St. Joseph Atlas of the Bible 978-0-89942-655-6
The St. Joseph Atlas of the Bible is an invaluable resource for use in schools, in Bible study groups, or by the individual inquirer. This solid introductory text, with its easy-to-follow format, offers readers the opportunity to discover valuable information contained in each of the Bible's 73 books.
Consider the plentiful features of this resource:

• clear and concise text
• general overview of every book in the Bible
• each chapter explores biblical cities and related scripture verses.
• Multitude on charts, maps, visual images that align with the biblical narrative
• visual accents abound such as maps, photographs, panoramic illustrations
• This is an invaluable resource for use in schools, in Bible study groups, or by the individual inquirer.
• Index of places and names

Special features:

• Vibrant, action-packed, full-color illustrations
• Durable, sewn, binding
• Informative, engaging introductions for both Old and New Testaments
• Maps of the Biblical world
• Lands of the Bible section with photos, explanations, and Scriptural references for many holy sites

This useful resource, containing nearly 80 full-color computer-generated, carefully annotated maps of Bible lands, offers the following features:

• the routes of the great travelers such as Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and Paul
• a visual perspective of major battles, migrations, and invasions
• striking full-color photographs with accompanying captions that provide context for noteworthy places and regions
• text that retells clearly the story of God's people from the call of Abraham to the spread of the early Christian Church

This atlas is an invaluable resource for use in schools, in Bible study groups, or by the individual inquirer.
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A Bible Atlas is a valuable resource for anyone studying Scripture, especially children, as it brings the biblical world to life through maps, illustrations, and historical insights. It enhances understanding, engagement, and appreciation of the Bible by placing its stories within their geographical and historical context.

For children, a Bible Atlas helps make Scripture more tangible and relatable. By visualizing the lands of the Bible--such as Jerusalem, Egypt, and Galilee--they can see where significant events occurred, like Jesus' ministry or Moses leading the Israelites out of Egypt. These visual aids stimulate curiosity and deepen comprehension, turning abstract places into real, vivid locations.
A Bible Atlas also highlights the interconnectedness of biblical events with history and culture. Children and adults alike can grasp how geography influenced the journeys of figures like Abraham, Paul, and Jesus, and how regions shaped the spread of the Gospel. This understanding fosters a holistic view of the Bible as a cohesive narrative rooted in real-world settings.

Additionally, using a Bible Atlas encourages critical thinking and exploration. Students can trace routes, compare ancient and modern maps, and ask questions about the cultural and natural environment of biblical times.
In summary, a Bible Atlas is an essential tool for enriching Bible study. It aids in understanding Scripture, sparks curiosity, and nurtures a deeper connection with God's Word by helping readers visualize and explore the historical and geographical backdrop of the biblical narrative.

Now in its fourth edition, this classic reference book helps counselors, pastors, and individual Christians with specific personal needs find sound scriptural guidance for resolving problems and growing in faith. The updated cover and packaging will attract new buyers to this already popular reference tool.

Do you sense that something is missing from your spiritual life? Do you struggle with temptation, doubt, or anger? Do your trials rob you of joy? Does your prayer life seem hollow? Do you wonder how to plan your next move, make peace with others in your life, how to live free of hypocrisy? Take heart! The Book of James explains how you can become a complete (teleios) Christian whose inner life is lived with the kind of skill that produces works that please God.

In this book, Jay Adams will lead you through the Book of James and explain how James helps you with these and other issues. You can learn to become a whole Christian who, in a very real sense, has it all together.

Are you...Overwhelmed? Confused? Stressed Out?

There is good news and hope for your journey. Dianne Tolliver explores real-life, inspirational stories that will encourage your heart and motivate you to keep pressing forward. From near-death experiences to overcoming life's challenges - God carries people through their storms of life!

As revealed throughout the powerful stories and corresponding devotionals, God shows up when people call out to Him. He embraces them right where they are - regardless of their challenges, mistakes, regrets, or failures. He clarifies their paths and calms their souls. For with God, all things are possible!

If you are struggling to understand life's challenges or the events in our world today, this book is for you! God will provide hope for your journey. You are not alone! May God bless you as you embrace the hope of these stories and God's eternal promises!

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. Romans 15:13 (NIV)

Dianne Tolliver is a motivational speaker and life coach. She enjoyed many years in the corporate world, holding various executive positions. Dianne now travels throughout the country, sharing God's promises and hope for the future. She lives in Northern Virginia.

