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Tuesday, July 2, 2013

RESOURCES: Same-Sex Attraction

Here’s another resource page for your one-another discipleship counseling ministry…

BOOKS/BOOKLETS

Coming Clean: Overcoming Lust through Biblical Accountability [free E-book] (Luke Gilkerson, Covenant Eyes)
HELP! My Teen Is Gay (Ben Marshall)
Hope for the Homosexual – E-book (Paul Tautges)
It’s All About Me: The Problem with Masturbation (Winston Smith)
Out of a Far Country: A Gay Son’s Journey to God, A Broken Mother’s Search for Hope (Christopher Yuan)
Sexual Addiction: Freedom from Compulsive Behavior (David Powlison)
The Bible and Homosexual Practice (Robert Gagnon)
Washed and Waiting: Reflections on Christian Faithfulness and Homosexuality (Wesley Hill) See the rest HERE

Friday, April 12, 2013

RESOURCES: Suicide

Here are a number of resources that will help us grow in ministering God’s grace and truth…

BOOKS/BOOKLETS/ARTICLES

Assessing and Counseling a Person with Suicidal Thoughts (Aaron Sironi)
Gaining a Hopeful Spirit (Joni Eareckson Tada)
Grieving a Suicide (David Powlison)
I Just Want to Die (David Powlison)
Life After the Suicide of a Loved One (Julie Gossack)
Making Sense of the Suicide of a Christian (Jeffrey Black, CCEF)
Right Thinking in a World Gone Wrong (John MacArthur, and GCC Pastoral Staff) – contains one chapter on a pastoral perspective of suicide More HERE

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Suggested Resources for Family Ministry

I recently had a dear friend ask me to give him a few resources for implementing a family ministry structure in the church that he pastors. I thought that perhaps others might benefit from the list I provided.

Conceptual:

“Our church wants to begin doing family ministry”. That sentence can mean any number of things. The people in your church probably have differing ideas as to what actually constitutes family ministry. That is why you need to have a season where everyone gets on the same page as to what family ministry actually consists of. The most helpful book for doing this is3 Views of Family Ministry edited by Timothy Paul Jones from the Perspectives Series. (Read my review here).

Though I ultimately embrace a different model, one book that will need to be considered is Voddie Baucham’s Family Driven Faith. Here he makes a strong case for the necessity of family ministry. I prefer the Family-Equipping model and so I believe that Baucham overstates a few things. However, this is a valuable resource in showing the need for doing family ministry.

Another helpful book is Trained in the Fear of God edited by Timothy Paul Jones and Randy Stinson. This books gives theological, historical, and practical reasons for installing a family-equipping ministry model. Continue at Mike Leake

Monday, March 26, 2012

Puritan Resources for Biblical Counseling

The works of the Puritans are a rich resource for biblical counselors because:

The Puritans were committed to the functional authority of the Scripture. For them it was the comprehensive manual for dealing with all problems of the heart.
The Puritans developed a sophisticated and sensitive system of diagnosis for personal problems, distinguishing a variety of physical, spiritual, tempermental and demonic causes.
The Puritans developed a remarkable balance in their treatment because they were not invested in any one ‘personality theory’ other than biblical teaching about the heart.
The Puritans were realistic about difficulties of the Christian life, especially conflicts with remaining, indwelling sin.
The Puritans looked not just at behavior but at underlying root motives and desires. Man is a worshipper; all problems grow out of ‘sinful imagination’ or idol manufacturing.
The Puritans considered the essential spiritual remedy to be belief in the gospel, used in both repentance and the development of proper self-understanding. Continue at Puritan Resources

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Christmas Resources

The Absence of Immanuel in Islamic Thought: Part 1
The Absence of Immanuel in Islamic Thought: Part2

Jesus Ripped Up Santa's List

Must I Believe in the Virgin Birth?

The Incarnation in Hebrews, Part One
The Incarnation in Hebrews, Part Two

The Santa Claus Question: what do I tell my children about him?