Augsburg Fortress

All Will Be Well: A Gathering of Healing Prayers

In an attractive gift format, this is a book for all in need of healing, for those who pray for others, for caregivers, pastors, counselors, Stephen...

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Limping But Blessed: Wrestling with God after the Death of a Child

After the unexpected, accidental death of his three-year-old son, Jason Jones went on a long, painful journey to make sense of how God could have...

Finding the Right Words: Offering Care and Comfort When You Don't Know What to Say

Practical suggestions for offering care and comfort. Bockelman discusses many common situations and provides guidelines for using Scripture and sharing your faith as you reach out to others.

When Your Family Is Living with Mental Illness

Mental illness is a disease like any other. Those dealing with mental illness—whether personally, in their family, or with a friend—can be...

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When You Lose Your Job

Job loss seems to be everywhere these days, but no matter how often it happens a person may feel ill-prepared to face the many emotions that accompany it....

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When You Have a Chronic Illness

Illness can strike at anytime, but dealing with a life-long ailment takes faith, patience, and adjustment to a different kind of lifestyle. Accepting and...

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When You Are Depressed

Depression comes in many forms and can affect virtually anyone. It can separate you from God, alienate your friends and family, and make you feel like a...

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Psalms for Healing: Praying with Those in Need

Comfort patients, family, and caregivers with the beauty of the Psalms. When Rev. Person worked as a chaplain in a Mayo hospital, patients frequently asked her to read psalms and pray with them.

Becoming a Healthier Pastor: Family Systems Theory and the Pastor's Own Family

Among the most helpful and widely acclaimed resources for addressing church conflict and the quality of church life is Richardson's groundbreaking volume...

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When You Are Diagnosed With a Life-Threatening Illness

Living with a terminal illness is a challenge none of us wish to face. In this helpful, brief book, Jan Ansorge speaks from her own experience addressing...

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Facing Cancer Together

You hear that a friend has cancer. You want to help, but you're not entirely sure how. Pamela Brown, a cancer survivor, suggests the many ways you can help...

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Wrestling with Depression: A Spiritual Guide to Reclaiming Life

To the 20 million Americans who suffer from depression, and to their families, William and Lucy Hulme bring the promise of hope and healing. Depression, they...

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Prayers for Help and Healing

For people in crisis and for their caregivers, William Barclay has written these simple, practical, and comforting prayers. Barclay's understanding of our...

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Bipolar Faith: A Black Woman's Journey with Depression and Faith

Bipolar Faith is both spiritual autobiography and a memoir of mental illness. In this powerful book, Monica A. Coleman shares her life-long dance with trauma, depression, and the threat of death. Coleman offers a rare account of how the modulated highs of bipolar II can lead to professional success, while hiding a depression that even her doctors rarely believed. Only as she was able to face her illness was she able to live faithfully with bipolar. And in the process, she discovered a new and liberating vision of God.

Being Well When We're Ill: Wholeness and Hope in Spite of Infirmity

Marva Dawn has an insider's view of the many spiritual, intellectual, emotional, social, and physical difficulties encountered by people with chronic illness...

When You Are Coping with Infertility

Most couples approach starting a family with nothing but excitement and anticipation. Unfortunately, not every couple will conceive as easily as they had...

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Either Way, I Win: God's Hope for Difficult Times

A Spirit-filled approach to facing difficult times. In this short book, Lois Walfrid Johnson offers readers hope. Not just heartfelt get-well wishes, but the life-giving hope that is found in the presence of Jesus.

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Seeing Through our Tears

Why do we cry when we're angry? What can tears tell us about fatigue: Here is a book to enlighten and encourage all who struggle to understand their tears-as...

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Beyond the Scandals: A Guide to Healthy Sexuality for Clergy

Recent sexual scandals have rocked the North American religious scene and left the churches concerned about credibility and liability. What are the bounds of...

Helping When It Hurts: A Practical Guide to Helping Relationships

Robert Hunter offers practical insight into how to be a friend to someone in crisis. He contends that to focus on change, an emphasis on the future, a...