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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...

him the lens through which the whole content of the faith should be seen. A theology of the cross is decisive to pastors who seek to proclaim the gospel to suffering believers. The cross points to a suffering God in contrast to a theology of glory that lifts God above life’s ills. God’s power does not wield control over all day-to-day events, and thus events can occur that are counter to God’s loving will. Christians can experience anger, guilt, and even abandonment as did Jesus. To the questions
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