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Popular Encyclopedia of Christian Counseling: An Indispensable Tool for Helping People with Their Problems is unavailable, but you can change that!

Seasoned counselors and professors Tim Clinton and Ron Hawkins provide a landmark reference that offers a capstone definition of the emerging profession and ministry of the Christian counselor. Appropriate for professional counselors, lay counselors, pastors, students, and teachers, it includes nearly 300 entries by nearly 100 top Christian counselors. At approximately 500 pages, this practical...

curing the very breath that gives us life. It is tending to the deepest needs of the soul. . The Bible is filled with examples of soul-care ministry (Ex. 3:16; 1 Sam. 3:9; 2 Sam. 12:7; Mt. 14:13; Mk. 1:35; Gal. 6:2; Jas. 5:16). Soul care is originally a monastic concept in which men would teach others the deep mysteries of God as well as draw away from their communities and seclude themselves in solitude. Merton (1960) also connected soul care to spiritual direction (Demarest, 2003; Imbach,
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