The Home This World Never Was

You were never wandering. You were being led home the whole way.There is an ache in every human heart that nothing in this world has ever been able to answer. This book names that ache honestly - broken marriages, empty chairs, failing bodies, despair, trauma, and spiritual defeat - and follows it where it has been pointing all along: to a God who keeps every tear in a bottle, and a hand that will one day wipe the last tear from your eyes, so completely that there will never be another.Written with a pastor's heart, from decades of ministry on three continents - walking with real people through real valleys, with true biblical counsel.Across five movements - The Ache, The Laments, The Turn, How We Live in the Gap, and The Last Tear - this book sits honestly with the griefs we carry, then walks lament by lament toward Revelation 21, where God Himself wipes every tear away. It closes with a full companion appendix: nineteen ready-to-preach sermon outlines, one for each chapter and the Conclusion, for any pastor or teacher who wants to walk a congregation down this same road.Reverend Thomas Andrufski is the pastor of Hill Street Church of God in Albemarle, North Carolina. A U.S. Army veteran whose ministry began in Germany and led to directing a servicemen's center in Iwakuni, Japan, he is the author of eight books and more than three hundred original songs across twenty-five albums."And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes." - Revelation 21:4