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“This book will make no attempt to defend God.… If you are looking for a book that boasts triumphantly of conquest over a great enemy, or gives a detached philosophical analysis that neatly solves an absorbing problem, this isn’t it.” Too often the Christian attitude toward suffering is characterized by a detached academic appeal to God’s sovereignty, as if suffering were a game or a math...

Emmanuel, the story of the gospel, and the story of how those who know this Lord can live amid the rubble, the dark questions, and the daunting fears. This is the story of what it means to be a creature living with hope in a broken world—not a hypothetical world but this world, filled with beauty and tears, with laughter and ache. As we proceed, I hope to keep things more manageable by narrowing our discussions with two assumptions. First, this book specifically addresses Christians who suffer, and
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