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| Bold Love |
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Dr. Dan B. Allender and. Dr. Tremper Longman III |
| If it feels like you've turned the other cheek so many times your head is spinning, it's probably time to take a second look at your practice of love. Because there's nothing redemptive about a love that just accepts people for who they are. |
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| Forgiving and Reconciling -- Bridges to wholeness and hope |
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Everett L. Worthington, Jr. |
Psychologist and counselor Everett Worthington, the leading Christian researcher on forgiveness, says that forgiving is a gift we give to others. When we offer forgiveness as an altruistic gift, it is more effective than when we forgive only for our own benefit in an effort to "get over" the hurt.
Worthington's expertise comes not only from years of scientific research but also from the experience of the brutal murder of his own mother. |
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| Growing In Grace: With Study Guide |
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Bob George |
If your only experience of God's grace is salvation, you're missing half the good news. The other half is equally inspiring--Jesus wants you to experience His grace every day as He lives his life through you!
Discover vibrant, life-embracing faith through the simple and timeless truth of God's grace. As we grow in grace, we rejoice in the scriptural promises that enable us to give up guilt and anxiety, let go of legalism, and rediscover the joyous reality of Christ living His life through us! |
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| Ordering Your Private World |
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Gordon MacDonald |
One of the great battlegrounds of the new century is within the private world of the individual. The values of our Western culture incline us to believe that the busy, publicly-active person in ministry is also the most spiritual.
Tempted to give imbalanced attention to the public world at the expense of the private, we become involved in more programs and more meetings. Our massive responsibilities at home, work and church have resulted in a lot of good people on the verge of collapse.
In this timely update. .McDonald equips a new generation to live from the inside out, cultivating the inner victory necessary for public effectiveness. |
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| Rebuilding Your Broken World |
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Grodon MacDonald |
Rebuilding Your Broken World offers the strength and compassion of biblical hope to those who struggle with shattered ideals.
The Bible, along with God's people living out biblical principles, offers a remarkable promise of rebuilding and renewal from which no one is ever exempt. |
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| The Art of Forgiving: When You Need to Forgive and Don't Know How |
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Lewis B. Smedes |
| Are you ready to make peace with those who have hurt or betrayed you? There can be no finer road map than this book. Smedes inspiring and thoroughly practical book leads you through the three stages of forgiveness and helps you understand: Why we forgive, what we do when we forgive, whom we forgive and how we forgive. |
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| The Compassionate Congregation |
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Karen Mulder and Genger Jurries |
| Faith Alive Christian Resources: 2002 This handbook is intended to help church members--including pastors, elders, deacons, and other caregives--to be caring and compassionate friends to persons going through a crisis. |
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| The Cry of the Soul: How Our Emotions Reveal Our Deepest Questions About God |
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Dan B. Allender and Dr. Tremper Longman III |
So often we find ourselves caught between extremes. Either we feel too much or not at all. We tend to ignore our feelings or fight them off as if they were an enemy. But all emotion--whether positive or negative--can give us a glimpse of the true nature of God.
This book shows that emotions are neither an embarrassment nor an impediment to spirituality, but the very stuff God uses as He shapes His salvation in us. |
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| The Heart of Pastoral Counseling |
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Richard Dayringer |
| Hayworth Press:1998 Dayringer lays the foundation for utilizing the pastoral counseling relationship to bring about positive change. This book is an extremely helpful book for Christian leaders who want to learn about a solid Christian perspective interfacing with helpful pastoral skills. |
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| The Jesus I Never Knew |
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Philip Yancy |
What happens when a respected Christian journalist decides to put his preconceptions aside and take a long look at the Jesus described in the Gospels?
Yancy offers a new and different perspective on the life of Christ and his work--his teachings, his miracles, his death and resurrection--and ultimately, who he was and is. |
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| The Minister as Diagnostician: Personal Problems in a Pastoral Perspective |
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Paul W. Pruyser |
| The Westminister Press: 1976 This very practical book assists pastors in assessing the needs of people from a distinctively pastoral focus. The pastoral-diagnostic intereview establishes the basis for referrals, personal counseling and mentoring, and other forms of pastoral care. |
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| The Ragamuffin Gospel |
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Brennan Manning, Rich Mullins |
| Are you bedraggled, beat-up, and burnt-out? Most of us believe in God's grace--in theory. But somehow we can't seem to apply it in our daily lives. We continue to see Him as a small-minded bookkeeper, tallying our failures and successes on a score sheet. Yet God gives us His grace, willingly, no matter what we've done. We come to Him as ragamuffins--dirty, bedraggled, and beat-up. And when we sit at His feet, He smiles upon us, the chosen objects of His "furious love." Brennan Manning's now classic meditation on grace and what it takes to access it--simple honesty--has changed thousands of lives. It will change yours, too. |
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| The Road Less Traveled: Spiritual Growth in an Age of Anxiety |
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M. Scott Peck, M.D. |
| Confronting and solving problems is a painful process, which most of us attempt to avoid. And the very avoidance results in greater pain and an inability to grow both mentally and spiritually. Dr. M. Scott Peck, a practicing psychiatrist, suggests ways in which confronting and resolving our problems--and suffering through the changes--can enable us to reach a higher level of self-understanding. |
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| Victory over the Darkness |
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Neil T. Anderson |
| It's Jesus' promise to you--the promise that you live triumphantly. But what keeps you from really walking in the joy of the Lord? The powers of darkness attack us daily. But, as Dr. Neil Anderson shows in Victory over the Darkness, you can have the power to conquer them by knowing who you are in Christ. Learn: your identity in Christ, how to win the battle for your mind, how to stand against the spiritual forces of this world, and become the spiritual person you want to be. |
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| What's So Amazing About Grace |
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Philip Yancy |
There is nothing we can do to make God love us more. There is nothing we can do to make God love us less. We speak of grace often. But do we understand it? More importantly, do we truly believe in it...and do our lives proclaim it as powerfully as our words?
Philip Yancey gives us a probing look at grace: what it looks like...what it doesn't look like...and why only Christians can and must reveal the grace the world is searching for. |
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| Where Is God When It Hurts? |
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Philip Yancy |
| Your pain is real. . . When will it go away? Sensitive and caring, this unique book discusses pain-physical, emotional, and spiritual--and helps us understand why we suffer from it and how to cope with our own and that of others. Yancy helps us discover how to reach out to someone in pain even when we don't know what to say. It shows us how we can learn to accept without blame, anger, or fear that which we cannot understand. |
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