Chi Alpha at UVA

For the Saturday night message, Sarah Malcolm continues her Fall Retreat message by asking: Is the Good Life Freedom from Suffering? Pulling from the story of Job, Sarah shows us how suffering can actually be an expression of God's goodness and challenges us to trust Him amidst suffering.

If God is good, why do we and people we love suffer? The Bible doesn't ignore this issue, but instead explains why there is suffering in the world and how we can have faith in a world full of suffering.

John Stackhouse, Professor of Theology and Culture at Regent College, speaks on one of the most challenging faced today: "How can we believe in an all-good, all-powerful God in the face of the world's terrifying suffering and violence?";

How do we deal with times when tragedy strikes and God seems distant? David was no stranger to hardship, but the reality is that his desert years were not wasted, but were extremely formative.

Campus pastor Pete Bullette begins the "Worth It All" series with a message on 2 Corinthians 1. We learn that we serve the God of comfort who walks beside us in the difficult times, and that God wants us to be a conduit of the grace we recieve from Him.