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How Suffering Crushes Our Unrealistic Expectations

By Filings on Mon, 06/08/20
Christian Living
Suffering
Thankfulness
Expectations

“God has not promised me a comfortable life. He’s promised me himself.” - Paul David Tripp

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Aaron Blumer

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Mon, 06/08/20

The site has a really annoying theme, because you think you’ve landed on the wrong page… (among other issues), but it’s worth scrolling down past the clutter to read this one! A repost from 2018, but timeless.

Views expressed are always my own and not my employer's, my church's, my family's, my neighbors', or my pets'. The house plants have authorized me to speak for them, however, and they always agree with me.

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  • Worldviews and Tragedy
  • The Mimetic Sufferings of Christ

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