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    When Answers Aren't Enough: Experiencing God as Good When Life Isn’t
    When Answers Aren't Enough: Experiencing God as Good When Life Isn’t
    When Answers Aren't Enough: Experiencing God as Good When Life Isn’t
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    When Answers Aren't Enough: Experiencing God as Good When Life Isn’t

    Written by Matt Rogers

    Narrated by Matt Rogers

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    On April 16, 2007, the campus of Virginia Tech experienced a collective nightmare when thirty-three students were killed in the worst massacre in modern U.S. history. Following that horrendous event, Virginia Tech campus pastor Matt Rogers found himself asking and being asked, “Where is God in all of this?” The cliché-ridden, pat answers rang hollow.In this book, Matt approaches the pain of the world with personal perspective—dealing with his hurting community as well as standing over the hospital bed of his own father—and goes beyond answers, beyond theodicy, beyond the mere intellectual. When Answers Aren’t Enough drives deeper, to the heart of our longing, in search of a God we can experience as good when life isn’t.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherZondervan
    Release dateNov 10, 2009
    ISBN9780310772415
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    Matt Rogers

    Matt Rogers is copastor of New Life Christian Fellowship at Virginia Tech. Eight hundred students call it home.

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      When Answers Aren't Enough is a work of deep expression and emotions put onto paper for all to see straight from the heart of Matt Rogers. Through this book, Matt was able to retell what it was like to be part of the Virgina Tech family during their extreme loss, but it goes well beyond that as well. He delves into many different examples of tragedy where people have screamed, "There is no God! He would not let this happen, if there was", and takes the reader past dwelling on the questions. Truly answers are not enough for comprehending heart break, but usually it is not unless we are past the questions that we can truly see that fact in front of us. This book is a painful and pleasant journey through pain and the after thought. It is a well written conversation between Matt and the reader, and it is one that I suggest everyone should take part in experiencing. God is good, and is always good, while life wavers on what it seems to want to be. But through the bad in life we can then see the good in God. I'd suggest this book as a read for anyone and everyone. This is a dictation of what really matters, and that's Christ, our Lord God and his will and design.