Foreword: Joni Eareckson Tada
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Life in a Minor Key | A Personal Journey
Part 1: Learning to Lament | Psalms of Lament
- Keep Turning to Prayer | Psalm 77
- Bring Your Complaints | Psalm 10
- Ask Boldly | Psalm 22
- Choose to Trust | Psalm 13
Part 2: Learning from Lament | Lamentations
- A Broken World and a Holy God | Lamentations 1-2
- Hope Springs from Truth Rehearsed | Lamentations 3
- Unearthing Idols | Lamentations 4
- A Roadmap to Grace | Lamentations 5
Part 3: Living with Lament | Personal and Community Applications
- Making Lament Personal
- Let Us Lament
Conclusion: Dark Clouds, Deep Mercy | The Journey Ahead
Appendix 1 Twenty Complaints
Appendix 2 Psalms of Lament
Appendix 3 Learning-to-Lament Worksheet Appendix 4 But, Yet, And
Bibliography
General Index
Scripture Index
Endorsements
“Too often Christians feel the pressure to pretend the gospel diminishes pain, while others lament their pain void of biblical truth and hope. I have longed for years for a book to demonstrate a balance on this issue. Dark Clouds, Deep Mercy captures beautifully the unique and powerful grace of the gospel in Christian lament. The book is well written, winsome, and refreshingly transparent. I wept as I read it.”
Brian Croft, Executive Director, Practical Shepherding
“Mark Vroegop has written a book that is a gift to the church—both to the one suffering and to the one who wants to help the sufferer. Through his own personal loss and practice of lament, he helpfully guides us in lament, showing us that to lament is Christian and to lament is to find hope even in the greatest pain.”
Courtney Reissig, author, Teach Me to Feel: Worshiping through the Psalms in Every Season of Life
