S5 42: Knowing Christ in Our Suffering
The Strong Women Podcast
Sarah Stonestreet
2.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
We will all face hard things. Will we be the sort of people who resist the challenges and become resentful and bitter? Or will we see suffering as an opportunity to be open to the Lord and trust him? Today, my friend Maggie and I both share how Christ is meeting us in the suffering of a broken engagement and a loved one’s Alzheimer's diagnosis. We also dive into the habits of faith that prepare us to suffer well and how God redeems our suffering to help us know Christ more intimately.
The Silver Chair by C. S. Lewis
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| 0:00.0 | On the Strong Women podcast, we celebrate God's good design for women in every season of life. |
| 0:08.9 | There's four questions that we are trying to ask ourselves, but also encourage others to ask as well. |
| 0:15.2 | And that is, what is good that we can promote? |
| 0:18.8 | What's missing that we can add? What's broken that we can work to mend, |
| 0:23.6 | and what's evil that must be stopped. |
| 0:26.6 | With the Strong Women Podcast, we're able to tell stories of women who are asking these questions |
| 0:31.6 | in their little corners of the world and walking faithfully with Christ to address those things, those big things, with |
| 0:40.3 | the love of Christ for a world that is both beautiful and broken. As we approach our June 30th |
| 0:47.1 | fiscal year end, we need your help to keep that mission going. You can support the next year |
| 0:53.0 | of strong women, as well as all the other |
| 0:55.4 | resources from the Colson Center by joining us today and giving a gift at |
| 1:00.2 | colsoncenter.org forward slash sW Church. |
| 1:04.2 | Welcome to the Strong Women podcast, where we explore the beautifully diverse ways God invites and equips women to participate in his story. |
| 1:23.3 | We're here to encourage one another as we step out of the shallow definitions of what it means to be a woman and into the flourishing life that comes when we walk out our design. |
| 1:34.0 | I'm your host Sarah Stone Street. I'm so glad you're here. |
| 1:39.2 | Welcome back to the Strong Women Podcast. I'm so glad you guys are here this week. This week I've asked my friend |
| 1:44.9 | Maggie, who you now know and love, to come on and we're just having a conversation about a theme |
| 1:51.2 | that I've noticed on the podcast with so many of our guests. And that theme is, what do you do |
| 1:58.2 | with the hard things? What do you do with suffering? |
| 2:05.9 | And so I think about stories about Johnny, which we'll talk about in this episode. |
| 2:09.6 | So many of our guests have had to face challenges. |
| 2:16.8 | And instead of resisting the challenge and the struggle and the suffering, they've leaned into that and opened themselves up in a way that God is |
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