The complexities of suffering- new book

http://www.amazon.com/Glorious-Ruin-Suffering-Sets-Free/dp/1434704025/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1350485794&sr=1-1

This past Monday morning I had the privilege of being on Fox and Friends to discuss my book Glorious Ruin: How Suffering Sets You Free. And while it was EARLY (6:30 am) and poor Gretchen butchered my name, I had a great time and I thank God for the opportunity to discuss the ever present reality of being broken people living in a broken world with other broken people.

My friend Matt Smethurst from The Gospel Coalition interviewed me about my new book Glorious Ruin: How Suffering Sets You Free. Introducing the exchange he and I had, Matt writes:

Ever since the revolt in Eden, suffering has been inescapable. All of us live and move and have our being amid the wreckage of the Fall. Pain—universal as it is real—haunts us, stalks us, plagues us.
In his new book, Glorious Ruin: How Suffering Sets You Free (David C. Cook), Tullian Tchividjian offers a unique angle on this perennially vexing subject. Rather than focusing on the why or the how of suffering, Tchividjian zooms in on the who, demonstrating that the answer to our pain isn’t finally found in a syllogism but in a Savior—a suffering Savior.

You can read the whole thing here.

Tullian Tchividjian

Click for FOX and Friends interview.
http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/tullian/

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