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Sober Mercies: How Love Caught Up with a Christian Drunk

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Sober Mercies: How Love Caught Up with a Christian Drunk

Where do you turn for hope when you already have the answer --- but the answer isn't working?

As a long-time Christian, Heather Kopp never expected to become an out-of-control alcoholic who kept private stashes of booze all over the place --- tucked behind books in her study, zipped into a special compartment in her oversized purse, at the back of her closet stuffed inside her boots.

Even as her career and marriage teetered on the brink, Kopp couldn't get a grip, desperately hiding the true extent of her drinking from the rest of the world --- her husband included. During the day she wrote books about God and prayer and family. At night she'd locked herself in her bathroom to guzzle chardonnay.

For her, as for many Christians who struggle with addiction, overwhelming shame and confusion only made things worse. Why wasn't her faith enough to save her? Why didn't repentance, Bible reading and prayer work? Where was God?

Sober Mercies: How Love Caught Up with a Christian Drunk
by Heather Kopp

  • Publication Date: May 6, 2014
  • Genres: Christian, Nonfiction
  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Jericho Books
  • ISBN-10: 1455527750
  • ISBN-13: 9781455527755