-hand margin of this homepage.
MINI-BOOKS
- Christ and Your Problems (Jay Adams)
- Chronic Pain: Living by Faith when Your Body Hurts (Mike Emlet)
- HELP! I Can’t Handle All of these Trials (Joel James) – a great helicopter view of Job
- HELP! I Live with Chronic Pain (Brad Brandt)
- HELP! I’m Living with Terminal Illness (Reggie Weems)
- The Most Encouraging Promise in the Bible (Armand Tiffe)
- When Trouble Shows Up: Seeing God’s Transforming Love (Robert Jones)
- Why Me? Comfort for the Victimized (David Powlison)
- You Can Trust God (Jerry Bridges)
BOOKS
- A Place of Healing (Joni Eareckson Tada)
- Dark Clouds, Deep Mercy: Discovering the Grace of Lament (Mark Vroegop)
- Trusting God (Jerry Bridges) – my top pick for a full-sized book to help believers
- God’s Grace In Your Suffering (David Powlison)
- God’s Mercy in Our Suffering (Paul Tautges and Eric Kress)
- Suffering in 3-D: Connecting the Church to Disease, Disability, and Disorder (John Kwasny)
- Suffering and the Sovereignty of God (John Piper, Justin Taylor, eds.)
- When Disability Hits Home: How God Magnifies His Grace in Our Weakness and Suffering (Paul Tautges with Joni Eareckson Tada)
- When God Doesn’t Fix It: Lessons You Never Wanted to Learn, Truths You Can’t Live Without (Laura Story)
- When God Weeps: Why Our Suffering Matters to the Almighty (Joni Eareckson Tada)
- When the Hurt Won’t Heal: Living with Chronic Illness (Craig Svensson)
DAILY DEVOTIONALS
- A Shelter in the Time of Storm (Paul David Tripp)
- Chronic Illness: Walking by Faith (Esther Smith)
- HOPE: Living Confidently in God (John Crotts)
- Psalms by the Day (Alec Motyer)
- Remade: Embracing Your Complete Identity in Christ (Paul Tautges)
ONLINE AUDIO/VISUAL
- A God-Centered Theology of Suffering (podcast with Paul Tautges, Dale Johnson)
- Human Suffering and Heaven’s Hope (ACBC conference recordings)
- Our Sovereign Security (series in Psalm 91)
- Suffering and the Kindness of God (Transform Conference recordings)
