Grief and Consolation
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Rejoicing In Lament (Reprinted)
$24.00Add to cartAt the age of 39, Christian theologian Todd Billings was diagnosed with a rare form of incurable cancer. In the wake of that diagnosis, he began grappling with the hard theological questions we face in the midst of crisis: Why me? Why now? Where is God in all of this? This eloquently written book shares Billings’s journey, struggle, and reflections on providence, lament, and life in Christ in light of his illness, moving beyond pat answers toward hope in God’s promises. Theologically robust yet eminently practical, it engages the open questions, areas of mystery, and times of disorientation in the Christian life. Billings offers concrete examples through autobiography, cultural commentary, and stories from others, showing how our human stories of joy and grief can be incorporated into the larger biblical story of God’s saving work in Christ.
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Comfort The Grieving
$12.99Add to cartUntil the end of time, when the curse of sin is finally removed, suffering will be a large part of the human experience and a large part of that suffering will be walking through the painful reality of death. ‘Death,’ writes Paul Tautges, ‘provides a natural opportunity not only for ministry to others, but also for personal growth in ministers.’ Those who shepherd others through the pain and loss that accompanies death should seek to offer wise and biblical counsel on these precious and painful occasions.
This book is a treasure chest of pastoral theology that will equip you to reach out to those who grieve with the Christ-centered comfort of God rooted in the gospel. The theological foundation espoused here, as well as the numerous practical helps that are included, will help any servant of the Lord to point the hearts and minds of the bereaved to the ‘man of sorrows’ who is ‘acquainted with grief’ (Isaiah 53:3).
The Practical Shepherding series of booklets provides pastors and ministry leaders with advice and practical help to do the work of pastoral ministry in a local church. In Comfort Those Who Grieve, experienced pastor Paul Tautges offers readers a guide to comforting those dealing with death through the hope of the gospel.
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Seguro En Los Brazos De Dios – (Spanish)
$13.99Add to cartEsta mi bebe en el cielo?.Esa es la pregunta masimportante que un padre o madre que sufre puede hacerse. Y aunque el pequenosea el hijo de otra persona, la pregunta permanece: Que les sucede a losninos, a los no nacidos, los mortinatos o los infantes, cuando mueren? Podemosesperar volver a verlos? Podemos soltar el temor y la culpabilidad? Puede elamor de Dios suavizar una herida tan desgarradora?
Con autoridad biblica y lacalidez del corazon de un pastor, el autor de exitos de libreria John MacArthurexamina el alcance de toda la Biblia y revela en este convincente libro elcuidado que tiene el Padre celestial de cada vida.
“Is my baby in heaven?”
This is the most important question a grieving parent can ask. And even if the little one is someone else’s child, the issue remains: What happens to children?those unborn, stillborn, or youngsters?when they die? Can you hope to see them again? Can you let go of your fear and guilt? Can God’s love soothe a wound so jagged?
With scriptural authority and the warmth of a pastor’s heart, bestselling author John MacArthur examines the breadth of the entire Bible and reveals in this compelling book the Heavenly Father’s care for every life.
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And He Will Lift You Up
$14.99Add to cart“And He Will Lift You Up” is the remarkable story of Zanina Jacinto, a woman who is painfully familiar with disabilities–her precious daughter, Danielle, was born with cerebral palsy; several years later, Zanina was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and bipolar disorder. Faced with these setbacks, Zanina turned to the Lord, and He lifted her up when her own strength failed. Zanina raised Danielle, who today is a vibrant young woman, and an honor student with a bachelor of science in special education. Zanina became a teacher of special needs children, but eventually, had to leave her job when multiple sclerosis consumed her body with relentless fatigue, and muscle weakness made walking and standing difficult. During this dark and frightening time, Zanina battled depression and soon discovered that she also had bipolar disorder. But as Zanina and Danielle persevered and held tightly to the Lord’s promises, again and again, God graciously and miraculously supplied all of their needs. Travel with mother and daughter to the Promised Land of Israel where they experience the fullness of God’s grace, power, and love; and rejoice with them as they return home with renewed strength and vision. Be encouraged as Zanina shares how she successfully deals with life’s challenges and shows you how to do the same. “And He Will Lift You Up” will speak to your heart as a testimony of the enduring power of faith, and will light the way for you to find the hope and joy that comes from the One who is constant and loves you with an everlasting love.
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Experiencing The Loss Of A Family Member (Reprinted)
$18.00Add to cartLosing a family member is one of life’s most difficult experiences. Whether you are facing the death of a spouse, parent, child, sibling, close friend or pet, the weeks and months that follow such a loss can be overwhelming. Experiencing the Loss of a Family Member is a trustworthy companion for your journey through grief. With gentle honesty and wisdom, bestselling author and respected family therapist H. Norman Wright shares about the process of mourning, the disruption and re-ordering of family life, and the conflicting and confusing emotions that follow a death in the family. He also shows how it’s possible to grow closer to God and other family members as you face the darkness together. You are not alone through the valley-God’s Spirit, the Comforter, walks with you every step of the way, and will guide you toward true peace and renewed hope.
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Sun Still Rises
$14.99Add to cartEvery day, many people lose loved ones and face the grieving process. They suffer while coping with the loss of a child, spouse, parent, friend, or sibling. It is perhaps the most difficult and devastating challenge any of us face in our lifetime.
In this book, the author supports the idea that you can survive and thrive after grief and loss. This is not a predictable five stages of grief book. In The Sun Still Rises, Shawn Doyle uses his heart wrenching personal story of bereavement to supply you with tools, tips, and techniques for dealing with loss and grief on an hourly, daily, and weekly basis. These are tools that are proven to work if you open your mind and heart.
This book will help you:
*Expose myths and misinformation about grief
*Know what to expect (reactions, funerals, finances, legal matters)
*Get assurance and hope
*Evaluate your life
*Cope with grieving and healing
*Consider society’s rules about grieving
*Make sound decisions
*Identify resources
*Start planning
*Take care of yourself
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Wild Things : Poems Of Grief And Love Loss And Gratitude
$13.99Add to cartHow does a person tolerate the intolerable, bear the unbearable? For Roberta Bondi, a more specific question arose. “How will I continue my life when my mother is not in it?” As Bondi put pen to paper, she gave voice to her grief – and created a resource for others who grieve. She articulates her pain so others can know that they are not crazy in their emotions, that they can live beyond the grief and pain and find a measure of comfort. Bondi loses a physical presence but comes to find her mother’s presence in new ways in her life. Just as the “light shines in the darkness and the darkness did not overcome it” (John 1:5), Bondi shines a light on the dark face of grief, reminding us of God’s enduring love.
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Be Not Afraid
$12.00Add to cartFear of accidents or acts of terror, illness or dying, loneliness or grief if you re like most people such anxieties may be robbing you of the peace that could be yours. In “Be Not Afraid, ” Johann Christoph Arnold, a seasoned pastoral counselor who has accompanied many people to death s door, tells how ordinary men, women and children found the strength to conquer their deepest fears. Drawing on stories of people he has known as pastor, relative or friend, Arnold shows how suffering can be given meaning, and despair overcome. Interspersed with anecdotes from such wise teachers as Mother Teresa, Henri Nouwen, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Arnold’s words offer the assurance that even in an age of anxiety, you can live life to the full and meet death with confidence.”
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Gods Presence In The Loss Of A Child
$12.99Add to cartGod’s Presence in the Loss of Child began as simple daily accounts of the author and his wife’s trials and emotions and activities during the 12 days in which their daughter was alive and in the hospital, after her birth. Following her unexpected death and through the coming months and years, they began to see and experience God’s blessings and better understand some of HIS plan for their daughter’s life and for them. This is a simple story of just how Bill and his wife, dealt with real life as it was quickly thrown at them early one morning in June of 1989. Hopefully, you too, will see just how good God was, and how gracious and merciful HE was to Bill and his wife during that traumatic time in their young lives, and the many years since then, as HE continues to bless them and encourage them as they seek HIS will for their lives. Their prayer is that you too, might experience the same encouragement and strength that they did during that time and even today.
