What do you do when you have a good theology of suffering and pain and yet struggle in the midst of your experience to believe that God is even present, let alone good? How do you hold the tension between your pain and what you know to be true about who God is?
For Pastor Adam Mabry, it was his own hardships and emotional struggles paired with the seeming silence of God that took him on a journey to reconcile his experience with God's character. He would go on to write about it in his book, When God Seems Gone: Finding Hope When Nothing Makes Sense. In the end, Adam concludes that there is hope in the messy middle of our story if we are willing to be honest with God and ourselves about what we are feeling.
In this impactful conversation, Davey sits down with Adam to discuss how you can know good theology and yet struggle with internalizing the truth in your pain, the difference between God's will and God's disposition, and why it's important to become curious about our emotions instead of escaping them.
If you've ever felt like God disappeared when you needed Him the most, this episode will remind you that there is hope when nothing makes sense.
Website: www.adammabry.org
Instagram: www.instagram.com/theadammabry
Facebook: www.facebook.com/pastoradammabry
Book: When God Seems Gone: Finding Hope When Nothing Makes Sense
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