If God is Good, Why Do Bad Things Happen?—Brian on the "Surviving Grief" Podcast

The Aggressive Life with Brian Tome

Crossroads

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 756 Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

It’s likely your best—and worst—days are still ahead of you. How you prepare for, and face them, could make all the difference. In this appearance on the new podcast, “Surviving Grief,” Brian discusses making it through difficult days with your faith intact, and tackles one of life’s most challenging questions: why do bad things happen?

If you are facing grief of your own, or walking through grief with a loved one, be sure to check out Surviving Grief wherever you listen to podcasts (Apple | Spotify)

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Welcome to the aggressive life.
0:19.8	I hate to be the bear of bad news, but the sooner we make peace with this fact, the further our life will go.
0:26.4	Here it is.
0:27.1	Get ready for it.
0:29.9	Bad things are going to happen in your future.
0:35.9	I just laugh at that because, you know, I lead a large church and everyone assumes that
0:40.8	mega pastors are, you know, happy, clapy, God's going to bless your life.
0:46.5	There's just a glory cloud around the corner for you and all good and everything is one of,
0:52.3	I'm not one of those guys.
0:54.2	I'm one of the guys that's going to tell you truth.
0:56.2	Awful things are going to come in your future.
0:58.4	Seriously, awful.
1:00.3	Awful.
1:01.8	And the sooner you come to embrace that,
1:06.1	the less those things will rock you to your core
1:09.7	because you saw it coming.
1:12.4	All of us are going to grieve eventually. All of us will, and all of us have probably already
1:17.3	had grief. People are going to get sick. Plans are going to go sideways. Love ones at some point
1:23.6	will die. One day you're going to die. Instead of hiding our heads in the sand and
1:29.4	sticking our fingers in our ears like Pollyanna and going, la la, la, I don't want to hear it. Some
1:34.5	you've already turned off the podcast. Fine. You're freaking weedy boy and girl. Aggressive life is
1:40.0	not for you. Go away. The rest of us, meanwhile, we want to be prepared for when the hits come,
	...

Transcript will be available on the free plan in -259 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Crossroads, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Crossroads and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.