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You're not alone in your ministry. And you don't have to suffer in silence. Ministry is a stressful vocation, with unspoken expectations, projected anxieties, and conflicting demands. After the pandemic caused a sudden shift to online worship and factions fighting over when and how to return to in-person worship, pastors have been leaving congregational ministry at even higher rates than usual. The emotional fallout of burnout and abuse at the hands of parishioners is something pastors carry for years, whether they stay or leave the congregation.

Beyond the Closet Door celebrates the demonstrated power of Christ to heal adult child abuse victims. All victims of abuse deal with emotional issues in the aftermath of their oppression, whether it is physical, sexual, verbally or mental. This work of nonfiction furnishes the breath of life for the hope found within the resurrected soul touched by Calvary’s cost and empowers them to find God’s divine purpose for their lives. Many broken Christians are looking for their salvation experience to fix them. When the honeymoon period in Christ is over, they have to face a new level of ...

A seasoned author and masterful storyteller, Tricia Lott Williford encountered the public trauma of the death of her husband, but she held quietly the private trauma that happened at the same time: grooming, manipulation, sexual abuse, and spiritual abuse by a person of trust. Tricia and her therapist, Jana Richardson, LPC, have written a resource to help others recognize the veiled dynamics of abuse, where it starts, how it escalates, and how survivors can break free and find freedom.

Domestic oppression…what is that? Did you know that domestic oppression is the seedbed for every other form of abuse that takes place within families and churches? And did you know that the quantity of people who suffer under domestic oppression within the church is staggering in its pervasiveness? In Behind the Veil: Exposing the Evil of Domestic Oppression and Providing Hope, pastor and biblical counselor Warren Lamb pulls back the veil on an evil that has been too long misunderstood and overlooked in Christian circles. In Behind the Veil, Pastor Lamb draws on his thirty-plus years of ...

Susannah Griffith wishes she had spent less time thinking about forgiveness. But as a Christian minister, a biblical scholar, and a survivor of abuse, she has learned a lot about it.

A story of overcoming addiction and an abusive childhood with fortitude and determination. Helped by the relentless intervention by a loving God while on the campus of CU-Boulder, James became sober from an extremely dangerous addiction to alcohol and was delivered as a new creation in Jesus Christ! This book is for anyone who feels they have ruined their life with mistakes. God can redeem lost time! We serve a massive God who will rewrite your story in the most beautiful and unexplainable way.

Are you a Christian woman who is wrestling with sexual strongholds? You are not alone. This is often presented as a man’s issue, but there are many women who are hiding in the shadows of shame with unwanted sexual feelings and behaviors. Amy Riordan, author of Longing for Intimacy, shares her own story of overcoming sexual strongholds in this book, along with tools that have helped many women she has ministered to over the past several years. If you are wrestling with pornography, masturbation, fantasies, or lust toward men or women, this book is for you. Sexual strongholds dull our sense...

This is for everyone who is on the journey. The journey to grow into who God has called you to be. Those on the journey of healing wounds you did not create. The journey of self-forgiveness and letting go. This book is for you.

Meet Dawn. A woman bound in the addiction of heroin and crack cocaine. Witness as she commits crime upon crime to obtain her fix which has led her to a prison term. It's there the real struggle begins. With all she faces, and all of the trials, will she come out of this alive. Could she be saved? Learn of a love so relentless, and a redemption so radical it changed the course of her life, and many others, for eternity.

This audiobook for the Healing of Trauma is a ‘seed of healing’ to begin or go deeper in your inner restorative journey. This audiobook for the Healing of Trauma offers a structured roadmap to help you move beyond the pain of trauma towards a place of wholeness and restoration. Engage in carefully crafted, reflection exercises that guides you through the layers of your trauma, gently unraveling the knots that bind you to the past.

