Follow-up to the bestselling Invest Your Suffering (sales over 6,000 in 3 years), building on that brand; Author a very popular conference speaker all over the UK: at Keswick, EMA, Word Alive, Faith Mission events, UCCF, FIEC, Bible by the Beach, Living Leadership, training events and church weekends; ALL Christians face disappointment, but it's what do we do with it that counts; Especially relevant in situations of grief, illness, infertility, unemployment, violence, exploitation and betrayal, or with difficult children and dysfunctional families; Speaks with grace from the author's own experience (miscarriage, spouse's disability, etc) into life's raw and messy reality; Offers sure-footed theology and pastoral wisdom for the layperson, without being at all glib or trite; Shows how disappointment can lead to personal growth and maturity; God's sovereignty and certain control are ultimately our deep security and solid confidence; Excellent question sections underpin key points
Paul Mallard is Pastor of Widcombe Baptist Church in Bath, UK. He speaks at numerous Christian events and has trained a generation of church workers. His wife Edrie's story is toldmovingly in Invest Your Suffering:Unexpected Intimacy with a Loving God (IVP, 2013). Paul and Edrie areparents and grandparents.
Title: Invest Your Disappointments: Going For Growth
Author: Paul Mallard
ISBN: 9781783594450
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Publisher: Inter-Varsity Press
Publication Date: 2018-03-15
Number of Pages: 208
Weight: 0.2586 kg
A gem of a book from a first-class minister of the gospel. (Invest Your Suffering) * Amazon *
Absolutely riveting! (Invest Your Suffering) -- Fiona Castle * Amazon *
This is a book that was lived out before it was written. As a father, along with his wife Edrie, Paul Mallard knows the loss that will never be made up in this world. As a pastor, he has counselled hundreds in the variety of their fears and disappointments. As a preacher, deeply engaged with Scripture and alight with the joy of knowing Christ, he knows the glorious future which is before us all. * Peter Lewis, author, conference speaker and former pastor of Cornerstone Church, Nottingham, UK *
Disappointment at some point invades most areas of our lives. Paul Mallard writes honestly and realistically about this, and encourages us not to avoid them, remove them or escape from them, but to embrace them and find there is a place of refuge and meaning within them. Every disappointment becomes an opportunity to grow more deeply in God. * Charles Price, Minister at Large for The People's Church, Toronto, and international conference speaker *
The best comfort in life comes from those who've needed the comfort they're sharing themselves. In this short but profound book Paul Mallard wonderfully shares the stories, hymns, poems, books that have helped him live with disappointment - most of all pointing us to the Sovereign God who will soon replace all the disappointments of this world with complete and eternal satisfaction in Him. * Ed Shaw, Pastor of Emmanuel City Centre, Bristol & Author of The Plausibility Problem *
It's hard to avoid the expectation of modern culture that this life should 'deliver' constant self-fulfilment. But this sets us up for inevitable disappointment. Paul Mallard argues that we live 'under the sun', in a fallen world, but then demonstrates from Scripture and from his own experience that disappointments are designed by our loving and all-Sovereign God to draw us into deeper intimacy with himself. There is much practical biblical counsel on how to respond to frustration and disappointment (whether in our work, our relationships, our church, with ourselves, or with God himself). All the way through, we are pointed to the time when God will release creation from frustration and bondage, and restore all things to how they were meant to be. * Dr Sharon James, The Christian Institute *
Disappointments in life are inevitable - it's how we handle them that makes the difference. Paul Mallard brings the wisdom of a skilled pastor and Bible teacher to this illuminating book. As he explains in these pages, investing in disappointments reaps rich rewards. * Ian and Ruth Coffey - Moorlands College *
The author brings the wisdom of a skilled pastor and Bible teacher to this illuminating book. * Ian and Ruth Coffey *
Demonstrates that disappointments are designed by our loving and all-sovereign God to draw us into deeper intimacy with him. * Sharon James *
A book that was lived out before it was written. * Peter Lewis *
Every disappointment becomes an opportunity to grow deeply in God. * Charles Price *
The best comfort comes from those who themselves have needed the comfort they're sharing . . . God will soon replace all disappointments with complete and eternal satisfaction in him. * Ed Shaw *
