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Loving Through The Pain
$13.49Add to cartMany of us sweep our emotional pain “under the rug” or try to push through it, only to find out that it is still there. It follows us from relationship to relationship and we wonder why the same things keep happening over and over again. We ask ourselves “when will things get better?” When will we be able to find some peace in our relationships? Have you found yourself thinking about those questions? When your relationships end leaving you with pain, what do you do? Loving Through the Pain examines the pain which God’s children experience when they are not properly instructed on how to deal with betrayal and hurt in relationships. By carrying distrust and old mindsets into each new relationship, we miss out on God’s best for us. As you apply the principles in this book, you will be able to navigate through the pain that exist in every kind of relationship. You will learn how to forgive, let go, and move forward into the successful relationships that God wants you to have. As you learn how much God loves you, you will be able to love yourself, and in turn, love others – even when they cause you pain. I was born and raised in Philadelphia. I have been an elementary school teacher in the public school system for the past seventeen years. I resigned my teaching position to begin a new journey as a writer and public speaker. Three years ago I began writing this book out of a burden from the pain in my own relationships and what I’ve witnessed in other people’s relationships. My goal is to continue to write to help people navigate through life’s difficult times and encourage them in their walk with God.
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Counseling Couples In Conflict
$40.00Add to cartMost therapeutic approaches, especially those of a cognitive orientation, are not very effective in dealing with high conflict relationships–couples often heading toward divorce by the time they seek help. Counseling Couples in Conflict is a resource for counselors and therapists who want to be ready for these uniquely difficult cases. Utilizing a relational conflict and restoration model Mark Yarhouse and James Sells point the way beyond the cycle of pain towards marital healing.
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Couples In Conflict
$34.00Add to cartPart 1
Family Systems Theory And Marital Conflict
Part 2
Introduction To The Counseling Relationship
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Counseling Goals And ProcessAdditional Info
Perhaps no single issue is of greater importance for families in Western culture than the one of marital conflict. When couples fail to successfully negotiate the emotional difficulties of their relationship, it can lead either to years of unhappiness within the marriage or to the breakdown of the marriage and to divorce. Unhappy couples negatively affect their families and even their communities.Couples in Conflict describes the nature of the emotional processes leading to marital difficulties and how a minister or counselor can be a resource to help couples in conflict. The minister/counselor will be able to help them improve their lives personally, as well as their relationship and family life. By extension, couples will also develop skills that will improve their work life and their life in community. The book provides practical and specific approaches to helping these couples and the issues that a minister must deal with in order to be useful to them.
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Relationship Secrets 322
$13.49Add to cartThis book, which is the third in the Relationship Secrets series, contains a powerful secret that has been hidden for hundreds of years.
The secret in this book, which is one of the most concealed secrets, is a powerful solution to the marital problems in the world today. The secret will empower you to succeed in a fiance/fiancee relationship, husband/wife relationship and in every kind of relationship.
This book is an invaluable manual for all single and married people. It is also very good for all marriage counsellors and pastors.
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Relationship Secrets 201
$13.49Add to cartIn this book, Pastor Chris reveals one of the most important relationship secrets. The secret in this book, which is a very deep relationship secret, has been hidden for ages.
Access to the secret will empower you to marry without further delay, if you are single.
Access to the secret will empower you to enjoy your marriage, if you are married.
Access to the secret will empower you to reconcile with your spouse, if you are separated.
Access to the secret will also empower you to succeed in every kind of relationship.
This book is a powerful tool for succeeding in all kinds of relationships.
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Breaking The Yoke Of Unwanted Celibacy
$13.49Add to cartThis is a book that talks about real issues of the modern single adult who struggles with finding a life partner. It is written first to address the problem of prolonged celibacy among older men and women. You will also read advices for the struggling married couple, the unhappily married, as well as the tolerated marriages. You will learn Scriptures and prayer points, that can be used daily to help you break free from whatever situation you find yourself in, concerning your need for a mate or your marriage relationship. You will hear things that are not typically preached from the pulpit in churches on a Sunday morning service, but are godly counsel for the teachable. May you find answers in this book that no one has been able to provide to you before now. Enjoy, and may you be blessed!
