Free Book from Joni Eareckson Tada

In case you didn't know, Christian Audio offers one free audio book each month.  This month's free book is A Place of Healing by Joni Eareckson Tada.  

Even though I am a little behind on my audio book listening, this is definitely one that I am going to download.  I haven't heard of this book before, but I have heard of Joni Eareckson Tada.  Her story and the example of her life would lead me to believe that this is a book that we could all learn something from.  The subtitle of the book is Wrestling With the Mysteries of Suffering, Pain, and God's Sovereignty.  

If you have never downloaded an audio book before, this might be a good one to start with.  Click Here to go the the Christian Audio site and download this free book.

the bitter cup

Just read a great article at Randy Alcorn's blog.  The article is titled, Nourishment for the Soul, and you can read it by clicking here.  The article has to do with suffering and the goodness of God.  If you have a few moments you should click through to read it.  In it he mentions the sufferings of Joni Eareckson Tada, Sono Harris, and himself.

There is also a Spurgeon quote that I found to be less difficult to read than it used to be.

“It would be a very sharp and trying experience to me to think that I have an affliction which God never sent me, that the bitter cup was never filled by his hand, that my trials were never measured out by him, nor sent to me by his arrangement of their weight and quantity.”

Seeing that we have done so much talking about suffering at church lately, I knew that I needed to post this quote.