Articles for tag: Theology Of Suffering

May 25, 2016

By Jim Tune It”s staggering. We can buy Bible software that contains 2,000 Bible resources. We can read and search blogs of today”s top Christian leaders. We can attend conferences and hear the best speakers, or plug in our earbuds and listen to them preach. We can direct-message great leaders on Twitter. The resources at our fingertips are amazing. Not only that, but we can write and publish whatever we want. A few years ago we could read only those fortunate enough to be published. Now anyone can start a blog, post a video on YouTube, or publish a book.

February 17, 2011

Christian Standard

Colleges & Seminaries Organizations & Events

Joni Eareckson Tada Speaks at Ozark

Popular author and speaker Joni Eareckson Tada spoke at a special chapel service at Ozark Christian College (Joplin, MO) on Feb. 4. The Joni and Friends International Disability Center developed “A Theology of Suffering and Disability,” a university-level course Ozark will offer this semester. Find out more at www.occ.edu.

September 1, 2010

Christian Standard

Discipleship & Spiritual Formation

Growing Like Jesus: No Pain, No Gain

By LeRoy Lawson (LeRoy Lawson was among eight Christian leaders asked to share what helps them mature just as Jesus did. Lawson is international consultant with Christian Missionary Fellowship International, a CHRISTIAN STANDARD contributing editor and a member of Standard Publishing”s Publishing Committee.) __________________ “No pain no gain, Dad. No pain no gain.” Our son Lane was in his teens. Both grandfathers had bequeathed good genes, and he was making the most of them. (I resent how those genes jumped right over my generation and landed in his.) He wasn”t tall but he was muscular””and eager to become even more