Understanding Disaster and Pain

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The headlines in today’s news scream of the disaster around the world, the unfair suffering, horrific circumstances, astounding loss of life. Why does such disaster strike? Where is God in all of this? Take this study and gain insight in the crisis situations of life.

  1. What emotions overtake you as you read the newspaper headlines that speak of disaster around the world?
  2. What is the worst disaster/painful experience that you have had in your life? What did you do?
  3. Where does the world find comfort when life doesn’t seem fair? Where do you find comfort?
  4. Where do you place your anchor when life’s stresses and disasters hit?
  5. Despair overtakes us when we hear of world disasters. What can draw us back to contentment and peace?
  6. Why do we feel God owes us answers to life’s disasters? If God is a loving God, why does He allow such things as war, natural disasters or terrorist crisis to happen in this world?
  7. How does one find security in an insecure world? Is there a sure source of peace available to us in today’s world?
  8. How can you learn to fully trust God?
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