Moody Counseling Collection (10 Vols.)

Caring for Souls: Counseling Under the Authority of Scripture

• 550 pages
• 2001
• Authors: Harry Shields and Gary J. Bredfeldt

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Pastors today have a multitude of responsibilities, from preparing biblically sound messages to managing their churches. But their most difficult and most dreaded task is often that of pastoral care and counseling.

In Caring for Souls, experienced pastoral counselors and Professors Gary Bredfeldt and Harry Shields offer practical advice, sound theoretical teaching, and rich insights into the psychology/theology debate—taking the fear out of offering spiritual counsel by showing pastors, lay counselors, students, and others how we can provide effective, meaningful, and biblically sound help to our fellow believers.

Discover the answers to these questions and more:

• Is it appropriate to use secular psychology to help people in the church?
• How can I counsel people in a way that is consistent with Scripture?
• What can I do to ensure that I don’t burn out while caring for others?

Dr. Harry Shields is a graduate of Dallas Theological Seminary and Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and is pastor of Calvary Bible Church in Neenah, Wisconsin. For the last fifteen years, he served on the faculty of the Moody Bible Institute, where he was the chairman of the Pastoral Studies Department. He and his wife have two adult sons who are also involved in local church ministries.

Dr. Gary J. Bredfeldt is the chair of the Department of Educational Ministries at the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago, and serves as an educational consultant and visiting instructor in the masters of education program at Indiana Wesleyan University. Dr. Bredfeldt leads advanced educational seminars, is often involved in teacher in-service training, and is a regular speaker at churches, conferences, and seminars. He is also coauthor of Creative Bible Teaching.

From Fear to Love: Overcoming the Barriers to Healthy Relationships

• 198 pages
• 2002
• Authors: Ray Kane and Nancy Kane

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Join Ray and Nancy Kane as they take you on a journey they have traveled personally from fear to love. With more than forty years of combined experience, the authors describe what real loving relationships look like as well as how the disabling emotion of fear can express itself in various forms in our behavior and attitudes, hampering our ability to love and be loved. We can all make new and different choices to move away from our fears and learn to love others—and ourselves—in more healthy and productive ways.

Ray and Nancy Kane are licensed clinical professional counselors in private practice in Northbrook, Illinois, where they provide family, individual, marital, adolescent, and child therapy. Ray has his Master’s in social work and Nancy has her Master’s in counselor education. Nancy is an associate professor at the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. Ray has been an executive in the retirement industry and currently leads workshops on communication skills and issues for men. Ray and Nancy together conduct marriage enrichment and premarital workshops and speak on a variety of topics related to relationships.

This book will take your heart by the hand and lead you to love in ways that break the bondage of fear.
—Dr. Joseph Stowell, president, Moody Bible Institute

In From Fear to Love Ray and Nancy speak with a gripping story…The story is warm and exciting and points with great wisdom how to move from fear to love in the bonds of Christ.
—Dr. Frank Minirth, diplomat, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology

Clear, honest, sensitive, practical, filled with interesting stories, often captivating. This is a wonderful book about relationships, but it is more. The Kanes have dipped into their experiences as counselors, as Christians, and as a married couple, to write a helpful guide for anybody who ever gets angry or controlling, who knows people are hard to love, or who wants more loving relationships.
—Dr. Gary Collins, psychologist, author, professor, and former president of the American Association of Christian Counselors

God is for the Alcoholic (Revised and Expanded Edition)

• 240 pages
• 1986
• Author: Jerry Dunn

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Author Jerry Dunn discovered there is indeed hope for the alcoholic. God provided his escape at the end of a two-year struggle with alcohol, when he picked up a Bible in a Texas prison.

God is for the Alcoholic is the product of that escape. Jerry Dunn knows the road up from alcoholism is long and difficult but that it can be followed with God’s help and through commitment, patience, and diligence.

In this revised edition of God is for the Alcoholic read sections on understanding alcoholism, ways to help the alcoholic, and ways the alcoholic can help himself or herself. Discover release from the power of alcohol.

