{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fclf-conversations.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Fif-god-is-good-why-does-life-hurt-7_Vapw5U","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"If God Is Good… Why Does Life Hurt?","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/5904dc7d-2cad-4d83-99d5-2c1ab85677cc/cf115321-fbdc-41d9-83f5-26c28407fbe1/s2e10.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"<iframe src=\"https://player.simplecast.com/11250389-c0bb-4c56-ad78-b6cddf2a8e65\" height=\"200\" width=\"100%\" title=\"If God Is Good… Why Does Life Hurt?\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"></iframe>","height":200,"description":"One minute you’re having a normal day.\nCoffee is hot.\nThe weather looks good.\nLife feels mostly predictable.\nThen you open the news.\nA war breaks out somewhere in the world.\nA good person is killed.\nSomeone you know receives a diagnosis.\nA tragedy hits a family that didn’t deserve it.\nAnd suddenly the questions start coming:\nWhy does God allow this?\nIs suffering punishment?\nWhy do bad things happen to good people?\nAnd if God is sovereign… why doesn’t He stop it?\nThese aren’t abstract questions.\nThey’re the kinds of questions people ask in hospital rooms… at funerals… and during the quiet moments when life hurts.\nSo today we’re asking one of the oldest and hardest questions in human history:\nWhy does God allow suffering?"}