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Sermons and teaching on grief, pain, persecution, and providence—how God meets his people in the hardest chapters of life.
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Truth For Life with Alistair Begg Sermons
Mar 20, 2026
While an approach to Christianity that treats it as a soft option may sound attractive, it’s certainly not scriptural. Truly biblical discipleship is muscular, demanding, and thoughtful. The apostle Paul made this clear to Timothy as he…
Feb 21, 2026 · 40 min
When God ordains sufferings for the good of his people, he also sustains them and cares for them with all the strength of his love.
Truth For Life with Alistair Begg Sermons
Feb 17, 2026
As he reached the end of Romans 8, Paul presented a triumphant closing argument, grounding Christian assurance in God’s decisive action in Christ. Because God did not spare His own Son, believers can be confident that nothing essential…
Feb 14, 2026 · 43 min
Because God’s purposeful sovereignty reaches absolutely everywhere, his gospel can satisfy, his mission will succeed, and his people can never be lost.
Truth For Life with Alistair Begg Sermons
Feb 9, 2026
Writing to the Christians of first-century Rome, the apostle Paul acknowledged that creation, believers, and even the Spirit Himself groan in hopeful anticipation of final renewal. Present suffering is real, Scripture affirms—but it is…
Jan 17, 2026 · 18 min
David Mathis | How can we sing in the valley of sorrow? In Christ, joy and grief can coexist — and grief now prepares for us far greater joy in the end.
Aug 16, 2025 · 42 min
As Jesus bleeds in Gethsemane and then submits to arrest, we see that the mission of God triumphs through prayerful suffering, not the self-defending sword.
Jun 28, 2025 · 46 min
It’s one thing to know God is sovereign; it’s another to know just how far his sovereignty extends and the purposes for which he wields it.