On August 31, 2020, New Growth Press will be releasing a new book: Caring for the Souls of Children: A Biblical Counselor’s Manual. Amy Baker is the general editor and a contributing author. In addition to Dr. Baker, other contributing authors include Julie Lowe, Jonathan Holmes, Mike Emlet, Ed Welch, Kevin Carson, Charles Hodges, Joni and Friends, and several others.
I was honored when Amy asked me to contribute a chapter on counseling grieving children. My chapter is called:
Facing Death and Grief: Hope and Help for Hurting Children
Why I Wrote Facing Death and Grief
As you may know, I’ve written two books on grief:
God’s Healing for Life’s Losses: How to Find Hope When You’re Hurting
So this topic of biblical counseling and grief is very important to me. Why?
Grief & the Trinity
Grief counseling is important to me because our grief is very important to the Trinity.
When we are distressed, our Father, too, is distressed (Isaiah 63:9). God is the Father of Compassion and the God of all comfort.
Jesus is the Man of Sorrows, acquainted with grief (Isaiah 53:3). He is our sympathetic High Priest who is touched with
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