Lotz – Why? Trusting God when you don’t understand

CELC

248.86 L

Lotz

Personal Author:

Lotz, Anne Graham, 1948-

Title:

Why? : trusting God when you don’t understand / by Anne Graham Lotz.

Publication info:

Nashville, TN : W Pub. Group, c2004.

Physical description:

xvi, 141 p. ; 19 cm.

Summary:

Called “the best preacher in the family,” by her father, Billy Graham, Anne Graham Lotz speaks around the globe with the wisdom and the authority of years spent studying God’s Word. In her latest book, Anne shares her heart and God’s teachings on the universal problem of suffering.

Drawing her characteristically keen insights from the familiar story of Lazarus in the ninth and eleventh chapters of the Gospel of John, Lotz offers Jesus’ reassuring answers to our heartfelt cries for understanding:

• Why doesn’t God care?
• Why does He let these things happen?
• Why me?
• Why doesn’t God answer my prayers?
• Why didn’t He protect me?
• Why doesn’t He perform a miracle?

Why? helps us understand and deal with suffering while guiding us to the ultimate answer-the Savior who shares our grief and our tears.

Subject term:

             God

Subject term:

Consolation.

ISBN:

0849917867 : $14.99

Yancey – Where is God when it hurts?

CELC

248.86 Y

Yancey

Personal Author:

Yancey, Philip.

Title:

Where is God when it hurts? / Philip Yancey.

Publication info:

Grand Rapids, Mich. : Zondervan Pub. House, c1990

Physical description:

286 p.

Summary:

If there is a loving God, then why is it that … ? You’ve heard that question, perhaps asked it yourself. No matter how you complete it, at its root lies the issue of pain. Does God order our suffering? Does he decree an abusive childhood, orchestrate a jet crash, steer a tornado through a community? Or did he simply wind up the world’s mainspring and now is watching from a distance? Yancey reveals a God who is neither capricious nor unconcerned. Using examples from the Bible and from his own experiences, Yancey looks at pain—physical, emotional, and spiritual—and helps us understand why we suffer. Where Is God When It Hurts? speaks to those for whom life sometimes just doesn’t make sense. It also helps equip anyone who wants to reach out to someone in pain but just doesn’t know what to say.

Subject term:

              Personal growth.

Subject term:

Suffering–Religious aspects–Christianity.

ISBN:

0310245729

Schuller – Turning hurts into halos and scars into stars

CELC

248.86 S

Schuller

Personal Author:

Schuller, Robert Harold.

Title:

Turning hurts into halos / Robert H. Schuller.

Publication info:

Irvine, CA : Harvest House, c1978.

Physical description:

144 p.

Summary:

Dr. Schuller for the first time discusses many of the difficult events of his life.  He provides positive examples to show readers how he got through them and how they can emerge victoriously also.

Stories and personal anecdotes explain the spiritual role of pain and suffering.  “Hurts” can ultimately make us stronger, more faithful people, crowning us with angelic halos, Schuller claims.  He refers to his wife’s recent heart surgery, his own brain surgery, his daughter losing a leg in a motorcycle accident, and the humiliation he endured after being wrongfully accused and sued for assaulting a flight attendant (he was acquitted).  His personal pain and helping others who have endured much worse shame and loss, have taught him the value of holding onto hope, turning to God, and gaining perspective on one’s pain.

Subject term:

Pain–Religious aspects–Christianity.

Subject term:

Suffering–Religious aspects–Christianity.

ISBN:

089081113X

Tada – When God weeps

CELC

248.8 T

Tada

Personal Author:

Tada, Joni Eareckson.

Title:

When God weeps : why our sufferings matter to the Almighty / Joni Eareckson Tada, Steven Estes.

Publication info:

Grand Rapids, Mich. : ZondervanPublishing House, c1997.

Physical description:

254 p. ; 24 cm.

