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Sacred Rhythms • Finding My Way Home • The Only Necessary Thing
Freedom from the Grip of Fear • Healing the Scars of Emotional Abuse • Becoming Friends
• Authentic Relationships • 20 Tough Questions • My Life, My Choices • The Healing Power of Prayer
20
Tough Questions Teenagers Ask
and 20 Tough Answers
By L. Davitz, et.al.
128 pp., PhP 120.00
A compilation
of questions and answers based on issues of
importance especially to teenagers, including sexuality, faith, death,
contraception, divorce, emotional health, and family relationships.
A no-nonsense guide for parents. Being a parent to a teenager can often be an overwhelming job. Longtime psychologists, educators, and parents Lois and Joel Davitz offer sound advice and reassurance in this book that focuses on some of the major concerns and questions that parents have today. The issues are unflinchingly honest and the answers are not simple; they are, however, right on the mark.
Authentic
Relationships:
Discover the Lost Art of One Anothering
By Wayne Jacobsen and Clay Jacobsen
160 pp., PhP 140.00
If
you value friendship and community. Authentic Relationship will inspire
you with fresh insights for meaningful interaction with others. This will
give practical examples of how to apply the principles of "one anothering,"
drawing from the rich fabric of biblical guidance and instruction. Beginning
with God's simple command to "love one another," this book shows
you how to create authentic and loving relationships and communities.
This book helps you avoid the pitfalls of judging others and inspires you to engage people with love, acceptance, kindness, and respect.
Becoming
Friends:
Worship, Justice, And The Practice Of Christian Friendship
By Paul J. Wadell
186 pp., PhP 160.00
The
author explores the indispensable role of friendship in Christian life,
summoning us to love all of our neighbors, and encouraging us to cultivate
the virtues of hope, justice, and forgiveness. Draws connections between
the church's worship, Christian friendship and Christian virtues, emphasizing
that mission and discipleship can be seen as friendship with God and with
one another.
It shows us that we are called to serve God through friendship and that this calling requires us to cultivate certain virtues--specifically, hope, justice, and forgiveness. In down-to-earth language, this book offers a provocative look into the nature and importance of true Christian friendship. Anyone looking to reflect on the indispensable role of good friendships in the Christian life will find this a hopeful and encouraging book.
My Life, My Choices
Key Issues for Young Adults
By Mary Ann Burkley Wojno
224 pp., PhP 275.00
Based
on an actual values and personal development course sharpened and refined
over nearly twenty years, is a workbook that invites teenagers to evaluate
themselves and to share their ideas and feelings with their peers. This
text honestly addresses issues critical to today's youth: friendship,
loneliness, suicide, peer pressure, drugs and alcohol, sexuality, stress,
happiness, success, and more.
This exceptional book has an easy-to-use, straightforward format written
from the student's perspective. It includes exercise worksheets and journal
space, and uses actual discussions as springboards for further dialogue.
My life and My choices is an excellent selection for high school religion classes, human development courses, youth groups, peer group communication, and even guidance counselors and directors of religious education. It also serves as an excellent self-help book for young adults.
Sacred
Rhythm
Finding a Peaceful Pace in a Hectic World
By Christine Sine, MD
240 pp., PhP 275.00
A prescription for a healthy lifestyle that flows directly from faith. It looks at the natural rhythms God built into our world and how paying attention to them can strengthen every part of our life.
Freedom from the Grip of Fear
A Process of Reclaiming Your Life
By H. Norman Wright
168 pp., PhP 155.00
Do
your fears ever disable you and make you feel out of Control?
Millions of people struggle with fear. In this book, the author helps
you understand your fears and the negative effects they have on your
life, and provides proven ways to steer your thoughts and feelings away
from fear toward faith and hope.
You'll learn practical techniques and exercises for establishing new worry-free patterns that will release you from fear's hold on your life. Whether you struggle with physical fears, such as flying or emotional fears, like fears of commitments or abandonment, D. Wright acts as your counselor as he teaches you how to overcome anxiety.
Dr. H. Norman Wright is the founder and director of Christian Marriage Enrichment and the author of more than seventy books, including Crisis Counseling. He is a licensed marriage, family, and child therapist and has taught numerous college courses and seminars. He and his wife, Joyce live in Southern California.
The
Healing Power of Prayer
The Surprising Connection between Prayer and Your Health
by Chester L. Toston, Ph.D. & Harold G. Koenig, Ph.D.
190 pp., PhP 195
Prayer can heal you. It's not just hype or hope or a spiritual cliche. Recent medical and psychological studies claim that prayer can relieve stress, improve attitudes, and mend bodies. Prayer generates peace, power, and health--a triple preventative that guards against anxiety and disease. It's a simple act that heals.
According
to Chet Tolson and Harold Koenig, prayer helps people function at their
best when life serves them the worst. Even on good days, it enhances the
mind-body-soul connection. Now available in trade paperback, The
Healing Power of Prayer explain the nature of prayer, what
happens when we pray, the restorative benefits of prayer, how to organize
prayer, and much more. The authors' facts and insights will encourage
believers to increase, the fainthearted to revive, and skeptics to being
a life of prayer.
Maintaining that prayer heals, a Duke University professor and a former pastor give practical steps for effective prayer.
Healing the Scars of Emotional Abuse
By Gregory L. Jantz, Ph.D.
222 pp., PhP 195.00
In this
provocative book, the author examines the pervasive yet overlooked problem
of emotional abuse - and why it is so common and demanding. Whether you
or a loved one has been abused by words, actions, or even indifference,
this book will help you understand the effects of the abuse, give you
insight into the problems of the abuser, and show you how to overcome
the past. In this revised edition, you'll find
• Strategies for dealing with a verbal abuser
• Self-check quizzes with each chapter
• Key to rebuilding relationships
• Letters from survivors of emotional abuse
• New Information on spiritual abuse
• A Biblical plans for healing
"
If you are suffering from the pervasive pain of emotional abuse through
words or actions, you have suffered long enough. This book offers a balm
for the battered soul."
Les Parrot III, Professor of clinical psychology, Seattle Pacific University
"The
Spiritual and biblically oriented guidance found in this carefully crafted
book will prove of inestimable value to all who accept - and adopt - its
valid advice."
Ted Engstrom, Former President, World Vision International
Gregory Jantz, Ph.D. is founder and director of the Center for Counseling and health Resources and the author of eleven books. He has a daily radio show in the Seattle area and conducts seminars on a wide variety of subjects.