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Why is He So Mean To Me?

Why is He So Mean To Me?

One reader wrote:

"Cindy, I just finished your book. By far, it is, hands down the very best resource I have EVER read on this topic. I literally want to send it to everybody. I am going to tell my counselors about it too - both books. There is only one book that has ever spoken to my heart and life more than yours, and it's the Bible..."

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Reformulating the Christian Marriage Counseling Model Where Abuse Is Involved

Reformulating the Christian Marriage Counseling Model Where Abuse Is Involved

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"Reformulating the Christian Marriage Counseling Model Where Abuse Is Involved" is an easy-to-read, insightful resource that takes an in-depth look at the common Christian counseling model, identifies its weaknesses where abuse is involved, and presents a new model based upon sound biblical truth and common sense.

The book provides vital insight into the foundational "God hates divorce" doctrine which fuels many counselors' primary objective of saving the marriage at all costs.  What many counselors fail to recognize is that this doctrine and others (which I address) empower abusers and keep their victims in bondage, fearful of being abandoned by God.

It is hard to imagine that many victims have been shamed, shunned and even excommunicated from their churches for removing themselves and their children from toxic, ungodly homes.  Something is terribly wrong with this picture, and it's time to address the manner in which Christian counselors and believers as a whole respond to abuse and its victims within the body of Christ.

This book is ideal for victims seeking direction as to what they may want to look for in a counselor and the counseling process.  It is also a valuable resource for pastors, church leaders and counselors and would similarly be suitable for faculty and students at Christian colleges and seminaries.

We must be willing to identify the wolves among us and rise in defense of those who are being victimized in their own homes.  In acknowledging the sanctity of marriage, the truth is that a marriage's substance is of far more importance than its status.

"Reformulating the Christian Marriage Counseling Model Where Abuse Is Involved" is available as a paperback for $14.95 and as a Kindle book for $4.99.

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God Is My Witness: Making a Case for Biblical Divorce (2nd Edition)

God Is My Witness: Making a Case for Biblical Divorce (2nd Edition)

One reader wrote to share: "I just read your book, "God Is My Witness.: Making a Case for Biblical Divorce." It was a gift from God... I have been crying out to the Lord for wisdom. Your book was definitely part of that answer! I am overwhelmed with gratitude for your ministry. "

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An Extraordinary Ordinary Life:  A Testimony of God’s Faithfulness

An Extraordinary Ordinary Life: A Testimony of God’s Faithfulness

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“An Extraordinary Ordinary Life” is an inspiring chronicle of the author’s life from her lonely growing-up years in a broken home in suburbia to a radical spiritual transformation as a teenager. She humbly shares how God has led her through a host of unique and trying circumstances in the years since, including the 20 years she endured in an abusive marriage.

Be inspired as Cindy recounts times she has felt His promptings, witnessed true-to-life miracles and been awed to hear God’s warm, inaudible voice. “An Extraordinary Ordinary Life” tempts the reader to fall in love with the wondrous God who seeks to transform our ordinary lives into ones that are truly extraordinary.

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Everything My Heart Seeks

Everything My Heart Seeks

"Everything" is a devotional-style piece that explores the many attributes of God, and His profound and intimately personal desire to meet our every need.

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You Know Me

You Know Me

$12.95

If you have any doubts as to what verbal, emotional, spiritual and sexual abuse in a "Christian" marriage looks like, then please read Kelly Orr's story.  Prepare to be shocked and horrified, not only by what she endured, but by the diminishing and unbelievably insensitive, cruel responses she received from fellow believers, pastors and counselors.

I pray God blesses Kelly for her transparency, and may hearts and minds be opened to the dark reality of the kinds of abuse that exist in approximately 20 percent of what are presumed to be Christian homes.

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Divorce and Remarriage in The Bible

Divorce and Remarriage in The Bible

To many, the New Testament's teaching on divorce and remarriage seems to be both impractical and unfair. The "plain" meaning of the texts allows for divorce only in cases of adultery or desertion, and it does not permit remarriage until the death of one's former spouse. But are these proscriptions the final word for Christians today? Are we correctly reading the scriptures that address these issues?

Through a careful exploration of the background literature of the Old Testament, the ancient Near East, and especially ancient Judaism, David Instone-Brewer constructs a more accurate biblical view.

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Why Does He Do That?

Why Does He Do That?

"He doesn't mean to hurt me-he just loses control."
"He can be sweet and gentle."
"He's scared me a few times, but he never hurts the children-he's a great father."
"He's had a really hard life..."

Women in abusive relationships tell themselves these things every day. Now they can see inside the minds of angry and controlling men-and change their own lives. In this groundbreaking book, a counselor shows how to improve, survive, or leave an abusive relationship...

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Captivating

Captivating

Every woman was once a little girl. And every little girl holds in her heart her most precious dreams. She longs to be swept up into a romance, to play an irreplaceable role in a great adventure, to be the Beauty of the story. And yet―how many women do you know who ever find that life?

Most women think they have to settle for a life of efficiency and duty, striving to be the women they "ought" to be but often feeling they have failed. Sadly, too many messages for Christian women add to the pressure. "Do these ten things, and you will be a godly woman." The effect has not been good on the feminine soul.

The message of Captivating is this: Your heart matters more than anything else in all creation.

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A Cry For Justice

A Cry For Justice

ABUSE IN THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST! IN MANY CHRISTIAN CIRCLES THIS MAY BE A TABOO SUBJECT spoken of in hushed tones or behind closed doors. But it is a very real problem that must be brought into the light of Scripture. Abuse in the church takes different forms, but it is alive and active even in nice families in our churches.

Pastor Crippen shines a bright light on the church's often ungodly and unbiblical responses when it comes to the abused and their abusers.

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Wise as Serpents:  Growing Wise to the Evil Among Us

Wise as Serpents: Growing Wise to the Evil Among Us

In our endeavors to be accepting, we have unwittingly become a church that accommodates wickedness, both in our homes and in the body itself.  In "Wise as Serpents" Pastor Crippen offers us a powerful refresher course on what Scripture teaches - how evil operates, and what we can do about it.

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Untwisting Scriptures

Untwisting Scriptures

$8.99 paperbackeBook: $3.99 Kindle

Author Rebecca Davis clears away the cobwebs of doubt, confusion and shame that arises from misrepresenting God's heart toward the hurting. Rebecca replaces debilitating untruths with powerful, life-affirming, God-honoring truth.

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Wild at Heart

Wild at Heart

John Eldredge revises and updates his best-selling, renowned Christian classic, Wild at Heart, and in it invites men to recover their masculine heart, defined in the image of a passionate God. And he invites women to come to a greater understanding of the powerful, protective providers God designed men to be.

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