Edited by Peter Seewald For almost two millennia, Christian men and women have banded together to live in devotion to God and humanity. Recent studies have shown that, on average, men and women in Holy Orders are healthier and live longer than the rest of us. What timeless solutions to the things that ail us might we have dismissed in our rush into the modern age? Written by three very modern seekers who visited monastic communities...
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Edited by Victoria Maizes and Tieraona Low Dog Women have made it clear that they desire a broader, integrative approach to their care. Here, for the first time, Integrative Women’s Health weaves together the best of conventional treatments with mind-body interventions, nutritional strategies, herbal therapies, dietary supplements, acupuncture, and manual medicine, providing clinicians with a roadmap for practicing...
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By Elaine Wainwright Women Healing/ Healing Women begins with a search for women who were healers in the Graeco-Roman world of the late Hellenistic and early Roman period. Women healers were honoured in inscriptions and named by medical writers, and were familiar enough to be stereotyped in plays and other writings. What emerges by the first century of the Common Era is a world in which women functioned as healers but where healing...
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By Tom White Discover how to recognize spiritual attack, pray for deliverance, break generational curses, protect yourself and your children in an age of growing darkness. People who are in trouble must discern the source of the problem. A correct assessment of the problem’s origins is the first step toward responding well and resolving the situation. Is the issue explainable by natural causes? If not, it is likely that the...
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By Jan Coates If you – or someone you love – experienced emotional, physical, or sexual abuse as a child, you know something of the brokenness, anger and helplessness that resulted from it. But there is hope when God reaches down and lifts you up. Jan Coates will introduce you to real women who were abused, who hit bottom, and now thrive as transformed survivors. Impossible? Improbable? Without God, yes. But there is real hope as you...
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By Debra Laaser Infidelity doesn’t have to ruin your life – or your marriage If you have been devastated by your husband’s sexual betrayal – whether an isolated incident or a long-term pattern of addiction – you need to know you don’t have to live as a victim. If you choose to stay in your marriage, you have options other than punishing, tolerating, or ignoring your spouse; in fact, extraordinary growth awaits a woman willing to...
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By Paula Rinehart Compassionate counselor Paula Rinehart understands the high price a woman pays in loosening her sexual boundaries, and the unique role sex plays in forging a bond meant to last a lifetime. She shows women how to break free from the bondage of misused sexuality and create a new beginning in their relationships with men. This is required reading for every college-age woman who longs for a man to see her beauty and...
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By Anne Paulk Restoring Sexual Identity offers answers to the most commonly asked questions from both homosexuals desiring change and friends and relatives of women struggling with same-sex attraction. With precious few Christian resources available to help women dealing with unwanted homosexual feelings, Anne Paulk’s new book breathes life into a dry desert. Anne Paulk began her journey out of homosexuality when she accepted the Lord...
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By Harriet Lerner In The Dance of Intimacy, the bestselling author of The Dance of Anger, outlines the steps to take so that good relationships can be strengthened and difficult ones can be healed. Taking a careful look at those relationships where intimacy is most challenged – by distance, intensity, or pain – she teaches us about the specific changes we can make to achieve a more solid sense of self and a more intimate connectedness...
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By Bob Sorge This book sounds a bold call to the highest consecration in our sexuality. Get ready for a unique book that is apprehending, prudent, and empowering. Based on Bob’s own experience with Job 31:1, this book extends an invitation to actually make a covenant vow before God with our eyes. Written for all ages, men and women alike, this book excavates from the ancient spirituality of the book of Job the master key to...
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By Rita Springer Find your way to the heart of God, where you will discover all you need to fulfill His purposes for your life. In Genesis 3 the serpent came to Eve and within moments caused her to think she was lacking something. When she looked at the forbidden tree, she saw that it was pleasant to the eyes, good for food, and had the power to make one wise. Although she already possessed beauty, provision, and an intimate...
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By Gary L. Thomas If you’re sick of all the ways you’ve tried to bring about change in your marriage – the silent treatment, nagging, one-way discussions, or pleading – it’s time to set aside those broken methods for a Christ-based approach. This book demonstrates how women can inspire, influence, and help their husbands move in positive directions. Replacing your plan of action with God’s leads to a marital transformation where both...