The American Association of Christian Counselors and Tyndale House Publishers are committed to ministering to the spiritual needs of people. This book is part of the professional series that offers counselors the latest techniques, theory, and general information that is vital to their work. While many books have tried to integrate theology and psychology, this book takes another step and explores the importance of the spiritual disciplines in psychotherapy, helping counselors to integrate the biblical principles of forgiveness, redemption, restitution, prayer, and worship into their counseling techniques. Since its first publication in 1996, this book has quickly become a contemporary classic--a go-to handbook for integrating what we know is true from the disciplines of theology and psychology and how that impacts your daily walk with God. This book will help you integrate spiritual disciplines--such as prayer, Scripture reading, confession--into your own life and into counseling others.

Mark R. McMinn, Ph.D., is professor of psychology at Wheaton College Graduate School in Wheaton, Illinois, where he directs and teaches in the Doctor of Psychology program. A diplomate in Clinical Psychology of the American Board of Professional Psychology, McMinn has thirteen years of postdoctoral experience in counseling, psychotherapy, and psychological testing. McMinn is the author of Making the Best of Stress: How Life's Hassles Can Form the Fruit of the Spirit; The Jekyll/Hyde Syndrome: Controlling Inner Conflict through Authentic Living; Cognitive Therapy Techniques in Christian Counseling; and Christians in the Crossfire (written with James D. Foster). He and his wife, Lisa, have three daughters.

This substantially revised and updated edition of a widely used textbook covers the major approaches to counseling and psychotherapy from a Christian perspective, with hypothetical transcripts of interventions for each major approach and the latest empirical or research findings on their effectiveness. The second edition covers therapies and techniques that are increasing in use and includes a discussion of lay counseling. The book presents a Christian approach to counseling and psychotherapy that is Christ-centered, biblically based, and Spirit-filled.

For counselors, pastors, women's ministry leaders, and any Christian woman who wants a user-friendly quick reference guide to Scripture, here is an essential resource Scripture passages are conveniently gathered under ninety topics that concern today's women, including adoption, birth control, career, contentment, dating/courtship, depression, friendship, prodigal children, self-worth, singleness, an unsaved spouse, worry, and more. Perfect for counseling or for personal study and memorization, this revised and updated edition includes new topics and features an attractive new cover design.

How are Christians to understand and undertake the discipline of psychology? This question has been of keen interest because of the importance we place on a correct understanding of human nature.This collection of essays edited by Eric Johnson and Stanton Jones offers four different models for the relationship between Christianity and psychology.

Las personas afligidas necesitan ayuda. Pero, en ocasiones, las personas que quieren ayudar a los que sufren necesitan mayor informaci n acerca de los problemas que les presentan. Consejer a b blica: 40 temas cr ticos proporciona las respuestas. Este libro brinda a los pastores, consejeros profesionales, l deres de j venes y los creyentes en general una amplia gama de informaci n para ayudarles en situaciones de consejer a (tanto formales como informales). Los temas tratados incluyen las adicciones, el perd n, el abuso sexual, la preocupaci n y muchos m s. Para cada uno de los 40 temas tratados el lector encontrar un esquema til en ocho partes que identifica: (1) s ntomas y patrones t picos, (2) definiciones e ideas claves, (3) preguntas que hacer, (4) instrucciones para la conversaci n, (5) pasos a seguir, (6) sabidur a b blica, (7) oraciones de muestra, y (8) recursos recomendados.

Hurting people need help. But sometimes those who are faced with helping the hurting could use a little more information about the problems that needy people bring to them. The Quick-Reference Guide to Biblical Counseling provides the answers. This A-Z guide provides pastors, professional counselors, youth workers, and everyday believers with access to a full array of information to aid them in (formal and informal) counseling situations. Issues addressed include addictions, forgiveness, sexual abuse, worry, and many more. Each of the forty topics follows a helpful eight-part outline and identifies: (1) typical symptoms and patterns, (2) definitions and key thoughts, (3) questions to ask, (4) directions for the conversation, (5) action steps, (6) biblical insights, (7) prayer starters, and (8) recommended resources.

Are you waiting for life to be comfortable, risk free, safe secure and certain? You are putting faith in your own effort, abilities, and determination. Life is messy, it's a challange at best. We must continue to change our thinking and beliefs in order to grow into integrity, character, and development towards wholeness.

