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Hope in Suffering - Week 3

August 14, 2022 | By Jim Burgen

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Let’s be honest; sometimes life sucks. We experience trials and hardship, but what if those hard seasons weren’t totally pointless? As painful and horrible and heavy and sad as it is, hardship can also reveal and cause us to hold onto our hope in Jesus Christ. When everything else in this world shifts,  Jesus won’t. In “Life Involves Suffering” Jim Burgen teaches how to hold onto hope in the midst of hardship. 

SETLIST

  1. Prodigals by North Point Worship
    Available on "Our God Will See Us Through (Live)" from North Point from Centricity Music

  2. Graves Into Gardens by Elevation Worship
    Available on " Rattle " from Elevation Music

  3. All Hail King Jesus by Bethel Music
    Available on "Homecoming (Live)" from Bethel Music

  4. Living Hope by Phil Wickham
    Available on "Living Hope" from Phil Wickham

Group Questions

  1. “Crisis doesn’t make the man; it reveals the man.” Describe a time where you put much energy and
    time into something but later on it failed. (For whatever reason).
    What was revealed in that crisis of failure?
    What happened to your faith that was put into that “something” that ended in “crisis”? How did your faith in God impact that scenario

  2. Compare 1 Peter 1:7 to James 1:2-4, and give two reasons why God permits Christians to face troubles/trials?
    In light of these facts, why can a Christian be joyful in adversity? (v. 6-9)
    What are some differences between trials and temptations?

  3. How do things we inherit on earth compare to our spiritual inheritance? (v. 4,5)

  4. Where are they kept? Who keeps them? Does their quality or condition remain the same? What thing or power keeps them safe? How long do they last?

  5. Jim asked a rhetorical question in his talk: How much of your income are you spending on things that break down or have false hopes of fixing something in your life versus things that help other people or the church? That is a tough question. Why?
    Has that ratio changed as your faith has grown?

  6. Peter urges to not get caught up in looking around in our trials but to look ahead. (as he learned from walking on the water)
    So...how does one do that? Have you done that and what difference did it make when you kept an eternal perspective?

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