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In Their Own Words: Stories of Healing & Practices for the Church
The purpose of this project was twofold: 1) to research how the church community can be a place of healing in people's lives, and 2) to suggest practices that when enacted would help a church to be a place of healing. Church life was differentiated into three levels: Pastorally, Relationally, and Congregationally. A group of people were interviewed who had received some type of healing and their lives and were asked to share how the church community helped in the healing process. Based off of the information gathered in the interviews, practices were suggested for the church at each of the three levels of church life.
Marriage Views
Married? Thinking about it or just want to understand the complexity of marriage? In short-story format, Marriage Views delivers firsthand examples of eighteen different viewpoints of marriage. It shows how couples deal with conflict, and it provides relevant Biblical verses to help support each couple. Inspired by real-life issues, these stories provide insight into a variety of different marital situations, such as sex, money, infidelity, disrespect, love, trust, and in-laws. In the story, And the Academy Award Goes To, Randy and Debra appear to be the perfect couple, but in private, their relationship is fraught with violence. Money problems plague newlywed couple Calvin and Rita in the s...
The Ruthless Garden
Novel set in a small town in South Australia's riverland. Lovers Athena and Sam engage in a power struggle while trying to 'tame' the wilderness which the original inhabitants, the Ngawait Aborigines, saw as an abundant garden. The author was awarded the inaugural Angus & Robertson Bookworld Prize in 1993 for this, her first novel.
Integrating Psychotherapy and Psychopharmacology
Integrating Psychotherapy and Psychopharmacology: A Handbook for Clinicians is a practical guide for the growing number of mental-health practitioners searching for information on treatments that combine psychopharmacology, psychotherapy, and psychosocial rehabilitation. Research shows that combined approaches are among the most effective ways to treat an increasing number of psychiatric disorders. However, though these combined treatments are becoming the everyday practice of psychiatrists, psychologists, and other mental-health professionals, identifying the right treatment plan can be notoriously difficult, and clinicians are often left scrambling to answer questions about how to design and customize their treatment strategies. In Integrating Psychotherapy and Psychopharmacology, readers will find these questions fully addressed and the answers explained, and they’ll come away from the book with a toolbox full of strategies for helping their patients improve symptoms, achieve remission, and stay well using a combination of drug and psychological treatments.
The Megachurch and the Mainline
Religious traditions provide the stories and rituals that define the core values of church members. Yet modern life in America can make those customs seem undesirable, even impractical. As a result, many congregations refashion church traditions so they may remain powerful and salient. How do these transformations occur? How do clergy and worshipers negotiate which aspects should be preserved or discarded? Focusing on the innovations of several mainline Protestant churches in the San Francisco Bay Area, Stephen Ellingson’s The Megachurch and the Mainline provides new understandings of the transformation of spiritual traditions. For Ellingson, these particular congregations typify a new typ...
FEAR: It's Not an Option
To fear is to 'Fail Externally to Achieve/Actualize Reality.' The reality is that the Most High has given each of us His spirit and when we fear we actualize the opposite of what the reality is! We have not been given a spirit of fear but of love peace and a sound mind! When we fear, we negate reality and we set our perceptions up to fall prey to lies, deceit, deception, and mockery. When we learn that fear is actually the antithesis of the Most High, we can then begin to actualize our reality. In actualizing our reality we understand that fear doesn't exist outside of the confines of a mind exalting itself against the reality of the Most High G-d!
Pastors in Transition
Whether they leave out of preference for another ministry or due to serious conflict, pastors who relinquish parish ministry face misunderstanding and even hostility. Pastors in Transition brings clarity to this little-examined aspect of the pastorate by examining the main reasons why pastors in five Protestant denominations have left parish ministry. The fruit of careful sociological research, Pastors in Transition presents the findings of the largest-ever study of recently ended ministries. More than 900 ex-ministers, representing the Assemblies of God, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod, the Presbyterian Church (USA), and the United Methodist Church, were surveyed or interviewed. Besides gathering facts and figures, the book contains personal stories, forthright opinions, and concrete recommendations from former pastors for strengthening parish ministry in the future.
Tales from Trinity
TALES FROM TRINITY is a Lutheran patchwork quilt. Pastor Paul Walkers family and church members are stitched together by a God who is always at work behind the scenes. Liz Sterling, church treasurer, is also at work behind the scenes, seeking a way to discredit Paul and have him removed as pastor. Accused of embezzling church funds, Paul searches for help to prove his innocence. Mike Greenwood shares his personal journal of two significant losses during his high school years. His best friend, Brian, is found dead in the church. Mikes girlfriend dumps him in favor of the high-school quarterback, and then wonders how her life became such a mess. Meanwhile the pastor searches for Reiner Holtz, whose conspiracy theories have put him on the brink of insanity. In the midst of laughter and tears Gods grace is pulling together a faith community of healing, hope, and joy. If the tragedy and terror in Jims first novel TERROR AT TRINITY made you uncomfortable, then TALES FROM TRINITY will be a fun, easy read, reminding some of Garrison Keillors Lake Wobegon, or Jan Karons Mitford series.
Forever Soul Ties
"Vanessa is a superb storyteller." --ReShonda Tate Billingsley AAMBC Christian Fiction Writer of the Year Award Winner When one woman is caught in the act of her greatest transgression, it's the beginning of her greatest transformation… It started innocently: a coincidental meeting between old high school friends--first loves--at Butterfly's business, The Painted Lady Flower Shop. Then came lunch, then confessions of unhappy marriages, loneliness. It went on that way for years between Butterfly and Ethan. That's how they built the soul tie--the bond that, despite their devotion to God, has now led to adultery. And as with all things done in secret, they've been found out. Well, Butterfly h...
Poems From The Heart Mind Body And Soul
Relax your mind while drinking a nice cup of tea. Sit by the fire with your mate as these poems take you to an all so familiar state of mind. Heart-mind-body and soul will take control of your thoughts, fantasies, dreams and inner self. Enjoy the everyday realities of these outstanding poems. You will appreciate-think and relate to what the I was feeling-thinking as these poems were written. My main focus has been to help others over come childhood abuse-homelessness-rejections-false truths-addictions-unfortunate adoptions-low self esteem and broken relationships in all that I write.
