God Meets Us in Our Suffering
- Christian Living
- Publisher: Brazos Press (Baker Publishing Group)
- Published: 2026
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Publisher's Description
A cancer diagnosis changes everything. Fear, uncertainty, and suffering become daily realities in the midst of cancer--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. This book explores how● we can navigate doubt and find strength in the theology of the cross;● God meets us in suffering with grace and power;● Psalm 23 guides us through uncertainty and suffering; and● laughter, love, and community can 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.
Endorsements (4)
“This book is a gift, not just for those impacted by cancer but for all who suffer and try to know and love God in the midst of it all. Three Lutheran pastors—two brothers and one best friend—invite us into their journeys with cancer in order to tell the bigger story of God’s faithfulness to us and our faithfulness to God and to one another, even unto and beyond death. Beautiful, heartrending, hope-filled, and laugh-out-loud funny.”
“What strikes me most about this remarkable book is how it refuses to sanitize either suffering or faith. In a world full of spiritual platitudes about suffering, this book stands as a beacon of refreshing honesty. These three friends don’t minimize pain or rush toward false hope—they sit in the mess with us, share their Cheetos, and point us toward the Christ who embraced the cross. Their willingness to name fear, frustration, and even anger at God creates space for the rest of us to bring our whole selves into the conversation about divine companionship. Their ‘side by side by side’ journey through cancer reveals not a God who explains suffering away but a God who enters into it completely. This is theology lived out in hospital rooms and written with tears and laughter. This book will serve as a companion for anyone who has ever wondered where God is when life falls apart—and the answer, beautifully rendered here, is ‘Right here with us.”
“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.”
“This book is about a rare kind of love and the suffering that reveals it. Penned by three friends—Lutheran pastors who have each passed through cancer’s relentlessness, its indignities and aches—this book becomes an indispensable companion for patients, their families, and the medical community. With luminous wisdom and wry humor, the authors reflect on faithfulness—divine and human—and reveal how, even in suffering, God meets us with unanticipated grace.”
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