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The Nothing Is Wasted Podcast

Episode 314 - Grace and Suffering with Philip Yancey

The Nothing Is Wasted Podcast

Davey Blackburn and Aubrey Sampson

Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.91K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2024

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

What does grace have to do with our suffering? How do we experience the fullness of who God is when life is full of pain? Author and journalist Philip Yancey has long sought out to understood the role grace plays in life and in our hurt. Having walked through a difficult childhood and untangling his understanding of God from church legalism steeped in racism and sin, Philip has offered what he has learned along the way to his readers through his many books, including his latest, Where the Light Fell: A Memoir. Philip is no stranger to the hard questions that can plague a lifelong pursuit of Jesus and his words have been a guide for so many in their own journeys. In this conversation, Davey and Philip talk about the importance of grace and how it is tested, how those who are most desperate for Jesus find Him, and why pain redeemed can do more than pain removed.If you've ever struggled to reconcile the God you know through misguided teachings from others with the true nature of God, this episode will help you find your way to the offer of grace that Jesus extends. Website: https://philipyancey.com/ Instagram: www.instagram.com/philipyanceyofficial Book: Where the Light Fell: A Memoir https://a.co/d/effHxpk Want to find out how you too can remove the debris of crisis in your life and move forward with a renewed sense of victory and purpose? Learn more about the Pain to Purpose course at: www.course.nothingiswasted.com Life is difficult and pain is real. Join Davey as he helps you move through your pain and on to a life of purpose and meaning in a LIVE Zoom call. www.nothingiswasted.com/starthere It's so hard to watch someone who is hurting after a recent loss or trauma has changed everything for them. The When Everything Changes: Navigating the Early Days of Loss, Trauma, and Tragedy mini-course will help those you love walk through the early days of grief and suffering and find hope on the other side: www.nothingiswasted.com/everythingchanges

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0:00.0

Hi friend I know these stories on the podcast are so encouraging to hear as you listen to others who have walked through unimaginable pain and found hope in it and they've walked through it.

0:10.0

But I also know that how to move forward can be the question that so many of you guys who are listening to this or watching this on YouTube

0:16.4

You're asking that question currently as you're walking through the valley. I know when I think about my own journey after losing my wife Amanda I wished that I had had something practical, a guide to walk me through the pain and the process of healing, which is why we created the pain to purpose course.

0:32.0

The pain to purpose course is truly a Pain to Purpose Course.

0:32.7

The Pain to Purpose Course is truly a guide to help you remove the debris of crisis in your life

0:36.7

and move forward with a renewed sense of victory and purpose.

0:41.7

Hundreds have taken the course and found so much hope and healing in their own story.

0:47.6

But I want you to listen to what Jara had to say about how the course helped her find

0:51.5

her way out of anxiety and depression.

0:56.6

I came in in a very low spot in my life. I had, I was walking through depression,

1:01.6

I was walking through a lot of anxiety that led me to some really poor

1:05.8

decisions in my life that got me to the place where I thought I was no longer

1:10.2

worthy to be used by God. In the course I learned a lot of practical tips when I'm

1:16.0

feeling unworthy or when I'm really low. First I learned how to label all those feelings

1:21.2

and then I learned to say no this biblical truth is that God loves me that I am purposeful

1:27.1

that he put me here for a reason and I had to put that before my unworthiness

1:31.2

that I was feeling.

1:33.4

So if you're ready to take the next step in healing

1:35.1

from whatever hurt you've walked through

1:36.5

and want help and how to identify your pain

1:38.3

and how to move forward,

1:39.3

sign up now for the pain to purpose course

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