Where’s the Miracle? Finding hope again

Author: Steve Penny

Publisher: Steve Penny Ministries 2005

Reviewed by:  Sue Collins

Steve & Marian Penny are the Senior Ministers of Kings Christian Church on the Sunshine Coast, in Queensland, Australia. Kings Christian Church has grown rapidly under their leadership and their ministry influence has reached around the world. this book Steve shares his questions and his search for answers  following the death of their 27 year old son, Andrew, from cancer. In many ways I could identify with the things Steve wrote. The sudden loss and  grief that our family experienced at the death of our son, Regan.

This book is written with honesty and tells of the trust Steve and Marian Penny have in God as a miracle working Saviour. It is a book of testimony in the most trying of times.  We need books like this, to help us in those times.

Steve Penny writes that God is a God of miracles, nothing is impossible to Him and that will never change. However, we change  - our hearts and lives are never the same, but God never leaves us, always carries us, never betrays us, and watches over us so tenderly, bringing wonderful hope again and again into our shattered lives.    

It was one phone call that completely changed the life of this family as an X-ray revealed a massive tumour in their son’s chest.  From then on it was the many trips that were made from the Sunshine Coast to Brisbane, to be with Andrew and the ups and downs of being torn between good and bad reports. Then of course the treatment for cancer and all the horrible side effects.

I love the little boxes that are on most of the pages as some thought or attitude comes into focus for the author. And then the poems that come to Steve at different times when visiting his son. The words that meant a lot to the author come out of the question that Andrew asked. “Where’s the miracle, aren’t we believing for a miracle?”

Out of this question Steve finds rest in God and 1 Corinthians 13:13, “And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love”, starts to minister to him. This is the part of the book where the author finds the answers to questions we all have as we deal with life and death. Faith acts daily to do God’s will. Hope believes the Word and stands on it. Love causes us to trust in God’s unfailing love, for it will never fail.

This book is easy to read and a great testimony that will help people walk out of their disappointments to find hope again for the future.