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Faithful : Even After Losing A Child
$28.99Add to cartWe are living in the midst of some very trying times, financially, politically, and relationally. These trials are not just global, but are reaching each one of us personally. It is so hard to have faith that we will not sink or be swallowed up by the circumstances of this world and our current situations. Try to remember: What was true of God in the past is true of Him still. He is very present and very near to you. He will not leave you, abandon you, or give you away. God will walk with you through each moment, each day. He will provide a path for you to follow. Trust in Him; He is with you.
This autobiography chronicles the author’s devastating loss of her first son shortly after his birth, and how her family coped with this sudden death. Her strength, the author concluded, to move forward each day, while remembering her late son, was due to God’s presence and grace-led involvement in her life.
May you follow His example. Find a solitary place to be alone with God and let Him pour over you the peace of His Spirit.
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Faithful : Even After Losing A Child
$17.99Add to cartWe are living in the midst of some very trying times, financially, politically, and relationally. These trials are not just global, but are reaching each one of us personally. It is so hard to have faith that we will not sink or be swallowed up by the circumstances of this world and our current situations. Try to remember: What was true of God in the past is true of Him still. He is very present and very near to you. He will not leave you, abandon you, or give you away. God will walk with you through each moment, each day. He will provide a path for you to follow. Trust in Him; He is with you.
This autobiography chronicles the author’s devastating loss of her first son shortly after his birth, and how her family coped with this sudden death. Her strength, the author concluded, to move forward each day, while remembering her late son, was due to God’s presence and grace-led involvement in her life.
May you follow His example. Find a solitary place to be alone with God and let Him pour over you the peace of His Spirit.
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Living Thoughtfully Dying Well
$12.99Add to cartAs we grow older we start to wonder about death, asking, How will I die? Will I have a good death? Will I suffer? How will my family respond? How can we manage the dying process better?
Dr. Glen E. Miller, a retired physician who also has theological training, had his own wake-up call when he suffered a heart attack and determined to help himself and his patients go gently into that good night. In a candid way, Miller invites readers into conversation about the spirituality of dying as he explores a variety of beliefs about death and dying.
With personal advice gleaned from his work with Mother Teresa among the dying of Calcutta, India, Miller provides rich guidance for those who are aging on the process of dying and how to make it better.
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Hope To Go
$13.49Add to cartDeborah Phillips has something to offer…
“Following the death of a loved one, a multitude of questions arise. You search for direction and support, but often times fail to recognize the implications of your grief.
“The consequences of unresolved grief and inability to resolve grief issue, leaves us searching for help. Deborah Phillips has provided a unique guide in her book Hope to Go – A Devotional Journey for Times of Bereavement and Grief. The book does not tell you how to grieve, but it provides a path and direction for those seeking understanding and healing.
“While no one can walk you through the complexities of your suffering, Hope to Go enables people of faith to recognize, identify, and benefit with the trials and tribulations of others.
“Deborah Phillips has something to offer the bereaved and she is to be commended for her sensitivity and no-nonsense approach to the needs of others.
“In a quiet moment, pick up this book and let it speak to you, and comfort you in your journey through one of the most difficult times in your life.”
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Embracing The Pain
$10.99Add to cartEmbracing the Pain, 21 Keys to Help You Deal with Grief is an uplifting, comfort book. It presents twenty-one keys to help affirm, manage, and navigate your way through the loss of a loved one. I listened to what people said and presented it to my Father. He in turn gave me relief through His word. I invite your to read and enjoy with comfort His advice for loss.
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Pilgrimage Through Loss
$24.00Add to cartThe death of a child immerses parents into a life-long challenge of living with one of life’s most heartbreaking losses. Pilgrimage through Loss tells the story of one family’s journey, along with interviews from thirty other mothers and fathers who add their voices to the silences that often surround suffering in our ‘mourning-avoidant’ culture. Hunt illuminates the varied pathways parents eventually discover that open their lives to strength and healing. Rather than prescribing a path that will lead to recovery, Hunt encourages parents to find the pathways that work for them as they seek to engage life again with meaning and hope. Each chapter includes questions for reflection and discussion, plus recent research on grief and loss. Pilgrimage through Loss not only helps grieving parents, it also provides an insightful resource for those wanting to understand and come alongside a family in grief.
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Amor Nunca Muere – (Spanish)
$17.49Add to cartAligera tu carga pena cambiando la forma de ver el dolor.
El Amor Nunca Muere: Aceptando Duelo con Esperanza y Promesa ayuda a dolientes, cuidadores y profesionales que ayudan a entender lo siguiente:
* El duelo es la expresion constante de amor a la persona que ha muerto. Dolientes no necesitan ser fijados, curados, diagnosticados, lastimados o corregidos.
* Dolor saludable abraza y experimenta la perdida. El dolor sirve a un proposito. Evitar el dolor retrasa la curacion.
*Mantener una relacion continua con la persona que ha muerto es saludable y la curacion. Los dolientes no tienen que dejar de lado sus seres queridos con el fin de progresar en su dolor.
Notas tecnicas de diseadores expertos dolor pueden aliviar la presion de olvidar a un ser querido o dejarlas en el pasado. Dado que el dolor es una expresion de amor, es saludable y apropiado para recordar a un ser querido, extraar a el o ella , y llorar. -
Will I Ever Find Love Again
$28.99Add to cart51 Chapters
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When your world falls down around you . . .*A friend’s wife just died. Your mind is blank; you do not know what to say to him.
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Your loved one is starving to death; dying from cancer and you cannot do anything to help. You are the chief caregiver, the problem solver, now absolutely helpless.*
You pray, the heavens are silent. Your anger is deep. God is somewhere else; you have been abandoned. When you needed him most, he took a hike.*
Your loved one left this planet and you feel hurt and angry; the dreams you’ve had are forever gone. And your desperate loneliness is just too much to bear.*You wonder, is it possible to find new love on the Internet?
This Stauffer Story will help you or your friend find the way through extreme difficulties. Learn how to look for and discover God’s fingerprints and hear God’s footsteps while seemingly stuck in the darkened valley. Discover how to find light, love and happiness.
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Biblical Antidotes To Lifes Toxins (Anniversary)
$16.49Add to cart14 Chapters
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This illuminating and challenging book is filled with sound biblical counsel, engaging illustrations, and practical suggestions as to how, with God’s enabling, we can face and overcome some of life’s most vexing – and universal – challenges. Glenn Gunderson’s pastoral wisdom and compassionate spirit shine through on every page of this eminently readable guidebook. -
Good Funeral : Death Grief And The Community Of Care
$36.00Add to cartTwo of the most authoritative voices on the funeral industry come together here in one volume to discuss the current state of the funeral. Through their different lenses–one as a preacher and one as a funeral director–Thomas G. Long and Thomas Lynch alternately discuss several challenges facing “the good funeral,” including the commercial aspects that have led many to be suspicious of funeral directors, the sometimes tense relationship between pastors and funeral directors, the tendency of modern funerals to exclude the body from the service, and the rapid growth in cremation. The book features forewords from Patrick Lynch, President of the National Funeral Directors Association, and Barbara Brown Taylor, highly praised author and preacher. It is an essential resource for funeral directors, morticians, and pastors, and anyone else interested in current funeral practices.
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Sitting Strong : Wrestling With The Ornery Of God
$17.00Add to cartSitting Strong: Wrestling with the Ornery God, by bestselling author Jeanie Miley, suggests that when life knocks the props out from under you, it is possible to gather up your agony and wrestle with it in the presence of the God who may feel strangely absent. This book is not about being strong. Rather, taking the struggles and triumphs of Job as its guide, this book is about that terrible time when all you can do is stumble onto the ash heap of suffering and simply sit.
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Grace Greater Than Our Grief
$7.95Add to cartIs God’s grace really sufficient when the unimaginable happens? Even if it happens to you? The answer found in these pages is a resounding yes! Through years of disappointment, heartbreak, and eventually crushing grief, the author, Sandra DeVane, found that even when the way is too difficult for you to pretend anymore, God is there. And He is everything you need. May you find within these pages a glimpse of God’s grace that encourages you to go on, even in the worst of times.
