When God Seems Gone: Finding Hope When Nothing Makes Sense

How to hold on to faith, keep trusting, and rediscover joy when God seems silent, slow, unfair, different, or wrong.

What do you do when it feels like God isn’t there―when the state of the world, our own suffering, or the struggles of those we know suggest that God is absent? When you’ve experienced soul-crushing silence from heaven, despite your fervent supplications?

Looking at Habakkuk, Job, David, and Jesus, as well as reflecting on his own experience of deep suffering, Adam Mabry examines the art of lament―how to cry out to God in desperation from a place of faith and hope. At the end, there are practical suggestions for what you can do to keep faith even in times of darkness and doubt.

Readers will learn that God is big enough and good enough to handle hard questions and that his sovereign silence is filled with purpose for their lives. They will be encouraged to keep trusting God even when he seems silent, slow, unfair, different, or wrong.

This book is a great encouragement if…

• you are going through hard times, or walking alongside those who are.

• you are deconstructing your faith.

• you are involved in counseling/pastoral ministry.

• you want a gift for a brother or sister in Christ who is struggling.

Adam Mabry
Adam is the Lead Pastor of Aletheia Church in Boston, MA — a growing, diverse church passionately committed to bringing the truth, grace, and the changing power of the Gospel for the glory of God and the good of all people.

Since getting married to Hope in 2003, God has taken the Mabry family on amazing adventures and through some pretty tough challenges. About 4 months after marriage, they moved to Edinburgh, Scotland to help plant two new churches. For five years, they labored alongside a great team, had two more children, and saw God do amazing things. Today there stand two new churches where there were none — and they're both grateful for that grace.

In 2009, the Adam transitioned back to the USA to plant Aletheia Church in Boston. Fueled with a passion for God’s truth and grace to permeate all areas of society, Adam loves pastoring an intentionally multi-ethnic, disciple-making church. Since starting Aletheia in his living room at 26, the church has not ceased to grow and reach those who were once far from God — and he's really grateful for that grace, too.

Completing his theological studies at Reformed Theological Seminary (M.A.R) and Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary (Th.M.) and (D.Min.), he is now working on his Ph.D. at The University of Aberdeen, and stays busy preaching and teaching both at home and as a guest speaker at various events around the country. You can read more about his recent work at www.adammabry.org