Sometimes the door to heaven seems closed.
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 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 Holy Spirit within us: our cries and tears, our longing for God's forgiveness of our sins, His healing of our inner and outer wounds, and the mercy of His salvation. Lament is finding the language of the deepest contents of our hearts and pouring out our hopes and hurts before the Father.
In The Hidden Face of God, Michael Card leads us through forty reflections that help us learn the lost language of lament. Journey with this popular artist and writer toward a more profound and intimate connection with the heart of God.
Michael Card has recorded more than twenty ablums and authored or coauthored fourteen books, including A Sacred Sorrow and Scribbling in the Sand. Michael has also hosted two radio programs and written for a wide range of magazines. He has sold more than four million albums and written nineteen number one hits, including "El Shaddai" and "Immanuel."
CONTENTS:- Awakening the God Who Never Sleeps
- Come Lift Up YOur Sorrows
- Two Inescapable Realities
- Older Than the Rain
- The God Who Takes Everything Away
- An Honest Hopelessness
- Wisdom, Sorrow, and Hesed
- Through the Wilderness
- Morning and Mourning
- A Most Dangerous Sanctuary
- Good News to the Poor
- Confusion and Clarity, Poverty and Presence
- A Different Cross
- Fellow Prisoners
- Tears of the World
- A Bottle of Tears
- How Long?
- The Listening and Lamenting Flock
- A Steadfast Stillness
- The Veil
- The Man Who Would Not Weep
- Lessons from a Lesser Pain
- Who Made the Man of Sorrows Sorry?
- Beware Your Friends!
- The Thorns That Won't Go Away
- In This Tent We Groan
- All I Have Left
- The Power of Memory
- The Gulf Between Faith and Correctness
- The Distrubing Faithfulness of God
- The Lamants for Jerusalem
- A Questionable Sorrow
- The Lonely God of the Garden
- Isaiah's Unimaginable Image
- A Blessing for Those Who Weep
- The God-forsaken God: Part 1
- The God-forsaken God: Part 2
- The Rending of God's Garment
- To Know Christ
- The End Must Always Be a Beginning
