When God Doesn’t Appear to Make Sense to Us, Part 2
Dr. James Dobson's Family Talk
Dr. James Dobson
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🗓️ 19 May 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
When life falls apart and God seems silent, how do you hold on to your faith?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome everyone to Family Talk. It's a ministry of the James Dobson Family Institute, supported by listeners just like you. |
| 0:08.1 | I'm Dr. James Dobson, and I'm thrilled that you've joined us. |
| 0:18.6 | Have you ever cried out to God, and it seems like the only response you get is direct silence? |
| 0:25.3 | Have you ever prayed for relief, maybe watch things get worse anyway, and then wondered if God was even paying attention to your prayer? |
| 0:33.0 | Well, I'm Roger Marsh, and on today's edition of Dr. James Dobson's family talk, Dr. Dobson continues |
| 0:38.5 | his classic presentation on one of the most honest questions a believer can ask, and that is, |
| 0:44.6 | what do you do when God simply doesn't make sense? Doctor? We began our program yesterday with a |
| 0:51.4 | discussion of one of my books called When God Doesn't Make Sense. |
| 0:56.3 | I was explaining that there are times when we as Christians encounter questions that trouble |
| 1:03.2 | us deeply. I call them the why questions, which simply do not have easy answers. You can talk to theologians for weeks, |
| 1:15.2 | and you can study the scriptures for years, and not fully understand everything that takes |
| 1:22.8 | place in your life, and why God lets certain things happen to us. The truth is that God rarely |
| 1:31.3 | provides simple answers to difficult questions, to what we call imponderables. I'd like to pick up |
| 1:40.5 | with what the scripture tells us about unanswered questions. This is what I said to about |
| 1:48.5 | 150 staff members who had joined me when I was president of Focus on the Family. That was before I |
| 1:55.8 | formed a new ministry called Family Talk. So with that, let's pick up with part two of this discussion. |
| 2:03.6 | When I was in Scotland with Shirley a year ago, we just went back and forth through those scriptures, |
| 2:14.6 | and what I'm talking about is not hidden in scripture. |
| 2:19.2 | It is laid out there for you to see and explained rather well. Do you understand that nearly |
| 2:26.6 | all the Bible characters went through this? I mean, they all did. Look at John the Baptist. Jesus |
| 2:32.9 | said of John the Baptist that he was the greatest man born of woman. |
| 2:37.1 | That's quite an accolade coming from Jesus. |
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