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Ouch! Sheep and Shepherds Bite: Slaying Bitterness is for anyone who has felt the sting of being hurt in the church—whether by a fellow believer, a trusted leader, or even a friend you thought would never turn against you. These wounds cut deep, and bitterness can take root quickly, poisoning your joy and faith. But God has given us the tools to fight back. In this book, the author draws from Scripture and real-life pastoral experience to show you how to: Recognize and confront bitterness before it takes over your heart.

For both beginning students and seasoned practitioners, Skills for Effective Counseling provides a biblically integrated approach to foundational counseling skills. It trains the listener to use crucial microskills such as perceiving, attending, empathic connection, and authenticity.

Counselors have a high calling to love and care for people who are struggling in a fallen world. A wise biblical counselor draws out the deep attitudes of the heart and encourages their counselees toward growth into the image of Christ. Learning about specific problems, sharing Scripture, and sitting with suffering people are all important parts of counseling. While all of these elements are essential to the counseling task, counseling will ultimately fail without the simple yet vital skill of listening well.

The Life Model is a unifying approach to ministries of counseling, recovery, pastoral care, prayer ministry, deliverance, inner healing, child rearing, body life, and health. Substance abuse recovery programs internationally are guided by the Life Model's five principles. Because the Life Model develops strong maturity, it is widely used as a church model, particularly where people must face suffering.

We are at a crossroads. Opioid and alcohol abuse are leaving a path of destruction in their wake. Pornography is desecrating families. Obesity is skyrocketing and plaguing millions, reaching epidemic levels in children. Heart disease and cancer are—by far—the leading “killers” in America. And on and on it goes, from nicotine to caffeine to food. As a society, we are out of control. But are there answers? Yes, absolutely—if we once again set our sights on God’s truth.

This is the hardest book I have ever written. It was emotionally exhausting. I think I will call this work a recording of my testimony—a collection of memories I have managed to piece together despite my years and years of trying to forget them. For many years, I was ashamed of the cracks in my pot. But now, I recognize that the light shines beautifully through all the cracks in my pot and casts a beautiful, unique shadow upon everything as I walk through life. I now am Unashamedly Flawed.

For a woman, marriage is a bridge upon which she desires to safely walk. If that bridge has ever fallen through, she thinks twice before bearing all her weight on it again. In How to Fight for Your Marriage Without Fighting with One Another, Dr. Raymond Force walks couples through our proven, 2-step process to rebuilding trust in their relationship. Our 2-step process is biblical, refreshing, and enjoys over a 70 percent success rate with couples in need.

Many people are struggling with mental-health conditions, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic and life in our image-conscious culture. But when it comes to helping, it can be tricky to know where to begin. This wise, compassionate, and practical book is written by Steve Midgley, psychiatrist and Executive Director of Biblical Counselling UK, and Helen Thorne, Director of Training and Resources at Biblical Counselling UK. It will help listeners understand and respond with biblical wisdom to people who are struggling with their mental health.

This is for all you women, who have suffered loss, are grieving, and just tired. Believe that there is an opportunity for happiness and an answer for sin. This book shares my troubled relationships, loneliness, and abandonment. It reveals my testimonies and prayers that will help you find your way out.

As gender identity, transgender experiences, and emerging gender identities continue to be normalized and celebrated, many parents are left struggling with what to think about these issues—let alone how to talk to their children about them. The leading Christian expert on LGBTQ+ concerns, Dr. Mark Yarhouse has spent years counseling and teaching on these issues. In this biblical, practical guide, he offers parents wisdom and answers to their biggest questions about gender, equipping you to critically engage gender theory from a Christian view.

Have you ever felt like life got in the way of you living your dream? Like you’re stuck in a rut and there is no way out? Are you ready to unleash the joy, peace, and fulfillment that you have been longing for? Maurice Martin has been where you are. Within these pages, he delivers a message that the pain of your past doesn't have to control your future anymore! It's time for you to break free from the chains that are holding you back.

Today, as a wife, mother, and friend, Rita bravely shares her shocking story in astonishing detail and with raw transparency that will make you both cry and rejoice. You'll find renewed strength for your own life and rediscover God's extravagant love and goodness.

Does it matter if you are sorry for what you have done—or that you have not done? Does your being sorry—does your remorse—matter? If so, how? Who is helped or changed by it? Can spiritual leaders help people wrestle with some of the most challenging dilemmas of their lives? Episcopal priest and licensed therapist Stephen Crippen describes remorse as the crisis—both destructive and creative—that erupts within the human spirit at the point where sin and grace collide.

Read by the author. Learn how to quiet your inner critic, confront chronic anxiety, and relax into God's perfect presence. Do you truly experience the promises Jesus gave to those who follow him—the benefits of peace, freedom, and love? The fact is that many of us struggle with a gap between...

Read by the Author! Unleash the superpower of being yourself. Sarah Jakes Roberts, bestselling author of Woman Evolve and newly appointed pastor of The Potter's House Church in Dallas, will help you craft a language toward your challenges with intentionality and develop an authentic lifestyle...

It's unnerving, isn't it? When our faith feels ungrounded, untethered . . . unreal. When our certainty is adrift, as though an undercurrent has pulled us away from shore into the deep, into the darkness. And if this is you—if you're in a dark night of the soul—please know that you are not alone. (And you are not as far away from safety as you may feel or fear.) The night is not your enemy. In fact, the night is necessary. Revered author, speaker, and mentor Dr. Alicia Britt Chole offers a groundbreaking perspective that reveals spiritual disillusionment as an unexpected friend.

What does the Bible tell us about our emotions? Does the Bible really tell us that our emotions are untrustworthy? God made us to feel our emotions, to examine and share them—not manage or suppress them. We can learn what it means to live emotionally-healthy lives from studying Jesus’ life...

Many of us long for the abundant life Jesus promised, but instead we feel stagnant and frustrated in our faith. More of us cultivate our view of God from our family of origin than from the pages of the Bible—and a faulty view of God will always be a barrier to a satisfying spiritual life. In his unique and interactive book God Isn’t Like That, author Bryan Clark returns us to Scripture on a step-by-step journey to identify and then correct our misconceptions about God.

After twenty years of war in Iraq and Afghanistan, a global pandemic, protests against racial violence, and frequent shootings, more Americans than ever are living with the effects of trauma. The good news is that Jesus was born and died in a traumatized world, and his story speaks forever to wounded people worldwide. Army veteran and Episcopal priest David Peters explores Jesus' life story through the post-traumatic lens with which the Gospel writers first wrote it.

Are you lonely? You're in good company! For many, lonely feelings come and go. For others, loneliness is ongoing and agonizing. Yet no matter what category you're in, there is hope. You're not alone. In this short, practical book, biblical counselor Lou Priolo helps you to assess your own experience, get to the root of your loneliness, and do some rethinking on this topic—because the way you think about being alone affects the way you feel about being alone.