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The Hidden Face of God: Finding the Missing Door to the Father through Lament is unavailable, but you can change that!

At some point in our lives, most of us experience the sense of God’s absence. Rather than letting the distance widen, Michael Card says that this is exactly the time for a deeper pursuit of God. The method he proposes is recovery of the profound, biblical practice of lament. Lament allows our sorrows and suffering to surface in free and courageous expression to God. Lament is the groan of the...

away from the smoldering ruins of Jerusalem, forced to enter the lamenting path once more. As Jesus stumbles back along the road to Jerusalem, He who had learned the language of lament so well in the wilderness of His own life follows the path to Golgotha. There, He invites us to come out of the Egypt of our experience and worship Him in the wilderness. The path to God is through the wilderness. There, and only there, will we learn what God is truly worth. There we discover His provision: manna,
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