{"id":726,"date":"2010-04-29T09:45:10","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T15:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/?p=726"},"modified":"2010-04-29T09:46:03","modified_gmt":"2010-04-29T15:46:03","slug":"why-suffering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/2010\/04\/why-suffering\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Suffering?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this video, Randy Alcorn briefly answers the question of God&#8217;s purposes for suffering and evil. Suffering tells us:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be all there is; there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s got to be something better\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 There is a better world than this. We live between Eden and the New Earth.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/BYWayNQWiC0&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/BYWayNQWiC0&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Randy will be speaking on this topic on Friday evening of our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/clarus\/schedule\/\">Clarus Weekend<\/a> (&#8220;Between Heaven and Earth&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>In preparation for that, you might want to take a look at a lengthy <a href=\"http:\/\/thegospelcoalition.org\/blogs\/justintaylor\/2009\/08\/06\/randy-alcorn-on-suffering-and-evil\/\">interview<\/a> with Randy about his book, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/160142132X\/desesprichur-20\">If God is Good: Faith in the Midst of Suffering and Evil<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this video, Randy Alcorn briefly answers the question of God&#8217;s purposes for suffering and evil. Suffering tells&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/2010\/04\/why-suffering\/\">Continue Reading &rsaquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[47,36,39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=726"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":737,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions\/737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}