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Life Lost And Found (Reprinted)
$21.95Add to cartAre you reeling from loss? Mired in grief and despair? Is your heart breaking? Do you long for just a moment’s relief from the pain of your circumstances? Do you feel as though life will never be normal again? If you or someone you love has experienced the heartbreak of death or divorce, this practical guide will take you from those deep valleys of despair to blue skies and rainbows – from sorrow and heartache to hope and healing!
Writing with compassion, empathy, and encouragement, authors Wilson Adams and David Lanphear answer these questions and more:
Why did this happen to me?
How do I rely on God?
How do I help my children?
What about my loved one’s room and belongings?
How do I face holidays and other days on the calendar?
Can I heal and move on?
Is there hope for happiness?
Packed with Scripture and insight from two who have walked the path of grief and suffering, A Life Lost…and Found will help anyone on the journey toward healing, wholeness, and joy. -
When Loved Ones Are Called Home (Reprinted)
$7.99Add to cartThis classic on grieving offers the sure and steadfast hope that separation from a loved one is not the end. It helps readers make the physical, emotional, and relational adjustments needed when a loved one departs this life, and it gives honest answers to the most difficult questions and doubts we have. With comforting Scriptures about death, life, and resurrection, as well as beautiful poetry that expresses our deepest emotions, When Loved Ones Are Called Home walks with readers as a friend through their pain and grief. Now with a beautiful, contemporary cover.
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With Her And Without Her
$14.49Add to cartWith Her And Without Her walks you through the journey and experiences of Kimber Dailey after losing her mother. This book will help you understand that you are not alone and will encourage you throughout the various grieving stages. From start to finish you will treasure this book and feel a bond with Kimber as she shows you how to honor your mother and move from grieving to thriving. In this book, Kimber acknowledges your loss, and shows how you too may be anchored in your life experience and not feel that you’re simply reading about someone else’s story. With Her And Without Her invites you to be actively involved by pausing to consider your mother and writing in the pages. You will certainly be blessed with peace and hope. Kimber Dailey is the third daughter of Anna Jean Briley’s six children. She resides in Lodi, California with her husband, Laurence and their youngest daughter. She enjoys reading, writing, NY Times crossword puzzles and bike riding. She is a certified American Sign Language Interpreter in Northern California.
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After Normal
$11.95Add to cartHealthy Life Press
After Normal is one teen’s journey through grief after the death of her younger brother. Unique in the field of death and dying literature, it offers helpful insights and understanding for teens facing a similar loss or for those who might wish to understand and help teens facing a similar loss.
No easy answers. No pious platitudes. Just a truthful insider’s view of the journey from darkness to light, black and white to color, despair to hope again.
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My Babys Feet
$14.98Add to cartChoice, Death, and the Aftermath
Fearfully and desperately wanting to hide my mistakes and deny the unwanted, but not totally unexpected ramifications of my earlier choices, I chose what seemed to be the easiest answer. I chose death, and then I moved into the aftermath of my choice. I, for a lifetime and beyond, will live in the aftermath of my choice. Although there is recovery, through forgiveness, there are lasting ramifications. No one told me that the ramifications of my choice would last forever. No one told me what my choice would do to my heart. No one told me that my choice was, in fact, a death sentence for my baby.Are you, or someone you know, facing an unwanted pregnancy? Are you wondering if “choice” is the answer, the easiest solution?
After the “choice” comes the aftermath. A living choice not only gives life to a baby, but results in an aftermath of life. Abortion results in an aftermath forever shrouded in death, death of a baby, perhaps death of your own baby. For those struggling with the aftermath of abortion, you and your loved ones can find forgiveness.This book is for:
Teenage moms wrestling with choice and an unplanned pregnancy
Loved ones who are seeking resolution after abortion
Anyone who needs hope and healing after abortion
This book is a great tool for teen pregnancy educators, pregnancy center advisors, and those seeking to learn more about the emotional struggles, post abortion. It is written out of love and understanding by a woman who thought her choice was the best answer. Whether or not you are a Christian, you will be inspired by the author’s incredible faith, without which it would have been impossible to write this book.
Through my story, I pray that you will know that a living choice is the only real choice.
Join me in my story of running from my mistakes, hiding my choice, and slogging through the aftermath. Come with me as I discover a new truth about an old choice. Join me as I struggle with guilt and heartfelt shame, knowing the new truth. Observe the aftermath.What choice would you have made? What choice would you recommend?
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Grieving Gods Way
$18.99Add to cartA 90-day devotional healing experience for the grieving spirit. The death of a family member or friend is devastating. In fact, it can take five years or more for a person to adequately work through his or her grief, but because we live in a fast-paced society, we often sweep it under the rug or ignore it altogether. God has another plan.
Man’s Way: Numb the pain God’s Way: Heal the pain
Man’s Way: Don’t talk about it God’s Way: Share your pain
Man’s Way: Time heals God’s Way: Faith healsGrieving God’s Way is a 90-day reader designed to bring hope and healing to those who have experienced loss. Each thoughtful devotional begins with a scripture and ends with a haiku, written to affirm the positive theme of the text. Divided into four categories-body, soul, heart, and spirit-each day’s entry offers insight into the grieving process that increases understanding of God’s purposeful plan for healing the heart and soul.
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Grief Relief : Scriptural Guide Book To Recovery After The Death Of A Child
$15.99Add to cartBorn in 1961, Rebecca, whose nickname is Becky, was born into the most dire of circumstances. The fifth child of poor parents; whose marriage was already at the point of collapse. Becky was critically premature; her mother Barbara’s most difficult delivery; and only breach birth. In all, her mother would go on to have seven children. Barbara struggled while working for seventy-five cents an hour, at a nearby dry cleaners. Her father Loyd worked less and less as the years went by, due to the most extreme form of chronic alcoholism.
While living in the ghetto and enduring the harshest depravation imaginable, God sent His messengers with The Good News of Jesus Christ. Becky faithfully rode the church bus with her elder siblings, starting at around the age of two years old while carrying her own spare diaper, in a brown paper bag. Her mother would instruct, “Don’t dirty your diaper while you’re gone.” The story is told that she never did! Becky refused to be left behind, and grew up cherishing the Bible stories she was taught at “The First Church of the Nazarene,” in Rock Island, Illinois. Becky also attended regularly at Grant Elementary; her public grade school, a Bible study that was held after hours in the school cafeteria. The truth is, Becky never fully perceived until now, what God had indeed predestined for her, and that is why He saw to it that she knew His Holy Word from the start. She readily acknowledges, that if she hadn’t experienced the steadfast love of God early on, that He would have never been able to do the miraculous for her in 1990, when her doctor crudely informed, “The top of your babies head is missing!” The cataclysmic discovery that her baby was suffering from the disease of “anencephaly,” was rendered just two weeks before she was due to give birth for the first time at the age of twenty-nine.
Indeed, God’s hand has been upon Becky her entire life, but was never more providential than that fateful day on May 12, 1990, when her precious Melissa Ann was born, and returned straight back to heaven from whence she was sent. Melissa beat the odds by being born alive, and lived for three rapturous hours and eighteen glorious minutes upon this earth, cradled all the while in her parent’s adoring arms.
Afterwards, Becky spent vast hours alone in her prayer closet seeking God’s divine help and guidance. She needed to know what He had to say about all that was happening to her, as many more complications and obstacles were involved a
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Im Fat And Nobody Cares
$16.49Add to cartThe stares, the mocking laughter, the hurt, and the pain; this is one woman’s journey of learning that being fat really does matter to everyone. In “I’m Fat and Nobody Cares”, Kathleen Frank tackles the many issues that face people who battle obesity and the reasons why they do. This is the author’s personal testimony of how she overcame sexual and emotional abuse, her constant struggle with weight and how she was able to find the Lord amidst every temptation to turn against Him.
Through her own battle and heartbreak, Kathleen attempts to uncover the roots of this rampant issue and bring to light the pain that she and many others have experienced through weight gain. She sheds light on the real reasons why many people have become obese and how there is hope for them. The author could have very easily used this book as an outlet for her emotions, anger especially, but instead this book is very tactfully written.
A rough childhood, two bumpy marriages with one ending in an affair that changed her life forever, Kathleen details her own struggle of weighing over 330 pounds and how through the love of Christ and the practical implementation of His Word in her life she has been able to come to terms with her weight and believe God for a miracle.
