Beautiful and terrible things : a christian struggle with suffering, grief, and hope
(2020)

Nonfiction

eAudiobook

Provider: hoopla

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PUBLISHED
[United States] : christianaudio.com, 2020
Made available through hoopla
EDITION
Unabridged
DESCRIPTION

1 online resource (1 audio file (5hr., 13 min.)) : digital

ISBN/ISSN
9781545915875 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) MWT13376188, 1545915873 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 13376188
LANGUAGE
English
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Narrated by David Cochran Heath

Bible scholar Christian Brady, an expert on Old Testament lament, was as prepared as a person could be for the death of a child-which is to say, not nearly well enough. When his eight-year-old son died suddenly from a fast-moving blood infection, Brady heard the typical platitudes about accepting God's will and knew that quiet acceptance was not the only godly way to grieve. With deep faith, knowledge of Scripture, and the wisdom that comes only from experience, Brady guides listeners grieving losses and setbacks of all kinds in voicing their lament to God, reflecting on the nature of human existence, and persevering in hope. Brady finds that rather than an image of God managing every event and action in our lives, the biblical account describes the very real world in which we all live, a world full of hardship and calamity that often comes unbidden and unmerited. Yet, it also is a world into which God lovingly intrudes to bring comfort, peace, and grace

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