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Healing Victims of Sexual Abuse: How to Counsel and Minister to Hearts Wounded by Abuse

By Paula Sanford   Sexual abuse victimizes everyone – the abused, families, loved ones, and even the abuser. This book offers love, acceptance and healing to those traumatized by sexual abuse, leading them to new paths of hope, healing and wholeness. Very few authors have ventured into the territory of sexual abuse. Paula Sandford charges into the field with the fierce force of a mother who will not tolerate her children walking...

Growing a Healing Ministry: A Resource for Congregations & Communities

By Kathy Edmison   This book is based directly on the experience and wisdom of those who have established energy-touch healing ministries in congregational settings. (Publisher’s description) Available at Christian Book

Finding God in the Singing River: Christianity, Spirit, Nature

By Mark I. Wallace   We live in an age of vast and rapid destruction of habitats and species. Yet Christianity holds great potential for healing this situation. Indeed, the Bible and Christian tradition are a treasure trove of rich images and stories about God as an “earthen” being who sustains the natural world with compassion and thereby models for humankind environmentally healthy ways of being. Mark Wallace’s...

Ecologies of Grace: Environmental Ethics and Christian Theology

By Willis Jenkins   Christianity struggles to show how living on Earth matters for living with God. While people of faith increasingly seek practical ways to respond to the environmental crisis, theology has had difficulty contextualizing the crisis and interpreting the responses. In Ecologies of Grace, Willis Jenkins presents a field-shaping introduction to Christian environmental ethics that offers resources for renewing theology....

Healing Words: The Power of Prayer and the Practice of Medicine

By Larry Dossey Proving prayer to be as valid and vital a healing tool as drugs or surgery, the bestselling author of Meaning & Medicine and Recovering the Soul offers a bold integration of science and spirituality. Larry Dossey, M.D., is the author of the New York Times bestseller, Healing Words, and Prayer Is Good Medicine. An authority on spiritual healing, he lectures throughout the country and has been a frequent guest on...

The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse

By Ellen Bass and Laura Davis Come to terms with your past while moving powerfully into the future.  The Courage to Heal is an inspiring, comprehensive guide that offers hope and a map of the healing journey to every woman who was sexually abused as a child—and to those who care about her. Although the effects of child sexual abuse are long-term and severe, healing is possible. Weaving together personal experience with professional...

Holy Listening: The Art of Spiritual Direction

By Margaret Guenther Guenther uses the images of the spiritual director as host, teacher, and midwife to describe the ministry of spiritual direction today. She pays particular attention to spiritual direction for women, and addresses such down-to-earth questions as setting, time, and privacy. The stories of real people bring the practice of spiritual direction alive. In the pages that follow, I will attempt to describe the shape that...

Restoring the Christian Soul

By Leanne Payne Winner of Christianity Today’s Critics’ Choice Award. In this award-winning book, Leanne Payne reveals how to overcome the three great barriers that keep us from becoming whole persons: • The inability to receive God’s forgiveness • The inability to forgive others • The inability to accept ourselves Leanne Payne is founder and president of Pastoral Care Ministries and has been active in the ministry...

The Wounded Healer

By Henri J.M. Nouwen The Wounded Healer is a hope-filled and profoundly simple book that speaks directly to those men and women who want to be of service in their church or community, but have found the traditional ways often threatening and ineffective. In this book, Henri Nouwen combines creative case studies of ministry with stories from diverse cultures and religious traditions in preparing a new model for ministry. Weaving keen...

The Art of Forgiving

By Lewis B. Smedes   If you are ready to make peace with those who have hurt or betrayed you, there can be no finer road map than this thoroughly practical book. Lewis Smedes brings true forgiveness, “Gods own gift,” within the capacity of every wounded person, even in circumstances when only hate seems possible. With inspiring words, he leads you through the three stages of forgiveness and helps you understand: • Why we...

Resting in the Heart: A Spirituality of Healing and Wholeness

By Paul A. Feider Resting In The Heart is a book which invites people to discover and develop a scriptural way of allowing God’s unconditional love to heal the inner and physical wounds of their lives. It offers its readers a gentle way of coming home to the Love that created them, a love that heals and quenches the deepest human longing. In a very sound yet simple way it uses critical, scriptural scholarship to introduce the...

The Power of Praying for Your Adult Children

By Stormie Omartian In this important follow-up to The Power of a Praying Parent, Stormie addresses areas of concern you may have for your grown children and shares how to lift them up to God. With stories from other parents and insight gleaned from personal experience, Stormie helps you pray with the power of God’s Word over your adult children and their · career choices and sense of purpose · marriages and other vital relationships...

