Renovation of the Heart
Renovation of the Heart

Author: Dallas Willard

Publisher: Tyndale House

Published: 2014-02-27

Total Pages: 381

ISBN-13: 1615214550

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As Christians, we know that we are new creations in Jesus. So we try to act differently, hoping this will make us more like Him. But changing our outward behavior doesn’t change our hearts. Only by God’s grace can we be transformed internally. Renovation of the Heart lays a biblical foundation for understanding what best-selling author Dallas Willard calls the “transformation of the spirit”—a divine process that “brings every element in our being, working from inside out, into harmony with the will of God.” This fresh approach to spiritual growth explains the biblical reasons why Christians need to undergo change in six aspects of life: thought, feeling, will, body, social context, and soul. Willard also outlines a general pattern of transformation in each area, not as a sterile formula but as a practical process that you can follow without the guilt or perfectionism so many Christians wrestle with. Don’t settle for complacency. Accept the challenge Renovation of the Heart offers to become an intentional apprentice of Jesus Christ, changing daily as you walk with Him.

Understanding Emotions Workbook: Leader's Edition
Understanding Emotions Workbook: Leader's Edition

Author: Jack Larson

Publisher:

Published: 2016-12-01

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 9781539632399

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Is it ever okay for a Christian to be angry? Should a mature Christian ever experience fear? What do you do when you feel hurt? This 18 week workbook explores what the Bible teaches about emotions and how they control us, or how (due to unresolved pain) we've lost touch with our emotions altogether.All licensed for individual use. Hard copy only.

Prayers That Heal the Heart
Prayers That Heal the Heart

Author: Mark Virkler

Publisher: Bridge Logos Foundation

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 9780882708522

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In this book you will learn a counseling approach in a ministry of prayer that uses seven specific prayers: Breaking generational sins and curses Severing ungodly ties of the soul Replacing negative expectations Renouncing inner vows Receiving divine pictures/visions Casting out demons Experiencing the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus You¿ll thoroughly process one issue at a time, utilizing all these prayers. The "Contributing Strands Worksheet" will help you easily work through the prayers by yourself or with a counselor.

Suffering and the Heart of God
Suffering and the Heart of God

Author: Diane Langberg

Publisher: New Growth Press

Published: 2015-09-01

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 1942572034

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She's seen slave dungeons in Ghana. Genocide in Rwanda. Systemic sexual abuse in Brazil. Child abuse and domestic violence in the US. After forty years of counseling abuse survivors around the world, Dr. Diane Langberg, a world renowned trauma expert, remains certain that what trauma destroys, Christ can and does restore. This book will convince you, too, of the healing heart of God. But it's not a fast process, instead much patience is required from family, friends, and counselors as they wisely and respectfully help victims unpack their traumatic suffering through talking, tears, and time. And it's not a process that can be separated from the work of God in both a counselor and counselee. Dr. Langberg calls all of those who wish to help sufferers to model Jesus's sacrificial love and care in how they listen, love, and guide. The heart of God is revealed to sufferers as they grow to understand the cross of Christ and how their God came to this earth and experienced such severe suffering that he too is "well-acquainted with grief." The cross of Christ is the lens that transforms and redeems traumatic suffering and its aftermath, not only for the sufferer, but it also transforms those who walk with the suffering. This book will be a great help to anyone who loves, listens to, and seeks to help someone impacted by trauma and abuse. There is no quick fix, but there is the hope for healing through the love of God in Christ.

Processing Pain
Processing Pain

Author: Jack Larson

Publisher: Worldwide Discipleship Association

Published: 2020-02-20

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 1676406727

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Processing Pain is a workbook that helps individuals identify past areas of pain and places them on a pathway of forgiveness and healing. This RYH Processing Pain workbook may be your first step in restoring your heart, or one of many steps along the way. This workbook will help you understand your past and the effect it has on your present life, help you become more self-aware, help you become more God-aware, provide a pathway to forgiveness and, ultimately, bring you into a closer relationship with God and others. This workbook is designed for use by a small group that is lead by a trained facilitator. Processing Pain is a 14-week group experience that includes a unique "connecting with God" exercise. The group members will work together on emotional and relational healing issues in the context of a safe community. The suggested method is for the group to cover one lesson per week. During the week before each meeting, group members will read the lesson and complete the answers to the questions at their own individual pace. At the group meetings, there will be opportunities to share answers to many of the questions and, as the group progresses, to bond with the other group members and bring God into their healing process. Processing Pain – what does that mean? The first step in processing your pain is to spend time discovering how your past has affected your present. This is called awareness or discovery. The next step is to actually feel the pain from your past that you have avoided feeling. This is called grieving. While you are feeling your pain, you need to have other people who will validate it and sit with you in it (your fellow group members). Then you can start to make meaning out of your painful experiences and learn from them. Finally, you will be able to forgive those who have hurt you. Processing your pain is part of the maturity process. About The Ministry: Restoring Your Heart (RYH) was developed for anyone who has ever experienced pain, rejection, or disappointment. The Restoring Your Heart ministry is delivered through safe, gender-specific, small groups facilitated by trained leaders. Individuals, congregations, and communities thrive when healing is made available. Learn more and register for groups at restoringyourheart.com. What people are saying about Restoring Your Heart: "I'm a different husband and father because of my Restoring Your Heart group." "RYH helped me find freedom from a lie that I believed about myself for years."

