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To Be a Man: A Guide to True Masculine Power

By Robert Augustus Masters, PhD A groundbreaking guide to a genuinely healthy masculinity, at the heart of which is a potent pathway: facing our unresolved wounds and whatever else holds us back, bringing our head, heart, and guts into full-blooded alignment. To Be a Man clarifies what’s needed to enter a manhood as strongly empowered as it’s vulnerable, as emotionally literate as it’s unapologetically alive, a manhood at home with...

Forgiveness

By Mark Sakamoto When the Second World War broke out, Ralph MacLean traded his quiet yet troubled life on the Magdalene Islands in eastern Canada for the ravages of the Second World War. On the other side of the country, Mitsue Sakamoto and her family felt their pleasant life in Vancouver starting to fade away after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Ralph found himself one of the many Canadians captured by the Japanese in December...

Coping When Your Spouse Dies

By Medard Laz   Coping When Your Spouse Dies helps readers realize that, while you can’t bring back a spouse who died, you can face your grief in a series of stages which lead toward personal healing. The author advises those trying to cope with a loss not to bury their feelings, but rather to go through the pain of death and look toward the new life God has provided. Death. Most people don’t want to talk about it. But...

When Your Father Dies: How a Man Deals with the Loss of His Father

By Dave Veerman & Bruce Barton Whether his passing was sudden or gradual, regardless of the health of the father-son relationship . . . when the man who gave you life dies, a part of you dies as well. It is an emotional rite of passage that affects who you are, how you relate to others, how you deal with your past, and how you face your future. You will find study questions at the end of each chapter in this book as authors Dave...

The Dying Time: Practical Wisdom for the Dying & Their Caregivers

By Joan Furman & David McNabb “One of the best books available on caring for the dying, The Dying Time combines deep insight and down-to-earth practicality. All caregivers need to know what’s between these covers. This book demystifies the process of death, yet honors the sacredness of life’s final transition. Highly recommended.”—Larry Dossey, M.D., author of Prayer Is Good Medicine “Living until we...

How To Go On Living When Someone You Love Dies

By Therese A. Rando Mourning the death of a loved one is a process all of us will go through at one time or another. But wherever the death is sudden or anticipated, few of us are prepared for it or for the grief it  brings. There is no right or wrong way to grieve;  each person’s response to loss will be different.  Now, in this compassionate, comprehensive guide,  Therese A. Rando, Ph.D., bereavement specialist and  author...

If Your Dearest Should Die: Dealing With The Loss Of A Loved One

By John R. Brokhoff If Your Dearest Should Die will provide comfort and assurance to anyone whose loved ones are facing death or have recently died. Because death is the great unknown, we all have questions about what happens to our loved ones when they depart this world. This brief booklet provides clear and succinct answers based on the scriptures. Brokhoff writes honestly and compassionately about a subject that is difficult for...

Finding Your Way After Your Parent Dies: Hope for Grieving Adults

By Richard Gilbert Reverend Richard Gilbert has created a compassionate guide for those struggling with the loss of a parent. Bringing many years of experience in bereavement counseling, Gilbert sketches out some of the issues that arise in the wake of a parent’s death and offers practical suggestions for navigating these difficulties. From the disorientation that can come immediately after death to relating to the surviving...

Grieving a Suicide: Help for the Aftershock

By David Powlison Someone you know and love has died. You feel the emptiness and sorrow of loss. That alone is extremely hard. But suicide adds many other painful reactions to the heartache that death brings. Common reactions are feelings of anger, guilt, betrayal, and many, many unanswerable questions. This is one of life’s broken, dark experiences in which you need help and encouragement to remember that the promises and...

Gone But Not Lost: Grieving the Death of a Child

By David W. Wiersbe Hope for the brokenhearted. We all expect our parents to precede us in death. No one expects to have to make their child’s funeral arrangements. And the loss of a child brings with it a special and persistent manifestation of grief that can feel “like a stomachache that never ends.” Gone but Not Lost is a thoughtful gift for a family that has experienced the death of a child. Each of its brief...

Should We Live Forever?: The Ethical Ambiguities of Aging

By Gilbert Meilaender Well-thought-out perspectives on living both long and well.  In Should We Live Forever? Christian ethicist Gilbert Meilaender puzzles over the implications of the medical advances that have lengthened the human life span, wrestling with what this quest for living longer means for our conception of living well and completely. As he points out in his introduction, “That we often desire, even greedily desire,...

Revealing Heaven: The Christian Case for Near-Death Experiences

By John Price In Revealing Heaven, Reverend John W. Price makes the case for how near-death experiences can be gifts from God and are fully compatible with Christian spirituality and the Bible. As a pastor open to near-death experiences, he has heard more than 200 personal accounts of this phenomena. Todd Burpo’s bestelling book Heaven Is for Real, the story of a young child’s near-death experience, has validated the existence...

