For When Your World is Ending: Faith That Carries You Into New Beginnings [9781400341085]

Overview

When life drops out from under you, whether it's a diagnosis, a betrayal, or a crisis you didn't see coming, will your faith hold? Josh Nadeau takes you inside the year his own life nearly ended and the long, disorienting road to make sense of it. Josh invites you to rediscover with him what makes a faith strong enough to hold you beyond certainty, beyond control, and far beyond what makes sense. In the face of death, this is a road map to life.

Blending vivid storytelling with his trademark embodied spiritual insight, Nadeau invites you to reconsider what you believe about suffering, control, and what it means to live well. With an insider's honest perspective, he exposes the assumptions many of us build our lives on: that living well can wait, that there's plenty of time to figure out our faith, and that the conviction we need will magically be there when everything starts to fall apart.

This book is a collection of practical responses to the worst moments of our lives teaching you how to:

• trust God when your life stops making sense
• endure the unexpected without losing your faith or yourself
• uncover the assumptions that quietly make your faith fragile
• anchor your life in something deeper than your circumstances
• start forming a faith now that will hold when everything inevitably falls apart

You won't find a formula for avoiding pain, but you'll find a way of life rooted in love, a heart shaped by surrender, and a faith practiced in real time in the valley of the shadow.

The question isn't if your world will be shaken; it's what will remain when it is.