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Where was God when that happened? (ebook)
Where was God when that happened? (ebook)
Where was God when that happened? (ebook)
Where was God when that happened? (ebook)
Where was God when that happened? (ebook)
Where was God when that happened? (ebook)
Series: Questions Christians Ask

Where was God when that happened? ebook

And other questions about God’s goodness, power and the way he works in the world

Christopher Ash
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About this book

This is a warm, pastorally hearted guide to the Bible's teaching on God's sovereignty.

When a disaster happens; when personal tragedy strikes; when we are perplexed by world events, Christians can begin to doubt that God is either truly good, or truly in control.

Christopher Ash faces these questions head on, without flinching at any of the difficulties. First he looks at six different ways people have answered this question — both as Christians and from other religions and none. He then reveals the Bible's answer: the revelation of God's character and purposes throughout history.

Specifications

Contributors:
Christopher Ash
ISBN:
9781910307243
Format:
eBook
First published:
February 2017
Language:
English
Publisher:
The Good Book Company

Contents

Introduction: Is God Really in Control?
1. God over all
2. God unseen
3. God over evil
4. God the Father
5. God who wins
6. God who waits
7. God only wise
Conclusion: Facing the future with God in control

Endorsements

Christopher Ash’s Where was God when that happened? is a book for all of us who are overwhelmed by global and personal tragedy. Ash understands the heart wrenching reality of the question and he understands how the Bible provides an answer that does not gloss over the pain but addresses it at the deepest possible level. He writes for ordinary people crying out for answers but especially for Christians who don’t know what to say when asked. I was helped to rejoice again in 'the utterly good sovereignty of God'. I intend to give a copy to the many people I know who are struggling with these questions in the face of real suffering, pain and terror in the world.

Mark D Thompson Principal, Moore Theological College, Sydney

If there is a God, how could he let (fill in the blank) happen? Whether we trust him or not, all people wonder how God runs the world. Once again, Christopher Ash writes with understanding while teaching us that there is a God, he is in control, intensely involved in every detail, and he is good.

Aimee Byrd Author, Housewife Theologian and The Sexual Reformation

Christopher Ash tackles with great clarity and sensitivity the toughest questions about suffering. Against views which try to derive comfort by denying God's existence or sovereignty, he shows that the only true comfort is in a thoroughly scriptural vision of who God is. This is a book which warms the heart and feeds the mind.

Dr Peter J Williams Principal, Tyndale House, Cambridge; author, Can We Trust the Gospels?

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Customer Reviews

5.00 stars Excellent service

 

(Review written for 'Where was God when that happened?')

It was so helpful to find two concise, readable books to give to my friend who is going through very difficult and faith testing times. Just what I needed. Thank you.

5.00 stars Very good book

 

This is a very good book. Very Bible-centred and very clear.

2.00 stars I can’t say I agree with much of this

 

(Review written for 'Where was God when that happened?')

Im sorry I can’t see this book the way other reviewers have. I struggle with so much of the theology and biblical analysis on evil and suffering. I’m afraid if you handed this book to parents who have lost their child, or a family member due to the current covid pandemic they would feel broken by what is said here. Maybe it is my lack of Calvinism which makes me struggle with it but I did not enjoy this book at all.
I’m only giving two stars because there were SOME helpful illustrations.

Thank you for this heartfelt and honest review of your reaction to Christopher’s book. This series tries to sum up the Bible’s teaching on the subject of pain, suffering and evil; I agree that much of it is hard, and difficult to get our heads around. And you are absolutely correct that we should exercise extreme caution with giving books to grieving and struggling friends and Christian brothers and sisters. I am reminded that Job’s comforters only started to make mistakes when they opened their mouths to the grieving father who had suffered so much. They did well to sit in silence for seven days, and we likewise must be so careful to comfort and nurse the broken and bruised in an appropriate way. But the prime question is whether this book accurately sums up the teaching of scripture or not. At some stage, those who are grieving will ask the difficult questions about God and his place in our world of pain and suffering. False answers at this stage may seem more comforting, but are ultimately more cruel than what we perceive to be “hard truths”. A god who is powerless, unloving, distant, incapable or non-existent — the alternatives to the Biblical view of a sovereign loving God — is no comfort at all, and not worthy of our praise and devotion.

Tim Thornborough, Editor
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