Hardly a week goes by that I don’t meet, or hear about, or read about some young person, raised in a Christian home, walking away from God because of they can’t reconcile what they’ve been told about the character of God (Specifically, that He is good and kind) with what they see around them in the world.

They’ve been told that God is in complete control of everything in the world. And yet their mobile phones bring them a near constant feed of tragedy, cruelty, outrage, horror, and disaster. 

No one has ever offered them a reconciliation of all that which actually makes sense to them. Meanwhile a couple of generations worldwide have said “yeah . . . no thanks” to an invitation to enter into close relationship with God through Jesus Christ. 

But it’s worse than that. Countless Christians live their lives with less intimacy with their heavenly Father than Jesus died to make possible for them, because what they’ve been taught undermines their confidence in God’s goodness. 

They’ve been handed a theology that says God is the ultimate source of every terrible and heartbreaking thing that’s ever happened to them. Yet if you walk up to them and say, “God is good!” they’ve been trained to smile big and answer back, “All the time!” But deep inside their heart of hearts, they’re not so sure about that.

All of that prompted me to write my e-book called “If God is Good: Tragedy, God’s Sovereignty, and the Solution to the Problem of Evil.”

“The problem of evil” . . . That’s what philosophers call it. Theologians call the subject “Theodicy.” Millions and millions just call it something like: “If God is good and loves people, why are tragedy, misery, and heartache constantly raining down on them in the world?”

In my powerful little book, I offer an answer that is simultaneously comforting, liberating, and thoroughly biblical. If you or someone you love has struggled to fully rest and trust in the goodness of God because of questions like these, these pages hold an answer that is truly “good news.”