How Suffering Forms Us: Jerry Sittser on Adversity as Spiritual Formation

Jerry Sittser (Whitworth University, author of A Grace Disguised) shares from painful personal experience about how adversity and suffering in life can contribute to our spiritual formation. Delivered at Biola University on February 20, 2014. Co-sponsored by Biola CCT and Biola's Institute for Spiritual Formation.

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