Don't waste your life / John Piper.

Includes bibliographical references.

Acknowledgments -- PART One: An Ancient Lament -- The Path of Sovereign Sorrow -- A Difficult Hope -- Wilderness Worth-ship -- Lost in a Green Desert -- PART Two: Job -- The Danger of Defiance -- Turning from the Old Equation -- A New and Truer Worship -- The Frustrated Lamenter -- The Exhausted Mystic -- PART Three: David -- Hunger-born Songs of Intimacy -- A Life Fashioned for Lament -- Enemies and "The Poison We Drink" -- Disease and Death -- No Hope but This: Contrition -- PART Four: Jeremiah -- A Difficult Hope -- Dark, Familiar Echoes -- Torn Between Two Loves -- Lamentations: The Destruction of Jeremiah -- PART Five: Jesus -- Truth Held Together -- Hesed In-fleshed -- God's Presence "With Us" -- The God-Forsaken God -- PART Six: Conclusions -- The Lost Language of Lament -- Appendix A: A Biblical Chorus of Lamenters -- Appendix B: List of Lament Psalms -- Appendix C: Journaling/Writing Your Own Lament -- Appendix D: Selected Extra-Biblical Laments -- Appendix E: Selected Davidic Laments -- Appendix F: Bibliography -- Notes -- About the Author.

God desires for us to pour out our hearts to Him, whether in joy or pain. But many of us don't feel right expressing our anger, frustration, and sadness in prayer. From Job to David to Christ, men and women of the Bible understood the importance of pouring one's heart out to the Father. Examine their stories and expand your definition of worship.

Added to GBC Library Holland Park 3 January 2023.