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Your expectations are not met. Someone you love disappoints you. Hope has turned to despair. You are emotionally fatigued, spiritually numb, and you want to give up. In this compassionate and encouraging book, Kay Arthur shows that the times you feel that life is slipping through your fingers are the very moments when you are most securely held in the grip of God's love. With her warm and personal touch, Kay explains that God eventually brings every believer through the crucible of suffering. But when you view your circumstances through His eyes, you see that the hard times are not be avoided, but embraced. Trials are never meant to destroy your confidence, but to deepen your faith, proving through experience that with the pain comes provision, in the person of the Holy Spirit, to patiently endure--until the dross of self is consumed, a sterling character is revealed, and you are polished to reflect the gleaming image of the Silversmith. WaterBrook Press, 276 pages.

Dr. Larry Crabb helps readers understand that instead of using God to solve their problems, they need to use their problems to find God.

What is more important to you—solving your problems or Finding God? In today’s psychological culture, we have become a people more concerned with solving our problems than finding God. Suffer low self-esteem? Get counseling. Unfulfilled in life? Join a recovery group. But solving problems is not the point, argues Dr. Larry Crabb. In fact, whenever we place a higher priority on solving our problems than on pursuing God, we are being immoral! Dr. Crabb demonstrates that our deepest problem and worst sin is doubting God. When we doubt God’s goodness, when we think that God cannot be trusted with the things that matter most, we will quietly—but with tight-lipped resolve—take over responsibility for our own well being—with disastrous results. In his most compelling book since Inside Out, Dr. Crabb upsets the cozy Christianity of the modern believer. He reveals a new God’s top priority: not our comfort and gratification, but His glory. Not since Chuck Colson’s Loving God has a book so clearly challenged readers to fruitful Christian living. As Larry Crabb writes, "You know you’re finding God when you believe that God is good - no matter what happens."

Larry Crabb’s Finding God takes the reader on the most exciting journey of all - the journey through our problems to finding God. Zondervan Publishing, 240 pages.

In this straightforward book, Billy Graham boldly asks the questions: "Where is God in my suffering?" "What good is prayer?" and "Why is there so much personal pain?" His biblically-based answers are realistic, trustworthy, and comforting.

When the professional advice isn't enough, and you've had your fill of well-meaning comments from those who haven't experienced infertility, Marlo Schalesky wants you to know you are not alone. The true stories she tells of couples who share your hopes, fears, frustrations, and the comfort only God can bring will encourage your heart.

Infertility strikes at the core of what it means to be a woman or man, tests marriages, and shakes faith. The honest, open, and emotionally resonant first-person stories in Empty Womb, Aching Heart will touch your life—as you "cry in the diaper aisle," wonder if you "are less of a woman," ask "How far should we go?" or whisper to God, "It's not fair."