When God Weeps - Softcover

Tada, Joni Eareckson; Estes, Steve

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0310238358 ISBN 13: 9780310238355

Publisher: Zondervan, 2000

Synopsis

If God is loving, why is there suffering? What’s the difference between permitting something and ordaining it? When bad things happen, who’s behind them--God or the devil? When suffering touches our lives, questions like these suddenly demand an answer. From our perspective, suffering doesn’t make sense, especially when we believe in a loving and just God. After more than thirty years in a wheelchair, Joni Eareckson Tada’s intimate experience with suffering gives her a special understanding of God’s intentions for us in our pain. In When God Weeps, she and lifelong friend Steven Estes probe beyond glib answers that fail us in our time of deepest need. Instead, with firmness and compassion, they reveal a God big enough to understand our suffering, wise enough to allow it—and powerful enough to use it for a greater good than we can ever imagine

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From the Publisher

It's easy to trust God when things are going our way and the world makes sense. But when suffering strikes--especially seemingly senseless suffering--we are filled with doubt and stunned by events spiraling beyond our control. In the midst of suffering, we often question the very foundation of our faith--our belief in the God who says he loves us.

Since our trust and obedience rest on God's character, the questions that life's tragedies force us to face are difficult, even frightening. Who is God? Can he really be trusted? What are his purposes in the face of suffering? If he can stop suffering, why doesn't he?

Joni Eareckson Tada, a woman who has lived in a wheelchair for more than thirty years, and Steve Estes, a pastor and one of Joni's closest friends, explore the answers. When God Weeps is not so much a book about suffering as it is about God. It tackles tough questions about heaven and hell, horrors and hardships, and why God allows suffering in this life.

Through a panoramic overview of what the Bible says about suffering, the authors make clear who God is, why he permits so much heartache and pain, and how it is we can trust him. With both a practical edge and heartfelt warmth, When God Weeps offers a message of deep reliance on God--and keys to a radical, life-transforming dependence on his love and mercy in spite of our doubts, fears, longings, and questions.

It's a message much needed. Despair and discouragement are rampant. At the same time, fewer people are able to balance God's purposes and his mercies. Instead, attempting to avoid tragedy and suffering, many Christians confuse simple formulas for faith. But where does that leave the family who loses a son on a military mission? Or the young mother who isn't healed of cancer?

When God Weeps is for people like these . . . and for thousands more who need more--much more--than answers.

From the Author

Joni Eareckson Tada, having been tutored in God's Word amidst the bruising reality of quadriplegia for over 30 years, is the author of over twenty books dealing with God's hand in hardship. The best-seller, Heaven, is her most recent book. She serves as president of JAF Ministries, a Christian organization which advances Christ's kingdom among the world's 550 million people with disabilities. She and her husband, Ken, reside in Calabasas, California.

Steve Estes holds Master of Divinity and Master of Theology degrees from Westminster Theological Seminary and Columbia Bible College. He is the senior pastor of Community Evangelical church in Elverson, Pennsylvania. He co-authored A Step Further with Joni Eareckson Tada in 1978 and authored Called to Die, the biography of slain missionary linguist Chet Bitterman

About this edition

• Publisher: Zondervan
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0310238358
• ISBN 13: 9780310238355
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 256