Everybody's Watching: How Do I Survive Suffering?

Week 4 of the series "Everybody's Watching" from Faith Community Church. The People's Chocie Awards picked "Iron Man 3" and "Gravity" as two award winning movies. Both movies explore the way suffering shapes us and how we can overcome it to be reborn anew. Tony Stark is trapped by debilitating fear from violence and Ryan Stone is trapped by the tragic loss of her daughter. They have to find the means to escape their prisons. In Gravity, the director purposely put in images of rebirth to walk his character through suffering to become a new woman in the end. In Iron Man, the character had to come to grips with fear in order to find life. The Bible has a lot to say about how God can use suffering to shape us, transform us and change us into people who are stronger, more mature and deeply spiritual.