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Grieving The Loss Of Someone You Love (Reprinted)
$14.99Add to cartFew losses are as painful as the death of someone close. No valley is as vast as grief, no journey as personal and life changing. Compassionate and wise guides Raymond Mitsch and Lynn Brookside shine a light on the road through grief. They can help you endure the anguish and uncertainty; understand the cycles of grief; sort through the emotions of anger, guilt, fear, and depression; and face the God who allowed you to lose the one you love. A series of thoughtful daily devotions, Grieving the Loss of Someone You Love shares wisdom, insight, and comfort that will help you through and beyond your grief.
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Joyful Reunion
$9.99Add to cartJoyful Reunion is the touching story of a young woman who kept an unplanned pregnancy and subsequent abortion a secret from her family for nearly a decade. There was good reason for keeping this secret and no good reason to reveal it, until a life changing revelation emerged through the fog of heartache, fear and pain that gave her the reason, the courage really, to expose it to the light. When she did, it opened the door to healing and changed her life forever.
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When The One You Love Is Gone
$11.99Add to cartWhen a loved one dies, you don’t get over it, but you can move on.
The bad news is that we never fully “get over” the loss of those we hold most dear; we bear those scars to the grave. The good news is that God is at work in us turning our loss and pain into something beautiful. God can take the scars and the mess and the heartache of our lives– yours and mine– and use it to give new life, new life to us and new life to others.
God is not in the business of zapping our loved ones and stealing them away from us. But in a world where death waits for every person, God stands ready. God stands ready to receive our beloved dead as they cross over; and God stands ready to guide us through the saddest days, to walk with us through our grief, and to take us into places we never could have imagined places of hope and renewal. If God could take a cross and broken body and make of them redemption, God can take your pain and heartache and fashion them into new life.
This book is composed of the reflections that point to broader lessons that will help those who find themselves passing through grief, as well as the pastors, counselors, and friends whose job is to accompany the traveler.
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Dying Death And Destiny
$14.99Add to cartToo often, the somber inevitability of death and dying is something we push into the background of our everyday thoughts and actions-until it becomes something we can avoid no longer.
Because death will touch the life of everyone, it is essential, as a believer, that you possess the full confidence that when you, or your loved ones, meet this final reality, it is without fear or doubt of the life that awaits you beyond the grave.
Best-selling author Dr. Herbert Lockyer has provided this valuable resource to provide eternal assurance to comfort the Christian, and a message of hope for those who have not yet called on the name of Jesus Christ as their Savior.
As believers, we need not fear death. Thanks to the victory that was won on the cross, death is not a leap in the dark or a gateway into the great unknown, but a quick journey home to Christ, whose glorified body will be the pattern for our deathless new bodies.
I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death. (Revelation 1:18 KJV)
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Beyond The Broken Heart
$5.99Add to cartGrief is not a crisis of faith; it is a crisis of the heart. This affordable and pocket-sized book is the perfect gift for anyone who has experienced a recent loss or is grieving. Using excerpts from Beyond the Broken Heart, an eight-week support and grief ministry program, readers will find comfort and both spiritual and practical guidance during their grief journey.
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Grief : Gods Help In Times Of Sorrow (Student/Study Guide)
$12.99Add to cartA friend moves away. You get laid off. Cancer takes the life of a family member. We all experience grief and loss in some form. Whether you’re supporting a grieving friend or mourning a loss of your own, these nine studies from Psalms will help you express what you’re feeling and lead you to the arms of our compassionate God, who weeps with us, listens to our cries and understands our pain.
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When You Dont Know What To Say (Revised)
$9.99Add to cartAn updated version and 2nd edition!
For those who have a friend that has been devastated by the loss of a loved one. When others care enough to rub shoulders with grieving friends and are willing to be inconvenienced. It requires someone to care enough to put aside clichA(C) condolences and stick close through a long grieving process.
An individual s grief can never be fixed . But friends can wash a sink full of dishes. One can listen. Or they can go along on a cemetery visit. Sharing another’s grief is not about “fixing it”-it’s about showing up.
Harold Ivan Smith, popular speaker and grief educator, guides others to respond with their heart. He shows tangible, meaningful ways to make a significant difference as one journeys through grief with someone they care about.
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Peering Through A Mist
$11.95Add to cartDeath teaches we are not in control. It is a helpless feeling unless we are trusting in God. Sometimes we are frustrated because we want the controls. We want to figure out the whys and hows, yet the Lord has not given us any answers to these questions. We become discouraged – only to haul ourselves up and believe in God’s promises.
This is a book about the sorrow and loss of losing a child. One can peer inside the soul of a mother whose heart has been shattered as she gives insight into her daily thoughts and struggles in grief. Hope in Jesus and life everlasting can be found in the pages of this book. It is heartbreaking, yet encouraging and helpful for others experiencing loss of any kind. -
Life After Suicide
$12.95Add to cartThe death of a loved one by suicide is a life-changing and traumatic event that affects many people. Over the past several years, suicide has been the eleventh leading cause of death for Americans. It is estimated that there are over 4.5 million Americans who have lost a loved one to suicide.
In, Life after Suicide: Survival, Hope and Healing, Cynthia L. Long offers direction and resources to suicide survivors and to those who want to be supportive to survivors. This resource is full of stories of individuals who have embraced their grief and “survived” following a suicide death. Despite the stigma of suicide in America, this invaluable resource was written because many survivors wanted their stories to be told in hopes that their experience might help others who are walking a similar path.
Written from a Christian perspective, this resource will help the reader learn that survival, hope, and healing are attainable. The author covers such topics as:
Misconceptions and Risk Factors about Suicide
Stories and Emotions of Survivors
Faith, the Church, and Suicide
Survival, Hope, and Healing
God empowers us to companion those who are hurting. Life after Suicide gives tips on how to avoid cliches and euphemisms when talking to the bereaved and offers study guide questions at the end of each chapter. This resource is a “must buy” for anyone who knows someone whose life has been affected by a suicide death — both survivors and friends who want to support survivors.
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Grieving With Hope (Reprinted)
$15.99Add to cartPractical and straightforward, yet warm and compassionate, Grieving with Hope clarifies the popular misconception that people move through stages of grief. This will be an encouragement to many, as grieving people often think something is wrong with them when their grief doesn’t proceed neatly through stages. The reality is that grieving people jump back and forth between different emotions, sometimes wrestling with multiple emotions at once.
This book is packed with short, biblically based, gospel-centered, topical chapters addressing the issues grieving people face but are often hesitant to mention to others. It helps readers accurately interpret the message their emotions are sending them and gently guides them to determine whether they’re grieving in a way that leads to hope and ultimate healing. Developed from interviews with over 30 well-respected Christian counselors, teachers, and authors, as well as numerous personal testimonies, Grieving with Hope helps the bereaved discover how hope and peace are available amidst their heartache and pain.
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Decembered Grief Gift Edition
$19.99Add to cartSuffering the loss of a loved one at any time of the year is difficult, yet during the holidays or special occasions, those grieving experience a more intense sense of loss. The world is moving forward and celebrating life and all its blessings, yet for grievers, a darkness pervades the holiday.
This book is an invitation to Christmas and its companion holidays of the season which compose a grueling triathlon which begins on Thanksgiving and continues unabated for forty-five days until the last of the bowl games on New Year’s Day. Through quotes, prayers, Scriptures and the words of the author, A Decembered Grief is designed to guide the reader on the journey beyond “the shadow” and directly through “the valley of death.”
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Love Never Dies
$16.99Add to cartLighten your grief burden by changing how you view grief.
Love Never Dies: Embracing Grief with Hope and Promise helps mourners, caregivers and helping professionals understand that:
* Grief is the expression of love for the person who has died. Mourners do not need to be fixed, cured, diagnosed, pitied or corrected.
* Healthy grief embraces the loss experience. Grief serves a purpose. Avoiding grief delays healing.
* Maintaining a relationship with the person who has died is healthy and healing. Mourners do not have to “let go” of their loved one in order to progress successively in their grief.Learn insights from mourning experts that show there is:
* HOPE for today and the future
* PROMISE that the resources needed to get through grief are available -
Love Never Dies
$26.99Add to cartLighten your grief burden by changing how you view grief.
