Someone I Know Is Grieving: Caring with Humility and Compassion
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
Bestselling author and counselor Edward T. Welch walks readers through the difficult task of coming alongside grieving people with genuine compassion and humility.
When someone is grieving, it can be hard to know what to say or do. We want to be helpful, not hurtful, but it’s easy to go wrong. The good news is that we can learn to approach those who are grieving with the same compassion that Jesus shows us when we are grieving. It starts with humility and listening well and expands into practical support as the Spirit leads us.
In Someone I Know Is Grieving, Edward T. Welch leans on his many years of counseling grieving people to help readers learn from their compassionate Savior how to respond to people’s sadness and hard times without advice or trying to “fix it,” but to instead hear their story, learn from others’ experiences, and depend on the Spirit for wisdom for what to say and do.
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- Helps readers learn from their compassionate Savior how to respond to people’s sadness
- Walks readers through how to come alongside grieving people with genuine compassion and humility
- Directs readers to hear others’ stories, learn from their experiences, and depend on the Spirit to respond
- Responding Wisely to Suffering
- Hear More from Christ Our Wisdom
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This book is a treasure. It does far more than show you how to respond with humility and compassion. Ed reveals how to become the kind of person that suffering people long for and need. I’m going to do everything I can to make sure that all of our GriefShare leaders know about this powerful book.
—Sam Hodges IV, President, GriefShare
Just like all of Ed’s teaching and resources, this book is beautifully Christ-centered, gospel-driven, and thoroughly practical. It marvelously and helpfully answers the essential question of how to help our friends and family in their suffering. All believers need to grow in how to comfort one another in Christ!
—John C. Kwasny, Executive Ministry Director, Pear Orchard Presbyterian Church, Ridgeland, MS; director, One Story Ministries; author of several books, including Suffering in 3-D: Connecting the Church to Disease, Disability, and Disorder and Pursuing a Heart of Wisdom: Counseling Teenagers Biblically
It’s all too easy to misunderstand or mishandle people in mourning. In this insightful resource, Ed Welch helps us to consider how to become humble conduits of God’s comfort instead of hasty counselors who speak hurtful words. If you want to grow in your ability to speak with not at someone who is suffering grief, this book is for you.
—Christine Chappell, Author of Midnight Mercies: Walking with God through Depression in Motherhood; host, Hope + Help Podcast, Institute for Biblical Counseling & Discipleship; certified biblical counselor
- Title: Someone I Know Is Grieving
- Author: Edward T. Welch
- Series: Ask the Christian Counselor
- Publisher: New Growth Press
- Print Publication Date: 2023
- Pages: 82
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- ISBNs: 9781645073734, 1645073734
- Resource ID: LLS:SMNKNWSGRVNG
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-10-10T22:43:21Z
Edward T. Welch (PhD, University of Utah) is a counselor and faculty member at the Christian Counseling & Educational Foundation, where he has served since 1981. He holds a doctor of philosophy in counseling (neuropsychology) from the University of Utah and a master of divinity from Biblical Theological Seminary. Ed is a licensed psychologist and has been active in local church ministry for decades. He has been counseling for more than 35 years and has written extensively on the topics of depression, fear, and addictions. He has written numerous books, including When People Are Big and God Is Small (P&R Publishing, 1997), Shame Interrupted (New Growth Press, 2012), Side by Side (Crossway, 2015), and Created to Draw Near (Crossway, 2020). He blogs regularly at CCEF.org.