CHEVIOT, Ohio — On a large stage at church, Timothy Grant tells a story. But in a small room down the hallway, he tells another version.

“The van burst into flames,” Grant said. “Needless to say, all seven people were dead on arrival.”

Before he became a firefighter, Grant served more than two decades in the Air Force. He was a flight medic. And he tells me he saw a lot of blank stares. The kind of stares that suggested nothing was OK — even if the patient would survive their injury.

“I’ve seriously questioned my faith,” Grant said. “Because you witness something, and you can’t believe God would let that happen.”

He stopped going to church for years. But now, on the first Sunday of every month at Vineyard Westside Church , he sits on a stool in front of a couple of veterans. They get

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