When You're Not Sure If God Still Cares

When You're Not Sure If God Still Cares You have been praying about the same thing for months and nothing has shifted, and you have started to wonder. About this episode Sharon Edmundson takes us into Psalm 77, written by a man who cried out to God, ran out of words entirely, and was left with nothing but groaning. It is one of the most honest things in the Bible about what happens in your head when life stops going your way. Alongside it, what current mental health research says about the fight in our minds, why the stiff upper lip was never faith, and what Asaph does when no answer arrives. Timestamps 00:00 Welcome and what August looks like at Crowd 02:53 The battle you might not know you're in 06:40 A psalm written from rock bottom 08:33 Why the stiff upper lip doesn't help 10:28 Remembering when God came through 15:52 What to do when you're in the middle of it 16:53 Changes coming to Crowd in September Key references Psalm 77, read across the talk Ephesians 6:12, on a struggle that is not against flesh and blood 2 Corinthians 10 verses 3 to 5, on demolishing strongholds and taking every thought captive Lamentations 2:19, on pouring out your heart like water Jeremiah 29:13, on seeking and finding John 10:11, Jesus claiming the shepherd image the psalm ends on Romans 8 verses 31 to 32, the passage Sharon closes with The 2025 Mental Health Report, produced by Mind and the Centre for Mental Health Jo Hargreaves, Christian psychotherapist, on the Bible as the most regulating book for our nervous system Quotes from the talk Faith doesn't mean pretending that everything is okay when it's not. Rather, faith is about a relationship with the living God. (Sharon Edmundson) He started with words, but after a while, words weren't enough to express the depth of his pain, and all he had left was groans. (Sharon Edmundson) When we remember the good things that God has done in our past, it gives us comfort in the present and hope for the future. (Sharon Edmundson) Links Everything at crowd.church Other people's stories on the What's the Story podcast, at crowd.church The next Alpha course starts on 9 September, Wednesdays at 7:30pm, and you can register at crowd.church This is week three of a five week series through the Psalms, built to be taken as a whole Crowd Church - a community for those who might not see the point of church.