Author: John Chapman

The Enemy Within

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The Enemy Within: Straight Talk about the Power and Defeat of Sin.

How would you like to fight an enemy who, just as you have him on the ropes, always evades the final blow? Enemy WithinAn enemy who hides just out of reach, lulling you into a fall sense of security, until he drops from nowhere onto your back?

That’s the advantage of indwelling sin—it lurks in an unsearchable fortress where you can’t get to it. But if God has redeemed us from sin—and given us his Holy Spirit to sanctify us and give us strength against sin—why do we go on sinning? Continue reading →

Suffering and the Heart of God

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Suffering and the Heart of God: How Trauma Destroys and Christ Restores:

Do Trauma and Abuse Have the Last Word?

When someone suffers through trauma, can healing happen? And, if yes, how does it happen? Dr. Diane Langberg tackles these complex and difficult questions with the insights she has gained through more than forty years of counseling those whose lives have been destroyed by trauma and abuse.

Suffering

Her answer carefully explained in Suffering and the Heart of God is Yes, what trauma destroys, Christ can and does restore. Continue reading →

Battling Unbelief

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Battling Unbelief: Defeating Sin with Superior Pleasure: No one sins out of duty. We sin because it offers some promise of happiness. That promise enslaves us–until we believe that God is more desirable than life Unbeliefitself (Psalm 63:3). Only the power of God’s superior promises in the gospel can emancipate our hearts from servitude to the shallow promises and fleeting pleasures of sin.

Pastor John Piper shows how to sever the clinging roots of sin that ensnare us, including anxiety, pride, shame, impatience, covetousness, bitterness, despondency, and lust. Continue reading →

Shame (Part 3 of 3)

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Practically Discerning Guilt and Shame

In the first post on shame, we covered the difference between guilt and shame and how to sort the two emotions despite their similarities. In this post we hope to provide an example case study along with a tool that will help you to separate the emotions. My desire for this post is that it will be a practical application for the previous two posts to help you first separate shame from guilt, thereby, being able to repent for guilt and disempower shame. Continue reading →

Pocket Guide to Crisis Intervention

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Pocket Guide to Crisis Intervention: Crisis workers make split-second decisions every day that affect the mental health and well-being of individuals, families, and entire communities. They support and guide people through health diagnoses, bankruptcies, sexual assaults, deaths of loved ones, suicide attempts, and natural or man-made disasters from the front lines.

Crisis Intervention

While professions vary from mental health professionals, emergency responders, educators, business managers or volunteers such as suicide hotline workers, all have a common and urgent need for a rapid reference that covers every type of traumatic event they may be asked to respond to in the course of an unpredictable and highly stressful day.
The Pocket Guide to Crisis Intervention is a complete crisis toolkit, a trusted resource to consult on the fly, packed with easy-to-follow, step-by-step evidence-based protocols for responding effectively to a broad range of traumatic events. Checklists, bullets, and boxes highlight symptoms & warning signs and provide action plans, do’s & don’ts, and screening & assessment questions. Continue reading →