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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...

accentuated by the anesthetic effect of shock, which shuts the person down to provide protection from a shattered world. Dealing with or reaching the suffering believer, therefore, is often not easy and sometimes is not possible. At the same time and in apparent contradiction, we must also say that somewhere along the line suffering may make the sufferer available for help. Years ago Howard Stone identified the “heightened psychological accessibility of an individual in crisis.”11 Persons who suffer
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