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By Sydna Masse What do 33% of American women have in common? They’ve experienced abortion. You might be one of these women. Or maybe it’s your friend, sister, coworker, or the woman sitting next to you at church. Regardless, post-abortive women are in pain, and at some point, most will experience post-abortion syndrome (PAS), a form of post traumatic stress disorder. But they may never talk about it. Many are silent...
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By Linda Cochrane Coming to terms with the pain, guilt, and grief of an abortion. Forgiven and Set Free, an inspired Bible study that can be used by individual women or by a group, effectively ministers God’s healing grace to women who are suffering remorse and guilt after an abortion. This study was developed out of Linda Cochrane’s experience of being freed from the bondage of guilt and grief that followed her abortion....
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By Betty Huizenga Discover a program that takes seriously the biblical admonition for older women to mentor younger women. Learn about how to set up an Apples of Gold study group, including what personnel and funding are needed, scheduling and planning. Lessons on kindness, loving your husband and children, submission, purity and hospitality are based on Titus 2:3-5. Here’s what women are saying about Apples of Gold . . ....
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By Pam Havey Lau Young women long for relational connection. Yet, without realizing it, more mature Christian women often distance themselves from women in their twenties and thirties because they use different language to talk about God or have different views on church and theology. In A Friend in Me, Pam Lau shows readers how to be a safe place for the younger women in their lives. She offers five patterns women need to...
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By Marie Youngblood Abuse runs deep. Many people try to silence it, however abuse is real. Three out of four women will become victim to some sort of abuse. Through the Fire councils woman who are victims of abuse and helps them through their grieving process by using a Bible-based curriculum, with verses as well as female figures from the Bible who also experienced abuse. This book illustrates and explains the “me trinity,”...
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By Joni Eareckson Tada Over four decades ago, a diving accident left Joni a quadriplegic. Today, she faces a new battle: unrelenting pain. The ongoing urgency of this season in her life has caused Joni to return to foundational questions about suffering and God’s will. A Place of Healing is not an ivory-tower treatise on suffering. It’s an intimate look into the life of a mature woman of God. Whether readers are enduring...
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By Robyn Joy An in-depth, 10-week women’s Bible study on learning how to be content through the experiences of life. A Journey Toward Contentment is designed to help readers see that the Scriptures are alive and active. The inspired Word of God is love letters written with you in mind, from the heart of God. These love letters will activate your soul to bring comfort, encouragement, tenderness, and rest. You can find contentment...
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By Fulton J. Sheen Sheen brilliantly examines the vast differences between the benefits of psychotherapy and true confession that leads to conversion. While one may help the patient gain some peace of mind, the Christian gains something far greater through the grace of confession: peace of soul. Bishop Sheen asks us to stop blaming our subconscious for our ills and examine instead our conscience; to turn away from the psychoanalyst...
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By Jim McManus Father Jim McManus focuses on the rediscovery of the healing power of prayer within the medical profession and the recovery of the healing ministry within the Church. Healing in the Spirit, the author states, helps readers deepen their conviction in God’s healing intention and encourages them in bringing the healing word of God to all they meet. His premise is that this ministry is not restricted to ordained...
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By Brady Boyd For those moving too fast through life, a guide to help them slow down and discover rest. Speed is the single greatest threat to a healthy life-but often we make it a way of life. Brady Boyd invites readers to reexamine the speed at which they are living and discover that God desires for them peace and rest. We are too busy, overstressed, and overworked to figure out how to slow down, but Boyd says that slow down, we...
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By Steven R. Tracy This book provides a well-researched biblical and scientific overview of abuse. A broad overview, it deals with the various types of abuse, the various effects of abuse, and the means of healing. Abuse can be sexual, physical, neglect, spiritual, and verbal. The chief arguments pursued throughout the book are: (1) abuse is far more rampant than most Christians realize, but due to human depravity and satanic...
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By Ken Stifler Offering a psycho-spiritual approach to the problem of suicide, Dr. Stifler speaks directly to the individual who is contemplating suicide, has survived a recent suicide attempt, or who is suffering a chronic form of self-neglect, offering perspective, hope and the possibility of grace. (Publisher’s description) Available at Christian...
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By George Nakashima On a farmlike compound near New Hope, Pennsylvania, George Nakashima, his family, and fellow wood-workers create exquisite furniture from richly grained, rare timber. Tables, desks, chairs, and cabinets from this simple workshop grace the homes and mansions and executive boardrooms of people who prize such excellence. In this lavishly illustrated volume, George Nakashima allows us in intimate look at his artistry,...
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