When it comes to our faith, we all have questions.

Questions about the Bible, questions about the church, questions about our sin, and questions about our suffering.

But sometimes, those questions can get so big, so substantial, so disconcerting,

that we start to wonder, do I really believe what I say I believe?

My guest today is Randy Newman, and he spent years listening to the stories of Christians who have struggled with various questions about their faith.

But rather than viewing these questions as roadblocks to faith, Randy has come to see them as the natural twists and turns that

accompany our lives as Christians, twists and turns that can lead us to a deeper trust and

confidence in our Heavenly Father. Randy Newman currently serves as a senior fellow for

apologetics and evangelism at the C.S. Lewis Institute.

He's the author of several books, including his newest from Crossway,

Questioning Faith, Indirect Journeys of Belief Through Terrains of Doubt.

Let's get started.

Well, Randy, thank you so much for joining me today on the Crossplay podcast.

It's great to be with you. Thanks so much.

So as Christians, I think we all know what it is to struggle with doubt at different points in our lives.

Lots of different kinds of doubts that might be related to all kinds of things.

And yet sometimes it can be hard to know how to talk

about that, what to do with that doubt as believers. So I wonder if you could start us off today

answering the question. If you were to sit down with a Christian right now, kind of like we're sitting

down, maybe at a coffee shop with some coffee in hand, and that person were to come to you and say,

Randy, I'm struggling with doubt. And that person were to come to you and say, Randy,

I'm struggling with doubt. And that scares me. What's the first thing that you would say to them?

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