Book cover for Alone at the Altar by Bradley Hobbs
A True Story by Bradley Hobbs

Alone at the Altar

The Prayers Nobody Heard
and the God Who Did

A True Story of Faith, Fatherhood, Loss, and the Things I Could Not Hold Together.

About the Book

Some Things
Cannot Be Held
Together Alone.

Alone at the Altar is a deeply personal story about faith in the middle of circumstances I could not control.

It is about the prayers spoken when no one else knew what was happening. It is about fatherhood, love, loss, and the painful realization that there are some things in life I could not hold together, no matter how hard I tried.

Through seasons of questions and uncertainty, the altar became the place where I finally stopped trying to carry everything myself and brought what I could not fix before God.

What You Will Find Here

This Book Is About
More Than What Was Lost.

01

Faith

Faith that continues even when answers do not come quickly and strength does not always feel present.

02

Fatherhood

The kind of love that gives you something worth continuing to fight for, even in difficult seasons.

03

Loss

Learning that some things cannot be protected from change and cannot always be repaired by trying harder.

04

Prayer

The quiet prayers spoken when nobody else understands what you are carrying.

05

The Altar

The place where pretending ends and everything that cannot be carried alone is finally placed before God.

06

Hope

The discovery that silence never meant God was absent, even when His work could not yet be seen.

From Bradley Hobbs

I Did Not Write
This Story Because
I Had Every Answer.

I wrote it because there were moments when I did not know what to do with the questions I carried.

I wrote it because there were prayers I prayed that nobody else heard.

And I wrote it because I eventually learned that God had heard every one of them.

Alone at the Altar

The Prayers Nobody Heard.
The God Who Did.

This is not simply the story of what happened. It is the story of where God was when it did.

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