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In True Betrayal, Brad Hambrick outlines a clear, compassionate, and biblical 9-step framework for processing and healing from your spouse’s sexual infidelity.
The Wounded Heart - Dan Allender
Dan guides readers into their own stories of past harm to help them see how shame, contempt, and ambivalence effect their life, how to enter into the grief of the past, and how to experience the healing grace of Jesus. The accompanying workbook is a helpful tool alongside this book.
Jay helps readers to understand that their sexual struggles are not random but instead have grown out of the soil of past harm and the challenges in their family of origin. He also helps chart a course toward healing by cultivating meaningful connection with God and others.
Nouwen takes readers through a prolonged meditation on Luke 15 via Rembrandt's painting of The Return of The Prodigal Son. He helps readers to see that God's grace calls them beyond simply coming home from the far country (the younger brother), but also coming home from the far country of self-righteousness (the older brother) to experience the love of God such that they themselves become like the Father.
In this modern classic, Ortlund takes readers deep into the tender heart of Christ, helping them to rest in God's love even while they continue in their struggle against sin, guilt, and shame.
Sam Allberry draws on his own experience as a believer who experiences same-sex attraction, as well as exploring Bible passages that talk directly about homosexuality. He frames the whole discussion with Jesus’ general teaching on sex and marriage, as well as what Jesus teaches about finding ultimate satisfaction and happiness. He shows that the gospel is good news for everyone, whatever their sexual orientation.
Ed Welch helps readers see where they have been taken captive by peer pressure, the fear of man, and codependency, and how they can find identity and freedom in Christ that enables them to need people less and love people more.
Thompson unpacks the soul of shame, revealing its ubiquitous nature and neurobiological roots. He also provides the theological and practical tools necessary to dismantle shame.
Laurie and Matt Krieg share their story and the theological truths about God, marriage, and sexuality that sustained them through sexual abuse, pornography, same-sex attraction, and more.
DeGroat helps readers reconnect with who God has created and redeemed them to be by helping you consider & confront what keeps you stuck, understand the relationship between your body and emotions and experience God as a compassionate witness to your trauma.
In False Love, Brad Hambrick outlines a 9-step framework for recovery from sexual sin and invites you to experience freedom and true intimacy with God and those you love.
True Betrayal - Brad Hambrick
Trauma is commonly referenced and frequently misunderstood. In this comprehensive resource, counselor Darby Strickland empowers helpers to recognize signs of trauma and walk alongside sufferers in an informed, helpful, and Christ-centered way.
Too many men and women aren’t sure what to do with the power they bring to a marriage. But this power is a gift from God! Biblical counselors Dave and Krista show you how to use your strengths to serve your spouse, how to craft a shared family vision that brings clarity to disagreements, and how to navigate tough conversations and situations—all so you can build a stronger marriage.
An impassioned call to join together two traditions that are frequently and unnecessarily kept separate. It is an invitation to pursue the best of both worlds in worship, the Eucharistic and the charismatic, with the grace of God at the center.
This book provides much needed clarity and wisdom to the devastating reality of spiritual abuse. Dr. Kruger's perspective as a Bible scholar and seminary president is invaluable. He brings church leaders face-to-face with the destruction abusers cause. He does this to help us take spiritual abuse seriously, to foster the motivation to enact real change, and to fill us with compassion for those who suffer from abusive 'leaders
Writing with pastoral care and compassion, Lloyd-Jones seeks to understand why contemporary Christians “too often give the appearance of unhappiness and lack of freedom and absence of joy.” He identifies joy as an important characteristic of the early Christian church. At the same time that he identifies key factors that contribute to spiritual depression in the modern era, he also illuminates how spiritual vitality resides in the mind and spirit of Christ.
Longman gives us the kind of help we need to overcome the distance between the psalmists' world and ours. He explains the various genres of psalms, the way they were used in Hebrew worship, their relationship to the rest of the Old Testament, and the characteristics of Hebrew poetry. Then he looks at how Christians can apply the message and insights of the Psalms today.
