EXPAND YOUR DEFINITION OF WORSHIP.
It is 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 in the valley? God desires for us to pour out our hearts to Him, whether in joy or pain. But many of us don't feel right expressing our anger, frustration, and sadness in prayer. Our personal worship experience is not complete unless we understand the lost language of lament.In A Sacred Sorrow, author, musician, and Bible teacher Michael Card takes you
through the Scriptures to show you what your worship and prayer life has been missing. Learn
new ways to honour God and deepen your relationship with Him by:
Becoming more honest in worship
Trusting in His unchanging presence
Believing in His constant loving kindness
Sharing your sorrrow as an act of worship
From Job to David to Jesus, men and women of the Bible understood the importance of pouring one's heart out to the Father. Examine their stories and expand your definition of worship. Let your pain, questions, and sorrow resound with praise to a God who is moved by your tears.
CONTENTS:Acknowledgments
Author's Nottes
Foreword
PART 1: AN ANCIENT LAMENT
1. The Path of Sovereign Sorrow
2. A Difficult Hope
3. Wilderness Worth-ship
4. Lost in a Green Desert
PART 2: JOB
5. The Danger of Defiance
6. New Light on an Incomplete Equation
7. A New and Truer Worship
8. The Frustrated Lamenter
9. The Exhausted Mystic
PART 3: DAVID
10. Hunger-born Songs of Intimacy
11. A Life Fashioned for Lament
12. Enemies and "the Poison We Drink"
13. Disease and Death
14. No Hope But This: Contrition
PART 4: JEREMIAH
15. A Difficult Hope
16. Dark, Familiar Echoes
17. Torn Between Two Loves
18. Lamentations: the Destruction of Jeremiah
PART 5: JESUS
19. Truth Held Together
20. Hesed In-fleshed
21. God's Presence "With Us"
22. The God-forsaken God
PART 6: CONCLUSION
23. The Lost language of Lament
Appendix A: A Biblical Chorus of Lamenters
Appendix B: A Selected List of Lament Psalms
Appendix C: Journaling/Writing Your Own Lament
Appendix D: Selected Extra-Biblical Laments
Appendix E: Selected Davidic Laments
Appendix F: Bibliography
Notes
About the Author
COMMENTS from Readers
Book Dimensions: 15 x 22.5 cm.
Comments from people who have used this material:
"For two decades, the words, music and wisdom of Michael Card have
touched my heart. This vvolume reflects the thoughts of an honest,
joyful GOd seeker."
Max Lucado, author and minister.
"Life is unspeakably sad, until you recover the lost language of
lament. Then it becomes 'speakably' sad, and an authentic journey into
His presence begins. No one writes with more rhythm and spiritual depth
about matters of the soul than Michael Card. A vital book."
Larry Crabb, Ph. D., author, speaker, physcologist, founder of New Way
Ministries.
