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Where is your marriage? Newly married, in a rut, coming off a major transition, or coming out of a period of crisis or conflict? Regardless of your situation, it’s never too early—or too late, for that matter—to build habits that will strengthen and grow your marriage. Forming habits is inevitable, but intentionality can make it beneficial.Counselor and pastor Brad Hambrick encourages couples at all stages to intentionally adopt five core practices to help foster healthy, God-honoring rhythms of communication and care. Learning how to steward time, money, and community, practicing healthy self-care, avoiding criticism and defensiveness, seeking to know your spouse deeply, and expressing gratitude for the opportunity to grow are just some of the wisdom gifts from God that will help deepen your relationship and also call you into a deeper walk with Jesus.

Clichés, 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 complicated, messy relationships. Pastor and counselor Brad Hambrick helps readers to understand that forgiveness is the start of a journey that doesn’t erase the past, but honestly confronts hurt and clears the way for a hope-filled discussion on how to move toward healing. Too often forgiveness is viewed as the culmination of a journey, but when someone says, “I forgive you,” they are not saying, “Things are all better now.” They are saying, “I have decided to relate to your offense towards me differently.” Hambrickhelps readers make sense of forgiveness biblically and relationally by addressing a variety of common questions that arise when we have been hurt: Does forgiveness mean restoration of trust? Am I supposed to “forgive and forget”? What is the role of biblical wisdom and boundaries on the road to forgiveness? Making Sense of Forgiveness speaks to those who are struggling by acknowledging the seriousness of their pain, explaining the difference between forgiveness and reconciliation, and helping readers understand the relationship between forgiveness and emotional freedom. The author explores the characteristics of God’s forgiveness toward us and how that shapes our own forgiveness. Includes a foreword from lawyer, activist, and former gymnast Rachael Denhollander.

No one gets mad at God for something small. When we're angry with God, it is because we've faced something immensely hard. Anger is an often-overlooked part of grieving, and as such, is an appropriate response to profoundly painful events. Counselor Brad Hambrick provides a guided process to being honest with God about your pain to restore and deepen your relationship with him. While we are often prone to interpret our anger about intense suffering as being at God, this book is an invitation to process these intense emotions with God as a source of comfort who is sturdy enough to support these turbulent emotions.If you are struggling with deep grief that is accompanied with anger and confusion, Angry with God will be profoundly helpful in your journey. Hambrick will patiently walk you through the process of being honest with God (and others) about your pain. You will learn how to articulate your pain, alleviate the effects of this pain, contextualize your experience in light of the gospel, and begin to hope again. God is a good shepherd who is patient and willing to move at the pace of his sheep. God can be trusted in places that merit the name "the valley of the shadow of death."Angry with God is part of the Ask the Christian Counselor series. This series walks readers through their deepest and most profound questions. Each question is unpacked by an experienced counselor that gives readers the tools to understand their struggle and how the gospel brings hope and healing to the problem they are facing.

Mobilizing Church-Based Counseling, the first book in the Church-Based Counseling series, provides a framework for guiding churches through the process of building a volunteer-led counseling ministry.Many churches would like to start a counseling ministry, but they don't know where to start. Mobilizing Church-Based Counseling offers direction to churches for creating a ministry built around lay-led counseling groups and mentoring. Based on proven models used in his own congregation, Brad Hambrick lays out a clear plan to launch a sustainable soul-care ministry that can be replicated in churches of any size.Hambrick brings clarity to common points of confusion about church-based counseling and provides guidance on how to provide oversight for lay-led counseling groups and mentoring relationships. Your church can minister the hope of the gospel to the struggles of life—both sin and suffering—without incurring unwise liability or going beyond the capacity of your members.This first book in the Church-Based Counseling series is designed to help churches mobilize and utilize levels of care from friendship to mentoring to counseling groups. Discover two flexible models of church-based counseling ministry. One addresses common life struggles (the G4 model) and the other focuses on premarital and marital enrichment. Designed to fit within a local church and to be implemented by volunteers, the book acknowledges and addresses questions and concerns of liability and ethics of lay counseling as well as the care and well-being of the mentors and leaders.

