Healing from past wounds requires hard work. It involves effectively examining of an individual's past, as well as remaining conscientious of the changes in his or her present behavior, thinking, and spiritual life. But what if, after all of that listening and examining, you still don't know what to say, what to do, or where to start? The Pastoral Counseling Handbook offers the much needed message of hope for the hurting and for those who desire to help them. Based on the healing work of Christ, author Ruth Hetzendorfer uses her personal experience of years of counseling to provide the steps and ideas to help you gain understanding and wisdom, and more effectively counsel others.

This book, Assembly Required, is about knowing where your place is in the Body of Christ knowing where you fit, and allowing God to fasten you there so that the Body of Christ may function fittingly. It is God s design for the Body of Christ to function with you; therefore, without you something s missing, and it won t be able to do what God has designed it to do. Dr. Ferdinand Johnson was born again on February 18, 1979. He Johnson answered the call of God to preach and teach the Gospel as a full-time minister evangelist, and was ordained in 1992 through World Ministry Fellowship International. He became a full-time pastor in 1994 after fifteen years of ministry as a street evangelist (like his grandfather), traveling musician (like his father) and inner city evangelist, associate pastor, Church elder and administrator, and television preacher. Dr. Johnson has earned an Associate s Degree in Biblical Studies, a Bachelor s Degree in Christian Ministry, a Master s Degree of Divinity in Christian Counseling and a Doctor of Christian Ministry. Dr. Johnson is an American Society of Christian Therapists (ASCT) certified Christian marriage and family therapist, and is also a Board Certified Therapist and graduate of the Therapon Institute in Texas. Dr. Johnson has a total of thirty-two years of ministry. Of that, he served as Sr. Pastor of Redemptive Life Family Church for eighteen years, from 1994-2012. He is currently serving as volunteer Clergy Chaplain Liaison for the Houston Police Department and the Westside Division Leader for PACA (PDL), and as overseer to several sons and daughters in the five-fold office. "Too many believers are unsatisfied with where they are; because they are not fulfilling their assignment in life. It grieves me to see believers vying for a position that they are not assigned to from God, nor qualified to do. I pray that the Holy Spirit will open our understanding so that we all will appreciate that we were uniquely made and designed by God in a special and distinctive way for service unto Him." - Ferdinand J. Johnson

This two volume hardcover set traces trhe lives and ministries of over 170 of the leading Baptist preachers in America from Hansard Knollys (1599-1691) to John Lightfoot Waller (1809-1854). Articles are written on such notable Baptists as Isaac Backus, Roger Williams, John Gano, William Rogers, Richard Furman, Jesse Mercer, Luther Rice, Adoniram Judson, Spencer Cone, George Dana Boardman and numerous others. Articles are written by such notables as Governor Winthrop, Cotton Mather, John Quincy Adams, George Bancroft, Richard Furman, Alvah Hovey, Francis Wayland, Benjamin Rush, Henry Fish, J.B. Jeter, J.L. Dagg, Richard Fuller, Basil Manly, Samuel Miller, and numerous others. " I think the book has great historical information, and gives us from the pen of many other Baptists an evaluation that show as much about their personal interests in ministry as it does about the subject they are addressing." -Dr. Tom Nettles

ABOUT THE BOOK: Rich or poor, popular or unnoticed, we're all looking for the same thing-new life. But if young people don't get things right on the inside, they will never be the happy, successful people they were created to be. Happiness and success are an inside job. This is a book about "S-Words"-the "don't go there" words-those topics that get Sunday school teachers replaced and youth pastors fired: self-esteem, significance, sex, secrets, and suicide. Dive deeply into the topics we've all wrestled with and discover what God says about life's toughest issues. **** ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Jason Creech became a Jesus follower at age 19. After earning his bachelor's degree in art and design, he took his first staff position at a local church in Southeastern Kentucky. He has 14 years of pastoral experience in the area of student ministry. In 2006, Jason founded Mirror-Mirror, a nonprofit organization that allowed him to bring high-energy events, college scholarships, cash prizes, and the hope found in Jesus Christ to over 56,000 public school students throughout Kentucky and abroad. Jason now serves on the staff of LifeSteward Ministries, coaching ministry leaders across the U.S. and internationally to experience God's presence and His increase. Additional titles by Jason include New.U and Navigate, available Summer 2011.

Christianity and Culture in the City: A Postcolonial Approach offers an introduction to the broad diversity of contemporary Christianities in a rich, complex, changing, and challenging city context. Cruz focuses upon a variety of changing communities with dynamic and striking cultural experiences, and the volume provides both scholarly and practical insights as to how Christianities in the city relate to and transform city institutions and communities that are undergoing dramatic shifts and invite opportunities for intentional study. This book offers a provocative interdisciplinary examination to shed light upon the ways in which diverse city communities appropriate Christianity to better engage their economic, cultural, political, and religious environment. A post-colonial theoretical framework will help inform how Christianity serves to empower and reinvent fragmented, oppressed, and struggling city populations. The reader is offered various conceptual, theoretical, and pragmatic insights and knowledge for better interpreting, affirming, and engaging diverse Christianities in the city in a postcolonial era.