Counselor Brad Hambrick provides a guided process to being honest with God about your pain to restore and deepen your relationship with him.
No one gets mad at God for something small. When we're angry with God, it is because we've faced something immensely hard. Anger is an often-overlooked part of grieving, and as such, is an appropriate response to profoundly painful events. While we are often prone to interpret our anger about intense suffering as being at God, this book is an invitation to process these intense emotions with God as a source of comfort, who is sturdy enough to support these turbulent emotions.
Angry with God patiently walks you through the process of being honest with God (and others) about your pain. You will learn how to articulate your pain, alleviate the effects of this pain, contextualize your experience in light of the gospel, and begin to hope again.
"Bigger than a minibook, smaller than regular, just the right size to give biblical answers to common counseling questions. This book, along with others in the series, is an affordable, much-needed resource for the church community strugglers, pastors, counselors, and other helpers."
Barbara Miller Juliani, VP New Growth Press
"Anger and grief are healthy responses to profoundly painful events in our lives. Those who grieve over painful experiences need patient care, not a lecture. Brad demonstrates a unique level of compassion and concern for those who are suffering. He delivers wisdom that helps us respond to and care for those who suffer in ways that are compassionate and practically informed."
Justin S. Holcomb, Episcopal minister; seminary professor; author of Rid of My Disgrace: Hope and Healing for Victims of Sexual Assault
"Brad Hambrick's pastoral and prophetic approach is both comforting and incisive, providing helpful and compelling insights for all who are navigating grief and healing from painful experiences especially hurt and injustice within the church. Filled with compassionate advice and practical tools, this book offers readers a unique invitation to evaluate anger through a different lens and understand how God comes alongside us in our suffering. With clarity and grace, Hambrick takes us on a journey of courage that will help us care for the broken parts of ourselves and be agents of healing and hope to the wounded along our path."
Ruth Malhotra, Writer; advocate; ministry leader
"For years I've wanted a resource that can help me provide better counsel for those who are hurting and struggling with anger at God. Angry with God is the book I've been searching for. It's eminently biblical, pastoral, and practical. I'll be giving this book out to everyone I encounter who struggles emotionally with the problem of evil and suffering."
Joe Carter, Associate pastor, McLean Bible Church, Arlington, VA; senior writer, The Gospel Coalition
"Mindful of those suffering profoundly, Brad Hambrick gifts his readers with perfectly portioned, practical wisdom. He honors a sufferer's experiences, doubts, and pain while reminding us we have a patient and loving God who understands and tends to grief-filled anger. Angry with God: An Honest Journey through Suffering and Betrayal has already been an immeasurable blessing to my counselees."
Darby Strickland, CCEF Faculty; author of Is it Abuse?
"Angry with God provides a pastoral and wise approach to grief, and the insights and reflection questions throughout the book will benefit anyone who is experiencing the anger that often accompanies loss. As a trauma specialist, I am eager to utilize this resource with my counseling clients because it compassionately addresses the struggles they often face in their healing journeys."
Beth M. Broom, Executive Director, Christian Trauma Healing Network; care minister, The Village Church, Denton, TX
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This book Has been amazing!!! It has help me to heal from deep DEEP hurt.. I highly recommend this book for people who have been through a difficult time. This book will help you to process what happened to you and how to heal. It will also help with talking things out... I have bought this book for others as well. The book will help you heal with JESUS.. I was so made a God and now my relationship with HIM has healed!!
Gembola helps us understand what decision anxiety is and how it works. He explores the way people try to fix it and oftentimes fail. Then he addresses the topic of God’s will and how our decisions play into that. Once we grasp the problem, he narrows anxiety down into different topics like: moving into adulthood, family, marriage, vocation, as well as plans and purchases. I love when Gemobola said, “In all of our decision making, the Holy Spirit never leaves or forsakes us.” We can be encouraged because we are never alone in making decisions. God is with us.
Michael Gembola explains anxiety really well and relates it with scripture especially around the aspects of decision making. With a quote to start each chapter and ending each chapter with a conclusion summary and questions for review, I come away better equipped personally with my own anxiety and I’m helping others with their anxiety.
Does your grief give you anger? Does somebody you know deal with anger brought on by grief of circumstances? Brad Hambrick helps you work through this or help others work through this in a Godly way. Through the Gospel, you will find ways that help you move forward and change your anger at God to anger with God as this fallen world filled with sin often makes him angry too. You are not alone and I feel once again, that God is with me in my suffering even in my anger.
