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Rick Mumford knows what it’s like to walk through the valley of the shadow of death. He wrote Mack & Jesus while journeying down his own lonely road of staggering loss, grief, and pain. While acknowledging that there are no easy answers or shortcuts to healing, he was able to draw upon what he knew to be true about God's word to bring peace, comfort, and meaning to even the most soul-wrenching tragedy. Jesus offers life to the full even here, even now. Hope shines in the midst of despair.

"Albert," the neighbor said, "your mom needs you to come home." That's how it began for Albert Hsu when his father died. Anyone who has lost a loved one to suicide experiences tremendous shock and trauma. What follows is a confusing mix of emotions - anger, guilt, grief, and despair.

This is the second book in the Afterlife, Interrupted series. Over the past 23 years, Nathan G. Castle, OP, has helped more than 300 “stuck" - and not-so-stuck - souls who died suddenly and traumatically adjust to the afterlife. Victims of fires, automobile accidents, shootings, stabbings, drownings - and suicides - come to him in his dreams seeking help to resolve their Interrupted Death Experiences™. Father Nathan believes that providing such help is something the Holy Spirit has given him and his prayer partners to do.

Behind monastery walls, men of God spend their lives preparing for the passage of death. Best-selling French author Nicolas Diat set out to find what their deaths can reveal about the greatest mystery faced by everyone - the end of life. How to die? How to respond to our fear of death? To answer these and other questions, Diat travelled to eight European monasteries including Solesmes Abbey and the Grande Chartreuse. Through extraordinary interviews with monks, he learned that their death experiences are varied and unique, with elements of peace, pain, humility, sorrow, and joy.

En Un corazón en el desierto, Patricia Namnún guía a las mujeres en un viaje de esperanza que les ayudará a reconocer su temporada de sequía espiritual, dejar de creer las mentiras que se dicen a sí mismas, y tener el valor de abrazar Su verdad y volver a Aquel que es el único que puede hacer que ríos de agua viva fluyan dentro de ellas una vez más.

In this popular abridgment of his monumental Preparation for Death, St. Alphonsus teaches the proper attitude toward Death, which is one of readiness; of always having one's "debts cleared". He cautions against letting even one day pass without reflecting on the certainty of death, the shortness of time and the length of eternity. Each chapter is a short consideration on some aspect of death, divided into three points easily understood by people in every state of life.

I suffered a massive cardiac arrest. My heart stopped beating, my breathing ceased, and the medics couldn’t revive me. I was clinically dead for more than 30 minutes. And then, miraculously, the paramedics detected a heartbeat. As I lay in my bed in the ICU, I wrestled with a big question that went around and around in my mind: “Why am I still alive?” The answer, I believe, was divinely inspired. God wanted me to share with you the treasures He had given me in the darkness, during a period of unbelievable catastrophic suffering.

A beloved spouse dies. Your husband, wife, and life partner is gone. Your world is upended. The emotional pain can be intense. Your heart begins asking questions. "Am I going crazy? Am I going to make it? Where is God in all this?" Many of the people around you don't know what to say or do. They utter clichés and platitudes. "It's okay. You're strong. You'll get through this."

A collection of Scripture-based readings that offer encouragement to individuals dealing with illness, loss, or other personal problems.

The first book to link the science behind Tiny Habits to faith and trauma recovery.

Death is certain for all of us, but it is the one thing we avoid thinking about. Our views on death and loss influences our lives in no small way. Dying to Live is about godly principles that equip you to overcome the fear of death. Death is not the end. It’s just the beginning of life.

Can people be free from physical illness? Are cancer and other life-threatening diseases avoidable? What can a person do to avoid sickness - from allergies to asthma to Alzheimer's? Rev. George Malkmus had similar questions on his mind when, at age 42, he was diagnosed with colon cancer. Not willing to accept this cancer as "God's will" for his life, he began an intensive bibilical and scientific study to find out why - and to possibly find an alternative to the usually unsuccessful treatments of the medical profession.

This narrative of true love, sudden death, and authentic faith involves Lee, a golden California boy who becomes an air force fighter pilot, and Tina, a Midwestern girl turned air force nurse. Their lives are tragically interrupted when Lee, husband and father of their two children, dies suddenly.

A candid and transparent look into my journey through grief. Riveting and revealing stories torn from the pages of my life that depict the golden thread of hope that held me to gather and guided me from mourning to eventual joy!

Grief can often feel like a gnawing homesickness for a place where you used to live, but to which you can never return. Richard Littledale has written a series of short, candid thoughts and reflections from his own experience of widowhood that will resonate and bring comfort and understanding to anyone experiencing bereavement.

One man’s journey through life that is both unbelievable, yet true. From his young and invincible character to his tragic knee bending brokenness, he comes to learn that God wounds before he heals. It’s a journey that few people will ever experience, and one that comes with an incredible amount of emotional pain and suffering. In the end, he acknowledges that God’s sovereignty and providence far exceeds man’s ability to comprehend.

A loved one dies. Your world is upended. The emotional pain can be intense. Your heart begins asking questions. "Am I going crazy? Am I going to make it? Where is God in all this"? Many of the people around you don't know what to say or do. They utter cliches and platitudes. You need something more than this - far more. You need to know that it's okay to hurt, to be sad, and to grieve. And most of all, you need the comfort of God's presence. You need to experience his compassion and love. You need to know he is walking with you in your pain and grief.

Where is God in the struggle? Looking away from despair toward hope can feel risky. What if God doesn't come through for you? What if you don't feel instantly better? Instead of offering simple platitudes or unrealistic cure-all formulas, Edward T. Welch addresses the complex nature of depression with compassion and insight, applying the rich treasures of the Christian gospel, and giving fresh hope to those who struggle.

In this book, Dr. Pamela Q. Fernandes talks about how you can remain in God's love and make it through this winter of grief. As a follow-up book in her Ten Reminder Series, she talks about her own struggles with her faith as she grieved the loss of her father, Richard Fernandes. She explains how long and how far she's come through the mind-numbing pain of grief. By God's grace, she wrote a book to help others on their journey knowing fully well that you can never completely move on but heal only by trusting Jesus.

Suicide of a loved one stands right up there near the top of the most painful, least talked about, most misunderstood events in life. It happened to me in September of 2004, when my son Brian slit his wrists and bled to death. I’ve been a professional writer for 40 years, so the most natural thing in the world was for me to pour my thoughts and feelings onto the page and to research everything I could find about the subject. Nearly seven years in the making, the result is a book titled After My Son’s Suicide: An LDS Mother Finds Peace in Christ and Strength to Go On.