Preaching God's Compassion

Centering on five particular situations of suffering--loss, illness, violence, fear, and failure--this book suggests ways in which a pastor can preach to parishioners who are experiencing trauma. Three sample sermons illustrate how to preach on God's gracious activity, while avoiding "psychologizing the text" and reducing the gospel to cheap therapy for individual problems.

A significant contribution to the art of pastoral preaching. It also uses resources of contemporary pastoral care to understand situations of those who are suffering