Hope Has Its Reasons: The Search to Satisfy Our Deepest Longings, By Rebecca Manley Pippert

Hope Has Its Reasons

The Search to Satisfy Our Deepest Longings

Revised Edition

by Rebecca Manley Pippert

Hope Has Its Reasons
Paperback
  • Length: 197 pages
  • Dimensions: 5.5 × 8.25 in
  • Published: June 01, 2001
  • Imprint: IVP
  • ISBN: 9780830822782

You long for love and happiness. But so often you are blocked from satisfying that longing. What are the barriers? Why are they so troublesome? How does spirituality play a role?Rebecca Manley Pippert examines these persistently human questions inthis thoughtful and personal book. She invites you to join her on a journey exploring the region between faith and unbelief where your hopes and doubts mingle. Calling as expert guides such thinkers as Albert Camus and C. S. Lewis, she cites freelyher own experiences and sets out the questions all face--questions about significance, meaning, love, life and truth, the search for encouragement and security.Pippert offers no canned formulas or saccharine cliches. In this revised and updated edition she squarely engages your uncertainty, disappointment, longing for fulfillment, and the reality of pain and suffering. Such realism rings in the stories she tells and in the ideas she explores. In doing so she leads you beyond the search for yourown significance to the reasons you have for your hope of discovering God.

"Gritty realism, passionate love and humorous holiness fuse in these pages and energize mere reading into a lively conversation with [Pippert's] companions on the Way."Eugene H. Peterson, author of A Long Obedience in the Same Direction
"This extraordinary book makes God's grace more amazing than ever, and you will find yourself 'lost in wonder, love and praise.' "David A. Seamands, author of Healing for Damaged Emotions
"Unless you are willing to be shaken and humbled, don?t read this book. But if you are . . . then read and begin your own journey along a road less traveled."John White, author of The Fight
"Carries the fundamental teachings and realities of Christ into the heart of our contemporary distress. . . . The teaching is deep, the stories realistic, instructive and uplifting. I finished with tears of gratitude to God for his indescribable gift."Dallas Willard, author of Hearing God
"A no-nonsense, practical book for those who have failed and don't know what to do about it."Jamie Buckingham, author of Run Baby Run
"A book of divine discomfort, showing, among other things, how pride, anger and the failure to forgive others can masquerade as holiness."Robert Siegal, author of Whalesong
"No one in my experience has comprehended the breadth and length, the height and depth of the love of God like Becky Pippert. A realist of the first order, she maintains a faith of the highest order. Whatever cynicism is, Becky is the antithesis.Richard C. Halverson, former chaplain of the United States Senate
"Utilizing psychology, literature, personal experience and theology, [Pippert] develops a compelling case for the truth of Christianity with its existence-transforming message of faith and hope."Vernon Grounds, past president, Evangelicals for Social Action
"A careful look at modern man's old-fashioned problem: sin. . . . [Pippert's] own observations and conversations, coupled with extensive references to great literature, make good reading, convincing reading."Elisabeth Elliot, author of Gateway to Joy
"A gripping and inspiring account of the discovery of a new life of faith. The author adds zest to the new dialogue between evangelical Christians, Catholic and Protestant. . . . A refreshing and deeply moving expression of the foundational truths of the gospel from which all our activity should flow."Father Benedict J. Groeschel, author of Stumbling Blocks and Stepping Stones
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CONTENTS

Acknowledgments
1. The Problem with the World Is Me
2. The Lie That We're OK
3. The Lie That We're in Charge
4. Worshiping the Wrong Things
5. Who Can Tell Me What Is Wrong?
6. The Cross
7. The Resurrection
8. How Do We Change?
9. Living the Cross
10. Living the Resurrection
Notes

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Rebecca Manley Pippert

Rebecca Manley Pippert is an internationally known author and speaker who inspires and equips Christians for personal evangelism at conferences and training events around the world. Her books include Out of the Saltshaker and Into the World, A Heart for God, Hope Has Its Reasons, Stay Salt, and the Empowered curriculum.