Encouragement. It's more than a compliment or a pat on the back. According to Drs. Larry Crabb and Dan Allender, it is the most basic form of counseling -- a skill that can be mastered by laypeople as well as counselors. What must we know in order to fulfill the biblical exhortation to 'encourage one another'? Encouragement: The Key to Caring tells you. Part one deals with understanding encouragement, and part two explores the process of encouragement, including such practical how-tos as - developing a careful selection of encouraging words - cultivating active listening skills - using biblical fellowship to move beyond superficial smiles and shallow greetings - recognizing subtle opportunities for encouragement -- Without the encouragement of a caring community, biblical truth taught in church tends to just thicken people's defense layers. But authenticity, freedom, and greater love for God and others are the fruit of encouragement, and evidence of the tremendous power God invests in individuals and churches who practice it.

Encouragement: The Key to Caring

Religion & Spirituality

Lawrence J. Crabb Jr.

Dan B. Allender

Christian Books & Bibles

Zondervan

First published in 1989, Dan Allender's The Wounded Heart has helped hundreds of thousands of people come to terms with sexual abuse in their past. Now, more than twenty-five years later, Allender has written a brand-new book on the subject that takes into account recent discoveries about the lasting physical, emotional, relational, and spiritual ramifications of sexual abuse. With great compassion Allender offers hope for victims of rape, date rape, incest, molestation, sexting, sexual bullying, unwanted advances, pornography, and more, exposing the raw wounds that are left behind and clearing the path toward wholeness and healing. Never minimizing victims' pain or offering pat spiritual answers that don't truly address the problem, he instead calls evil evil and lights the way to renewed joy. Counselors, pastors, and friends of those who have suffered sexual harm will find in this book the deep spiritual guidance they need to effectively minister to the sexually broken around them. Victims themselves will find here a sympathetic friend to walk alongside them on the road to healing.

Healing the Wounded Heart Workbook: The Heartache of Sexual Abuse and the Hope of Transformation

Parenting & Relationships

Mullins, Traci

Family Relationships

Baker Books

Healing the Wounded Heart: The Heartache of Sexual Abuse and the Hope of Transformation

Encouragement - The Key To Caring

Larry Crabb

S John Bacon

Wounded Heart: Hope for Adult Victims of Childhood Sexual Abuse

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mental Health

christianaudio and Blackstone Publishing

When Trust Is Lost : Healing for Victims of Sexual Abuse (The Discovery Series)

RBC Ministries

Sexual abuse knows no religious or social boundaries. The Wounded Heart is an intensely personal and specific look at this form of abuse. Dr. Allender explores the secret lament of the soul damaged by sexual abuse and lays hold of the hope buried there by the One whose unstained image we all bear. Includes information about false memory issues.

The Wounded Heart: Hope for Adult Victims of Childhood Sexual Abuse

christianaudio

Sexual abuse knows no religious or social boundaries. The Wounded Heart is an intensely personal and specific look at this form of abuse. Dr. Allender explores the secret lament of the soul damaged by sexual abuse and lays hold of the hope buried there by the One whose unstained image we all bear. Includes information about false memory issues.

The Wounded Heart

Nav Press

Encouragement: How to Give and Receive It

SP Trust

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