Crippled Faith

What do you do when you've spent your life believing God can move mountains, but the mountain in front of you hasn't budged?

You know God answers prayer. You've seen the testimonies, witnessed the miracles, and perhaps experienced a few yourself. You believe the promises of Scripture. You've tried to live faithfully, do what's right, and trust God with the outcome.

But there's a question you've learned not to ask out loud.

Why hasn't it worked that way for me?

Maybe you've prayed for someone who wasn't healed. Perhaps you've sacrificed for what you believed God wanted, only to watch your efforts fall apart. You've seen others receive the very blessings you've sought for years. And somewhere along the way, the confidence you once carried so effortlessly began to change.

You haven't stopped believing.

But something has happened to your faith.

And you're not quite sure what to do about it.

This book is for you.

In Crippled Faith, longtime minister T. Brent Long ventures into territory Christians often avoid-not to question God's power, but to confront the uncomfortable distance between the promises we proclaim and the experiences we sometimes endure.

With the honesty of someone who has spent decades preaching faith while wrestling with unanswered prayers of his own, Long asks questions that rarely find their way into Sunday morning sermons.

Not every question receives a tidy answer. Not every painful experience can be explained away with a familiar phrase. And perhaps that's where a more honest conversation about faith must begin.

If you've ever sat through a testimony service celebrating someone else's miracle while quietly wondering about your own unanswered prayers, you'll recognize yourself in these pages.

If you've ever questioned whether your disappointment meant you hadn't believed enough, prayed enough, or lived faithfully enough, you'll find a voice here that understands the weight of those questions.

And if you've ever wondered whether the faith you carry today is somehow less valuable because life has left its marks upon it, you may discover something you hadn't considered before.

What if your faith isn't finished? What if it's simply been to battle?

Crippled Faith isn't a promise that every prayer will be answered the way you want. It isn't a formula for producing miracles or a collection of religious platitudes intended to make difficult questions disappear.

It's an invitation to confront those questions honestly, rediscover the extraordinary worth of the faith you still possess, and find renewed confidence in the God you've never stopped believing in.

You may have taken your faith into battle and come away with a limp. But the story isn't over.

There are still mountains to move.

And there is still every reason to keep the faith.