The Grace of Catastrophe: When What You Know About God is All You Have - Softcover

Winebrenner, Jan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802450415 ISBN 13: 9780802450418

Publisher: Moody Publishers, 2005

Synopsis

Catastrophes can strike anyone, at any time. No life is immune. No place is invulnerable. The only difference is what we do with them when they come. Jan Winebrenner writes to encourage women who have been stricken by catastrophe: cling to God for comfort and security. He uses challenges in our lives to conform us to His character. Like nothing else, devastation allows God to reveal Himself to us in unimaginable ways, drawing us into closer, deeper intimacy with Him.

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About the Author

JAN WINEBRENNER is a freelance writer who grew up in Northern Arizona, spending her teen years on the Navajo Indian Reservation where her parents taught school. Her gifts in writing and speaking were further refined at Northern Arizona University and John Brown University where she studied literature and education. Jan is author of eight books including The Grace of Catastrophe, Steel In His Soul, and Intimate Faith and has written countless articles for periodicals as diverse as Vietnam Today, Leadership, The Dallas Morning News, Today¿s Christian Woman, and Decision. Jan founded the Dallas Christian Writers Guild and frequently speaks for writers' groups and college and university writing classes. Jan and her husband, Ken, have been married over 35 years. They have two children and two grandchildren and reside in Plano, Texas.

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When we are wounded, hurting, crying in our pain, our theology-what we believe about God, about His kingdom-becomes suddenly very significant, very practical. We have no room for arrogance, the arrogance of certainty, when the unimaginable happens to us. Theology, for the struggling disciple, is more than theory, more than a stimulating topic of discussion. It is more than the text of Sunday school curricula, more than the subject of a sermon. Theology is the truth that hauls us up out of the chaos and into the place of comfort in God's arms. It is the message that gives us courage to keep on living when everything in our lives seems to be decaying and deteriorating. It is the truth of God, revealed in His Word, spoken in our hearts by His Spirit, lived in front of us by the incarnate Son that lifts us up. Without it, "we remain little people with little concerns who live little lives and die little deaths."

Edition details

• Publisher: Moody Publishers
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0802450415
• ISBN 13: 9780802450418
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 248