Situating Our Suffering

Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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After a few moments of whining about their generous Alliance salaries, our pouty podcasters welcome a return guest—a "repeat offender," as Carl sees it—to the Spin. In the second installment from his series Suffering and the Christian Life, Mark Talbot encourages readers to place their suffering within the arc of the entire biblical story. In doing so, we better understand our suffering and can take courage and find comfort in God as we walk through it. We'll understand why Christians suffer and how we can rest in knowing that our suffering will someday come to an end. Crossway Books congratulates our winners of Talbot's Give Me Understanding That I May Live: Situating Our Suffering within God's Redemptive Plan: *Samuelis L. from Montpelier, VT *Brad K. from Goshen, IN *Todd K. from McBain, MI

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0:00.0	The following is sponsored by Reformation Heritage Books online at heritagebooks.org.
0:05.8	Learn more at the conclusion of today's podcast. Welcome to Mortification of Spin, a casual conversation about things that count with Carl Truman and Todd Pruick.
0:33.7	Mortification of Spin is a podcast from the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.
0:38.5	Let's join this week's conversation.
0:52.8	Welcome to Mortification of Spin.
0:54.9	My name's Carl Truman, Professor of biblical and religious studies at Grove City College in beautiful Western Pennsylvania.
1:01.9	And I'm here on the Alliance Bond Villan Yacht in the Caribbean broadcasting with my friend, the Reverend, the right reverend, his holiness, Todd Pruitt,
1:13.5	pastor of Covenant Presbyterian Church in Harrisonburg, Virginia. And just so thankful for the
1:19.7	massive coffers of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals. We are. I'll tell you. I don't know why I
1:25.5	continue to teach. I could retire and just live off.
1:29.7	Right, right.
1:30.6	I could work in the mail room and retire in two years based upon what the Alliance, their resources.
1:37.4	It's quite remarkable.
1:38.8	I suppose we should thank our sponsors, Blofeld and Specter, for the use of the year.
1:47.7	So I was just saying to Todd last night would have disappointed. The new Bond films, it's a good movie, but goodness gracious me. Bonn now
1:52.9	respects women. Um, yeah. It's, it's just not the same. In other ways, it made me long for the
1:59.1	days of Goldfinger and Doctor No when I was watching it. But, it's a pleasure to be with you all today. We have a repeat offender guest on one of our favorites, actually, one of our favorite human beings that we've ever had on the show. Professor Mark Tolbert, who is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Wheaton College just outside Chicago.
2:20.8	Great to have you on the show, Mark.
2:22.8	It's great to be back.
2:24.6	Well, Mark is back on the show because a year or two go, he wrote a book that, quite frankly, I thought was one of the, certainly one of the best ones I read that year, one of the best books I've ever read on suffering.
2:38.4	And I've been very blessed when the stars disappear, which was a book, the brevity of which was deceptive.
2:46.4	It was just over 100 pages long.
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