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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...

where the kingdom is inaugurated but not fully realized, God’s action is concealed from us and is often misunderstood by us. The sight of believers is dim and partial at best (1 Cor. 13:12). Preachers, then, need to take their partial sight seriously, even as they proclaim the comfort of God. Martin Luther, in the Heidelberg Disputation, gives us a proper approach to suffering. “He deserves to be called a theologian … who comprehends the visible and manifest things of God seen through suffering and
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