{"title":"Rick Rood","description":"Rick Rood is a graduate of Seattle Pacific University, and Dallas Theological Seminary. He has served as a pastor, seminary instructor, and beginning in 1996 as chaplain at an acute care medical center. He also served part-time as chaplain at a psychiatric hospital for twenty years. He is the author of Our Story . . . His Story: One Couple's Encounter with the Grace of God in the Crucible of Affliction (2014).","products":[{"product_id":"a-day-in-the-life-of-a-chaplain-hardcover","title":"A Day in the Life of a Chaplain - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eHow can I minister to people in the hospital? How can I bring grace and hope to people in pain? What is a Christian view of death and dying? Of grief and loss? Will I see my baby in heaven? Does God promise always to heal in answer to our prayers? How do we respond in the face of suffering and seemingly unanswered prayer? How does God use life's most difficult experiences? These are just some of the questions that Chaplain Rick Rood addresses in this book. Weaving together stories from his twenty-three years as a hospital chaplain and insights from Scripture, Rick provides help to those who want to minister effectively to hospital patients and their loved ones. As you read this book, you will walk with him through the various units of a hospital, and encounter situations typically experienced in each one. Rick's prayer is that the Lord might use this book to help its readers become more compassionate and more effective agents of God's grace in the lives of people in pain.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67955240009951,"sku":"9781666720259","price":34.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/hJ6sdruWCL9781666720259.webp?v=1791647561"},{"product_id":"a-day-in-the-life-of-a-chaplain-bringing-grace-and-hope-to-hurting-people-paperback","title":"A Day in the Life of a Chaplain: Bringing Grace and Hope to Hurting People - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eHow can I minister to people in the hospital? How can I bring grace and hope to people in pain? What is a Christian view of death and dying? Of grief and loss? Will I see my baby in heaven? Does God promise always to heal in answer to our prayers? How do we respond in the face of suffering and seemingly unanswered prayer? How does God use life's most difficult experiences? These are just some of the questions that Chaplain Rick Rood addresses in this book. Weaving together stories from his twenty-three years as a hospital chaplain and insights from Scripture, Rick provides help to those who want to minister effectively to hospital patients and their loved ones. As you read this book, you will walk with him through the various units of a hospital, and encounter situations typically experienced in each one. Rick's prayer is that the Lord might use this book to help its readers become more compassionate and more effective agents of God's grace in the lives of people in pain.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67955242827999,"sku":"9781666724530","price":18.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/kr6d3s7MBs9781666724530.webp?v=1791647573"},{"product_id":"our-story-his-story-one-couples-encounter-with-the-grace-of-god-in-the-crucible-of-affliction-paperback","title":"Our Story...His Story: One couple's encounter with the Grace of God in the Crucible of Affliction - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eRick and Polly Rood began their married life like many other couples-hoping for a life blessed by God, and to be used by Him in His service. Twelve years later, however, their life took an unexpected turn when at age 34 Polly was diagnosed with Huntington's disease, a neurodegenerative illness. For the next nineteen years they navigated this unexpected journey, which included Polly's residing in nursing home for the last eleven years of her life. This book recounts their struggles and fears, as well as their persevering hope. More than that, however, it tells the story of how God graciously carried them through these years of affliction. Rick's prayer is that by telling their story many others might find hope in our gracious and merciful God, both for this life and the next. \"Our Story...His Story shows how God graciously wills to strengthen His people to be faithful to each other and to Him in the midst of long-lasting affliction.\" Mark R. Talbot, PhD. Associate Professor of Philosophy, Wheaton College \"I pray God will use this book to encourage many others who are navigating the unavoidable storms of life.\" Wesley K. Willmer, PhD. Former Vice-President for Advancement, Biola University. Rick Rood is a native of Seattle, WA and was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is a graduate of Seattle Pacific University (BA in history) and Dallas Theological Seminary (ThM in Old Testament). He has served as a hospital chaplain with Healthcare Chaplains Ministry Association since 1996, at both an acute care and a psychiatric hospital in the Dallas, TX area. Rick cared for his wife Polly until her home going in 2003. They have a son and daughter. Rick married his new wife Li Lin in 2012 in Taipei, Taiwan. 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