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This series of seminars addresses questions like: What does the Bible say about salaries? Which profession should I choose? How should I handle career path difficulties and tensions?
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Living as a Disciple in the Workplace
Walt Takisaki & Toby Rainbow
On this podcast episode, Walt and Toby discuss how Christians glorify and serve God through the work that we do in our careers and jobs. And how to prioritize your work, life, and ministry.
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Holding Hands, Holding Hearts Summary
Brian Sayers
Holding Hands, Holding Hearts is an excellent book teaching the Biblical principles related to dating. Brian Sayers has written this 10 page summary of Philip’s book.
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You Talk to Yourself
Paul David Tripp
Tripp explains the importance of understanding how your own thinking influences your life and your heart. You listen to yourself more than anyone else. What are you telling yourself?
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Wait or Date - Student/Parent Assessment
Brian Sayers
Helpful for evaluating if someone is ready for dating or not. Use with teens or young adults deciding if they should date. Note: recommend not using Joshua Harris book listed here.
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Tracking the Way Down
Jim Berg, Quieting a Noisy Soul
Taken from Quieting a Noisy Soul, describes how people go down through unbelief to anxiety or anger and eventually despair. Great teaching tool.
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The Three Trees - How People Change
Paul Tripp and Timothy Lane, How People Change
Illustration from the book How People Change. This diagram is the basis of the other tools created from the three trees.
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The Three Trees Detailed Roadmap
Faith Bible Counseling Center
Rich counseling or discipleship tool that teaches people how to put off bad fruit/root and to put on good fruit and roots in response to the situations of life through the gospel.
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Three Trees Counseling Roadmap
Faith Bible Counseling Center
Shows the relationship between a situation, good fruit and root, bad fruit and root, and the solution of the gospel. Helpful teaching chart and worksheet to use with counselee.
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The Process of Biblical Change - Y Chart Filled in
Faith Bible Counseling Center
Helps people to understand how people grow and change and the relationship between the heart and choices. This one has the blanks filled in.
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The Process of Biblical Change - Y Chart with blanks
Faith Bible Counseling Center
To give to a counselee or discipleship partner or mentee to help them understand the process of change and the relationship between the heart and worship and thinking and choices.
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The Cycle of Captivity
Faith Bible Counseling Center
Describes the cycle of captivity and enslavement to sin and how to be free from enslavement to sin through the gospel.
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The Circle of Responsibility Diagram and How To Use It
Caroline Newheiser
Explains the concern versus responsibility diagram and how to use it. Very helpful in helping anxious or overreaching people to trust God.
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Study Guide for Finally Free
Heath Lambert, modified by Faith Bible Counseling Center
To use with Finally Free by Heath Lambert. Study guide with questions to discuss as you help someone overcome lust, pornography or any other sin using Lambert’s book.
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Stabilizing Truths for a Noisy Soul with Stop/Think Cards
Jim Berg, Quieting a Noisy Soul
10 stabilizing truths - God’s attributes and promises to remember when you are anxious, depressed, angry, or tempted or facing any other situation. Includes Stop/Think card instructions.
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Stabilizing Truths for a Noisy Soul
Jim Berg, Quieting a Noisy Soul Study
Gives 10 stabilizing truths for any Christian to help them trust God in the face of anxiety, depression, temptation, anger, or any other situation.
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Renewing a Thought Worksheet
Stuart & Zondra Scott
Worksheet to give to a counselee or discipleship partner to help them learn how to renew their thinking. Helpful for any sin struggle, any issue someone is facing.
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Put-off, Put-on Dynamic
Martha Peace
Great worksheet to give to counselee or discipleship partner to help them think through how to put off sin and put on obedience to Christ.
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Progressive Sanctification Diagram
Faith Bible Counseling Center
Describes the process of progressive sanctification in a diagram. Helpful teaching tool to show someone how to grow and change. Shows how different aspects of growth a related.
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Pleasing God Bible Study
Robert Jones
Gives passages to look up regarding pleasing God and questions to discuss. Good homework assignment for counselee or discipleship partner.
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Discipleship
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Marriage and Roles Shepherding Tool
Brian Sayers, Faith Bible Counseling Center
Describes the Biblical model for marriage and the husband’s role and the role of the wife. Great tool to use for marriage counseling or premarital counseling.
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Letter to an Alcoholic
Edward T. Welch
Helpful article for anyone helping an alcoholic or someone who deals with the life dominating sin of drunkenness. Explains the process of becoming enslaved/addicted to alcohol.
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Lessons - Arrow & Goal in Life
Faith Bible Church Counseling Center
Shows how thinking, actions and feelings work together and how our goal in life should be to please God through our thinking, decisions and emotions.
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How To Incite Others To Grow
Faith Bible Church Counseling Center, Brian Sayers
Describes the process of growth through putting off and putting on and the way down Y chart. Great tool for teaching people how to put off sin, be renewed and put on obedience to Christ.
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How Does Sanctification Work
David Powlison, Journal of Biblical Counseling
Powlison describes the different means of grace that God uses to sanctify people. Shows the variety of means we should pursue using to help each other to grow and change.
How Christians Grow and Change
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Heart Journal
Faith Bible Church Counseling Center
This is a discipleship or counseling tool to give to someone to evaluate a situation, what they did, what they were thinking and feeling, what the Bible says, & what they should think and do next time
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Heart and Habits
Greg Gifford and Dale Johnson, Truth In Love Podcast
Podcast discussing book heart and habits and the principle of how God uses habits to shape our hearts and our worship. Helpful for discipleship and counseling and growth and change.
How Christians Grow and Change
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Gospel Treason Study Guide
Brad Bigney
To use with the book Gospel Treason by Brad Bigney. Study guide, questions to accompany each chapter of the book uncovering idols of the heart and how we can grow and change through renewed worship.
Discipleship
How Christians Grow and Change
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Five Questions I Wished My Accountability Partner Would Ask Me
Brad Hambrick
Questions to ask your accountability partner to deepen your relationship. Great for any discipleship relationship.
