While You Were Sleeping

A Biblical Theology of Sleep - The Hidden Work of God in the Bible's Quietest Hours

von Billy J Hill

116 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

You will spend a third of your life doing the one thing this book is about - and you will do most of it without a single conscious thought.Every night, the entire human race lies down, surrenders consciousness, releases all control, and rehearses its own helplessness - and then rises in the morning as though nothing remarkable has happened. Scripture, which passes over so much of ordinary life in silence, does not pass over this.While You Were Sleeping is the first full biblical theology of sleep - a single thread traced from the deep sleep that fell upon Adam in Eden to the Lamb who wakes the dead in Revelation. Along the way it asks a question the church has rarely thought to ask: what is the God who never slumbers doing while His people sleep?The answer, it turns out, is nearly everything. God builds a bride while the man sleeps. He cuts a covenant while Abraham lies in a dreadful darkness. He opens heaven over a fugitive with a stone for a pillow. Two men sleep through the same kind of storm - one fleeing God, one trusting Him. And when His people lie down at last in death, He calls it only sleep, because Someone stands at the bedside with the power to wake them.At its heart is one arresting truth: sleep is the daily confession that we are not God. It is trust, when the righteous lie down in peace. It is the arena of God's hidden work. It is the Bible's tenderest word for death - downgraded, for those who belong to Christ, from a grave to a slumber. And it ends, always, in the morning.Written for the academy, the pulpit, and the pew alike - with a pastoral word for the insomniac reading at two in the morning, the grieving, and the one afraid to die - this book will change the way you close your eyes tonight.He gives to His beloved sleep. Lie down, and let Him keep watch.

• ISBN: 9798951397577
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 06.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp