Where Is God When It Hurts?

Where Is God When It Hurts?
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Where Is God When It Hurts?

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Winner of the Gold Medallion Award and an inspirational best-seller for over twenty years, Where Is God When It Hurts? Has been revised and updated by the author to explore the many important issues that have arisen during that time. Sensitive and caring, this unique book discusses pain--physical, emotional, and spiritual--and helps us understand why we suffer from it and how to cope with our own and that of others. Using examples from the Bible as well as the author's personal experiences, this expanded edition speaks to everyone for whom life sometimes doesn't make sense. Philip Yancey can help us discover how to reach out to someone in pain even when we don't know what to say. It shows us how we can learn to accept without blame, anger, or fear that which we cannot understand.

Description of Where Is God When It Hurts?:

Philip Yancey's updating of his modern classic answers questions about how to come to terms with the tough times in your life.

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This perennial best-seller about the question of suffering is now available in a special anniversary edition "If there is a loving God, then why . . . ?" No matter how the question is completed, at its root lies the issue of pain. Does God order suffering? Or did he simply wind up the world's mainspring and now is watching from a distance? In this Gold Medallion Award-winning book, Philip Yancey reveals a God who is neither capricious nor unconcerned. Using examples from the Bible and from his own experiences, Yancey looks at pain--physical, emotional, and spiritual--and helps us understand why we suffer. Author Biography: Philip Yancey serves as editor-at-large for Christianity Today magazine. He has written twelve Gold Medallion Award-winning books, including Where is God when it Hurts, Disappointment with God, and The Gift of Pain. His books The Jesus I Never Knew and What's So Amazing About Grace? were also awarded the Christian Book of the Year. He is also the author of The Bible Jesus Read.

About Philip Yancey:

Philip Yancey serves as editor-at-large for Christianity Today magazine. He has written twelve Gold Medallion Award-winning books, including Where is God when it Hurts, Disappointment with God, and The Gift of Pain. His books The Jesus I Never Knew and What’s So Amazing About Grace? were also awarded the Christian Book of the Year. He is also the author of The Bible Jesus Read.

Description of Philip Yancey, author of Where Is God When It Hurts?:

This inspirational best-seller for over twenty years has been revised and updated by the author to explore many important issues that have arisen since the original publication of the book. Sensitive and caring, this book discusses physical, emotional and spiritual pain, helps us understand why we suffer from pain, and provides insight into how to cope with our own pain and that of others.