Kategoria BISAC: Religion >> Christian Ministry - Counseling & Recovery

Do you know who you are? Even more importantly, do you know Whose you are? Christians often look at their lives through natural eyes and see themselves as lonely, depressed, unacceptable to God, unable to be who they really want to be.

But a Christian who looks at him or herself through God's eyes sees someone quite different. In this encouraging book, bestselling author June Hunt helps you change your focus as you look in the mirror of God's Word. The reflection she urges you to see includes you as:

• a child of God
• chosen by God
• reconciled to...

A Program for Implementing a Christ-Centered Recovery Ministry in Your Church

Alcoholism - Divorce - Sexual Abuse - Codependency - Domestic Violence - Drug Addiction - Sexual Addiction - Food Addiction - Gambling Addiction and others.

There is a way the church can help the hurting move beyond their wounds to experience the healing and forgiveness of Christ. Since 1991, more than 200,000 people have participated in the Celebrate Recovery programs offered at more than 3,500 churches, prisons, and rescue missions.

Drawn from the Beatitudes, Celebrate Recovery helps people...

Sickness is hard. The combination of physical discomfort, emotional stress, anxious thoughts, and long stretches of boredom can make it difficult to remember--much less rely on and rejoice in--our good and sovereign God.

Reflecting on ten lessons he learned while recovering in the hospital, John Piper encourages those struggling with illness to fight for faith by focusing on the promises of God, the truth of the gospel, and the reality of eternity.

The grammar of Christian redemption cannot live solely in the future tense. Despite confidence about the effects of Jesus resurrection in the present, Christians are tempted to depict salvation as a future accomplishment, rather than a present reality. No doubt this failing is well founded, for most Christians know all too well that the power of the past particularly past suffering shapes the present. But as Mindy Makant argues in "The Practice of Story: Suffering and the Possibilities of Redemption," such reserve may cede too much to suffering and grant too little to redemption. Makant...