Doubting God’s Love: Episode 916
The Boundless Show
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 772 Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Trusting God’s love when you don’t feel it, plus how skeptics strengthened Justin Brierley’s faith, and balancing reverence and honesty in prayer.
Featured musical artist: Austin Stone Worship
Roundtable: Does God Really Care About Me?
It’s easy to say “Jesus loves me” in church or when things are going well, but how do you have the faith to say it when God feels incredibly distant? What if circumstances in your life challenge your perception of His goodness, and now you’re wondering if He’s even there? Our guests open up about difficult seasons they’ve been through, the lies they’re tempted to believe about God and themselves, and what it looks like to fight for faith. If you’re wondering if God cares — not in general, but about you in particular — you’ll be encouraged by their stories.
Culture: Why I’m Still a Christian
When was the last time you shared your faith with a non-Christian? Justin Brierley has been conversing with atheists and agnostics (including Richard Dawkins) for years, and he’s passionate about equipping believers to examine secular arguments, test them with Scripture science, and common sense, and then be lights in our culture’s darkness. If you’re intimidated by unbelievers’ unbelief and what they have to say about it, Justin will help you find both courage and kindness for the conversation.
Hear Justin on the ReFocus Podcast
Inbox: Yelling at God
When life is hard and you’re sad, angry, disappointed or scared, how do you pray honestly to God while still showing reverence and respect? Pastor Mark Bates weighs in.
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| 0:44.8 | Welcome to this week's episode. |
| 0:46.8 | And as I often do, I'm going to preview a little bit of what is coming up later in the show. |
| 0:52.3 | So for our inbox, we're going to talk about how to |
| 0:54.9 | balance honesty and reverence in your prayer during trials. So sometimes we wonder, hey, |
| 1:01.7 | can I just yell at God? What does this look like? Can he take it? So our pastor friend, |
| 1:06.7 | Mark Bates, is going to be here to answer that question. And then for our culture segment, |
| 1:10.9 | Justin Breyer Lee, joins us all the way from Surrey, England, to talk about how his conversations |
| 1:17.3 | with skeptics and atheists have strengthened his own faith. And his book, Why I'm Still a Christian, |
| 1:23.6 | is going to be available for a gift of any amount at the end of the show. |
| 1:28.0 | Well, here we are for our roundtable, and wow, this is kind of getting this whole show |
| 1:33.1 | is a little bit deep-ish into the things of faith, because we're going to talk about |
| 1:39.0 | when you feel unloved by God. |
| 1:42.0 | And I think we can all agree that we would never say God doesn't love us |
| 1:46.5 | because we know it's in Scripture, but why do we feel it and why do we act like it pretty much every |
| 1:52.1 | week? So I have got a great group of people who are willing to talk about their own failures |
| 1:57.8 | in this area. So welcome Dakota, Dave, and Casey. Hey, guys. |
| 2:03.3 | Hi, thank you. Good to have you. I always crack up when we have like hard topics and then |
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