On this episode of The DiscipleMakers Podcast, we talked with Mike Chartowhich about evil and suffering. 

We have a good God, who created the world as perfect, but as sin entered the world, so did evil and suffering. But where does evil come from? Why does God allow evil things to happen in the world? 

These are big questions that can oftentimes serve as obstacles in our evangelism or in our own wrestling with the realities of our world. The good news in that the Bible has answers. We walked through these questions during our conversation and even talked about how the Christian and biblical answers to these questions are more satisfying than any others you will find.  

-- Resources from this episode: 

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• Resources mentioned in the episode
  • The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism by Timothy Keller
  • 2015 DM Fall Conference on the Glory of God  
  
  
• General books on the topic of evil and suffering:
  • If God Is Good: Faith in the Midst of Suffering and Evilby Randy Alcorn
  • Walking with God through Pain and Suffering by Timothy Keller. 
  
  
• Christians who wrestled with the emotional problem of evil:
  • A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis
  • When God weepsby Joni Eareckson Tada
  • Tortured for Christby Richard Wurmbrand  
  
  
• A scholarly book on the topic of evil
  • The Many Faces of Evil: Theological Systems and the Problems of Evil by John S. Feinberg (focuses on the intellectual problem)  
  
  

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