What's your favorite part of the Christmas season?

Is it the Christmas carols?

Is it all the great food?

Is it seeing friends and family?

Is it being cold outside, warm inside, all the lights?

Listen, for the next couple of days,

the rest of this week, we're going to be sharing

some of the best of episodes from the year.

The ones people return to again and again,

just giving you a chance to catch up

in case you miss them.

So here's the question at the heart of this

one. If God is good and God is powerful, why does suffering still exist? Why do bad things happen

to faithful people? This is a really big question, one that has plagued people for years.

This episode doesn't offer easy answers, but it does

offer deep hope. And by the end, you may see that suffering is not evidence of God's absence,

but it's a place where God's presence can be discovered and embraced most profoundly.

I hope you enjoy this episode, just like you're enjoying your friends and family this Christmas

season, reminding us that God did not stay distant from our pain.

He stepped into it.

James, what are we talking about today?

All right, today we're going to be talking about the question, why do bad things happen to good people?

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