[PDF] Finding Faith In The Dark eBook

Author : Laurie Short
Publisher : HarperChristian + ORM
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 27,47 MB
Release : 2014-08-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0310337089

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Can we trust a God who gives us different answers than we pray for? Who only fully reveals himself when we look back? Who lets us walk in darkness for months (and sometimes years) at a time? In Finding Faith in the Dark, Laurie Short says yes, and through her story and the stories of others, she reveals a God who is able to transform the dark chapters of our lives into opportunities of grace. Maybe you've been there: The husband or wife you stayed faithful to had an affair The death of a spouse or child has torn your heart A diagnosis has taken away your health, your plans and your future When these things happen, we are left wondering "Where is that God who promises to answer our prayers if we trust in Him? Why isn’t my life turning out the way I hoped, let alone how I had planned?” If you are, or have ever been, in that place, this book is for you. And more than helping you find your way out, this book will help you find your way through that place.

Author : Ted Kluck
Publisher : Bethany House Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,72 MB
Release : 2013-03-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780764210822

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An Honest, Hopeful Look at Christian Doubt and Disappointment Doubt often has less to do with the head than the heart. When Christians go through trials--from unmet personal expectations to the death of a loved one--they often feel like God has abandoned them, or maybe he never cared at all. Kluck and Martin walk readers through dark times in their own lives to reveal a God of love who never forsakes his children. Here is grace and hope for any believer struggling to believe.

Author : Brian D. McLaren
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 22,76 MB
Release : 2000-06-27
Category : Apologetics
ISBN : 0310238382

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Is there a God? - What might God be like? - What is the relationship between faith and certainty? - Can intelligent people believe in spiritual realities? - Why are there so many religions? - Is it possible to experience a relationship with God--and if so, how? If you've asked questions like these, you're in good company. From songwriters such as Bob Dylan and Jewel Kilcher to TV shows such as The X Files and Touched by an Angel, the media and the arts reflect postmodern men and women's search for a living faith and a spiritually oriented life. Real faith isn't blind believism. It is a process that engages your intellect as well as your emotions. If you think faith requires turning your back on truth and intellectual honesty, then Finding Faith is one book you really ought to read. With logic, passion, and even-handedness that the thinking person will appreciate, this book helps you face your obstacles to faith by focusing not on what to believe, but on how to believe. Whether you want to strengthen the faith you have, renew the faith you lost, or discover faith for the first time, Finding Faith can coach, inspire, encourage, and guide you, and help you discover more in life than you'd ever imagined or hoped for.

Author : Os Guinness
Publisher : Crossway
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 46,52 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Faith
ISBN : 0891078452

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A forthright but compassionate work that examines the problem of doubt thoroughly, in a way that will respond to people's questions, settle their fears and strengthen their faith.

Author : Austin Fischer
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 25,38 MB
Release : 2018-09-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 083087402X

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People don't abandon faith because they have doubts. People abandon faith because they think they're not allowed to have doubts. Even as a pastor, Austin Fischer has experienced the shadows of doubt and disillusionment. Leaning into perennial questions about Christianity, he shows that doubt is no reason to leave the faith—instead, it's an invitation to a more honest faith.

Author : Maurice Broaddus
Publisher : Apex Publications
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 50,89 MB
Release : 2010-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0982159684

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Presents a collection of horror tales by such authors as Brian Keene, Tom Piccirilli, Ekaterina Sedia, Jay Lake, and Mary Robinette Kowal.

Author : Nancy Ortberg
Publisher : NavPress
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 17,53 MB
Release : 2015-07-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 149640694X

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Christians are supposed to be “the light of the world.” Yet we seem to spend most of our time stumbling in the dark. We want answers carved in stone, and instead we get uncertainty. We want a clearly marked path and a panoramic view of the future, and God gives us only fleeting glimpses of what lies ahead—and just enough light to take the next step. So what do we do? We take the next step. In her much anticipated follow-up to Looking for God, Nancy Ortberg takes readers on a journey that began thousands of years ago. From an ancient cave in Turkey to the California coast, Nancy highlights the often unexpected, sometimes imperceptible, yet always extraordinary means God uses to light our way through even the most painful and challenging moments in life.

Author : Barbara Brown Taylor
Publisher : Canterbury Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 10,61 MB
Release : 2014-06-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1848256175

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In this long awaited follow-up to the best-selling An Altar in the World, Barbara Brown Taylor explores ‘the treasures of darkness’ that the Bible speaks about. What can we learn about the ways of God when we cannot see the way ahead, are lost, alone, frightened, not in control or when the world around us seems to have descended into darkness?

Author : Mandy Steward
Publisher : David C Cook
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 13,91 MB
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1434707180

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What if Jesus didn’t die so our lives could look perfect? What if He died so we could stop feeling like our lives have to be perfect to mean something? What if we simply live out our own story, even if it doesn’t look as others say it should? Mandy Steward set out in pursuit of these what-ifs. She didn’t find answers so much as she discovered a messy grace that knows no limits and a God that was and is willing to thrash about with her no matter her questions or struggles or doubts. What she found was abundant life, but it didn’t look like she thought it was going to. It was far different, and much deeper. This is a book without “easy” answers that lets those struggling with faith and searching for more know they are not alone.

Author : Christopher Ash
Publisher : Crossway
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 17,97 MB
Release : 2021-04-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1433570149

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It's easy for us to trust God when life is going well. But when suffering comes, trusting God's goodness, his attentiveness to what's going on in the world, and his justice becomes far more difficult. In times of intense suffering, many of us ask, Why does God allow these things to happen? In the Bible, Job is known for facing intense personal suffering. Yet, upon closer examination, we find the book of Job is about more than just Job's calamities; it's a story about God and his relationship to Christ and his people in their suffering. In this helpful guide, Christopher Ash helps us explore the question, Where is God in the midst of suffering? As we read, meditate, and pray through the book of Job, we will find assurance that God will be with us in Christ through every season and trial.