BEFORE THEY KNEW THE WORDS: VOLUME 2

The children are getting older.And their questions are getting harder.Nichole, Levi, and Robin have already learned that faith belongs in everyday life. They have prayed, made mistakes, experienced forgiveness, learned about worship, and discovered what it means to belong to the people of God.But some questions cannot be answered as easily.Why did Jesus have to die?Why couldn't God simply forgive everyone?Why does God allow people to suffer?What happens when someone we love dies?Why do bad people sometimes seem to win?How can God still be good when life hurts?And who are we becoming as we grow?As the family moves through birthdays, sports, music, school, friendships, church events, disappointment, sickness, grief, service, responsibility, and ordinary life together, Beau and Alexa discover that their children no longer need only simple answers. They need truth strong enough to survive difficult days.The family walks through the story of Jesus-His incarnation, cross, resurrection, forgiveness, and grace-while also confronting suffering, unanswered prayer, loss, character, courage, responsibility, and the work of the Holy Spirit in the life of a believer.But Beau and Alexa do not have an explanation for everything.Sometimes the family has to learn how to trust God without pretending to know what He has not revealed.The Deeper Questions is the second and concluding book in Before They Knew the Words: A Family's Story of Faith. It continues the journey of Nichole, Levi, and Robin as childhood questions begin becoming the deeper questions of growing faith.Warm, thoughtful, biblical, and story-driven, this book is written for families, young readers, teenagers, adults, new believers, and anyone who has ever discovered that the hardest questions about God often arrive in the middle of ordinary life.They still do not know all the words.But they are beginning to understand the truth behind them.And soon, one simple question will open an entirely new chapter in their journey.