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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...

And like Job we need someone to be with us in our distress, maybe even someone to help us find an answer to our misery. The pain of suffering is often intense enough to drive us to do something about it. Douglas John Hall describes one of our most frequent reactions. Instead of acknowledging the suffering and tolerating the pain, we simply deny that we are suffering. Examples are abundant. The wife of an abusive husband covers up her hurt by saying that his actions are a justified response to her
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