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Glenn Pemberton knows the pain of life. His earlier book (Hurting with God) describes how the lament psalms helped him express his heart honestly before God. In After Lament, he masterfully explores the next stage and points out that lament does not always lead to thanksgiving. What happens when God does not answer our lament? Pemberton insightfully draws our attention to psalms of trust. I recommend this well-written and wise book to everyone, particularly those who struggle with life.

 

Tremper Longman III

Robert H. Gundry Professor of Biblical Studies

Westmont College

Now Available 

 

 

 

Nearly half of the Psalms are “laments,” expressions of grief, trouble, and suffering combined with calls for God’s help. Glenn Pemberton’s previous book on Psalms, Hurting with God, describes how the lament psalms helped him express his heart honestly before God. In his next rich book, he masterfully explores how the Psalter also provides the guidance and language we need for learning to trust God after lament.

 

Even if God’s answer to our lament was “Yes,” we cannot return to our life before the storm. We have been changed. Scars remain. And should God’s answer to our lament be something other than we wanted, we have an even greater faith challenge. How do we live with a God who said “No” in our moment of greatest need? Focusing on the psalms of trust, this book lays out the Bible’s answer to this question.

 

 

It is not easy in our culture of denial, to move into honest lament, complaint and protest. In his previous book, Hurting with God, Glenn Pemberton has shown us how to read the Psalms of lament close to lived reality. Now in After Lament he guides us through am move beyond lament to hope, praise, and thanksgiving. The perceptiveness of his interpretive skill is made deeply compelling by the fact that every word he writes has been filtered through his own life of loss and renewed buoyancy. Readers will find a faithful, strong companion in Pemberton in the move into and out lament, all in an act of profound faith.

 

Walter Brueggemann

Columbia Theological Seminary

July 6, 2013

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