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A Sacred Sorrow: Reaching Out to God in the Lost Language of Lament is unavailable, but you can change that!

Expand your definition of worship. It’s easy to praise God when things in your life are going well, but what about the other times? What happens when mountaintop experiences cascade into seasons of struggling, suffering, and loss in the valley? God desires for us to pour out our hearts to Him, whether in joy or pain. But many Christians don’t feel right expressing anger, frustration, grief,...

lament is not a path to worship, but the path of worship. [There is] a time to weep. ECCLESIASTES 3:4, NIV But there exists within American Christianity a numb denial of our need for lament. Some theologians go so far as to say these biblical laments no longer apply to us. And so the language of confession sounds stranger and stranger to our ears. It is heard less and less in our churches, and when it is voiced, rarely are our sins genuinely lamented. Through lament, we regain both a sense of awareness
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