This perennial best-seller, now in a revised and expanded edition, includes a study guide. The book and study materials focus on the role of pain in God's plan for life and how we can respond to it.
Preface
1. A Problem That Won't Go Away
PART ONE: Why Is There Such a Thing as Pain?
2. The Gift No One Wants
3. Painless Hell
4. Agony and Ecstasy
PART TWO: Is Pain a Message from God?
5. The Groaning Planet
6. What Is God Trying to Tell Us?
7. Why Are We Here?
8. Arms Too Short to Box with God
PART THREE: How People Respond to Suffering
9. After the Fall
10. On My Feet Dancing
11. Other Witnesses
12. Extreme Cases
PART FOUR: How Can We Cope with Pain?
13. Frontiers of Recovery
14. Fear
15. Helplessness
16. Meaning
17. Hope
PART FIVE: How Does Faith Help?
18. Seeing for Himself
19. The Rest of the Body
20. A Whole New World Outside
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