Ep. 438 Kyle Strobel - When God Seems Distant it Isn't Because You Failed
About this episode
Kyle Strobel discusses the experience of feeling distant from God and reframes it as a period of spiritual growth rather than failure.
In this episode, I talk with Kyle Strobel about what's actually happening when God feels distant. Most of us start with passion - prayer comes easy, Scripture comes alive - and then a season arrives where the lights go out and we assume we've failed or been abandoned. Kyle offers a different reading than abandonment: the dryness isn't punishment or absence, but the desert where God weans us off the feeling and teaches us to abide. We get into the moralistic temptation that follows - how we tu...
More episodes of Shifting Culture
- Ep. 444 - Jessie Cruickshank & Julia Schmaltz - How Do We Become Good News to the World?
- Ep. 443 Paul Anleitner - The Anti-Story is Collapsing. What's Replacing It?
- Ep. 442 Randy Woodley - Has Plato Shaped Western Christianity More than Jesus and What Are We to do About it?
- Ep. 441 Merideth Hite Estevez - Art is How God Loves Us
- Ep. 440 Daniel Hawk - Reckoning with America's Past and Imagining a Better Future
- Ep. 439 Kristin Lee - When the Faith You've Been Handed Begins to Crack, You Mend with Gold
Explore listener stats, chart rankings, contacts and more on the Shifting Culture podcast page.