Angry with God: An Honest Journey through Suffering and Betrayal (Ask the Christian Counselor)
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
Counselor Brad Hambrick provides a guided process to being honest with God about your pain to restore and deepen your relationship with him.
No one gets mad at God for something small. When we’re angry with God, it is because we’ve faced something immensely hard. Anger is an often-overlooked part of grieving, and as such, is an appropriate response to profoundly painful events. While we are often prone to interpret our anger about intense suffering as being at God, this book is an invitation to process these intense emotions with God as a source of comfort, who is sturdy enough to support these turbulent emotions.
Angry with God patiently walks you through the process of being honest with God (and others) about your pain. You will learn how to articulate your pain, alleviate the effects of this pain, contextualize your experience in light of the gospel, and begin to hope again. Practical, accessible, and concise guidance for your struggle with deep grief that is accompanied with anger and confusion. Part of the Ask the Christian Counselor series, walking readers through their deepest and most profound questions. Gives readers the tools to understand their struggle with anger and grief and how the gospel brings hope and healing.
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- Provides a guided process to being honest with God about your pain.
- Invites to process these intense emotions with God as a source of comfort.
- Walks readers through their deepest and most profound questions.
- Section 1: It’s Safe to Talk About Your Anger
- Section 2: Articulating Your Pain
- Section 3: Alleviating the Effects of Pain
- Section 4: Resolving Your Grief
- Section 5: Contextualizing Your Journey in the Gospel
Bigger than a minibook, smaller than regular, just the right size to give biblical answers to common counseling questions. This book, along with others in the series, is an affordable, much-needed resource for the church community strugglers, pastors, counselors, and other helpers.
—Barbara Miller Juliani, VP New Growth Press
Anger and grief are healthy responses to profoundly painful events in our lives. Those who grieve over painful experiences need patient care, not a lecture. Brad demonstrates a unique level of compassion and concern for those who are suffering. He delivers wisdom that helps us respond to and care for those who suffer in ways that are compassionate and practically informed.
—Justin S. Holcomb, Episcopal minister; seminary professor; author of Rid of My Disgrace: Hope and Healing for Victims of Sexual Assault
Brad Hambrick’s pastoral and prophetic approach is both comforting and incisive, providing helpful and compelling insights for all who are navigating grief and healing from painful experiences especially hurt and injustice within the church. Filled with compassionate advice and practical tools, this book offers readers a unique invitation to evaluate anger through a different lens and understand how God comes alongside us in our suffering. With clarity and grace, Hambrick takes us on a journey of courage that will help us care for the broken parts of ourselves and be agents of healing and hope to the wounded along our path.
—Ruth Malhotra, Writer; advocate; ministry leader
- Title: Angry with God: An Honest Journey through Suffering and Betrayal (Ask the Christian Counselor)
- Author: Brad Hambrick
- Series: Ask the Christian Counselor
- Publisher: New Growth Press
- Print Publication Date: 2022
- Pages: 160
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- ISBNs: 9781645072102, 164507210X
- Resource ID: LLS:ANGRYWITHGOD
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-09-25T18:16:12Z