Adultery destroys marriages, families, and faith. This book provides a direct, honest, and practical approach to facing it.Using the story of David and Bathsheba as a central case study, it combines biblical truth with modern counselling models. It shows you why people cheat, how it begins, and the harm it causes. It separates male and female motives, incorporates statistics, and draws on both Jungian and Freudian insights.Inside you will find:• Reasons men and women...

Lead small groups through astounding growth with principles from the best-selling books How People Grow and Boundaries.No matter what need brings a group of people together—from marriage enrichment to divorce recovery, from grief recovery to spiritual formation—members are part of a small group because they want to grow. This book by psychologists Henry Cloud and John Townsend provides small-group leaders with valuable guidance and information on how they can help their groups to grow spir...

"Every attempt to help people must first begin with an effort to understand people," says Dr. Larry Crabb. "And the only fully reliable source of information on that topic is the Bible."In this Gold Medallion Award-winning classic, Dr. Crabb affirms the power of the Scriptures to address the intricacies and deep needs of the human heart. Exploring the inseparable link between spiritual and psychological realities, Understanding People offers a vital lens on how we're put t...

An alternative model for biblical counseling, grounded on the authority of Scripture, is given in this book. It provides 'a framework for understanding people and their problems which emerges from the biblical teaching that we bear the image of God and that we are fallen.'

Parents worry they don't have the understanding or training to be able to care for their kids in a world that is increasingly superficial, politicized, and performance driven. Disconnected makes the concepts and strategies described in the bestselling Hurt: Inside the World of Today's Teenagers accessible to parents. After the overwhelming response to Hurt, authors Chap and Dee Clark here equip parents with an up-to-date, realistic parenting book that doesn't ign...

No one can deny our culture is opposed to Christian values, and the influences bombarding our children's moral development are difficult to contend with. But few parents and church leaders realize that a child's moral development is set by the age of nine. It is therefore critical to start developing a child's biblical worldview from the very earliest years of life.The problem is complex: parents who themselves did not receive early spiritual training leave their children's trainin...

Learn how to uncover your unmet, God-given longings and satisfy them in ways that lead away from brokenness toward spiritual wholeness.Many people today are struggling with unprecedented levels of anxiety, hurt, doubt, guilt, and shame. Medical and mental health professionals confirm that much of the dysfunction and disconnectedness we experience in life stems from unresolved relational and emotional hurts. These hurts leave us with unfulfilled desires that we seek...

In our culture today, the preoccupation over self-identity--or who we are--is hard to ignore. But the pursuit of self-understanding has been a recurring theme throughout human history. How many times have you asked yourself, "Who am I?"The desire to answer this question--whether it manifests in self-enhancement strategies or self-serving biases--is part of being human. Yet, through a Biblical lens, we know something has gone terribly wrong with our human nature. Br...

A faith-based instruction manual to help you discover the fulfilling life you were meant to live.In Becoming an Adult, Dr. Henry Cloud—co-author of the bestselling classic Boundaries—focuses on the growth, connections, separations, and choices that everyone must experience to achieve emotional intelligence and health.Dr. Cloud, one of today's most trusted voices in the field of mental healthcare, highlights key issues many of us face as we...

In this informative book, Keith Dorricott provides many tools to help you to live biblically, and to help others do the same. He explores who we are and why we think and act the way we do, and the negative feelings and emotions, such as anger, guilt and depression, that can arise.Together with practical and scriptural advice on how to deal with them, he lays out a framework for how to counsel others from a Christian perspective, with a special focus on specific issues such as marit...

For use by couples for marriage preparation, either during pre-wedding counseling or with a mentor couple. The Couple's Edition is built upon four vital marriage themes; "Faith Through Covenantal Commitment,", the foundations, what the couple brings to their marriage; "Power Through Shared Communication, " the basics and skills of communication in marriage; "Love Through Caring Relationships, " the couple, their larger families, and their work; and "Hope Through Life's Journey, " a sneak p...

Biblical Therapy for Health and Healing from Depression, Anxiety, Damage Self-Esteem; Couples, Family, and Relational Conflicts;Anger, Sexual and other Life Dominating Problems. This manual is written for the emotional, cognitive, behavioral, and relational health of Protestant, Catholic, Non-denominational, and pre-Christian individuals. Anxiety, damaged self-esteem, depression, anger, marital, sexual, family, parenting, relational, and life dominating problems can be effectively resolved...