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Part 1: The Birth and Death of Suffering

Bridgetown Audio Podcast

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How Does Suffering Produce Glory?

There are so many different kinds of suffering, and to paint something as awful as personal suffering with a broad brush is a very dangerous thing to do. I'm talking about a diagnosis or a loss, or an interruption or a betrayal. How is any of that in any way connected to something like glory? Look, and you'd hear me say that there is nothing intrinsically noble about suffering. Sometimes pain just hurts, and suffering is just sad. And grief just has to be gotten through, and there's nothing more to it than that. But there is a way that we endure the tragic consequences of a fallen world, in a way that allows god to transform something as dark as suffering into something

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