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If you struggle with your mental health, you're not alone. These books will be your companions on the journey, covering topics like abuse and trauma, addiction and recovery, caregiving and illness, death and grief, depression and anxiety, psychology and counseling, or gender studies and sexuality. Whether you are a mental health practitioner seeking to deepen your practice, a pastor looking to strengthen your church or ministry's competency in mental health, or simply a person looking for guidance or a reminder that you aren't alone, you'll find the support you need right here.
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The IVP imprint, our flagship publishing program which began in 1947, brings together thoughtful and practical titles for all Christians, shaping both the lives of readers and the cultures they inhabit. Throughout IVP's seventy-five year legacy, these books have spoken boldly into important cultural moments, providing timeless tools for spiritual growth and equipping Christians for a vibrant life of faith. IVP books serve as conversation partners for Christians wishing to deepen their personal faith, understand a biblical view of the world around them, and impact the world for God's Kingdom.
The basics of Christian faith have remained the same for centuries. Affirmed by the church around the world since its earliest ...
Do you despise your weaknesses? Do you hate hardships? Do you beg God to remove obstacles from your life? The apostle Paul delighted in his weaknesses, welcomed hardship as a friend and thanked God for obstacles that offered opportunities to experience God's power. Was he crazy? In this eleven-session LifeGuide® Bible Study, Paul Stevens shows you how this foundational Christian disciple ...
Number of Studies: 11
Criticism can be hard to take. And it can be hard to give in a way that is honest and constructive. No one knows that better than a leader who has to hear criticism and dispense it too. In this IVP booklet, respected Christian leaders John W. Alexander and Stephen A. Hayner offer you what they've learned about receiving and providing criticism. They present five tips for giving criticism that is ...
The culmination of a lifetime of study, this comprehensive New Testament theology brings out the rich variety of New Testament thought while demonstrating its inner unity. New Testament theology, maintains Donald Guthrie, centers on Jesus Christ--his person, work and mission--and is unified by repeated emphasis on the fulfillment of Old Testament promise, community, the Spirit and the future hope. ...
"My kingdom is not of this world." Followers of Jesus have been struggling to understand these words ever since he first uttered them—often in sharply contradictory ways. Today the inescapably political nature of Christian witness is widely recognized. But what is the shape of this witness? What should Christian political engagement look like today? The twelve essays in this volume, originally ...
During the 1500s, a woman named Teresa lived and worked at the Carmelite Convent of the Incarnation at Ávila. She continually sought the Lord and deepened her life of prayer through the liturgy of the church and her own spontaneous communication with God. Teresa's writings make it clear that she was not seeking any mystical experience for its own sake. She was simply seeking closeness with her ...
Number of Studies: 6
While the age of the Holy Spirit began with Pentecost, the twentieth century has seen an explosion in the Spirit's work through the remarkable growth of Pentecostalism and the changing face of global Christianity. Despite these surprising developments, and the undeniable significance of the Holy Spirit throughout the life of the church, pneumatology too often remains a subject of misunderstanding ...
William Webb confronts those often avoided biblical passages that call for the corporal punishment of children, slaves and wrongdoers. How should we understand and apply them today? Are we obligated to replicate those injunctions today? Or does the proper interpretation of them point in a different direction? Webb notes that most of the Christian church is at best inconsistent in its application ...