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Hope Sings: Risk More. Dream Bigger. Fear Less.
Following God on our journey of faith can be a journey in the dark. Oftentimes, we don’t know where we are going or where we will end up. Sometimes we feel completely lost. We get caught up in fear or anxiety. But Faith has a best friend named Hope. Hope shows up when we get to know the effervescent character of the One who loves us most of all.
In Aughtmon’s new book, Hope Sings , the reader is invited to follow God on a faith journey. God wants us to reach for dreams that are out of our grasp. To fight for impossible causes. To believe for the miraculous. To hold on to Him when all else seems lost.
God wants us to put our hope in Him. In His character. In His mercy. His peace. His grace. His worthiness. His faithfulness. His ability to restore. His healing power. His authentic goodness. Our hope is in the One who calms seas and breathes life back into the dead. His voice is singing out, bringing light into the dark, inviting us to join Him in His everlasting song of hope.
In Aughtmon’s new book, Hope Sings , the reader is invited to follow God on a faith journey. God wants us to reach for dreams that are out of our grasp. To fight for impossible causes. To believe for the miraculous. To hold on to Him when all else seems lost.
God wants us to put our hope in Him. In His character. In His mercy. His peace. His grace. His worthiness. His faithfulness. His ability to restore. His healing power. His authentic goodness. Our hope is in the One who calms seas and breathes life back into the dead. His voice is singing out, bringing light into the dark, inviting us to join Him in His everlasting song of hope.
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192 pages, Paperback
Published April 4, 2017
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About the author
Susanna Foth Aughtmon
13 books13 followers Author and speaker Susanna Foth Aughtmon is the mother of three and the wife of Scott, the lead pastor of Pathway Church, in Redwood City, California. Using humor, authenticity, and the truth of scripture, she connects with her readers through her many books including, I Blame Eve: Freedom from Perfectionism, Control Issues and the Tendency to Listen to Talking Snakes.
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September 28, 2017
I had requested this book for such a long time that I thought I would never read it. I had no idea of the beauty that hides within its pages.
I love the way this book is structured, it is easy to follow and it is soooo beautiful.
It gives you power to go on in every aspect of your life. It is just a must when you feel that God is too far to reach.
The author seems sincer and her life experience is of so much value!
I love the way this book is structured, it is easy to follow and it is soooo beautiful.
It gives you power to go on in every aspect of your life. It is just a must when you feel that God is too far to reach.
The author seems sincer and her life experience is of so much value!
June 12, 2020
A pretty good book, I enjoyed it.
February 11, 2017
Anyone who knows me or is following along with these reviews knows that I’m in a fairly despairing place right now. A place where nothing seems to be going right in the grand scheme of things, a place where it feels as though prayers are being largely unanswered. So you can probably guess why a title called Hope Sings would be appealing to me. I sincerely hoped (ha!) that this book would rescue me from a bit of a funk I’m in. It did, and it didn’t. But to focus on the latter would be a bit churlish. There are good bits to this book. It has a good message. It reminds us that God can really be there and show up. However, one wonders after reading Hope Sings if such “showing up” miraculously is based on a position of privilege. That you have to be somehow special in God’s eyes to really matter.
That shouldn’t be the message of the book, but it kind of creeps through a little bit. The author has a bit of a formula that she works with in all of the chapters, and it goes a little something like this: Tell a personal story. Then tell a Bible story related to the personal story. Then tell another story of something that happened to someone else (sometimes within her own family tree) that happened to be quite miraculous, such as hail not falling on an ancestor’s crops, which would have caused financial ruin if it had, or a mother not dying of a heart attack. Rinse and repeat.
I don’t want to come across as starting out things here by being negative, but the approach that God offers hope through being simply miraculous speaks to me a little like treating God as a fairy godmother. The book seems to suggest that if you pray long and hard enough, and have enough people praying for you, miracles will happen and all hope — which you may have thought was lost — will be restored. I feel a little bit down about this, because this hasn’t really been my experience too much. At least, not lately. (So maybe I just need to kneel down and do more hardcore praying or something, because it sometimes seems as though prayers go unanswered and things just generally don’t work. I’m not blaming God. I think He’s just as flummoxed by where I am as I am.)
Read more here: https://medium.com/@zachary_houle/a-r...
That shouldn’t be the message of the book, but it kind of creeps through a little bit. The author has a bit of a formula that she works with in all of the chapters, and it goes a little something like this: Tell a personal story. Then tell a Bible story related to the personal story. Then tell another story of something that happened to someone else (sometimes within her own family tree) that happened to be quite miraculous, such as hail not falling on an ancestor’s crops, which would have caused financial ruin if it had, or a mother not dying of a heart attack. Rinse and repeat.
I don’t want to come across as starting out things here by being negative, but the approach that God offers hope through being simply miraculous speaks to me a little like treating God as a fairy godmother. The book seems to suggest that if you pray long and hard enough, and have enough people praying for you, miracles will happen and all hope — which you may have thought was lost — will be restored. I feel a little bit down about this, because this hasn’t really been my experience too much. At least, not lately. (So maybe I just need to kneel down and do more hardcore praying or something, because it sometimes seems as though prayers go unanswered and things just generally don’t work. I’m not blaming God. I think He’s just as flummoxed by where I am as I am.)
Read more here: https://medium.com/@zachary_houle/a-r...
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