By Brady Boyd For those moving too fast through life, a guide to help them slow down and discover rest. Speed is the single greatest threat to a healthy life-but often we make it a way of life. Brady Boyd invites readers to reexamine the speed at which they are living and discover that God desires for them peace and rest. We are too busy, overstressed, and overworked to figure out how to slow down, but Boyd says that slow down, we...
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By Christopher D. Ringwald Millions of alcoholics and addicts recover through spirituality. In The Soul of Recovery: Uncovering the Spiritual Dimension in the Treatment of Addictions, author and journalist Christopher D. Ringwald tells how and why they seek and achieve these transformations. Ranging as far back as the Washingtonian Total Abstinence Society in 1840, Ringwald illuminates the use of spirituality within a wide range of...
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By Rita Nakashima Brock & Gabriella Lettini The first book to explore the idea and effect of moral injury on veterans, their families, and their communities. Although veterans make up only seven percent of the U.S. population, they account for an alarming 20 percent of all suicides. And though treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder has undoubtedly alleviated suffering and allowed many service members returning from combat...
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By Brian Welch An Out-of-Control Rock Star. An Inescapable Addiction to Drugs. A Miraculous Redemption through Jesus Christ. You think you’ve heard this story before but you haven’t. Washed by Blood is a look at the dramatic saving power of Jesus Christ unlike any other — one that shows how God looks out for all of us, even those who seem farthest away from his grace. Brian “Head” Welch was a rock star who...
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By Linda A. Mercadante More than one million Americans participate in nearly 50,000 Alcoholics Anonymous groups in America. Addiction recovery groups such as A.A. often rely on religious themes in their work, offering a form of spirituality as a way to deal with life’s problems. Many recovery groups borrow selectively from theology because the full Christian doctrine of sin can be alienating for those in recovery. Linda...
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By Ragan Sutterfield “The cacophony of voices about our bodies is so loud, it’s hard to hear the voices that matter. Some of us decide to forget it all and give in to one addiction or another. “I’ve done that. Some of us decide to perfect our bodies and obsess over every muscle or wrinkle. I’ve done that too. “Then I discovered the truth about my body: It is a gift. A sign of God’s love. And so is yours.” Many of us think...
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By Heather Kopp Sober Mercies is simply one of the best, most honest, brilliantly written memoirs I’ve read. Heather Kopp gives such encouragement for when we wonder why faith alone hasn’t rescued us from destructive habits. Her story stands as a beacon of hope for all of us in a broken world.”— Jud Wilhite, author of Pursued, senior pastor of Central Christian Church As a long-time Christian, Heather Kopp never expected to become...
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By Laurence Freeman Many people today have a deep spiritual thirst and hunger that in many ways is as urgent as the material needs of developing nations. Unless affluent societies escape the addiction to materialism, they will be unable to feel the depth of compassion from which works of mercy and justice spring. Laurence Freeman teaches a way to spiritual health that is both ancient and new. The desert fathers practiced silent prayer...
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By Cheryl L. Guy There is something very therapeutic about hearing someone else share the story of her own personal struggle. Somebody, Free Me is written from that point of view. It’s as if you are sitting in the circle of a twelve-step recovery session and are listening to a fellow struggler share her journey toward healing. Cheryl has a way of sharing her pain through the lens of family and faith which provides both a sense of...
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By Harriett Hill, Margaret Hill, Richard Bagge, and Pat Miersma This is the core manual for facilitators and participants in small groups using Bible-based trauma healing to address wounds of the heart and spirit. In many parts of the world today, wars, ethnic conflict, and civil disturbances have left people traumatized. This book seeks to help Church leaders who are called upon to help their congregations after major trauma has...
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By Leigh-Ann Brisbin Faith in Jesus Christ is the one true source of long-term recovery from the pervasive effects of eating disorders that bring confusion and great harm to girls as young as seven, women as old as seventy, and millions in the years between. Even one percent of the male population is dealing with this problem. Leigh-Ann Brisbin struggled with eating disorders for nineteen years, and through this book she shares openly...
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By Nigel W. D. Mumford This book will provide very personal insight into the sufferings of the mind, body, and soul in the days, months, and years following the trauma of combat. These combat zones may include wars fought in the home – childhood terror memories; wars abroad – the horrors of military battle; and wars of survival – trauma from life-threatening illness. All trauma can lead to suffering from what is diagnosed as...
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By Richard Rohr Find helpful ways to incorporate Twelve Step spirituality into your life – whatever your addiction or affliction. Only people who have suffered in some way can save one another. Deep communion and deep compassion is formed much more by shared pain than by shared pleasure. This, says Richard Rohr, is one of the great discoveries of the Twelve Step Program, America’s most significant and authentic contribution to...
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By Gerald G. May, M.D. In this inspiring book, Gerald May describes the processes of attachment that lead to addiction and examines the relationship between addiction and spiritual awareness. May details the various addictions from which we suffer – not only to alcohol and drugs, but also to work, sex, performance, responsibility, and intimacy. Drawing on his experience as a psychiatrist working with the chemically dependent,...
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By Mike D. The Healing Rosary: Meditations for Those in Recovery from Alcoholism and Addictions invites the reader to open their mind and heart to God’s mercy. Using the simple, repetitive prayer of the Rosary can help people to get out of the way and let God get in. Mike D. correctly links the experience of Bill W. with the ancient devotion to the Mother of God. He writes with the authoritative experience of a recovering addict...
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By Don Williams It is possible to find freedom from fear and release from addictive thoughts and behaviors. When you allow Jesus to fill the emptiness in your life, you can leave addiction in the dust! Too many churches perpetuate compulsive sin by overemphasizing the control that we have in our lives – but the Bible tells us that churches must lead a person with an addictive behavior to dependence on Jesus. When we learn to...
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By Angelyn Miller, M.A. Are those closest to you unable to stand on their own two feet? Co-dependency – of which enabling is a major element – can and does exist in families where there is no chemical dependency. Angelyn Miller’s own experience is a dramatic example: neither she nor her husband drank, yet her family was floundering in that same dynamic. In spite of her best efforts to fix everything (and everyone),...
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By Neil T. Anderson and Mike & Julia Quarles Here is a unique, Christ-centered model for recovery that has already helped hundreds of thousands break free from alcoholism, drug addiction and other addictive behaviors. In Freedom from Addiction, you’ll discover how you can apply the powerful Steps to Freedom in Christ directly to the problem of addiction. Freedom from Addiction is a life-changing message for individuals, and...
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By Nigel W. D. Mumford The author’s unusual spiritual journey transformed him from a Royal Marine Commando, trained to kill or be killed, to the director of the healing ministries of Christ the King Spiritual Life Center, where he now teaches people to heal and be healed. This long-awaited sequel to Hand to Hand: From Combat to Healing, Mumford’s experience of healing in the trenches, offers vivid snapshots of God at...
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By Nigel W. D. Mumford “My journey has transformed me from Royal Marine Commando to Lay Minister of Healing. Twenty-five years ago, I was trained to kill or be killed; now it is my privilege to teach people to heal and be healed.” So Nigel Mumford, director of the healing center, the Oratory of the Little Way, summarizes his extraordinary journey. He shares his personal story, stories from his healing ministry, and...
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