Jerry Dunn was a recognized authority on alcoholism and alcoholics. He lectured extensively on this subject at special conferences for pastors, medical students, and doctors. Pastor Dunn was executive director of People’s City Mission Home, Lincoln, Nebraska.

Lies Women Believe: And the Truth That Sets Them Free

• 288 pages
• 2001
• Author: Nancy Leigh DeMoss

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We are like Eve. We have all experienced defeats and failures, trouble and turmoil. We have all experienced a selfish heart, a shrewish spirit, anger, envy, and bitterness. And we ache to do things over, to have lives of harmony and peace.

In her book, Lies Women Believe, author Nancy Leigh DeMoss exposes those areas of deception most commonly believed by Christian women:

• Lies about themselves
• Lies about sin
• Lies about their marriage
• Lies about their emotions
• Lies about their circumstances

Nancy Leigh DeMoss sheds light on how we can be delivered from bondage and set free to walk in God’s grace, forgiveness, and abundant life. This book offers the most effective weapon to counter and overcome Satan’s deceptions—God’s truth.

Nancy Leigh DeMoss is the host and teacher for Revive Our Hearts, a radio program for women heard daily on more than 500 outlets nationwide. Nancy’s eleven books have sold more than 800,000 copies.

This is the most timely and crucial contribution to all women.
—Henry and Marilyn Blackaby

[DeMoss is] one of the most articulate Bible expositors in the world today...
—Charles Colson

Putting Your Past Behind You: Finding Hope for Life’s Deepest Hurts (Revised and Expanded Edition)

• 168 pages
• 1997
• Author: Erwin W. Lutzer

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The pain in your past can be overcome. Whether you’ve sinned or been sinned against, the guilt of yesterday can be turned into the victory of tomorrow.

In Putting Your Past Behind You, Pastor Lutzer offers good news for those who think their past must control their future. Through illustrations from the Bible and his own counseling experience, Pastor Lutzer brings encouragement and explains God’s role in the process of overcoming a painful past scarred by addictions, abuse, or destructive choices.

If you’ve been suffering under the weight of guilt or tragedy, this book may be your lifeline to a triumphant future!

Erwin W. Lutzer is senior pastor of Moody Bible Church in Chicago, as well as a popular conference and radio speaker.

Secrets of Your Family Tree

• 300 pages
• 1995
• Authors: Dave Carder, Earl Henslin, John Townsend, Henry Cloud, Alice Brawand

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Extreme forms of dysfunction are not the only conditions that lead to brokenness in your family and its succeeding generations. Secrets of Your Family Tree is a straight-forward, practical look at the many problems families face and their consequences in people’s live. It will help you understand the influences, interrelationships, and events that can lead your family on a path of pain.

The authors use clinical and biblical examples to help you apply the principles within this book, so you can uncover the secrets of your family tree and experience the healing God intends for you.

Dave Carder serves as assistant pastor for counseling ministries at the First Evangelical Free Church of Fullerton, California.

John Townsend directs the Minirth Meier Clinic West, a Christian inpatient treatment program, and has a private practice in Newport Beach, California.

Henry Cloud is co-director of the Minirth Meier Clinic West, a Christian inpatient treatment program. He also has a private practice in Newport Beach, California.

Alice Brawand has served for thirty-one years with Wycliffe Bible Translators, eleven of them in counseling missionaries and pastors.

Shepherding a Woman’s Heart: A New Model for Effective Ministry to Women

• 208 pages
• 2003
• Author: Bev Hislop

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We may look at our full slate of Bible studies and women’s ministry programs and wonder why women who are hurting don’t get involved. What a woman in pain needs is a loving shepherd. Why a shepherd? Because a shepherd responds with compassion and understanding. Bev Hislop believes that an effective women’s ministry should involve women who, under the authority of their church’s leadership, are shepherds at heart. A shepherd skillfully dispenses pastoral care that is timely and appropriate. Most importantly, a woman who is a true shepherd ministers to each woman by leading her to drink—first sips from a teaspoon, then mouthfuls from a cup, the cup of the living water—Jesus Christ.

