Free Kindle Where Is God When It Hurts? ebooks Download
Your pain is realWhen will it go away?Winner of the Gold Medallion Award and an inspirational bestseller for over twenty-five 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 audiobook 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. He shows us how we can learn to accept without blame, anger, or fear that which we cannot understand.“I finished (this audiobook) feeling as if I had [listened to] a classic. It probes aspects of pain that C. S. Lewis never touches.” ―William J. Petersen
Audio CD
Publisher: Zondervan on Brilliance Audio; Unabridged edition (August 13, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 148055457X
ISBN-13: 978-1480554573
Product Dimensions: 5 x 0.8 x 5.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (376 customer reviews)
Best Sellers Rank: #2,137,696 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #4 in Books > Books on CD > Authors, A-Z > ( Y ) > Yancey, Philip #1928 in Books > Books on CD > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity #3683 in Books > Books on CD > Religion & Spirituality > General
This book is not only about how God views our suffering, and how much we struggle with God in the midst of our suffering (although it does thoroughly discuss those things). The most interesting aspects of this book, in my opinion, were the stories and comments that Yancey makes on how Christians, though mostly good-intentioned, often respond to other people's pain in very unhelpful ways. There is an example of a woman who was very ill and then examples of a few different people who came to visit her and how their different approaches affected her. It shows you how to best try and comfort someone in great pain (although of course there isn't one universally right way to do it). One of Yancey's most interesting observations in this book is that the only cards made for sick people are "get well" cards--and how that shows what society's view is on sickness and how often times people are only considered valuable if they are well. Otherwise, they are considered invalids (as he points out, that word suggests that the person is considered "not valid"). This book should be read by everyone experiencing chronic pain, anyone who experiences any kind of pain, and anyone who ever expects to know anyone who experiences pain. Therefore, everyone should read this book, because pain continues to be a significant part of life.
Even if you are not a Christian, and even if you are not facing severe pain, this book is worth reading. It's worth reading because it will give you fascinating insights into the human body. It's worth reading because it will broaden your perspective after reading about people who have faced tremendous pain. And if for no other reason, it's worth reading because Philip Yancey is a great writer. His writing style is pithy, yet never brusque. He skillful balances journalistic fact, personal narrative, and theology in a way that few others can.If you are struggling with physical or psychological pain, you will find a friend in Yancey. He approaches this topic respectfully, without simplistic answers and tears back a bit of the mystery surrounding the problem of pain in this world. I know I'll never come across a work that can answer all or even most of my questions, but I appreciate an author that will jump in the sticky battle for answers with a sharp eye for truth and a spirit sensitive to God's voice.The beginning part of this book explores pain from a physical perspective. It touches on time that Yancy spent with Dr. Paul Brand who works with leprosy patients and investigates how pain is useful from a biological perspective. As the book moves on, Yancey's scope widens to address other aspects of pain and suggest some ways that God might be using pain.However, at no time was I left with that troubling feeling that I sometimes get after someone quotes that verse about God using all things for our good. Yancey allows that it is much more complicated than that, at least from the perspective of this lifetime. Instead Yancey (much like C.S. Lewis) confronts these pat solutions and champions the cause of all of us who struggle to reconcile the seeming paradox of a compassionate God who is Lord over a pain-filled world.
This is the best book on pain and suffering out in the market (even better than C.S. Lewis's THE PROBLEM OF PAIN). Yancey's first chapter title describes our predicament well enough: 'A problem that won't go away'. This problem is as old as mankind, and in some ways, no one will ever write a better outline of this difficulty than can be found in the book of Job. Yancey's book, though, takes a fresh look at pain itself, and while it cannot answer all questions (no book can), it does give a thoughtful discussion that helps us to comprehend the crucial role of pain in our lives. This book is not an abstract speculative treatise, but a practical and helpful companion as we ask why there is such a thing as pain, is pain a message from God, how do people respond to suffering, how can we cope with pain, and how does religious faith help (or hinder). I give this book my highest recommendation.
This is THE most influential book I've ever read dealing with a subject that the religious experts have wrestled with in every age since the dawn of man. How do you deal with pain, suffering, and/or death? Why does God allow it? Why did He invent pain in the first place? These and other related questions are the hardest to answer when our non-christian friends and relatives start asking them, especially when they are suffering a painful devistating illness themselves. I was given this book at 17 years of age by an unknown saint who slipped it into my hospital room when I was going through the difficulties of a kidney transplant. My anger and bitterness toward God would surly have destroyed me had I allowed it to fester by setting this precious book aside. Thank God I didn't. I read it and my faith and love for Christ greatly increased instead of weakening. I have seen too many suffering patients take the angry, bitter road to destruction. Because of my experience with the book, I now give it out to my patients freely when they are faced with devastating pain or life threatening illness(es). I have found this book extremely valuable in opening up a hardened and locked down heart to Christ. The one who suffers can not understand why a loving, merciful creator would allow him or her to go through such suffering, or why He would allow the suffering of a close friend or relative. This book explores the issues head on with an eyes-wide-open approach to why pain exists in the first place and how we should deal with it. It is both scientific and spiritual. In my opinion, no other book short of the Bible has helped my walk with Christ as much!
Where Is God When It Hurts? Trusting God Study Guide: Even When Life Hurts Trusting God: Even When Life Hurts Life's Healing Choices: Freedom from Your Hurts, Hang-ups, and Habits When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor . . . and Yourself When Helping Hurts: The Small Group Experience: An Online Video-Based Study on Alleviating Poverty Life's Healing Choices Small Group Study: Freedom from Your Hurts, Hang-ups, and Habits It Hurts When I Poop! a Story for Children Who Are Scared to Use the Potty Tell Me Where It Hurts: Humor, Healing and Hope in my Life as an Animal Surgeon Even When It Hurts: Seventy Times Seven Toxic Charity: How the Church Hurts Those They Help and How to Reverse It Healing Wounded Emotions: Overcoming Life's Hurts (Inspirational Reading for Every Catholic) ARE YOU RIGHT WITH GOD?: Discover how to be saved and right with God is not as hard as you think! (Walking With God, Walking With Jesus Book 1) The New Testament and the People of God/ Christian Origins and the Question of God, Vol.1 (Christian Origins and the Question of God (Paperback)) The Names Of God: Exploring God's Character With 1000+ Names Of God And Their Meanings How God Became God: What Scholars Are Really Saying About God and the Bible The Promises of God - Adult Coloring Book: Color as You Reflect on God's Words to You God Hearts Me Perpetual Calendar: 365 Refreshing Reminders of God's Love (365 Perpetual Calendars) God Loves You!: A Read-Aloud Coloring Book about God's Plan for Salvation (Coloring Books) Discerning the Voice of God: How to Recognize When God Speaks (Bible Study Book)
