When Faith Learns to Lament: Permission to Grieve Without Losing Your Faith - Couverture souple

Janse Van Rensburg, Dr Michael

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 104831412X ISBN 13 : 9781048314120

Editeur : MLTD Janse van Rensburg Publishing, 2026

Synopsis

"Lament is not the opposite of faith. It is the sound faith makes when it refuses to lie."

What do you do when the verses stop fitting?

When the diagnosis does not change. When the prayer goes unanswered. When someone hands you everything happens for a reason and you have to walk away before you say something you cannot take back.

Have you felt ashamed of being angry at God? Have you wondered whether your questions disqualify you from being counted among the faithful?

They do not — and you are in older company than you think.

Dr Michael Janse van Rensburg spent six years writing a doctoral thesis on how a good God can be present in a suffering world. Fifteen months after he finished it, his wife Lynn was diagnosed with stage four cancer and given weeks to live. This book was written from inside that room — not afterwards, not from a safe distance, but from within a story that has not yet resolved.

This is not a book about getting over grief. It is a book for people who are not on the other side yet.

Drawing on Scripture's own language of protest — the psalms of lament, Job's unanswered questions, Gethsemane, and a Saviour who wept at a grave He was about to open — When Faith Learns to Lament gives grieving Christians permission to bring God the truth instead of a performance.

Inside you will find:

• That roughly a third of the Psalms are laments, and what the prayer book God gave His people says about the prayers you are allowed to pray
• Psalm 88, the prayer that never resolves, and why God kept it in the Bible anyway
• Holy Saturday: how to live an ordinary day inside a crisis with no end date
• Disenfranchised grief, and the losses nobody brings a casserole for
• Telling children the truth, in doses they can carry
• How to let people carry you, and a chapter to hand to anyone who wants to show up for you
• Reflection questions, written prayers, a guide to writing your own lament, and a six-session reading group guide

This book is for anyone who is grieving. Whether what you are carrying is cancer, chronic illness, caregiving, bereavement, divorce, infertility or dementia — or whether you love someone who is carrying it and you do not know what to say — the permission in these pages is yours.

You will not find five steps, a tidy ending, or a promise the author cannot keep. You will find company, honest theology, and permission to grieve without losing your faith.

From the author of Where Are You, God? My Wife Has Cancer.

The book carries a foreword by Pastor Jo Swart, Senior Pastor at Life Church Somerset West, who has known Michael and Lynn since they were teenagers. She came to Lynn's hospital bedside in the week the doctors gave them no hope.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: MLTD Janse van Rensburg Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 104831412X
• ISBN 13: 9781048314120
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 209
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