“When we hurt and ask God ‘why?,’ we often are not looking for answers. Rather, our hearts are looking for comfort, encouragement, and Fatherly assurance that our world is not spinning out of control. In his new work, A Small Book for the Hurting Heart, my friend Paul Tautges points the reader to helpful insights from the best Answer of all, the Lord Jesus. Every page is filled with bite-sized wisdom from the Word of God, providing healing hope for every heart that hurts. I heartily endorse this small but power-packed book!” - Joni Eareckson Tada, Joni and Friends International Disability Center


“Grief is sometimes too burdensome to search for direction and comfort in Scripture. We want the encouragement of Scripture but don't have the energy to find just the right passages. In this little book, Paul has found those right passages and brought us into them so they can be brought into us.”- Edward T. Welch, Author of A Small Book for the Anxious Heart; faculty, Christian Counseling & Educational Foundation

“How often I have wished for this kind of resource to share with a friend in the throes of grief. A wise, seasoned pastor and counselor, Paul Tautges comes alongside the person in pain with short, encouraging, grace-filled reflections from God’s Word. These meditations will lift up weary hearts and tear-stained faces and help them find compassion and hope in the face of Christ.”- Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, Author; founder and host of “Revive Our Hearts”

“A small book but massive comfort! I’m so thankful for the rivers of spiritual healing that will flow through this beautiful daily devotional into many wounded hearts.”- David Murray, Professor of Practical Theology, Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary; author of Christians Get Depressed Too and Reset: Living a Grace-Paced Life in a Burnout Culture.

“Some people say that time heals all wounds. But it isn’t true. It is the Word of God, taken in day by day over time that brings healing to the deepest hurts of life and brings insight to the most perplexing questions of life. A Small Book for the Hurting Heart invites people to feed on truths from God’s Word, bringing comfort, hope, and healing.”- Nancy Guthrie, Author of Hearing Jesus Speak into Your Sorrow

“When our lives are touched by the ravages of the fall, and sorrow overwhelms like a flood, where do we turn? Paul Tautges takes us to Scripture to remind us that God is good when we walk in the sunlight without a care in the world, and He is good when we crawl in the darkness burdened with terrible pain and loss. Here is seasoned pastoral experience coupled with keen biblical insight, and here indeed is spiritual balm for the troubled soul.”- Stephen Yuille, Vice President of Academics, Heritage College and Seminary, Cambridge, Ontario; associate professor of biblical spirituality, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, KY