The Hidden Face of God
Finding the Missing Door to the Father Through Lament
1st Edition
Published on 27. February 2014
192 pages
978-1-61521-481-5 (ISBN)
Description
Most of us, at some point, experience the sense of God's absence. Michael Card says that rather than letting the distance widen, this is exactly the time for a deeper pursuit of God. The method he proposes is recovery of the profound, biblical practice of lament.
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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword: Don Simpson
- Introduction: The Missing Door
- Part One: A Safe Sanctuary
- 1. Awakening the God Who Never Sleeps
- 2. Come Lift Up Your Sorrows
- 3. Two Inescapable Realities
- 4. Older Than the Rain
- 5. The God Who Takes Everything Away
- 6. An Honest Hopelessness
- 7. Wisdom, Sorrow, and Hesed
- 8. Through the Wilderness
- 9. Morning and Mourning
- 10. A Most Dangerous Sanctuary
- Part Two: A Place for the Poor and the Prisoner
- 11. Good News to the Poor
- 12. Confusion and Clarity, Poverty and Presence
- 13. A Different Cross
- 14. Fellow Prisoners
- 15. Tears of the World
- 16. A Bottle of Tears
- 17. How Long?
- 18. The Listening and Lamenting Flock
- 19. A Steadfast Stillness
- 20. The Veil
- Part Three: A Gathering of the Guilty
- 21. The Man Who Would Not Weep
- 22. Lessons from a Lesser Pain
- 23. Who Made the Man of Sorrows Sorry?
- 24. Beware Your Friends!
- 25. The Thorns That Won't Go Away
- 26. In This Tent We Groan
- 27. All I Have Left
- 28. The Power of Memory
- 29. The Gulf Between Faith and Correctness
- Part Four: The Man of Sorrows
- 30. The Disturbing Faithfulness of God
- 31. The Laments for Jerusalem
- 32. A Questionable Sorrow
- 33. The Lonely God of the Garden
- 34. Isaiah's Unimaginable Image
- 35. A Blessing for Those Who Weep
- 36. The God-forsaken God: Part 1
- 37. The God-forsaken God: Part 2
- 38. The Rending of God's Garment
- 39. To Know Christ
- 40. The End Must Always Be a Beginning
- Notes
- About the Author