Facilitating Counseling Groups is a practical training resource that equips lay leaders to guide topic-specific counseling groups within the local church.Featuring a foreword by J. D. Greear, this second book in the Church-Based Counseling series helps churches prepare leaders for group-based care that addresses common struggles of sin and suffering. Brad Hambrick and John Chapman explain how counseling groups differ from general discipleship groups, highlighting the added sensitivity, vulnerability, and intentionality required to lead well.Built around the G4 model of group-based counseling, Facilitating Counseling Groups shows lay leaders how to use their own experiences, structured curriculum, and ongoing support to offer gospel hope to others walking similar paths. As part of a larger church-based care framework, it helps churches mobilize meaningful support from friendship to mentoring to counseling groups.

Transformative Friendships shares seven simple questions that will help you be intentional with your relationships and offers a springboard to deepening and strengthening friendships that will enrich your life.Building meaningful friendships is not as easy as we wish it was. A culture that is lonelier and more disconnected than ever proves how hard it can be. In Transformative Friendships, counselor Brad Hambrick encourages readers to develop new rhythms, habits, and lifestyles that will shape and grow their relationships, both with casual acquaintances and closer friends.The goal is not to develop perfect friendships, but rather learn to how to cultivate deep connections that grow steadily over time through conversations based on simple questions and common interactions. Hambrick’s biblical vision for friendship calls Christians to engage with one another in the transformational way God intended.

If you are willing to admit that alcohol and/or drugs are disrupting your life, Overcoming Addiction will guide you toward healing. Counselor Brad Hambrick provides a 9-step framework to help you reclaim your life and experience the freedom God wants for you. Find hope as you learn to be honest with God, yourself, and others.Overcoming Addiction is a support group curriculum that seeks to capture the gospel in slow motion and provide a safe environment for participants to grow together as they pursue steps toward lasting change to addictive patterns.This resource is part of the Church-Based Counseling series, built on the G4 model of subject-specific, lay-led counseling groups, designed to help churches create sustainable lay counseling ministries.

All relationships disappoint us from time to time. But some relationships are destructive, especially those marked by addiction, abuse, and/or life-dominating problems. Navigating Destructive Relationships, a support group curriculum, provides you with a safe and stable place where you can name what’s going on and turn toward God. You are not alone. God sees and cares for your suffering.Navigating Destructive Relationships is built on a 9-step model that helps you process intense relational suffering with the hope of the gospel. Learning alongside others facing similar challenges allows participants a unique opportunity to grow as they identify choices they can make in response to their loved one’s destructive patterns.This resource is part of the Church-Based Counseling series, built on the G4 model of subject-specific, lay-led counseling groups, designed to help churches create sustainable lay counseling ministries.

Nothing feels worse than being in bondage and not knowing how to get free. Many people enslaved to pornography or in an adulterous relationship know this feel all too well. Perhaps you’ve been justifying pornography use or infidelity for months or years, but now you are seeing the destruction it has caused in your life and your family’s life. If you are willing to admit that a lack of sexual integrity is disrupting your life, False Love will help you to reclaim your life and guide you toward healing and healthy relationships.False Love is a support group curriculum that seeks to provide a safe environment for participants to grow together as they pursue steps toward lasting change. It provides a gospel-centered step-by-step process for living with sexual integrity.

True Betrayal by counselor and pastor Brad Hambrick outlines a clear, compassionate, and biblical 9-step framework for processing and healing from your spouse’s sexual infidelity.Finding out about your spouse’s sexual sin feels like a gut punch. In your overwhelming flood of emotions, you may feel like pretending like it never happened or you might think you need to take intense, immediate action. In the middle of your questions and pain, you need a safe, stable place to process what has happened and to take wise steps forward. Your spouse’s sexual sin is not your fault. Grief is going to be a major part of your healing journey, and the Lord is walking with you as you face what’s next.This support group curriculum seeks to capture the gospel in slow motion and facilitates a safe environment for participants to grow together as they articulate their pain, grieve, and identify healthy ways to reengage with life and set realistic expectations for themselves and their spouse.This in-depth resource offers churches and individuals a unique opportunity to respond to the experience of infidelity in a faith-filled and healing way. True Betrayal is a resource in the Church-Based Counseling series, built on the G4 model of subject-specific, lay-led counseling groups, designed to help churches create sustainable lay counseling ministries.

