Breaking Free: Understanding Sexual Addiction and the Healing Power of JesusInterVarsity Press, 2010 M08 28 - 213 páginas Our world is awash in sex. We are bombarded with it everywhere we turn--TV, newspapers and magazines, music, movies and the Internet. When this ever-present temptation mixes with human weaknesses and unmet needs, many get pulled into addiction to sexually sinful behavior. They may detest their own habits, but they can't seem to break free. Is there any hope? Russell Willingham speaks from his own experience and that of the many he has counseled. His answer? "Yes! There is hope. Jesus offers forgiveness and healing." True stories show how the principles in this book can be put into action. The essentials are spelled out in practical steps that can help people begin to break free. Willingham deals with such issues as
This realistic yet hopeful book offers a new way to see the world for every person who wants to understand and break free from sexual addiction. |
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... and encouragement. And, most of all, thank you to the men and women who have allowed me to tell your stories. I have been touched by your brokenness and courage. Finally, thank you, Lord Jesus. You have kept every one Acknowledgments.
... and encouragement. And, most of all, thank you to the men and women who have allowed me to tell your stories. I have been touched by your brokenness and courage. Finally, thank you, Lord Jesus. You have kept every one Acknowledgments.
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... women every day who struggle with sexual issues. They are all in pain. They are frustrated and confused by behavior they don't understand. They are construction workers, administrators, laborers, pastors, salesmen, police officers ...
... women every day who struggle with sexual issues. They are all in pain. They are frustrated and confused by behavior they don't understand. They are construction workers, administrators, laborers, pastors, salesmen, police officers ...
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... women are now finding freedom for the first time in their lives. I listen to them in individual counseling as they tell me how God is beginning to put their lives back together again. I meet with them in groups and watch them minister ...
... women are now finding freedom for the first time in their lives. I listen to them in individual counseling as they tell me how God is beginning to put their lives back together again. I meet with them in groups and watch them minister ...
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... woman, and we had sex often. But then the pain deep in my heart started moving to the surface. When it did, I would blame her for not “being there” for me. We would argue. There would be silence and hurt on both sides and then apologies ...
... woman, and we had sex often. But then the pain deep in my heart started moving to the surface. When it did, I would blame her for not “being there” for me. We would argue. There would be silence and hurt on both sides and then apologies ...
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... women are the walking wounded of the body of Christ. And they all have one thing in common: They have experienced abandonment. They were not necessarily left on someone's doorstep, but in key areas of their lives they have been forsaken ...
... women are the walking wounded of the body of Christ. And they all have one thing in common: They have experienced abandonment. They were not necessarily left on someone's doorstep, but in key areas of their lives they have been forsaken ...
Contenido
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The Power of Genuine Friendship | 65 |
Exploring Family Issues | 74 |
Dealing with the Lonely Abuser Within | 149 |
Bringing God into the Area of Need | 164 |
Radical Honesty Its Evangelizing Effect | 178 |
Working Together | 194 |
What Is a Wife to Do? Help for Spouses of the Sexually Broken | 196 |
The Twelve Essentials | 207 |
Further Reading | 209 |
Resources for Additional Help | 211 |
Taking Ownership of Our Choices | 87 |
Will the Real God Please Stand Up? | 98 |
The Biblical Basis of Our Identity | 110 |
Admitting Our True State | 121 |
Wrestling with Grace | 130 |
Facing Our Dark Side | 139 |
Notes | 212 |
Praise for Breaking Free | 214 |
About the Author | 215 |
More Titles from InterVarsity Press | 216 |
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Breaking Free: Understanding Sexual Addiction and the Healing Power of Jesus Russell Willingham Vista de fragmentos - 1999 |
Breaking Free: Understanding Sexual Addiction and the Healing Power of Jesus Russell Willingham Sin vista previa disponible - 1999 |
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Pasajes populares
Página 120 - If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will find it.
Página 16 - LORD has anointed me to bring good tidings to the afflicted; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound; to proclaim the year of the LORD'S favor, and the day of vengeance of our God...
Página 118 - Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others.
Página 125 - Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
Página 147 - When tempted, no one should say, "God is tempting me." For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone; but each one is tempted when, by his own evil desire, he is dragged away and enticed. Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.
Página 61 - And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds. Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another — and all the more as you see the Day approaching.
Página 52 - This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye no longer walk as the Gentiles also walk, in the vanity of their mind, being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them...
Página 54 - Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from the heart. For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.
Página 101 - I knew that you are a hard man, harvesting where you have not sown and gathering where you have not scattered seed. So I was afraid and went out and hid your talent in the ground. See, here is what belongs to you.
Página 67 - See to it, brothers, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God. But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin's deceitfulness.
Referencias a este libro
A Model for Marriage: Covenant, Grace, Empowerment and Intimacy Jack O. Balswick,Judith K. Balswick Sin vista previa disponible - 2006 |
Straight to Jesus: Sexual and Christian Conversions in the Ex-Gay Movement Tanya Erzen Vista previa limitada - 2006 |