Alasdair Groves

A Biblical Counseling Process

Counseling, Grief & Mental Health

“Two things especially stand out in the refreshingly clear prose of Whitman's contribution to biblical counseling literature. First, Whitman leads by example in applying specific Scriptures to specific, vivid counseling situations. Second, she provides simple, doable foci for counselors at each stage of counseling and clear benchmarks for where each stage begins and ends. I commend this highly accessible, gracefully written book to anyone looking to do vocational biblical counseling!”

Caring for the Souls of Children

Children & Youth

“Some books over-promise, but not this one. On all the most pressing issues in counseling (and parenting!) children, Caring for the Souls of Children delivers with grace and wisdom. I highly recommend this resource.”

Henry's Big Mistake

Marriage, Family & Relationships

“Guilt is one of the hardest feelings for children to process because they are so desperate to stop feeling it and often do almost anything to avoid facing it. This simple, relatable story provides a great way to help your children identify guilt they feel and turn to the Lord and others for forgiveness.”

I Have PTSD

Counseling, Grief & Mental Health

“In this patient book for those struggling in trauma's aftermath, Solomon's wealth of experience with PTSD is constantly evident. It is realistic, rooted in Scripture, wise about physiology, full of case studies, and insightful about guilt, shame, and despair. I Have PTSD connects constantly back to the Lord and helps you construct a wise, holistic, and practical peace plan.”

Mobilizing Church-Based Counseling

Counseling, Grief & Mental Health

“Mobilizing Church-Based Counseling is the most practical thing I have ever read. Brad's years of experience navigating the problems churches face creating structures is pervasively evident. If you want a sustainable plan for the most common counseling challenges churches encounter, you couldn't do better than this book (and you might want to get a dozen copies to share).”

Redeem Your Marriage

Marriage, Family & Relationships

“Redeem Your Marriage is refreshingly honest and compassionate about the difficulty of the sexual struggles men face. It's honest about how heavily porn impacts wives, as well as both the challenge and the real possibility of genuine and lasting change. Best of all, it comes from an author brave enough to be honest about his own struggle! I highly recommend it!”

Safeguards

Marriage, Family & Relationships

“Safeguards could not possibly be more practical. Every page is loaded with applied wisdom for keeping children safe. I constantly found myself saying 'Our family needs to do this!' Grounded in a call to trust the Lord rather than fear mongering, Safeguards equips both children and parents to discern evil and danger and to prepare wise, protective responses.”

Saints, Sufferers, and Sinners

Counseling, Grief & Mental Health

“Too often we speak only to parts of people because we only see part of them: they just need to get over their sin, just need compassion because life has been hard, just need faith because it's all that matters. Mike Emlet's Saints, Sufferers, and Sinners refuses to over-simplify. Instead, Emlet enables his readers in concrete, biblically rich ways to simultaneously take all three aspects of our Christian, human reality seriously. Full of winsome case studies, this book brims with wisdom in action about gently responding to sin, practical ways to encourage, and how to offer meaningful comfort to those who suffer. Saints, Sufferers, and Sinners is the product of a lifetime of godliness from a man whose compassion and humble grace come through on every page. This must become a foundational book for biblical counselors of every type for generations to come.”

Something Scary Happened

Fiction

“I wish there were a hundred books like this. Kids who go through pain or trauma need simple, vivid hope they can see and cling to. Something Scary Happened does exactly that. It takes seriously that deeply harmful things happen and yet teaches that we can run to the true refuge as we struggle: a Shepherd who will hold onto us.”