Suffering is real and suffering is hard. What is the Christian's ultimate hope and suffering?

And how can we ready ourselves when the hard times come?

Welcome to the Sheproos' faithful podcast, episode number 133, truth and encouragement to live gospel-centered

lives every day. I'm your host, Lauren Lushak.

Hey, everyone, and welcome to the podcast. My name is Lauren, and I'm excited that you're joining me

today. This is a topic that is tender, tender to me. Maybe if you're

going through suffering right now, it will be tender to you, or preparing you, or helping you

counsel a friend. I wanted to talk about hope and suffering and some of the lessons that I've

learned along the way that have been so helpful for me to keep me rooted and grounded in truth and my joy

set before me in Christ. Now, usually I open up with a life hack, something that's really fun,

but I thought, man, we're talking about suffering. What a hard transition to go from like,

how do you keep your blueberries from sinking in your muffins to, hey, let's talk about

suffering and grief and sadness. So instead of a life hack this week, I'm going to give you

two resources that have been a blessing and recommended to me. And the first one is the Association

of Certified Biblical Counselors, ACBC. This is a group of Christians that train

other Christians to be biblical counselors. It's an incredible organization. They have a free

podcast called Truth and Love. I love listening to it because they cover a variety of topics.

Think of anything somebody would go to counseling for,

and they've probably covered that topic in short, like 12 to 15-minute podcasts that really

root you in the scriptures. Biblical counseling, I did a podcast on it in the beginning of

Sheepu's Faithful with my friend Isabella.

But the goal of biblical counseling is to go into the word under the authority and

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