A guidebook to caring explains how to make and keep the promises that hold together the deep and intimate relationships between friends and within families. Reprint.

Caring & commitment: Learning to live the love we promise

Self-Help

Lewis B. Smedes

Relationships

Harper&Row

An examination of shame and grace in all forms, causes, and effects discusses the leading candidates for shame, social shame, unhealthy shame, how the church feeds our shame, and more. $100,000 ad/promo.

Shame and Grace: Healing the Shame We Don't Deserve

HarperSanFrancisco

For all of us who have been wounded by another and struggled to understand and move beyond our feelings of hurt and anger, Lewis Smedes's classic book on forgiveness shows that it is possible to heal our pain and find room in our hearts to forgive. Breaking down the process of healing into four stages and offering stories of real people's experience throughout, this wise book provides hope and solace for all who long for the peace that comes with forgiveness.

Forgive and Forget: Healing the Hurts We Don't Deserve

Religion & Spirituality

SPCK Publishing

For all of us who have been wounded by another and struggled to understand and move beyond our feelings of hurt and anger, Lewis Smedes's classic book on forgiveness shows that it is possible to heal our pain and find room in our hearts to forgive. Breaking down the process of healing into four stages and offering stories of real people's experience throughout, this wise book provides hope and solace for all who long for the peace that comes with forgiveness.

Forgive & Forget: Healing The Hurts You Don't Deserve

Pocket_Books

How Can It Be All Right When Everything Is All Wrong?: Discovering Hope Through The Gift of Grace

Pocket

Love Within Limits : A Realist's View of I Corinthians 13

Christian Books & Bibles

William B. Eerdmans Publishing

Love Within Limits (Aslan Paperbacks)

Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company

Is there a morality that shows us how to survive as a humane community? Can we know what God expects of the human family? Is there a morality for ordinary people?In this book, the author of Sex for Christians and Love within Limits explores the way to moral sanity amid the confusions and crises of contemporary life. We do not, says Smedes, have a "moral map" to mark out the details of our route in advance, but neither are we left to grope and improvise at every step.The focus of Smedes's study is the commandments -- in particular those five of the Ten Commandments which call us to respect other persons: "Honor your father and mother"; "You shall not kill"; "You shall not commit adultery"; "You shall not steal"; "You shall not bear false witness." Each of these commandments pinpoints the moral nucleus of one sector of life in community -- family, marriage, property, communication, and the preservation of life itself.Using these commandments as a basis, Smedes asks three questions: What does God command us to do? Why does he command this? And how can we obey this in the ambiguities and conflicts of real life?Smedes answers the first question by extracting the simple meaning of the commands. He probes answers to the second question -- why? -- on the premise that a reasonable Creator commands his creatures only to be what they are and to act in ways that fit their nature as human beings in community. "Moral norms are not alien," claims Smedes, "they conform to our being."It is in answering how to obey these commandments in ordinary life that Smedes moves from the ancient words at Sinai to the troubled twentieth-century context in which we live. This is not always an easy task. The commandment may signal a clear moral direction, but determining whether and how its absolute fits into each new situation will require patient common sense, tough-minded reason, and devout faith. Such painful struggles, for which Smedes provides eloquent guidance are at the core of responsible moral living.

Mere Morality: What God Expects from Ordinary People (A Lion paperback)

Lion Publishing

Selections in this anthology define morality and discuss moral decision making. Readings also explore the topics of work, sexuality, earth-keeping, racism, wealth/poverty, medicine, and peace. Includes excerpts from leading Christian authors such as C. S. Lewis, Philip Yancey, Lewis Smedes, Tony Campolo, and Frederick Buechner. Discussion questions follow each reading.Studies for growing Christians that assume basic Bible knowledge

Exploring Ethics: Selected Readings

philip-yancey

Christian Schools International

Sexologia Para Cristianos

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