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I Will Build My Church: 2025 National Conference

00:04

1. Strangers and Exiles

3. Pursuing the Mission of God

Sinclair Ferguson

43:16

4. Questions & Answers with Godfrey, Harrison, Jones, and Nichols

52:45

5. Fighting the Good Fight

Ken Jones

43:24

6. Relying on the Means of Grace

Joel Kim

45:50

7. One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic

W. Robert Godfrey

8. The Chief Shepherd

Derek Thomas

9. Questions & Answers with Ferguson, Kim, Lopes, Reeves, and Thomas

10. Love One Another

Augustus Nicodemus Lopes

11. The Priority of Worship

Michael Reeves

12. Sharing the Good News

W. Robert Godfrey

13. Questions & Answers with Ferguson, Godfrey, Nichols, and Thomas

14. The Power of the Holy Spirit

Sinclair Ferguson

15. Misunderstood Doctrines (Seminar)

16. The Global Church (Seminar)

17. Assurance of Salvation (Seminar)

Michael Reeves

18. Trials and Suffering (Seminar)

Theology\General Theology

Trials and Suffering (Seminar)

Sinclair Ferguson

Christians face trials and suffering on this side of glory. In this seminar, Drs. Sinclair Ferguson and W. Robert Godfrey discuss the Bible’s teaching on suffering and encourage us to remain faithful when we face difficulties of various kinds.

Questions:

How should we think about suffering? Particularly, how should Christian thinking about suffering in light of God’s sovereignty and goodness? (1:06)
Looking in depth on the temptation to doubt God’s sovereignty and goodness amid suffering (13:45)
How can believers distinguish between God’s discipline, spiritual warfare, and the ordinary trials that beset us in a fallen world? (25:17)
Can the hope of resurrection and future glory help to inform our present sufferings? (33:28)

Note: Answers given reflect the views of the individual speakers and do not necessarily reflect the views of Dr. R.C. Sproul and Ligonier Ministries. Here is our Statement of Faith.

Sinclair Ferguson

Rev. Darrell B. Harrison is a pastor and biblical counselor at Redeemer Bible Church in Gilbert, Ariz., and cohost of the Just Thinking podcast. He is a fellow of the Black Theology and Leadership Institute at Princeton Theological Seminary and coauthor of Just Thinking: About the State, Just Thinking: About Ethnicity, and Why Are You Afraid?