A story about death turns into a story about trust and it gets personal fast. We open with John 11 and the moment Jesus stops using gentle words and says it plainly: “Lazarus is dead.” From there, we slow down and ask the question most of us avoid when life hurts: what do we do with God’s timing when it feels late, silent, or even unfair?

We walk through Martha and Mary’s grief, Jesus’s promise that he is “the resurrection and the life,” and the short verse that still hits like a punch: “Jesus wept.” We talk about what that means for real Christian faith, not just church language. If Jesus can stand at a tomb, feel sorrow and anger, and still call life back out of death, then belief is more than optimism it’s allegiance. We also wrestle with Thomas’s blunt courage and ask whether we’re willing to follow Christ when obedience actually costs something.

From there, we broaden the lens to prayer for our listeners, our marriages, and our nation, plus the uncomfortable cultural friction points that show up when we read Scripture out loud. We touch current headlines, public safety, and the moral weight of policy choices, then share plans for a sister podcast that will go deeper on Christianity and America, including the Christian roots of early education and the claim that liberty weakens when Christ is pushed out of learning.

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