When Pain Is Real and God Seems Silent: Finding Hope in the Psalms (Foreword by Mark Dever)

Foreword by Mark Dever

1. Psalm 88
1. What Can Miserable Christians Sing?
2. Surveying the Psalm: Four Observations
3. Four Lessons for Suffering Well
4. Our Suffering and the Suffering of Jesus
2. Psalm 89
1. Three Hope-Filled Observations from Psalm 89
2. Three Doctrines That Sustain Us in Suffering
3. One Final Hope: The Gospel of Jesus Christ

Notes
General Index
Scripture Index

“The Bible is strikingly candid about human suffering, including the vexing reality that God’s own people suffer—and often suffer excruciatingly and lastingly. Where do we find help? Ligon Duncan, one of the most faithful Christian teachers of our time, takes us deeply into the Psalms in a book that will be of great encouragement to all believers. I am so thankful for Ligon Duncan’s devotion to God’s word and the care of souls. Read this book, and you will understand why.”

R. Albert Mohler Jr., President, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

“Here is a book that is short enough for the person who is gripped by suffering to actually read, and yet rich enough to meet that individual’s need for perspective and hope in the darkest of times.”

Nancy Guthrie, Bible teacher; author, Even Better than Eden: Nine Ways the Bible’s Story Changes Everything about Your Story