Our Hope Is In Help: What Keeps Us from Asking for Help and How We Live by Leaning on God's Word

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Break Free from the Illusion of Independence

In a culture obsessed with self-reliance, Pierce Taylor Hibbs reveals a profound truth: our greatest strength lies not in standing alone, but in learning to lean. Drawing from  biblical narratives and personal insights, Our Hope Is in Help exposes autonomy as the dangerous ghost haunting modern life—the stubborn belief that we can "go it alone."

Through the stories of Abraham's deception, Moses' rebellion, and David's tragic fall, Hibbs unveils autonomy's destructive anatomy: blindness, reductionism, control, mastery, and ultimately, self-idolatry.

But this isn't a book about human failure—it's about divine rescue.

Jesus Christ himself shows us what true strength looks like: complete dependence on the Father. Through his life, death, and resurrection, Christ defeats our autonomous pride and sends the Holy Spirit as our Helper. Now we can discover the joy of asking for help.

With poetic wisdom and pastoral warmth, Hibbs challenges readers to embrace what we were created for: beautiful dependence on God and each other. In a world promoting toxic independence, this book offers a revolutionary truth—our hope has always been in help, and that's exactly where our joy begins.

Perfect for readers seeking authentic community and spiritual depth.

168 pages

... God created us not to be radically autonomous but to be trustingly dependent—dependent upon him and the grace he loves to grant to us. If you are as prone to self-reliance as I am, if you have such a deep hunger for autonomy and such trouble trusting, you will benefit from reading this book.

Tim Challies
Author, ‘Seasons of Sorrow’

Autonomy, the sinful striving of human beings for independence that denies or otherwise rejects creaturely dependence on God as well as the need for others, is universal. 'Our Hope Is In Help' is written for a broad audience with a poetic flair throughout, an added attraction for many readers.

Richard Gaffin
Professor of Biblical and Systematic Theology, Emeritus, Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania