Spiritual Counsel & Nuggets explores themes that are timely, intriguing and difficult. It is not just another book. It mingles scientific and spiritual truths to deliver a depth of meaning that both inspires and edifies. The author demonstrates the relevance and credibility of the Holy Bible to the 21st century reader. Find out how to access the treasure hidden within the ancient texts and Dean's unique and intriguing insight. Learn what made an Engineer turn into an Evangelist. Prepare to be both challenged and stimulated. You will not look at the News the same way.
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.
Nugget the rock goes through difficult times and ultimately becomes a beautiful vase, learning to trust the Refiner along the way. Text is interspersed with Bible verses.
Being a consistently biblical husband is not for the faint of heart! God has given husbands huge responsibilities to their wives, but the good news is that God also gives husbands the grace and resources to obey his commands. In The Complete Husband, experienced biblical counselor Lou Priolo delves deep into the skills, goals, and attitudes a God-honoring husband must develop, giving practical advice throughout. If you've ever wondered how to best protect, please, and lead your wife, how to communicate with her, how to disagree with hereven how to talk to her!you will find comprehensive guidance here. Yes, being a biblical husband is not for the faint of heartbut those who boldly follow God's Word will reap great and lasting benefits in their marriages.
`Fascinating. There is much here that is controversial, thought provoking and very useful. It is encyclopaedic in its breadth and use of knowledge. [Like] rich food [it] needs to be taken in slowly, savouring every morsel!′ - Thresholds `[Spirituality] has been traditionally ′taboo′ within the counselling and psychotherapy profession. Denis Lines comes into this controversial scene with a rigorous-but-gentle, mystical-but-grounded, inspiring and thought-provoking voice.... The book is well written and presents the model in the context of other therapeutic modalities, which makes it interesting and useful for therapists from different backgrounds and practice settings. It could also be of use for those involved in religious education, pastoral care or anybody interested in the spiritual development of the self or the existential quest of humankind′ - Therapy Today ′This gentle, mystical, empirical and scholarly book is truly inspirational and it deserves the widest possible readership among therapists, religious educators and all those who care about the spiritual destiny of humankind′ - Professor Brian Thorne, Co-founder The Norwich Centre and Emeritus Professor of Counselling, University of East Anglia Spirituality in Counselling and Psychotherapy explores the idea that throughout the course of a therapeutic relationship between therapist and client, a spiritual level is reached by the two people involved. The author shows how this dimension can help clients who are living in an increasingly secular and faithless society to find some resolution with the issues they bring to therapy. By exploring different perspectives on religion and spirituality, the book provides therapists with the grounding they need to introduce spiritually-centred counselling into their practice. It describes the characteristics of spiritual counselling and covers practical considerations such as: " recognising indications from the client to move into a spiritual mode of therapy " exploring the ′self′ through spiritual work within the therapeutic process, and how this can lead to healing and growth " how to deal with doubt and scepticism over issues of spirituality. The book is illustrated throughout with transcripts and case studies to show how therapists can integrate the spiritual within their own approach to therapeutic work. It will be invaluable to all those who wish to explore this dimension in their work with clients.
A mini-book written to help people (and their friends and family) who have been diagnosed with a mental disorder. If you’ve just been diagnosed with a mental disorder, you may be feeling overwhelmed and have all kinds of questions. In this mini-book, Christine Chappell writes out of her own experience of diagnosis and offers readers a redemptive perspective from which to begin processing their nuanced problems. Cautioning against a “fix it” mentality, she shows how the Scriptures provide stabilizing truths about our personhood, purpose, and potential for making God-glorifying progress during the challenging post-diagnosis journey.
For more than a decade this book, now with ICS Publications, has been a valuable resource for those wanting to explore the works and teachings of St. John of the Cross in a convenient format. In this concise introduction to and anthology of the works of the great Carmelite mystic, Father Foley leads the reader step-by-step into the very heart of Johns spiritual way.
Nugget On Wings is the book for intellectuals who thinks of transformation in life, work culture, society and pattern of dogmatic thinking. It readily connects with the new generation who possess some grey matter to see perplexing situation with different perspective, although we know now the world is becoming full of demonstratively arguing intellectuals with realization missing. These articles were originally written for publication in the Health/Wellness/Learning & Development/Spiritual/Astrology magazines. With every article, the readers' likes and appreciation for author increased manifold. And today, ForeZorba has got associated with several Indian/International magazines/E-zines and upon their requests this book has been compiled and now is in your hand. Most of these articles were fine tuned to suit the Magazine's style and taste. However, through this book, utmost care has been taken to offer the original flavors of ForeZorba's articles. Few articles in the book work on your personal growth, nurture your creative thinking, make one perceive the positive aspect of negativity, learn to let go of the ego. Articles on spirituality, religion, love, sex shall break the cemented thinking pattern of common beliefs, social stigmas and understand it with more clarity. Few articles are laid down guidelines to understand feelings, relationships, to live a stress-free life, learn to effectively manage anger & time for leadership development. Astrology is ForeZorba’s hobby, his informative articles on Astrology and Numerology are of great interest world-over. His Astrology articles concerning Health & Wellness are carefully compiled for this book. The Yoga & Youthful Meditation techniques delineated in his articles is to assist busy people to unleash unwanted stress from life. Nugget On Wings is dedicated to your Physical, Mental, Emotional and Spiritual well-being. Moreover, this book is a small tribute to the love received by ForeZorba’s readers all over the world.
