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The Hardest Sermons You’ll Ever Have to Preach: Help from Trusted Preachers for Tragic Times is unavailable, but you can change that!

Cancer. Suicide. The death of a child. As much as we wish we could avoid tragedies like these, eventually they will strike your church community. When they do, pastors must be ready to offer help by communicating the life-changing message of the gospel in a way that offers hope, truth, and encouragement during these difficult circumstances. Those asked to preach in the midst of tragedy know the...

That is why Jesus gives us a third thing. It’s the ministry of truth—not just his tears, not just his anger, but truth. Jesus says to Martha, “I am the resurrection and the life. Do you believe this?” The governor and mayor, whether they know it or not, are using the gospel story line. It’s the best one there is. The moralistic story line is, “We are the good people; you are the bad people.” That doesn’t really help much in the long run. When your stance is, “We are the good people.
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