Colleen Chao: In The Hands of a Fiercely Tender God
FamilyLife Today®
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4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
How do we suffer long and well? What do we do when we feel cheated? Author Colleen Chao draws from the deep well of her experience with God through pain.
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| 0:00.0 | So, I got a question for you. |
| 0:03.2 | If you had to answer, this is a deep one, you ready? |
| 0:06.3 | Okay. |
| 0:07.3 | Let's go deep. |
| 0:08.3 | Okay. |
| 0:09.3 | If you had to answer what causes people to lose their faith, like if you only had to |
| 0:16.0 | pick one thing, what's the first thing comes your mind? |
| 0:19.5 | I think pain, how could a good God allow this kind of pain in my life or someone else? |
| 0:25.5 | I didn't think you'd pick that. |
| 0:26.5 | Oh. |
| 0:27.5 | I think that's one of the things I've struggled with and a lot of people have. |
| 0:33.7 | I just had a girl yesterday call me and say, my 29-year-old best friend just passed away |
| 0:40.2 | and I don't know how God could allow this. |
| 0:45.0 | Welcome to Family Life Today, where we want to help you pursue the |
| 0:57.2 | relationships that matter most. |
| 0:59.5 | I'm Ann Wilson. |
| 1:00.8 | And I'm Dave Wilson and you can find us at FamilyLifeToday.com or on the Family Life app. |
| 1:06.4 | This is Family Life Today. |
| 1:22.8 | I think how a person handles or navigates pain, evil in the world determines the depth |
| 1:29.9 | and future of all of our faith. |
| 1:32.2 | I think it's that critical and we're going to talk about that today. |
| 1:36.4 | We've got Colleen Chow with us and she's a writer and editor, a mom, a wife, and Colleen |
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