Desperate Wives: Help and Hope for Women Considering Separation or Divorce
Desperate Wives speaks to women who have reached a place of mental, emotional, and spiritual exhaustion in their marriages. By looking to God in the midst of hurt and disappointment, Brenda Clayton offers a way to find healing and restoration to those who find themselves at a critical moment of choice in their married lives. She emphasizes the need to examine one’s personal relationship with God, apply scriptural principles to one’s life, and pray for one’s marriage, and she gives solid biblical direction to those in need of guidance in a difficult...
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With or Without You: A Spiritual Journey through Love & Divorce
Cameron Conant met the girl of his dreams. He fell in love, followed her to California, and eventually married her. Both were twentysomething Christians. Both were committed to each other and to their mutual faith. And then their relationship fell apart. Unflinching in the face of messy questions, With or Without You tells the all-too-real story of how sin, separation, anger, and depression can ravage the fragile bond between husband and wife — and how, following a painful divorce, the grace of Christ can step in to piece together broken lives. In this engaging memoir, Conant refuses to whitewash his own failures or soften the edges of his shattered spirit. The result is an intensely personal glimpse into one...
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God’s Grace in Divorce: Choosing Between Preserving the Marriage and Protecting the Children
Marriage is built on the understanding that both parties are rational and mature. This virtue is not always attainable and when a mental infirmity by the spouse begins harming the foundation of the family, love, commitment and prayer won’t have the strength to save the marriage and the survival of the family dwells on the responsible parent. God’s Grace in Divorce provides hard-earned insights into a complex problem that is poorly understood in the Christian circles. The book tells the author’s personal story in placing the family first and succeeding against all...
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Radical Recovery: Transforming The Despair of Your Divorce Into An Unexpected Good
This book is a manual for divorce recovery. The author writes: “Wherever you are on the mid-life divorce trail, take a deep breath and realize there is a plan for you after divorce. Radical Recovery is a resource guide to help you survive those first awful days, weeks, months, and, of course, all the nights of a mid-life divorce.” The goal of this book is not just survival, it’s life-transformation. Suzy writes: “You can change absolutely everything in your life for the better. In spite of your divorce, there is a destiny for you beyond your wildest dream. Believe that truth and get your new life started...
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Torn Asunder: A Biblical Look at Divorce and Remarriage
In Torn Asunder, author and pastor of the First Baptist Church in Orrick, Missouri, takes a biblical look at the controversial topic of divorce and remarriage among Christians. Examining biblical texts on the subject of divorce, the author explores the circumstances under which divorce is permissible, the biblical provision for remarriage, and whether a divorced and remarried person can serve a leader or pastor....
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Breaking & Mending: Divorce & God’s Grace
“In struggling to make sense of her own painful divorce, The Upper Room’s managing editor Mary Lou Redding, looked to the Bible where she found guidance and hope. Her intimate book weaves her personal story with those from scripture to help other Christians who are facing divorce to find God’s grace in the midst of pain. Breaking & Mending looks at the spiritual issues of divorce rather than the sociological ones, and allows the scriptures to illuminate and heal those who are facing this difficult...
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