If God is both sovereign and good, why is it that he allows evil and suffering in the world?

These are questions we ask a lot of times.

For me personally, living in Asheville, North Carolina, we've just gone through a hurricane.

So there's a lot of us here who are asking those questions.

Today, John and I have a conversation about this, and we acknowledge that we don't have specific answers

to the specific questions.

The secret things do belong to the Lord,

but we're going to talk about God, his power,

his character, his nature,

his love for us and the things that we know about him

that are anchors for our souls when everything else is giving way.

We hope the conversation encourages you and gives you hope. Stay tuned.

If you're new to Theocast, you may not have heard of this word. It's called pietism.

You ever felt like the Christian life is a heavy burden versus rest and joy, that you wake up

worrying about how well you're going to perform instead

of thinking about what Christ has done for you. It's dread versus joy, really. That's pietism.

Pietism causes Christians to look in on themselves and find their hope, not in what Christ

has done, but what they're doing. And we have a little book for you.

It's free.

We want you to download it.

And we're going to explain the difference between pietism and what we call confessionalism.

Reform theology, really, how it is that we walk by faith, seeing the joy of Christ.

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