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."

1. Awakening the God Who Never Sleeps
2. Come Lift Up YOur Sorrows
3. Two Inescapable Realities
4. Older Than the Rain
5. The God Who Takes Everything Away
6. An Honest Hopelessness
7. Wisdom, Sorrow, and Hesed
8. Through the Wilderness
9. Morning and Mourning
10. A Most Dangerous Sanctuary
11. Good News to the Poor
12. Confusion and Clarity, Poverty and Presence
13. A Different Cross
14. Fellow Prisoners
15. Tears of the World
16. A Bottle of Tears
17. How Long?
18. The Listening and Lamenting Flock
19. A Steadfast Stillness
20. The Veil
21. The Man Who Would Not Weep
22. Lessons from a Lesser Pain
23. Who Made the Man of Sorrows Sorry?
24. Beware Your Friends!
25. The Thorns That Won't Go Away
26. In This Tent We Groan
27. All I Have Left
28. The Power of Memory
29. The Gulf Between Faith and Correctness
30. The Distrubing Faithfulness of God
31. The Lamants for Jerusalem
32. A Questionable Sorrow
33. The Lonely God of the Garden
34. Isaiah's Unimaginable Image
35. A Blessing for Those Who Weep
36. The God-forsaken God: Part 1
37. The God-forsaken God: Part 2
38. The Rending of God's Garment
39. To Know Christ
40. The End Must Always Be a Beginning