Spiritual Pain

What will you do when the unthinkable happens in your life? Her parents called her Lenya Lion because of her ferocious personality and hair that had been wild and manelike since birth. But they never expected that five days before Christmas, their five-year-old daughter would suddenly go to heaven after an asthma attack. How do you walk out of an emergency room without your daughter?

Pain is NOT the end of your story. Katie Souza was a career criminal, and after being convicted of a number of felonies, she was sent to federal prison to serve almost 12 years. While serving what would be her final prison sentence, Katie encountered God in a way that dramatically changed her life. She immediately became an outspoken advocate for Jesus, and her infectious love for him caused many women inside her cell block to accept him as their savior.

With God, your suffering is redeemed. Find strength, purpose and hope when suffering finds you. Suffering is inevitable-whether it be physical, emotional, relational, or circumstantial. Ongoing suffering can leave us feeling hopeless and helpless. In Suffering Redeemed, Karis Meier explores what it looks like to suffer well by chronicling her own compelling story of physical illness. She processes the raw struggle, endless questions, cycles of disappointment and hope, and the treasure of intimacy with God through her journey. She offers practical applications from Scripture and strategies ...

The essential theme of the book of Job is to reveal how God takes a man who is blameless and upright, with a passion for God and a willing spirit, and promotes him to a higher spiritual plane than he could have ever imagined. Those who persevere in the pain and perplexity of the Job crucible are being prepared for renewed intimacy with God, and will be raised up to equip the endtime bride of Christ. Let Job’s example compel you toward God’s highest and best.

The writer of the letter to the Hebrews said, "See to it that no one misses the grace of God." Over the centuries much ink has been spilled on the subject of grace. Yet perhaps nothing is as hard to explain as God's grace. It doesn't make sense. It's not fair. It can't possibly cover over what I've done. The best way - perhaps the only real way - to understand it is to experience it. But too often in our churches we're not getting grace across and grace is not experienced.

Frederick Buechner has grappled with the nature of pain, grief, and grace ever since his father committed suicide when Buechner was a young boy. He continued that search as a father when his daughter struggled with anorexia. In this essential collection of essays, including one never before published, Frederick Buechner finds that the God who might seem so silent is ever near. He writes about what it means to be a steward of our pain, and about this grace from God that seems arbitrary and yet draws us to his holiness and care.

A social activist, journalist, public theologian, and international speaker who has become a powerful and brilliant voice of her generation offers a bold path to liberation and healing for people of African descent struggling in the shadows of the American Dream.

Are you carrying around emotional baggage that weighs you down, keeps you stuck, and prevents you from living the abundant life God has called you to? It's time to set yourself free. In Be Free: Letting Go of the Baggage That Holds You Back, Nic Williams invites you on a transformative journey to confront the past, break free from the weight of shame, guilt, and fear, and experience the freedom that comes from living unburdened. This book is not just a motivational read—it's a practical, biblically-rooted guide that will help you let go of the things holding you back and step into a life ...

A stolen destiny doesn’t vanish—it reloads. And when God restores it, it returns with vengeance. Have you ever felt like something precious was taken from you—your virtue, your peace, your voice, your destiny? Have you watched in silence while the wicked prospered from what they stole, mocking your pain, dancing on your delay, and thriving on your brokenness? You’re not alone. But here’s the truth hell doesn’t want you to know: what was stolen is coming back—armed, dangerous, and dripping with divine retribution. Glory That Fights Back isn’t just another book on spiritual ...

When your child has reached (or long since passed) the point of independence, it's difficult to know what your "help" as a parent should look like. Following her best-selling book Setting Boundaries®with Your Adult Children, Allison Bottke offers an in-depth guide to help you connect with your adult child and to build your confidence, knowledge, and hope, as your child walks through challenging situations. Learn how to develop effective strategies to truly help your adult child - without sacrificing your sanity.

This Too Shall Last offers an antidote to our cultural idolatry of effort and ease. Through personal story and insights from neuroscience and theology, Ramsey invites us to let our tears become lenses of the wonder that before God ever rescues us, he stands in solidarity with us. We are all mid-story in circumstances we did not choose, wondering when our hard things will end and where grace will come if they don’t. We don't need to make suffering a before-and-after story.

Are you struggling to remember the power you hold within? Is your past playing games with your mind? Do you feel incomplete, a void inside? For the author, she experienced an all-encompassing darkness and feelings of unworthiness that seemed impossible to escape. Each day was a battle, with the haunting thought that dying might be the only way out. Yet, in the midst of pain, a glimmer of hope emerged. Through the transformative practices of spirituality and self-help techniques, healing and wholeness were found. She shares her story, personal struggles, realizations, and how she integrated ...

Jesus is beside you on your darkest days, and he has good words for you. In thirty-one short, digestible readings, Edward Welch helps you to converse with him honestly amid your pain.

When life knocks you to your knees—cry louder. That cry may be the very weapon that shakes Heaven and makes Hell tremble. Have you ever been so shattered, so drained, so buried beneath the weight of pain that words fail—but tears flow? Do you know what it feels like when all you have left is a whisper, a groan, or a scream birthed in anguish? Battle-Cry of the Broken is not just a book—it’s a lifeline for the wounded warriors, the desperate intercessors, and the battle-weary believers who feel like they're one breath away from giving up. This is your invitation to discover the kind ...

Trauma, abuse, childhood wounds, and toxic relationships have broken us. But there is no shame in brokenness. In fact, it’s in our brokenness where the healing power of Jesus comes to find us. Brave Enough to Be Broken is a biblical road map you can use to heal from the pain, the shame, and the regrets that have tried to steal your joy, so you can rest in the unconditional love, healing, and hope of Jesus.

Why is suffering the common lot of all people everywhere - believers and non-believers alike - and why does it seem that the world is out of control when it comes to the problem of pain and suffering? Who’s in Charge of a World that Suffers? includes an informative and inspirational new introduction by Franklin Graham that speaks to today’s reader in the midst of painful circumstances.

In Free to Thrive, Josh McDowell and Ben Bennett blend hard-won wisdom and youthful energy to present biblical, time-tested, and research-supported principles for overcoming hurts, struggles, and hindrances to a whole life - a life of spiritual, emotional, and relational wholeness instead of brokenness - the kind of life you were born to live.

Imagine a life in which we literally believe God and take him at his word, one in which we let the trials and tribulations that hit us roll off our backs. We look at those trials as a “life college” and learn everything we can through them. We get better, not bitter. When relationships fail, instead of looking at them as our personal failures, we believe rejection is God’s protection and that he wanted the people out of our lives. The points in this book are all about perception shifts - learning how to take the bad and shift it for our good.

When God Seems Silent: Finding Faith in the Waiting by Clarence W. Fell What do you do when heaven is quiet, your prayers go unanswered, and your heart is aching for a response that never comes? When God Seems Silent is a deeply honest and hope-filled guide for anyone who has ever felt overlooked by God or abandoned in their suffering. Drawing wisdom from the prophet Habakkuk and other biblical voices who dared to question, lament, and wrestle with God’s silence, Clarence W. Fell leads readers through a spiritual journey from complaint to confidence, from despair to defiant joy. In this ...

We live in a world of voices: disparaging ones, encouraging ones, skeptical ones, and meaningful ones. As leaders are being pulled in every imaginable direction, learning to filter out the destructive voices, harness the constructive ones, and use the painful ones for purpose has never been more critical than it is right now. Leadership architect and consultant Sam Chand offers a path forward in Voices—a timely guide for leaders whose hearing has been dulled from the deafening noise of conflicting voices.