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THE
BIBLE
Can we trust a book written 2000 years ago?
EYEWITNESS
Did the writers of the New Testament get their picture of Jesus right?
GOD
- MAN
Is Jesus really God?
RESURRECTION
Did Jesus really rise from the dead?
RELIGIONS
With so many religions, why Christianity?
SUFFERING
If there is a God, why is there so much suffering?
TRINITY
Understanding the Trinity.
SCIENCE
The complementary nature of Science & Christianity.
FORGIVENESS
What it is and why it matters?
GUIDANCE
How does God guide?
REPENTANCE
What it is and why you can't get to heaven without it.
BORN
AGAIN
What does it mean to be converted and born again?
SAVING
FAITH
The kind of faith that will get you to heaven
ASSURANCE
Can I know for sure that I am going to heaven?
TRUTH
What is truth and does it matter?
MORALITY
Does it matter how we live? A Christian view of morality.
THE
CHURCH
God's vision for his family, the Church. A call to the churches of the
new millennium.
PURPOSE
How
can I find a great purpose for living?
IDENTITY
Who am I; Finding my true identity as a human being and as a child of
God.
SELF-ESTEEM
How
can I feel good about my self? The Christian basis for proper sel-esteem.
LIFE AFTER DEATHChristianity's Hope & Challenge.
THE CROSS
Why did Jesus Die? What the Bible says about the Cross.
Grace
The importance of grace in the New Testament.
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Foreword
We live in a time when life has been made very comfortable and easy for us, both through the increase in our wealth, and advances in psychotherapy and medical science. But we still experience pain: emotional, physical, the pain of loss and the pain of wrong.
And in a way still quite naturally and quite human we seek to avoid it. In 1995, a Private Members Bill, short-titled the Death with Dignity Bill, came before the New Zealand Parliament. In his introductory speech, Michael Laws said:
I reject most strongly the view that this Bill is unchristian or immoral. That is a criticism that I have heard from certain religious leaders in the last wee while...I also reject the absolutely non-sensical view of some that for a person to die in pain, to die in anguish, and to die suffering, is good for the soul. Theology that teaches such barbarism is bankrupt and inhuman.
In this short text, Dick Tripp shows us that a theology that encounters suffering head-on, without an easy retreat into a contrived death, does indeed enable us to encounter both the depths of our humanity and the living God. He carefully, and using a wide range of illustrations, shows us that the God who shares our suffering is not an abstract and philosophically remote ideal, but a living person; and that in travelling our way with him, we will not merely survive for that is the way to true greatness.
This is a timely book, and will, I am sure, be of great help to Christians and seekers alike, in getting to grips with this age-old human problem.
Reverend Dr Penelope
A. B. Jamieson,
MA(Hons), PhD, BD
Bishop
of Dunedin, New Zealand
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Foreward
If there is a God, why is there so much suffering?
The Christian view of suffering: 1. The Bible is realistic in its approach to suffering
3. The link between suffering and evil
4. God is not indifferent to suffering
5. The transformation of suffering
6. The ultimate removal of suffering
