CHURCH DISAPPOINTMENT? HIS APPOINTMENT!
CHURCH DISAPPOINTMENT? HIS APPOINTMENT!

Author: David Spoon

Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing

Published: 2015-09-23

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 1457540894

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God loved you when He called you, God loves you in the midst of your pain and frustration, and God will love you for all eternity. We need to understand…A Church Disappointment may be HIS APPOINTMENT! This is a book for anyone who has been through a painful experience or was involved in a church as a member, a leader, or an attender, and now finds themselves hurt, confused, wandering, or just wondering… Why did God allow that to happen? Using his own painful church experience, David Spoon shows that being wounded isn’t the end of the world – In fact, it can actually be a good thing. Through a fascinating journey, David Spoon, in his book Church Disappointment? His Appointment! captures the heart of Jesus for the church’s disappointed believers ...and encourages them to Try Again!” -Dr. Robert Jeffress, Senior Pastor, First Baptist Church, Dallas, Texas

The Surprising Grace of Disappointment
The Surprising Grace of Disappointment

Author: John Koessler

Publisher: Moody Publishers

Published: 2013-04-16

Total Pages: 157

ISBN-13: 0802476252

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Disappointment is a feeling everyone knows well—failed relationships, buyer’s remorse, unmet expectations, and so on. In a broken world, disappointment surrounds us. But Christians know that Jesus will never disappoint us, right? Wrong. John Koessler explains how Jesus disappoints everyone. He never fails, but he does disappoint. We come to Jesus with false expectations, demanding or expecting things he doesn’t promise, and then when he doesn’t deliver, we are disappointed by Him. But Koessler explains how this can be the best thing for us even though it doesn’t feel good. He describes how this sort of disappointment takes our wrong expectations and sets them straight, bringing us closer to Jesus and into a deeper understanding of his very surprising grace. This book is a wonderful resource for people struggling with life’s hard times as well as for counselors or pastors seeking to help others.

It's Not Supposed to Be This Way
It's Not Supposed to Be This Way

Author: Lysa TerKeurst

Publisher: Thomas Nelson

Published: 2018-11-13

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0718039866

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER What do you do when God’s timing seems questionable, his lack of intervention hurtful, and his promises doubtful? Lysa TerKeurst unveils her heart amid shattering circumstances, inviting you to live assured when life doesn't turn out like you expected. Life often looks so very different than we hoped or expected. Some events may simply catch us off guard for a season, but others shatter us completely. We feel disappointed and disillusioned at best and overwhelmed and hopeless at worst. We quietly start to wonder about the reality of God’s goodness and why he allows us to suffer and experience grief and loss. Lysa TerKeurst understands this deeply. But after many tears, godly counseling, and prayerful seeking, she's also discovered that our disappointments can be the divine appointments our souls need to radically encounter God. In It's Not Supposed to Be This Way, Lysa invites us into her own journey of faith and, with grit, vulnerability, and honest humor, helps us to: Stop being pulled into the anxiety of disappointment by discovering how to better process unmet expectations and other painful situations. Train ourselves to recognize the three strategies of the enemy, so we can stand strong and persevere through unsettling relationships and uncertain outcomes. Discover the secret of being steadfast and not panicking when God actually does give us more than we can handle. Shift our suspicion that God is cruel or unfair to the biblical assurance that God is protecting and preparing us. Know how to encourage a friend and help her navigate hard realities with real help from God's truth, the Bible. Look for additional biblically based resources and devotionals from Lysa: Good Boundaries and Goodbyes Forgiving What You Can't Forget Uninvited You're Going to Make It Embraced Seeing Beautiful Again

Bibliography of Japanese New Religious Movements
Bibliography of Japanese New Religious Movements

Author: Peter B Clarke

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-12-16

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 1134249853

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Containing some 1500 entries, this new bibliography will be widely welcomed for its comprehensive brief, and for the sub-section profiling principal NRMs convering history, beliefs and practices, main publications, braches worldwide and membership.

Challenging Your Disappointments
Challenging Your Disappointments

Author: Rev. Kathlyn Barrett-Layne

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2013-07-29

Total Pages: 88

ISBN-13: 1479788597

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Challenging Your Disappointments as Appointments With Destiny is a sequel to the book When Your Mess Becomes Your Message and continues to dare the reader to look their negative circumstances and face them head on with confidence that it all works together for good. This book engages the reader to understand how the disappointments in life are actually appointments that must be kept in order to reach their destined place of prosperity, fullness of life, and heritage of richness. Just like any good mountain climber, whose objective it is to get to the top of the mountain, will use the bumps, rocks, and protruding objects from the mountain to help them in that goal to climb to the top, so we must understand our circumstances that occur in our lives that seem may be classified as disappointments, are actually helping us reach our destined opportunities. Cancer can kill, but treatment saves lives. Rape and incest are detrimental but revealing the trauma brings healing and hope. Divorce and breakups bring pain but moving on sets you free. Incarceration, a baby out of wedlock, a gunman gone made, makes us ever more grateful that we have a source of comfort when all else fails us. Death of those you love reminds you to enjoy life to its fullest since its something that will eventually happen to us all. When we find the strength to face our worst fears, we will in that same moment find the courage to move on and Challenging Your Disappointments as Appointments With Destiny gives its readers the courage needed to make it through every disappointment that must be faced reminding us that with every disappointment is an appointment with our destiny.