Some suffering is bearable. Some — chronic pain, deep grief, violent trauma and abuse endured by believers around the world — feels unbearable. In this seventh episode of our series on suffering, Dave Scherrer steps back from teaching and offers something more powerful: Scripture itself. This is a "less me, more Scripture" episode — twenty hand-picked verses of solace, covering God's promises of restoration, suffering's power to produce character and hope, Christ's own suffering with and for us, and the future hope of a world with no more tears or pain. Wherever you are in your own suffering, let this list be a place to land.

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This is it — the final episode in our series on suffering. Dave Scherrer closes by testing an old line against Scripture: pain is inevitable, but is suffering really optional? He clears up two misconceptions we've wrestled with along the way — suffering in silence isn't the answer, and neither is complaining without restraint; honest lament in godly community is the biblical way through. And sorrows should never be wasted, because carried well they produce joy, maturity, and a deeper identification with Christ, the Suffering Servant. Dave lands where the whole series has been pointing: suffering well is ultimately about trusting and glorifying God, and it becomes a quiet, powerful witness to a watching world that our hope in Christ never disappoints. Thank you for walking through this series with us.

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Too often, the gospel we hand a new believer is all upside — forgiveness, joy, peace, the Holy Spirit — with none of the fine print. In this sixth episode of the suffering series, Dave Scherrer points out that Jesus never worked that way. To follow Him is to become His bond servant, bought at a terrible cost, and to expect that the world will hate you for it — there's no bait and switch. Dave walks through Jesus' own hard sayings, from the rich young ruler to "the first will be last," before reading one of C.S. Lewis's most piercing passages from The Problem of Pain: that pain is God's "megaphone to rouse a deaf world." A sobering, clarifying episode that sets up the series' next conversation — what it means to suffer well.

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