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Anger is an often-overlooked part of grieving, and as such, is an appropriate response to profoundly painful events. Brad Hambrick provides a guided process to being honest with God to deepen your relationship with him.

Shelter Theology offers insight into the worlds of the invisible: individuals experiencing homelessness and those living in extreme poverty. Based on over ten years of chaplaincy in a homeless shelter, Dunlap shares the nuanced theology of people in harsh circumstances and outlines how their beliefs and practices enable survival and resistance.

"Pastor and counselor Brad Hambrick helps readers who feel stuck to understand forgiveness as the start of a journey that doesn't erase the past, but honestly confronts hurt and clears the way for a hope-filled discussion on how to move toward healing"--

What makes counseling biblical? What does the biblical counseling process entail? What is the focus of each stage of the process? Lauren Whitman, an experienced CCEF counselor, addresses these questions and more in A Biblical Counseling Process, sharing a process from start to finish that will help guide counselors in reaching the hearts of ...

"Biblical counselor Dale Johnson explains that the church is still the primary place where those who struggle can receive lasting hope and healing"--

A comprehensive overview of the nature of dreams as understood from a range of diverse perspectives, and their relevance for pastoral care. Its approach is both systematic and practical, enabling ministers, spiritual directors and counsellors to understand the nature of dreams and the role they play in the lives of those in their pastoral care.

?Peter Enns is brilliant at taking the big topics, those Christian ideas that usually scare us or intimidate us or worry us, and then make those very places a meeting place with a God who is bigger and wilder and more wonderful and trustworthy than we ever could have guessed.??Sarah Bessey, author of Out of Sorts and Jesus FeministThe author of How the Bible Actually Works and The Bible Tells Me So explains how our model of God and faith must evolve as our understanding of the world deepens?just as the Bible describes it should.Life throws us ?curve balls??from devastating personal losses to world tragedies. These events often leave us doubting God, the Bible, and our faith. But instead of pushing away our reservations, we should embrace them, Peter Enns argues. A leading biblical scholar and Christian mentor, Enns has never been afraid to question the Bible or Christian beliefs. Such thoughtful inquisitiveness, he argues, is part of God's plan. He wants us to question, because doing so actually leads to a stronger, lasting faith.By reframing how we see these events, we allow ourselves to see how the Bible itself showcases this very process and that ?treating curve balls as the enemy? is not only counterproductive but thwarts God's goal of helping us become mature and wise. Enns shares a number of curve balls he's encountered in his own life and the questions he has pondered. Does God care about the millions of people who never heard the gospel? Could I relate to a God who has created a universe this big? If God is so relatable, constant, and caring, how do we explain quantum physics? He reveals how particular biblical passages have helped him find wisdom, and how they can do the same for us.As Curveball persuasively shows, God is bigger and more mysterious than anyone's expectations. We need a faith that can grow just as deeply.

"Drawing from more than three decades of counseling supervision, author Bob Kellemen shares ten counseling missteps he has noticed in himself and others"--

Because children are vulnerable, they need to be protected. After more than two decades as a family counselor, Julie Lowe has seen how important it is to help parents and caregivers think wisely and biblically about the dangers children face. Instead of living in fear or denial, parents can model living by faith in a world where evil exists.

A psychiatric diagnosis can be heavy burden--for you or someone you love. What does God have to say about that? Edward T. Welch helps you answer that crucial question by exploring how God's Word speaks in ways that can help you find wisdom, rest, and hope in Jesus.

Who Made You a Pastor highlights the ills of today's pastor and church and proffers solutions to identified problems. It lists and sheds light on the twenty-five basic rudiments of service in ministry and provides forty questions that will expose the true identity of a pastor and church and the power(s) behind their existence.It beams a searchlight on the various categories of pastors and their appointing agents. The book gives an in-depth introduction and exposition of the pastoral ministry as approved by God based on absolute biblical principles.Who Made You a Pastor takes you on a sure journey to discover the true personality of your pastor and church.The book comprehensively provides a compass to enable you make the appropriate decision whether to abide with your pastor and church or exit them for a better alternative towards making you a true worshipper.

You probably speak 20,000 words a day, give or take, and each one influences those who listen. No wonder God has so much to say about our words. We are all counselors, whether we realize it or not! Speaking Truth in Love is a blueprint for communication that strengthens community in Christ. The principles outlined in this pivotal work are specific to counseling, yet extend to marriage, family, friendship, business and the church. ? Have you ever wondered how to be a more effective counselor? ? Have you ever looked for a better way to talk to difficult people? ? Have you ever wanted to express faith and love more naturally in your relationships? Practical in its approach yet comprehensive in its scope, Speaking Truth in Love is sure to become required reading for anyone interested in pursuing a career as a counselor or anyone else who longs for ways to redeem relationships.

The ideas in this book are not common sense, and are becoming less and less common with every passing year. Using insight gained from many years of Bible research, seminary teaching, and practical ministry, Dr. Earl Radmacher shows readers the truth of Proverbs 23:7: "As a man thinketh in his heart; so is he." Changing our behavior begins with changing our thoughts, and changing our thoughts requires the renewal of our minds, and making every thought captive to Christ. In You & Your Thoughts Dr. Radmacher shows us how. If you want to change your thoughts, read this book today.

Many of us live at a pace that is impossible to keep. Unrelenting busyness might feel necessary, but it can lead to chronic stress and burnout that hinders our love for God and others. Instead of adding more to our long to-do list, counselors Eliza Huie and Esther Smith guide readers in how to think biblically about their whole life. They give ...

Equipping Biblical Counselors reveals the steps needed to fulfill the calling in Ephesians 4:11-16 to embolden the body of Christ to continue changing lives with Christ's unchanging truth.

For many decades, pastoral caregiving was merely described in terms of psychological terminology. Although most helpful, caregiving implies more than merely counselling techniques and listening skills dealing mostly with the affective and cognitive dimension of our being human. Family, intergenerational, social and relational dynamics imply more than conversing, talking and verbalising. At stake, is the quality of relationships and the trustworthiness, legitimacy and authenticity of human encounters.It is argued that human encounters should be directed by justice, ethical sensitivity and an ethos of compassionate being-with the other. It implies a new understanding of time as being present in the mode of nurturing, forgiving, reconciling and unconditional embracing of even the other as resisting opponent. In order to establish mutual trust and confidence, timing in relational issues implies sharing, coexisting and reaching out to the woundedness of the other beyond social presuppositions and stigmatising prejudices.In this sense, encouraging encounters could be viewed as an indispensable link in theoretical and paradigmatic reflection on true dialogue as an essential feature of pastoral caregiving.It contributes to academic discourses in the discipline of clinical pastoral care as well as to the pastoral ministry. Its aim is the fostering of hope, comfort, healing and the resilient courage of bouncing back despite painful setbacks in life. To capture the core argument in encouraging encounters, we can use the words of Thomas Mann in his novel Joseph and his brothers:"The essence of life is presentness."