Preaching God's Compassion: Comforting Those Who Suffer

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 published on suffering and on pastoral preaching, few have combined these into a single concern, as d...