Every Open Word title is chosen because it takes real struggle seriously — and follows it all the way to the God who entered it.
Faith & Suffering · Individual or Small Group Study
Broken
Finding God in the Pieces · by John Parker
"You prayed. You believed. And the world still broke."
The questions are real. The pain is real. And the easy answers — the ones that sound right in a sermon but fall apart beside a hospital bed — are not enough.
Broken is a guided journey through the hardest questions faith encounters: Why does God allow suffering? Why do the righteous struggle while the wicked prosper? Where is God when the silence is loudest?
Drawing from the Psalms, the Book of Job, the Prophets, and the letters of Paul, this study does not rush toward resolution. It takes the questions seriously — and then traces the movement of a God who did not remain distant from the brokenness He could have prevented. He entered it.
The Gospel's answer to evil is not primarily an argument. It is a Person.
For individuals and small groups ready to stop pretending the questions aren't there.
