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#439 God, Can We Chat? Bringing Our Doubts to God with Niki Hardy


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I'm thrilled to welcome Niki Hardy to the show this week! Niki is the author of the Audie Award-nominated Breathe Again and One Minute Prayers for Women With Cancer. Her newest book, God, Can We Chat? A Daringly Honest Guide to Growing Closer to God, One Doubt at a Time, hit shelves in March, which I’m so excited to chat about today. 

Niki has left corporate life, moved continents, gone to seminary, planted churches, launched businesses and nonprofits, and navigated seasons of deep loss, cancer, church hurt, and painful uncertainty. Through it all, she firmly believes that God loves a cheerful doubter.

In this conversation, we talk about what it means to bring your real questions and struggles to God, and how to navigate those seasons when it feels like He’s silent. It’s a rich and hope-filled reminder that joy can exist even in the hardest seasons.

4:30 – Niki 101

•    Moving from the UK to North Carolina •    What led Niki to becoming an author •    Niki’s family and love for nature 

6:11 – The Cheerful Doubter

•    Niki’s struggle to reconcile her doubts •    Turning towards God in times of doubt •    How doubt and faith can coexist 

12:51 – Walking in Doubt

•    For the person that feels let down by God •    Practical steps for doubt walking  •    The acronym “CHAT”

23:35 – The Legacy of Doubting Saints

•    Peter walking on water •    Devotional elements and exercises Niki’s book •    Holding doubts and joys together 

29:08 – God, Can We Speed Chat?

•    Rapid fire questions with Niki  •    Where you can connect with Niki  •    Getting your copy of God, Can We Chat?

FEATURED QUOTES

“I think God actually loves a cheerful doubter. I think he'd rather we came to him than we just slid out the side door.”

“Feel free to question His presence and His provision and His providence and His goodness and His mercy, and cry out to Him, but turn towards him, not away from him.”

“I think holding the doubt and the questions and the confusion in tension with the joy and the love and the faith that we do have is just such a healthy way of walking our faith journey out.”

 

Learn more about Niki:

https://www.nikihardy.com/

Get your copy of God, Can We Chat?

https://www.nikihardy.com/godcanwechat

Niki on Social Media:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NikiHardyauthor/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/niki.hardy/?hl=en

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