What does it feel like when the bottom drops out? If you’ve been through it, you know.

It may have been triggered by a devastating job loss, a crumbling marriage, a son or daughter who’s making all the wrong choices, chronic—even terminal—illness, a home teetering on the brink of foreclosure . . . or already gone.

For Pastor Rob Bugh, the bottom dropped out when he lost both his best friend and his wife to cancer in less than a year and a half, and had to deal with the aftermath as a single parent.

On seven Sunday mornings beginning September 11, Rob—Senior Pastor of Wheaton Bible Church and author of the new book, When the Bottom Drops Out—Finding Grace in the Depths of Disappointment—will be telling his story and talking about the bedrock truths that got him through those dark days.

“There is a spectrum—a continuum—of disappointment,” he says. “At one end are minor annoyances and irritations. At the other end is devastating loss. And most of us regularly live in the middle and sometimes go to one end or the other.”

The economic downturn of the last couple years has dramatically increased his church’s and the community’s exposure to suffering and loss. “When we talk about suffering, we think of people who are facing foreclosures, struggling to put food on the table, and feeling irrelevant because their job skills either don’t fit or aren’t needed,” he said.

Pastor Rob, the Senior Pastor of Wheaton Bible Church and author of the new book When the Bottom Drops Out—Finding Grace in the Depths of Disappointment, will be talking about suffering as a part of God’s plan, His love, and His sovereignty.

“I’m going to talk about what grief looks like, about how to handle change, and developing a baseline understanding of certain parts of the Bible that can really help anyone develop an approach for handling suffering,” he said.