Why are some people full of hope, while many of us struggle to get past the snooze alarm? Hope often seems elusive―both to explain and to experience. So we find ourselves instead clinging to lesser substitutes. From self-medication to lazy clichés, we apply these balms to our pain and experience little to no comfort. But we know, in our guts, that these replacements arent the hope-filled lives we long for, the lives we were made for. Mark Oestreicher gets it. Through hard-wrought experience and robust-bordering-on-desperate theological reflection, he offers here a fresh perspective on Hope, that virtue that God carries to us even as God carries us. Read Hopecasting and discover a good God casting hope your way.
"Mark Oestreicher offers deep encouragement for those of us who have ever struggled to cultivate transformative hope in hard places. Drawing on personal experience, he offers a practical path for pushing through fear and cynicism toward refreshing hope. I am grateful for the invitation Mark offers us here-an invitation into active, faithful confidence in the goodness of God."
Gary A. Haugen, president and CEO, International Justice Mission
"What I love about this book is that it is not just a theory or a short-term fix for uplifting emotional feelings to try and gain hope. Mark writes from real gut-wrenching stories, not just happy or cliche ones, and does not avoid the reality of struggling to gain hope or admitting it is often difficult even as a Christian. It brings me joy thinking of all those who will read this and how uplifted
Dan Kimball, pastor, Vintage Faith Church, author, They Like Jesus but Not the Church
"If you're out of optimism, regularly frustrated, and at risk of falling into cynicism, you definitely need to read and re-read this book."
