How Does God Use Suffering for Our Good? with Clay and Jean E. Jones

The Natasha Crain Podcast

Natasha Crain

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

5.0 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2026

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Most Christians know the Bible teaches that "for those who love God all things work together for good" (Romans 8:28), but in times of suffering, it can be difficult to reconcile that truth with our experiences. My guests today are best-selling authors Clay and Jean E. Jones. They've written an insightful and very practical new book to help believers do exactly that: "How Does God Use Suffering for Our Good?: Living with Hope While Making Sense of Life." Clay and Jean E. have experienced much ...

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0:00.0	Hey, everyone, welcome to the Natasha Crane podcast. Happy New Year. I hope that your year is off to a great start. I know that I am excited to do this first episode of the new year with my guest today, Clay and Jeannie Jones. Clay and Jeannie are co-authors of a new book called
0:22.8	How Does God Use Suffering for Our Good, Living with Hope while Making Sense of Life. If you're
0:30.2	not familiar with Clay and Jeannie, they are authors of multiple books individually, and now
0:35.0	they're writing this book together. And I cannot recommend
0:38.8	this one highly enough. It is just a very valuable resource to give biblical truth on the
0:45.4	subject of suffering, looking at what the Bible teaches on the subject, but also just applying it
0:49.8	very personally and practically. As you're going to hear in this interview, Clay and Jeannie have been
0:54.9	through a lot of suffering themselves. So they are not writing this from a lofty perspective of
1:01.1	not having actually applied it in any way, shape, or form. And it's just a really wonderful
1:06.7	resource. So I am excited to dig into it with them today. Before we jump into the interview,
1:12.3	I just do want to let you know if you're listening to this episode and not watching it,
1:16.6	I want you to know that you can watch my episodes now on YouTube. I'm just getting going with
1:21.9	my YouTube channel. And so if you haven't subscribed there yet, I want to encourage you to do so.
1:26.5	Even if you're watching this on YouTube already and you haven't subscribed,
1:29.5	please go ahead and subscribe there.
1:31.7	It is Natasha underscore crane, C-R-A-I-N to find my channel.
1:36.7	And I'd appreciate your sport as I get this going and try to get this content out to more people.
1:41.5	So with that said, let's jump into this interview on the book, How Does God
1:45.9	You Suffering for Our Good? Well, welcome to the show, Clay and Jeannie. It's such a pleasure to have you on.
1:52.3	Thank you, Natasha. Pleasure to be with you. Pleasure to be here. Thank you. This is the first time
1:56.7	I've actually had two guests at the same time. So you guys are trailblazers today. I love it. This is
2:02.3	such an important book, and I'm really looking forward to talking to you about it. Obviously,
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