Love Never Dies: Embracing Grief with Hope and Promise helps mourners, caregivers and helping professionals understand that:
* Grief is the expression of love for the person who has died. Mourners do not need to be fixed, cured, diagnosed, pitied or corrected.
* Healthy grief embraces the loss experience. Grief serves a purpose. Avoiding grief delays healing.
* Maintaining a relationship with the person who has died is healthy and healing. Mourners do not have to “let go” of their loved one in order to progress successively in their grief.Learn insights from mourning experts that show there is:
* HOPE for today and the future
* PROMISE that the resources needed to get through grief are available -
Lose Love Live
$12.99Add to cartEveryone faces loss and change, whether it’s the death of a loved one, the loss of a job, a failed relationship, a decline in health, or a move to a new city. In this book the author tells about his experiences with multiple losses and the spiritual gifts he discovered in these losses. He invites readers to grieve their losses – to pay attention to what is happening in their lives, feed the pain, and move through grief at their own pace.
This book outlines 10 dimensions of reality people experience as they learn to let go of old, familiar ways of life and embrace the new. It encourages individuals to explore their suffering and open themselves to the rebirth that comes when they have the courage and patience to discover the gifts that are part of losing, loving, and living.At the end of each chapter, Moseley suggests the kinds of friends readers need to seek out for the portion of the journey described in that chapter. The book also includes a discovery journal that guides individuals to make learn more about themselves while they are going through times of loss and change.
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Gone But Not Lost (Reprinted)
$15.00Add to cartWe all expect our parents to precede us in death. No one expects to have to make their child’s funeral arrangements. And the loss of a child brings with it a special and persistent manifestation of grief that can feel “like a stomachache that never ends.”
Gone but Not Lost is a thoughtful gift for a family that has experienced the death of a child. Each of its brief chapters covers one element of grieving, bringing readers through sorrow and helping them deal with feelings of anger or guilt, as well as the marital strain that may follow the loss of a beloved child.
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Shattered By Suicide
$14.95Add to cartEvery 60 seconds, a man, woman, boy, or girl attempts suicide. Every 15.2 minutes, a life is snuffed out by suicide. Painful. Personal. Poignant. For anyone who grieves the loss of a loved one. Gracie Thompson takes you up close and personal to a mother’s worst nightmare-suicide! Follow Gracie’s journey from the depths of unspeakable pain and grief to new heights of hope and healing available only through Jesus Christ. **** My son committed suicide several years ago. This horror remains the hardest and most tragic event our family has ever experienced. There was no final note or good-bye-nothing to help us understand. I couldn’t stop crying for days, weeks. Life felt endless, hopeless. I had no desire to go on living. After our son’s tragic death, I searched Christian and secular sources for material that would help me try to understand, learn, and heal, but nothing relieved the aching pain. We attended Survivors of Suicide (SOS) meetings and gained friendship and an awareness of other families and their pain, but still no healing. It was only when I began to write that I could feel God’s Presence so strongly that I knew, without a shadow of a doubt, I was in the comfort of His embrace, and He was talking me through. This was God’s way of helping me begin to heal. He was saying the words in my heart, and I was His scribe. He truly is the Author of my story. Although these letters were meant to be personal-just between God and me-God seemed to whisper that He has other children who need to read them so they too can start their healing journey. But where are they? Who are they? How can we reach them? God assured me that they will search for help, and when they do, He will guide them to these pages and onward to the only Comforter-Jesus Christ. In His Grip, Gracie
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Covered And Kept
$22.99Add to cartKaren Johnson has managed to convey her deepest fears, pain, faith and joy in this intimate and honest account of her journey in her walk with Christ… She holds nothing back, hoping the reader will gain an insight to what it means to be a true woman or man of God in spite of loss and tragedy. This book will take you from Karen’s earliest experiences of her life up to the senseless and brutal murder of her late husband, Jon Johnson. You will undoubtedly learn, as she has, how God has always had his hands on her life assuring her she is, “Covered…& Kept.” – F. Byrd As I read “Covered & Kept,” my heart and head were glued to the story as if I was watching a movie. I think Karen has done an excellent job bringing honor to our heavenly Father. Blessed Be His Name, forever! – Angle Thomas “Oh, God, please tell me why?” This desperate cry rings out from the lips of two women from two distinct walks of life as their worlds are turned upside down. One was celebrating the 84th birthday of her mother-in-law while the other was out on a date night with her husband. The nightmare begins when gun shots ring out leaving two husbands dying in pools of their own blood just a mile apart. Horrified bystanders ducked for cover while witnessing police engaged in a deadly shootout that left many people asking, “Why?” This riveting book is a true story about how Satan suddenly snatched a woman’s husband without giving her “time to say goodbye.” Karen and her husband’s romantic date night suddenly ended in the tragic death of TV Cameraman Jon Johnson. The story includes the trial and verdict of the Aaron Dunn Case, Sacramento CA, 2010.
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Widows Club
$27.99Add to cartEcclesiates 3:4 A time to weep and a time to laugh. A time to mourn and a time to dance. Widow’s Club reveals some of the transition of being married to widowhood experienced by Carol. Grieving and dealing with death is is difficult. One must remember: You are a survivor. You are never alone on your path of life. Jesus is always available to help you through this period of your life. Invite Him to lead your journey.
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More Glimpses Of Heaven (Reprinted)
$18.00Add to cartFollowing her successful Glimpses of Heaven, Trudy Harris has collected even more true stories of the tender beauty and pain of life’s end. Through her own stories and those of medical professionals and hospice workers, Harris brings readers with her on the search for God, forgiveness, faith, repentance, and ultimate acceptance and peace. The perfect gift for someone who has experienced the death of a loved one, More Glimpses of Heaven will bring peace and comfort to all who read it.
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Christ A Sheltering Tree
$15.99Add to cartCarol Scarbrough attended Ozark Christian College in Joplin, Missouri, University of New Mexico, Central New Mexico Community college both in Albuquerque and got her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Azusa Pacific University in California. She graduated with honors: Alpha Chi, awarded most outstanding student in Psychology and nominated for Who’s Who. Carol was in ministry for over fifteen years She worked in a counseling center for troubled youth abusing drugs and alcohol. She also worked in Mexico as a summer intern. She taught art at Ozark Christian College and traveled with the Singing Strings doing chalk drawings for churches, juvenile homes, Indian reservations and a prison farm. Carol with her professor Husband at Azusa Pacific University helped co sponsor The International Fellowship of international students. Carol is now active in Missionary Care at her church and she enjoys working in computer graphics and design. Psalms 91:1 He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.
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What Was Lost
$22.00Add to cartUnited Methodist Pastor Elise Erikson Barrett draws on her own painful experiences as well as on interviews with others who have gone through the devastation of miscarriage in an effort to help women grieve and, in time, to think theologically about pregnancy loss.
Barrett also offers some much-needed practical advice about breaking the news to others, coping with insensitive comments, and grieving what is often a private loss, unmarked by the world. -
Twisted Logic
$12.99Add to cartTwisted Logic:The Shadow of Suicide, is a book that all pastors should have in their library. At one time or another, pastors will encounter suicide, and they need to be equipped to help those who are dealing with a loved one who has committed suicide, or a person who is being tempted to commit suicide. Twisted Logic covers the warning signs and provides a “how to guide in dealing with the people who are suffering. This book gives basic steps and does not leave you wondering what the next step is; it reminds the reader that they need to walk with God. It is with God’s help that the one who suffers will find strength to overcome the temptation of suicide. For the family that is walking in the grief of the painful reality of suicide, Twisted Logic will bring them hope and understanding.”
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When A Pill Wont Reach The Pain
$12.49Add to cartAuthor Rev. Judy Correll Hames grew up thinking that if she was good enough, she would be protected from the pain and tragedy of life. That proved unfortunately false on November 15, 1998, when she was faced with the death of her beloved son, John. She turned to God for peace and healing. Now, in her new title, When A Pill Won’t Reach The Pain, she offers readers a survival guide for dealing with all sorts of pain.
