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Preaching God’s Compassion: Comforting Those Who Suffer is unavailable, but you can change that!

This is a book about human suffering and the church’s efforts to minister to those who are suffering. It uses the resources of contemporary pastoral care to understand situations of suffering. For the most part, however, it focuses on pastoral preaching, that is, on the oral proclamation of God’s Word from the perspective of caring for or comforting people in need. While many books have been...

other words, the question is another way to ask about the justice of God. “Is God really treating me fairly, given my track record?” If the sufferer focuses not on what he or she deserves but on what he or she has done or not done, guilt becomes an operative dynamic in the struggle with suffering. The person in distress assumes that God is making him or her pay a price for wrongdoing. This situation is often aggravated by our culture, which is quick to blame the individual for whatever appears to
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