Discover: Questioning Your Way to Faith

It is probably true that all of us go through times when we have questions about our faith and know the importance of looking for answers. This gives us an understanding heart for teenagers when they have questions about the faith they are growing up with. Mike McGarry in Discover: Questioning Your Way to Faith provides short but robust answers to 20 questions that teenagers commonly ask. These questions cover apologetics, doctrine, hermeneutics, ethics, mental health, and the spiritual life. It is an excellent resource to use as a platform for talking about, thinking over, and discussing these issues.

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Overcoming Addiction: 9 Steps Toward Freedom, Brad Hambrick

In OvercomingAddiction: 9 Steps Toward Freedom , Brad Hambrick has written a gem of a small group workbook for helping people struggling with addictions. As part of the G4 series, he covers nine steps in the recovery process. These steps cover admitting the struggle, understanding the impact of the addiction, and how the addiction developed. From here, the steps encompass repentance, relationships, restructuring life, and understanding various forms of temptation at different stages of the recovery process. The book is insightful, compassionate, and helpful.

Understanding Trauma

In Understanding Trauma , Steve Midgley wisely and compassionately guides and leads the reader into a deeper understanding of this devastating experience. Midgley sensitively writes in such a way that the reader comes away with compassionate insight into what trauma victims experience. He discerningly shares secular insights on the experience of trauma and follows on from this to provide a loving biblical perspective on it. As well as providing insights, he also gives pointers for how churches can support and care for people who have gone through this terrible experience. I highly recommend this book.

Categorising Humanness

Categorizing Humanness When my grandfather was a prisoner-of-war, he was witness to incredible cruelty on the part of the captors. Since the prisoners were viewed as not being human, the captors felt free to treat them in anyway they wished. According to the captors, the prisoners were inferior creatures. De-Humanizing People being judged as inferior beings, is something that I have come across frequently when helping women. Sometimes husbands have told them that they are inferior simply because they are women. Children have been treated as inferior to their parents only because they are younger. Local people in a given town can treat people from other countries and cultures as inferior because they are different. Old people can suffer in this way as they are seen to be a burden to the economy. Disabled people are seen as lesser beings because they do not function as other people do. It is even questioned whether the old, the disabled, and the sick should continue to...

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