In this episode of the Hope + Help Podcast, host Christine Chappell interviews Robert Cheong about the topic of hard stories and his book Restoration Story: Why Jesus Matters in a Broken World. Some of the questions addressed in this interview are:

• Why is it important for us to see how our hard stories are embedded in God’s story of redemption?

• What are the four major "movements" of God's story and what difference do they make to how we interpret the hard story we're living in?

• How can we fit the reality of God’s love into the reality of our hard life story?

• How does God’s story help us to understand and respond to urges to escape or distract ourselves from the painful realities of our hard stories?

• Why is it important for Jesus to become the “reference point” of every aspect of our hard story? What

happens when he’s not?

• “If Jesus holds everything together, why does our world sometimes fall apart? Where is Jesus when dreams shatter, marriages fail, and diseased or aging bodies break down?”

• What are some practical ways the local church support and care for those who find themselves in the thick

of a hard story?

View the full show notes & links for this episode: https://ibcd.org/hard-stories-robert-cheong

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