Torn to Heal

Book Description:

God is radically dedicated to our redemption. This is both glorious and terrifying. It is terrifying because we are idolaters. This means that when God brings redemption he also brings a death sentence to our fallen desires. In love, God will do whatever it takes-even ripping us to shreds if necessary-to replace our feeble pleasures with lasting desire for himself.

Sadly, in our culture two deadly responses to suffering have crept into the Church. These responses, deadly dualism and shallow stoicism, are attempts to hijack God's good purpose in suffering. Torn to Heal is an invitation to embrace God's good purpose in suffering, while urging its readers to reject these deadly enemies.

Table of Contents:
1. The Promise and the Hope
2. Torn to Heal
3. The Healing Begins
4. Causation and Purpose
5. Dualisn & Stoicism I: Enemies to Suffering Well
6. Dualisn & Stoicism II: Thieves of Hope and Help
7. Finally Healed

Author:

Mike Leake serves as an associate pastor at the First Baptist Church of Jasper, Indiana. He is currently pursuing a Master of Divinity at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He and his wife, Nikki, have two young children.

Endorsements:

"Torn to Heal is the most concise, readable, and helpful theology of suffering I've come across. The content, length, and tone is just perfect for those who are in the furnace of affliction screaming "Why?" - Dr. David Murray, professor of Old Testament and Practical Theology, Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary, Grand Rapids, Michigan

"Nobody signs up for a life of suffering, but pain visits all of us. If you're one of God's children, suffering can cause you to question His goodness. What are His purposes? My friend Mike Leake delivers a clear, comforting, theologically robust view of pain and suffering. Not only does his theology give us permission to lament our pain, it drives us to the God of comfort who superintends our pain for His glory. This is a book you'll want to read when you're visited by suffering and a book you'll easily pass out to those in your world who are feeling the sting of Adam's curse." - Daniel Darling, Senior Pastor, Gages Lake Bible Church; Author, Real: Owning Your Christian Faith

"Mike Leake has taken the ugliness of suffering, turned it over in his capable hands, and shown God's goodness and faithfulness in the midst. More than simple encouragement for those suffering, it is a handbook of scriptural truths about Who God is and how He sustains." - Lore Ferguson writes for The Gospel Coalition, Council on Biblical Manhood & Womanhood, Deeper Church, Project TGM, and Sayable.net

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