Living Pain

Is it possible to find strength in struggle and purpose in pain? Ask Dr. April Jones, a young mother who battled her two-year-old son’s cancer while getting her doctorate. Her struggle to make the heart-wrenching decisions with her family led to a discovery of God, courage, and a happiness within that helped her transform scary misfortune into a joy-filled life. In No Mess, No Message, Dr. Jones shares her real, raw journey and reveals insight into how powerful thinking and strong faith can lead to inner healing.

Oh God. It Hurts! Is an audiobook about the hard questions in life. This audio version was created specifically for an audiobook and is updated and expanded from the print version. Why is there pain? Why do people suffer? How does God fit into all of this? This audiobook asks lots of questions and shares the author's own personal stories, as well as those of his sister. Many of those stories are unpleasant and troubling.

This book is a must-listen for any pastor, leader, or anyone impacted by the father wound. Listen to it and share it to let the healing continue! Jonathan JP Pokluda, Bestselling Author & Pastor of Harris Creek Fatherlessness is an epidemic in our culture. Zach Garza is a father to the fatherless. If you have met him, you have met the heart of God as a father. Michael Miller, Founder of UPPERROOM.

El 3 de noviembre de 2020, Tim y Aileen Challies recibieron la impactante noticia de que su hijo Nick había muerto. Estaciones de aflicción incluye una selección de las reflexiones de Tim en las que comparte la intensidad del duelo temprano, las dudas y temores que nos atormentan durante la pérdida, y la fe y el gozo que nos sostienen durante el dolor.

Many people give up on God. It’s easy to trust in his goodness and strength when life is easy. But how do we persevere in our faith when life gets hard? Few people can show us how to do that better than Allan Schwartz.

When things go horribly wrong and the world seems to be unraveling, how do you believe in God's goodness? How do you cling to hope? Chad Veach directs listeners away from clichéd Sunday school answers that fail to offer real comfort or provide faith-building insights. Instead he draws from God's promises in the Bible and from the story of his own daughter's diagnosis of a devastating and debilitating disease to reveal simple, purposeful steps for dealing with pain.

If you have back pain, your body may be trying to tell you something. In this audiobook, you'll discover physical conditions and spiritual roots that may be contributing to your discomfort. Learn how to take care of your spine as you apply these proven strategies and God-breathed answers for eliminating your back pain. You want to be healthy. God wants you to be healthy. Now at last here's a source of information that will help you get healthy - body, mind and spirit.

Life is full of challenges and even as Christians, we are not strangers to pain and suffering. The stories in the Bible have shown us that even favored kings like David and Solomon had their share of ordeals. The apostle, Paul, had to walk a lonely and hardship-filled road on his way to greatness. Job, a person worthy of admiration, went through sickness and almost loses the fight for his faith.

Life be Life-ing! While adversity, losses and setbacks are unavoidable in this human experience, Take This L is a profoundly brilliant reminder to anyone at any stage of life experiencing an L that it's just a season, and this, too, shall pass. Through vivid testimonial storytelling, the author helps the listener understand how a new generation is able to find balance between the fragility naturally brought on by L's and the resilience eventually gained in coping with adversity and loss.

Life is full of challenges and even as Christians, we are not strangers to pain and suffering. The stories in the Bible have shown us that even favored kings like David and Solomon had their share of ordeals. The apostle, Paul, had to walk a lonely and hardship-filled road on his way to greatness. Job, a person worthy of admiration, went through sickness and almost loses the fight for his faith.

When we feel really sad or hurt inside, the Bible can be like a comforting friend, telling us that God is always there for us, especially when we're feeling down. It teaches us to forgive others and ourselves, which can really help us feel better. The Bible says that God has a plan for all of us, even when things seem really bad, and that praying can help us feel closer to Him and stronger. It also reminds us that we're not alone; being with friends who understand and support us can make a huge difference.

My life has been an emotional roller-coaster journey for a long time. Emotionally, I was tired and longed to get off. But like they say, things happen for a reason. It’s not by accident the things that happened to me. These things were supposed to happen in order to get me to where I am today.

This book provides critical information, hacks, and strategies on how to boost your memory, so you can achieve greater mental acuity and lead a more productive life. The guide starts by helping you to understand how memory works. It goes further to explain to you the brain-memory-mind relationship and how this relationship is critical to your memory improvement.

In The Building Blocks of Pain, Apostle Hubbard goes in-depth to help the believer understand how God uses the pain in our lives to prepare for his work. As he deals with the harsh reality that everyone does not understand our pain, but yet we try to make them understand something that was tailor-made for us based on our own individual walk in Christ. This is most definitely an eye-opener as well as a powerful tool of revelation for those who are trying to make sense of the pain they are enduring in their Christian life.

Patty is a licensed mental health professional and a counselor. She was invited to present on Christian Pastoral Counseling for hundreds of indigenous pastors and church leaders. After the unexpected death of their 33-year-old son, both she and her husband, Dennis, invested the next year in mental health counseling from a licensed grief counselor. This time she was the client - not the counselor. As an avid writer, part of her therapy included journal entries as she expressed the emotions of her walk through her grief. Her book is an accumulation of those journal entries.

So you see, you don’t just come to God through the name of Jesus Christ; but you come to God through the wounds of Jesus, and through the beatings and death that He suffered.

Find fullness of joy during the holidays - especially for the brokenhearted. Divorce. Financial stress. Chronic illness. Losing a loved one. Experiencing any of these situations during the year is already difficult. But the holiday season, once joyful and happy, can heighten this pain even more.

We all suffer, but if you struggle with why that is and how to find the hope and strength to go on, this book is for you. Ryan shares his journey from the darkest depths of hysterical sadness to acceptance, understanding, and joy. He explores the purpose of suffering and shows you how to gain from it. He does this not on a grand humanity level, but on a vulnerable, personal level, with unique insights that will make a difference in how you live and how you approach death.

Life doesn't always work out the way we planned. Things happen that we have no control over, and circumstances seem overwhelming. I never thought I'd marry an abusive man - a man whose mental demons turned him into two different people. I never imagined being a widow at the age of 38. I never dreamed that one decision could so profoundly change my life and my viewpoint of mental illness. I didn't know how much I still had to learn about myself.

“Why me?” is the cry I hear most often in my work as a hospice chaplain. I’m not a theologian, but through my encounters with people who are elderly, disabled, dying, and bereaved - and through my own quest for peace - Jesus’ teachings known as the Beatitudes have become essential. They describe the attributes of God’s people: God is with those who suffer, those beaten down by life and rejected by the world.