A Sacred Walk: Dispelling the Fear of Death and Caring for the Dying

By Donna M. Authers A Sacred Walk helps dispel the fear of death and draws uniquely on the experience of the dying to show how best to meet the practical, emotional, and spiritual needs of a loved one who is facing death. Writer Donna Authers lived in fear of death from childhood well into her adult life, the result of an unusual number of tragic losses in her family. The miraculous story of how that fear was broken marked the start...

Praying in Color: Drawing a New Path to God

By Sybil MacBeth Need help communicating with God?  Maybe you hunger to know God better. Maybe you love color. Maybe you are a visual or kinesthetic learner, a distractable or impatient soul, or a word-weary pray-er. Perhaps you struggle with a short attention span, a restless body, or a tendency to live in your head. This new prayer form can take as little or as much time as you have or want to commit, from 15 minutes to a weekend...

A New Harmony

By John Philip Newell   A New Harmony is a more holistic and natural way of thinking about faith. In his previous book, Christ of the Celts, J. Philip Newell emphasized the Celtic view of the oneness of creation and humanity as expressed through Christ. In that poetic treatment of the wisdom of Celtic spirituality, Newell pointed the way to a more peaceful, harmonious, integrated Christianity. A New Harmony takes the next step forward...

Women Healing From Abuse: Meditations for Finding Peace

By Nicole Sotelo Women Healing from Abuse assists Christian women who seek a holistic healing path after they have experienced abuse. With approximately one-third of all women in the United States having experienced abuse, this book is both timely and helpful. It looks at psychological theory on trauma and healing through a Christian lens and offers women a way to heal that takes seriously the fullness of their lives – body,...

Healing the Greatest Hurt

By Matthew Linn, Dennis Linn, & Sheila Fabricant Can a woman still be a mother to her aborted baby? Does God send “big sinners” to hell, beyond the reach of our prayers? In prayer we receive healing as we experience our ongoing relationship with the deceased. Through the Communion of Saints, we can. (Publisher’s description) Available at Christian...

Healing Life’s Hurts: Healing Memories Through the Five Stages of Forgiveness

By Dennis Linn & Matthew Linn   A volume of practical wisdom that applies the five stages of Kübler-Ross to the healing process. Explores the concept of emotional and physical healing as well as exploring the five stages of acceptance of death and dying in light of prayer and religious experience. This book integrates spiritual tools for deep healing with current psychological and medical understanding, and helps the reader apply...

Healing the Earth…a time for change

By John & Mark Sandford John and Mark Sandford introduce ancient Biblical perspectives to properly relate to animals, plants, and the Earth itself. Corporate mental strongholds must be corrected in repentance in order to heal the land from mankind’s sin. In Healing the Earth. . . a time for change, John and Mark Sandford introduce ancient Biblical perspectives for properly relating to nature and healing the land. The land itself...

Healing for a Woman’s Emotions

Paula Sandford   Grief, sorrow, loss and trauma can be overcome by God’s grace and support of women. Paula Sandford writes specifically to release women from damaging thoughts and feelings – into healthy, whole and fulfilled lifestyles. Written not only for all women, but also for the men who love them; Paula Sandford teaches release from damaging thoughts and emotions in this classic. Healthy self-acceptance and the foundational...

Growing Pains

By John Loren & Paula Sandford Childhood inner vows, life in the womb, prenatal rejection, birthing traumas, cuddling with toddlers, social growth, hearts of stone, sexual abuse, anorexia, bulimia and dyslexia are discussed by John and Paula Sandford in this Transformation Series book. Growing Pains helps you tackle unresolved issues like insecurity, anger, disappointment, or emptiness that remain from negative experiences in your...

God’s Power to Change

By John Loren & Paula Sandford Functions of Spirit, slumbering spirit, spiritual imprisonment, depression, defilements, devils, death wishes, identifications, and shrikism are discussed by John and Paula Sandford in this Transformation Series book. God’s Power to Change – book two of four in The Transformation Series – contains teachings that John and Paula Sandford originally published in their book Healing the...

Elijah Among Us: Understanding and Responding to God’s Prophets Today

By John Loren Sandford In his sequel to John and Paula Sandford`s classic The Elijah Task, John teaches about the history of prophecy and its biblical application for today. Is the prophetic gifting for today? If so, whom does it involve and how does it work? In this sequel to John and Paula Sandford`s classic The Elijah Task, John teaches about the history of prophecy and its biblical application for today. He shows those who have...

Deliverance and Inner Healing

By John Loren Sandford & Mark Sandford John Loren and Mark Sandford address deep and difficult theological issues in their discussion of Deliverance and Inner Healing. Making clear distinctions between the field of deliverance from demons, and inner healing of spiritual wounds, this substantial and authoritative book describes in clear terms how we are impacted by both demonic forces and broken hearts. Many elements of demonology...