Trusting God through Tears

A Story to Encourage

by: Jehu Thomas Burton

• Format

  E-Book

  ISBN

  9781441215345

  Pub. Date

  Apr 2000

  SRP

  $15.00

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Offering gentle comfort and encouragement for the grieving spirit and solid church teachings to challenge the mind, Trusting God through Tears tells the moving story of a family's loss and a father's struggle to trust his Creator in the midst of tremendous pain.

Following the sudden death of his twelve-year-old son, Jehu Burton finds himself immersed in the emotions that come with great loss and faced with faith-shaking questions that have never before arisen in his spiritual life. In this inspiring book, Burton walks readers through the days, months, and years following Kelly's death. He reveals how he survived the most terrible event of his life and learned to trust in God's sovereignty.

Readers who have experienced a family death--as well as counselors and those who have suffered through divorce, extended separation, job loss, or other traumatic events--will see how Burton found comfort in Scripture, discover how he became a changed person able to reach out to others facing suffering, and find hope and encouragement to do the same.

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Endorsements

"Jehu Burton's gripping account of his young son's death offers the hope of Christ in the midst of incredible suffering. This book provides support for all who endure loss and experience grief."
--Tremper Longman III, Robert H. Gundry Professor of Religious Studies, Westmont College

"It has been said that to experience the death of a beloved young, healthy child is to suffer the insufferable. Jehu Burton takes the reader through such devastating grief, but tells how our Heavenly Father's love is sufficient for even so great a tragedy. God's sacrifice of His only beloved son was harder to bear than we can ever know, because He was the one sinless Person who ever lived, yet died that sinners might have eternal life through faith in Him. A moving, engaging, and very helpful book for all who are acquainted with grief."
--D. James Kennedy, Ph.D., senior minister, Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church

"Jehu Burton expresses the feelings, thoughts, questions, aches, and ambushes every bereaved parent experiences. His analysis of his experience provides thoughtful, biblical insight for survival in the 'foreign land' of grief. This is not a book for the newly bereaved. It will be a source of strength six months to a year after a child has died."
--David W. Wiersbe, author

"Each chapter is a tight, passionate bear hug that assures grieving parents that they are not crazy--just heartbroken. This book will encourage them to lean into their pain and find a new level of normal as they face each day without their child and learn to trust God through their tears."
--Sharon and Chuck Betters, authors, Treasures of Faith and Treasures of Encouragement

"This story is a testimony to the grace of God in the life of one man at the time of his deepest grief, the death of a child. His faith in the sovereignty of God is the only way we can endure such tragedy and maintain our sanity. I have been there. I know. Read it!"
--C. Everett Koop, M.D., Sc.D.

"I have watched Jehu and his family walk the path of deepest pain. In this book Jehu presents his honest emotions and thoughts regarding the death of his son, but we can also see him emerge triumphant in his faith. I highly recommend that every grieving parent read this book."
--Marilyn Willett Heavilin, author, Roses in December and Grief Is a Family Affair

"As a father of two sons killed in an automobile accident and a grieving and at times bewildered parent, this book helped me to gain a clearer concept of trusting the wisdom of God in the results that he allows in our lives. On a number of occasions as I read this book, I found myself saying, 'Yes, Lord, You are God and I must trust You.'"
--Ed Lasko, pastor, Middletown Baptist Church

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Reviews

"This book will comfort anyone who has lost a loved one or is facing the agony of seeing someone die. But this is more than a book on bearing grief. It can help readers discover that nothing - not even evil or death - can steal faith, love, and hope for the future. This is an enduring portrayal of what it means to trust God in all circumstances."--CBA Narketplace (April 2000)

"Many readers will weep over this story, written honestly from the heart by a father who loves his son who has gone ahead of his parents to heaven. This book will help anyone who suffered loss of a family member or knows someone who has. But it will also help any believer better understand God's providence and His great purposes for the trials we endure on earth."--Moody (May/June 2000)