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Becoming Something with Jonathan Pokluda

Episode 374: Finding Hope in Suffering | feat. Kirby Kelly

Becoming Something with Jonathan Pokluda

Harris Creek Baptist Church

Religion & Spirituality

4.94.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2026

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

In this episode we talk to author Kirby Kelly about her new book The Fabric of Hope. Life is full of seasons that leave us asking "why God?" — but what if those same seasons are exactly how He builds our faith? We talk with Kirby about how God weaves redemption into suffering and why bringing Him your honest pain is the key to finding real hope!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Thanks for tuning in to Becoming Something, where we promise to keep the conversation honest and real for young adults in their 20s and 30s.

0:19.0

Every moment we live is training for a future moment.

0:21.9

And that's why we do this podcast, because we want you to be prepared for everything that

0:26.7

life is going to throw at you.

0:28.4

Our hope with this podcast is that it would help you become all that God desires you to be.

0:33.8

So with that in mind, let's jump right in to this week's episode of Becoming Something.

0:46.1

What's up podcast world?

0:47.4

It's your boy, JP, in the podcast studio with Kathy and Nate, of course.

0:50.8

They're always here.

0:51.5

They're here again.

0:52.9

But Kirby, Kelly is also in the studio. How you doing? I'm so excited to be here. Hi, welcome. Kirby is a boss. That's what she says, apparently. Dude, here's my question. What was your maiden name? Minic. M-I-N-N-I-C-K. Like, can we say upgrade? Kirby Kelly, it's getting like Peter Parker. Like, it has like that like boom-boom. No, even more than. Oh, yeah, Peter Parker. Yeah, yeah. Because it, but it's even like three letters in the middle. I'm like, have you done anything cool graphically with that? I feel like there's like a, I see a logo here. But people always call me Kelly Kirby, and I'm like, I get it. Oh.

1:31.2

I get it.

1:28.9

But it's kirby kelly yeah that makes sense yeah oh that's so

1:34.3

i feel like one in five podcasts that i'm on they're like so kelly i'm like okay my lot in life yeah

1:40.3

do you always call people by their best man on podcast they're always Yeah, all the many times we're on podcast to share about books we've written. Oh, yeah. I don't know. I have books written. They just nobody will publish them. Not yet. Not yet exactly right. Nate couldn't figure out how to fix his mic stand. And so Kirby's husband, Richard, had to come over and, like, fix it for him. Well, he would have been unscrewing it for at least seven minutes. Because it was on this side and my youth pastor, Mark Warder, who follows you on Instagram, I don't know if you know him or what. That's awesome. But I just saw that. I'm going to give you a shout out. I am giving him a shout out. I moved it over it over to this side did he tell you to move it he told me to move it he's like i can't see your face in the podcast and people that was on intentional that was on that was intentional that was intentional decision mark jp's like oh let me help let me help you out he's holding it for me and I'm twisting it to the left again and again

2:34.3

but it was upside that anyway long story did you see project Hail Mary oh my gosh where it's like

2:39.7

everything is reverse oh I don't remember that I'm not Catholic and he was what the movie

2:45.4

remember he's like trying to do it and then he goes right he tight he left you

2:49.6

space wait why is it why is it reversed because everything was like the the little like alien guy

2:55.7

that he encounters he's like trying to unscrew something he's like I won't screw but it's like

2:58.9

everything's kind of reversed for the other aliens so he's like left lefty tidy and then righty

3:04.4

lucy yeah yeah I was like maybe he just got confused So is the alien things

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