Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Losing Our Lives
2. Terrifying Opportunity
3. A Place You'd Rather Not Go
4. Abandoned by Success
5. Abandoned by Health
6. Abandoned by Family
7. Abandoned by God
8. Doxology

Notes

About the Author

M. Craig Barnes (PhD, University of Chicago) is Meneilly Professor of Leadership and Ministry at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary and senior pastor at Shadyside Presbyterian Church in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is a former senior pastor of the National Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C. His books include Searching for Home: Spirituality for Restless Souls, An Extravagant Mercy: Reflections on Ordinary Things, Sacred Thirst: Finding God in the Desert of Our Longings and Hustling God: Why We Work So Hard for What God Wants to Give . Barnes is also the author of numerous published articles and is a speaker at seminary and church events.