Hearing Jesus Speak into Your Sorrow

In times of deep sorrow and disappointment,
everything we believe can be called into question.

In this paradigm-shifting book, Nancy Guthrie gently invites readers to lean in along with her to hear Jesus speak understanding and insight into the lingering questions we all have about the hurts of life—what was God’s involvement in this, and why did he let it happen? Why hasn’t God answered my prayers for a miracle? Can I expect God to protect me? Does God even care?

According to Nancy, this questioning is not a bad thing at all, but instead, an opportunity. It’s a chance to hear with fresh ears the truth in the promises of the gospel we may have misapplied, and in the purposes of God we may have misunderstood.

In Hearing Jesus Speak Into Your Sorrow, Nancy shines a light on eleven statements Jesus made, mining them for meaning for those who hurt. “Honestly, I’ve chosen many of these statements because they are the ones that have been most challenging for me to understand and apply to my own experiences,” Nancy writes. “They are the ones that have caused me to say, ‘I just don’t get it’ as I read them and tried to fit them into my established understanding of the nature and purpose of the ministry of Jesus. Over and over I find that the passages of Scripture that on the surface seem indiscernible to me hold some of the richest truths—life-changing, perspective-shaping, hope-giving truths.”

As you explore those truths with Nancy through the pages of this book, you’ll find that Jesus speaks life into death, hope into despair, truth into delusion, meaning into futility, peace into panic. And from his lips you’ll receive wisdom, compassion, companionship…and so much more.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Hear Jesus Saying, I, Too, Have Known Overwhelming Sorrow (Matthew 26:38)
Jesus understands the crushing weight and agonizing loneliness of grief.

Chapter 2: Hear Jesus Saying, I, Too, Have Heard God Tell Me No (Matthew 26:39)
Jesus shows us what to do when God doesn’t give us what we want.

Chapter 3: Hear Jesus Saying, I Am Willing to Heal Your Deadliest Disease (Mark 1:41)
Jesus knows what we need most of all.

Chapter 4: Hear Jesus Saying, I Will Save You from Yourself
(Matthew 16:23)
Jesus saves us from a wasted life of trying to get our own way.

Chapter 5: Hear Jesus Saying, I Will Keep You Safe (Matthew 10:28)
Jesus protects us from eternal harm.

Chapter 6: Hear Jesus Saying, I Have a Purpose in Your Pain
(John 9:3)
Jesus gives us insight when we wonder why.

Chapter 7: Hear Jesus Saying, I Will Give You a Heart for Forgiveness (Mark 11:25)
Jesus empowers us to forgive people who don’t deserve it.

Chapter 8: Hear Jesus Saying, I Am Enough for You
(2 Corinthians 12:9)
Jesus supplies what we need when we need it.

Chapter 9: Hear Jesus Saying, I Am Giving Life to Those Who Believe in Me (John 11:25-26)
Jesus asks us to believe that death is not the end of life.

Chapter 10: Hear Jesus Saying, I Am in Control of Your Life and Your Death (Revelation 1:17-18)
Jesus soothes our fear of death.

Conclusion: Hear Jesus Saying, I Will Give You Rest (Matthew 11:28)
Jesus opens his arms to us.