Free Delivery Over $100
|
|
|||
|
||||
OverviewLet’s be honest. We’re frequently disappointed. With family, friends, leaders, work, ourselves, church - sometimes, dare we say it, even with God. 'You carry the tears inside,' is the author's description. Disappointment can be devastating. It can be sudden. And it's certainly universal. But what if we were to use disappointment as an opportunity to check whether our motivation and priorities were in line with God's will? Could it provide a chance to grow? Full Product DetailsAuthor: Paul Mallard (Author)Publisher: Inter-Varsity Press Imprint: Inter-Varsity Press Weight: 0.272kg ISBN: 9781783594450ISBN 10: 1783594454 Pages: 208 Publication Date: 15 March 2018 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsPreface: Carrying the tears inside - biographical 1 Living outside the garden - early chapters of Genesis 2 Disappointed with life - dealing with negative thoughts 3 Seeing God's hand in all things - regaining focus 4 Disappointed with relationships 5 Loving difficult people - seeing church as a family; knowing that we are loved 6 Disappointed with church - good and bad anger 7 Loving what God loves - offering forgiveness 8 Disappointed with ourselves - failure; David and Bathsheba 9 Walking in forgiveness and grace 10 Disappointed with God - is doubt wrong? 11 Knowing God better - in the shadow of the cross; following Jesus 12 The power of hope - how it should shape us nowReviewsA gem of a book from a first-class minister of the gospel. (Invest Your Suffering) - Amazon;Absolutely riveting! (Invest Your Suffering) - Fiona Castle A gem of a book from a first-class minister of the gospel. (Invest Your Suffering) * Amazon * Absolutely riveting! (Invest Your Suffering) -- Fiona Castle * Amazon * This is a book that was lived out before it was written. As a father, along with his wife Edrie, Paul Mallard knows the loss that will never be made up in this world. As a pastor, he has counselled hundreds in the variety of their fears and disappointments. As a preacher, deeply engaged with Scripture and alight with the joy of knowing Christ, he knows the glorious future which is before us all. * Peter Lewis, author, conference speaker and former pastor of Cornerstone Church, Nottingham, UK * Disappointment at some point invades most areas of our lives. Paul Mallard writes honestly and realistically about this, and encourages us not to avoid them, remove them or escape from them, but to embrace them and find there is a place of refuge and meaning within them. Every disappointment becomes an opportunity to grow more deeply in God. * Charles Price, Minister at Large for The People's Church, Toronto, and international conference speaker * The best comfort in life comes from those who've needed the comfort they're sharing themselves. In this short but profound book Paul Mallard wonderfully shares the stories, hymns, poems, books that have helped him live with disappointment - most of all pointing us to the Sovereign God who will soon replace all the disappointments of this world with complete and eternal satisfaction in Him. * Ed Shaw, Pastor of Emmanuel City Centre, Bristol & Author of The Plausibility Problem * It's hard to avoid the expectation of modern culture that this life should 'deliver' constant self-fulfilment. But this sets us up for inevitable disappointment. Paul Mallard argues that we live 'under the sun', in a fallen world, but then demonstrates from Scripture and from his own experience that disappointments are designed by our loving and all-Sovereign God to draw us into deeper intimacy with himself. There is much practical biblical counsel on how to respond to frustration and disappointment (whether in our work, our relationships, our church, with ourselves, or with God himself). All the way through, we are pointed to the time when God will release creation from frustration and bondage, and restore all things to how they were meant to be. * Dr Sharon James, The Christian Institute * Disappointments in life are inevitable - it's how we handle them that makes the difference. Paul Mallard brings the wisdom of a skilled pastor and Bible teacher to this illuminating book. As he explains in these pages, investing in disappointments reaps rich rewards. * Ian and Ruth Coffey - Moorlands College * The author brings the wisdom of a skilled pastor and Bible teacher to this illuminating book. * Ian and Ruth Coffey * Demonstrates that disappointments are designed by our loving and all-sovereign God to draw us into deeper intimacy with him. * Sharon James * A book that was lived out before it was written. * Peter Lewis * Every disappointment becomes an opportunity to grow deeply in God. * Charles Price * The best comfort comes from those who themselves have needed the comfort they're sharing . . . God will soon replace all disappointments with complete and eternal satisfaction in him. * Ed Shaw * Author InformationPaul Mallard is Pastor of Widcombe Baptist Church in Bath, UK. He speaks at numerous Christian events and has trained a generation of church workers. His wife Edrie’s story is toldmovingly in Invest Your Suffering:Unexpected Intimacy with a Loving God (IVP, 2013). Paul and Edrie areparents and grandparents. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
||||
