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The Gospel According to Job: An Honest Look at Pain and Doubt from the Life of One Who Lost Everything is unavailable, but you can change that!

Anyone who has suffered knows that there is no such thing as "getting a grip on oneself" or "pulling oneself up by the bootstraps. The only bootstrap in the Christian life is the Cross," says Mason. "Sometimes laying hold of the cross can be comforting, but other times it is like picking up a snake." Job knew this firsthand. From him we learn that there are no easy answers to suffering. That the...

The secret begins with a solid grasp of the fact that being “blameless” is not quite the same as being “guiltless.” Objectively these two conditions are identical; but they are attained through different routes. If someone is guiltless, it simply means that he has done nothing wrong. If he is accused of wrong, then he is accused falsely and that is all there is to it. But if someone is blameless it means something far more mysterious: it means that no matter how horrible his offenses may have been,