How to Reconcile a Good God with a Hard Life - Mark Vroegop

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🗓️ 14 August 2025

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Are you struggling to reconcile a good God with a hard life? Hosts Dave and Ann Wilson sit down with Mark Vroegop, author of "Dark Clouds, Deep Mercy" to explore the vital biblical practice of lament. Mark reveals how lament, though prevalent in Scripture (making up one-third of the Psalms!), is often missing from modern Christian life.

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0:45.6	and loving God allow evil? Some people think that in order for Christianity to be real,
0:49.5	those two things have to reconcile. Yeah. The answer for that person is, God is good and life is hard. In the Bible,
0:57.6	they don't reconcile. They just are. And the Psalms of Lament show us those two things actually
1:04.2	coexist in the Christian faith. Let's talk about a topic we all need to talk about and we all need to do, but a lot of us don't understand.
1:18.7	Yes.
1:19.0	That's how I would introduce.
1:20.1	Is that your little tease?
1:21.0	This topic.
1:22.0	No, I mean, we got Mark back with us, Rogop talking about something that you think is really important for
1:29.8	the Christian community to understand.
1:32.2	And right now everybody's like, what is this?
1:35.1	So I'm going to throw it to you.
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