This is the second in a series of short conversations between Pastor Chris Peters and Director of Women’s Ministries Laura Dougherty on Jeremiah Burroughs’ The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment. If you missed the first video, you can find it here.
Many people carry difficult things. Are we supposed to just ignore those difficulties in our lives to achieve this Christian contentment?
In this conversation, Pastor Chris points to how Burroughs himself answers it. Affliction and contentment, Burroughs argues, don’t have to be in conflict. In fact, he writes at length about how affliction can actually be a path toward contentment, not an obstacle to it.
Burroughs wrote during a period of intense political upheaval in England, was forced into exile for a season, and died relatively young. He understood what it meant to seek contentment while carrying real difficulty.
