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Dark clouds, deep mercy : discovering the grace of lament / Mark Vroegop ; foreword by Joni Eareckson Tada.

By: Publisher: Wheaton, Illinois : Crossway, 2019Description: 223 pages ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9781433561481
  • 1433561484
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Contents:
Foreword / Joni Eareckson Tada -- Introduction : Life in a minor key : a personal journey -- Part one : Learning to lament : psalms of lament. Keep turning to prayer : Psalm 77 --Bring your complaints : Psalm 10 -- Ask boldly : Psalm 22 -- Choose to trust : Psalm 13 -- Part two : Learning from lament : Lamentations. A broken world and a holy God : Lamentations 1-2 -- Hope springs from truth rehearsed : Lamentations 3 -- Unearthing idols : Lamentations 4 -- A roadmap to grace : Lamentations 5 -- Part three : Living with lament : personal and community applications. Making lament personal -- Let us lament -- Conclusion : Dark clouds, deep mercy : the journey ahead -- Appendixes. Twenty complaints -- Psalms of lament -- Learning-to-lament worksheet -- But, yet, and.
Summary: "Exploring how the Bible--through the psalms of lament and the book of Lamentations--gives voice to out pain, this book invites us to grieve, struggle, and tap into the rich reservoir of grace and mercy God offers in the darkest moments of our lives."--Page 4 of cover.
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Main Collection Bishopdale Theological College BS1199.L27 VRO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available A4235369X

Includes bibliographical references (pages [211]-213) and indexes.

Foreword / Joni Eareckson Tada -- Introduction : Life in a minor key : a personal journey -- Part one : Learning to lament : psalms of lament. Keep turning to prayer : Psalm 77 --Bring your complaints : Psalm 10 -- Ask boldly : Psalm 22 -- Choose to trust : Psalm 13 -- Part two : Learning from lament : Lamentations. A broken world and a holy God : Lamentations 1-2 -- Hope springs from truth rehearsed : Lamentations 3 -- Unearthing idols : Lamentations 4 -- A roadmap to grace : Lamentations 5 -- Part three : Living with lament : personal and community applications. Making lament personal -- Let us lament -- Conclusion : Dark clouds, deep mercy : the journey ahead -- Appendixes. Twenty complaints -- Psalms of lament -- Learning-to-lament worksheet -- But, yet, and.

"Exploring how the Bible--through the psalms of lament and the book of Lamentations--gives voice to out pain, this book invites us to grieve, struggle, and tap into the rich reservoir of grace and mercy God offers in the darkest moments of our lives."--Page 4 of cover.

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