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Counseling and Our Union With Christ
Armand Tiffe
Tiffe describes how union with Christ is a key principle to teach when helping anyone in a counseling or discipleship setting. Uses Romans 6 to teach this important truth.
Biblical Counseling Teaching Tools
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How Christians Grow and Change
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Concern or Responsibility
Paul David Tripp, from Instruments in the Redeemer’s Hands
Illustration of concern versus responsibility paradigm. What is our concern, but not our responsibility? How can we tell the difference between concern and responsibility?
Biblical Counseling Teaching Tools
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Arrow Diagram with Target
Hal & Sharon Greene, Kevin & Tamara Henning
Describes the goal in life of pleasing God and the role of thinking, actions and emotions in all of life. Helpful tool for counseling or discipling anyone. Shows relationship between mind, heart, will
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The Anger Spectrum
Rick Thomas (RickThomas.net)
Document picturing the different manifestations of anger.
Anger
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Is “Addiction” Rooted in a Disease, Demon, or Decision?
Mark Shaw
Shaw helps us to see the source of “addiction” or life dominating sin according to the Bible. He shows that alcoholism or drug addiction or porn addiction are rooted in decisions to worship idols.
Addictions/Life Dominating Sins
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Addiction
Faith Bible Church Counseling Center
Describes what addiction is through studying Bible passages. Identifies the root of addiction action steps to take to repent of life dominating sin.
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Addiction Evaluation
The Summit Church, Brad Hambrick
Great inventory of questions to help understand and evaluate addiction/life dominating sin. Helpful for the alcoholic or drug addict or porn addict or anyone enslaved in sin to understand their sin.
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15 Warning Signs of an Abusive Relationship
Faith Bible Church Counseling Center
Gives 15 things to look for in an abusive relationship. Helps you diagnose that a relationship is abusive.
Abuse
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7 Things Not To Say To An Anxious Friend
Lucy Ann Moll
Article describes how to counsel someone who is anxious, and how not to counsel them. Principles for helping people overcome anxiety.
Anxiety
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Filtering My Thoughts
Faith Bible Church Counseling Center
Applies Philippians 4:8-9 to your thought life. Great tool to use with anyone struggling with their thinking, anxiety, anger, depression, lust, bitterness, or any other sin struggle.
Anxiety
How Christians Grow and Change
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The Unrepenting Repenter
Jim Elliff
How can you identify true repentance from false repentance? What does it look like to profess faith without possessing faith, to feign repentance without truly repenting? Evaluate if one is saved.
Discipleship
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Gospel - What is a Christian?
Brian Sayers
Explains the gospel. Defines what a Christian is. Good document to give to someone you are meeting with to help them understand what it means to truly be a Christian.
Discipleship
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Gospel - True or False
Brian Sayers
How can you know if someone is truly saved? How can you help them discern if they are truly born again? Good resource for discipling or counseling to discern if someone is truly saved. Gospel sharing
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The Liberating Truth of Romans 6: Breaking Free From Sinful Habits, Thoughts, and Tendencies
Armand P. Tiffe
Booklet giving help in overcoming sinful habits, thoughts, and tendencies that are hindering their walk with God, hurting their closest relationships, and undermining their peace and joy in Christ.
Addictions/Life Dominating Sins
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Killing Sin Habits: Conquering Sin With Radical Faith
Stuart Scott
Demonstrates how God through the work of the Holy Spirit and radical faith can help you conquer sin in your life. Unpacks John Owen’s work “Mortifying Sin”. Life Dominating sins, addicts, porn,alcohol
Addictions/Life Dominating Sins
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Divine Intervention: Hope and Help for Families of Addicts
Mark Shaw
He demonstrates that it is the addict's self-centered, sinful thoughts that cause addicts to commit harmful acts towards others and themselves. Gives practical help and hope to families of addicts.
Addictions/Life Dominating Sins
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Help! I’m Addicted
Jim Berg
Helpful questions and teaching about addictions, life dominating sins and how to overcome them through faith in Christ. Alcoholics, drug addicts, pornography users, etc…
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Passions of the Heart: Biblical Counsel for Stubborn Sexual Sins
John D. Street
Takes a hard look at the passions of the heart: the underlying idolatries that lead Christians to commit egregious sexual sins. Helpful for understanding and overcoming pornography, lust, impurity.
Addictions/Life Dominating Sins
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Addictions - A Banquet in the Grave: Finding Hope in the Power of the Gospel
Edward T. Welch
The addict must face the fact that what and who he worships will control his life and that true freedom can only come through the cross. Life dominating sins, addictions, alcoholics, drug addicts,porn
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The Heart of Addiction: A Biblical Perspective
Mark E. Shaw
makes the distinction between a "disease" and what Scripture demonstrates is a life-dominating sin nature problem. Gives biblical tools to help you examine heart's motives at the root of addiction.
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Eating Disorders: Hope for the Hungering Soul
Mark Shaw, Bethany Spence, Rachel Bailey
Offers real hope and practical help available through Jesus Christ the only One who offers real solutions to those struggling with eating disorders, bulimia, anorexia and other eating disorders.
Eating Disorders
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Help for Eating Disorders and Distorted Thinking
Kimberly Clark, Association of Certified Biblical Counselors
This is a transcript of a talk by Kimberly Clark on eating disorders and distorted thinking. It also includes the audio of her talk. Helpful resource for those struggling and helping others.
Eating Disorders
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Eating Disorders: The Quest for Thinness
Edward T. Welch
The way out is by understanding the thoughts and emotions that trigger your eating habits, and then taking the step of trusting God, instead of food rules and rituals.Eating disorders anorexia bulimia
Eating Disorders
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Love to Eat, Hate to Eat: Breaking the Bondage of Destructive Eating Habits
Elyse Fitzpatrick
No secret recipes or magic answers will solve all your problems. On this journey you will find a God who loves you and can transform your heart and change your life. Eating disorders gluttony anorexia
Eating Disorders
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Suicide Prevention Protocol
Faith Bible Church
Questions to ask people who are suicidal, action steps to take and Scripture passages to use in comforting and counseling suicidal people.
