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Narrated by Lyle Blaker
Adam MabryUnabridged — 2 hours, 38 minutes
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Adam MabryUnabridged — 2 hours, 38 minutes
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How to hold on to faith, keep trusting, and rediscover joy when God seems silent, slow, unfair, different, or wrong.
What do you do when it feels like God isn't there-when the state of the world, our own suffering, or the struggles of those we know suggest that God is absent? When you've experienced soul-crushing silence from heaven, despite your fervent supplications?
Looking at Habakkuk, Job, David, and Jesus, as well as reflecting on his own experience of deep suffering, Adam Mabry examines the art of lament-how to cry out to God in desperation from a place of faith and hope. At the end, there are practical suggestions for what you can do to keep faith even in times of darkness and doubt.
Readers will learn that God is big enough and good enough to handle hard questions and that his sovereign silence is filled with purpose for their lives. They will be encouraged to keep trusting God even when he seems silent, slow, unfair, different, or wrong.
This book is a great encouragement if...
¿ you are going through hard times, or walking alongside those who are.
¿ you are deconstructing your faith.
¿ you are involved in counselling/pastoral ministry.
¿ you want a gift for a brother or sister in Christ who is struggling.
Adam Mabry invites you into his pastor’s study for a series of soul-restoring sessions. Looking with raw honesty at the pain of human brokenness, including his own, through a variety of biblical lenses, he brings to us hard-won clarity rather than pat answers.
When you deal daily with the challenges of quadriplegia and chronic pain, you hunger for Christian encouragement that helps you actually live. Trite answers and thin-skinnedplatitudes don't cut it. When you hurt, you need firm and unshakable truths that carry you forward into the day with hope and courage. And this is what you’ll find in When GodSeems Gone. I'm convinced its wisdom will help hurting people find their way through the fog of pain and disappointment and into the embrace of the God of the Bible.
Everyone will eventually face the question of why a loving, all-powerful God allows evil and suffering, and will have to decide whether to turn to God in trust and hope or turn away from him in doubt and despair. In this book, Adam gives us his defense of why he has chosen the route of trust and hope. May it inspire every reader to do the same.
When God Seems Gone is exceptional. It’s deeply personal, intellectual, Bible-based, and real. I am grateful that Pastor Adam wrote this book, born out of pain, yet so very hopefuland helpful. This book can give you a new perspective on the ways of God, and your way through your valleys and trials.
Adam Mabry cuts right through the typical Christian clichés by voicing the thoughts and feelings that most believers experience but are afraid to admit. If you know what it feels like for God to seem absent, wrong, unfair, or a disappointment, then this is for you. Bring your honest questions and find yourself refreshed with honest biblical encouragement.
I love this book. As one who has had many sorrows of late, and as one who has a front-row seat at the trials of others, I’m always looking for books to commend to sufferers that will allow them to see the sun amid the dark clouds. When God Seems Gone gives us such hope as it leads us to reflect on various aspects of the encouragement-producing, hope-giving Scriptures. (Pastor
As was the case with the psalmist when he cried out, ‘How long, O Lord? Will you forget me forever?’ we can know that the feeling of God's absence may be real but is not true, because the risen Christ will never leave or forsake us. From his own season of trial, Adam does a remarkable job of helping us see that.
Adam wrestles with the most fundamental question of human existence, a nagging doubt that afflicts us all, people of faith and agnostics alike: God, where are you? Why aren’t you speaking to me? Even if you’re not struggling with his question now, you probably have in the past and will again in the future—and you probably know someone who is in the moment. Let Pastor Adam guide you through those dark nights of the soul. Reading this book, you’ll feel understood, encouraged, and renewed.
I love the honesty of this book. Adam is unafraid to voice the questions most of us have but aren’t brave enough to admit to. He doesn’t offer trite answers but rather urges us to name our doubts and bring them to God. If you’ve ever felt God’s absence in your suffering, you’ll find When God Seems Gone an able guide to help you navigate that bewildering experience and fill you with hope in the God who will never leave you.
As we suffer, difficult questions emerge in our relationship with God. I believe God gives his people fresh voices to answer these ancient questions in each generation. When God Seems Gone has the authentic resonance of an author who has experienced his own trials and suffering while serving God. This book is a helpful read for anyone struggling with their relationship with God during prolonged periods of emotional pain.
If you are in a dark season—hurting, in pain, discouraged, or alone—Adam invites you to embrace your suffering in such a way that it can transform you. He skillfully, warmly, biblically guides you to deeper understanding of yourself and God’s ways to sustain you in your suffering. Pain is real. God is there with you. May you be encouraged.
Adam Mabry describes well the feeling of God’s absence, but in those deep moments of sorrow, he digs deeper still—into God’s word and God’s promises, with a raw and unshakable faith in the goodness of God. This book will prepare you for the wilderness that may lay in your future or provide a stream of water for your desert experience today.
Adam wrestles with the most fundamental question of human existence, a nagging doubt that afflicts us all, people of faith and agnostics alike: God, where are you? Why aren’t you speaking to me? Even if you’re not struggling with his question now, you probably have in the past and will again in the future—and you probably know someone who is in the moment. Let Pastor Adam guide you through those dark nights of the soul. Reading this book, you’ll feel understood, encouraged, and renewed.
If you are in a dark season—hurting, in pain, discouraged, or alone—Adam invites you to embrace your suffering in such a way that it can transform you. He skillfully, warmly, biblically guides you to deeper understanding of yourself and God’s ways to sustain you in your suffering. Pain is real. God is there with you. May you be encouraged.
As was the case with the psalmist when he cried out, ‘How long, O Lord? Will you forget me forever?’ we can know that the feeling of God's absence may be real but is not true, because the risen Christ will never leave or forsake us. From his own season of trial, Adam does a remarkable job of helping us see that.
I love the honesty of this book. Adam is unafraid to voice the questions most of us have but aren’t brave enough to admit to. He doesn’t offer trite answers but rather urges us to name our doubts and bring them to God. If you’ve ever felt God’s absence in your suffering, you’ll find When God Seems Gone an able guide to help you navigate that bewildering experience and fill you with hope in the God who will never leave you.
Adam Mabry describes well the feeling of God’s absence, but in those deep moments of sorrow, he digs deeper still—into God’s word and God’s promises, with a raw and unshakable faith in the goodness of God. This book will prepare you for the wilderness that may lay in your future or provide a stream of water for your desert experience today.
Adam Mabry cuts right through the typical Christian clichés by voicing the thoughts and feelings that most believers experience but are afraid to admit. If you know what it feels like for God to seem absent, wrong, unfair, or a disappointment, then this is for you. Bring your honest questions and find yourself refreshed with honest biblical encouragement.
Adam wrestles with the most fundamental question of human existence, a nagging doubt that afflicts us all, people of faith and agnostics alike: God, where are you? Why aren’t you speaking to me? Even if you’re not struggling with his question now, you probably have in the past and will again in the future—and you probably know someone who is in the moment. Let Pastor Adam guide you through those dark nights of the soul. Reading this book, you’ll feel understood, encouraged, and renewed.
| BN ID: | 2940160246390 |
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| Publisher: | One Audiobooks |
| Publication date: | 09/18/2023 |
| Edition description: | Unabridged |
