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Summary: I have new perspective!
Review: This book is the most conclusive I have read on suffering without trying to give pat answers for why we suffer. The answers are hard ones. Because the whole counsel of God is covered, I understand more than ever before why we suffer. Because all that we go through is intended for our growth as we establish God's unique purpose for our individual lives, we can rest in His love. We can rest in His foreknowledge that our lives would look as they do. This has greatly changed my attitude towards God as I have spent too much time being angry at how He has disappointed me. Thank you Joni and Steve for new perspective and new life!
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Summary: Hard but, Oh! So True!
Review: This is a hard book to read because it hits you right between the eyes with stark reality. But the book when When God Weeps: Why Our Sufferings Matter to the Almighty, by Joni Eareckson Tada and Steve Estes, is probably the best book I have ever read, it's deep but readable. Joni, is a paraplegic and has been wheel chair bound for 30 years. She is not only a woman of great faith, she is my new hero. From page to page the words leaps off the page with everlasting truth, and heart stopping, tear choking reality.All Christians are called to suffer and all people are called to the vocation of dying. We all have loved ones who are going through, or have experienced terrible trials of suffering, and death. This book unlike any other I have ever read on the subject, paints a Biblical portrait of why we suffer. So get some kleenex along with this book, and get some ice cream too, because reading it is not all sad, but it is a magnificent testimony of immeasurable faith and truth after quotable truth. Heaven will all be worth it someday. Thanks Joni & Steve
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Summary: She doesn't let God off the hook!
Review: This tape 2 tape cassette series is intimate and powerful. The conversation covers questions, objections and conundrums about suffering. Joni weaves in her experience as a quadriplegic, and her work for the past two decades for folks who suffer. Joni has earned the right to explain and teach about suffering; her experiences dramatically form her penetrating questions, "How come, God?" She does not let God off the hook - using His own words to frame the hard answers. But these answers build a sure foundation from which she encourages those who stagger under their trials, reproves those who doubt God cares, and exhorts any who are on life's sidelines to get involved and help bear their brothers' burdens. This resource is a good conversation starter, or a good comforter.
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Summary: Excellent
Review: This was an EXCELLENT book! We lost our 7 day old son this year due to a random chromosomal problem. I knew from the day we got the diagonsis that God had a plan for Ian's life whether he healed him on this earth or in heaven. This book has helped me put into words some of the things I've felt the Lord was showing me. Even though suffering is hard, the authors look at it from the perspective of heavenly rewards for the suffering we experience.
The way Tada/Estes explain God in chapters 2-6 is exceptional. The use of others experiences and their response to their sufferings help emphasize the points.
I cannot say enough WONDERFUL things about this book.
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Summary: Covers all the bases
Review: Wonderful study and discussion of God's place in human suffering. I appreciated the way she addressed questions and false perceptions most of us have regarding this issue. I will keep this book and refer to it in the future. I'm happy to have so many verses related to this topic in one place. The only reason I gave it four stars instead of five is that her writing style in the beginning of the book made me uncomfortable. Some of her familiarity toward God and attempts at humor or a lighter tone made me wince. I'd liken it to the style Max Lucado uses, to which I often react the same way. She uses it far less than he, and I know neither author INTENDS any disrespect toward God.
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