(Short answer: because God wants to show his glory through you.)

This week, pastor Steve Jeffery talks about suffering in the Christian Life in Calvin’s Institutes III.8.

• The structure of Mark’s gospel
• Fear of persecution
• Following Jesus, self-denial, and carrying one’s cross
• Godliness central to the Christian life
• Christian life lived in time: perpetual cross and growing up into Christ
• Christ growing up into obedience
• Doing well when things are good a temptation to pride
• Suffering teaches us to lean upon God
• Tribulation > Patience > Character
• God shows his work in Christians through Christians suffering
• Cross as medicine
• Discipline and godliness in the Christian life

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