Hope for Your Heart: Finding Strength in Life's Storms (28 page)

2
. 2 Cor. 5:1.

3
. 2 Cor. 5:8 esv.

4
. Variously attributed to Henry Scott Holland and Henry Van Dyke; source uncertain.

5
. Matt. 25:21.

6
. John 14:2–3.

7
. Rev. 21:4 esv.

8
. Ps. 16:11 esv.

9
. Job 3:17 esv.

10
. Rev. 21:27.

11
. Rev. 5:11–12.

12
. 2 Cor. 4:18.

13
. 2 Cor. 4:16–17.

14
. Ps. 30:5.

15
. Lyrics by Don Wyrtzen, chorus by L.E. Singer; copyright © 1971 by Singspiration, Inc., The Zondervan Corporation.

16
. 1 Cor. 2:9.

17
. Phil. 3:20.

18
. C. S. Lewis,
The Last Battle
(New York: HarperCollins, 1956, 1984), 227–228.

19
. William Shakespeare,
Hamlet
, 3. 1.

20
. Rom. 5:5.

Chapter Fourteen: When Sea Billows Roll

1
. Horatio G. Spafford, “It Is Well,” public domain.

2
. Phil. 4:7 esv.

3
. Ps. 139:16.

4
. Vinita Hampton, “The Nearly Fatal Voyage,”
Christian History
, January 1, 1990,
www.christianitytoday.com/ch/1990/issue25/2511.html
.

5
. Matt. 5:16 esv.

6
. John 14:27 esv.

7
. Much of this background material comes from the article by Kevin Perrotta, “It Is Well with My Soul: The Priceless Legacy of Anna and Horatio Spafford,”
Word Among Us
, January 2005. Also see The Christian History Institute, Tom Corts, “Glimpses #210: Horatio Spafford: It Is Well with My Soul,” Christianity Today International, July 2007,
www.christianhistorytimeline.com/GLIMPSEF/Glimpses2/ glimpses210.html
; Forrest McCann,
Hymns and History
(Abilene, TX: Abilene Christian University Press, 1997).

8
. Col. 1:27.

Epilogue: How to Know Your Anchor Will Hold

1
. Ruth Caye Jones, “In Times Like These,” quoted in Kenneth W. Osbeck,
101 More Hymn Stories: The Inspiring True Stories Behind 101 Favorite
Hymns
(Grand Rapids: Kregel, 1985), #46.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

June Hunt is an author, singer, speaker, and founder of Hope For The Heart, a worldwide biblical counseling ministry featuring the award-winning radio broadcast by the same name heard daily across America. In addition,
Hope In The Night
is June’s live two-hour call-in counseling program that helps people untie their tangled problems with biblical hope and practical help. Hope For The Heart’s radio broadcasts air on approximately four hundred radio outlets worldwide.

Early family pain was the catalyst that shaped June’s compassionate heart. Later, as a youth director for more than six hundred teenagers, she became aware of the need for sound biblical counseling. Her work with young people and their parents led June to a life commitment of providing
God’s Truth for Today’s Problems
.

After years of teaching and research, June began developing scripturally based counseling tools called
Biblical Counseling Keys
that address definitions, characteristics, causes, and steps to solutions for a hundred topics (such as marriage and parenting, anger and abuse, guilt and grief). Recently these individual topics were compiled to create the landmark
Biblical Counseling Library
.

The Counseling Keys have become the foundation for the Hope For The Heart’s
Biblical Counseling Institute
, initiated by The Criswell College. Each monthly conference in the Dallas-based Institute provides training to help spiritual leaders, counselors, and other caring Christians meet the very real needs of others.

June has served as a guest professor at colleges and seminaries, both nationally and internationally, teaching on topics such as crisis counseling, child abuse, wife abuse, homosexuality, forgiveness, singleness, and self-worth. Her works are currently available in more than sixty countries and more than twenty languages, including Russian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Mandarin, Korean, Japanese, and Arabic.

She is the author of
How to Forgive . . . When You Don’t Feel Like it
,
Seeing
Yourself Through God’s Eyes
,
Bonding with Your Teen through Boundaries
,
How
to Rise Above Abuse
,
Counseling Through Your Bible Handbook
,
How to Handle
Your Emotions
,
Keeping Your Cool . . . When Your Anger Is Hot!
,
Caring for a
Loved One with Cancer
, and more than forty topical HopeBooks. June is also a contributor to the
Soul Care Bible
and the
Women’s Devotional Bible.

An accomplished musician, June has been a guest on numerous national television and radio programs, including the NBC
Today
show. She has toured overseas with the USO and has been a guest soloist at Billy Graham crusades. Five recordings—
Songs of Surrender
,
Hymns of
Hope
,
The Whisper of My Heart
,
The Shelter Under His Wings
, and
The
Hope
of Christmas
—all reflect her heart of hope.