Self-harm/Suicide
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Self-Injury: When Pain Feels Good
Edward T. Welch
Helps loved ones to understand the self-injurer's world. For those trapped by this behavior, he lovingly describes a cure that is more attractive than you think. Self-harm/cutting
Self-harm/Suicide
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Relief without Cutting: Taking Your Negative Feelings to God
Amy Baker
Instead of cutting--the never-ending cycle of hiding--you can go to Jesus with all of your troubles. You are precious to him. So precious that he shed his blood for you! Self-harm/cutting
Self-harm/Suicide
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I Just Want to Die: Replacing Suicide Thoughts with Hope
David Powlison
Describes the various reasons you might be feeling hopeless and offers biblical advice on how to replace suicidal thoughts with hope for a future filled with love for God and others. Suicide/self-harm
Self-harm/Suicide
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The God We Pray to and Praise
Dan Jarms
List of God’s attributes with Scripture - great for encouraging people to meditate on who God is and to be thankful and grow in trusting Him. Anxiety Depression Discipleship Trusting God
Anxiety
Depression
Trusting God
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Articles
Sexual Struggles in Marriage
Scott Mehl
Sexual struggles in marriage can often be a topic about which there is too much silence. Mehl points to the hope of the gospel and the help of godly mentors in overcoming these challenges. Sexuality
Marriage
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Articles
Will of God
Brian Sayers??
Describes Biblical principles for making decisions and understanding the will of God.
Decision Making
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Articles
Soul Diagnostic: How To Know If You Are A Christian
Eric Davis
Davis gives us 10 ways to know if you are a Christian using various passages from the Bible. Assurance of salvation, self-evaluation of faith
Salvation
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Predator, Prey, and Protector: Helping Victims Think and Act from Psalm 10
David Powlison
Psalm 10 guides a person into knowing God in the midst of being violated. Powlison shows us how to pray Psalm 10 and apply its principles to the lives of victims of abuse.
Abuse
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Pictures of God’s Forgiveness of His People
Robert D. Jones
A one page worksheet to study in the Bible how God forgives His people.
Biblical Counseling Teaching Tools
Forgiveness & Bitterness
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Articles
Motives: Why Do I Do The Things I Do?
Edward T. Welch
Whatever we trust in or love is an idol if it replaces the true God. Welch shows us many different motives that can reveal heart idols. Good tool for both the mentor and mentee.
Biblical Counseling Teaching Tools
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Abuse, Neglect and Pornography as Biblical Grounds for Divorce
Brian Sayers in the Journal of Biblical Soul Care
We will see that cases of abuse, neglect, and habitual pornography use often, though not always, fall under the biblical provisions and protections of God and may be adequate grounds for divorce.
Marriage
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Four Rules of Communication
Biblical Counseling Tool
This is a tool to help couples and anyone with communication.
Biblical Counseling Teaching Tools
Communication
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Forgiveness
Brian Sayers, Faith Bible Counseling Department
Concise description of what forgiveness is and how to pursue it. Very clear on attitudinal forgiveness versus transactional forgiveness that ends in reconciliation. Helpful tool for counseling
Biblical Counseling Teaching Tools
Forgiveness & Bitterness
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Articles
When Does Forgiveness Not Lead To Reconciliation
Tom Hicks
Description of when forgiveness does not lead to reconciliation. Distinguishes between forgiveness as a unilateral promise and reconciliation as a mutual process with two way commitments.
Forgiveness & Bitterness
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The Enabler’s Inventory
Mark E. Shaw
Inventory of questions to answer to help someone understand the ways they might be enabling an addict or someone enslaved to life dominating sins.
Abuse
Addictions/Life Dominating Sins
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Articles
Counseling An Addict's Enabler
Mark E. Shaw
Counseling for the person who might be enabling an addict. How do you know if you are enabling someone else to continue in their life dominating sin?
Abuse
Addictions/Life Dominating Sins
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Describing Abuse
Brian Sayers???
Concise document explaining what abuse is, giving key questions to answer regarding specific situations to determine if abuse is happening.
Abuse
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Decisions - Will of God
Brian Sayers??
Short document explaining the process for finding the will of God / making decisions
Decision Making
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Articles
Relief without cutting : taking your negative feelings to God
Amy Baker
This 10 page booklet, accessible as an article via this link, is great to give to someone who is dealing with self-harm or cutting to help them to understand the hope of the gospel for their situation
Self-harm/Suicide
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2 Lies That Must Be Defeated To Overcome Cutting
Amy Baker
This short article by Amy Baker shows us two lies that must be defeated to help those who are cutting themselves/ dealing with self-harm issues.
Self-harm/Suicide
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How To Confess That I Was Wrong
P. Brian Noble, Peacemaker Ministries
This is a multiple page document you would want to print out to use to help someone think through how to confess their sin and ask for forgiveness and seek reconciliation.
Biblical Counseling Teaching Tools
Conflict Resolution
Forgiveness & Bitterness
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Articles
How To Be Free From Bitterness and Other Essays on Christian Relationships
Jim Wilson
This is a collection of essays on the topic of forgiveness, bitterness and peace in relationships. Has helpful questions at the end to use for counseling/discipleship
Forgiveness & Bitterness
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Finding Gospel Freedom from Anger, Resentment, and Bitterness
Robert D. Jones
Jones helps us think through the different kinds of anger and how to find gospel freedom from sinful anger, also dealing with resentment and bitterness.
Anger
Biblical Counseling Teaching Tools
Forgiveness & Bitterness
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Battle Plan for Killing Sin
Stuart Scott
Battle plan for killing sins document. Helpful for those dealing with life dominating sins. Helpful for any discipleship and training someone to fight sin.
Addictions/Life Dominating Sins
Biblical Counseling Teaching Tools
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Abuser Behavior Inventory
Chris Moles
Questions to ask the abuser to help them see the extent of their abuse.
Abuse
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Abuse Victim Questionnaire
Chris Moles
Questionnaire to use with an abuse victim to help determine the extent of the abuse and how to help the victim.
