Does God help us prepare for suffering? That's just one of the questions we'll be

answering on today's edition of Core Christianity. Well, hi, this is Bill Meyer, along with

Pastor Adriel Sanchez, and this is the radio program where we answer your questions about

the Bible and the Christian life every day.

You can call us right now with your question.

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you can always email us at Questions at Core Christianity.com. So, Adri, we've been doing this show

live for pretty much every day now for two years. And I'm just curious, and I'm sure our listeners

are curious as well. What keeps you going day in and day out to do the show

each day in addition to being a pastor? Yeah, a lot of coffee. This is, you know, cup number three, I think.

No, but I mean, that's not the main thing. Definitely, I want to say what encourages me are the listeners.

And Bill, you know, I mean, we get to hear back from so many of the people who listen to the broadcast

who are encouraged in their walk with the Lord or people who are really making connections in their faith and in the scripture. And so hearing those stories is so wonderful for, I think for all of us here on the core Christianity team. And that's something that keeps me going. But also, I would say,

and this is kind of our mission, is this conviction that I have and that I know that you have as

well, Bill, that people desperately need to recover. The church desperately needs to recover

the core doctrines of the Christian faith, the gospel, who God is, I mean, the doctrine of the

Trinity, these things which Christians have held to for 2,000 years, but which many people,

we just don't understand, even within the church. And so recovering that and pointing people

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