Becoming a King
Becoming a King

Author: Morgan Snyder

Publisher: Thomas Nelson

Published: 2020-05-26

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 0785232125

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What does power and responsibility look like for Christian men in our world today? Becoming a King offers men a guide to becoming one to whom God can entrust his kingdom. Journey with Morgan Snyder as he walks alongside men (and the women who love and encourage them) to rediscover the path of inner transformation. Becoming a King is an invitation into a radical reconstruction of much of what we’ve come to believe about God, masculinity, and the meaning of life. Curated and distilled over more than two decades and drawn from the lives of more than seventy-five men, Morgan shares his discovery of an ancient and reliable path to restoring and becoming the kind of man who can wield power for good. With examples from the lives of the great heroes of faith as well as wise men from Morgan’s own life, break through doubt and discover the power of restoration. In Becoming a King, you will: Reconstruct your understanding of masculinity and who God truly intended you to be Learn to become a man of unshakable strength and courage Reclaim your identity, integrity, and purpose Traveling this path isn’t easy. But the heroic journey detailed within the pages of Becoming a King leads to real life—to men becoming as solid and mighty as oak trees, teeming with strength and courage to bring healing to a hurting world; and to sons, husbands, brothers, and friends becoming the kind of kings to whom God can entrust his kingdom.

All Things New
All Things New

Author: John Eldredge

Publisher: Thomas Nelson

Published: 2017-09-26

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 0718038002

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New York Times bestselling author John Eldredge offers readers a breathtaking look into God’s promise for a new heaven and a new earth. This revolutionary book about our future is based on the simple idea that, according to the Bible, heaven is not our eternal home--the New Earth is. As Jesus says in the gospel of Matthew, the next chapter of our story begins with "the renewal of all things," by which he means the earth we love in all its beauty, our own selves, and the things that make for a rich life: music, art, food, laughter and all that we hold dear. Everything shall be renewed "when the world is made new." More than anything else, how you envision your future shapes your current experience. If you knew that God was going to restore your life and everything you love any day; if you believed a great and glorious goodness was coming to you--not in a vague heaven but right here on this earth--you would have a hope to see you through anything, an anchor for your soul, "an unbreakable spiritual lifeline, reaching past all appearances right to the very presence of God" (Hebrews 6:19). Most Christians (most people for that matter) fail to look forward to their future because their view of heaven is vague, religious, and frankly boring. Hope begins when we understand that for the believer nothing is lost. Heaven is not a life in the clouds; it is not endless harp-strumming or worship-singing. Rather, the life we long for, the paradise Adam and Eve knew, is precisely the life that is coming to us. And that life is coming soon.

The Most Beautiful Disaster
The Most Beautiful Disaster

Author: Hope Carpenter

Publisher: FaithWords

Published: 2021-05-04

Total Pages: 157

ISBN-13: 154601747X

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Hope Carpenter opens up about her personal struggles that nearly destroyed her family, her church, and her ministry, but then God did something miraculous—out of her brokenness, He made something beautiful. As co-pastor of one of the nation's largest megachurches, Hope Carpenter had perfected the roles of supportive wife, good mother, devoted worship leader, and dutiful homemaker. But inside, she was secretly ashamed, sad, and afraid. She didn't know who she was, and she didn't know how to ask for help without bringing down the whole façade. A series of bad choices led to multiple affairs; her husband kicked her out and announced from the pulpit of their church that their marriage was over. Hope was sure her life was done. But in her lowest moments, something beautiful happened. God met her there, and, with a lot of hard work, time, and mountains of therapy, she started to understand the pain that had caused her to act out. She and her family faced their brokenness together, and in powerful acts of forgiveness only God could have arranged, they all found real breakthrough and healing. Ron and Hope rebuilt their marriage and their family, and their ministry thrives today. In The Most Beautiful Disaster, Hope helps readers understand the lasting impact of childhood trauma and gives readers practical steps to uncovering the root of pain in their own lives. She shows how small decisions can lead to big changes, and helps readers find healing and wholeness in Scripture and prayer. Ultimately, readers will be led to hope, reconciliation, and true freedom.

Restoring the Inner Heart
Restoring the Inner Heart

Author: Mary Naumenko

Publisher: Holy Trinity Seminary Press

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781942699125

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Written close to the end of the great writer's life, Fyodor Dostoevsky's short story "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man" tells of a transformation of the heart and a journey from despair to joy: a joy that can be known by all through the experience of God that transcends a simply rational discourse. In this eye opening literary study, the title character and his spiritual metamorphosis are examined in depth in light of the ancient concept of Nous as it developed from the Greek philosophers to the Christian fathers. By comparing the "Ridiculous Man" to similar characters in Dostoevsky's corpus, the author shows how an Orthodox Christian understanding of the Nous underpins Dostoevsky's own anthropology and how his literary works in turn guide the reader toward a truer vision of humanity.

A Wildflower Grows in Brooklyn
A Wildflower Grows in Brooklyn

Author: Julie Woodley

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2013-04-19

Total Pages: 135

ISBN-13: 1621896285

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Julie Woodley understands trauma. From physical and sexual abuse as a child, to abortion, through the murder of a dear friend, to brain injury and cancer, she's experienced more than a lifetime's worth of pain and loss. But by the grace of God she's doing more than surviving, she's thriving. Like a wildflower thrusting itself through a broken sidewalk, God has raised Julie's joy and hope through the layers of loss and into the light of His plan for her. He has transformed her from a broken receiver of grace into a beautiful blossom who radiates the grace she has received into the lives of other hurting people. Trauma victims often feel weighed down by shame, anger, confusion, and pain. They may be so accustomed to getting by that having passion and joy seems a lost hope. In A Wildflower Grows in Brooklyn, they'll encounter a story that will inspire them to imagine a life restored and overflowing with all the good things God intends for them.