Abuse
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Loving Messy People: The Messy Art of Helping One Another Become More Like Jesus
Scott Mehl
Gives a framework and principles for personal ministry to others applying the gospel to suffering and sinning.
Communication
Discipleship
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War of Words: Getting to the Heart of Your Communication Struggles
Paul David Tripp
Tripp gets right to the heart of our communication problems and shows how the gospel changes the way we understand and solve them. Conflict resolution
Communication
Conflict Resolution
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Relationships: A Mess Worth Making
Timothy S. Lane, Paul David Tripp
Identifies how to work through the most stubborn problems that plague any contemporary relationship - be it marriage, parent-child, or friendship. Communication, conflict, family
Communication
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Out of a Far Country A Gay Son’s Journey to God. A Broken Mother’s Search for Hope.
Christopher Yuan, Angela Yuan
Their mutual story of heartbreak, confusion---and surrender to God---offers hope for anybody affected by homosexuality. This is a biography that gives hope. Good for parents whose kids are gay.
Gender/LGBTQ+
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God and the Transgender Debate: What Does the Bible Actually Say about Gender Identity?
Andrew Walker
Teaches what the Bible says about gender identity has been updated and expanded throughout, and now includes a section on pronoun usage and a new chapter addressing the transgender movement.
Gender/LGBTQ+
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Jesus and My Gender Children’s Book
Dale Partridge
Lays out a cohesive theological presentation of biblical gender. The content of each page is supported by Scripture references
Gender/LGBTQ+
Parenting Younger Kids
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Podcasts
Is Same Sex Attraction Sinful?
Heath Lambert - Truth in Love Podcast
Heath Lambert and Denny Burk discuss same sex attraction and desire and why it is sinful.
Gender/LGBTQ+
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Helping Students with Same-Sex Attraction: Guidance for Parents and Youth Leaders
Cooper Pinson
He begins by helping parents and youth leaders understand that this struggle same-sex attraction is not so very different than their own struggles with sin and suffering that they encounter every day.
Gender/LGBTQ+
Parenting Teens
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Transgender
Vaughan Roberts
This book gives an overview and a starting point for constructive discussion as we seek to live in a world with different values, and love, serve and relate to transgender people.
Gender/LGBTQ+
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Transforming Homosexuality: What the Bible Says about Sexual Orientation and Change
Denny Burk, Heath Lambert
Challenges misconceptions on all sides as they show how a biblical view of same-sex orientation gives hope for profound personal change. Homosexuality, same-sex attraction
Gender/LGBTQ+
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Videos
A Testimony of Abuse
Pam Gannon - ACBC
Pam Gannon gives her testimony of how the grace of God can shine through the darkness of child abuse.
Abuse
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Podcasts
Restoration after severe abuse - episode 261
Chris Moles, Peace Works Podcast
Podcast talking about how to help those who are severely abused. Episode 261 of peace works podcast.
Abuse
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Articles
The Abuse Pendulum (Parts 1, 2 & 3)
Jim Newheiser
In the article you will be able to select part 2 and 3 to finish reading all of it. All three parts are about domestic abuse and how to respond to it and how to help victims of abuse.
Abuse
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Classes
Abuse in the Church
Brian Sayers, Faith Bible Church
Seminar addresses the inadequacies of how churches respond to domestic abuse and violence and give principles and ideas for how churches and church leaders should prepare to help vulnerable people.
Abuse
Marriage
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Articles
Marriage, Divorce, & Remarriage
Faith Bible Church Elders, Brian Sayers
What is God's design for marriage? What are the Biblical grounds for divorce and for remarriage? Read this elder document to get an outline of Faith Bible Church's doctrinal positions on these issues.
Abuse
Marriage
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Sermon
Safe Marriage
Brian Sayers
What are the God-given responsibilities of believers and church leadership when marriages become difficult or even hostile? Helping victims of abuse, marriage counseling…sermon on abuse and divorce.
Abuse
Marriage
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Is It Abuse? A Biblical Guide to Identifying Abuse and Helping Victims
Darby A. Strickland
Learn how to identify the toxic entitlement that drives abusive behavior and to better understand its impact on victims—including children who are raised in a home with domestic abuse.
Abuse
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The Heart of Domestic Abuse: Gospel Solutions for Men Who Use Control and Violence in the Home
Chris Moles
Encourages godly men in the church to call abusive men to repentance and accountability through the power of the Holy Spirit. Helping victims of abuse.
Abuse
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Innocence Lost: Rebuilding After Victimization
David Powlison
Encourages all who have been victimized to find their voice in Scripture, guiding them through Psalm 10’s process of crying out, expressing pain, and confessing faith. Helping victims of abuse.
Abuse
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Abuse: Finding Hope in Christ
John Henderson
Looks at one couple, one counseling session, and one Psalm, asking the Lord to help us behold the depth of his wisdom and love that we may live triumphantly in the wake of abuse.
Abuse
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Wisdom for Big Decisions
Dan Jarms
Dan Jarms preaches on how to make wise decision from Proverbs. He gives us five steps towards making good decisions.
Decision Making
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God’s Will & Decision-Making
Brian Sayers
Brian Sayers explains how you can know what the will of God is.
Decision Making
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Decision Making and the Will of God
Garry Friesen, Robin Maxson
Examines the traditional view of God's will, then sets forth a different view that more accurately reflects biblical teaching. Decision making
Decision Making
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Just Do Something: A Liberating Approach to Finding God’s Will
Kevin DeYoung
By surrendering, you'll discover that God's plan has already been revealed. Learn to love him with your whole heart, obey his Word, find hope, and see your choices through. Decision making
Decision Making
Parenting Teens
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Step by Step
James C. Petty
This is a book for all of those Christians seeking guidance. Teaches spiritual discernment, wisdom, and insight enable Christians to know God's will for their lives. Decision making
Decision Making
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Unpacking Forgiveness: Biblical Answers for Complex Questions and Deep Wounds
Chris Brauns
Examines God's Word to form a sound theology of forgiveness, helping readers move beyond the wounds and baggage of bitterness, disagreements and broken relationships.
