Finding Our Way Home: Turning Back to What Matters Most

Written in an intimate, personal style, Finding Our Way Home draws on powerful insights from psychology, Christian spirituality, and theology to explore the human longing for home, a spiritual place as much as a physical place where we are at peace with ourselves and with God. Mark McMinn considers the different aspects of home as a spiritual metaphor—the environment we grew up in as well as the challenges of living well within our present realities. In doing so, he addresses the yearning for a spiritual center, a deeper relationship with God, and peace in our lives.

McMINN, MARK R.

Religion & Spirituality

Jossey-Bass

1988 8 x 5.5 227 p. Baker Book House

Your Hidden Half

Baker Pub Group

We are flooded with bills, expectations, deadlines, exercise routines, church responsibilities, investments, the needs of our children and much more. It can be hard, and we listen eagerly to gurus offering the secret for escaping stress. But psychologist Mark McMinn thinks trying to eliminate all stress from our lives is a bad idea. For one thing, that attempt only adds to our stress, since it's nothing but a fantasy that we might live stress-free lives. But for another, stress gives us opportunities we would otherwise never find for growth and insight. In this surprising, hope-giving book, McMinn shows how we can use the inevitable hassles of life to become stronger in the fruit of the Spirit. Making the Best of Stress helps us turn the unavoidable pressures of daily living to our advantage - and to the service of discipleship.

Making the Best of Stress: How Life's Hassles Can Form the Fruit of the Spirit

Christian Books & Bibles

Christian Living

Intervarsity Pr

Mark McMinn and Clark Campbell present a new integrative model of psychotherapy that is grounded in Christian biblical and theological teaching and in a critical and constructive engagement with contemporary psychology. The authors provide both theoretical analysis and also practical guidance for the practitioner.

Integrative Psychotherapy: Toward a Comprehensive Christian Approach

Campbell, Clark D.

IVP Academic

Sin. Grace. Christian Counseling. How do these fit together? In Christian theology sin and grace are intrinsically interconnected. Teacher and counselor Mark McMinn believes that Christian counseling, then, must also take account of both human sin and God's grace. For both sin and grace are distorted whenever one is emphasized without the other. McMinn, noting his own tendencies and the temptation to stereotype different Christian approaches to counseling along this theological divide, aims to help all those preparing for or currently serving in the helping professions. Expounding the proper relationship of sin and grace, McMinn shows how the full truth of the Christian gospel works itself out in the functional, structural and relational domains of an integrative model of psychotherapy.

Sin and Grace in Christian Counseling: An Integrative Paradigm (Christian Association for Psychological Studies Books)

Discussing spirituality and religion in the therapy room is increasingly accepted, some even forgetting that integration of psychology and Christianity was once a rare thing. Yet even as the decades-long integration movement has been so effective, the counselor's lived context in which integration happens grows increasingly complex, and the movement has reached a new turning point. Christian practitioners need a fresh look at integration in a postmodern world. In Embodying Integration, Megan Anna Neff and Mark McMinn provide an essential guide to becoming integrators today. Representing two generations of counselor education and practice, they model how to engage hard questions and consider how different theological views, gendered perspectives, and cultures integrate with psychology and counseling. "Many students," they write, "don't want models and views that tend to simplify complexity into categories. They are looking for conversation that helps them dive into the complexity, to ponder the nuances and messiness of integration." More than focusing on resolving issues, Neff and McMinn help situate wisdom through personally engaging, diverse views and narratives. Arising from conversations between an up-and-coming practitioner and her veteran integrator father, this book considers practical implications for the day-to-day realities of counseling and psychotherapy. Personal stories, dialogues between the coauthors, and discussion questions throughout help students, teachers, mental health professionals, and anyone interested in psychology and faith to enter--and continue--the conversation.

Embodying Integration: A Fresh Look at Christianity in the Therapy Room (Christian Association for Psychological Studies Books)

Neff, Megan Anna

Mark McMinn and Clark Campbell present an integrative model of psychotherapy that is grounded in Christian biblical and theological teaching and in a critical and constructive engagement with contemporary psychology. Now in paperback, this foundational work integrates behavioral, cognitive, and interpersonal models of therapy within a Christian theological framework. Not only do the authors integrate Christian faith and spirituality with the latest thinking in behavioral science at a theoretical level, they also integrate the theoretical and academic with the pastoral and clinical, offering a practical guide for the practitioner.

Integrative Psychotherapy: Toward a Comprehensive Christian Approach (Christian Association for Psychological Studies Books)

The American Association of Christian Counselors and Tyndale House Publishers are committed to ministering to the spiritual needs of people. This book is part of the professional series that offers counselors the latest techniques, theory, and general information that is vital to their work. While many books have tried to integrate theology and psychology, this book takes another step and explores the importance of the spiritual disciplines in psychotherapy, helping counselors to integrate the biblical principles of forgiveness, redemption, restitution, prayer, and worship into their counseling techniques. Since its first publication in 1996, this book has quickly become a contemporary classic―a go-to handbook for integrating what we know is true from the disciplines of theology and psychology and how that impacts your daily walk with God. This book will help you integrate spiritual disciplines―such as prayer, Scripture reading, confession―into your own life and into counseling others. Mark R. McMinn, Ph.D., is professor of psychology at Wheaton College Graduate School in Wheaton, Illinois, where he directs and teaches in the Doctor of Psychology program. A diplomate in Clinical Psychology of the American Board of Professional Psychology, McMinn has thirteen years of postdoctoral experience in counseling, psychotherapy, and psychological testing. McMinn is the author of Making the Best of Stress: How Life's Hassles Can Form the Fruit of the Spirit; The Jekyll/Hyde Syndrome: Controlling Inner Conflict through Authentic Living; Cognitive Therapy Techniques in Christian Counseling; and Christians in the Crossfire (written with James D. Foster). He and his wife, Lisa, have three daughters.

Psychology, Theology, and Spirituality in Christian Counseling (AACC Library)

Tyndale House Publishers

2005 Gold Medallion Award finalist! A prophetic voice in a world where sin is explained away and grace is cheapened, Dr. Mark McMinn shows that only by reclaiming the language of sin will we be free to discover the power (and cost) of grace. While some people repeat the mantra "I'm OK, you're OK," it is much wiser to conclude, "I'm a mess, you're a mess." The good news is that, like the Prodigal Son, we aren't left standing at the pig trough. God sees us from a distance, runs to greet us, embraces us in love, and celebrates our arrival. The ballad of sin is not so much a dirge as it is a prelude to grace. Facing our sin ultimately ushers us into the presence of Grace, where we find forgiveness, mercy, hope, and celebration.

Why Sin Matters: The Surprising Relationship between Our Sin and God's Grace

Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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Finding Our Way Home: Turning Back to What Matters Most

Finding Our Way Home: Turning Back to What Matters Most

Your Hidden Half

Making the Best of Stress: How Life's Hassles Can Form the Fruit of the Spirit

Integrative Psychotherapy: Toward a Comprehensive Christian Approach

Sin and Grace in Christian Counseling: An Integrative Paradigm (Christian Association for Psychological Studies Books)

Embodying Integration: A Fresh Look at Christianity in the Therapy Room (Christian Association for Psychological Studies Books)

Integrative Psychotherapy: Toward a Comprehensive Christian Approach (Christian Association for Psychological Studies Books)

Psychology, Theology, and Spirituality in Christian Counseling (AACC Library)

Why Sin Matters: The Surprising Relationship between Our Sin and God's Grace