In Every Pew Sits a Broken Heart: Hope for the Hurting - Softcover

Graham, Ruth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0310257077 ISBN 13: 9780310257073

Publisher: Zondervan, 2004

Synopsis

'If in these pages you see your own life's experience mirrored in our daughter's, may you, too, find a personal relationship with the same heavenly Father who continues to be her strength, comfort, and joy.'---From the foreword by Billy GrahamWhen life's rosy dreams dissolve into thorny realities that pierce our hearts, that's when God shows that he specializes in restoration. In this frank, deeply reflective audio book, Ruth Graham, daughter of Billy Graham, lays open the agonizing struggles of a far-from-perfect life---and in so doing, she reveals the perfections of a God who deeply loves hurting, fallible people. In Every Pew Sits a Broken Heart searches the Scriptures for help, hope, and guidance to deal with life's blows and our own failures. It reveals that no matter where we are in our journey, God has a use for us and will never turn us away. It also shows how we can offer practical, loving support to the broken hearts that sit in pews all around us every Sunday.

About this title

Synopsis

Ruth, Billy Graham's third daughter, has discovered through bitter personal experience that God does his best work in the ruins of our lives. As Ruth's life descended through divorce, depression, and shame, as she bore heartrending parental struggles and as she faltered trying to make wise choices in the wake of bad ones, she discovered the unending embrace of a faithful, forgiving, and grace-filled God. As fascinating as Ruth's story is, her book surpasses testimony as she brings sharp new insight from the word of God for all who fear their actions may be beyond forgiveness or their broken circumstances may keep them from ever again being used by God. hrough the words of Jeremiah, the weeping prophet, Ruth reveals the God who makes wasted places come to life. Through Ruth's eyes the reader grasps the Prodigal Son parable as never before.

She discloses her own journey through that parable, first as the indignant older brother struggling to understand God's grace toward her husband's infidelity, then as the prodigal when her own actions brought deep shame and painful circumstances, and even in her role as the father in that parable, running to embrace her own children in the midst of bullmia, drug abuse, and unwed pregnancy. Finally, Ruth includes practical steps in every chapter that anyone can take to offer care, support, and hope to the broken people they encounter in their lives and in the pews beside them each Sunday. With Ruth, the broken and those who love them will run to the arms of the God they can trust, the Father God who embraces, sustains, and redeems.

Edition details

• Publisher: Zondervan
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0310257077
• ISBN 13: 9780310257073
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224