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Welcome to the Gospel Coalition Podcast, equipping the next generation of believers,

pastors, and church leaders to shape life and ministry around the gospel.

Today you'll hear a discussion between Emily Jensen,

Jen Oshman, Venitha Rendell Reisner, and Kristen Wetherl, titled,

Experiencing God in Your Affliction.

This talk was originally recorded at TGC's 2021 Women's Conference.

Suffering is a part of all of our lives, and it's tempting when we suffer to pull away from God.

But all of us today are going to talk to you about experiencing God in your pain and how

when we draw towards God, we really can find a deeper relationship with Him.

And so we're going to start off today, though, just introducing ourselves and telling you a

little bit about our experience with suffering. And we'll start with you, Emily.

Okay, yeah, I'm Emily, and definitely have had a lot of different things throughout my life

that I would consider, you know, painful or suffering. But just more recently, actually,

before we've been came to this conference, we've been walking through a recent cancer diagnosis

with a very close family member, and just some really challenging medical things going on in our

family. But I would say probably the most ongoing pain we've walked through in the last few years

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