In this conversation, Chris and Curtis battle with the harsh questions of who God is after loss and the questions they both have as they try to understand why God allows the hurt and the hard.
The duo discuss the personal experiences of loss and grief in their lives, as well as what Michal taught us with her story of questioning God after the loss of her child.
TIME STAMPS:
01:00 - Baby Jasper’s story
02:30 - Questioning God
03:00 - Pointing people to Christ in the Dark Seasons
04:00 - Chris Reflecting on Losing His Son, Lawson.
09:00 - Numbness after loss
09:30 - Spiritual high during the hope for a miracle
11:00 - Hard Questions about God’s presence in loss.
13:00 - Preparing for a loss vs. the shock of a sudden loss
14:00 - The physical and mental effects of shock after loss
15:30 - Creating a defense mechanism to not feel the grief
18:00 - When it feels like God is off-script
19:00 - Baby Ronnie’s story
22:30 - Going to the hard dark places
23:00 - Finding God for yourself
28:00 - Is God more concerned with bringing us to Him than gaining glory from healing?
30:00 - Eternal perspective
33:00 - How do you see God’s presence in the hard seasons?
34:00 - God is at work even when we don’t feel it
38:30 - Empathizing and understanding others in their grief
40:00 - The discipline of staying in the word in grief
42:00 - Recalling to mind the goodness of God in your past - He’s the same God
47:30 - How do you reconstruct rather than deconstruct your faith after the hard?
49:00 - The untruthful, unscriptural path people can lead you down after death - mediums, guardian angels, tarot cards
52:00 - The crossroads of why we really desire heaven
56:30 - What to do when God's plan doesn't make sense to us.
01:01:00 - Facing that we are fallen humans
01:03:00 - Realizing who you are In Christ
01:04:00 - When we assume God’s plan is our plan
01:07:00 - The harder the things, the harder the task God is calling you to
01:09:30 - The Facebook post that provides spiritual perspective.
01:14:00 - Saying “Your Will be done” even when we don’t feel it
01:14:45 - Why would we ever want to rob our loved ones of heaven?
01:15:30 - Closing prayer
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