

About the Book: In today’s psychological culture, we have become a people more concerned with solving our problems than finding God. Suffer low self–esteem? Get counseling. Unfulfilled in life? Join a recovery group. But solving problems is not the point, argues Dr. Larry Crabb. In fact, whenever we place a higher priority on solving our problems than on pursuing God, we are being immoral! Dr. Crabb demonstrates that our deepest problem and worst sin is doubting God. When we doubt God’s goodness, when we think that god cannot be trusted with the things that matter most, we will quietly, but with tight–lipped resolve, take over responsibility for our own well-being–with disastrous results. In his most compelling book since Inside Out, Dr. Crabb upsets the cozy Christianity of the modern believer. He reveals anew God’s top priority: not our comfort and gratification, but His glory.
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Larry describes the fallen structure in every human being and how to disrupt the bad, sin, and affirm the good, trusting God.
Five anchor points in chaos. 1) No way out, only a way forward. 2) God does not seem terribly interested in solving our problems. 3) We need to understand what keeps us from knowing God, not what is causing our problems. 4) Flesh reveals itself most clearly in how we relate. 5) We must enter the mystery of deep change by continually facing ourselves and God.
Five anchor points in chaos. 1) No way out, only a way forward. 2) God does not seem terribly interested in solving our problems. 3) W need to understand what keeps us from knowing God, not what is causing our problems. 4) Flesh reveals itself most clearly in how we relate. 5) We must enter the mystery of deep change by continually facing ourselves and God.
Dr. Larry Crabb answers the last question from the 1 John passage, “Will God reveal Himself to me?” He systematically walks through how Jesus answers that question, how our sin gets in the way of believing, and how faith takes the risk of believing that He is Good and that our greatest joy is revealing Him to others.
Pursuing God by facing what’s true in my life and heart and by asking the hard questions. Learning to not expect an answer but to wait for God to disclose Himself to me.
What it means to change; to mature; defined by a confidence in God’s goodness that frees me to continue with a sense of meaning & a taste of joy; using our pain not a s a problem but opportunity to find God.
Finding God, knowing God in the midst of life’s troubles.