Toward Bearing One Another's Burdens : Praying with Others Through the Challenges of Life. This item is unavailable.Toward Bearing One Another's Burdens : Praying with Others Through the Challenges of Life

Faculty, program directors, and leaders from the Pittsburgh Seminary community contribute essays on a wide range of topics to assist people in thinking, acting, and speaking well in their work of helping bear the burdens of others. Precisely because of the contributors’ diversity of approach, readers from a variety of viewpoints are likely to find contributions that speak to their own needs for effective ministry. The essays in this volume aim at helping Christian laypeople and leaders—especially newer leaders—navigate theologically complicated issues with the people to whom they minister. The 37 compositions address topics including, abuse, conflict, depression, dying without knowing God, incarceration, job loss, pregnancy issues, and suicide, among others. Preceded by introductory compositions on various aspects of prayer, the topical essays also point people to relevant biblical passages for discerning how God’s word might further shape a person’s caring for people facing difficult challenges.