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This perennial best-seller, now in a revised and expanded edition, includes a study guide. The book and study materials focus on the role of pain in God's plan for life and how we can respond to it.
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Characters/People edit
- Joni Eareckson Tada: Add a description of this character.
- Brian Sternberg
- Dr. Paul Brand
- Claudia Claxton
- Bob
- Martha
- John Donne
- Jackie
- Mr. Buckley
- Lou
- Reger
- Elie Wiesel
- C. S. Lewis
- Mary Verghese
- Annie
- Hector
- Mr. Kruider
- Rollo
- Solzhenitsyn
- Tournier
- Hitler
- Carville
- David
- Kathy
- Daniel
- Robin
Setting & Locations edit
First Sentence edit
I feel helpless around people in great pain.
Table of Contents edit
Preface
1. A Problem That Won't Go Away
PART ONE: Why Is There Such a Thing as Pain?
2. The Gift No One Wants
3. Painless Hell
4. Agony and Ecstasy
PART TWO: Is Pain a Message from God?
5. The Groaning Planet
6. What Is God Trying to Tell Us?
7. Why Are We Here?
8. Arms Too Short to Box with God
PART THREE: How People Respond to Suffering
9. After the Fall
10. On My Feet Dancing
11. Other Witnesses
12. Extreme Cases
PART FOUR: How Can We Cope with Pain?
13. Frontiers of Recovery
14. Fear
15. Helplessness
16. Meaning
17. Hope
PART FIVE: How Does Faith Help?
18. Seeing for Himself
19. The Rest of the Body
20. A Whole New World Outside
Sources
Authors & Contributors edit
- Philip Yancey (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Zondervan Publishing Company
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1990
ISBN: 0310247276
Page Count: 288
Publisher: Zondervan Publishing Company
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1990
ISBN: 0310247276
Page Count: 288
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 248
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