When God Seems Gone, Adam Mabry
When God Seems Gone, Adam Mabry
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When God Seems Gone
Finding Hope When Nothing Makes Sense

Author: Adam Mabry

Narrator: Lyle Blaker

Unabridged: 2 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: One Audiobooks

Published: 09/18/2023

Synopsis

How to hold on to faith, keep trusting, and rediscover joy when God seems silent, slow, unfair, different, or wrong. What do you do when it feels like God isn’t there―when the state of the world, our own suffering, or the struggles of those we know suggest that God is absent? When you’ve experienced soul-crushing silence from heaven, despite your fervent supplications? Looking at Habakkuk, Job, David, and Jesus, as well as reflecting on his own experience of deep suffering, Adam Mabry examines the art of lament―how to cry out to God in desperation from a place of faith and hope. At the end, there are practical suggestions for what you can do to keep faith even in times of darkness and doubt. Readers will learn that God is big enough and good enough to handle hard questions and that his sovereign silence is filled with purpose for their lives. They will be encouraged to keep trusting God even when he seems silent, slow, unfair, different, or wrong. This book is a great encouragement if… • you are going through hard times, or walking alongside those who are. • you are deconstructing your faith. • you are involved in counselling/pastoral ministry. • you want a gift for a brother or sister in Christ who is struggling.

About The Author

Adam Mabry is Lead Pastor of Aletheia Church Boston, MA, a rapidly-growing downtown church. He is married to Hope and they have four children. Before planting Aletheia, they had planted two churches in Edinburgh, Scotland. Adam did his theological studies at Reformed Theological Seminary and is studying for a PhD at Aberdeen. Adam is author of Stop Taking Sides and The Art of Rest.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Brandi on March 14, 2023

This small book may only come in at 103 pages, but it is packed with encouragement for those seasons where it feels like God is MIA in our lives. Adam Mabry doesn’t try to come at the reader from a therapeutic or scholarly perspective—he writes this book as a fellow sufferer who’s gained some perspe......more

Goodreads review by Josh on May 14, 2023

I think we’ve all been there. It’s those moments what Mother Teresa called “the dark night of the soul” where God’s presence simply isn’t felt. When God Seems Gone is a brief exploration, based on author Adam Mabry’s personal circumstances, of finding hope and light when everything has fallen apart.......more

Goodreads review by Ruth on August 23, 2023

This short, accessible book gives voice to those inner wrestlings we have in suffering that we don't necessarily speak openly about. It's refreshing that the author is incredibly honest about God's presence (or seeming absence) in our pain. In parts, the conversational tone of the book made it sound......more

Goodreads review by Ben on February 25, 2023

I often come to books like this with a certain amount of scepticism and doubt. I'm sure many other Christians can testify that, in the grips of sadness, grief, trauma, and despair, when God seems far away, so many books, articles, or podcasts about suffering can be offered as helpful, but actually m......more

Goodreads review by Aaron on March 15, 2023

Have you ever felt let go by God? In When God Seems Gone, Adam Mabry helps you find hope when nothing makes sense. God is Never Truly Absent The book begins by stating, theologically, God is never truly absent. But this does not negate the fact that we can sometimes feel as if he is absent. Mabry offe......more

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