Augsburg Fortress

Good Grief: The Guide and Journal

Good Grief: The Guide and Journal, a two-book pack, offers Good Grief, a foundation for understanding the natural process of grieving, along with The Good Grief Journal, a pathway for expressing, exploring, and growing from a significant loss.

9781506456355

eBook-Sexuality and Holy Longing: Second Edition: Embracing Intimacy in a Beautiful, Broken World

In this newly revised edition of Sexuality and Holy Longing, author Lisa Graham McMinn beautifully describes how people are created by God for relationship, and our sexuality guarantees that we will long for and be drawn toward others. McMinn provides a blueprint for understanding sexuality--and our longing to be loved--at all stages of life (childhood, teen years, early adulthood, midlife, and old age).

9781506454825

eBook-A Song to Sing, a Life to Live: Reflections on Music as Spiritual Practice

In A Song to Sing, a Life to Live, Don and Emily Saliers help readers see the connections between Saturday night music and Sunday morning music by exploring the spiritual dimensions of music itself. They tell the stories of their own lives in music, and they share what they have learned about the power of music in human life.

9781506454726

The Good Grief Devotional: 52 Weeks toward Hope

A wise, honest companion for the journey through grief

The Good Grief Devotional offers wise, honest companionship to those who struggle with the death of a loved one, a divorce, the loss of a job, or another major life transition.

9781506453071

When Trauma Wounds: Pathways to Healing and Hope

In When Trauma Wounds, psychologist Karen A. McClintock combines psychological approaches with faith resources to improve trauma recovery. Whether you have experienced trauma or are a caregiving pastor, church member, or friend to a survivor, this book will familiarize you with trauma symptoms and healing strategies.

McClintock shows readers how to create a sanctuary to shelter a wounded soul. She helps trauma survivors find acceptance, hope, and healing.

9781506434254

A Song to Sing, a Life to Live: Reflections on Music as Spiritual Practice

In A Song to Sing, a Life to Live, Don and Emily Saliers help readers see the connections between Saturday night music and Sunday morning music by exploring the spiritual dimensions of music itself. They tell the stories of their own lives in music, and they share what they have learned about the power of music in human life.

9781506454719

Crazy Book: A Not-So-Stuffy Dictionary of Biblical Terms, Revised and Expanded Edition

In Crazy Book, the authors of Crazy Talk once again unleash their passion, faith, and humor. Here, they've elected to focus on major people, events, places, books, and types of literature in the Bible communicating the life-giving truth of the Bible via often knock-em-dead humor. An accessible book almost devoid of scholarly jargon but filled with scholarly insight. The revised and expanded addition includes new and expanded entries and all new images.

9781506418445

The Good Grief Journal: A Journey toward Healing

Discover your own wisdom about your grief

Each of the ten meditations in this journal corresponds to a stage of grief as outlined in Granger E. Westberg's classic book Good Grief.

The meditations are followed by prompts and questions to help readers reflect on both the nature and effects of their loss. Scripture passages, poems, and quotes from a variety of sages and artists offer further inspiration for this journey of discovery.

9781506453095

Carrying Them with Us: Living through Pregnancy or Infant Loss

Carrying Them with Us: Living through Pregnancy and Infant Loss is a reflection on what pastors David Engelstad and Catherine Malotky have learned since the day their eight-week-old daughter died of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.

They offer comfort and wisdom, a spiritual perspective, and practical guidance to parents who struggle to deal with the end of an eagerly anticipated pregnancy or the death of a joyfully welcomed baby.

9781506427409

A Grief Received: What to Do When Loss Leaves You Empty-Handed

In A Grief Received, JL Gerhardt offers a personal, authentic, and practical approach to weathering grief with hope. She draws on the loss of her younger brother when she was twenty-one and other experiences of grief. Through nine practices grieving people can adopt to position themselves to receive the gifts of grief, Gerhardt sheds light on a path to transformation. Readers will feel comforted, directed, and inspired to seek God's shaping in their grief.

9781506431765