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Mountaintop Experience In The Midst Of The Valley
$12.49Add to cartThis book is written by a broken woman during her husband’s adultery and pending divorce. She had a choice to make to either remain angry and bitter or to depend on God to get her through the heartache. God is the only answer and He has provided her with His strength to forgive her husband. Although the divorce is still pending and outward signs appear that she remains in the valley, God has given her an overwhelming peace that He is in total control. God has taught her to live each day with Him as her focal point. She finally realizes that she does not need to know the future because God is in total control and He will carry her through anything.
During this trial, she realizes how hardened society has become. Our current divorce rate, broken families, churches splitting, and so many hurts, are evidence of just how far we have turned away from God. However, it is NEVER too late with God. We need to examine our own hearts and turn back to God. It is time for a revival and it must start from within each of us. Despite all of the hurt in the world today, we can have total and complete faith that God will not only carry us through but He will also bring us to the mountaintop, if we let Him.
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Called Out Of Darkness
$18.99Add to cartThe reality of loneliness and hopelessness are common adversities many of us are facing today and play a major role in this fascinating story of hope and survival. Let the one who has faced all of them take you on the adventure of your life as you read her compelling story of expectations, transformations, and restorations.
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God Keeps His Promises
$14.00Add to cartGod’s perfect plan is never divorce, but unfortunately we live in a culture today where about half of marriages end in divorce, and sadly Christians are no exception. Many have found themselves in a place they never thought possible – while they took their vows seriously, their spouse wants to call it quits; and some are living in bondage to bitterness from a past divorce.
In God Keeps His Promises, Christy Long shares her personal story of God’s comfort and provision through a painful separation/divorce while expecting her second child. Through time and a closer relationship with Jesus Christ, she has experienced true healing and grace. She wants to give God all the glory and desperately wants others to experience the same for their lives.
God Keeps His Promises shares:
* Christy’s personal testimony of God’s faithfulness
* Life applications for going through a separation/divorce
* Key scriptures for hope, healing, and forgiveness
God does keep His promises, even when others may fail us.
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Back From The Edge
$15.49Add to cartBack From the Edge was written by and for a Christian wife dealing with her spouse’s infidelity. From the “why me” stage to the place where you defer your will to that of God’s plan, this book walks you through the Bible, encouraging you to redirect your focus from the pain of the situation to the promise of a sovereign God. Jacquie Caldwell writes with refreshing honesty and poignant understanding. She kindly, yet clearly, challenges those who have been wounded through marital infidelity toward biblical thinking as well as living. Her purpose for sharing from her experience is to bring back to a watching world the true picture of Christ and the Church. Readers will find themselves loved and encouraged through Jacquie’s writing. Her practical and biblically based Study Guides at the end of each chapter will also help the reader to move forward with excellent application of Scripture.
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Infidelity : A Journey To Forgiveness
$21.99Add to cartHave you ever walked a mile in someone else’s shoes? This book will give you the opportunity. You will see firsthand the emotional rollercoaster that an affair causes. This book will help you to realize that you are not alone in dealing with a cheating spouse.
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Infidelity : A Journey To Forgiveness
$13.49Add to cartHave you ever walked a mile in someone else’s shoes? This book will give you the opportunity. You will see firsthand the emotional rollercoaster that an affair causes. This book will help you to realize that you are not alone in dealing with a cheating spouse.
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Thriving Despite A Difficult Marriage
$15.99Add to cartIs your marriage failing to meet your “happily ever after” expectations? Is your spouse unresponsive to you, refusing to change? Offering hope and a unique perspective, the Misja brothers—both Christian psychologists—explain that God’s standard for your marriage is primarily faithfulness, not happiness. Learn how to maintain meaning, purpose, godliness, endurance, and optimism for your not-so-perfect relationship.
