Ben Palpant

This book is not primarily a theodicy, an attempt to explain how a good God permits suffering, but an exploration of the way suffering prompts us to examine our own hearts in the presence of a perfectly loving and all-powerful God; to learn, however painfully, to acknowledge our frailty and lean on the all-sufficiency of Christ. This accent on God's sovereignty is something that not every reader is going to be able to swallow, but it is worth going on this journey with Ben Palpant and wrestling with it.

I don't recommend reading this book in public if you're at all given to tears.… (mer)