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Author : Bill Morris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0840796498
Author : Elizabeth A Swanson,Teresa J. McBean
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780310587231
Discover the power of recovery ministry for your church. Churchgoers who experience painful family issues, addictions, abuse, loss, mental illnesses, and other secret sorrows begin to believe they live beyond the grip of God’s redemptive hand. Pastors often feel ill equipped to help with such problems and refer people to resources outside the church. People badly need Christ-centered counsel and encouragement, but few church leaders even know where to start. Bridges to Grace is an inspiring introduction highlighting the stories of churches across the country that are thinking systematically and organizationally about the ministry of recovery. The authors share how this ministry is bringing God’s grace to hurting individuals. They relate both success and failure, and best of all, they demonstrate how God uses recovery ministry powerfully for his kingdom purposes.
Author : John Baker
Publisher : HarperChristian Resources
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780310131557
There is a way the church can help the wounded move beyond their hurts, habits, and hang-ups to experience the forgiveness of Christ. Celebrate Recovery helps the church fulfill its role as Christ's healing agent. You don't have to lead alone. To lead people forward in spiritual, physical, and emotional restoration is to walk in the footsteps of Christ. And that's why the Celebrate Recovery Leader's Guide is so important. With everything you need to encourage lasting life-change, the leader's guide is the best way to facilitate Celebrate Recovery in your church and help people look forward to a whole new future. The Celebrate Recovery Leader's Guide includes: Fresh testimonies A 90-day start-up strategy A clear, easy-to-follow format Step-by-step instructions for each meeting Guide for conducting leader training Teaching notes for the 25 lessons of The Journey Begins (Participant Guides 1-4) Overview of the 25 lessons of The Journey Continues (Participant Guides 5-8) Along with a willing heart, this leader's guide is invaluable for leading men and women forward in complete restoration and transformation through Christ.
Author : John Baker
Publisher : HarperChristian Resources
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780310131410
The Celebrate Recovery Participant's Guides are essential tools for the personal recovery journey. In the five lessons in Guide 2: Taking an Honest and Spiritual Inventory, you will experience an in-depth look at the 4th principle in the recovery process: 4 Openly examine and confess my faults to God, to myself, and to someone I trust. "Happy are the pure in heart" (Matthew 5:8). By working through the lessons and exercises found in each of the four Participant's Guides you will begin to experience the true peace and serenity you have been seeking, restore and develop stronger relationships with others and with God, and find freedom from life's hurts, hang-ups, and habits. All the scriptures have been updated to the new NIV 2011 version.
Author : Jonathan Benz
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830899395
You want to have vibrant and healthy relationships with those who struggle with addiction in your church and community. But you find yourself wondering how to meet their needs in a wise, helpful and God-honoring way. The Recovery-Minded Church addresses the pressing questions you are facing in ministering to those with addictions. Here you will discover a clinically informed, biblical and theological framework to love the addicts in your midst and also practical tools to help you succeed in doing so, including discussion questions after each chapter for use in small group settings. God desires to welcome his prodigal children with open arms and a spirit of celebration. We need to reflect this same kind of grace and mercy in our ministry to those with addictions, to move our churches from being recovery-resistant to recovery-minded.
Author : Stephen R. Haynes
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467462747
Do Christians need recovery? Or is recovery something needed by the church itself? Addiction—whether to a substance or to a behavior—is a problem within faith communities, just like it is everywhere else. But because churches are rarely experienced as safe places for dealing with addiction, co-addiction, or the legacy of family dysfunction, Christians tend to seek recovery from these conditions in Twelve-Step fellowships. Once they become accustomed to the ethos of vulnerability, acceptance, and healing that these fellowships provide, however, they are often left feeling that the church has failed them, with many asking: why can’t church be more like an AA meeting? Inspired by his own quest to find in church the sort of mutual support and healing he discovered in Twelve-Step fellowships, Stephen Haynes explores the history of Alcoholics Anonymous and its relationship to American Christianity. He shows that, while AA eventually separated from the Christian parachurch movement out of which it emerged, it retained aspects of Christian experience that the church itself has largely lost: comfort with brokenness and vulnerability, an emphasis on honesty and transparency, and suspicion toward claims to piety and respectability. Haynes encourages Christians to reclaim these distinctive elements of the Twelve-Step movement in the process of “recovering church.” He argues that this process must begin with he calls “Step 0,” which, as he knows from personal experience, can be the hardest step: the admission that, despite appearances, we are not fine.
Author : John Baker,Johnny Baker
Publisher : HarperChristian Resources
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780310131519
Celebrate Recovery introduces The Journey Continues—four new participant's guides designed as a revolutionary, new second step study curriculum. This step study is taken after completing The Journey Begins (Participant Guides 1-4). In the seven lessons in Guide 7: Honoring God by Making Repairs, you will experience Christ-centered and biblically based studies filled with brand new acrostics, deeper questions, and more helpful Bible verses. The content in Guide 7 will focus on a deeper study of principles 4-6 of the recovery process: Openly examine and confess my faults to God, to myself, and to someone I trust. "Happy are the pure in heart" (Matthew 5:8). Voluntarily submit to every change God wants to make in my life and humbly ask Him to remove my character defects. "Happy are those whose greatest desire is to do what God requires" (Matthew 5:6). Evaluate all my relationships. Offer forgiveness to those who have hurt me and make amends for harm I've done to others, except when to do so would harm them or others. "Happy are the merciful" (Matthew 5:7). "Happy are the peacemakers" (Matthew 5:9). By working through the lessons and exercises found in each of the four participant's guides of The Journey Continues you will find a deeper sense of true peace and serenity, continue to restore and develop stronger relationships with others and with God, and find deeper freedom from life's hurts, hang-ups, and habits.
