Where Is God When It Hurts

“I know firsthand that pain and paralysis sometimes seem to push away the presence of God. To ask Where Is God When It Hurts? is honest, reasonable even. And that the Lord, Philip puts our questions into perspective, helping us find out exactly where God really is when it hurts.”

Joni Eareckson Tada, president, Joni and Friends

“I started to read it thinking I was going to read a pleasant little easy-to-read book on the subject of pain; I finished feeling as if I had read a classic. It probes aspects of pain that C. S. Lewis never touches and draws upon the lives of suffering saints from John Donne to Joni Eareckson Tada. But I was most impressed with Philip’s honesty and willingness to admit the inadequacy of words to unravel problems that go back to the patriarch Job.”

William J. Petersen

“If I expected to find inside a shallow theoretical treatise unworthy of such a profound question, that’s not what I found… by the time you get to the end of these chapters your heart is crying out, ‘Thank you, God, for pain!’”

Paul Harvey

“I’ve read everything I can get my hands on about the problems of pain and evil, and this book is the clearest, most practical thing I’ve read.”

Keith Miller

“One of the most helpful treatments of the problem of evil that I’ve ever read … on a level that really speaks to people. If I were looking around for something to give to individuals who are going through travail or difficulty, this is the book I’d recommend.”

Dr. Vernon Grounds

“What a book. A masterpiece. Complete, moving without waxing sentimental. Not the kind of book you’d expect to be unable to put down, but just that.”

Jerry Jenkins, coauthor of the Left Behind series.