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Hope for you in addiction, grief and the clash of culture and faith.
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Unending Hope for the Exhausted Addict
178 pages · English
You're tired. You've tried to break free more times than you can count, and every time it pulls you back. Maybe it's drink, drugs, porn, or something nobody else even knows about. This book is a personal appeal from my heart to yours. You can't save yourself, but there is a Saviour who can, and His grace is stronger than your addiction. Freedom comes slowly, one step at a time, and it lasts. Here is real hope, God's unending hope, for you.
Hurting in Hope: Mom Has Died
131 pages in English · 132 in Afrikaans
Has death torn someone you love out of your life? I know that shock. One stormy night on a muddy farm road, I had to phone my sixteen-year-old daughter and tell her, "Mom has died." In this short memoir I open the curtains on what I learned in the days that followed. Charleen and I had learned to live our goodbye, so nothing was left unsaid. And God gave me family and a church that carried me when I couldn't carry myself. If you're grieving, or walking with someone who is, come and walk this road with me. You'll find that you can hurt and still hope.
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Biblical Counselling and African Cultural Commonalities
Original Autonomous Research · Academic research report · 820 pages
Do you counsel in Africa, or alongside people whose culture isn't your own? This book is for you. It's a full research study: a review of the literature that uncovers a gap in how biblical counselling deals with culture, a biblical counselling epistemology built for the South African context, and in-depth interviews across thirteen languages and seventeen churches. Four African cultural commonalities stood out by a wide margin: community, secrecy, respect and marriage. I examine each one through the lens of Scripture, and I give practical help for counselling well in the African context. Fair warning: this is a full research report, not a quick read. If you're serious about cross-cultural counselling, it will repay every page.
"So wonderful and practically insightful… it consistently pointed me to the supremacy of the God who is the source of all the beauty and goodness we see on display in cultures." Sarah Ray, ACBC Certified Biblical Counsellor
Four more books are on the way.