Religious counselling Books

People living with mental health challenges are not excluded from God’s love or even the fullness of life promised by Jesus. Unfortunately, this hope is often obscured by the well-meaning labels and medical treatments that dominate the world...

Adolescent development expert and counselor Steven Gerali addresses the issue of teen eating disorders in this book from the What Do I Do When... series, which is designed to equip parents and youth workers to help teens who are hurting.

The String Theory Beginning With Me is an illustrated prose poem tracing the journey to freedom from an internal landscape of chaos and fear. Using specific images from the natural world, this story condenses and simplifies a very slow, methodical...

The vision that God put into the hearts of Bob and Pauline Bartosch, OO's founders, has grown into a much-needed bridge that connects traditional 12-stepgroups and the church. Overcomers Outreach brings recovery tools to the church and points people in...

For teenagers who have experienced any kind of abuse, abandonment, or family dysfunction, the lingering pain can leave them feeling hopeless and alone. This book is a powerful and unique resource to help teens deal with and heal from the pain, and...

Our culture unknowingly ingests regular doses of spiritual toxins that assault our relationship with God. Soul Detox shines light on the dark influences, emotions, and behaviors to empower Christians to live pure lives in a toxic world.

Drawn from the Beatitudes, Celebrate Recovery helps people resolve painful problems in the context of the church as a whole. Rather than setting up an isolated recovery community, it helps participants and their churches come together and discover new...

BREAK FREE! Does it sometimes feel like you're trapped in a cage, pinned down by debilitating anxiety and depression? Have you been told you suffer from Complex PTSD? There are few things people go through that can match the devastation of toxic...

No More Faking Fine, by Esther Fleece, unmasks the suppressed truth that God meets us right where we are, and not where we pretend to be.

This book connects biblical doctrine with practical living. The reader gains an insight into the rich theological framework that supports and directs a biblical approach to counseling.

The principles of effective journalism are applied to the art of preaching to produce interesting and captivating sermons.

If you work with students, you will encounter crisis. Leading crisis-management expert Rich Van Pelt and respected author and youth worker Jim Hancock unfold step-by-step plans for managing the fallout from all sorts of worst-case scenarios. This...

Mental Health and the Church provides a comprehensive strategy for including children, teens, and adults with mental illness and their families into the life of the local church.

This examination of shame in all its forms, causes, and effects goes beyond Bradshaw and the family to the spiritual possibility of healing.

The Hope Recovery Devotional is a 100 day faith-based devotional with practical messages to help you be successful in recovery and to help you grow in your faith. Regardless of where you are in your recovery this faith-based devotional shares...

In Raging with Compassion, MIchael Ramsey prize-winning author John Swinton argues for a practical theodicy, one embodied in the life and practices of the Christian community. This practicality does not seek to provide an explanation for the existence of...

Spirituality, Theology and Mental Health provides reflections from leading international scholars and practitioners in theology, anthropology, philosophy and psychiatry as to the nature of spirituality and its relevance to constructions of mental...

Foundations of Pastoral Counselling offers a completely new approach to its subject, through an integration of philosophical ideas, theological thought, and psychotherapeutic psychology.Using the work of philosophers including Martin Buber, Simone Weil...

How does a minister respond to a cry for help when the concern is alcohol or drug abuse? With one out of eight adults in the country suffering from alcohol dependency or drug abuse and one out of four families distressed by someone

He Must Increase but I Must Decrease is for those who overweight, underweight, bulemic or anorexic. If you have weight problems of any kind, this book is for you! Inside is 20 years experience in counseling men/women with weight control problems. The key...

If you've ever heard the damaging message that feeling far from God is your own choice or the result of sin in your life, therapist Krispin Mayfield's Attached to God will reveal a new way of approaching your relationship with the Divine that will help...

Regret, hurt, and fear are familiar to us all. Often we feel trapped in their grip, but it doesn't have to be that way. Scott Sauls is our empathetic guide to the freedom that is found in God--freedom that unburdens us from regret, hurt, and fear and...

The Lord Is My Courage is a creative meditation on Psalm 23 that shows courage is more accessible than you think, because courage is something we can practice in order to grow in trust that we have a Good Shepherd who is with us always--no matter where...

For undershepherds of Christ's flock, only Scripture's pastoral theology matters: preparing for and exercising shepherd leadership God's way. Written for seminary students and ministers, Pastoral Ministry: How to Shepherd Biblically by John MacArthur and...

How People Grow reveals why all growth is spiritual growth and how you can grow in ways you never thought possible. Unpacking the practical and passionate theology that forms the backbone of their counseling, Drs. Henry Cloud and John Townsend shatter...