7. Henri J. M. Nouwen, The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming (New York: Image Books/Double Day, 1994), 36.

8. Real Sports with Bryant Gumble, episode 179, February 22, 2012.

9. Nouwen, Return of the Prodigal Son, 48.

10. Ibid., 53.

11. Kenneth E. Bailey, “The Pursuing Father: What We Need to Know About This Often Misunderstood Middle Eastern Parable,” Christianity Today, October 26, 1998, accessed April 18, 2012, http://www.ctlibrary.com/ct/1998/october26/8tc034.html.

12. Bailey, “Pursuing Father.”

13. MacArthur, Prodigal Son, 136.

Chapter 7: God Loves You When He’s Correcting You

1. “Kick Save: With Their Freight Train Hurtling Toward Certain Disaster, Two Brave Railroad Men Sweep a Toddler Off the Tracks,” People, June 1, 1998, accessed April 24, 2012, http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20125421,00.html.

2. C. S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain (New York: Macmillan, 1973), 31–32, 40.

3. Charles Ryrie, Basic Theology (Wheaton, IL: Victor, 1986), 39.

4. Author unknown.

5. Theodore Laetsch, Bible Commentary Jeremiah (St. Louis: Concordia, 1965), 234–35.

6. Lewis, The Problem of Pain, 91.

7. “Notebook,” Time, February 6, 2006, 15.

8. Malcolm Muggeridge, Jesus Rediscovered (Glascow: Collins, 1974), 102.

9. John Piper and Justin Taylor, eds., Suffering and the Sovereignty of God (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2006), 224–25.

10. Rebecca Manley Pippert, Hope Has Its Reasons (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press), 100.

11. Ibid., 101.

12. Eugene H. Peterson, adapted from foreword of Alan E. Nelson, Embracing Brokenness: How God Refines Us Through Life’s Disappointments (Colorado Springs: NavPress, 2002).

13. Quoted by Gordon MacDonald in The Life God Blesses (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1994), 25–26.

14. Hilary Stout, “For Some Parents, Shouting Is the New Spanking,” New York Times, October 21, 2009, accessed April 10, 2012, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/22/fashion/22yell.html?pagewanted=all.

15. “Joni Eareckson Tada,” an interview with Kim Lawton on the website Religion and Ethics Newsweekly, September 24, 2010, accessed April 27, 2012, http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/episodes/september-24-2010/joni-eareckson-tada/7074/.

16. John Ortberg, “Don’t Waste a Crisis,” Leadership Journal (Winter, 2011).

17. Leonard Sweet, Learn to Dance the Soul Salsa: 17 Surprising Steps for Godly Living in the 21st Century (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2002), 7.

Chapter 8: God’s Love Will Never Let You Go

1. Karl Taro Greenfeld/Kathmandu, “Adventure: Blind to Failure,” Time, June 18, 2001, accessed March 14, 2012, ttp://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1000120 7,00.html.

2. Erik Weihenmayer and Paul Stoltz, The Adversity Advantage: Turning Everyday Struggles into Everyday Greatness (New York: Simon & Schuster/Touchstone, 2010), 4.

3. John Stott, Romans: God’s Good News for the World (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1994), 259.

4. James Montgomery Boice, Romans, Vol. 2: The Reign of Grace (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1992), 1001.

5. Paraphrased from R. Kent Hughes, Romans: Righteousness from Heaven (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 1991), 171.

6. D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Romans: Final Perseverance of the Saints—Exposition of Chapter 8:17-39 (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1975), 448.

7. William Hendricksen, New Testament Commentary: Exposition of St. Paul’s Epistle to the Romans (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1980), 301.

8. Adapted from J.C. Macaulay, Expository Commentary on Acts (Chicago: Moody Press, 1978), 130-31.

9. Elie Wiesel, Night (New York: Hill and Wang, 2006), xix.

10. Corrie ten Boom, The Hiding Place (Grand Rapids: Chosen Books, 2006), 206.

Chapter 9: God Loves You and Wants You with Him Forever

2. Randy Alcorn, Heaven (Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., 2004), 321-22.

3. C. S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain (New York: MacMillan, 1962), 147.

4. Richard Baxter, Poetical Fragments: Heart Imployment with God and Itself (London: Black Raven, 1689), 62.