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September 30, 2019

Lesson for Oct. 6, 2019: Living Through Suffering (1 Peter 3:8-17; 4:12-16)

Dr. Mark Scott wrote this treatment of the International Sunday School Lesson. Scott teaches preaching and New Testament at Ozark Christian College, Joplin, Missouri. This lesson treatment is published in issue no. 10 (weeks 37-40; September 15—October 6, 2019) of The Lookout magazine, and is also available online at www.lookoutmag.com. ________ Lesson Aim: Do what is right as a Christian even if it leads to suffering. ________ By Mark Scott Be honest—much of what we call suffering in the western world is inconvenience. But there is such a thing as genuine suffering. Believers who go through it, because of the gospel, learn

March 31, 2010

Christian Standard

Care & Counseling Grief & Suffering

This, too, Shall Pass

By Mark A. Taylor After one of the roughest winters inÂ memory for many Christian StandardÂ readers, Easter and the promise of spring couldn”t have come too soon. Even as we finish preparing this issue the first week of March, the lawns of our city are still half-covered with snow. Huge hills of the stuff””dirtied by car exhaust and gravel””still tower on the edges of many parking lots. It”s difficult for us to imagine little girls in pastel dresses posing in front of daffodils and Easter lilies as we hurry about our business still trying to shrug off the cold. But we