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Hearing The Silent Cries
$12.99Add to cartHearing the Silent Cries: Exposing Wife Abuse puts relationships under a microscope! – Is your relationship more like a see-saw or a slide? If it feels like a slide, which end are you on? – Do you know if your spouse has the 15 Personality Traits of an abuser? Learn the dangers of abuse through the stories of two Christian women who committed murder after years of various forms of spousal abuse. Learn how it starts in the dating stage of life, what it is, why it is used, and methods to diffuse it. Date violence is experienced by one in four teens. This is why we need to educate teenagers of the 15 Personality Traits of an abuser, so they know the difference between sick and healthy relationships. Be sure the teens you know learn the traits! By exposing wife abuse, maybe we can prevent the death of one of the approximately 3,000 women beaten to death by their partner every year.
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Reconcilable Differences : Healing For Troubled Marriages With Study Guide
$14.99Add to cartIs is possible for a couple whose marriage is in serious trouble or a couple who is already divorced to restore harmony — and even love — to their relationship? Jim Talley believes it is, and Reconcilable Differences shows why reconciliation is worth the effort. This book provides practical, biblical advice on how to resolve conflicts and develop a relationship based on mutual love, respect, and trust.
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Healing The Hurt In Your Marriage
$14.99Add to cartDo you and your spouse know how to deal with conflict in your relationship? If you answered no, you’re not alone! The Rosbergs coach couples through a step-by-step biblical process of confession, sorrow, repentance, and forgiveness—“closing the loop” on hurt. You’ll learn to resolve issues in a practical and meaningful way.
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Love Never Fails
$17.49Add to cartOffers help where issues are concerned
There are times that it is okay to get needs met outside of the marriage
We all need to make a contribution to God’s world
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When He Leaves
$16.99Add to cartIn 1998, Kari West and Noelle Quinn gave readers their hard-won but hope-filled insights in When He Leaves. Responding to ongoing reader requests, Harvest House is re-releasing this compelling, one-of-a-kind book in a new edition. How can a woman cope…survive…and even thrive again after divorce? There are no easy answers. Kari West and Noelle Quinn offer their experience and companionship to the reader along a road she never wanted to walk as they urge her to “hang on!” and: admit to the all-but-unbearable pain; start to grasp God’s love and acceptance at a new level; rebuild life…and learn to laugh and love again. Readers will return again and again to the deeply practical and heartfelt counsel offered by Kari and Noelle.
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Reconcilable Differences : Hope And Healing For Troubled Marriages
$32.00Add to cartWhat does it take to really make right a severely damaged relationship? When going back to how things were is not nearly good enough, is there hope for true transformation and healing? Counselor and teacher Virginia Holeman waves together biblical insight and rich theological reflection while drawing from the best of current psychological studies on forgiveness, repentance and reconciling. Out of her own research you will hear the poignant stories of married couples who tell in their own words what its like to seek reconciliation in seemingly hopeless situation. Complete with honest and practical help, this book will be an encouragement to married couples who dare to hope for the healing and transforming of broken relationships and for counselors and pastors who want to work more effectively with them.
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I Will Praise Thee
$18.99Add to cartThis book contrasts the mindset of the secular world and that of the Christian. It addresses the battle Christians have in making decisions about dating, marriage, and relationships. Values are tested and families are upset. The course of life often alters a family by a loved one’s decision in selecting a mate. As family members wait for their prayers to be answered, their Christian foundation keeps them going. I Will Praise Thee will touch homes of those who are experiencing the struggle and teaches a powerful lesson to others. It mends broken hearts as it encourages and demonstrates the power of prayer.
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Broken And Battered
$21.95Add to cart(When placing your order, please mention that this is a Lightining Source book.)
The landscape of America is littered with the broken lives of abused women. Some experts say that the problem has reached epidemic proportions. And this abuse is not only in the world; it is in our churches as well. What can the millions of women who live in such conditions do to escape the physical and emotional prisons they find themselves in? In this powerful, insightful book, Muriel Canfield offers practical help and realistic hope as she reveals the way out for those who are looking for freedom from abuse. Broken and Battered goes beyond the help offered by the world, for its answers are based on biblical truths and helps. This is a must-read for any woman who finds herself locked in an abusive relationship or for anyone who knows a woman who is so imprisoned. If you’re looking for a way out, this book will show you the way.
