Filling Up the Afflictions of Christ

Piper's newest book in the Swans are not Silent series is fantastic: Filling Up the Afflictions of Christ: The Cost of Bringing the Gospel to the Nations in the Lives of William Tyndale, Adoniram Judson, and John Paton. Piper shows how suffering is not just inevitable in the Christian life but actually central to God's mission. He says, "Suffering is part of God's strategy for making known to the world who Christ is, how he loves, and how much he is worth."

I love this series because Piper helps us see biography through theology.

The lives of Tyndale, Judson, and Paton are incredibly encouraging and the theology of suffering is incredibly hope-giving.

"God has appointed our pain to be part of his powerful display of the glory of Christ."