Brennan Manning, encourages you to let go of the pressure of an impostor lifestyle and lean into the life-changing wonder of a truly loving relationship with God. With a gentle wisdom book addresses developing deeper intimacy with God, overcoming your inner pharisee, and resting in your true identity as God’s child. This book will light the way to freely accepting your belovedness and being renewed by the reassurance of the Father’s deep care for you―regardless of how perfect your life isn’t.
The Way of the Heart clears before us a spiritual path consisting of three stepping-stones: Solitude (learning not to be alone but to be alone with God); Silence (the discipline by which the inner fire of God is tended and kept alive); and Prayer (standing in the presence of God with the mind in the heart).
Eugene challenges us to read the Scriptures on their own terms, as God’s revelation, and to live them as we read them. With warmth and wisdom Peterson offers greatly needed, down-to-earth counsel on spiritual reading. In these pages he draws readers into a fascinating conversation on the nature of language, the ancient practice of lectio divina, and the role of Scripture translations; included here is the “inside story” behind Peterson’s own popular Bible translation, The Message.
The Dynamic Heart in Daily Life provides a comprehensive view of how the heart works and how Christ redeems it. Pierre’s faith-centered understanding of people combines with a Word-centered methodology to give readers a practical way to help others better understand their tough experiences and who they are in light of who Jesus is. Pierre guides readers through four key activities—reading, reflecting, relating, and renewing—that will consistently position them to understand everyday human experiences in light of Scripture.
God intends a person's gender to be grounded in the reality of his or her biological sex--the body God has given. In making his case, Smith critiques the central claim of transgender theory: that the sexed body does not determine the gendered self. He also evaluates contemporary changes in thought and speech about sex and gender, responding to modern confusion with biblical conviction and compassion. God speaks clearly, both in his word and in his world.
In this exploration of Christian identity, psychologist and spiritual director David G. Benner illuminates the spirituality of self-discovery. He exposes the false selves that you may hide behind and calls you to discover the true self that emerges from your uniqueness in Christ. Freeing you from illusions about yourself, Benner shows that self-understanding leads to the fulfillment of your God-given destiny and vocation.
With eloquence, candor, and simplicity, Buechner tells the story of his father's alcohol abuse and suicide and traces the influence of this secret on his life as a son, father, husband, minister, and writer. His meditation on the connection between knowing and sharing secrets and discovering the reality of a loving and merciful God, shows a poignant picture of what it means to be human.
Buechner brings to these meditations on biblical passages a keen eye for narrative and detail. He brings as well an artist's love for language. Written simply and directly (their original audience was a group of students at the private school where the he was a minister), Buechner delves into topics ranging from Jacob's wrestling with the angel (this is the "magnificent defeat" of the title) to the annunciation and birth of Jesus and beyond.
These powerful reflections on biblical themes point up the truth that the darkness of doubt is often necessary to provoke a hunger for God. This work invites us to discover the hidden face of God, the manifestation of his grace, revealed in stillness, in unexpected places, often "through a glass, darkly." It invites us to say yes to "the possibility of God", and to recover "this fantastic hope that the future belongs to God...that holiness will return to our world."
Foster offers a warm, compelling, and sensitive primer on prayer, helping us to understand, experience, and practice it in its many forms-from the simple prayer of beginning again to unceasing prayer. He clarifies the prayer process, answers common misconceptions, and shows the way into prayers of contemplation, healing, blessing, forgiveness, and rest.
Men today are starved for sexual formation. They've been failed by parents, churches, and culture alike, leading to widespread shame, confusion, and brokenness in the area of sexuality. In this work, Sam Jolman helps men reconnect their God-given sexuality with innocence, awe, and joy, and shows them how to celebrate—instead of struggle against—the gift of sexual desire.
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