WHY OUR GOD IS STILL GOOD – EVEN AFTER UTTER TRAGEDY

Wretched Radio with Todd Friel

Fortis Institute

Religion, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Segment 1:

• A tragedy: Charlie Kirk’s murder forces us to wrestle with God’s sovereignty.

• Why does a good God ordain evil acts? Four rules help us think rightly.

• God is working out good, but we must guard against demanding to see it.

Segment 2:

• What God ordains is always good—even when we do not understand how it could be.

• Wrestling with suffering? The problem is never God’s character, but our perspective.

• Develop a robust theodicy—God ordains all, yet isn’t the sinner.

Segment 3:

• The assassination exposes the real crisis: the human heart, not politics.

• Political divides weren’t always deadly—what changed?

• The only way forward isn’t civility campaigns but the Gospel itself.

Segment 4:

• Should the murder reignite debate on the death penalty?

• Taking a life is dehumanizing—Romans 1 on display.

• If this tragedy grieves us, how much more does it grieve God?

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0:00.0	Ritchard Radio begins in three, two, one.
0:05.0	White privilege, it's just an acknowledgement
0:08.0	that our world is uneven.
0:10.0	We live in a country that's unequal.
0:12.0	All human beings share solidarity.
0:14.0	All of us are made in God's image equally,
0:17.0	and therefore worthy of dignity.
0:19.0	We're all ruined and rebellious against God and therefore calls us
0:21.9	solidarity and sin. We all need the same Savior. It's time for Wretched Radio with Torfriel.
0:29.1	Why Charlie Kirk? This is Wretched Radio. Why did our good God allow such evil to be perpetrated? I hope you didn't see the
0:44.0	video. I only saw the long shot. That was enough. It was so JFK-esque. It was sick to your stomach disturbing. He was assassinated, murdered,
1:00.2	gruesomely right before our very eyes. This is a young man, a husband, and father of two children.
1:08.6	So he leaves behind a grieving widow, two orphans, and a massive
1:13.7	movement that was impacting countless kids on campuses. And while none of us can read the mind
1:18.8	of God, I think that there are some categories that need to be considered as we ponder,
1:27.4	why did God ordain an event that robbed a young man of his life?
1:35.5	Why did God ordain so much heartache for those who were nearest and dearest to him?
1:43.7	Why did God ordain that a powerful voice for conservative
1:48.4	politics would be silenced? For the first question, I think we need to break it down one at a time.
1:57.3	The only person who could answer, why did God ordain this for Charlie Kirk is Charlie himself.
2:05.7	In other words, when we go through a tragedy, when something difficult happens,
2:10.4	we can know that God is working all things for our good.
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