Posts Tagged "bk-thechurch"

Post-Traumatic Church Syndrome: A Memoir of Humor and Healing in 30 Religions

By  Reba Riley   Reba Riley’s twenty-ninth birthday was not a good time to undertake a spiritual quest, but when an untreatable chronic illness prompted her to focus on one thing she could fix — her whopping case of Post-Traumatic Church Syndrome — she undertook a challenge: Visit thirty religions before her thirtieth birthday. This was transformation by spiritual shock therapy. Reba would find peace and healing . . . if it...

Church Hurt: The Wounded Trying to Heal

By Angela Corprew-Boyd The body of Christ is full of people who have been wounded by Christians or the church. Author Dr. Angela Corprew-Boyd helps the hurting recognize they are not alone and provides them with wisdom and knowledge to reach out to Christ and receive deliverance from wounds that have made them bitter, resentful, and less effective in ministry. Church leaders and laypeople will benefit from Dr. Corprew-Boyd’s...

Wounds That Heal: The Importance of Church Discipline Within Balthasar Hubmaier’s Theology

By Simon Victor Goncharenko   Is church discipline really necessary? One sixteenth-century Anabaptist reformer certainly thought so. A contemporary of Luther and Zwingli, Balthasar Hubmaier believed that church discipline was so important that he included the doctrine in every major area of his theology. Not only did church discipline appear in his doctrine of humanity, salvation, and the church, as a theoretical construct, but he...

Health, Healing and the Church’s Mission: Biblical Perspectives and Moral Priorities

By Willard M. Swartley   Does the Christian community have the resources to develop a coherent response to health care challenges today? Accounting for biblical, theological and church-historical streams, Willard Swartley divulges a long tradition of healing and health care inherited by Christians today. Beginning with in-depth studies of Old and New Testament understandings of healing, the book surveys three millennia of biblical and...

Healing Your Church Hurt: What To Do When You Still Love God But Have Been Wounded by His People

By Stephen Mansfield If you’ve been part of a church, you have probably suffered a “church hurt” — or know someone who has. Maybe the pastor had an affair or the congregation fought over money or the leaders were disguising gossip as “prayer.” Stephen Mansfield knows how it feels. Though he is now a New York Times bestselling author, he was a pastor for more than 20 years, and he loved it — until he learned how much a church can hurt....