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Photos Of The Heart
$25.99Add to cartOut of my hopelessness and desperation, I realized I couldn’t go on living with this terrible pain that had taken over my life. I needed help, but I didn’t know who could help me deal with this grief I was going through. I knew I couldn’t do it in my own strength, and it had to be someone much stronger than me. It had to be someone who could understand and know the pain in my heart. I found that someone who took away this pain that was choking the life out of me. I found strength in his loving arms. Without Him, I could not have made it on my own. He knew what I was going through because He could feel my pain. This is my story about my grief journey and how someone rescued me from my grief. He gave me so much of Himself that the only way I could share it with you is to take you through the ‘Photos of The Heart.”
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Still Healing
$15.49Add to cartStill Healing!
Pastor Lloyd Wright Sr.:Jesus tells us in the gospel of Luke chapter 4:18 that he comes to heal the broken hearted. Many people hearts are broken and crushed after losing a spouse. If you want to be healed, look to God. God still wants to heal you no matter how unbearable your pain may be.
For those of you struggling with a sick child and going through a divorce or remarriage, I strongly encourage you to embrace my words of encouragement and the many experiences I share in this book.
Reverend Lloyd Wright is the Senior Pastor of the Evergreen Missionary Baptist Church-in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He is married and has a son.
Pam Battle:
I want to share with you how God, is definitely my healer. Walking through the dark journey of losing my spouse to cancer and then being diagnosed with breast cancer, I call this double jeopardy.Raising three small children without their father truly was a trying time for me because my heart was truly broken. I didn’t want to live, but God came through and helped me to trust and have faith in him. As you read Still Healing, you will see how God has helped me to heal in many areas of my life. My prayer for you is that you let God help you through this difficult time in your life.
The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit. Psalm 34:18
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Making Sense Of Life And Death
$16.49Add to cartHave you ever wondered why you are here, or what possible difference your life might make in the world? Have you ever been frustrated in trying to find meaning or purpose in your life? Or have you ever wondered what happens when you die?
This book addresses those questions, and more, about life and death. More importantly, it points you to the proof that your life is important, and that the best is yet to come.
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Healing The Heartbreak Of Grief
$13.99Add to cartFree yourself from the threads of grief that grip your heart.
In an irreversible moment, your life changes forever. Your life is upside down and your heart is inside out. Life goes on for others, but yours came to a screaming halt. With comfort and assurance, Dr. Flamming points ahead to tomorrows that will become a little easier than today. From years of pastoral experience and the heartbreak of losing his own son, the author knows that grief is anything but a tidy, predictable progression.
Written in short, easy chapters, with practical helps, this book can be your companion as you struggle to pick up the pieces and go on.
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Perfect Loss : A Different Kind Of Happiness
$16.00Add to cartSage Hill LLC Publication
Through the use of story, experience, knowledge, and Scripture, we follow the author as he shows us how to walk the path toward a life of passion, intimacy, and integrity leaving a legacy that passes life forward to those we loved and beyond. Using the Beatitudes, we discover the eight movements we all must make if we are to live in freedom, fidelity, fullness, and faithfulness. With each movement, Dodd explores one of life’s great paradoxes: the only way we get to the treasure we are made to possess is by traveling through tragedy and surrendering to the God who can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves.
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Too Soon To Say Goodbye
$16.99Add to cartTragically, every 16 minutes someone in the United States chooses death by selfmurder. Particularly affecting young people, suicide was recently determined to be the third leading cause of death for those aged 10-24.Too Soon to Say Goodbye offers a renewal of courage and faith for families andfriends grieving this inconceivable loss.Written by three women all uniquely affected by suicide, the book explores theaftermath from a wide range of real stories.Specially selected Scripture passages and Bible stories demonstrate God’s loveand compassion in times of sorrow. Additional insights from those who have walked on the brink of suicide address difficult questions.And for those who may be considering suicide, the authors offer encouragement to choose life over death.
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Widowed
$23.99Add to cartWidowed is the true story of how our family lost my wife and her father. It is a deep and personal look at living with illness, realizing you can be left alone and having to make sense of the death of a spouse. Widowed contains excerpts of some of the most personal conversations, prayers and feelings I took part in before and after my wife passed away. In reading it, I hope you come to realize that no matter what life throws at you, you will be ok and that God will see you through any ordeal. No matter what lies Satan whispers in your ear or how bad things may seem, always remember that God truly does care.
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Widowed
$15.49Add to cartWidowed is the true story of how our family lost my wife and her father. It is a deep and personal look at living with illness, realizing you can be left alone and having to make sense of the death of a spouse. Widowed contains excerpts of some of the most personal conversations, prayers and feelings I took part in before and after my wife passed away. In reading it, I hope you come to realize that no matter what life throws at you, you will be ok and that God will see you through any ordeal. No matter what lies Satan whispers in your ear or how bad things may seem, always remember that God truly does care.
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1st 48 Hours
$20.99Add to cartThe first 48 hours are critical to the recovery of trauma victims.
First responders make the difference between life and death for trauma victims. But what is often not recognized is that when disaster strikes, spiritual caregivers are often among those first on the scene. For these caregivers response should also help propel survivors toward positive transformation. This book focuses on critical responses that are key in the aftermath of natural disaster, community violence, personal injury, and crime. These basics include: the power of presence, safety, assessment and triage, how we help, putting the pieces together, telling the story, hope, and caring in the long haul.
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Going Home : Meditations On Finishing The Race
$11.99Add to cartDeath is the one experience we all have in common. It is the one reality which we try to avoid but are forced to face. We should prepare for death as faithfully as we would prepare for the birth of a child. These meditations are written to encourage and strengthen the faith of believers as they face death, the gateway to eternal life. God s Word is a great source of comfort during all the trials of life. In these simple, Scriptural meditations the author has sought to help the believer prepare to meet their Lord. It is a book for terminally ill patients, pastors, care-givers, and all who would follow the advice of Luther, who counseled that we should prepare for death while we are living, that when we are dying, we may embrace eternal life.
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Gift Of Presence
$13.99Add to cartUnfortunately, suffering is a part of living. None of us have escaped this fact. Even so, it’s difficult to know how to console someone going through a broken place.
In The Gift of Presence, Bishop Joe Pennel offers practical help to give confidence and skill to clergy and laity serving the broken hearted. With a central message on the importance of simply being there, Pennel combines practical “how-to’s” with prayers, readings, and services. This small, casebound book outlines real ways to help through planning visits, writing notes, finding scriptures and prayers to read, avoiding cliches, and thinking through the theology of God, humans, and suffering.
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Peace In The Valley
$10.00Add to cartPeace in the Valley is a collection of thirty short devotions to provide comfort, strength, hope, peace and guidance for the hospice patients and their families.
As a Hospice Chaplain, I realize that many people in this season for life become disconnected from a local church. Some have had poor health for several years and are no longer able to attend church or be part of the fellowship. Others never attended church or never placed their trust in God before, but in their situation the find themselves seeking a relationship with God.
These devotions are designed to guide you through this journey and help you cope with your situation in a constructive, joyous, faith-filled way. It is my hope that this book will encourage you to give of your gifts, talents, and wisdom and leave a beautiful legacy of love to your family.
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Grief To Grace
$16.49Add to cartHow does someone cope with the knowledge that she almost killed her son with her own truck? How does someone recover from guilt after her little girl’s life is cut short because of a silly mother-daughter game? How does someone overcome flashbacks of a head on collision? These were the questions I had to ask after three separate automobile accidents shattered my world. The emotional pain they inflicted on me was unrelenting, causing me to cry out, “Lord, when will bad things stop happening to me?” I didn’t think I could endure the wounds caused by these tragedies, but God helped me walk through the dark valley and back into the light. He can do the same for you. With His help, you can see the sunshine again. I invite you to read my story and see how God’s grace is more than sufficient for your grief.
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Gods Little Sunflower
$12.49Add to cartThe death of a child. In the blink of an eye your life is changed forever. What do you do when you are left with a pain too deep for words? God’s Little Sunflower takes you through a grief journey, expressing the rawness of every emotion. On this journey, you will travel down many roads. You will be taken to a place where true comfort can be found, in the arms of the loving Savior, Jesus Christ. There you will find empathy, encouragement, understanding, and peace as you travel this difficult road.
