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In celebration of Randy Alcorn’s bestselling book Heaven, comes this six-session guide that offers small groups a chance to study, reflect on, and respond to the biblical truths that offer more than just a glimpse of eternity. They give a solid foundation for the hope that every Christian can have. Alcorn’s clear and comprehensive explanation of Scriptures provides the backdrop for the study, which includes time for worship, prayer, and accompanying video sessions (available separately).

Lament is how we bring our sorrow to God - but it is a neglected dimension of the Christian life for many Christians today. We need to recover the practice of honest spiritual struggle that gives us permission to vocalize our pain and wrestle with our sorrow. Lament avoids trite answers and quick solutions, progressively moving us toward deeper worship and trust.

Written after his wife's tragic death as a way of surviving the "mad midnight moments", A Grief Observed is C.S. Lewis's honest reflection on the fundamental issues of life, death, and faith in the midst of loss. This work contains his concise, genuine reflections on that period.

Weaving together his personal story, pastoral ministry experience, and biblical insights, best-selling author Paul David Tripp helps us trust God in the midst of suffering. He identifies traps to avoid in our suffering and points us instead to comforts to embrace. This raw yet hope-filled book will help you cling to God's promises when trials come and move forward with the hope of the gospel.

A cancer diagnosis changes everything. Fear, uncertainty, and suffering become daily realities—not just for patients but also for families, friends, and caregivers. Where is God in this? In God Meets Us in Our Suffering, three pastors who journeyed through cancer together share their deeply personal stories. With honesty, compassion, and humor, they offer theologically rich reflections on illness and hope.

In Hopeful Sorrow, Julie Busler shares her journey through childhood trauma, emotional neglect, and grief, showing that turning from childhood wounds to God in hope begins with turning toward them in sorrow. Through the biblical practice of lament–bringing honest pain and questions to God–she demonstrates how acknowledging sorrow can lead to hope, resilience, and renewed faith.

I’m eighteen and faced with the most difficult decision of my life: Do I follow my crush to the missionary Bible school of my dreams? Do I go to college with my ex-boyfriend to see if we still have a future? Or do I stay home with my dad who's just been diagnosed with a brain tumor? Pick one door. Close the others. Live with the fallout. This Box of Darkness is a raw coming-of-age memoir about love, loss, and learning to trust God.

In wise and consoling letters written to a mother sorrowing over the death of her child, Fr. François René Blot, S.J., here summons the Church’s greatest saints who testify with one voice that death’s wound, though grievous, separates us but for a short while from those who die before us. Acknowledging that profound sorrow at the death of loved ones is appropriate (after all, even Jesus wept for the death of his friend Lazarus), Fr. Blot nonetheless gives us reason to be joyful even in the midst of our sorrow.

After a divorce and then the sudden death of her second husband, Dawn Sanders discovered a buried treasure in Genesis 1: God's process for creating new life out of chaos. In When Your World Ends, Dawn digs deep into the creation story and unearths a seven-step process by which God brings us out of the void and into new beginnings.

One moment, Leslie Harter-Berg had it pretty darn good, and the next, she was a thirty-year-old widow and single mom to two rowdy boys under the age of three. Thrust into the arms of grief, her new life consisted of strange tasks, like notifying AT&T that her husband no longer needed unlimited data and deciding what to do with his grown-man Lego collection while she also planned a memorial and parented solo.

In Divine Disruption, Dr. Tony Evans and his children pull back the curtain on their faith-shaking experiences, in order to provide biblical wisdom and practical encouragement for how to deal with the hard, unexpected things we all inevitably face.

Every person who lives long enough will eventually encounter circumstances that are difficult to explain theologically. From years of counselling experience, Dr. James Dobson offers assurance of God's constant care, even when human suffering is beyond our comprehension.

Where Did It Fall? by J. Duff Rowden is a deeply moving and transformative narrative that weaves personal tragedy, spiritual discovery, and the power of redemption into a compelling and relatable story. Drawing from the biblical account of the axe head in 2 Kings 6, the author masterfully parallels this ancient tale with his own life experiences, particularly the profound loss of his mother in a car accident at age nine and the later passing of his beloved wife, Bonita.

Are you at a crossroads? Have you experienced loss? Or lost your way—your passion, your purpose? Walk with this author on an ancient pilgrimage trail and maybe you’ll find some answers for yourself. Keep Walking is the inspiring tale of a modern-day pilgrimage of self-discovery, transformation, and renewal on the Camino de Santiago, the centuries old 483-mile trail across northern Spain. Newly widowed, author Cathay Reta was in her mid-60s and looking for direction for her life.

The eidetic memories of our traumatic experiences remain recorded like unresolved "videos" in our conscious and unconscious memory. These memories of traumatic experiences influence our lives and families by projecting their pain onto our daily experiences. No parents can fully meet their children's basic needs to receive love, pardon, protection and praise. This causes varying degrees of feelings of inferiority, which we try to compensate with equal degrees of superiority through such things as bragging, possessiveness and possessions, perfectionism, and so on. Dr.

In her early 20’s, Catherine Renfro received a phone call no one should have. In broken hopelessness, her brother, Barrett, called out with despair before taking his own life. She and her father would rush over to his home only to find out that he was no longer with them. Catherine went through a season of grief that hundreds of thousands of people endure every year in America. But even in the midst of anger, suffering, and guilt, she would say that Christ never left her.

Have you found yourself wondering, Will I ever be able to make sense of the disappointments and disasters I've endured? Can I trust God with my pain? Will my life ever be restored? Perhaps you've done everything you can to rebuild the ruins of your life, but true restoration still seems so far off, if not impossible. And She Got Up is a firsthand account of being knocked down by tragedy and loss while relying on the power and presence of Jesus to rise and heal.

Everything that happens to us initiates a process inside of us. As we navigate loss of different types, the temptation can be to move past what we feel rather than leaning into God’s promise that His strength is made perfect in our weakness.

Si Vida después de la vida marcó un punto de inflexión respecto a los conceptos del hombre moderno sobre la muerte ―tanto culturales, espirituales y científicos ―, este nuevo y riguroso trabajo supone un polémico debate en torno a otro tema “tabú” en nuestra sociedad: La posibilidad de contacto con personas fallecidas. Después de las sorprendentes investigaciones sobre esta posibilidad de contacto con apariciones de personas fallecidas llevadas a cabo por el doctor Moody en su “Teatro de la Mente”.

Discover the healing power of heartfelt grieving by listening to Grieving Wholeheartedly. In life's toughest moments, our emotions can feel like a storm at sea―conflicting waves of anger, sadness, and fear crashing together. But within these turbulent waters lies the potential for profound healing. Audrey Davidheiser, a licensed psychologist with expertise in Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy, will guide you through a compassionate exploration of your pain and grief.