In the year 2014, Frederick Osborn wrote Our Jehovah Rapha: A Christ Centered, Holistic Approach to Wellness. In The Healthy Heart, the author breaks out one section of one chapter of that book called “Maintaining Maximum Mental and Emotional Health.” In his more than 35 years as a Christian, and more than 12 years in full-time ministry, preaching and teaching the Word of God around the world, the author has discovered how many desperate, hurting people there are in the world who, like him, are in need of deep emotional, mental, and spiritual healing. It is for them and for those who ...

If we understand anything about our culture, it's that we desperately need healing. Many people are quick to believe in an outrageous conspiracy before they will believe in Jesus and the miracle worker He is. Throughout Scripture, we see that He makes the blind see, opens deaf ears, restores life from death, and so much more . . . but what about you?

It's not your imagination, the world is changing drastically, and tens of millions of people are experiencing heart break, anxiety, depression, confusion, anger, and even hopelessness. The problem has become so bad that America now leads the entire world in anti-depressant use. But it doesn't have to be this way. No matter where you've been or where you are right now, there is a light that shines in the darkness that can and will give you strength, healing, wisdom, purpose, peace, joy, and unbreakable hope—IF you are willing to take the right steps and follow it to victory.

Is the Church ignoring some of its greatest resources? The author of this small book believes that this is the case. Elderly, disabled and infirmed believers have noteworthy limitations. However, in the economy of the church, their challenges only increase their value. This book is a call to arms - a rallying cry - for every single believer to value and encourage those believers who appear to be most limited. They are vital to the function and work of the Church on this earth. Whether you are a believer who is currently struggling with your physiological limitations or you are simply close ...

Have you “tried everything” and are still not healed? Do you experience anxiety or panic attacks? Do you still have symptoms after receiving prayer for physical healing? Are you plagued with emotions like shame, guilt, fear, or anger? Do you feel condemned by difficult events in your past? If your answer to any of these questions is yes, this book may help you receive true freedom from suffering through emotional healing and deliverance.

Bob & Laura were two lives broken and shattered by uncontrollable circumstances and their own bad choices. Their lives were interrupted by Jesus Christ, whose powerful love transformed their destructive path into one filled with happiness, peace, joy, and love. Bob & Laura's story of God's intervention in their decaying marriage will ignite your faith in Him. Travel with them on their journey of radical transformation and you won't be disappointed! You will be challenged to step out in faith, trust God with all you have, and radically serve Him!

Today is Beautiful is one person’s story–told in devotional format–of walking with God through cancer treatment and into recovery. It presents the wisdom of Scripture, lessons learned from friends, comfort from the Holy Spirit, and the intervention of God on this journey for which no one volunteers. Listen to these 52 meditations one per week for a year or one a day over a cycle of treatment.

Review "This is a great little book on the place of Lament in the life of a believer, as well as how God uses the difficult times in our lives. Much more than a simple grin and bear it theology, it gets into the nitty gritty and shows that there will be times that we feel that we are almost completely pressed out, and that isn't all bad if we handle it well." - Rocky Woolery "Chapter 6 alone makes the book worth purchasing." - Alistair "I found this to be a very readable and helpful analysis of Psalm 88. Those who in their own life can relate to Heman's words should find help and comfort/...

So many of us suffer from chronic guilt feelings; we assume that these feelings reflect God’s opinion of us. But then along comes the gospel – exploding the lie with its mind-shattering declaration that not only does He love us, He is the One who “forgives all [our] iniquities, who heals all [our] diseases” (Psalm 103:3). While we tend to conform to our own self-concept, becoming what we think we are, Jesus does something for us that no man can do, He give us a new identity. “If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have become new (2Corinthians 5:17).

Naval Aviation Officer Candidate School proved to be the most demanding 16 weeks of my life. The naval flight training continued to be demanding and a plane crash shook me up to the point of asking myself what life's purpose was all about. The Lord provided just what I needed to come to accept Christ as my Lord and Savior. Now, with the Holy Spirit to guide me, involvement in prison ministry provided a rich environment to be used to touch men's hearts with the truth of Christ.