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Peculiar Conflicts
$13.49Add to cartIs your marriage suffering since you moved to a Western cultured country? The culture and spiritual beliefs of Africans are very different from the prevailing cultures and beliefs of Western Europe and North America. The surge of immigrants from Africa to Western societies in the past three decades has created a new set of marital conflicts peculiar to these immigrants. These conflicts are bringing about divorces among people who would ordinarily stay through tough times in their marriages. Through this book, Femi has brought the peculiar issues up front and on stage for African immigrants in Western culture to discuss and hopefully, through dialogue and information, work through their conflicts instead of divorcing. This book can also be useful for Westerners married to Africans.
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Family Matters : Helping Individuals Cope With The Stress Experienced In Ma
$13.49Add to cartThis book was written to help individuals cope with the stress experienced in marriage. As a therapist, I have observed common problems that cause conflict, resulting in separation. Most marriages start off well. But when tested, partners become passive or aggressive in their behavior. They become critical of each other’s advice and direction. They often become negative, and experience difficulty accepting personal responsibility. Subsequently, the relationship is sabotaged. Because most couples feel trapped in their relationships and do not have solutions, my prayer is that they will seek the will of God instead of the will of man: “For whom God has joined together, let no man put asunder.” We are all aware of the high rate of divorce, estranged relationships, and emotional separation issues faced by our churches and society. These ills are happening because of the hardness of men’s hearts. My wish is that this book will help men and women enter into marriage with transparency, genuineness, and positive self-images. Because we are created in God’s likeness, He clearly wishes that we should maintain healthy relationships. Jesus said to let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
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Marriage And The Catholic Church
$24.95Add to cartIt is an open secret that marriage is in crisis in the United States and that the marriages of Catholics are not significantly different from other marriages. In Marriage and the Catholic Church Michael Lawler confronts the difficult questions in the Catholic theology of marriage.
Lawler, among the leading Catholic voices on the theology of marriage, does not shy away from the difficult questions, but confronts them honestly, historically accurately, and pastorally. He highlights a Catholic approach to premarital relationships, to marriage, to divorce, and to remarriage. He examines the relationship of marriage and sacrament, faith and sacrament, friendship in marriage, divorce and remarriage, cohabitation, family, interchurch marriages, and the changing models of marriage in the Catholic tradition. The whole offers a fresh look at the Catholic theology of marriage for a new millennium.
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How To Be The Happy Wife Of An Unsaved Husband
$15.99Add to cartFrom personal experience, Linda Davis explains the most effective types of prayers and shares many testimonies of husbands won to the Lord. She includes the key to understanding an unsaved husband’s rejection and hostility. Here is the scriptural way to bring your husband to Jesus.
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Catholic Annulment Spiritual Healing
$8.99Add to cartCatholic annulment is often viewed as an obstacle to marriage or a formality of cannon law. Few people realize that annulment is more than just a process – annulment leads to healing. The authors draw upon their own experience of Catholic annulment to describe not only the procedure but also the peace it brought into their lives.
Beginning with the process of annulment, the book presents a section of frequently asked questions, such as: What is the cost? How long will it take? Then the book explains why an annulment process is necessary, and tells how to find a procurator to initiate the annulment process. After discussing the process, the book considers the healing aspects of annulment. Healing must include forgiving others and yourself for all past pain and sorrow. The last chapter of the book discusses how to deal with your children after an annulment.
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Before A Bad Goodbye
$18.99Add to cartTim Clinton has seen three outcomes through his marriage counseling practice-divorce, marriage in name only, and reconciliation. Reconciliation is, by far, the most difficult option. In Before a Bad Goodbye, he shows couples at the breaking point how to nurture forgiveness, develop mutual respect and demonstrate selfless love on a new path to reconciliation.