Brad Hambrick skilfully leads the reader through an exploration and processing of their anger and grief due to suffering, betrayal or loss. With very small, bite sized chapters, the reader is encouraged to process the hot emotions of grief in a way that allows for self-reflection, honesty, discovery, and growth. Over time the goal is to move from angry grief to memorialising grief. The multifaceted effects of anger is considered through emotions, thoughts, relationships, choices, and our view of God. Steps to resolution result from maturing faith, understanding suffering is part of life, and accepting that we only understand partially. He then returns to the gospel and how our pain can be viewed through the lenses of creation, fall, redemption, sanctification, and glorification. Hambrick uses counselling skills and processes skilfully, and sensitively combines them with gospel truths. It is a counselling tool in your own hands. Additionally, a counsellor could use this to assist a client through a grief process. A very helpful resource.
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Brad Hambrick’s Angry With God – An honest journey through suffering and betrayal is part of New Growth Press’s ‘Ask The Christian Counselor Series’. As such, Angry With God is a methodical, thoughtful, and professional walk through a dark journey of suffering and back into the light. It feels like a series of several hundred dollar counseling sessions bound into a book that the reader can explore at their own pace. Hambrick skillfully walks readers through major elements of the healing process, while cautioning that they stop and take the time they need before trying to rush themselves. The journey through pain is an individual process that everyone handles differently. Angry With God acknowledges that fact and tries to meet the reader where they are, with no promise of a magical solution. The grieving and recovery process is broken down into stages, such as articulating your pain, alleviating the effects of pain, and resolving your grief. Each section includes questions for personal reflection. The answers to these questions are where real value and healing can happen for the reader. Hambrick’s writing style sets a perfect tone for this topic. He uses stories as comparisons that give powerful insight and context to topics that are hard for people to see when they’re in the midst of hurt and anger. He adeptly helps the reader understand that being angry WITH God and not AT God allows Him to travel the difficult journey alongside them. I highly recommend this book for those who are suffering through hurt and betrayal. Who would benefit from this book: Anyone who’s struggling through hurt, suffering, or betrayal would find value in Angry With God. Be prepared to keep an open mind and heart and actually do the reflective work that’s required for healing.
In full honesty, Angry with God: An Honest Journey Through Suffering and Betrayal was a difficult book to get through at times, but I thoroughly enjoyed the book and appreciated how it handled the sometimes delicate matter. As someone who deals with anxiety and has friends and family that either survive mental health issues daily or either work in the mental health field, I thought Angry with God was very well written. I appreciated how Brad Hambrick reiterated to the reader numerous times throughout the book to take their time with the book and to take breaks when it got too hard to read. This not only shows compassion from the Author, but the knowledge and expertise of some one working in the mental health field. I love that the subject of being angry with God wasn’t being brushed under the rug, but dealt with. I love that it was reiterated that being angry at God was ok, but that being angry at God can at times make God seem distant from us and that’s not the best. I love that it pointed out that being angry at God actually shows a sense of growth and depth in one’s relationship with God. I also appreciated that Mr. Hambrick reiterated that there is no time table to no longer feel angry with God and that it is normal to take steps back at times. If you work in the mental health field or are in Ministry, have dealt with anger toward God, or have in the past, then I highly recommend Angry with God: An Honest Journey Through Suffering and Betrayal. I will definitely be reading Angry with God: An Honest Journey Through Suffering and Betrayal again and telling those I believe will benefit from the book about it! I would like to thank New Growth Press for giving me a copy of Angry with God: An Honest Journey Through Suffering and Betrayal to review. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Full Review at: https://leslieslibraryescape.wordpress.com/2022/10/06/book-review-angry-with-god-an-honest-journey-through-suffering-and-betrayal/
I found "Anger With God" to be one of the most useful books on personal healing I've ever read. Anger with God (as a part of grief) can be an incredibly difficult thing to understand and process. Hambrick offers compassion to the reader, and practical helps which include everything from how to process this grief with kindness and care toward the sufferer, to an overall worldview of why we feel these emotions, and then how to perceive grief and anger in light of the Christian faith. "Anger With God" gave me a practical roadmap to follow on healing loss and anger as well as hope for a future that could move past the anger and back into a closer relationship with God. As a practical person myself, it gave me what I needed: clear steps to take plus the reasons behind each one. It's a remarkable book.
I don't think I have ever seen a book about anger with God. In fact, although I've been angry with God myself, I've found it a subject that most humans weren't comfortable talking with me about. And I wasn't really comfortable either! But when I read Brad Hambrick's Angry With God, I thought, FINALLY. Hambrick compassionately covers the whys of grief and anger, the losses that they can bring in the grieving person over time, the costs that unhealed anger exacts from us all, and the ways that we can thoughtfully walk out healing. Thoughtfully and empathetically written, this book is a must-read for anyone who's ever struggled with the mystery of grief and its ensuing anger in the life of a Christian. I highly recommend Angry With God.