Good God: The One We Want to Believe In but Are Afraid to Embrace

At some point, nearly every person who believes in God, or wants to, runs headlong into the same devastating question: if God is good and all-powerful, why does suffering exist? Why does evil persist? Why does prayer sometimes feel like speaking into a void? These are not the questions of the faithless. They are the honest questions of people who take God seriously enough to demand real answers. In Good God, pastor Lucas Miles confronts this question with the intellectual honesty and pastoral warmth that define his approach to difficult theological territory. Rather than offering comfortable platitudes or retreating into religious clich's, Miles engages the problem of pain head-on, exploring what a genuinely good God looks like when tested against the hardest realities of human experience. This is a book for the person who has wanted to embrace a good God but held back, out of disappointment, unresolved grief, unanswered prayer, or the nagging sense that the God they've been presented with doesn't quite match the God they suspect might actually exist. Miles makes the case that the God worth believing in is not a watered-down or theologically convenient version, but something far larger, stranger, and more worthy of genuine trust.