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    A Sacred Sorrow Experience Guide: Reaching Out to God in the Lost Language of Lament
    A Sacred Sorrow Experience Guide: Reaching Out to God in the Lost Language of Lament
    A Sacred Sorrow Experience Guide: Reaching Out to God in the Lost Language of Lament
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    A Sacred Sorrow Experience Guide: Reaching Out to God in the Lost Language of Lament

    By Michael Card

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    With this Bible study, a companion book to A Sacred Sorrow (9781576836675, sold separately), you and your small group can fully grasp the importance of voicing your heart’s joys and pains to the Father. Job, David, Jeremiah, and Jesus Himself understood the necessity of lament.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTyndale House Publishers
    Release dateFeb 27, 2014
    ISBN9781615214808
    A Sacred Sorrow Experience Guide: Reaching Out to God in the Lost Language of Lament
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    Michael Card

    In a career that spans 30 years, Michael Card has recorded over 31 albums, authored or co-authored over 24 books, hosted a radio program, and written for a wide range of magazines. An award-winning musician and performing artist, he has penned such favorites as "El Shaddai," "Immanuel" and many other songs. He has branched his ministry beyond music and written numerous books, including A Sacred Sorrow, A Violent Grace, The Parable of Joy and Sleep Sound in Jesus (a children's book). He has also written the Biblical Imagination Series, with a book and accompanying music CD for each of the four gospels. A graduate of Western Kentucky University with a bachelor's and master's degree in biblical studies, Card also serves as mentor to many younger artists and musicians, teaching courses on the creative process and calling the Christian recording industry into deeper discipleship. Card lives in Tennessee with his wife and four children.

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      A Sacred Sorrow Experience Guide - Michael Card

      WEEK ONE

      VOCABULARY AND CONCEPTS

      INTRODUCTION

      Before you, a narrow pathway extends into a dark terrain. Perhaps you have crossed it at various times in your life, maybe even traveled for a season within its boundaries. The path is lament, and this study will help you explore its length more deliberately.

      The Bible promises that the path is going somewhere. Though it frequently passes through the valley of the shadow of death, that is not its final end.

      First, there are a few milestones, signposts, with which we must become familiar. Our first week will be spent learning to read them and follow their direction along the way. But more than direction, they will give a sense of shape and meaning to what can sometimes appear to be a senseless and confusing journey. Perhaps you might even consider them lampposts like the one on the border of Narnia, marking the boundary between one land and another completely different one.

      Once the trek begins, we will be joined by other, infinitely more experienced travelers. We will meet the first—Job—and walk with him for a time. We will follow in his footsteps in order to gain our direction and learn the proper pace. Without his help in the beginning of the trip, we would most likely lose our way.

      Next, we will take up with David. Having begun to get accustomed to the landscape, our time with him will provide us with priceless and hard-fought knowledge of how to deal with all the various terrain. The road may turn sharply uphill or might skirt a precipice. The landscape will, no doubt, be dark. David will enable us to follow the path no matter how steep, rocky, or threatening.

      Just as we part company with David, Jeremiah will join us. He will teach us how to follow the course with a crowd, as well as when we are utterly alone. He, perhaps as no one we’ve met thus far, has fallen more often along this path of lament. His knees are more bruised and bloody. He will understand if we long to turn back and look for home. He will remind us that our final home lies at the other end of the trail, in the direction we are already heading. Most importantly, Jeremiah will prepare us, will teach us to recognize the most important Guide we will encounter along the path of lament.

      Finally, at what seems the far end of the trail, we will encounter Jesus. We will find Him waiting for us. In His company we will discover that what we thought was the end is, in fact, the beginning. What felt like the last of our strength has become the first. The trail will become no less rough or steep with Him, yet we will find it a different

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