Forgiveness & Bitterness
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Redeeming Your Painful Past: Present Grace, Future Hope
Stephen Viars
Walks through the various ways the past can influence you in the present and unpacks how the gospel brings forgiveness, healing, and hope by pointing to Christ.
Forgiveness & Bitterness
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Overcoming Bitterness: Moving from Life’s Greatest Hurts to a Life Filled with Joy
Stephen Viars
Avoid the pitfalls of a bitter heart as you walk through our fallen world. When we learn to process bitterness biblically, we can move from life's greatest hurts to a life filled with joy. Forgiveness
Forgiveness & Bitterness
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Podcasts
Resolving Conflict on Valentine’s Day
Ernie Baker on the Truth in Love Podcast
Ernie Baker teaches about how to resolve conflict with a loved one. Discusses the PAUSE principle briefly.
Conflict Resolution
Dating
Engagement
Marriage
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Podcasts
Resolving Conflict
Bill Shannon on the Truth in Love Podcast
Pastoral approach to helping couples resolve conflict.
Conflict Resolution
Marriage
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Help I am in a conflict
Ernie Baker
How does the gospel impact relationships and tensions? What is the origin of conflict? What is going on in my heart that leads to my struggles with patience or irritability? Conflict resolution
Conflict Resolution
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Resolving Everyday Conflict
Ken Sande, Kevin Johnson
Explore the nature of conflict and offer biblical steps to heal disputes. Discover how to see the situation clearly, overcome evil with good and be reconciled to your "enemy.
Conflict Resolution
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Books
Pursuing Peace: A Christian Guide to Handling Our Conflicts
Robert D. Jones
Offers a step-by-step process for pursuing peace in ALL your relationships and a tool you can use to help others - conflict resolution. Their are accompanying worksheets to use as you read the book.
Conflict Resolution
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Resolving Conflict: How to Make, Disturb, and Keep Peace
Lou Priolo
He shows us the prerequisites we must have as we go into conflict, what is at the heart of our conflict, when it is biblical and unbiblical, and how we should respond to it. Conflict resolution
Conflict Resolution
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Books
Heaven Rules: Take Courage. Take Comfort. Our God is in Control
Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth
God has a response to our suffering and trials: heaven rules! He's in charge amid any crisis. Using the Book of Daniel,demonstrates how to allow peace to reign by taking refuge in the Lord.
Trials and Suffering
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God’s Mercy in Our Suffering: Lamentations for Pastors and Counselors
Erik Kress, Paul Tautges
Helpful book for those who are going through trials and suffering, teaching them to trust God as they lament.
Trials and Suffering
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Suffering: Gospel Hope When Life Doesn’t Make Sense
Paul David Tripp
6 traps to avoid: awareness, fear, doubt, envy, discouragement, and denial; and 6 comforts to embrace---God's grace, sovereignty, presence, purpose, people, and rest. An offering of hope amid trials.
Trials and Suffering
Trusting God
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When God Weeps
Joni Eareckson Tada, Steve Estes
When life hurts, can God be trusted? What are his purposes in the face of suffering? Joni Eareckson Tada---herself a quadriplegic---knows about pain. Shows how we can trust God in suffering and trials
Trials and Suffering
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Dark Clouds, Deep Mercy: Discovering the Grace of Lament
Mark Vroegop
Exploring how the Bible-through the psalms of lament and the book of Lamentations-gives voice to our pain, this book invites us to grieve, struggle, and tap into the rich reservoir of grace and mercy.
Depression
Trials and Suffering
Trusting God
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You Can Trust God
Jerry Bridges
Shortened version of Trusting God. Great resource teaching people to trust God’s sovereignty in the midst of trials and suffering, depression, anxiety, and other challenges.
Anxiety
Depression
Trials and Suffering
Trusting God
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Trusting God
Jerry Bridges
This is a lengthy Bible study on the sovereignty of God, leading us to trust God in the midst of trials and suffering.
Discipleship
Trials and Suffering
Trusting God
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Counseling the Hard Cases: True Stories Illustrating the Sufficiency of God's Resources in Scripture
Stuart Scott, Heath Lambert
Shows how the truths of God's Word can be released to bring help, hope, and healing into the lives of those who struggle with some of the most difficult psychiatric diagnoses. Bipolar depression
Anxiety
Biblical Counseling Teaching Tools
Depression
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God’s Attributes: Rest for Life’s Struggles
Brad C. Hambrick
Explores 16 different attributes of God, categorized under love, essence, wisdom, and power, providing tools for reflection and correcting wrong views. Discipleship, trusting God, depression, anxiety
Anger
Anxiety
Depression
Discipleship
How Christians Grow and Change
Trusting God
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A Gospel Primer for Christians: Learning to See the Glories of God
Milton Vincent
This book teaches the necessity of preaching the gospel to yourself daily as the means to walking by faith as you face any battle against sin, anxiety, depression, or any other issue. Discipleship
Anxiety
Depression
Discipleship
How Christians Grow and Change
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Books
Depression: Looking Up from the Stubborn Darkness
Edward T. Welch
Helpful for a counselor to understand the depressed person, but not as helpful for the depressed counselee. Perspective for counseling depression.
Depression
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If I’m a Christian, Why Am I Depressed?
Robert B. Somerville
God's Word promises hope at the seemingly unreachable end of trials, and strength forged from adversity and pain in the new light that follows the darkness of despair. Hopeful stories for depression.
Depression
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Out of the Blues: Dealing with the Blues of Depression and Loneliness
Wayne Mack
Linear, categorical, logical and diagnostic and helpful for training how to think about depression. Defines what depression is and outlines causes and solutions to the blues caused by loneliness.
Depression
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Good Mood, Bad Mood: Help and Hope for Depression and Bipolar Disorder
Charles Hodges
Helpful book regarding how to think about depression and bipolar disorder and medications to treat them and how to help those sufferings with these things.
Depression
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A Small Book About A Big Problem: Meditations on Anger, Patience and Peace
Edward T. Welch
Embark on a 50-day journey with biblical counselor and psychologist Welch to unpack your heated emotions---and grow in God's promised peace. Helping angry people deal Biblically with their anger.