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Breaking Bread With The Brokenhearted
$13.49Add to cartAny kind of change in our lives has the possibility of bringing grief into the situation. This book was designed to help those who are grieving. It can be used as a devotional and to journal your thoughts. Grief comes unexpectedly and almost knocks us to our knees. Grieve, but don’t allow it to settle in and make a home in you. Then it becomes depression. Itzhak Perlman, renowned Israeli violinist is quoted as saying, “You know, sometimes it is the artist’s task to find out how much music you can still make with what you have left.” We all have music left in us. We must allow God to bring it out and share it with other brokenhearted people.
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Grief Recovery Handbook (Anniversary)
$17.99Add to cartNewly updated and expanded to commemorate its 20th anniversary-this classic resource helps people complete the grieving process and move toward recovery and happiness
Incomplete recovery from grief can have a lifelong negative effect on the capacity for happiness. Drawing from their own histories as well as from others’, the authors illustrate how it is possible to recover from grief and regain energy and spontaneity. Based on a proven program, The Grief Recovery Handbook offers grievers the specific actions needed to move beyond loss.
New material in this edition includes:
How to choose which loss you should work on first
How to deal with growing up in an alcoholic or otherwise dysfunctional home
Loss of faith
Loss of career
Loss of health
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Pastoral Care In Times Of Death And Dying
$13.99Add to cartCounseling someone who is dying or consoling a family who has suffered a death is one of the hardest parts of ministry. In times like these it’s important for pastors to know what to say and how best to offer their support.
Pastoral Care in Times of Death and Dying is a practical guide that offers step-by-step direction and solid advice for handling the difficult responsibility of ministering to others in situations surrounding death. From visiting and shepherding the terminally ill to overseeing funeral arrangements and comforting grieving families, Danny Goddard helps pastors, chaplains, and lay leaders understand their roles and bereavement responsibilities so they ll know the best way to offer compassion, love, and support to those who need it most.
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Unplanned Journey : A Triumph In Life And Death
$9.33Add to cartWhatever He wants, were some of the final words of Philip Joseph Morrow late in the night of April 12, 2005. He was looking at a picture of Jesus which was upright at the end of his hospital bed, occasionally raising his head to look up at it. Can you see him, Honey? I would say to him. Sure can, he is my mate was Phil’s response. That night, at just after 11:11pm, Phil finally met his mate Jesus.This is the story that Philip wanted told. He kept a detailed account of his journey and process for the five months leading up to his death as did his wife Tanya for the months thereafter. This is a story of faith and hope. It brings hope and courage to others who are facing the grief of loss and are now finding their way in life. The author also reveals her process for the twelve months after that April night and the raw emotion which accompanies grief. She openly shares of how it was her faith and abandonment to God which always saw her through.
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See You Later Alligator After While Crocodile
$12.49Add to cartExplores the feelings and frustrations of those who have lost a loved one. With empathy and a touch of whimsy, the author walks the reader through the stages of grief. As one alligator who has lost multiple crocodiles in her life, she provides encouragement to take the steps necessary to work through grief and get to a new normal in life. Encouraging Scriptures help the reader to embrace life and realize that God is still in control. Journal questions and pages also help the reader to record important thoughts and experience renewed life.
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Stories From The Edge
$25.00Add to cartThis is not a book about the stages of grief, or the 10 steps to overcoming it. In fact, it’s more about suffering in general than bereavement in particular. Garrett (The Gospel According to Hollywood) draws on a summer he spent doing clinical pastoral education-a kind of boot camp for hospital chaplains-to discuss age-old theodicy questions. The book challenges certain myths that American Christians have swallowed about God-e.g., that God is a transactional ATM who is obligated to dispense good things to the faithful, or that it’s Satan, not God, who makes rotten things happen. Some of these myths are eloquently debunked, while others-such as Americans’ persistent faith in consumerism and their ability to “buy” health and happiness-deserve more ink. Garrett scores points with the powerful stories of the hospital patients he prayed alongside as well as his own autobiographical discussions of dealing with severe depression. Christians who are looking for theologically nuanced ways of thinking about suffering can learn much from this brief book.
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Good Mourning : Getting Through Your Grief
$17.00Add to cartIn this brief book Allan Cole explains the process of grief and what loss can do to us, identifies ways of coping, and reminds us of the hope that we can find in mourning. Ulitimately, Cole offers a plan of “good mourning” – a way to work through the loss and rebuild life with new strength. Cole describes what it takes to be engaged in good mourning instead of endless suffering and demonstrates how faith and prayer can be practical tools in rebuilding life after loss.
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Courage To Grieve
$15.99Add to cartThis unusual self-help book about surviving grief offers the reader comfort and inspiration. Each of us will face some loss, sorrow and disappointment in our lives, and The Courage to Grieve provides the specific help we need to enable us to face our grief fully and to recover and grow from the experience. Although the book emphasizes the response to the death of a loved one, The Courage to Grieve can help with every kind of loss and grief.
Judy Tatelbaum gives us a fresh look at understanding grief, showing us that grief is a natural, inevitable human experience, including all the unexpected, intense and uncomfortable emotions like sorrow, guilt, loneliness, resentment, confusion, or even the temporary loss of the will to live. The emphasis is to clarify and offer help, and the tone is spiritual, optimistic, creative and easy to understand. Judy Tatelbaum provides excellent advice on how to help oneself and others get through the immediate experience of death and the grief that follows, as well as how to understand the special grief of children. Particularly useful are the techniques for completing or “finishing” grief–counteracting the popular misconception that grief never ends. The Courage to Grieve shows us how to live life with the ultimate courage: not fearing death. This book is about so much more than death and grieving it is about life and joy and growth.
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Life After The Death Of My Son
$14.99Add to cartOn the morning of February 6, 1991, Dennis Apple discovered the lifeless body of his son on their family room couch. Eighteen-year-old Denny had died without warning from what was later explained as complications due to Mono.
Sixteen years later, Dennis still struggles with living in a world without his son.
Life After the Death of My Son shares a glimpse of the unspeakable pain, helplessness, frustration, and eventual healing that Dennis and his wife, Buelah, have experienced since losing their son. Using excerpts from his journal-which he began the day after Denny died-Dennis explores the dark, lonely road of grieving for a child. He discloses his anger and disappointment with God; discusses his frustrations with friends and family; and shares how he’s dealt with the grief attacks, which continue to sneak up and surprise him. His painful, yet promising story offers comfort and connection to those walking similar paths. With understanding and compassion, Dennis offers grieving parents insight from 10 lessons he’s learned-and continues to learn. His gentle words and honest understanding will guide those with grieving hearts on their difficult journey; giving them hope; helping them to discover ways in which God is able to continue the life of the child they loved.
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Saving A Life
$13.99Add to cartYoung Jeff Morris never quite fit in. As a result, his behavior got more destructive as he grew older. His parents diligently prayed for his life, all the while wondering, what will save our son? But when Jeff was found dead from a drug overdose, the resulting answers were anything but expected.
This book tells the intimate story of a family surviving unspeakable tragedy. Reeling from the aftershock of their son’s death, the couple discovers that God is ever faithful, and that Christ is always present.
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Learning To Live Laugh And Love Again
$13.49Add to cartThis book shares the author’s journey of learning to move forward with her life after the sudden death of her daughter to cancer at the age of 31. This is a story only a mother can write as a gift to another mother. It shares with readers her ups and downs as she struggled to rebuild her life and marriage in the midst of terrible grief. Grieving is not for the weak. Grief is exhausting, both mentally and physically, but the journey builds strength of character.
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Living In The Shadow Of The Ghosts Of Your Grief
$13.95Add to cartExplaining how multitudes of North Americans are carrying the pain of all types of loss-not just the deaths of loved ones but also the loss of a spouse through divorce, children who leave home, and the decline of health as they age or get sick-this balanced resource empowers mourners and grief counselors to turn grief into an experience to be learned from. Defining the varieties of heartache and its consequences, this effective guide explores how to inventory, understand, embrace, and reconcile one’s accumulated sorrow through a five-phase “catch-up” mourning process. Readers will learn to use a spiritual and holistic approach to examine and integrate the ignored loss from their pasts, so that they can go on to live fuller, more balanced lives.
