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The Porch

God and Suffering | Matt Chandler

The Porch

Watermark Community Church, Dallas, TX

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Suffering is (unfortunately) inevitable, but it’s not the end — instead of temporary happiness, God offers us eternal joy when we look to Him during trials. This week, guest speaker Matt Chandler, Lead Pastor of The Village Church, walks us through the Book of Job to remind us that even though we live in a broken world, God draws close to the brokenhearted.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Music

0:28.0

What are we doing boys Dallas?

0:31.0

I want to welcome you to the porch.

0:34.0

Mr. Side Jones, have the privilege of being on staff here, serving with the young adult ministry.

0:39.0

And if you're watching online, welcome to the porch and all of our porch live locations around the nation.

0:44.0

Just placed in different places in our nation.

0:47.0

Whether that be porch live, Des Moines or porch live, Boise, porch live, Scottsdale, Daytona, Ohio, porch live, Atlanta, and a whole host of other porch live locations.

0:57.0

Can you help us welcome them?

0:59.0

Yeah.

1:02.0

You picked a really good time to be here at the porch and we're really excited about what God's going to do tonight.

1:09.0

And before I get going and introduce our guest speaker, I just want to say thank you for joining us here on a Tuesday night.

1:17.0

We know you could be in a lot of different places in Dallas, but you're here.

1:20.0

And I was having brunch earlier in the week and I invited my waitress to the porch and she said,

1:27.0

Oh, yeah, like the restaurant.

1:29.0

And I said, no, no, no, no, not the restaurant, the young adult ministry.

1:32.0

And so maybe you got con to coming to the porch thinking it was the restaurant on bar.

1:36.0

But you're here on a Tuesday night at Watermark Community Church.

1:39.0

We're glad you're here.

1:41.0

And so you're in for a real treat because who I want to introduce you to is really near and dear to my faith.

1:49.0

When I came to know Christ several years ago, this man was instrumental in my growth.

1:56.0

And I found him through a podcast, through a friend who sent me a podcast.

2:02.0

And then I read books about just the gospel of Jesus Christ in which he wrote.

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