Bible Readings:
Mark 15:33-47
Romans 5:1-11
1 Peter 1:1-12
Sermon Outline:
James 1:2–4 (NKJV)
2 My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials,
3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience.
4 But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.
I This strange command
II How can believers in Christ count it all joy in various trials?
III Some of God’s promises to His people concerning their afflictions
Afflictions
We have got more from Paul’s prison-house than from his visit to the third heavens.
Andrew Bonar
Trials and tribulations are very good for us in that they help us to know ourselves better than we knew ourselves before.
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Grace grows best in the winter.
Samuel Rutherford