Living Pain

As Liuan Huska went through years of chronic pain, she wondered why God seemed absent and questioned some of the common assumptions about healing. Countering a Gnosticism that pits body against spirit, Huska takes us on a journey of exploring how healing is not an escape from the limits of the body, but becoming whole as souls in bodies and bodies with souls. As chronic pain forces us to pay attention to our bodies' vulnerability, we come to embrace the fullness of our broken yet beautiful bodies. She helps us redefine what it means to find healing and wholeness.

Whether it's a painful end or a joyful beginning—or even an uncertain middle—theologian and minister Amy Davis Abdallah has found something that helps: rituals. In Meaning in the Moment, she shows why we need rituals to help survive and even thrive through various seasons of life. Starting with the foundation that rituals are a core, and underexplored, part of Christian practice, Davis Abdallah draws from theology, psychology, and personal experiences in creating rituals for herself and others.

Turn your weakest, most discouraging moments into your best, most uplifting moments. Listen and discover how God uses the things that seek to destroy us to become the very things that bring us salvation, bring us hope, bring us to prayer, bring us together, and ultimately bring us to heaven.

The raw and real story of how I walked free into a beautiful and powerful life after infidelity in marriage and how you can do the same. You've tried just getting over it. You've tried all of the Christian disciplines. You've talked about the pain until you're blue in the face. Yet you still don't feel the freedom and joy you long for. Healing after betrayal is possible! In UNRAVELED, I share stories of hope, failures, and taking the journey to healing one step at at time. When life leaves us broken and battered, UNRAVELED is the road map to wholeness and healing.

In the early evening on October 1, 2003, Christina Crosby was three miles into a 17 mile bicycle ride, intent on reaching her goal of 1,000 miles for the riding season. She was a respected senior professor of English who had celebrated her 50th birthday a month before. As she crested a hill, she caught a branch in the spokes of her bicycle, which instantly pitched her to the pavement. Her chin took the full force of the blow, and her head snapped back. In that instant, she was paralyzed.

Jesus is coming through this book for your heart, to heal and restore every part of you. Unpacking Pain With Jesus is a rich tapestry of truth and wisdom, weaving healing into you with layers of creativity and threads of application. It is not a self help book but rather a Jesus help book. It makes healing accessible, with tools to process trauma and everyday pains by connecting with Jesus.

Pastor Jacob Armstrong exposes the seven dangerous ways that we commonly seek to avoid a breakdown, showing how these seven ways are stealing life from us, and then walks us through a progression of seven Jesus-ways that move us from merely breaking to breaking open. It is these Jesus-ways that get us to the good stuff: a life filled with hope and opportunity.

Headaches are a common part of many people's lives - for the most part causing the occasional inconvenience. However, for some, headaches can be a major burden. Around 10 million adults in the UK experience migraines, and more than 500,000 people are living with daily, or near-daily, headaches. In Headaches, Dr Mark Weatherall explains the current scientific understanding of what headaches are, what causes them and why certain people get them. This audiobook will examine how to manage headaches, the treatment options available and answer commonly asked questions.

We know Christ is the Master Healer, but how does that apply to our everyday lives? Do we only need healing with physical issues or scary health diagnoses? Or is there much more the Lord could do in our minds and hearts, if only we’ll give Him the chance? In How Christ Heals, Jaci Wightman makes the case that modern life pummels us with trials and difficulty and trauma, and we suffer mentally, emotionally, and spiritually as a result.

When 28-year-old Corrie overhears a phone call and discovers her husband’s affair, her idyllic Christian world is shattered and she plunges into the darkness of gut-wrenching pain and betrayal. For her, time stops, and she cries out to God, desperate for a way forward. An unexpected symbol of hope appears and sparks a transformative three-year spiritual journey. This riveting memoir invites you into Corrie’s two worlds—her dynamic outer world of being an American living overseas in Shanghai, China, as well as her fascinating inner world of conversations and encounters with God.

Ever wonder why being the independent woman we are told we should be oftentimes simply leads to us battling our problems alone, or worse, competing with other women? Why, at every single baby shower, so many women share their harsher tales of labor and delivery in unnecessary one-upmanship? Why most women are left with feelings of unworthiness? Join women from different backgrounds as they come together to share their own experiences of pain, perseverance, and encouragement, firsthand and in heartwarming detail. We hope that through their stories, you find you are not alone.

What do you do when life shatters your expectations—and God stays silent? For years, Pastor Jason Larson and his wife have walked through a deeply personal season of suffering. Their journey has been marked by unanswered questions, emotional and spiritual exhaustion, and a desperate search for hope in the midst of pain. This book was born from that place—not after the storm passed, but in the middle of it. When It Doesn’t Make Sense is not a collection of clichés or shallow comfort. It’s a raw, honest, and theologically grounded look at why God allows suffering—and how He meets us in it.

For centuries, people have asked why God allows pain and suffering. Best-selling author, Bonnie Baker, makes a compelling case regarding the meaning behind hardship as an essential component of our relationship with the Lord. Whether it's her near-death experience or her miraculous recovery from a stroke, Bonnie describes how burdens that come with pain—whether spiritual, emotional, mental or physical—can be hard to bear.

More than 2,000 years ago, Aristotle said: "let there be a law that no deformed child shall live." This idea is alive and well today. During the past century, Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. argued that the United States can forcibly sterilize intellectually disabled women and philosopher Peter Singer argued for the right of parents to euthanize certain cognitively disabled infants. The Life Worth Living explores how and why such arguments persist by investigating the exclusion of and discrimination against disabled people across the history of Western moral philosophy.

Grace in the Midst of Pain: A Journey to Forgiving the Unforgettable is a transformative guide for anyone struggling with the weight of unforgiveness. With profound insights rooted in Christian faith, Oladapo Babalola walks listeners through the complexities of pain, hurt, and the power of grace.

Infused with eye-opening insights and strategically practical tools, this book will help you understand and integrate the seven mindfulness habits that will empower you to rewrite your “high-performer pain” stories, recreate healthy boundaries between work and life, reduce your anxiety, depression, and exhaustion, realign with your values and create congruence, return your clarity, focus, and optimism, and more.

The essential theme of the book of Job is to reveal how God takes a man who is blameless and upright, with a passion for God and a willing spirit, and promotes him to a higher spiritual plane than he could have ever imagined. Those who persevere in the pain and perplexity of the Job crucible are being prepared for renewed intimacy with God, and will be raised up to equip the endtime bride of Christ. Let Job’s example compel you toward God’s highest and best.

Ed and Lisa Young, pastors of Fellowship Church, know the kind of grief that no one should have to suffer—the death of a child. With deep vulnerability, they tell the story of their family's journey through sorrow and anger to hope and healing after the tragic and sudden loss of their daughter. In A Path Through Pain, the Youngs will offer you a language and a voice to speak about your pain and a way to see that you don't walk this path alone. They'll walk you through concrete ways that daily acts of faith can restore your hope in the faithfulness and power of Jesus Christ.

Have you ever hurt to the point of distraction? Does pain prevent you from doing everything you wish you could do? Whether it’s your head, your back, your joints, or something else, when we feel miserable, we can let that awful feeling consume us. Heather Hart has experienced this firsthand through her own struggle with chronic migraines. For over three years, she's had some bad days and some really bad days. The one thing that's gotten her through is Jesus. Buy your copy of Clinging to Jesus today and discover 10 ways to cling to Jesus while you're in pain.

“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.