When God Disappears: Finding Hope When Your Circumstances Seem Impossible - Hardcover

SHANE STANFORD is Teaching Pastor at Main Street United Methodist Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi and is Staff Leader/Teacher for Time That Makes the Difference, a weekly TV and radio program seen and/or heard in more than 5 million homes. A noted communicator and presenter, Shane is the author and developer of numerous seminars and workshops, including A2 Indicators, a healthy-church assessment tool that has been used in over 800 congregations. He is married to Dr. Pokey Stanford, an Associate Professor at William Carey College, and they have three daughters. Shane lives with hemophilia, HIV and hepatitis-C contracted through a blood transfusion.

What happens when the storm does not pass? When the pain does not stop? When the prodigal does not return? When you continue to make the same mistakes and break the same hearts? When the distance between what you do and what God intends widens until you can t see the other side? What happens when you can t find even a trace of God . . . when He seems to have disappeared? In six unique encounters recorded in the Gospels, Jesus connects with people just like you who are seeking desperately for answers. Pastor, teacher and author Shane Stanford brings these meetings to life, offering vivid glimpses of Jesus passion for restoring the unrestorable and redeeming the unredeemable. As a hemophiliac who lives with HIV and hepatitis-C, Shane has felt God s apparent absence and, in these six appointments with Jesus, has found Him or, perhaps, been found by Him again. In When God Disappears, Shane invites you to see yourself in these messy, all-too-human Jesus-encounters and to experience the grace and hope of a God who keeps showing up. You haven t gone too far and you re never too far gone for Him to find you once more.