Christian Counselling eTextbooks

Walking Straight When Life Goes Sideways

Essential Christian Truths for Enduring Life's Trials

Darkness Receding

Biblical Hermeneutics, Depression, and Pastoral Care

The Womb Remembers

A Lived Experience of Prenatal Rejection and the Search for Belonging

Proactive Pastoral Counseling

An Intrapersonal Approach for Cultivating Christian Formation

The Power of Mature Empathy

In Response to Sexual Violence in Faith Communities

John Newton's Theology of Suffering and Its Application to Pastoral Care

What Is Spiritual Care?

Perspectives from Different Professions and Religious Traditions

Marriage and Maturity

The Truth About Holy Matrimony

There Is a Balm in Wichita Falls

The Healing Journeys of Mr. White and the Ninja Lady

Peril, Perseverance, and Perversion

Pastoral Reflections on Masculinity

Knitting with Barbed Wire

Understanding the Factor of Religion in Mental Illness and Health

Why I Help People Take Drugs

Reflections of a Christian Addiction Medicine Physician

Through the Eyes of Titans: Finding Courage to Redeem the Soul of a Nation

Images of Pastoral Care and Leadership, Self-Care, and Radical Love in Public Spaces

Soft Shepherd or Almighty Pastor?

Power and Pastoral Care

Sounds of Hope

A Musical Metaphor to Build a Symphony of Hope

Striking Out

The Religious Journey of Teenage Boys

Danse Macabre

Thoughts on Death and Memento Mori from a Hospice Chaplain

I Heart Parenting

Getting the Hearts of Your Children Before They Break Yours

Push Back the Dark

Companioning Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse

Out of the Canyon

Retracing New Steps Home amidst Human Suffering

Hope for the Broken Spirit

Poetry and Scriptures to Heal the Wounds of Depression and Hopelessness

The New Covenant as a Paradigm for Optimal Relations

Marital Principles Derived from a Theological-Psychological Integration

Broken and Beautiful

31 Days from Healing to Joy

Anonymous Christians

Support by Clergy of Addiction Recovery through Twelve Step Programs

Helping Your Family through PTSD

Surviving the Unthinkable

Choosing to Live After Someone You Love Chooses to Die

Forever and Always

The Art of Intimacy

Pastoral Counseling for Orphans and Vulnerable Children

A Narrative Approach

Mission of the Church

Essays on Practical Theology for 21st Century Ministry

Evangelizing the Depths

A Pathway to Inner Unity

Trauma and Grief

Resources and Strategies for Ministry

Normal

A Chaplain, a Community with HIV/AIDS, and the Eternal Life of Stories

Walking Alongside

A Theology for People-Helpers

Grace for the Injured Self

The Healing Approach of Heinz Kohut

Drinking from the Same Well

Cross-Cultural Concerns in Pastoral Care and Counseling

Moving Beyond Individualism in Pastoral Care and Counseling

Reflections on Theory, Theology, and Practice

Agency, Culture, and Human Personhood

Pastoral Thelogy and Intimate Partner Violence

Converging Horizons

Essays in Religion, Psychology, and Caregiving

And One Pill Makes You Small

Overcoming Fear With Facts and Faith

The Art of Spiritual Midwifery

diaLogos and Dialectic in the Classical Tradition

Called to Be a Pastor

Why It Matters to Both Congregations and Clergy

Love Letter to a Conflicted Church

Promise in Our Anger and Disagreements

Precious Enemy

A Biblical Portrait of Death

Burning Temple

Facing Our Anger at God

Pastoral Care, Health, Healing, and Wholeness in African Contexts

Methodology, Context, and Issues

Shaped for Service

Ministerial Formation and Virtue Ethics

Beyond This Darkness

A Faith-Based Pathway to Recovering from Addictive Behaviors

Finding Mom

Where Do Broken Hearts Go?

