Songs in the Night: How God Transforms Our Pain to Praise

by Michael A. Milton

Turn your weakest, most discouraging moments into your best, most uplifting moments.

Joseph Parker, noted preacher of the City Temple in London, said, "Preach to the suffering and you will never lack a congregation. There is a broken heart in every pew." For that reason, this book is for everyone --because there are many, many things that break our hearts. Sicknesses, spiritual depression, disabilities, painful memories, strained relationships . . . all of these weigh on our hearts at one time or another.

Yet even in the midst of our heartache, a faith comes from Jesus Christ that not only encourages us through our pain, but also transforms our pain . . . as long as we let it.

These pastoral messages and personal illustrations show how the brokenhearted Christian can locate the God of all comfort in the center of his or her pain, and can even learn how the gospel transforms our private pain into personal praise.

Read and discover how God uses the things that seek to destroy us to become the very things that bring us salvation, bring us hope, bring us to prayer, bring us together, and ultimately bring us to heaven.

320 pages, Paperback

First published October 14, 2011

About the author

Michael A. Milton and his family live in Charlotte, North Carolina and is the host of the national Bible teaching television program Faith for Living, a songwriter and recording artist, and the author of numerous books and articles. Previously he was the senior minister of the historic First Presbyterian Church of Chattanooga, Tennessee and is currently Chancellor and CEO elect of Reformed Theological Seminary and the James M. Baird Jr. Professor of Pastoral Theology, there.

Reviews

[Susan Lindemulder · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wonderful reminders of how our sovereign God is able to use our pain, our struggles, our weaknesses and our frailty for His glory and our ultimate good--transforming our pain to His praise!!!

[Brian]

Turn your weakest, most discouraging moments . . . into your best, most uplifting moments.

“Always preach to broken hearts and you will never lack for a congregation,” an old saying goes. And for that reason, this book is for everyone—because there are many, many things that break our hearts. Sicknesses, spiritual depression, disabilities, painful memories, strained relationships . . . all of these weigh on Christians’ hearts at one time or another. And even when our hearts feel light, there is a longing that runs through us—a crying of the soul for eternity, for a new heavens and a new earth.

Yet even in the midst of our heartache, we know there is a faith that comes from Jesus Christ that not only encourages us through our pain, but can even transform our pain . . . as long as we let it. And here is a collection of warm, pastoral messages, filled with personal illustration, that does just that: helps the broken-hearted Christian to locate the God of all comfort in the center of all pain.

We are not left there, either; Mike Milton takes us a step further to see how the gospel actually transforms our private pain into personal praise. So read and discover how God uses the things that seek to destroy us to become the very things that bring us salvation, bring us hope, bring us to prayer, bring us together, and ultimately bring us to heaven.

[Ming Chen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Quite beautiful.