Wondering what spiritual direction is all about?
Looking for a practical guide that covers everything from finding a spiritual guide to becoming one?
This is your how-to book on the history, practice and ethics of spiritual guidance.

Spiritual Direction 101 brings spiritual guidance down to earth, making it accessible to people from a variety of spiritual and religious traditions. This book gives you the nitty-gritty here's how it's done information, such as tips, tools, stories and descriptions to assist spiritual directors and build awareness in those seeking spiritual help.

Spiritual Direction 101 is all you need to demystify the art of spiritual guidance and prepare you for a meaningful encounter--whether as a seeker or a guide. If you want an easy-to-follow primer, written from practical experience and years of training new spiritual guides, this is the one book to add to your spiritual library.

Using the Bible as your main resource for counseling

Sanctification is the key doctrine upon which effective biblical counseling is built. Counselors will flounder in the counseling room if they are unclear about it--and their counselees will fare even worse. Sanctification and Counseling brings together three books Jay Adams wrote to confront misunderstanding, shallow application, and theological error.

With his trademark clarity and laser-like focus, Dr. Adams demonstrates how counseling and sanctification intersect and why it must be understood clearly by biblical counselors. Key issues of the heart, the means of sanctification, so-called heart idols, general revelation and common grace, and the integration of psychological concepts are all explained in a way that both the seasoned theologian and the new counseling student will appreciate.

Sanctification and Counseling is a rich study for any believer who wants to understand how to grow and change in his walk with Christ, but for biblical counselors, it is essential.

This book will prepare the Biblical counselor to aid people facing the many types of crisis situations that they inevitably will encounter in a world of sin. The counselor will be shown how to help in three vital areas:

- To make a biblical analysis of the crisis situation

- To take a personal inventory of his state, attitudes, behavior, and resources.

- To follow biblical directions in responding to the issues in the crisis situation.

Dr. Adams demonstrates how to apply Biblical concern wisely and productively. He concludes the book with ten sample cases that may be used by students, either individually or in a class, to provide practice in applying the biblical principles of crisis counseling presented in the book. Questions and answers for role play accompany each case.

Fear-generating events, whether the concrete kind that dramatically disrupt your life, or the more subtle, abstract, often imaginary ones that can become a chronic life-style, will accompany us all our lives. The good news and the primary message of this book is that we can cultivate personal courage, spiritual faith and practical strategies to transform the Fear Knots of our hearts into the Fear Not's found in God's promises.

Biblical Counselors must develop two essential skills--acquiring insight into his counselees' problem and devising creative ways to apply the truths of Scripture to that problem. Jay Adams explains why these skills are vital, but more importantly, shows how you can develop these skills. Effective counselors must grow beyond taking a cookie-cutter approach to counseling problems and hone the twin skills of insight and creativity in the counseling room.

Insight and creativity are not inborn qualities or special gifts, both can be learned and developed. Jay Adams will broach no excuses. If growing in effectiveness as a counselor is your goal, this book is your essential guide.

Are you tired of performing for acceptance? Sick of being an approval junkie and people pleaser? Exhausted from carrying everyone's burdens while ignoring your own needs? Sounds like you are ready for the freedom and rest found in The Performing Heart. Journey with Susan Bowman, minister of inner healing and deliverance, as she skillfully guides you on an exploration of the secrets hidden within your heart. You will discover the reasons behind performance-based behaviors and how to escape their grip. Step-by-step, prayerful instructions will gently lead you into God's promised rest. You can be free. You can rest.

This valuable and useful book is for those seeking emotional healing as well as for ministers wanting to add more tools to their belts. The last chapter teaches forgiveness in a way that is profound and accessible to those who struggle to forgive.

- Kimberlee Herman, MSW, LCPC, best-selling author and Christian counselor, Phoenix, AZ.

This book offers a clear path towards freedom in Christ. It is practical with well-organized bullet-point prayers that are both firm and kind in tone. The Performing Heart is going to be a powerful (sometimes tearful) experience for many readers.

- Joel Gorveatte, Urban Missionary and Pastor at Resurrection Life, NYC, NY

Read this life-changing book! Keep it close and use it on a regular basis. Allow God to free you from what is keeping you from entering His rest.

- Rev. Lori Maxey, Founder and Executive Director, The House Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa, AL

Insightful and practical, tough and tender, The Performing Heart offers a comprehensive roadmap to freedom.

- Niamh Jackson, M.I.A.C.P., Dublin, Ireland

biblical counseling guide to dealing with common issues in life we all face.