Anger
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Heart of Anger: Practical Help for the Prevention and Cure of Anger in Children
Lou Priolo
Book goes beyond the external manifestations of anger and deals with the internal source: the thoughts and intentions of the heart. Helpful for parenting angry children.
Anger
Parenting Younger Kids
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Good and Angry: Letting Go of Anger, Irritation, Complaining and Bitterness
David Powlison
Using God's redemptive anger as a model, Powlison helps us understand the roots of rage and encourages us to seek God's guidance in constructively responding to injustice. Helping angry and bitter
Anger
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Uprooting Anger
Robert D. Jones
Focuses on changing the underlying motivations and beliefs of the heart that drive angry behavior. Helpful for discipling and counseling people dealing with sinful anger.
Anger
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Podcasts
Antidote to Anxiety
Janet Aucoin, Joyful Journey Podcast
For women, discusses the topic of anxiety and its various underlying heart issues by studying the Sermon on the Mount, and discuss how to find freedom within anxiety in our relationship to Christ.
Anxiety
Trusting God
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Help! I’m Anxious
Philip De Courcy
carefully distinguishes right concern from unhealthy anxiety, and using Jesus words in the Sermon on the Mount shows us how we can have victory over worry by entrusting ourselves fully to the Lord.
Anxiety
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Classes
Quieting a Noisy Soul
Jim Berg
This is a 24 week class that is the in-depth version of “God is More Than Enough”. Wonderful resource to use with a counselee or in a class. Helpful for depression, anxiety and much more.
Anxiety
Depression
Discipleship
How Christians Grow and Change
Trusting God
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God Is More Than Enough: Foundations for a Quiet Soul
Jim Berg
Wonderful book describing the way down into anxiety and depression and how believing that God is enough is the answer to these and all the other issues our hearts face.
Anxiety
Depression
Discipleship
Trusting God
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Books
A Small Book for the Anxious Heart: Meditations on Fear, Worry and Trust
Ed Welch
Don't put a Band-Aid on your fear and anxiety; rather, learn to bring your fear to Jesus, relying on his Word.
Anxiety
How Christians Grow and Change
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Web Pages
Growing by Changing Our Desires
Faith Lafayette Resources
Sermon on James 4:1-9 and how our desires change through Christ so that we grow to be like Christ.
Discipleship
How Christians Grow and Change
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Help! I Want to Change
Jim Newheiser
Helpful short booklet on how people grow and change through Biblical sanctification. Show that the gospel is the key to being empowered to live a life that pleases God.
Discipleship
How Christians Grow and Change
The Heart
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Heart & Habits: How We Change for Good
Greg Gifford
Helps people establish good habits, teaching what the Bible says about your habits and how God uses your habits to help you change for good; discipleship, the heart, habits, how people grow and change
Discipleship
How Christians Grow and Change
The Heart
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How People Change
Timothy S. Lane, Paul David Tripp
Jesus' work on the cross targets our hearts---our core desires and motivations---and when our hearts change, our behavior changes - helpful description of how change and growth works.
Discipleship
How Christians Grow and Change
The Heart
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The Dynamic Heart in Daily Life: Connecting Christ to Human Experience
Jeremy Pierre
provides a comprehensive view of how the heart works and how Christ redeems it; discipleship, heart, how people grow and change
Discipleship
How Christians Grow and Change
The Heart
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Changed Into His Image
Jim Berg
Very thorough book on the process of putting off sin, being renewed in our minds and putting on the new life in Christ. Discipleship, the heart, how people grow and change. Has a workbook you can use
Discipleship
How Christians Grow and Change
The Heart
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Gospel Treason: Betraying the Gospel with Hidden Idols
Brad Bigney
Shows us how the idols we might not even recognize can still have devastating effects in our lives, effectively leading us to commit gospel treason. Discipleship, shepherding the heart, how to grow
Discipleship
How Christians Grow and Change
The Heart
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Good Pictures Bad Pictures: Porn-Proofing Today’s Young Kids
Kristen A. Jenson
Equips parents to begin a comfortable conversation with kids early enough to make a difference. Explains how porn affects the brain in ways kids can understand. Helps kids turn from pornography.
Lust/Porn
Parenting
Parenting Younger Kids
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Podcasts
Thinking and Theology
Janet Aucoin, Joyful Journey
Helpful podcast on the importance of taking your thoughts captive. Helpful for counseling pornography addiction, lust, wrong thinking in general, and other kinds of sinful thinking.
Addictions/Life Dominating Sins
Lust/Porn
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Web Pages
Ever Accountable
Ever Accountable Software
This is an accountability software that we recommend for helping people fight lust and pornography enslavement/addiction.
Addictions/Life Dominating Sins
Lust/Porn
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Podcasts
Adult Children and Their Parents
Janet Aucoin, Joyful Journey Podcast
As children grow up and leave the home, the relationship between child and parent changes and develops in ways that can be difficult to navigate with grace and wisdom. Parenting, adult parents/kids
Parenting
Parenting Adult Kids
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Podcasts
Biblical Parenting Essentials
AM Brewster, Truth Love Parent Podcast
Helpful teaching for Biblical parenting - gives essential principles on the family
Parenting
Parenting Teens
Parenting Younger Kids
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Classes
Foundations of Discipleship
Brian Sayers, Faith Bible Church
In this self-paced video class, you will learn the basics of discipleship—how to walk alongside and disciple others, helping them to know and obey God’s Word and to mature in following Christ!
Discipleship
How Christians Grow and Change
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Web Pages
Affairs of the Mind - Help for those struggling in their thought life
Debi Pryde
This is a link to Debi Pryde’s page with lots of resources. We are recommending in particular the article on “affairs of the mind” for helping women with purity, lust, and learning how to fight sin.
Addictions/Life Dominating Sins
Lust/Porn
Marriage
Singleness
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Articles
Helping Women Who Struggle With Pornography
Martha Peace
Article helping women who struggle with pornography, lust, purity.
