When Your Rope Breaks

An unanswered prayer; the heartbreaking death of a beloved child in the prime of youth; a spouse with cancer; a marriage on the brink of collapse; an addicted father; a cold and heartless mother. Are these afflictions the result of our failures and sins? Can faith and repentance shield us from hardship? Why does God allow suffering and difficulty in the world at all? Why does He allow the 'rope' we cling to to snap? What is God's answer? Has He deferred freedom, healing, deliverance, and restoration entirely to the life to come, or may we hope for His grace and mercy in this world as well? In this book Dr. Steve Brown — psychologist and theologian, whose Born Free has already reached readers in the same translator's rendering — answers these questions honestly, humbly, and learnedly. The book is both a balm of comfort and a nudge to face reality. Above all, Dr. Brown leads the reader to this conclusion: there is always hope, even 'when your rope breaks.'