Where do you turn for hope when you curently have the answer–but the answer isn’t working?

As a long-time Christian, Heather Kopp by no means expected to become an out-of-control alcoholic who kept personal stashes of booze all around the place–tucked behind books in her study, zipped right into a special area in her oversized purse, at the back of her closet stuffed inside her boot styles.

Even as her career and relationship teetered on the brink, Kopp couldn’t get yourself a grip, desperately concealing the real extent approximately Sober Mercies: How Love Caught Up using a Christian Drunk of her taking in from all of those other world–her hubby included. Throughout the day she wrote books about God and prayer and family. During the night she’d locked herself in her bathroom to guzzle chardonnay.

For her, for many Christians who have a problem with addiction, overwhelming shame and confusion only made things worse. Why wasn’t her trust enough to save her? Why didn’t repentance, Bible reading and prayer function? Where was God?

Meanwhile, simply because she watched in horror, her grown son descended into his own headache of drugs and alcohol. She feared for his lifestyle, however she couldn’t stop drinking long more than enough to greatly help him–or discover a way out for herself.

Until the day everything changed.

Participating, funny and bracingly honest, Kopp shares her remarkable journey into darkness…and back again to the light again. Her story reveals the unique challenges and religious conundrums Christians encounter if they become ensnared in an addiction, and the redemption that’s possible when we finally reach the end of ourselves.

If you love Jesus but shop too much, drink an excessive amount of, eat an excessive amount of, crush on guys who aren’t your spouse, or elsewhere fixate on doing things you hate but can’t stop doing, SOBER MERCIES is for you.

As you follow Kopp’s sincere, stumbling trip toward independence and a deeply satisfying romantic relationship with God, you will discover renewed hope–and practical methods of recovery–for your own trip.