Addictions/Life Dominating Sins
Lust/Porn
Marriage
Singleness
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Finally Free: Fighting for Purity with the Power of Grace
Heath Lambert
A shorter, very helpful tool that explains 8 strategies for using the means of grace that God has given us to fight lust; has an accompanying study guide; purity, marriage, singleness, pornography
Addictions/Life Dominating Sins
How Christians Grow and Change
Lust/Porn
Marriage
Singleness
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Passions of the Heart: Biblical Counsel for Stubborn Sexual Sins
John D. Street
Very robust treatment of the heart issues and practical strategies related to fighting lust – includes study questions for discussion at the end of each chapter. Discipleship, lust, purity, porn
Addictions/Life Dominating Sins
Lust/Porn
Marriage
Singleness
The Heart
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Articles
Every Woman’s Call to Work
Abigail Dodds
Good resource encouraging women regarding the role of work, whether in the world or in the home, whether single or married. Good for parenting, marriage, singleness, and discipleship.
Marriage
Parenting
Singleness
Work/Vocation
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Articles
Moms, You Are Not Enough: The Freedom of Depending on God
Susan Narjala, Desiring God
Explains how moms, whether single or married, are never enough on their own. All parents need to depend on God for their sufficiency in parenting their children.
Parenting
Singleness
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Biblical Grandparenting: Exploring God’s Design for Disciple-Making and Passing Faith to Future Generations
Josh Mulvihill
Gives a biblical overview of the role of grandparents, and shares research that will give students, pastors, and leaders a vision to impact the next generation for Christ. Parenting, Grandparenting
Parenting
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Come Back, Barbara: A Father’s Pursuit of a Prodigal Daughter
C. John Miller, Barbara Miller Juliani
Book offers invaluable lessons for parents and children at any age or stage-and for anyone with a prodigal loved one-showing how struggles may be faced with humility, courage, and hope. Parenting
Parenting
Parenting Adult Kids
Parenting Teens
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Reaching Your Prodigal: What Did I Do Wrong? What Do I Do Now?
Phil Waldrep
Help for parenting different kinds of prodigal kids: defiant, embarrassing, intellectual, lukewarm, and religious prodigals. Parenting
Parenting
Parenting Adult Kids
Parenting Teens
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How to Love Difficult Parents: Wisdom for a Challenging Relationship
Jim Newheiser
Helps adults in their relationship with their parents, including financial strain, care for their home or their health, conflict related to care for the grandchildren,or destructive relational choices
Parenting
Parenting Adult Kids
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You Never Stop Being a Parent: Thriving in Relationship with Your Adult Children
Elyse M. Fitzpatrick, Jim Newheiser
Guidance for parenting adult children from God's Word, reminding you that your relationship with your adult child can only be as deep and meaningful as your relationship with God.
Parenting
Parenting Adult Kids
Parenting Teens
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The Connected Child: Bring Hope and Healing to Your Adoptive Family
Karyn Purvis, David R. Cross, Wendy Sunshine
Learn how to build bonds of trust with your adopted child, effectively deal with any learning or behavioral disorders, and discipline with love. Secular author, but very helpful for parenting/adoption
Adoption
Parenting
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Helping Your Adopted Child: Understanding Your Child’s Unique Identity
Paul David Tripp
This booklet offers help to challenges with faith as you teach your children their identity in Christ and their place in God's world. Adoption, parenting
Adoption
Parenting
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Podcasts
After They Are Yours - Podcast Series
Brian Borgman on FamilyLife Podcast
Podcast on adoption, giving help and encouragement to struggling adoptive parents. Parenting, adoption
Adoption
Parenting
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After They Are Yours: The Grace and Grit of Adoption
Brian Borgman
Resource offering help and hope to struggling adoptive parents, giving insight and encouragement for adoption and parenting.
Adoption
Parenting
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Keeping Your Cool: A Teen’s Survival Guide
Lou Priolo
Excellent book helping teens with their anger. Great for parenting teens also.
Anger
Parenting
Parenting Teens
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Books
Get Offa My Case: Godly Parenting of an Angry Teen
Rick Horne
Book 2 offers practical specifics about parenting angry rebellious teens. Shows parents how to reestablish godly family leadership and helps them find the joy of the Lord, even if teen doesn’t change.
Parenting
Parenting Teens
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Books
Get Outta My Face! How to Reach Angry, Unmotivated Teens with Biblical Counsel
Rick Horne
Book 1 of 2, Foundational principles & wisdom from Proverbs with practical directives that will make a difference in the life of you and your rebellious or angry teen. Parenting unmotivated teens
Anger
Parenting
Parenting Teens
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Age of Opportunity: A Biblical Guide to Parenting Teens
Paul David Tripp
Great resource for parenting teens with lots of penetrating questions and exciting new discussions, that open the door to a teen’s heart.
Parenting
Parenting Teens
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Podcasts
Are You Parenting out of Fear?
Kelli Dionne, Paul Funchess, Family of Faith Podcast
As you parent, do your responses and reactions show a trust in the Lord, his promises and goodness? Key topics: anger, control, power, manipulation, fear, worry, anxiety
Anger
Anxiety
Parenting
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Web Pages
Parenting Adult Kids
Chris Hamilton, Grace Community Church
Sermon audio on parenting adult kids.
Parenting
Parenting Adult Kids
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Web Pages
Parenting Girls
Chris Hamilton, Grace Community Church
Chris Hamilton sermon on parenting girls.
Parenting
Parenting Teens
Parenting Younger Kids
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Web Pages
Parenting Boys
Chris Hamilton, Grace Community Church
Sermon audio from Chris Hamilton on parenting boys.
Parenting
Parenting Teens
Parenting Younger Kids
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Articles
Lift the Heavy Burden of Shame: How to Care for Parents of Prodigals
Dave Harvey
Article provides hope and help for parents of prodigal, rebellious children. How can the church help hurting parents? Shows us how to think about rebelling kids. Parenting help for teens/adult kids
Parenting
Parenting Adult Kids
Parenting Teens
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Articles
For Parents of a Prodigal: Hope through the Pain
Mark Shaw
Resource for parents of rebellious, prodigal kids. Parenting help when things look very bleak.
