How to Help a Heartbroken Friend: What to Do and What to Say When a Friend Is Going Through Tough Times

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Hope Publishing House, 2004 - 149 pagini
Biebel helps readers understand the emotional and spiritual trauma that hurting friends are experiencing and suggests practical ways in which they can be comforted. A great tool for church leaders, laypersons, or others in leadership who want to reach out to hurting people, but don't know how. Targeted mailings.

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What to say when you dont know what to say
1
A loneliness that must be shared
13
An emptiness that must be filled
25
Healing the wounds on their own terms
35
Becoming your friends soul mate
47
Life goes on
58
What to do when you dont know what to do
70
Somebody to hold me
83
To tell the truth
97
Moving with the pain
109
Beauty for ashes
122
Seven habits of highly effective comforters 130
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Pagina 52 - Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others.
Pagina 52 - Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Pagina 52 - Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death — even death on a cross.
Pagina 136 - Do not fear, for those who are with us are more than those who are with them," And Elisha prayed, and said, "LORD. I pray, open his eyes that he may see," Then the LORD opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw. And behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.
Pagina 113 - For we have not a high priest that cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities ; but one that hath been in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore draw near with boldness unto the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and may find grace to help us in time of need.
Pagina 111 - Therefore I am well content with weaknesses, with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties, for Christ's sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong.
Pagina 17 - A despairing man should have the devotion of his friends, even though he forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

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