{"id":466,"date":"2013-01-30T17:38:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-30T17:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/54.225.232.228\/us\/product\/from-grief-to-glory\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T10:15:49","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T10:15:49","slug":"from-grief-to-glory","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/banneroftruth.org\/uk\/store\/christian-living\/from-grief-to-glory\/","title":{"rendered":"From Grief to Glory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are few joys to match that which a child brings to a family. And even fewer sorrows that rival the pain of burying a child. James Bruce and his wife, Joni, knew that pain when their infant son died. 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BOICE<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"toctoggle\">Table of Contents <a class=\"button\" href=\"#toc\">Expand \u2193<\/a><\/h3>\n<div id=\"toc\" class=\"table-of-contents\">\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Preface to the New Edition<\/td>\n<td>9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Foreword<\/td>\n<td>11<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Prologue<\/td>\n<td>13<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>PART ONE: THE ANGEL OF DEATH<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td>The River Without a Bridge<\/td>\n<td>33<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<td>A Father\u2019s Last Embrace<\/td>\n<td>43<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<td>The Cruel Destroyer<\/td>\n<td>47<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<td>More Epitaphs<\/td>\n<td>53<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>PART TWO: THE VALLEY OF WEEPING<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>5<\/td>\n<td>A Mother\u2019s Moan<\/td>\n<td>69<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>6<\/td>\n<td>A Dagger of Ice<\/td>\n<td>73<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>7<\/td>\n<td>Not As I Will<\/td>\n<td>85<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>8<\/td>\n<td>More Tears<\/td>\n<td>93<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>PART THREE: THE PATH TO GLORY<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>9<\/td>\n<td>Sleeping in the Bosom of the Almighty<\/td>\n<td>145<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>10<\/td>\n<td>Weep Not<\/td>\n<td>155<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>11<\/td>\n<td>No More Crying: A Token for Children<\/td>\n<td>165<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>12<\/td>\n<td>Lessons in Sorrow<\/td>\n<td>175<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Epilogue<\/td>\n<td>185<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Appendix<\/td>\n<td>195<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Select Bibliography<\/td>\n<td>211<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Reviews<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/banneroftruth.org\/uk\/resources\/articles\/2008\/from-grief-to-glory-a-review-by-martin-downes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Review by Martin Downes<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/banneroftruth.org\/uk\/resources\/articles\/2009\/from-grief-to-glory-a-review-by-sarah-pawlak\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Review by Sarah Pawlak<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In \u2018A Book of Comfort for Grieving Parents\u2019, the author shares the sorrow of his own family\u2019s loss of a child, and that of others such as Martin Luther, Charles Spurgeon and John Bunyan. 216pp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":128250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[1249],"product_tag":[3160,5595,6154],"class_list":{"0":"post-466","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-christian-living","7":"product_tag-death-of-children","8":"product_tag-ebooks","9":"product_tag-suffering","10":"pa_binding-ebook","11":"pa_binding-paperback","12":"pa_binding-paperback-ebook","13":"pa_class-bp","14":"pa_era-20th-century","15":"pa_format-book","16":"pa_isbn-3162","17":"pa_original-pub-date-1415","18":"pa_page-count-2992","19":"pa_recent-pub-date-aug-1-2008","20":"pa_recent-pub-date-year-6052","21":"pa_subtitle-spiritual-journeys-of-mourning-parents","22":"pa_theauthor-bruce-jay","23":"pa_topic-life-issues","25":"first","26":"instock","27":"purchasable","28":"product-type-variable","29":"has-default-attributes"},"bundled_by":[],"bundle_stock_status":"instock","bundle_stock_quantity":null,"bundle_virtual":false,"bundle_layout":"","bundle_add_to_cart_form_location":"","bundle_editable_in_cart":false,"bundle_sold_individually_context":"","bundle_item_grouping":"","bundle_min_size":"","bundle_max_size":"","bundle_price":[],"bundled_items":[],"bundle_sell_ids":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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