Disappointment with God - Softcover

Yancey, Philip

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ISBN 10: 0551029722 ISBN 13: 9780551029729

Publisher: Marshall Pickering, 1995

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Philip Yancey searches for answers to the questions we rarely ask aloud -- Is God silent? Is God unfair? Where is God in our emotional pain? A searingly honest and powerful book that takes our doubts seriously, yet points to a faith we can live by and hope that will not let us down. When you are in doubt, God can seem very distant. Philip Yancey looks at how faith survives when tragedy strikes, or in time of great need, when the evidence for a loving God seems weakest. Christians are often lead to expect constant evidence of God's power improving their lives. In reality, life is not like that, yet if God is really always there, what is he doing? And why does he seem to hurt those who devote themselves to him? Philip Yancey tackles the elusive subject of faith, as seen through the eyes of those who doubt. He reminds us that even when you do not see God watching, he sees you.

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Is God unfair? Is he silent? Is he hidden? In this profoundly personal book, these questions are answered with clarity, richness, and biblical certainty. Philip Yancey points to the odd disparity between our concept of God and the realities of life. Disappointment with God takes us beyond the things that make for disillusionment to a deeper faith, a certitude of God's love, and a thirst to reach not just for what God gives, but for who he is.

From the Author:

Philip Yancey serves as editor at Large for Christianity Today magazine. His books The Jesus I Never Knew and What's So Amazing About Grace? were national best-sellers appearing on both the Publisher's Weekly and ECPA lists. Both books also won the Gold Medallion Book of the Year Award. Yancey has written eight Gold Medallion Award-winning books, including Where Is God When it Hurts? Disappointment with God, and The Gift of Pain. He co-edited The Student Bible, which also won a Gold Medallion Award. He and his wife live in Colorado.

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