105: Walking Through Doubt and Growing in Your Fatih (Part 1) with Robin Dance

Robin Dance is a wife, mother, longtime blogger for In(courage) and other sites, and author of the new book For All Who Wander: Why Knowing God is Better Than Knowing it All. Today we're talking all about experiencing doubt and growing in your faith.

What We Chat about in Today's Episode:

~Robin's new book, #forallwhowander, what led her to write it, and what readers can expect

~Robin's own journey of going from a life-long church girl to experiencing doubt and coming close to walking away from her faith and back again

~Asking God the hard questions

~The balance between never voicing our doubts and wallowing in them; the importance of working through our questions and doubts but also knowing that we don't have to and shouldn't stay there forever

~Seeing little "God-winks" along the way

~Some of the myths, stereotypes, categorizations, and misunderstandings surrounding the topic of doubt

~Idols in our hearts 

~The trap that perfectionism, competition, and comparison can be when we all keep up these facades of never struggling and never doubting; the isolation and debilitating fear and struggle that come with this

~Condemnation vs. Conviction

~The vulnerability that has to be present if we are going to bear one another's burdens as we ought

~The good God can bring from our asking questions

~What Robin would say to anyone currently battling doubt or knows someone who is; the importance of extending grace

~Reframing our questions as a bridge that can bring us closer to God rather than a wedge to drive us further away

~Looking to one safe, trusted person and telling them about our struggles with doubt

~The crucial importance of keeping our eyes fixed on Christ and His truth rather than the culture and its teachings

~God's faithfulness to bring good out of everything 

~And more!  

For full show notes, head to www.hargraveshomeandhearth.com/podcast