Recovery
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Little Lost Girl
$15.00The events of Leisha Joseph’s life are sensational, but the deeper story lies in her relationship to God, and in what she can now teach others who suffer from the fear and hurt that result from violence and trauma.
As the treasured only daughter of an upper-middle-class family, Leisha, as well as her brothers, enjoyed a happy childhood. When she was eight years old, all this changed abruptly with the death of her father. The strain on her mother manifested itself in wild behavior. In between frequent stays in private mental hospitals, she brought home a string of boyfriends, some of whom preferred children and made their way to Leisha’s bed. After trying to burn down the house and chasing Leisha with a kitchen knife, her mother was confined to the state mental hospital. While friends and family lent a hand, it was largely up to Leisha and her brothers to keep the family intact.
Sadly, Leisha experienced the pain of isolation because of her family situation. She found God as a teenager, but that comfort did not last long. Leisha became disillusioned with Christianity and began taking drugs until an overdose had her on her knees, promising to serve God all her life if He saved her. She was sober in an instant, and has kept her promise.
Just when she had managed to turn her life around and was a finalist in the Miss Teen USA pageant, recently graduated with honors from high school, and engaged to marry a godly young man, Leisha experienced an attack at the hands of a serial rapist. Yet God intervened once more, giving her the words that would save her life and would eventually cause her attacker to confess in court. Even when he escaped and came after her, as he had threatened to do, Leisha refused to let fear dominate her life. She rejected the advice of the Witness Protection Program, instead relying on God’s saving hands.
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Under The Influence
$17.99One of the most remarkable Christian testimonies of recent years — this is the dramatic story of a former alcoholic street dweller’s conversion to Christianity. Fostered, abused and sent to prison, Angie Taylor has suffered more than most. Her decline into the gutter is vividly told in this action-packed and moving true story. Lurching from one hopeless relationship to another, Angie hit rock bottom. Living on the street, hooked on drugs and unable to take care of herself she cried out in anguish. Then God came in. This powerful and moving book charts her extraordinary road to recovery with the help of Christians who loved her back to wholeness. Published with the full support of Christianity magazine and in association with Premier Radio, this book is set to become the blockbuster new Christian biography of the year.
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Dying For A Drink
$12.50This book recounts the powerful story of how a pastor successfully recovered from the disease of alcoholism. Alexander DeJohn talks openly about his long onetime struggle with alcoholism-his descent into heavy drinking, his shame and his fears of discovery, and his growing understanding of the disease through his family’s support group therapy, and the care of a Christian physician. More than just a moving story, this book also offers hope as it helps readers understand the social, medical, and psychological elements of this widespread disease.
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Balm For Gilead
$26.99For the first time an extensive examination of pastoral care to African American families has been compassionately and courageouly produced. Combining thorough social analysis, the stories of persons who have undergone severe abuse, and insightful theological reflection, James Poling and Toinette Eugene inform and challenge those who provide pastoral care to African Americans and individuals affested by violence and abuse.
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Lost Daughters A Print On Demand Title
$31.99The practice of recovered memory therapy (RMT) and the resulting accusations of childhood sexual abuse have polarized the psychotherapy community and crowded the courts. Television dramas, talk shows, and newsmagazine programs have brought the more sensational elements of this social phenomenon into everyone’s living room. Meanwhile, false accusations of abuse have devastated the lives of many people – from modest elderly couples to the late spiritual leader of Midwest Catholics, Joseph Cardinal Barnardin.
Reinder Van Til’s Lost Daughters movingly depicts the human toll exacted by the widespread belief in RMT. First-person stories, the first of which is Van Til’s own personal narrative, portray families devastated by daughters’ RMT-inspired memories of childhood sexual abuse and their subsequent accusations of fathers and mothers. In chapters that alternate with these narratives, Van Til critically examines the influences in our culture that have allowed this phenomenon to flourish and that continue to fuel the debate.
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5 Cries Of Grief
$21.65On August 12, 1986 twenty five year old David Strommen was struck and killed by a bolt of lightning. The tradedy sent his parent reeling with grief. Out of that grief came a journey toward healing; a journey that is chronicled in this extraordinry book. The Strommens encountered five cries of grief: The cry of pain from the awareness of their devastating loss; the cry of longing, from missing their son; the cry for supportive love, from the extreme sense of vulnerability they experienced; the cry for understanding, as they tried to attribute meaning to a meaningless loss; and the cry for significance, as they strove to see some good result from this tragedy. As they wrote accounts of their journey, they recognized that the grief of a father may differ significantly from that of a mother. Their stories, voiced in alternating chapters launch a journey that can provide strength, insight, and renewal for all who experience the heartbreak of a loved one’s death.
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Mourning Into Dancing
$19.99“Death doesn’t wait till the ends of our lives to meet us and to make an end,” says Walter Wangerin. “Instead, we die a hundred times before we die; and all the little endings on the way are like a slowly growing echo of the final BANG!” Yet out of our many losses, our “little deaths,” comes a truer recognition of life. It is found in our relationships with ourselves, with our world, with others, and with our Creator. This is the dancing that can come out of mourning: the hope of restored relationships. Mourning into Dancing defines the stages of grief, names the many kinds of loss we suffer, shows how to help the grief-stricken, gives a new vision of Christ’s sacrifice, and shows how a loving God shares our grief. We learn from this book that the way to dancing is through the valley of mourning–that grief is a poignant reminder of the fullness of life Christ obtained for us through his resurrection. In the words of writer and critic John Timmerman, Mourning into Dancing “could well be the most important book you ever read.”
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Wrestling With Depression
$23.31CONTENTS
ONE It Can Happen To You
TWO A Deepening Depression
THREE The Miracle Of Healing
FOUR Continuing Recovery
FIVE Managing Depression
SIX How You Can Help
EPILOGUE Thanks For Every Thing
For Further Reading 123Additional Info
To the 20 million Americans who suffer from depression, and to their families, William and Lucy Hulme bring the promise to hope and healing.Writing from his own battles with depression and his experiences as a pastoral counselor, William Hulme helps depressed persons and their families understand depression and its treatments. Woven into his story are his wife Lucy’s struggles as a caregiver. Her thoughts show how depression affects the whole family and how family members and friends can best help the depressed person.
In addition to medical and psychological care, the Hulmes stress the spiritual benefits of prayer and meditation.
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God Medicine And Suffering (Reprinted)
$23.99Why does a good and all powerful God allow us to experience pain and suffering? Drawing on stories of ill and dying children to clarify his discussion of theological issues, Hauerwas explores why we so desperately seek explanations for suffering and evil in today’s world and demonstrates why the solutions that have been suggested are doomed to failure. Alternatively, he shows us a God who, through his believing community, “can give a voice to that pain in a manner that at least gives us a way to go on.”
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