Where is God in a terminal cancer diagnosis? Steve Legg, Allan Finnegan and Andy Kind

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🗓️ 8 March 2024

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Where is God to be found when you face a no-joke reality of a terminal diagnosis for cancer? Two comedians, who are both Christians, are facing just this challenge. This discussion between these two men will transform the way you think about terminal illness. This is an uplifting show with two people who feel even closer to God than before they received their devastating news. Allan Finnegan competed in the 2020 series of the ITV variety competition Britain’s Got Talent and got to the semi-finals with his comedy act. After the show, Allan a Baptist minister continued working at his church in Bootle as normal but sought medical advice when he started to experience some issues with his vision in 2022. He has now been given one year to live after being diagnosed with a rare cancer and has been told by doctors they can do nothing more for him. Steve Legg is also a funnyman of faith who was given 120 days to live. He’s already passed that and phenomenally successful book The Last Laugh tells the gripping story of rather than get busy dying he got busy living. Like Allan, Steve’s story offers genuine hope in the face of death. @stevelegguk on X and get his book here Allan’s treatment is not available on the NHS but you help pay for his potentially life-saving treatment here Check out previous shows on this topic • Subscribe to the Unbelievable? podcast: https://pod.link/267142101 • More shows, free eBook & newsletter: https://premierunbelievable.com • For live events: http://www.unbelievable.live • For online learning: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/courses • Support us in the USA: http://www.premierinsight.org/unbelievableshow • Support us in the rest of the world: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/donate

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0:23.2	UK now.
0:24.8	Christian Conference Trust, where the church gathers. I heard the news on the Monday I was aware I had four comedy gigs that week on the
0:38.8	Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday I didn't stop crying until Thursday morning.
0:44.0	Perhaps we had to tell our daughters, our five girls.
0:47.0	Becker had to tell my parents who were still alive.
0:50.0	I lost my little brother to brain cancer a couple of years ago so the thought of
0:54.0	telling these old timers that I might be dead as well before them it's just kind of
0:59.7	unheard of but on that Thursday I decided I need to do these gigs and I decided to choose
1:05.2	joy and laughter and to be positive and upbeat and if I did have five months which works out at
1:11.8	22 weeks which also works out 150 days.
1:15.2	I wanted to make every flipping day count, and that's what I've tried to do ever since I had that
1:20.7	news.
1:21.7	I have felt unlucky at times because of all the statistics that Steve
1:24.8	said about is. It sounds very similar and then the only time I actually sort of almost said
1:31.2	why and it wasn't why it was when they rang me up on the Friday night
1:34.4	about 7 o'clock and it's your consultants on the phone so you know it's not good and he said I'm awful sorry
1:40.0	but the trials being cancelled and I just thought someone's having a laugh now, I've
1:43.8	be. Nobody is having a laugh now.
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