Out of her years of experience ministering to hurting women, Bev offers this book in the hope that, by raising up shepherds equipped to address the issues of a woman’s heart, ministries to women will become more relevant and more vital than ever before.

Bev Hislop has nearly thirty years of experience ministering to women in a variety of church contexts. She currently coordinates the pastoral care to women courses at Western Seminary, Portland, Oregon. She serves on the boards of Network of Women in Leadership and Ministry Wives Network International.

The Premarital Counseling Handbook

• 272 pages
• 1992
• Author: H. Norman Wright

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In any endeavor, dreams and goals not backed by concrete plans and preparations can result in failure. And marriage is no exception, claims H. Norman Wright. In fact, without solid planning and forethought by engaged couples, we will surely see a continuation of the startling divorce rate among Christians and non-Christians alike.

That’s where the church comes in.

More and more churches are realizing that their responsibility lies not only in pronouncing men and women “husband and wife,” but also in making sure the proper foundation is laid so that marriages have a better chance of standing strong under pressure.

Since its introduction in 1977 as Premarital Counseling, this book has been used by literally thousands of churches throughout the country as both a guide and reference tool. Now Dr. Wright has added new material to cover some perplexing issues that have come into prominence only recently. Among those special concerns are:

• Interracial marriages
• Second marriages
• Marriages of persons from dysfunctional families

Writing for both pastors and premarital counselors, H. Norman Wright sets you at ease about the counseling process, even if you’ve had only limited counseling experience.

H. Norman Wright is a licensed marriage, family, and child therapist. He has taught graduate school for more than twenty-five years and is the founder and director of Christian Marriage Enrichment in Tustin, California. Dr. Wright is the author of more than fifty books, including Communication: Key to Your Marriage, The Seasons of a Marriage, and the best-selling Always Daddy’s Girl. He and his wife, Joyce, have been married thirty-two years.

Understanding How Others Misunderstand You: A Unique and Proven Plan for Strengthening Personal Relationships

• 305 pages
• 1995
• Authors: Ken Voges and Ron L. Braund

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Are you someone others count on as being consistent and predictable? Or are you marked by an attention to detail and a desire to have everything just right? Perhaps you are a self-starter who thrives on responding to challenges and is bored with routine, or maybe your lifestyle revolves around strong social interaction, spontaneity, and freedom of expression.

God created each of his children with a unique personality and unique strengths of character. These distinctions allow us to accomplish different tasks according to the Lord’s plan. Unfortunately, these same distinctions can cause misunderstanding and strife. Understanding How Others Misunderstand You allows you to pinpoint your behavioral style and the secondary characteristics you undoubtedly carry. Equally important, it will help you better understand the behavioral traits of family, friends, and coworkers in an effort to better relate to one another in Christian love.

Ken Voges is president of In His Grace, Inc., and the author of Understanding Jesus: A Personality Profile and the Biblical Personal Profile.

Ron L. Braund has served individuals and couples for more than seventeen years as a licensed marriage and family therapist. Dr. Braund is a clinical member of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, and he has been instrumental in leading and developing the International Congress on Christian Counseling.

Women Mentoring Women

• 224 pages
• 2003
• Authors: Vickie Kraft

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The twenty-first century has brought a new urgency for Christian women to search for meaningful relationships where they can live out their faith. This is in part due to our increasingly secular lifestyle and the radical changes in marriage and family life that have isolated and discouraged many women. Women Mentoring Women offers the solution to a chronic weakness in churches: the lack of involvement of wives, sisters, mothers, and daughters in vital women’s ministries.

Vickie Kraft is Minister to Women at Northwest Bible Church in Dallas. She is also cofounder of Titus 2:4 Ministries, Inc., a ministry established to encourage and equip women to do for each other what Scripture teaches. She is the author of The Influential Woman: How Every Woman Can Make a Dynamic Difference in Other Women’s Lives.