How I Learned To Let God Find Me In The Good Times And The Bad
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How I Learned to Let God Find Me in the Good Times and the Bad
What do you do when God disappears off your radar just when you need him most and when the advice of even your wisest friends no longer helps? This was the question Jan Weel faced thirty-four years ago as a young Christian woman of thirty-five. Jan put many tough questions to her God. Over the next seventeen months, he answered each one of them in amazing and unexpected ways and taught her several tools she could use for her ongoing journey with him. Twelve years later, Jan faced a more prolonged, exacting trial. These same answers and tools enabled her not only to survive it but to thrive in its midst. She emerged even more alive, loving, anchored, joyful, free, strong, and faith filled. Jans questions may be yours too. This book helps Christians who are looking urgently to connect or reconnect with someone bigger than themselves in order to find solid, actionable answers to daunting life problems or challenges. You learn that the key to letting God find you in times of crisis is to learn how to enter directly into Gods presence and, once there, to experience firsthand for yourself his love God is hiding right smack in the middle of whatever situation you might be; experiencing, not somewhere outside of it God wants to find you far more than you want to find him there are specific steps you can take to let God find you there are amazing benefits that ensue.
Truth Plus Love
Imagine what our world might look like if Christians became known for remarkable love, as well as life-giving truth. The stakes are high and the need is great for Christians to represent Jesus to a watching world. And today, we have more influence than ever before--for better and for worse. We are among the first generations to have access to a global megaphone through social media. But it's not enough to speak truth louder to a noisy culture. To counter the reputation Christians have earned, our love must be just as loud. Ask evangelist Matt Brown, and he will tell you Christians today are facing a crisis of influence. In our rush to speak truth to today's tensions, cultural issues, and trending controversies, it becomes all too easy to focus on proving our points rather than extending God's grace. Conversely, when we seek only to love yet never proclaim a better way, we short-circuit God's plan. Truth Plus Love invites you to rediscover the biblical framework for engaging culture as ambassadors of Christ. Through biblical insight, cultural analysis, and practical principles, Matt Brown outlines how to champion truth without compromise, how to love unconditionally, and ultimately, how to step into this great adventure of representing God to the world. It's hard, it's messy, and it's the unfinished project of a lifetime, yet here we find our great adventure: representing God to a watching world.
No More Faking Fine
Scripture reveals a God who meets us where we are, not where we pretend to be. No More Faking Fine is your invitation to get honest with God through the life-giving language of lament. If you've ever been given empty clichés during challenging times, you know how painful it is to be misunderstood by well-meaning people. When life hurts, we often feel pressure--from others and ourselves--to keep it together, suck it up, or pray it away. But Scripture reveals a God who lovingly invites us to give honest voice to our emotions when life hits hard. For most of her life, Esther Fleece Allen believed she could bypass the painful emotions of her broken past by shutting them down altogether. She was known as an achiever and an overcomer on the fast track to success. But in silencing her pain, she robbed herself of the opportunity to be healed. Maybe you've done the same. Esther's journey into healing began when she discovered that God has given us a real-world way to deal with raw emotions and an alternative to the coping mechanisms that end up causing more pain. It's called lament--the gut-level, honest prayer that God never ignores, never silences, and never wastes. No More Faking Fine is your permission to lament, taking you on a journey down the unexpected pathway to true intimacy with God. Drawing from careful biblical study and hard-won insight, Esther reveals how to use God's own language to come closer to him as he leads us through our pain to the light on the other side, teaching you that: We are robbing ourselves of a divine mystery and a divine intimacy when we pretend to have it all together God does not expect us to be perfect; instead, he meets us where we are There is hope beyond your heartache, disappointment, and grief Like Esther, you'll soon find that when one person stops faking fine, it gives everyone else permission to do the same.