An Integrative, Participational Theology of Grief

Examining the Impact of Trauma

Continuing the Conversation of Same-Sex Attraction

Let's Talk about Money before You Tie the Knot

A Guide to Premarital Financial Counseling

Marriage and the Counsel of God

A Faith Worth Believing, Living, and Commending

Roots Matter

Healing History, Honoring Heritage, Renewing Hope

The End of the Island

Finding Life in the Movements of Human Suffering, Pain, and Loss

A Heavenly Echo

The Twelve Steps in Christian Reflection

Christ's Under-Shepherds

An Exploration of Pastoral Care Methods by Elders in the Christian Reformed Churches of Australia Relevant to the Circumstances of Twenty-first-century Australia

The Art of Interfaith Spiritual Care

Integration of Spirituality in Health Care Regardless of Religion or Beliefs

Transforming Pastoral Leadership

Reimagining Congregational Relationships for Changing Contexts

Faith, Theology, and Psychoanalysis

The Life and Thought of Harry S. Guntrip

Meet Me at the Palaver

Narrative Pastoral Counseling in Postcolonial Contexts

Am I Sleeping with the Enemy?

Males and Females in the Image of God

A Relentless Hope

Surviving the Storm of Teen Depression

Braided Selves

Collected Essays on Multiplicity, God, and Persons

At Home in the World

A Study in Psychoanalysis, Religion, and Art

Kierkegaard's Pastoral Dialogues

Praying Curses

The Therapeutic and Preaching Value of the Imprecatory Psalms

Understanding Religious Conversion

The Case of St. Augustine

The Spiritual Lives of Dying People

Testimonies of Hope and Courage

Living in Limbo

Life in the Midst of Uncertainty

Open My Heart, Heal My Soul

Living the Grace-Saturated Life

The Healing Myth

A Critique of the Modern Healing Movement

And the Storms Came

A Collection of Correspondence from the Distressed

When All Else Fails

Rethinking Our Pastoral Vocation in Times of Stuck

Misunderstanding Stories

Toward a Postcolonial Pastoral Theology

Challenges Faced by Iraq War Reservists and Their Families

A Soul Care Approach for Chaplains and Pastors

Korean Resources for Pastoral Theology

Dance of Han, Jeong, and Salim

Conscience in Recovery from Alcohol Addiction

Exploring the Role of Spirituality in Conscientious Transformation

Confessions of a Circuit Rider

A Marginal Chaplain's Apocalyptic and Disjointed Journal

Finding the Valuable Person

Therapy That Takes Theology Seriously

Architectures of Grace in Pastoral Care

Virtue as the Craft of Theology beyond Strategic and Authoritative Biblicism

Creativity, Theology, and Posttraumatic Growth

The Sacred Impulse of Play and Transformation out of Tragedy

Pastoral Care to and Ministry with LGBTQ Youth and Young Adults

Opening the Red Door

Pastoral Counseling for Second-Generation Korean Americans in Third Space

A Christian Approach to Counseling and Psychotherapy

Christ-Centered, Biblically-Based, and Spirit-Filled

A Preach Well Church

How Churches Can Stop Burning Out Pastors

Through the Eyes of the Heart

Stories of Love and Loss

Transforming Wisdom

Pastoral Psychotherapy in Theological Perspective

A Minister's Manual for Spiritual Warfare

Healing the Ravaged Soul

Tending the Spiritual Wounds of Child Sexual Abuse

When the World Breaks Your Heart

Spiritual Ways of Living With Tragedy

Equally Yoked

A Premarital Counseling Primer for Multiethnic Christian Couples

Recognizing Other Subjects

Feminist Pastoral Theology and the Challenge of Identity

Songs in My Head

A Cancer Spiritual

Manila Gambit

A Novel

The Beautiful Letdown

An Addict's Theology of Addiction

The Healing Spirit

A Study of Seven Journeys to Recovery from Childhood Sexual Abuse

Ministry with Persons with Mental Illness and Their Families

Visceral Resonance

A Theological Essay on Attending the Sufferer

Daughters of Rizpah

Nonviolence and the Transformation of Trauma