When God Does Not Answer an Honest Prayer: Challenges to Faith

For Christians who don't care much about a church life, a prayer life, or even reading the Bible, when they encounter life's crises, turn to prayer, and find no answers, they can always find a ton of reasons to explain away why their prayers were not answered. Maybe I waited for a crisis in order to pray. Maybe God wants me to always depend on Him. Maybe I did not pray long enough. Maybe I started to pray too late. Maybe I prayed and then still worried about it. Maybe I prayed but really di...