Hi, this is Jimmy. Today on the podcast, the guys discuss joy and trial and suffering. No doubt your life has been upended in recent weeks with the COVID-19 virus. So we take a look at the Book of James, amongst other scriptures, and we seek to help all of our listeners understand that these

passages are not meant to draw us to trials themselves in the joy of the trial, but rather

the goodness and the grace that we find in Christ in the midst of these trials.

In our members' podcasts, we seek to go after some of the platitudes and the

simplifications or the oversimplification of certain churches and approaches to trial and

suffering. So we hope this conversation is beneficial to you. Stay tuned.

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theocast. encouraging weary pilgrims to rest in Christ, conversations about the Christian

life from a reformed perspective.

Your hosts today are John Moffat,

pastor of grace reformed church in Spring Hill, Tennessee.

Justin Perdue, pastor of Covenant Baptist Church in Asheville, North Carolina.

And myself, Jimmy Bueller, pastor of Christ Community Church,

here in Wilmer, Minnesota. Gentlemen, I feel like

we are uniquely prepared for our current crisis because we always meet on Zoom. We always meet

digitally, but anyway, good to see you both again. Yeah.

Good to see you too, man.

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