God, Do You Really Care? - Finding Strength When He Seems Distant

Informationen zum Autor Tony Evans, the first African-American to graduate with a doctoral degree from Dallas Theological Seminary, is senior pastor of the 7,000-member Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship and president of The Urban Alternative, a national organization that seeks to bring about spiritual renewal in urban America. His radio broadcast, The Alternative, can be heard on more than 500 stations daily worldwide. Lois Evans, his wife, best friend, and longtime collaborator, is the coauthor of several books and has recorded two albums. They have four children and four grandchildren. Klappentext You're in over your head. The hits just keep coming. Maybe you could handle this if you knew God cared. But right now? Well...you're not really sure. Catastrophe, sickness, loss, and other unexpected trials and setbacks can make you doubt the God is good or wants your best. But He is good. And He does care. Tony Evans reveals this truth in a new way through an eye-opening study of John 11. As you delve into the miracle of Jesus raising His friend Lazarus from the dead, you will find a pointed message for your own life and specific circumstances. Lingering, crippling doubts, fears, and disappointments have no rightful place in your life. Look up and take heart. God really does care. More than you could begin to imagine. Leseprobe Introduction On Monday, August 29, 2005, a hurricane named Katrina smashed and screamed her way into national history. An extremely powerful category 4 storm, she barreled out of the Gulf of Mexico and tore her way through the Gulf Coast, laying waste to coastal cities in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, and virtually destroying the great historical city of New Orleans. In her wake, the monster hurricane left mind-numbing destruction, death, and suffering. Over 1,100 people lost their lives, and several hundred thousand lost their homes—and everything else that had been a part of their lives before the storm. It has been called the worst natural disaster in our nation’s history. In addition to the pictures of death and destruction, news reports in the days and weeks following this horrific event showed a shocked world heartrending pictures of human pain and deprivation. People grieving over the loss of loved ones, people walking around in a confused stupor because they had nowhere to go, and people wondering what their futures held—these were just a few of the unforgettable images we saw on our television screens. On more than one occasion, victims and veteran journalists alike broke down in front of the camera over the horror of what was happening. Most viewers responded to the storm with sadness and sympathy. It was difficult not to be moved, even to the point of tears, at the plight of the men, women, and children who survived Katrina. We knew their suffering wouldn’t end overnight, or even in a few weeks or months. We knew that the lives of many people caught up in the storm’s path of devastation would never be the same. As a minister of the gospel of Jesus Christ, I’m often asked after events like this whether God really cares. Does He care when people are sick, injured, and dying? Does He care when they grieve over death—the death of loved ones, the death of their own goals and dreams? Does God concern Himself when people, even people who didn’t have much to begin with, lose everything? Is He moved when men and women are confused and lost, picking through the rubble and devastation of their lives? Why would God allow such suffering? Could He really be the loving heavenly Father He’s been made out to be? Doesn’t He seem more like a passive bystander to our pain sometimes? Truth be told, it can sometimes look—within human reasoning anyway—as though God doesn’t really care all that much that people are suffering. I can easily understand thoughts like these...

Product details

• Authors: Tony Evans
• Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.04.2006
• EAN: 9781601424396
• ISBN: 978-1-60142-439-6
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 11 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Humanities (general); Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works