Trauma is an intense past experience with lingering effects in the present. It is futile to minimize trauma’s impact, but trauma should not have the last word on our lives. Growing After Trauma seeks to help readers strike this balance. As we understand and counter the impact of trauma, we can live satisfying and fruitful lives. Hambrick outlines a process for finding peace after trauma by establishing an environment of safety, processing painful memories, and reengaging the life God designed for you to live.This biblically-rooted plan can be used as a personal study, with a counselor, or in a group. Whether your experience of trauma is from military service, serving as a first responder, abuse or human trafficking, a natural disaster, or a mass violence event, Growing After Trauma helps readers understand the impact of their trauma and identify ways to become increasingly free from its impact. It emphasizes patience, self-care, and reliance on God’s care while encouraging individuals to move forward at their own pace, while celebrating each marker of progress.Growing After Trauma is an in-depth resource for churches and individuals to use for support groups to heal from trauma in a faith-filled and safe way. The 9-step model helps participants understand the struggles that accompany trauma and gives actionable strategies for overcoming with the hope of the gospel. This book is part of the Church-Based Counseling series, built on the G4 model of subject-specific, lay-led counseling groups, designed to help churches create sustainable lay counseling ministries.

The persistent presence of depression or anxiety can make us want to give up. We begin to wonder, “What’s the use?” The slow fade of hope and heavy weight of dark emotions make our suffering more intense. In a broken world, it’s impossible to completely eradicate depression and anxiety, but we can have hope and find meaning amid our struggle. This hope becomes more tangible with a concrete plan and support from friends.Depression and Anxiety is a step-by-step, biblically rooted plan that can be used as a personal study, with a counselor, or in a group. Participants will learn to bring their hardships to God, steward their body well, and pursuing a meaningful life even when they feel depressed or anxious. Hambrick emphasizes the importance of understanding the interplay between suffering and sin and provides practical tools to address emotional struggles while encouraging spiritual growth.Depression and Anxiety is an in-depth resource for churches and individuals to use for support groups to address depression and anxiety in a faith-filled and healing way. The 9-step model helps participants understand the struggles that accompany depression and anxiety and gives actionable strategies for overcoming with the hope of the gospel. This book is part of the Church-Based Counseling series, built on the G4 model of subject-specific, lay-led counseling groups, designed to help churches create sustainable lay counseling ministries.

Caring Through a Crisis offers comprehensive guidance for church leaders navigating a wide range of crises, helping them respond with biblical faithfulness and Christlike compassion.When a crisis emerges in your church or community, are you ready? Whether it’s a case of personal sin coming to light, an abuse allegation, a mental health emergency, or community tragedy, pastors and church leaders are on the front lines responding to the hardest situations. Counselor Brad Hambrick and communications specialist Amy Whitfield help overwhelmed ministry leaders take wise and biblically grounded steps forward, prioritizing both immediate care and long-term healing of the individual sheep and the flock.Divided into three sections addressing crises prompted by the sins of a church leader, crises prompted by the sins of a church member, and caring for the suffering side of a tragedy, Caring Through a Crisis provides step-by-step frameworks for assessing situations, mobilizing support, and communicating effectively with congregations during difficult times.Filled with practical tools and ministry priorities tailored to real-world situations, Caring Through a Crisis equips pastors and church leaders to respond wisely, ethically, and holistically when difficult circumstances arise. In-depth case studies, sample scripts, and decision-making guides provide immediately applicable resources to help leaders care well for individuals, communicate faithfully with their congregations, and shepherd the church through crisis with wisdom and compassion.