Summary:

If God is loving, why is there suffering? What’s the difference between permitting something and ordaining it? When bad things happen, who’s behind them–God or the devil? When suffering touches our lives, questions like these suddenly demand an answer. From our perspective, suffering doesn’t make sense, especially when we believe in a loving and just God. After more than thirty years in a wheelchair, Joni Eareckson Tada’s intimate experience with suffering gives her a special understanding of God’s intentions for us in our pain. In When God Weeps, she and lifelong friend Steven Estes probe beyond glib answers that fail us in our time of deepest need. Instead, with firmness and compassion, they reveal a God big enough to understand our suffering, wise enough to allow it—and powerful enough to use it for a greater good than we can ever imagine

Subject term:

Suffering–Religious aspects–Christianity.

Subject term:

Theodicy.

Added author:

Estes, Steven.

Johnson – Stick a geranium in your hat and be happy

CELC

248.4 J

Johnson

Personal author: Johnson, Barbara
Title:  Pain is inevitable but misery is optional so, stick a geranium in your hat and be happy! / Barbara Johnson.
Publisher:  Dallas, TX : Word Publishing, c1990. 
Description:  xii, 179 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Summary: ”Pain is inevitable but misery is optional,” says Barbara Johnson, and she should know. The survivor of four devastating experiences, with wit she shows how to find joy in the midst of it all. Her insight can help all  suffering from life’s difficulties .
Parents of prodigals and those who have suffered the greatest loss of all, the loss of a loved one, have proclaimed with a smile, “This book has saved my life!”
Barbara’s “pain” began when her husband was in a near-fatal accident. While he slowly recovered from severe, debilitating injures, they lost one son in Vietnam, and another son in an automobile accident. Their third son chose the homosexual lifestyle. Through Barbara’s final desperate plea to God of “Whatever, Lord…” a bubble of joy came to replace the elephant she felt sitting on her heart.
But life continues and so have the opportunities to practice what she preaches. Barbara was diagnosed with adult-onset diabetes and then most recently a cancerous brain tumor. Despite her difficulties, she continues to model that though pain is inevitable to us all, we can choose to see the flowers instead of the weeds.
Subjects Mothers — Prayers and devotions.
Added Title:  Stick a geranium in your hat and be happy.
ISBN:  0849932017 :

Schuller – Turning hurts into halos and scars into stars

CELC

248.86 S

Schuller

Personal Author:

Schuller, Robert Harold.

Title:

Turning hurts into halos / Robert H. Schuller.

Publication info:

Nashville, TN : T. Nelson Publishers, c1999.

Physical description:

xiv, 241 p. ; 24 cm.

Summary:

In Turning Hurts into Halos, Pastor Schuller uses his storytelling skills and personal anecdotes to explain the spiritual role of pain and suffering. “Hurts” can ultimately make us stronger, more faithful people, crowning us with angelic halos, Schuller claims. He refers to his wife’s recent heart surgery, his own brain surgery, his daughter losing a leg in a motorcycle accident, and the humiliation he endured after being wrongfully accused and sued for assaulting a flight attendant (he was acquitted). Through his personal pain and by helping others who have endured much worse shame and loss, Schuller has learned the value of holding onto hope, turning to God, and gaining perspective on one’s pain.

Subject term:

Pain–Religious aspects–Christianity.

Subject term:

Suffering–Religious aspects–Christianity.

ISBN:

0785270310 : $22.99

Lewis – Problem of pain

CELC

231.8 L

Lewis

Personal Author:

Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples), 1898-1963.

Title:

The problem of pain / C.S. Lewis.

Publication info:

New York :  Macmillan, 1962.

Physical description:

9, 160 p. : Appendix and Index (pp. 155-160).

Summary:

Why must humanity suffer? In this elegant and thoughtful work, C. S. Lewis questions the pain and suffering that occur everyday and how they contrast with the notion of a God that is both omnipotent and good’the answer to this critical theological problem is within these pages.

Subject term:

Pain–Religious aspects–Christianity.

Subject term:

Good and evil.

Subject term:

Providence and government of God.

ISBN:

0020868502