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    Altered: Discovering Unforeseen Joy Through the Suffering That Has Drastically Altered Your Life
    Altered: Discovering Unforeseen Joy Through the Suffering That Has Drastically Altered Your Life
    Altered: Discovering Unforeseen Joy Through the Suffering That Has Drastically Altered Your Life
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    Altered: Discovering Unforeseen Joy Through the Suffering That Has Drastically Altered Your Life

    By Eric Austin

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    How will you respond when life, as you know it, has been drastically altered by suffering? When what you hoped for and dreamed of is suddenly gone, how will your faith carry on?

    Eric Austin reveals what an enduring faith can lead to in this memoir, that employs the very real (and almost too raw) story of his wife’s and his journey through suffering mental illness and its ensuing substance abuse.

    Suffering does not just alter a person—it alters marriages, families, friendships, careers, hopes, and dreams. This wild story, however, demonstrates God’s desire to take the very suffering that has drastically altered your life to radically alter you, and others, into looking like His Son, Jesus.

    Austin weaves together story after story, highlighting biblical truths learned out of them, all to reassure us of the relentlessness of God’s goodness in the recklessness of our circumstances.

    Hurting, confused, or grieving, God is inviting you—through your suffering—to share in His mission to destroy death and bring life to others.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWestBow Press
    Release dateMar 24, 2021
    ISBN9781664220768
    Altered: Discovering Unforeseen Joy Through the Suffering That Has Drastically Altered Your Life
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    Eric Austin

    Eric Austin, who earned a Master of Theology from Dallas Theological Seminary, is host of The Altered Podcast, a contributing writer for Reach the Isles, a Bible teacher and speaker. He and his wife, Heidi, along with their three children, live in Stillwater, Oklahoma.

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