Emotional & Spiritual Health

Check back here in mid-March 2012 for updated resources.

Introduction

There are some things we can do to facilitate our own emotional and spiritual health. We will use this page to provide tools that will help you in this area.

Rules Can't Make You Holy

The guidelines we advocate are based on God's Word – The Bible. In approaching these guidelines it's important to avoid a very common human tendency – attempting to gain God's approval by "following rules". One of the most important things that the Bible teaches us is that this doesn't work! Rules – even God's rules don't sanctify us. We can't earn God's approval by keeping rules. Instead, we need to take advantage of the open door to a relationship with God that has been made possible through the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. By spending time with God, we can actually experience transformation that enables us to "follow the rules". We will have more to say about this in our Spiritual Growth Page (check back in mid-February).

Biblical Principles

Coming soon!

Guidelines

Coming soon!

God Wants To Help You – And So Do We!

Coming soon!

Additional Resources

Here are some links to a number of resources that may be of interest to you. We maintain this list as a set of bookmarks in Delicious.com.

• Stone Gate Resources | Brief Intensive Counseling | Biblical Counseling
• Desert Stream Ministries
• Boundaries in Marriage
  Authors: Henry Cloud, John Townsend | Book | Amazon.com link
• The Love Dare
  Author: Stephen Kendrick, Alex Kendrick | Books | Amazon.com link
• Fireproof: The Book
  Author: Eric Wilson, Alex Kendrick, Stephen Kendrick | Books | Amazon.com link
• Fireproof: The Movie
  Director: Alex Kendrick | DVD | Amazon.com link
• Every Woman's Battle: Discovering God's Plan for Sexual and Emotional Fulfill…
  Author: Shannon Ethridge,Stephen Arterburn | Book | Amazon.com Link
• Every Young Woman's Battle: Guarding Your Mind, Heart, and Body in a Sex-Satu…
  Author: Shannon Ethridge,Stephen Arterburn | Book | Amazon.com Link
• Every Young Man's Battle: Strategies for Victory in the Real World of Sexual …
  Author: Stephen Arterburn,Fred Stoeker,Mike Yorkey | Book | Amazon.com Link
• Every Man's Battle: Winning the War on Sexual Temptation One Victory at a Tim…
  Author: Stephen Arterburn,Fred Stoeker,Mike Yorkey | Book | Amazon.com Link
• Rebuilding Your Broken World
  Author: Gordon MacDonald | Book | Amazon.com link
• Surviving an Affair
  Author: Willard F. Harley Jr., Jennifer H. Chalmers | Book | Amazon.com link
• Love Busters: Overcoming Habits That Destroy Romantic Love
  Author: Willard F. Harley Jr. | Book | Amazon.com link
• His Needs, Her Needs: Building an Affair-Proof Marriage
  Author: Willard F. Harley Jr. | Book | Amazon.com link
• Liberated Through Submission
  Author: P. Bunny Wilson | Book | Amazon.com link
• Before You Say "I Do": A Marriage Preparation Manual for Couples
  Author: H. Norman Wright | Book | Amazon.com link
• Marriage, Divorce, and Remarriage in the Bible
  Author: Jay Adams | Book | Amazon.com link
• False Intimacy: Understanding the Struggle of Sexual Addiction
  Author: Harry W. Schaumburg | Book | Amazon.com link