Where Do You Run When Life Falls Apart? | The Pursuit with James Griffin

About this episode

In this episode, Pastor James Griffin and guests discuss faith and trust in God during difficult times, drawing lessons from a desperate father's story in Matthew 17.

Where do you run when life falls apart? In this episode of The Pursuit, Pastor James Griffin, Carlos Fernandez, and Ansley Huckaby dig into Matthew 17 and unpack what a desperate father's impossible situation teaches us about faith, suffering, and where we turn when we're out of options. They explore why God allows hard things, why faithlessness frustrates Jesus, and what it actually means to trust God versus just agreeing with him. James gets personal about his daughter Arden's heart defect ...

People in this episode

Host: James Griffin

Guests: Carlos Fernandez, Ansley Huckaby

Topics covered

• faith
• suffering
• trust in God
• desperation
• parenting
• spiritual growth

Keywords

• faith
• suffering
• trust
• God
• Matthew 17
• parenting
• heart defect
• desperation
• spirituality

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Matthew 17

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