How Do You Move Forward After Suicide?
The 9941 Podcast
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4.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
In this emotional second Q&A episode, Granger and the team tackle two powerful listener questions — one about sharing faith with a friend who’s seen tragedy up close, and another from a man wrestling with the trauma of witnessing a friend’s suicide.
Granger offers raw, biblical wisdom about suffering, faith, and God’s sovereignty — from why bad things happen to good people, to finding purpose in unimaginable pain. This episode dives deep into everyday evangelism, the problem of evil, and what it means to trust God when logic can’t explain everything.
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, welcome to Friday Q&A. We got some questions queued up here. If you want to ask a question, |
| 0:08.5 | you could ask anything, any topic, anything at all. Email, podcast at granger smith.com. We'll put you in the |
| 0:15.2 | queue, and Ant Man's got some right now. Colby dropped an email and said, Granger. I have a close friend |
| 0:20.6 | that I gratefully respect and love.anger. I have a close friend that I |
| 0:20.8 | gratefully respect and love. However, I know that unfortunately, if it was his time, |
| 0:26.4 | he would not spend eternity in the presence of the Lord. My wife and I have prayed and |
| 0:31.4 | continue to pray for his salvation. Quick backstory, we're both firefighter and paramedics. |
| 0:40.0 | He lost all faith shortly after entering this career field due to experiencing one of the most evil situations involving a child. |
| 0:46.3 | Recently, I took a ride with him to his hunting spot. Long story short, heading back home, he told |
| 0:51.7 | me that he's not opposed to believing in God, but until someone |
| 0:55.0 | gave him a logical explanation without using the term free will or how he uses bad for the greater |
| 1:03.3 | good to justify why a man so powerful would allow a child to be hurt in such a way than he could |
| 1:09.0 | have, when he could have stopped it, then he could not |
| 1:12.4 | follow or trust a man as such. I continue to pray, and I'm also searching and seeking for the |
| 1:18.7 | logical reason that he needs so, that he will give his heart and life to Jesus. May the Lord |
| 1:24.3 | continue to bless you, your beautiful family and team, respectfully. Colby. |
| 1:29.9 | I need two things. I need, what was the guy's explanation about giving me something besides free will? |
| 1:35.4 | What was that? He said, I, uh, see, he's not opposed to believing in God, but until someone gave me, gave him a logical explanation without using the term free will or he |
| 1:44.7 | uses bad for the greater good. |
| 1:47.8 | What is free will have to do with that argument? |
| 1:50.4 | I don't know. |
| 1:50.7 | Okay. |
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