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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