Death, Grief, Bereavement

Life today is full of difficulties--loss, sadness, fear. In the midst of these challenges, joy often feels impossible or out of reach. But Jesus has more for His followers than a life of striving, pain, and discontent.If you love Jesus Calling, you'll...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780829816242Author Doris StickneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 16Imprint The Pilgrim PressPublisher The Pilgrim Press

Esther de Waal is one of today's most beloved spiritual writers. In The White Stone, she reflects on the changes and losses that come with growing older. Esther reflects on solitude and, following a period of illness, saying goodbye to a family home and...

"I tremble to say there's good in death, because I've looked in the eyes of the grieving mother and I've seen the heartbreak of the stricken widow, but I've also seen something more in death, something good. Death's hands aren't all bony and cold."-from...

These days, bad news often outpaces the good. Problems outnumber solutions. You may turn and ask, "Where is God at a time like this?" Friend, he's right here. And he's whispering your name.You really want to do what is right. But sometimes life turns...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950382019Author Gary RoeFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Gary RoePublisher Gary RoeWeight(grams) 268gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 12mm

Let me be honest, there have been times when my faith has seemed fragile... I have struggled with seeing my wife stripped of her dignity and reduced by her agony. I have doubted all kinds of things. I have exploded and lashed out. I do not like what is...

The bestselling poet Malcolm Guite chooses forty poems from across the centuries that express the universal experience of loss and reflects on them in order to draw out the comfort, understanding and hope they offer. Some of the poems will be familiar,...

We all walk through grief and loss. It comes in many shapes and forms. As a husband, father, son and a pastor, for the past thirty-four years, Malcolm Duncan has experienced loss in many forms. Duncan has seen grief destroy some people, and his own...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784983826Author Matt ChandlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint The Good Book CompanyPublisher The Good Book CompanyWeight(grams) 345gDimensions(mm)...

No Tears in Heaven speaks of the great joy of the Christian Faith - Heaven. This book brings together, in a new way, a number of Charles Haddon Spurgeon's exhilarating teachings on Heaven. The writings of Spurgeon, in his typically beautiful and...

When pain is real, why is God silent? Frederick Buechner has grappled with the nature of pain, grief, and grace ever since his father committed suicide when Buechner was a young boy. He continued that search as a father when his daughter struggled with...

"A heartfelt invitation for grieving readers...An excellent resource for those working their way through loss." -Publishers Weekly, Starred ReviewVeteran hospital chaplain to the sick, dying, and bereaved, J.S. Park offers you both the permission and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948609128Author Thomas Jay OordFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Sacrasage PressPublisher Sacrasage PressWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

When your baby dies, you find yourself in a life you never expected. And even though pregnancy and infant loss is common, it's not common to you. Instead, you feel like a stranger in your own body, surrounded by well-meaning people who often don't know...

Incorporate a new rhythm for those days when life feels too hard through the daily practice of receiving and releasing-receiving God's encouragement, instruction, and truth to start your day and releasing to God all that's weighing you down at the end of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593523138Author David PetersFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Spiritlife MinistriesPublisher Spiritlife MinistriesWeight(grams) 200g

Death has been a source of grief and uncertainty for humanity throughout history, but it has also been the inspiration for a plethora of fascinating traditions. The covering of mirrors to prevent the departed spirit from seeing itself; the passing bell...

What will you do when the unthinkable happens? Pastor Levi Lusko never expected that five days before Christmas, his five-year-old daughter Lenya would suddenly go to heaven after an asthma attack. Learn the eye-opening truth of the power of hope in a...

When Edith was stillborn without warning, the authors were both stunned and confused. Where should they turn for help? Who would answer their burning questions? One in in four pregnancies ends in miscarriage; one in 200 in stillbirth. And yet, while...

In the face of personal and global suffering, is it possible to live with hope rather than despair? Join psychiatrist, speaker, and award-winning author Curt Thompson as he shows us how God transforms our grief into a lasting peace that surpasses all...

Each week has a different word to reflect on, along with personal stories, Bible references, journal reflections and a prayer, gently helping you to draw nearer to God who understands your pain and grief. In the midst of our own heartbreak, Lynda gently...

Best-selling author Paul David Tripp weaves together his personal story, years of counseling experience, and biblical insights to help us in the midst of suffering, identifying 6 traps to avoid and 6 comforts to embrace.About the AuthorPaul David Tripp...

Exploring the biblical truths found in each stanza of the classic hymn "How Firm a Foundation," David Powlison invites us to see God's perspective on and purpose for our suffering.About the AuthorDavid Powlison (1949-2019) was a teacher, a counselor, and...

Compassion-Based Approaches in Loss and Grief introduces clinicians to a wide array of strategies and frameworks for engaging clients throughout the loss experience, particularly when those experiences have a protracted course. In the book, clinicians...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814688663Author Richard R GaillardetzFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Liturgical PressPublisher Liturgical PressWeight(grams) 168g

A moving and lyrical memoir about life, love and loss, from a true giant of Gaelic games. In a frenetic seven-year spell at the outset of his senior managerial career, Mickey Harte led Tyrone to four Ulster Championships and three All-Irelands...

Tears are a common experience we rarely discuss, and then only in relation to pain and loss. David Runcorn draws upon a long Christian tradition of seeing tears as a gift to explore their deeper meaning and purpose, their place in human life and their...

When someone is grieving, what should you say? How can you help? How do you comfort without offering shallow platitudes? The Book of Comforts stands in the gap between suffering and hope, offering readers the abiding comfort found in Scripture and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830836949Author Soong-chan RahFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Inter-Varsity Press,USPublisher InterVarsity PressWeight(grams) 265gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912641512Author Lollys PublishingFormat HardbackPage Count 100Imprint Lollys PublishingPublisher Lollys PublishingWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 216mm...

Conjoined twins dilemma... Suicide of terminally ill patient... Designer baby transplant success... Woman gives birth at sixty-six... Rarely are human dilemmas out of the news. And what medical science can do and ought to do - or ought not to do -...

Perhaps a greater tragedy than a broken dream is a life forever defined by it." - Sheridan Voysey Your dream might be over, but your life isn't. Embrace your broken dream as a chance for a new beginning and see how a "Resurrection Year"...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780883687222Author James B RichardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Whitaker House,U.S.Publisher Whitaker House,U.S.Weight(grams) 340g

'Bring us, Lord our God, at our last awakening, into the house and gate of heaven...' John Donne's prayer speaks of the hope and promise of a life with God that embraces us beyond death as well as during our time on earth. However, people of faith...

For all who are curious about the dwelling place of God and the angels, this book explores the Bible's teaching on heaven and explains how it is nearer to earth than you might think. Paula Gooder considers the ways in which the Bible sees heaven and...

An honest look at grief and fears, faith and hope. Combining personal narrative, sound theology, and beautiful writing, this is a book for anyone who has loved and lost.On November 3, 2020, Tim and Aileen Challies received the shocking news that their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781514006214Author Natasha SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Inter-Varsity Press,USPublisher InterVarsity PressWeight(grams) 236g

Raw, honest and personal thoughts to comfort you on the journey through grief. Grief can often feel like a gnawing homesickness for a place where you used to live, but can never return to. Richard Littledale has written a series of short, candid thoughts...

Heaven is one of those great mysteries that somehow symbolizes what we don't know about ourselves and the world around us. At the same time it lifts our vision from the mundane realities of our lives and reminds us that beyond the daily grind of our...