Mental Health Awareness Month 1

Counselor Michael Gembola explores decision-making anxiety and points to the peace that comes from knowing God as your refuge and ever-present help in trouble. Do you get anxious when you have to make a decision? Do you overthink, overtalk, and...

Buster’s Ears Trip Him Up teaches children how to turn to the gospel which comforts and sustains us through failure—and turns our focus away from ourselves and toward others. Buster was sure he was the fastest bunny in the meadow. But during...

*Note: To access PDF versions of the activity pages from this book, please click on this link. Knowing how to approach children and teens in counseling can be a challenge. Learning to enter into their world and draw them out can sometimes feel...

Henry Says Good-Bye helps children learn how grief and sadness are our natural response to losing something or someone important to us. Henry the hedgehog loves his pet ladybug. She keeps him company and entertains him, his family, and his friends with...

Restoration Story helps readers connect the broken pieces of their personal story to God’s greater story of redemption in Jesus Christ.Pastor and counselor Robert Cheong shows how the beliefs we carry from our past—shaped by family,...

Changing laws and shifting public opinion have increasingly made recreational drug use acceptable. What guidance does the Bible give for thinking through this issue? What underlying motivations or heart issues lie behind drug use, and what biblical...

Packed with biblical truth, A Bright Tomorrow addresses anxiety about an uncertain future by reminding readers of what they can be certain of—God's grace, his unshakeable promises, and the hope of resurrection. Jared Mellinger helps readers...

Marc Davis guides readers to understand the message of Job more fully, helping them reflect on Job's suffering and their own in relationship to the suffering of Jesus. The book of Job is an agonizing journey through the suffering of a godly man. We...

What makes counseling biblical? What does the biblical counseling process entail? What is the focus of each stage of the process? Lauren Whitman, an experienced CCEF counselor, addresses these questions and more in A Biblical Counseling Process, sharing...

Counselor Brad Hambrick provides a guided process to being honest with God about your pain to restore and deepen your relationship with him. No one gets mad at God for something small. When we're angry with God, it is because we've faced something...

Someone you care about has been impacted by schizophrenia. Maybe you are just coming to terms with the diagnosis and wonder what it means for your loved one, for you, and for your family. What is the way forward? How do you live with hope and compassion...

Buster Tries to Bail helps children learn how to respond with faith and turn to Jesus when worries take hold in their hearts.Buster loves racing, but the more he thinks about the upcoming competition at the county fair for who will be the fastest animal...

Caring for Families Caught in Domestic Abuse is a comprehensive, Christ-centered response to the spiritual, emotional, and physical harm that domestic abuse causes to the abused spouse, the abusive spouse, and their children. Written by an experienced...

Social Media Pressure helps show why social media can leave you feeling sad, anxious, and depressed and points to practical ways of turning to Jesus for rest and wholeness. Statistics show that we (especially teens) spend most of our waking hours on...

This humorous, poignant, and conversational guide invites young men and women to practically apply gospel solutions to all of life's pressures, big or small. From navigating failure, roadblocks, and spiritual warfare to tackling relevant, hard-hitting...

Overcoming your addiction is a hard journey, and while nothing makes that easy, it is worth it. Taking this journey one step at a time with the support of others with similar struggles will give much-needed support and help. If you are willing to...

When Halle gets new braces she has trouble saying some words. This irritates her brother Henry and one day he teases her in front of their friends and really hurts Halle's feelings. Now Henry has this nagging feeling inside that he can't make go away...

Drawing from a wide range of resources and experts in Christian soul care, this book is a well-researched, easy-to-read, and practical guide for students and counselors both inside and outside of biblical counseling to better understand its aspects,...

Foreword by Rachael Denhollander ClichŽs, glib answers, and quick solutions are shared all too often with those who are struggling to forgive or embrace forgiveness. We know Jesus calls us to forgive, but it can be hard to know what that looks like in...

Coming alongside struggling children can feel like an uphill battle. Yet children struggle with the same desires adults struggle with, are lured by the same lies adults fall prey to, and can find hope in the same source adults can find hope—in...