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You Slay Me eBook is now available for online purchase
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Though You Slay Me eBook is now
available for online purchase for only R80!
(Approximately US$10)
Simply click on the 'Buy Now' button and complete your payment via the merchant, Setcom.
Once payment has been confirmed your eBook will be emailed to you in PDF Format within 24 hours.
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A SYNOPSIS
Every cloud has a silver lining. The glass is
half full. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Bla,
bla, yadda, yadda. Has anyone ever shared these little
nuggets of truth with you while you were slap-bang
in the middle of one of the greatest and most painful
storms of your life? Now, speaking for myself, in those
kinds of moments I am inclined to slap the pigmentation
clean off the perpetrator's mug. :) Whatever truth may
reside in these kinds of statements, they are not the
things that a heart broken
with grief and discouragement wants to hear in the hurt
of the moment. Sometimes it feels like the thing that
doesn't kill you does a pretty good job of leaving you
thoroughly maimed and bloodied.
What do you do when the joy, peace and blessing you were
sure would accompany your faith in Jesus seem nowhere to
be found? What if a devotion to God seems to usher more
trials and heartache into your life than you ever
thought it could or would? These kinds of questions are
humbly explored by someone who is often mystified by
them himself. That would be me. Life is all too often
far more mysterious and unpredictable than trite sayings
and religious clichés will allow for. For the most part,
the subject of hardship is ignored by the church. In a
Christian culture that seems obsessed with prosperity
and blessing, the anguish and sadness of believers
caught in the grip of pain and disappointment all
too
often goes unnoticed.
This book is aimed at the Christian church with a focus
on sustaining faith and devotion in the midst of
testing. It aims to comfort and challenge Christians who
have or are experiencing a severe testing of
their faith as a result of suffering or hardship in
whatever shape or form. In the absence of answers that
make sense of the storms of life, it can be immensely
encouraging to at least have the pain of the experience
acknowledged. Sometimes, in the midst of ominous
circumstances and overwhelming challenges the
compassionate embrace of a friend can be immeasurably
precious...without a word ever being said. That, in some
ways, is what this book aims to achieve: as if to sit
beside those afflicted,
laying a caring hand on their shoulder saying, “I can
offer no easy solution to your suffering, but I am here,
and you are not alone.”
However, beyond acknowledging the struggles and trials,
the book also aims to deal with the subject of suffering
from a philosophical and biblical perspective. While it
remains true that no easy answers exist when a life is
visited by severe and recurring tragedy, the Bible does
offer counsel with regard to how these experiences may
be most healthily confronted and, hopefully, overcome.
The subject of suffering within the context of the
Christian experience is explored, along with the
proposal of an appropriate, biblical response. I share
with you my personal experiences with suffering and
disappointment, my disillusionment and despair as a
result, and my attempts to navigate through them with
grace. It is my belief that the subject of suffering is
grossly misunderstood and neglected in a substantial
portion of the church worldwide, and when Christians are
inevitably confronted with it in the midst of a life
dedicated to God, the result is often the same
disillusionment and despair that I have grappled with.
The central theme that is developed through the book is
that of the untarnished beauty
of God in the face of perplexing hardship, and the
legitimacy of ascribing worship to him in any and all
circumstances.
As challenging or even impossible as this goal may seem
when considering the frailty and fickleness of our own
humanity, its validity remains, as does the worthiness
of the God in whom that goal is rooted. While the
message is applicable to all Christians, it is the weary
and despairing believer in particular
that I wish to address and hope to encourage.
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Though You Slay Me eBook is now
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(Approximately US$10)
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