The Hidden Face of God: Finding the Missing Door to the Father Through Lament

by Michael Card

Overview

Most of us, at some point, experience the sense of God’s absence. Michael Card says that rather than letting the distance widen, this is exactly the time for a deeper pursuit of God. The method he proposes is recovery of the profound, biblical practice of lament.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781615214815
Publisher:	The Navigators
Publication date:	02/27/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	192
File size:	830 KB

About the Author

Michael Card has recorded more than twenty albums and authored or coauthored fourteen books, including A Sacred Sorrow and Scribbling in the Sand. Michael has also hosted two radio programs and written for a wide range of magazines. He has sold more than four million albums and written nineteen number one hits, including "El Shaddai" and "Emmanuel."

Table of Contents

Foreword   Don Simpson     9
Introduction: The Missing Door     11
A Safe Sanctuary
Awakening the God Who Never Sleeps     17
Come Lift Up Your Sorrows     21
Two Inescapable Realities     25
Older Than the Rain     29
The God Who Takes Everything Away     33
An Honest Hopelessness     37
Wisdom, Sorrow, and Hesed     41
Through the Wilderness     45
Morning and Mourning     49
A Most Dangerous Sanctuary     51
A Place for the Poor and the Prisoner
Good News to the Poor     57
Confusion and Clarity, Poverty and Presence     61
A Different Cross     65
Fellow Prisoners     69
Tears of the World     73
A Bottle of Tears     77
How Long?     81
The Listening and Lamenting Flock     85
A Steadfast Stillness     89
The Veil     93
A Gathering of the Guilty
The Man Who Would Not Weep     99
Lessons from a Lesser Pain     103
Who Made the Man of Sorrows Sorry?     107
Beware Your Friends!     111
The Thorns That Won't Go Away     115
In This Tent We Groan     119
All I Have Left     123
The Power of Memory     127
The Gulf Between Faith and Correctness     131
The Man of Sorrows
The Disturbing Faithfulness of God     137
The Laments for Jerusalem     143
A Questionable Sorrow     147
The Lonely God of the Garden     151
Isaiah's Unimaginable Image     155
A Blessing for Those Who Weep     159
The God-forsaken God: Part 1     163
The God-forsaken God: Part 2     167
The Rending of God's Garment     171
To Know Christ     175
The End Must Always Be a Beginning     179
Notes     181
About the Author     183