Prayer in Pastoral Counseling
Prayer in Pastoral Counseling

Author: Edward P. Wimberly

Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press

Published: 1990-01-01

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13: 9780664251284

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Edward Wimberly utilizes case studies to illustrate how spiritual discernment can be used in pastoral counseling. He shows the value of seeking to discern God's presence in the counseling process to bring healing and wholeness to those who suffer from broken relationships. A discernment model of pastoral/Christian counseling is provided for three groups of people: individuals, couples, and families.

Pastoral Counseling
Pastoral Counseling

Author: James E. Dittes

Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press

Published: 1999-01-01

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9780664257385

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In this invaluable resource for pastors and seminarians, James Dittes offers answers to some of a minister's basic counseling questions: how do I guide counseling conversations yet empower those who feel helpless? How do I negotiate relationships with people who I may counsel on one day and from whom I must seek a housing allowance on the next? Can I be psychologically adept while remaining theologically faithful? Dittes offers a wealth of insight into these and other fundamental issues.

Counseling One Another
Counseling One Another

Author: Paul Tautges

Publisher: Shepherd Press

Published: 2016-02-01

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781633420946

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This paradigm-shifting book helps believers understand the process of being transformed by God's grace and truth, and challenges them to be a part of the process of discipleship in the lives of their fellow brothers and sisters in Christ. Counseling One Another biblically presents and defends every believer's responsibility to work toward God's goal of conforming us to the image of His Son-a goal reached through the targeted form of intensive discipleship most often referred to as counseling. All Christians will find Counseling One Another useful as they make progress in the life of sanctification and as they discuss issues with their friends, children, spouses, and fellow believers, providing them with a biblical framework for life and one-another ministry in the body of Christ.

Pray without Ceasing
Pray without Ceasing

Author: Deborah van Deusen Hunsinger

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Published: 2006-08-10

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 1467430773

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Taking seriously Paul’s exhortation in 1 Thessalonians to “pray without ceasing,” Deborah van Deusen Hunsinger challenges pastors and congregations to put prayer at the center of their Christian practice and theological reflection. In this thought-provoking book Hunsinger reclaims spiritual practices from token use and unites them in a dynamic network of interdependent caring traditions. The book begins with the three foundational disciplines of spiritual reading, careful listening, and self-reflection. Hunsinger then explores prayers of petition, intercession, confession, lament, and thanksgiving. Finally she offers practical, workable suggestions for developing pastoral care groups and teaching care-giving skills at the congregational level. Clergy and laity alike will reap the benefits of this revitalizing look at the spiritual disciplines as dynamic forces in the life of the church.

Prayer in Counseling
Prayer in Counseling

Author: Jeff C. VanZant

Publisher: WestBow Press

Published: 2010-11-30

Total Pages: 137

ISBN-13: 1449708307

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Prayer in Counseling The Practitioners Handbook is a bold apologetic for seeing greater use of prayer with the practice of counseling and psychotherapy in faith-based community, pastoral, and mainstream counseling settings. Using the evidence-based results of the best research studies and client surveys on the efficacy of prayer, the choice to integrate prayer with therapy is philosophically and empirically analyzed from every vantage. Practical examples, key filtering questions, and tried and true guidelines help the reader find a balance between the two extremes of avoidance/neglect of prayer as well as excessive/unwise usage. Gathering the best wisdom from the existing literature, the author builds a strong case to view prayer and counseling as unique but complementary avenues for dynamic change in a persons life. In light of potential counseling dilemmas and the need for healthy accountability Prayer in Counseling provides a roadmap to navigate the challenging ethical considerations of when and how to integrate prayer into therapy. Scriptural hindrances to effective prayer are identified and then contrasted against biblical principles and practical direction to make prayer a powerful, healing, and successful spiritual intervention in the counseling arena.

Transformative Encounters
Transformative Encounters

Author: David W. Appleby

Publisher: InterVarsity Press

Published: 2013-07-12

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 0830828222

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What would it mean for Christian counseling and pastoral care to take seriously the idea that God intervenes in the world? In this volume more than twenty of the best pastoral counselors, clinicians, and counselor educators introduce us to the models that they use to integrate the Scriptures and the work of the Holy Spirit into their daily practice.

Pastoral Care and Counseling
Pastoral Care and Counseling

Author: Helsel, Philip Browning

Publisher: Paulist Press

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 211

ISBN-13: 1587687615

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Addresses the critique that pastoral care is indistinguishable from secular psychotherapy by placing a person's relationship to God at the center of pastoral care.

An Introduction to Pastoral Counseling
An Introduction to Pastoral Counseling

Author: Wayne Edward Oates

Publisher: B&H Publishing Group

Published: 1959

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13:

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Counseling / Wayne E. Oates -- The budgeting of time in pastoral counseling / John W. Drakeford -- The exploratory of short-term interview / Wayne E. Oates -- The exploratory or short-term interview / Wayne E. Oates -- The process of multiple-interview counseling / Richard K. Young -- Recurrent problems of longer-term counseling / Richard K. Young -- The pastor as a marriage counselor / Samuel Southard -- Calling in the help of other counselors / A. Donald Bell -- Ways to learn pastoral counseling / John W. Drakeford -- Pastoral counseling and the communication of the gospel / James Lyn Elder -- Pastoral counseling and the experience of prayer / Wayne E. Oates -- Pastoral counseling and the experience of prayer / Wayne E. Oates -- Pastoral counseling and the interpretation of scripture / D. Allen Brabham -- Pastoral counseling and Christian doctrine / Samuel Southard -- Personality development and pastoral counseling / John M. Price -- Pastoral counseling and the educational ministry of.

Pastoral Counseling:Where One Encounters the Enormity of God's Love
Pastoral Counseling:Where One Encounters the Enormity of God's Love

Author: Gerald V. Miller

Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.

Published: 2022-08-05

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13: 1640034412

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The pastoral counselor brings God's presence to the counseling session. The counselor radiates God's enormous unconditional love and forgiveness to the client. Clients come in because they are spiritually broken and prey to the allies of darknessaEUR"fear of abandonment from God and those they love, resentment, frustration, anxiety, and callousness. He is the prodigal son. Through empathy, compassion, and counseling skills, the pastoral counsel connects them to the God who runs to meet him with joy, throws his arms around him, kisses him, forgives him, and makes him psychologically and spiritually whole again by giving him the signet ring. The pastoral counselor's role is to facilitate this occurrence.

Help! I’m In a Conflict
Help! I’m In a Conflict

Author: Ernie Baker

Publisher: Shepherd Press

Published: 2015-05-01

Total Pages: 44

ISBN-13: 1633420795

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A small book helping people who are caught up in unresolved conflict situations. How does the gospel impact relationships? How does our relationship with Christ intersect relationship tensions? What is the origin of conflict? What is going on in my heart that leads to my struggles with gentleness or lack of kindness or intolerance of others? What is going on in my heart that leads to lack of patience and irritability? What does conflict do to relationships? Help! I’m In a Conflict addresses all of these questions and offers practical steps toward addressing them in your life.