Parenting
Parenting Adult Kids
Parenting Teens
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Web Pages
Hope & Help for Hurting Parents
Brad Bigney
Great resource to help parents of rebellious kids - parenting, counseling, prodigal kids…
Parenting
Parenting Adult Kids
Parenting Teens
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Books
Child Proof: Parenting by Faith Not Formula
Julie Lowe
As an experienced counselor and an adoptive and foster mom applying the CCEF model of biblical change, Lowe uses Scripture to teach parents how to know their children and love them well. Parenting
Parenting
Parenting Teens
Parenting Younger Kids
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Talking with Your Kids about Jesus: 30 Conversations Every Christian Parent Must Have
Natasha Crain
Prepares you for essential conversations about Jesus' identity, teachings, death, and resurrection---and the difference each one makes. Adaptable to any age. Parenting & Discipleship of children.
Discipleship
Parenting
Parenting Teens
Parenting Younger Kids
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Parenting: 14 Gospel Principles That Can Radically Change Your Family
Paul David Tripp
14 practical and gospel-centered principles to shape parenting including grace, identity, lies, authority, foolishness, and character. Great book for parents of kids of all ages.
Parenting
Parenting Teens
Parenting Younger Kids
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Peacemaking For Families
Ken Sande, Tom Raabe
Great resource for marriage counseling, for parenting, for helping anyone to deal Biblically with conflict resolution. Features the 7 A’s of forgiveness and the PAUSE method of negotiation.
Conflict Resolution
Discipleship
Marriage
Parenting
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Marriage: 6 Gospel Commitments Every Couple Needs to Make
Paul David Tripp
Great resource for marriage counseling and strengthening and for engagement. Will show you how to grow a thriving grace-based relationship. Accompanying video series is good, especially #8 on intimacy
Discipleship
Engagement
Marriage
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Sermon
Avoiding the Deadly Sins of Marriage
Brad Bigney
8 sermons by Brad Bigney on marriage. Great resource for strengthening marriages, for pre-marital counseling with engaged couples, and for crisis marriage counseling.
Communication
Conflict Resolution
Discipleship
Marriage
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Books
Fierce Women: The Power of a Soft Warrior
Kimberly Wagner
Good resource for discipling strong willed women.
Discipleship
Marriage
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Books
Feminine Appeal: Seven Virtues of a Godly Wife and Mother
Carolyn Mahaney
Helps women to grow in roles of wife and mother. Good for marriage or engagement counseling and discipleship.
Discipleship
Engagement
Marriage
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Books
From Pride to Humility: A Biblical Perspective
Stuart Scott
List of manifestations of pride, to be put-off, followed by the attributes of humility, which Christians can put on through the Spirit. Helpful for marriage or engagement for husband’s discipleship.
Discipleship
Engagement
Marriage
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The Complete Husband: A Practical Guide for Improved Biblical Husbanding
Lou Priolo
Great marriage book to help husbands to fulfill their role. Good questions for discussion to strengthen communication in marriage. Helpful for engaged men to learn husband role.
Communication
Engagement
Marriage
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Books
Intended for Pleasure
Ed Wheat M.D., Gaye Wheat
Affirming sex and sexuality as God-given gifts, combines biblical teaching on love, unity, and fidelity with practical and candid information. To give to engaged couples close to wedding and marriage.
Engagement
Marriage
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Books
Tying the Knot: A Premarital Guide to a Strong and Lasting Marriage
Rob Green
Pre-marital counseling book for engaged or dating couples that covers issues like conflict, expectations, communication, finances, and intimacy, all focused on Christ being the center.
Engagement
Marriage
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Books
This Momentary Marriage: A Parable of Permanence
John Piper
The first chapters lay a wonderful, Biblical foundation for marriage. Great for pre-marital engagement counseling and for marriage counseling.
Engagement
Marriage
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Books
When Sinners Say I Do: Rediscovering the Power of the Gospel for Marriage
Dave Harvey
Book to use for premarital counseling of dating or engaged or married couples to help them with encountering the life-transforming power of the gospel in the unpredictable journey of marriage.
Dating
Engagement
Marriage
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Pre-Engagement: 5 questions to Ask Yourselves
David Powlison, John Yenchko
This booklet gives five pertinent questions that will help couples decide whether to commit themselves to each other for life. Helpful for dating couples as they consider engagement and marriage.
Dating
Engagement
Marriage
Singleness
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Books
Holding Hands, Holding Hearts: Recovering a Biblical View of Christian Dating
Richard D. Philips, Sharon L. Philips
Teaches what the Bible says about dating as it explores God's design in creation, the relationship fallen through sin, and the relationship redeemed by God's grace. Singleness, Parenting Teens
Dating
Parenting
Singleness
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Books
Seasons of Waiting: Walking by Faith When Dreams Are Delayed
Betsy Childs Howard
God uses seasons of waiting to teach us patience and make us more like himself. Good resource to encourage those facing singleness, barrenness, difficult relationships and other disappointments.
Singleness
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Books
Did I Kiss Marriage Goodbye? Trusting God with a Hope Deferred
Carolyn McCulley
Challenges single women to regard their singleness not as a burden, but as a gift from God that allows them to perform a unique role in the body of Christ.
Singleness
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Books
Singleness: Living Faithfully
Jenilyn Swett
31 day devotional about singleness. Singleness is not a problem or a waiting period—it’s a place where many of us live, and it offers unique blessings, challenges, and opportunities.
Singleness
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Books
Struggling Through Singleness: Help for the Journey
Jayne V. Clark
This booklet teaches that singleness is not the cause of loneliness and that the real solution to loneliness does not lie in marriage or in any human relationship, but in our relationship with God.
Singleness
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Books
Marry Wisely, Marry Well: A Blueprint for Personal Preparation
Ernie Baker
Helps single people to think Biblically about marriage and how to prepare for marriage. Great resource for singles, those who are dating, and those considering engagement.
Dating
Engagement
Marriage
Singleness
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