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

Bishop Grant Cole began with a bright future as a straight-A student in a good family. But within a year after graduating high school, he found himself married with a child and, as a major player in three different drug rings operating in and around Atlanta, serving five seven-year prison sentences.

Cole's life story is filled with wrong choices, deliverance from demons, and miraculous interventions. In "Into the Darkness, Out Into the Light," he reveals it all-six different prisons; his attempts at recovery through various drug programs, psychology, Scientology, and every self-help...

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. 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. Leaders in biblical counseling have emphasized a commitment to teaching doctrine in their counseling courses out of the conviction that good theology leads to good counseling...and bad theology...

"Graceful Alzheimer's Care" is a fourteen-week study guide for church and lay leaders to explore the church's role in providing Christ-like care to individuals with Alzheimer's disease and other chronic diseases.

Due to medical and health advances, there are far more elders in our congregations today than ever before-with an alarming percentage living with Alzheimer's.

Although many faith communities have strong healing ministries, they have fallen short in understanding the challenges of dementia and their ramifications on the individual and caregivers.

Inspired by the two main...

The purpose of this book is to share with other recovering persons and those who provide treatment plans for them, the importance of keeping a daily journal of events, feelings, situations, and circumstances as they occur during the process of recovery from the disease of addiction. The rewards of journalizing are beneficial in so many ways to one's spiritual growth, in spite of not knowing the correct spelling, grammar or punctuation at the time of recording. I am a recovering person who have sustained from all mood altering substances since February 23, 1990, one day at a time. As a...

In this stirring book, William H. Barnwell tells the stories of prison inmates and the Kairos Prison Ministry volunteers who work with them. Set mostly at the huge Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, Barnwell's narrative illustrates how offenders who have done the worst can and do change, becoming model inmates and, if released, productive citizens. The stories also reveal how Kairos volunteers have found healing for broken hearts.

Given that the United States incarcerates more people per capita than any country in the world, reformers are seeking radically new ways to reduce our...