God Meets Us in Our Suffering

Hope and Encouragement for Those Journeying Through Cancer

by: Rolf A. Jacobson

• Format

  Paperback

  ISBN

  9781587436932

  Dimensions

  5.5 x 8.5

  Pub. Date

  Jan 2026

  SRP

  $21.99

  Carton Quantity

  40

  Number of pages

  192

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About

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, including

· how to navigate doubt and find strength in the theology of the cross;
· how Psalm 23 guides us through uncertainty and suffering;
· how God meets us in suffering with grace and power; and
· how laughter, love, and community sustain us in the darkest moments.

For those living with a serious illness and those journeying alongside them, this book offers comfort, courage, and a renewed trust in God's faithfulness.

Contents
1. Diagnosis: Dealing with the Disorienting News of Cancer
2. Treatment: When God Shows Up in Your Suffering
3. Meals and Milestones: How We Show Up for Each Other
4. Laughter: Finding Joy in the Midst of Illness and Disability
5. Survival: Living in the Aftermath of Illness
6. Death: Recurrence, Fear, Exhaustion, and Hope
Epilogue: It Doesn't End There
Appendix: Funeral Sermon for Karl Jacobson by Hans Wiersma
Discussion Questions

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Endorsements

"Three Lutheran pastors--the Jacobson brothers, Rolf and Karl, and Michael Pancoast--have given us a most heartfelt, honest, personal, practical, faithful, and funny book on how even human suffering can be a God-given opportunity to fall more deeply in love with God. In eloquent, truthful, disarmingly candid testimony, these three well-formed believers show the rest of us how to suffer like Christians. If there is a more engaging application and demonstration of Luther's theology of the cross, I don't know it. If and when it's my lot to have cancer, and when someone in my church is suffering (and there are already many), God Meets Us in Our Suffering will be my friend and guide. Although I'm a Methodist, this book has made me want to suffer like a Lutheran. Thanks for this gift of a book, and thanks be to a crucified God who meets us in our time of suffering, especially there."

Will Willimon, professor of the practice of Christian ministry, Duke Divinity School; United Methodist bishop, retired; author of Aging: Growing Old in Church

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