Because crises bring about the need to make many decisions, Christians are afforded opportunities to glorify God by making choices and acting in ways that honor Him. As the world provides temporary solutions to those in crisis, the Biblical Crisis Intervention Model offers an opportunity for those in crisis to find the healing that God offers.
. The word crisis comes from the Greek krisis, which literally means decision.
Counseling by the Book: Revised and Expanded Edition
To most, counsel based on God's Word has become just one more option in a sea of choices. Most americans believe "getting counseling" is the remedy for every struggle in life.
Love Thy Body: Answering Hard Questions about Life and Sexuality
But has it really led to schizoid sex and bodies without meaning?In Love Thy Body, best-selling author Nancy Pearcey goes beyond politically correct talking points to offer a riveting exposé of the dehumanizing secularist ethos that shapes critical moral and socio-political issues of our day. Formerly an agnostic, pearcey was hailed in The Economist as"America's preeminent evangelical Protestant female intellectual.
Fearlessly and with compassion, she makes the case that secularism denigrates the body and destroys the basis for human rights. Throughout, pearcey sets forth a holistic and humane alternative availableto all--one that offers reality-oriented solutions that embrace the dignity of the human body and provide a sustainable basis for inalienable human rights.
Now, more than ever, we need to learn to "love thy body. Liberal secularist ideology rests on a mistake and Nancy Pearcey in her terrific new book puts her finger right on it. Does this lead to equality for women--or does it threaten the intrinsic dignity of all humans?Hookup Culture: On campus, and in the boardroom, in Hollywood, the sexual revolution was supposed to liberate us for recreational sex.
Kids down to kindergarten are being taught their body is irrelevant to their authentic self.
Only God Can Heal the Wounded Heart
The Meaning of Sex: Christian Ethics and the Moral Life
The meaning of sex provides a good balance between accessible theology and engaging discussion of the practical issues Christians are facing, sex within marriage, reproductive technologies, homosexuality, including premarital sex, and faithful living in a sex-obsessed world. This meaning, found in the Christian worldview, provides a framework for a biblical sexual ethic that adequately addresses the many contemporary moral issues.
Our culture is not only sex-crazed but also deeply confused about sex and sexual ethics. Unfortunately, christians seem equally confused, and the church has tended to respond with simplistic answers.
Self-Confrontation: A Manual for In-Depth Biblical Discipleship
Based solely on the bible, this thorough and systematic manual has been used successfully in many different cultures and countries. Self-confrontation offers a thorough, in-depth discipleship training resource that teaches you how to study the Scriptures for answers to lifes problems. Buy with confidence! Millions of books sold!
The helpful lesson format outlines biblical principles for growing spiritually, overcoming personal problems, building strong relationships, and counseling/discipling others in-depth. Used book in Good Condition.
A Theology of Biblical Counseling: The Doctrinal Foundations of Counseling Ministry
A theology of biblical counseling is a landmark new book that unpacks the core theological convictions that underlie sound counseling, and practical wisdom for counseling today. Condition: New. Heath lambert shows how biblical counseling is rooted in the Scriptures while illustrating the real challenges counselors face today through true stories from the counseling room.
A substantive textbook written in accessible language, seminaries, it is an ideal resource for use in training biblical counselors at colleges, and training institutes. Zondervan. As a ministry, counseling must be defined according to sound biblical theology rather than secular principles of psychology. For over four decades, biblical theology has been at the core of the biblical counseling movement.
Buy with confidence! Millions of books sold! Dr. Since the beginning of the biblical counseling movement in 1970, biblical counselors have argued that counseling is a ministry of the Word, just like preaching or missions.
If God Is Good: Faith in the Midst of Suffering and Evil
Publishers weekly Every one of us will experience suffering. Notes: brand new from publisher! 100% satisfaction guarantee. Multnomah Books. And he shows the beauty of god’s sovereignty—how it ultimately triumphs over suffering and evil in our lives and the world around us. He reveals the big picture of who God is and what God is doing in the world—now and forever.
We see the presence of evil in the headlines every day. It all raises questions about god—why would an all-good and all-powerful god create a world full of evil and suffering? How can there be a God if suffering and evil exist? Atheists such as Richard Dawkins and even former believers like Bart Ehrman answer the question simply: The existence of suffering and evil proves there is no God.
But in this illuminating book, and brings a fresh, hopeful, best-selling author Randy Alcorn challenges the logic of disbelief, and thoroughly biblical insight to the issues these important questions raise. Alcorn offers insights from his conversations with men and women whose lives have been torn apart by suffering, and yet whose faith in God burns brighter than ever.
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Instruments in the Redeemer's Hands: People in Need of Change Helping People in Need of Change Resources for Changing Lives
God’s plan is that through the faithful ministry of every part, the whole body will grow to maturity in Christ. This is a comprehensive treatment of how God uses people as tools of change in the lives of others, people who themselves are in need of change. Used book in Good Condition. Buy with confidence! Millions of books sold!
If you followed the lord for a thousand years, you would still need the ministry of the body of Christ as much as you did the day you first believed. Tracking provided on most orders. This need will remain until our sanctification is complete in Glory. In many ways, the church today has more consumers than committed participants.
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Catastrophic Crisis: Ministry Leadership in the Midst of Trial and Tragedy
Catastrophic crisis concludes with the "leadership Lifeboats" and "Aftermath" chapters, focusing respectively on practical, biblical insights from various other leadership authors and the hope and blessing God ultimately provides following a personal catastrophic crisis. Isbn13: 9780801035715. Notes: brand new from publisher! 100% satisfaction guarantee.
Buy with confidence! Millions of books sold! When sudden events turn things upside down, and the normal methods of operation are no longer possible, the leader and the leadership moment are placed in the fire and thrust into the spotlight at once. Used book in Good Condition. Multnomah Books.
Competent to Counsel
. Used book in Good Condition. Buy with confidence! Millions of books sold! . It establishes the basis for and an introduction to a counseling approach that is being used in pastors’ studies, in counseling centers, and across dining room tables throughout the country and around the world Isbn13: 9780801035715.
Not only have people’s immediate problems been resolved, but there have also been solutions to all sorts of long-term problems as well. Since its first publication in 1970, this book has gone through over thirty printings. Zondervan. Jay adams points out in his introduction, "I have been engrossed in the project of developing biblical counseling and have uncovered what I consider to be a number of important scriptural principles.