01919nam a22002537a 4500 AUA.1 20250609093132.0 250609b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780851115535 0851115535 JTL BR1702 .P57 2001 Piper, John Tested by fire : the fruit of suffering in the lives of John Bunyan, William Cowper and David Brainerd / John Piper. Leicester, England : Inter-Varsity Press, 2001. 175 p. ; 22 cm. Summary:"Great privilege. Great pain. This is God's way: to take the privilege of faith and strengthen it with real trials so that we worship and witness with a greater passion for God. There is a certain irony to the fruit of affliction; John Bunyan's confinement taught him the pilgrim path of Christian freedom; William Cowper's mental illness yielded sweet music of the mind for troubled souls; David Brainerd's smouldering misery of isolation and disease exploded in global mission beyond all imagination. Irony and disproportion are all God's way. We think we know how to do something big, and God makes it little. We think that all we have is weak and small, and God makes it big. Barren Sarah gives birth to the child of promise. Gideon's three hundred men defeat a hundred thousand Midianites. A slingshot in the hand of a shepherd boy brings the giant down. A virgin bears the Son of God. A boy's five loaves feeds thousands. A breach of justice, grovelling political expediency, and criminal torture on a gruesome cross become the salvation of the world.".-- Thenile.com Bunyan, John 1628-1688 25566 Cowper, William 1731-1800 Brainerd, David 1718-1747 Suffering Religious aspects Christianity Christian biography lcc BOOK BR 1702 .P57 2001 25084 25084 0 0 lcc 0 0 Books AUA.1 AUA.1 GS 2012-03-19 Bought by JTL 3.85 AUA007836 BR 1725 .P57 2000 AUA007836 2012-03-19 00:00:00 3.85 2012-03-19 BOOK