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Comfort Those Who Grieve: Ministering God’s Grace in Times of Loss is unavailable, but you can change that!

Until the end of time, when the curse of sin is finally removed, suffering will be a large part of the human experience—and a large part of that suffering will be walking through the painful reality of death. Death is not foreign territory that ministers of grace walk upon. As a result, “Death,” writes Paul Tautges, “provides a natural opportunity not only for ministry to others, but also for...

about severe chastisement, the people of God were in desperate need of hope—the hope of God’s pardon. Verse 2 continues, Speak kindly to Jerusalem; And call out to her, that her warfare has ended, That her iniquity has been removed, That she has received of the LORD’s hand Double for all her sins. The hope that Isaiah gives is rooted in God’s relationship to Israel as His people: “ ‘Comfort My people,’ says your God.” Though His people’s sin was indeed worthy of a double portion of divine discipline,
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