Hearing Jesus Speak into Your Sorrow
Nancy Guthrie
In Hearing Jesus Speak into Your Sorrow, Guthrie combines her empathy and wisdom to reveal how Jesus’ words offer us hope in our darkest moments, even as we face our own death. With clarity that only firsthand experience can inspire, she at once confronts the reality of sorrow—its rawness and depth—and embraces its resolution: namely, the hope we share in God’s love for us through Christ.
A Sacred Sorrow: Reaching Out to God in the Lost Language of Lament
Michael Card
Too often, we respond to news of terminal illness with platitudes, denial, or blind encouragement. Yet our need to grieve in suffering—to lament—has deep roots in Scripture. In this poignant book, Christian songwriter and teacher Michael Card analyzes the prayers of David, Job, Jeremiah, and Jesus, revealing the scriptural premise for engaging openly with God in our suffering and, in so doing, drawing nearer to the Lord.
Finishing Well to the Glory of God: Strategies from a Christian Physician
John Dunlop, MD
Dunlop, a doctor with decades of experience in geriatric medicine, offers a beautiful, tenderly written guide to resting in the arms of Christ at the end of life. He weaves medical advice into a narrative that combines elements of a memoir and a devotion. Reading this book feels like sitting beside a trusted friend, meandering through conversations that matter.
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Atul Gawande, MD
Although he does not write from a Christian perspective, Gawande’s best-selling book offers invaluable insight on aging, nursing home care, hospice, and care goals. He provides key advice to help us interpret the intricacies of a foreboding medical system. Gawande emphasizes reflection upon what makes life meaningful, which the believer can only perceive as a turning toward Christ.
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
C.S. Lewis
When faced with death, either our own or that of a loved one, our most precious asset is the gospel. Few books depict the hope, the beauty, and the grace of the gospel as clearly and vividly as Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia. At a stage when even detangling words in a sentence can overwhelm us, Lewis offers a journey into history’s greatest mystery, through prose accessible to a child.
