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Hope Has Its Reasons
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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.
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
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