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Funeral Services
$14.99Add to cartCircumstances Include:
Miscarriage
Infant Death Due To Mistreatment
Child Death By Drowning
Youth Murder
Youth Suicide
Youth Death From Hazing
Adult Who Dies In Prison
Adult Death Due To Work Accident
Older Adult Who Dies In Nursing Home
Older Adult Who Dies AloneAdditional Info
The pain of loss comes to all ages and life situations. Funeral Services helps pastors prepare for especially difficult funerals. Services are included for infants, children, youth, younger adults, adults, and elderly persons in a wide variety of tragic circumstances.
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Suddenly Your World Falls Apart
$13.49Add to cartSuddenly-Your World Falls Apart-A Guide To Grieving Wellis a personal testimony and practical guide in dealing with life changes when the death of a spouse occurs. Even when there has been a long illness, adjusting to that loss can be hard and seem sudden. Nancy Markworth Brown has written an inspiring book that evolved through her own losses of two husbands’ sudden deaths only five years apart. Nancy has lead a grief support group at her church for eight years and has included a workbook page after each chapter to help participants stay close to God through scripture and meditation questions. This book is for bereaved, support groups, or individuals. It would also be helpful for someone trying to help a friend through a loss, or a minister. What Others Have Said About The Book I sensed a deep and settled trust in God that can only come after tragedy strikes. Gently it says, you can make it. You are not alone. Jonathan Friesen, writer. This is a book to give to anyone you love who is hurting because of a loss. Nancy encourages faith in God without platitudes. She offers hope while still validating the depth of pain that grief can cause. Sharon Hinck, author of THE SECRET LIFE OF BECKY MILLER Compassion is what clearly marked Jesus as He walked on earth. Today He uses gentle healers like Nancy Markworth Brown to touch and heal the brokenhearted. Nancy’s guide to grieving well is a valuable resource for church groups and individuals. Margaret Montreuil, author of GOD IN SANDALS and GOD WITH US.
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When Your Father Dies
$18.99Add to cartFor men, the death of a father is uniquely and deeply traumatic. Veerman and Barton share their own experiences with the deaths of their fathers and also those of more than sixty men, including Max Lucado, Chuck Colson, Hank Hannegraaff, and Bill Hybels. They also include insight and practical advice from professional counselors to prepare readers for the emotional struggles that accompany the death of a father.
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Markings On The Windowsill
$12.99Add to cartMarkings on the Windowsill is a brief book to help persons who are grieving understand that there is some process to grief, though it may be different for every individual who experiences it, and to help the mourner along on the journey, through pain to hopeful fulfillment. Many years ago, author Ron Greer and his wife lost their two-year-old son Eric in a tragic automobile accident. In this book, the author draws on his experiences as a pastoral counselor and as a father to offer help, hope, and healing to people who are grieving.
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Tearful Celebration : Finding God In The Midst Of Loss
$14.99Add to cartTrust the God Who Allows This?
The last thing you want to do when crushed with indescribable pain and suffering is turn to the very God who allows it all to happen. What right does He have, especially now, to ask for your loyalty, your obedience, your love? When cancer took his wife and left him despairing alone, James Means unwillingly had to ask God the same questions facing you. A Tearful Celebration is the candid, pull-no-punches account of his struggle to understand God’s ways and to stand firm in the face of incalculable loss. This new edition of a 1986 Gold Medallion finalist will lead you to the place you most truly long to be: right with God and secure in Him again.
“The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.” -Psalm 34:18
To all who long for the steadfast, quiet confidence of godly men and women who rise triumphant out of the cruel calamities of life…
The experience of life is very good-and very bad. Beauty is side-by-side with ugliness.
I cannot now soar with wings like the eagle. It is a treacherous road, painful to my feet, but He makes my heart burn within me.
We must rejoice not merely because it is commanded, but because faith necessitates it and grace promotes it.
The God of adversities provokes tearful celebration.
…take heart and find hope. These pages will guide you in your search for faith and meaning. You will not be disappointed.
Ugliness comes in a great variety of forms, but few are more confusing and horrific than the drawn-out death by cancer of a precious loved one. Such was the experience that caused James Means to come face-to-face with the harsh reality that God failed to respond as he had asked and expected Him to. Means grapples with the mysteries of God and finds meaning in catastrophe. This book contains no glib platitudes and no shallow apologetic for the bitter realism of suffering. There is, however, the powerful testimony to God’s sovereignty, grace, and ultimate goodness. There is also a revelation of the biblical brand of faith that stands rock-solid in the most distressing of human experience.
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God Do You Really Care
$15.99Add to cartYou’re in over your head. The hits just keep coming. Maybe you could handle this if you knew God cared. But right now? Well…you’re not really sure.
Catastrophe, sickness, loss, and other unexpected trials and setbacks can make you doubt the God is good or wants your best. But He is good. And He does care.
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This Incomplete One
$21.99Add to cartUnique! Bush has pulled together an amazing variety of sermons occasioned by the death of a young person, encompassing both historical figures and our contemporaries: Barth, Claypool, Coffin, Edwards, Rutledge, Schleiermacher, and Van Tholen. . . . How to handle a difficult, wrenching situation.
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Long Shadowed Grief
$19.95Add to cartIn the aftermath of suicide, friends and family face a long road of grief and reflection. With a sympathetic eye and a firm hand, Harold Ivan Smith searches for the place of the spirit in the wake of suicide. He asks how one may live a spiritual life as a survivor, and he addresses the way faith is permanently altered by “the residue of stigma” that attaches to suicide.
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Life Everlasting : The Essential Book Of Funeral Resources
$49.95Add to cartThis comprehensive volume is a must-have resource for every pastor. It contains over 100 sample sermons from preachers across the denominational spectrum, plus a vast array of prayers, scripture readings, and other material for planning and conducting meaningful funeral services. A convenient CD with text files for quick tailoring to specific circumstances is also included.
The sermons cover a wide range of topics, including:
* honoring the long and fruitful lives of faithful Christians
* comforting the families and friends of children who left this world too soon
* dealing with troubling questions about God raised by those who have suffered
* offering solace to the loved ones of those who have died suddenly and unexpectedly
* demonstrating how the image of God is present even in difficult and unsavory people
* celebrating a variety of distinctive “characters”
* addressing the difficult issues associated with those who have committed suicide
* witnessing the Christian message of salvation to the unchurchedLife Everlasting is also packed with other valuable resources:
* children’s messages that help young people grasp the meaning of death
* prayers and other liturgical material, including calls to worship and responsive scripture readings
* an extensive selection of scripture texts, each with brief “sermon starter” ideas
* lists of appropriate musical repertoire, including hymns, choral music, instrumental music, and music for soloistsWith all this in one volume, Life Everlasting provides a complete set of practical tools for making funerals powerfully effective moments of ministry that reaffirm the central Christian message of Jesus Christ’s victory over death.
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What Not To Say To Hurting People
$10.99Add to cartAddresses the inadequacies that we all face, each time we find ourselves confronted with the challenge of comfortin someone who has just faced a tragedy. It points out the emptiness in some of the things that we do or say at such times and urges us to take a more thoughtful and realistic approach when comforting hurting people.
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Cries Of The Heart
$13.00Add to cartAt some point, everyone will experience bereavement. Even when a death is expected, it can be a bewildering and disorientating time and its intensity increases if a death is sudden or if there are tragic circumstances. The word ‘quarantine’ derives from an ancient Italian practice of giving newly bereaved people extra special attention and care during the first forty days following a death. Here is contemporary reworking of that idea – readings and reflections for forty days cover a wide range of commonly felt emotions and reactions, and offer support and understanding. A shorter second section gives readings for special days – birthdays, anniversary etc and a third section offers a selection of brief prayers.
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Remember : 100 Readings For Bereavement
$15.99Add to cartEverybody wants a christening, wedding or funeral service to be unique to them and one of the main ways of personalising a ceremony is to choose one’s own readings. Not everyone reads poetry or novels together and many do not know where to start in choosing a special piece. Here, an experienced editor of such books has collected together 100 readings from scripture and literature across the centuries in celebration of a birth, a marriage, a life that has ended. There is humour, tenderness, challenge, wisdom and realism in abundance, offering, quite literally, something for everyone.
