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  • Modern Psychotherapies: A Comprehensive Christian Appraisal, By Stanton L. Jones and Richard E. Butman
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    Modern Psychotherapies

    A Comprehensive Christian Appraisal

    Christian Association for Psychological Studies Books

    by Stanton L. Jones and Richard E. Butman

    The wide variety of psychotherapies that psychologists and students of psychology face can make for a confusing picture. The level of complexity is multiplied for Christians since they must ask how a particular psychotherapy fits (or doesn?t fit)with a Christian understanding of persons and their suffering. In this expanded and thoroughly update edition, Stanton Jones and Richard Butman continue ...

  • Mending the Divides: Creative Love in a Conflicted World, By Jon Huckins and Jer Swigart
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    Mending the Divides

    Creative Love in a Conflicted World

    by Jon Huckins and Jer Swigart
    Foreword by Lynne Hybels

    Christianity Today's 2018 Book of the Year Award of Merit - Mission/The Global Church

    Conflict, hatred, and injustice seem to be the norm rather than the exception in our world, our nation, our communities, our homes. The fractures and fissures run so deep that we're paralyzed by our hopelessness, writing off peace as a far-fetched option for the afterlife. Even if ...

  • Transforming Discipleship, By Greg Ogden
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    Transforming Discipleship

    by Greg Ogden

    Many churchgoers complain that their churches lack a coherent plan for discipleship and spiritual growth. In turn, many church leaders lament their lack of resources to build and manage effective programs to help people become fully devoted followers of Christ. In Transforming Discipleship Greg Ogden introduces his vision for discipleship, emphasizing that solutions will not be found in ...

  • Radiant Church: Restoring the Credibility of Our Witness, By Tara Beth Leach
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    Radiant Church

    Restoring the Credibility of Our Witness

    by Tara Beth Leach

    Outreach Resource of the Year

    Something is not right. The witness of the church in North America is eroding. Many Christians are alarmed by the decline in church attendance and seek a culprit. Too often, we point the finger away from the church, make culture the enemy, and build walls between us and others. But our antagonism and enemy-making are ...

  • Troubled Minds: Mental Illness and the Church's Mission, By Amy Simpson
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    Troubled Minds

    Mental Illness and the Church's Mission

    by Amy Simpson
    Foreword by Marshall Shelley

    Christianity Today Book Award Winner
    Leadership Journal Book Award

    Mental illness is the sort of thing we don't like to talk about. It doesn't reduce nicely to simple solutions and happy outcomes. So instead, too often we reduce people who are mentally ill to caricatures and ghosts, and simply pretend they don't exist. They do exist, however—statistics ...

  • Suffering and the Search for Meaning: Contemporary Responses to the Problem of Pain, By Richard Rice
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    Suffering and the Search for Meaning

    Contemporary Responses to the Problem of Pain

    by Richard Rice

    Suffering is a philosophical problem, but it is much more. It is deeply personal. Why is this happening to me? How can I respond to friends and family in pain and loss, and to people in my care? Richard Rice guides readers through the seven most significant theodicies—approaches that have been used to make sense of suffering in light of God's justice or control. He considers the strengths ...