This book teaches you how to embrace God even in suffering

In Embracing God in Your Suffering, Dave Furman offers a tender, biblically grounded reflection on walking with God through pain, disability, and disappointment. Rooted in personal experience and rich in scriptural hope, this book calls you to find joy in clinging to Christ

In Embracing God in Your Suffering by Dave Furman (Evangelical Press) offers a pastoral, personal, and biblically rich reflection on walking with God through seasons of pain, disability, depression, and disappointment. This is not simply a theological exposition, but is birthed out of Furman’s own lived experiences of disability through long-term nerve damage and seasons of depression. In this work, readers are invited to turn towards God - their Rock - in suffering. To find refuge, not in the hope of a pain-free life, but in the presence and promises of Christ.

The book is structured around thirteen short chapters. In each one, Furman traces major biblical themes such as God as our refuge, salvation through Christ, the resurrection, the Fatherhood of God, the purpose of suffering, the power of weakness, and the future hope of heaven. The central image framing the book comes from a quote often attributed to Charles Spurgeon: “I have learned to kiss the wave that throws me against the Rock of Ages.” Rather than treating suffering as something to avoid, Furman calls Christians to embrace God in the midst of it, seeing suffering as a means of deeper communion with him”.

The strengths of this book are considerable. Furman writes with deep authenticity and vulnerability, never minimising the horror of suffering or offering easy, triumphalist answers. Instead, he speaks as someone who knows suffering intimately and has found