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Love Honor And Forgive
$26.00Add to cartIVP Print on Demand Title
I’m sorry. Will you forgive me? Those simple words that we teach children to say can be the most difficult we will ever utter. Whether the issue is trivial or vital, forgiveness can be a challenge to any couple. How do we keep small hurts from building up? How do we forgive when we don’t feel like it? Here Bil and Pam Farrel provide a down-to-earth look at forgiveness as we experience it—or don’t—in our marriages.
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To Understand Each Other
$18.00Add to cart“Most couples enter into conjugal life with a high ideal for marriage,” states Paul Tournier. “How many of them can say, a dozen years later, that their home has become what they expected of it? All too few!”
This is the problem Dr. Tournier considers in To Understand Each Other. His concern is for marriages that have become the quiet failures.
“When we talk of marriage counseling we think immediately of the extreme cases, of threats to seek divorce, of couples in violent disputes who frequently come to blows,” he says. But there are many other couples whose marriages are no less failure. “They live side by side, without hurting one another, but poles apart, because of no real understanding of one another.” -
Divorce And Remarriage
$25.00Add to cartWhen it comes to divorce and remarriage, everyone appeals to Scripture—but no one agrees on what it says. In this book, four Christian thinkers (J. Carl Laney, William Heth, Thomas Edgar, and Larry Richards) debate the more perplexing points. Each essayist presents his own view and critiques the others. Case studies apply theories to real-life situations.
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Recreating Marriage With The Same Old Spouse
$24.00Add to cartRecreating Marriage with the Same Old Spouse A Guide for Couples is “a pearl of wisdom necessary for long-term marriage. In a personal and practical way, Dr. Bender leads couples to see their relationship as a lifelong process of change. Her thoughtful execises challenge couples to know intimately their unique and changing spouse as an individual gifted by God and to see long-term love as both possible and healthy.
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Fresh Start Divorce Recovery Workbook
$18.99Add to cartPart 1: Coming Unglued
1. Hitting The Slope: The Stages Of Divorce Recovery
2. Can This Marriage Be Saved?: The Separation/Reconciliation Struggle
3. You Can Book It: Biblical Insights About Divorce
4. There Oughtta Be A Law: Dealing With The Legal Issues
Part 2: Picking Up The Pieces
5. Single Again: Reentry Into The Single Life
6. Show Me The Money: Dealing With Your Finances
7. What’s That You Say?: Communication And Conflict
8. Everything You Always Wanted To Know About … : Sexuality For The Single Again
9. Pardon Me: Working Through Bitterness And Learning To Forgive
Part 3: Other Issues
10. Kids In The Middle: Helping Children Of Divorce
11. You’ll Never Walk Alone: Support Groups For The Separated And The Divorced
Article 1: Developing A Positive Self-Image
Article 2: Handling The Holidays
Article 3: There’s No Such Thing As An Ex-Grandparent
Article 4: Divorce And The Church
Appendix A. Action Points
Appendix B. Test-Retest Adjective Checklist
Appendix C. Marriage And Divorce Position Paper292 Pages
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Based on the authors’ personal experiences as well as the experiences of thousands who have benefited from the acclaimed Fresh Start Seminars, The Fresh Start Divorce Recovery Workbook is a total recovery program for anyone who faces a divorce or separation. Offering a Christian perspective, Bob Burns and Tom Whiteman discuss the typical stages of a divorce-on a physical, emotional, and spiritual level. The Bible-based insights included in this revised and updated edition will give you the practical tools you need to recover from the trauma of divorce and complete the journey toward wholeness after the painful breakup of a marriage. Questions, self-tests, exercises, and practical information will enable you to: -
Making Love Last Forever
$15.99Add to cartLearn How to make Love and Romance Last-Forever
Are you looking for a love guarantee? In this extraordinary book, marriage expert Gary Smalley shows you how to stay in love through all the stages of life. From first attraction to lifelong commitment, Gary’s proven techniques and practical advice show you how to pursue and keep the love you want, and how to energize your relationship with enduring passion-filled love. With memorable word pictures, Smalley reveals the secrets behind his “love guarantee.”
–Love’s Best Kept Secret
–Loves Number One Enemy
–Love’s CliffNotes for MenOpen this book and begin your journey to “forever love.”