The Edge of Life

By  John R. Ling An expert’s analysis of bereavement, eugenics, ageing, suicide, hospices, autonomy, and living wills, from a Biblical perspective and considering the Hippocratic oath, this book shows that modern medicine is adrift and calls for a return to the culture of life and principled compassion. The borders between life and death are blurrier than ever, thanks to years of ambiguity about the status of the fetus. At the...

Naming the Silences

By Stanley Hauerwas Why does a good and all-powerful God allow us to experience such pain and suffering? This question, so often asked, has been approached in a variety of ways. In this illuminating and powerful book, Hauerwas explores why we seek explanations for suffering and evil so desperately in today’s world. He draws on true cases of ill and dying children to illustrate and clarify his discussion of these theological...

Life’s Living Toward Dying: A Theological and Medical-Ethical Study

By Vigen Guroian In the past several years our culture’s long-standing prohibitions against suicide and euthanasia have been seriously challenged. A great tidal change in morality and law may be occurring as the courts seem to be creating a new right — the individual’s right to die. Life’s Living toward Dying responds to this challenge. Vigen Guroian discusses society’s moral confusion over the meaning of death...

Grief: Contemporary Theory and the Practice of Ministry

By Melissa M. Kelley   The experience of grief has been a source of intrigue and curiosity throughout history, and it continues to stimulate thought and theory in various fields of study. Unfortunately, these fields tend to function in isolation from each other. The result is a substantial disconnect between grief research, theory, and care — which has evolved greatly over the last two decades — and ministerial practice. Using a...

On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families

By Elisabeth Kübler-Ross One of the most important psychological studies of the late twentieth century, On Death and Dying grew out of Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross’s famous interdisciplinary seminar on death, life, and transition. In this remarkable book, Dr. Kübler-Ross first explored the now-famous five stages of death: denial and isolation, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. Through sample interviews and conversations, she...

The Grace in Dying: A Message of Hope, Comfort, and Spiritual Transformation

By Kathleen D. Singh   In this brilliantly conceived and beautifully written book, Kathleen Dowling Singh illuminates the profound psychological and spiritual transformations experiences by the dying as the natural process of death reconnects them with the source of their being. Examining the end of life in the light of current psychological understanding, religious wisdom, and compassionate medical science, The Grace of Dying offers...

More Than a Parting Prayer: Lessons in Care-Giving for the Dying

By William H. Griffith   William H. Griffith offers a book that can be used by anyone — layperson or clergy — who wants to learn about what is important to those who are dying. Through powerful and moving stories drawn from his 20-plus years of experience in chaplain ministry, Griffith provides lessons for caregivers who walk with others through the “Valley of the Shadow of Death.” Through Griffith’s poignant stories, readers will...

The Art of Dying and Living: Lessons from Saints of Our Time

By Kerry Walters   “Dying is the most general human event, something we all have to do. But do we do it well? Is our own death more than an unavoidable fate that we simply wish would not be? Can it somehow become an act of fulfillment, perhaps more human than any other human act?”—Henri Nouwen All of us face the prospect of death – if not this day, then one day. But most of us would rather defer that thought indefinitely....

Unconditional?

By Brian Zahnd In a world where the ugliness of rage and retaliation are driving the story line, Unconditional? offers the beauty, reconciliation, and total restoration of forgiveness the way Jesus taught us to live it.  More than just another biblical exposition, this book begins with the horror of the Holocaust as it explores what forgiveness means — and how far it should go — in the real world of murder, rape, child abuse,...

Now I Walk on Death Row: A Wall Street Finance Lawyer Stumbles Into the Arms of A Loving God

By Dale S. Recinella As one of the most influential finance lawyers in the country, Dale Recinella was living the American dream. With prestige, power, and unthinkable paychecks at his fingertips, his life was perfect. . . at least on paper. But on the heels of closing a huge deal for the Miami Dolphins, Dale’s life took an unfathomable turn. He heard – and heeded – Jesus’s call to sell everything he owned and follow him....

Cancer: A Medical and Spiritual Guide for Patients and Their Families

By William A. Fintel M.D. & Gerald R. McDermott Ph.D. Modern medicine has made amazing advances in the treatment of cancer, but most people still react with shock and fear when they receive the diagnosis. Cancer doesn’t just affect the patient physically; it has emotional and spiritual implications as well. This comprehensive guide to cancer from a Christian perspective combines the hands-on experience of a medical doctor...

A Grief Observed

By C. S. Lewis   Written after his wife’s tragic death as a way of surviving the “mad midnight moments,” A Grief Observed is C.S. Lewis’s honest reflection on the fundamental issues of life, death, and faith in the midst of loss.  This work contains his concise, genuine reflections on that period:  “Nothing will shake a man – or at any rate a man like me – out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely...