I recently had the opportunity to sit down for a few minutes with Nancy Guthrie to talk about the topic of suffering and a new collection of essays she has edited on suffering well.
Some of you may know Nancy’s writings on suffering. She tells her own story of profound suffering—the death of two of her children in infancy from Zellweger syndrome—in the book Holding On to Hope: A Pathway through Suffering to the Heart of God. Since that time she has gone on to write additional books exploring God’s comfort in suffering—for example, When Your Family’s Lost a Loved One: Finding Hope Together and Hearing Jesus Speak into Your Sorrow.
The occasion for the conversation below is a new book that she’s edited—a collection of classic and contemporary essays, called Be Still, My Soul: Embracing God’s Purpose and Provision in Suffering .
You can listen as Nancy tells her own story, and why she thinks this book will serve you.
Contributors to the book are: Joni Eareckson Tada, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Corrie ten Boom, John Calvin, J. I. Packer, John Piper, Jerry Bridges, R. C. Sproul, Charles H. Spurgeon, Helen Roseveare, John Newton, D. A. Carson, Martin Luther, Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Jonathan Edwards, Timothy J. Keller, Sinclair B. Ferguson, Philip Yancey, Augustine, Os Guinness, A. W. Tozer, Abraham Kuyper, Wilson Benton, Jeremiah Burroughs, and Thomas Manton.
