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This study guide by Dane Ortlund helps readers reflect further on the biblical truths found in Gentle and Lowly through discussion questions organized into 10 helpful lessons. Designed for individual and small-group use.About the AuthorDane C. Ortlund...

How does Jesus feel about his people amid all their sins and failures? This book takes readers into the depths of Christ's very heart-a heart of tender love drawn to sinners and sufferers.About the AuthorDane C. Ortlund (PhD, Wheaton College) serves as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780827235373Author Teresa B PasqualeFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Chalice PressPublisher Chalice PressWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 137mm...

Overcome the twin giants of cynicism and despair that threaten to derail your emotional and physical health and find hope for life by witnessing the power of God's redemptive healing.Part guidebook and part storytelling, The Other Side of Hope is a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830828487Author Eric L. JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Inter-Varsity Press,USPublisher InterVarsity PressWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm)...

Suicide claims a million lives a year. Each one leaves behind survivors - shattered, grieving, angry, guilty and often despairing. Al Hsu is one such survivor. On an ordinary Thursday morning, he answered the phone and discovered that his father had...

This edited collection about good practice for mental health chaplains and other related professionals looks at how spirituality is viewed across mental health fields. It identifies what mental health chaplaincy is, how mental health chaplaincy interacts...

In The Wisdom of Your Body, registered psychologist and award-winning researcher Hillary McBride explored the ways many of us inherit a broken understanding of the body and offered a more compassionate, healthy, and holistic perspective on embodied life...

Spiritual direction is a burgeoning ministry in today's church where the emphasis is on joining in with what God is already doing in the world - an approach that presupposes spiritual discernment. This guide explores spiritual direction from biblical and...

"That isn't what I meant!" Truly listening and being heard is far from simple, even between people who care about each other. This perennial bestseller--now revised and updated for the digital age--analyzes how any conversation can go off the rails and...

2022 Word Guild Award, Culture and Life Stories categories Globe and Mail Bestseller List, November 2021 (Self-Improvement) Many of us have a complicated relationship with our body. Maybe you've been made to feel ashamed of your body or like it...

This handbook is for ministers and lay leaders who are faced with leading an individual or a church community through a traumatic event and its aftermath. It arises out of the Tragedy and Congregations Project which helps churches to respond in a healthy...

Practical and down-to-earth, this short guide will equip you to come alongside a loved one who is hurting and offer comfort in ways that really help."This book is tender, compassionate, clear, honest, gospel-rich, and practical. There is nothing distant...

The New City Catechism Curriculum expands the questions and answers of The New City Catechism into fifty-two engaging and informative lessons, helping children ages 8-11 better understand the truth of God's word and how it connects to their lives.About...

For those exploring a sense of call - to ordained ministry, another vocation or to a change of direction in life, the standard advice is often to read some relevant books and consult a recognized expert. Rational thought is important, yet Listening to...

Examining clinical practice with families through a mentalizing lens, this innovative book is filled with practical therapeutic strategies and in-depth case illustrations. The expert authors focus on ways to help parents, children, and adolescents to...

This Gentle and Lowly set pairs a copy of the bestselling book with a companion journal. The journal has 23 sections corresponding to book chapters, along with key Bible texts, theology quotes, book excerpts, and space for notes.About the AuthorDane C...

This acclaimed work, now in a new edition, has introduced tens of thousands of clinicians to mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) for depression, an 8-week program with proven effectiveness. Step by step, the authors explain the "whys" and...

The classic counseling handbook for churches, classrooms, and the helping professions.This revised and expanded third edition of Gary R. Collins's comprehensive counseling guide offers solid biblical teaching on how to counsel and wise guidance on a...

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 The Sex Talk You Never Got, therapist Sam Jolman helps men...

Enfolded in Christ is a book about priesthood with a difference. Instead of focusing on ministry, it helps priests develop a healthy spiritual life to sustain them through the demands of their calling. John-Francis Friendship draws on extensive...

Let Boundaries for Your Soul show you how to turn your shame to joy, your anger to advocacy, and your inner critic into your biggest champion.Do your emotions control you or do you control your emotions? Boundaries for Your Soul, written by bestselling...

In this insightful book, accounts of voice hearers are presented, evaluated and interpreted by a Christian theologian and psychiatrist. By listening to the first-hand experiences of voice hearers and evaluating them in the light of Christian theology,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943852918Author Chaim BentorahFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint True Potential PublishingPublisher True Potential PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780819222978Author Susan S. PhillipsFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Morehouse PublishingPublisher Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.

Despite astute critiques and available resources for alternative modes of thinking and practicing, individualism continues to be a dominating and constraining ideology in the field of pastoral psychotherapy and counseling. Philip Rieff was one of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Gold Medallion Book Awards (Christian Ministry) 2004.Book InformationISBN 9780875526089Author David PowlisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint P & R...

It was a time when worship was at best shallow and at worst idolatrous. It was a time when greed was breaking up society. It was a time when the great and powerful failed to protect the poor and the weak. It was the time of the kings of Israel and Judah...

Tears are a common experience we rarely discuss, and then only in relation to pain and loss. David Runcorn draws upon a long Christian tradition of seeing tears as a gift to explore their deeper meaning and purpose, their place in human life and their...

Disenfranchised Grief expands the professional helper's understanding of the grief experiences that result from social, cultural, and relational oppression, microaggressions, disempowerment, and overt violence. The authors blend trauma-informed practice...

Jesus said, "Blessed are the peacemakers." But it often seems like conflict and disagreement are unavoidable. Serious, divisive conflict is everywhere-within families, in the church, and out in the world. And it can seem impossible to overcome...

This resource, written by late counselor David Powlison, seeks to gracefully and humbly encourage pastors to think of counseling as a relational and pastoral task focused on the care and cure of the souls of God's people.About the AuthorDavid Powlison...

Research literacy is now a requirement for Board-Certified chaplains in the US and a growing field in the UK. This reader gives an overview and introduction to the field of healthcare chaplaincy research. The 21 carefully chosen articles in this book...

This textbook untangles the complicated ethical dilemmas that arise during the day-to-day work of healthcare chaplaincy, and offers a sturdy but flexible framework which chaplains can use to reflect on their own practice.Tackling essential issues such as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593193525Author Sarah J RobinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Waterbrook Press (A Division of Random House Inc)Publisher Waterbrook Press (A...

The experience of 'hearing voices', once associated with lofty prophetic communications, has fallen low. Today, the experience is typically portrayed as an unambiguous harbinger of madness caused by a broken brain, an unbalanced mind, biology gone wild...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933993232Author Marlene WinellFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint Apocryphile PressPublisher Apocryphile PressWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 224mm *...

Gathering together thoughts and visions of experienced practitioners, academics, educators and strategic leaders from around the world, this edited volume sheds light on the nature of chaplaincy and its role and significance within ever-changing...

Dr. Alison Cook uncovers the conflicting thoughts and emotions that keep us stuck and teaches us how to name, tame, and transform them into clear solutions that help us move forward in confidence.We all want to live godly lives and navigate through the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525952473Author Timothy KellerFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint E P Dutton & Co IncPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 505gDimensions(mm) 235mm...