In our lives first
Subtitle: meditations for counselors
By: Diane Mandt Langberg
Publisher: Diane Langberg
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Jenkintown
Language: eng
Number of pages: 165
ISBN-13: 9781497444010
Subjects: Counseling; Christianity; Meditations
Description: "In Our Lives First: Meditations for Counselors" is a collection of six week's worth of readings based on the author's 40 years of experience as a counselor. Dr. Langberg shows how the true work of counselors is tending first to their own souls, since they cannot lead clients where they themselves have not gone first. Change, growth, and spiritual.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-166).
Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: Week 1. Counseling: a dangerous profession? - Finding encouragement in discouraging work - Prayer: the crux of our calling - Boundaries and the cause of christ - Eyes on the master - Brief meditation 1 - Brief meditation 2; title: Week 2. Obedience in the seemingly insignificant - Vision: His or mine? - Entering in - Are you listening? - In our lives first - Brief meditation 3 - Brief meditation 4; title: Week 3. The beginning of deception - Some thoughts on repentance - Evidences of true and false repentance - Shepherding with integrity - Lured from within - Brief meditation 5 - Brief meditation 6 - Week 4. The crucible of therapy - Protecting souls with therapeutic confrontation - Resistance and responsiveness - Understanding the trauma survivor - Translators for God - Brief meditation 7 - Brief meditation 8; title: Week 5. The many sides of power - Character: Leading from the inside out - Responding to institutional sin - Self-Injury in the body of Christ - Loving the poor and needy - Brief meditation 9 - Brief meditation 10; title: Week 6. Thoughts about genocide and femicide - The hidden habits of the heart - Can the church rise up in ethical leadership? - Genocide tempts us all: reflections on Rwanda - Our backwards savior.