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Ashamed No More


Ashamed No More

A Pastor's Journey Through Sex Addiction

von: T. C. Ryan, Walter Wangerin, Jr.

CHF 18.05

Verlag: IVP Academic
Format: EPUB
Veröffentl.: 28.06.2012
ISBN/EAN: 9780830866786
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 237

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There are some things we just don't talk about.Things like sex, particularly when our sexuality is a matter of personal struggle.Things like the vulnerabilities of our pastors, who must maintain a façade not merely of respectability but of moral and psychological superiority.We don't talk about things that make us feel insecure, that make us feel unsettled. But the nature of spiritual growth, even the story of Christian faith, is a matter of being unsettled from the comfortable compromises we've made and set on a course together toward wholeness and mutually supportive community.Pastor T. C. Ryan takes us on an unsettling journey through his lifelong struggle with sexual addiction, one that predated and pervaded his pastoral ministry—one which for far too long he faced in secrecy and isolation, separated from the brothers and sisters in Christ who were called to bear one another's burdens.Ashamed No More doesn't cast blame or argue for looser moral standards. It does, however, call us to the unsettling ministry that a God who is love calls us to—the unsettling grace that is the audacious gospel of Christ.
<p>Preface<br />
1. Living a Divided Life<br />
2. Sexuality and Spirituality<br />
3. Coming to Know the Enemy Within<br />
4. Shame and &quot;Morality&quot;<br />
5. Excavating Origins<br />
6. Genuine Spiritual Community and the Recovery Movement<br />
7. Transformation, Struggle and What I Learned<br />
8. In the Darkness, He Is There<br />
9. God, Brokenness and Life in the Mindful Calm<br />
10. Brokenness and Healthy Spiritual Community<br />
11. Biblical Ethics and Sexual Behavior<br />
12. Broken Leaders and Spiritual Rehab<br />
Acknowledgments <br />
Notes <br />
Bibliography</p>
Walter Wangerin, Jr. is the award-winning author of thirty-five books, including the best-selling The Book of God, the National Book Award-winning The Book of the Dun Cow, and, most recently, Letters from the Land of Cancer. Wangerin holds the Jochum Chair at Valparaiso University in Valparaiso, Indiana, where he teaches literature and creative writing, and is writer-in-residence.

For nearly twenty years T. C. Ryan was founding and senior pastor of a large church. He resigned in order to concentrate more fully on his ongoing recovery from a lifelong sexual addiction. Dr. Ryan now has a ministry of spiritual direction with individuals and groups, preaches, writes and leads seminars on achieving spiritual wholeness in a sexually broken world.

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