By Edward T. Welch

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Walking with an addict through the process of change takes wisdom, love, and perseverance.

To walk with an addict is both a gift and a grief. In Crossroads: A Step-by-Step Guide Away from Addiction Facilitator's Guide, Welch walks leaders through the process of loving, connecting with, and speaking truth to a group of addicts. This book contains helpful observations about the mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual state common to most addicts. With access to Welch's solid theology on addiction and years of counseling experience, counselors, pastors, and others with a heart for people who are hurting can play an active role in God's restorative work in the lives of those enslaved to an addiction.

Every one of us is a potential addict. In a pressure-filled world, the prospect of instant escape can be exhilarating. No matter the object-drugs, alcohol, food, gambling, or sex, just to name a few-addictions lure us. They extend the promise of pleasure. In the end, they deliver emptiness, death, and destruction. What began as an escape from the hassles of life becomes a form of bondage. Addiction is a voluntary slavery. Change doesn't come easily. But change is possible!

Crossroads was designed as a group study for those struggling with addiction. These ten steps, presented in author Ed Welch's trademark direct, no-nonsense style, provide a biblical framework for change. Welch is a wise and loving partner who walks beside readers on their journey to freedom. Along the way, they will learn to recognize the patterns of addiction, to choose wisdom over foolish desires, and to cling to the hope they have in Jesus, who sets captives free. The path away from addiction has been laid by a God who is full of surprises, who faithfully pursues those enslaved even though they have deliberately avoided him.

Author
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Edward T. Welch, M.Div., Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist and faculty member at the Christian Counseling & Educational Foundation (CCEF). He has counseled for over twenty-five years and is the best-selling author of many books including When People Are Big and God Is Small; Addictions: A Banquet in the Grave; Blame It on the Brain?; Depression: A Stubborn Darkness; Crossroads: A Step-by-Step Guide Away from Addiction; Running Scared: Fear, Worry, and the God of Rest; and When I Am Afraid: A Step-by-Step Guide Away from Fear and Anxiety. He and his wife Sheri have two married daughters and four grandchildren.
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Product Overview:

When I Am Afraid: A Step-by-Step Guide Away from Fear and Anxiety explains and applies the concepts from the book Running Scared: Fear, Worry, and the God of Rest in the context of an interactive devotional and small group study guide. The study guide is divided into seven weekly meditations and includes space for participants to record their responses as they work through the following meditations:

Week 1: Fear and Anxiety Speak Out
Week 2: The God of Suspense Reveals His Plans
Week 3: The King Comes Close and Talks about Money
Week 4: The Living God Speaks about Death
Week 5: The Loving Father Woos You from the Fear of Man
Week 6: The God of Hope Keeps His Promises
Week 7: The Lord Reigns¿Things Are Not the Way They Seem

Who Is the Product For?

This devotional guide and small group resource is suitable for teenagers, young adults, and adults who want to learn how to replace fear and worry with trust in God. It has been used effectively in individual discipling/counseling relationships and in churches and ministries as a small group study.

Related Products:

This devotional guide and small group resource is intended to stand alone as a study guide for individuals and groups, but it¿s also a complement to Running Scared: Fear, Worry, and the God of Rest by Edward T. Welch.  Running Scared has a Personal Response section at the end of each chapter, which can be used as a guide for individuals and small groups who want to spend additional time looking at the issue of fear and worry.

Another book by Edward T. Welch dealing with fear is When People Are Big and God Is Small: Overcoming Peer Pressure, Codependency, and the Fear of Man (P&R). This bestselling book uncovers how the fear of man controls people and shows how the remedy is to be found in a deepening relationship with God. When People Are Big and God Is Small ends each chapter with a section titled ¿For Further Thought¿ that includes study questions for individual and small group use.