Author : John Baker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0310689678
Shrinkwrapped four-pack includes one copy of each of the four revised participant's guides.
Author : Karl Vaters
Publisher : Moody Publishers
Page : 71 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780802499677
What’s Next for Your Church? In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, church leaders are facing challenges they’ve never encountered. As you scramble to adapt to this fast-changing situation, you must also begin thinking through the months ahead to consider: how will my church recover? The Church Recovery Guide outlines the practical steps you can take to help your church not only survive but also thrive in the aftermath of the coronavirus crisis. Pastor Karl Vaters offers insights from his extensive experience in church ministry to help you think through: - Reconnecting with your congregation - Dealing with the financial repercussions - Encouraging and supporting your staff - Clearly communicating a fresh vision for the future - Reworking your church’s technology and online strategy - Ministering to people feeling isolated and fearful The Church Recovery Guide will provide the direction you need to help your church bounce back to full health and chart a path forward to even greater vitality.
Author : John Baker,Johnny Baker
Publisher : HarperChristian Resources
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780310083283
A Program for Implementing a Christ-Centered Recovery Ministry in Your Church Alcoholism - Divorce - Sexual Abuse - Codependency - Domestic Violence - Drug Addiction - Sexual Addiction - Food Addiction - Gambling Addiction and others. There is a way the church can help the hurting move beyond their wounds to experience the healing and forgiveness of Christ. Since 1991, more than 200,000 people have participated in the Celebrate Recovery programs offered at more than 3,500 churches, prisons, and rescue missions. Drawn from the Beatitudes, Celebrate Recovery helps people resolve painful problems in the context of the church as a whole.
Author : Theresa F. Latini
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780802865861
Contemporary society is in crisis, its structures broken and fragmented, and its people overstimulated, overstressed, and thirsty for true communion with the sacred and with one another. Yet although more than eighty-five percent of congregations in the United States conduct small-group ministry, too many of these groups begin with no clear sense of purpose, structure, or spiritual focus and end by veering away from Christian tradition and unknowingly settling for shallow versions of popular Christianity. In The Church and the Crisis of Community Theresa Latini lays out both a theoretical groundwork and a practical guideline for successful small-group ministry. Examining the latest sociological research and the real-life practices of small groups in six congregations, she shows how well-developed groups those with mission statements, leadership training, and solid organizational structure can be a truly effective tool in the church s work of transforming broken and shallow forms of community into life-giving, life-sustaining relationships with God and others.
Author : John P. Splinter
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0310573912
Anyone going through a divorce will tell you it's a crazy time. Feelings run rampant. Stress is high. And even when the major issues are resolved, some adjustments will take years. The Complete Divorce Recovery Handbook is designed to take you from the complete moments of shock and grief to the process of inner healing and wholeness. Field-tested by hundreds of divorced people, it details a recovery program suitable for both small-group discussions and individual use, covering issues like: - Coping with roller-coaster feelings - Learning how to forgive - Dealing with your ex and your children - Dating after divorce - A biblical perspective on divorce and remarriage - Building healthy relationships -- You can be a whole person again. You can recover from the crazy time -- with the help you'll find in The Complete Divorce Recovery Handbook.
Author : Cynthia Franklin Ph.D.,Rowena Fong
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 019983153X
This all-in-one guide is designed to better equip clergy and the church leaders to meet their congregations' needs in a spiritually grounded and scientifically sound manner. Succinct, easy-to-read chapters summarize all a pastor needs to know about a given problem area, including its signs or symptoms, questions to ask, effective helping skills, and, most importantly, when to refer to a mental health professional. Synthesizing what research says about treatment approaches for mental health issues, this user-friendly reference is filled with guidelines, case scenarios, key points to remember, resources for further help, advice on integrating scripture and theology with the best available research, and tips on partnering with others to provide the best possible care for each church member. Each chapter is designed for quick lookup by problem area, empowering church leaders to understand and help meet the challenges facing the children, adults, families, and communities that they serve.
Author : Ron Halvorson,Valerie Deilgat
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Church work with recovering addicts
ISBN : 0941405168
By developing a recovery ministry within the church, pastors and other church leaders can reach out with hope and healing to congregational members who are suffering from the lingering effects of an addictive or dysfunctional family environment. Includes a dynamic blueprint for recovery based on Scriptural Principles and the Twelve Steps.
Author : Dr. Norma A. Barnett
Publisher : Author House
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781468539844
God Loves Abused Women Too is an inspiring book that not only does it bring about an awareness for the abuse in many womens lives but how God deals through the abuse. This book demonstrates the skills and strategies used to break the abuse in a womans life. God Loves Abused Women Too shows the true spiritual meaning of how God loves women through an abusive cycle, and how they can get out when they are trapped. There are many audiences within the book such as pastors, missionaries, ministers, psych student scholars and the general public that need to address the issues women have involving abuse. There is an impeccable taste for penmanship within the book that far exceeds its time and the author has produced a fine literary work. These audiences all have a chance to get deeper understanding by looking at the many perspectives on abuse and the journey to healing and wholeness. The audience is captivated not only by the imagery presented but the outcome of the lives of women who are touched by this awesome God. There is something.