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040			_cJTL
050			_aBR1702 _b.P57 2001
100			_aPiper, John
245			_aTested by fire : _bthe fruit of suffering in the lives of John Bunyan, William Cowper and David Brainerd / _cJohn Piper.
260			_aLeicester, England : _bInter-Varsity Press, _c2001.
300			_a175 p. ; _c22 cm.
501			_aSummary:"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
600			_aBunyan, John _d1628-1688 _925566
600			_aCowper, William _d1731-1800
600			_aBrainerd, David _d1718-1747
650			_aSuffering _xReligious aspects _xChristianity
650			_aChristian biography
942			_2lcc _cBOOK _hBR 1702 _i.P57 2001
999			_c25084 _d25084