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Recreating Marriage With The Same Old Spouse
$24.00Add to cartDrawing on years of experience counseling couples and groups, Sandra Bender contends that married people need intentional, focused direction to create the marriage they want. Recreating Marriage with the Same Old Spouse educates couples in the skills of being married. Beginning with a discussion of the Myers-Briggs personality framework, Bender covers topics such as identity, intimacy, insecurity, and reflective listening. The personal and professional examples, discussion questions, and practice exercises will encourage couples to recreate and renew their marriage.
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Distant Partner : How To Tear Down Emotional Walls And Communicate With You
$18.99Add to cart‘I’m always the one willing to go the extra mile for the sake of my marriage’, ‘His eyes glaze over when I try to talk intimately about things that matter.’ Maybe you’ve heard these words from your spouse. Maybe you’ve said these words about your marriage. Distant Partner is a book for those who have a relationship with too much busyness and not enough personal sharing. You don’t have to stay locked into this merry-go-round battle. Once you understand the dynamics between evasive husbands and emotionally eager wives, you can begin to take the initiative and move forward with healthy actions and choices.
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Art Of Understanding Your Mate
$18.99Add to cartIf you’ve ever wondered exactly what is going on in your mate’s mind, you can probably find it somewhere in the pages of The Art of Understanding Your Mate. Cecil Osborne casts a clinical eye on the underlying psychological forces that drive married relationships. His common sense outlook on counseling troubled couples is based on a solid understanding of human behavior. Illuminating insights tumble from the pages of his book. In addition, Osborne has a keen ear for the spoken word. Through a liberal injection of actual dialogue, he captures the feelings of drama and tensions between husband and wife. Osborne advocates a realistic approach to marriage. He cautions couples to expect to encounter problems of incompatibility. Men and women are different. Their needs are different, as are the emotions that accompany those needs. The wonder is, Osborne points out, that there are so many successful marriages.
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Divorce Myth
$14.00Add to cart1. The Divine Institution Of Marriage
2. The Teaching Of Moses (Deut. 24:1-4)
3. The Teaching Of Ezra (Ezra 9-10)
4. The Teaching Of Malachi (Mal. 2:10-16)
5. The Teaching Of Jesus In Mark 10:1-12 And Luke 16:18
6. The Teaching Of Jesus In Matthew 5:31-32 And 19:1-12
7. The Teaching Of Paul (Rom. 7:2-3 And 1 Cor. 7:10-16)
8. Divorce And The Christian Ministry (1 Tim. 3:2, 12 And Titus 1:6)
9. Answers To Common Objections
10. How To Apply The Doctrine Practically
11. Divorce, Remarriage, And The Christian Counselor.
12. Restoring God’s Standard
158 PagesAdditional Info
The common asked question today is, “Should divorced people remarry?” With great compassion and warmth, Dr. Laney maintains that the more fundamental question with which Christ dealt is, “Should people be divorced?” His purpose is to draw the church up short against the runaway divorce epidemic with a theology of marriage.Challenging the church on the subject of divorce and remarriage, the author carefully builds evidence from scripture and from cultural and historical data for a no-divorce/remarriage position. Not everyone will agree with Laney, but it deserves the careful attention of all who are genuinely concerned about the divorce issue.
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Solving Marriage Problems
$10.99Add to cart“Counselors unanimously find that marriage and family problems outnumber all other counseling problems combined,” writes Jay Adams. “For that reason alone, counselors should want to learn all they can about marriage counseling.” This is a book to help counselors understand and deal with typical problems that arise in a marriage. The approach is to offer not merely solutions, but biblical solutions. Chapter by chapter, each problem that is brought into focus is addressed by Scripture, and a solution arising from Scripture is developed. Unless one understands what a biblical marriage is supposed to be, it is difficult to solve marriage problems. For that reason, Dr. Adams spends the first few chapters developing a biblical model. Then he treats many of the specific kinds of problems that typically arise: life patterns, priorities, children, sex-roles, in-laws, etc. This is a book that belongs on every pastor’s and every counselor’s shelf.
