Sunday, January 24, 2010

God's Healing for Life's Losses

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God's Healing for Life's Losses: How to Find Hope When You're Hurting

I’m excited to announce the upcoming (April 2010) release by BMH Books of my fifth book: God’s Healing for Life’s Losses: How to Find Hope When You’re Hurting.

I’ll be sharing more about the book in the coming days. Here’s the current wording for the back cover.

Find Hope When Your Hurting—Biblically and Relevantly

You’re tired of quick quips (“Just trust God”) and false hopes (“Time heals all wounds”). You’re ready for real and raw, honest and hopeful conversation about suffering, loss, and grief—from a Christian perspective. You’re longing for real answers, for real people, with real struggles. You’ve come to the right place. When life’s losses invade your world, learn how to face suffering face-to-face with God. Learn how to journey:

 From Denial to Candor: Blessed Are Those Who Mourn
 From Anger to Complaint: A Lament for Your Loss
 From Bargaining to Crying Out to God: I Surrender All
 From Depression to Comfort: God Comes
 From Regrouping to Waiting: When God Says “Not Yet”
 From Deadening to Wailing: Pregnant with Hope
 From Despairing to Weaving: Spiritual Mathematics
 From Digging Cisterns to Worshipping: Finding God

How do you deal with suffering and despair; the times when life seems so overwhelming that you just want to give up? Bob Kellemen has the answers. If you’re looking for tired clichés (“Just put on a happy face”), impersonal academic discourse, and worldly wisdom, then this is not the book for you. But if you want a thoroughly biblical and intensely honest examination of suffering from someone who has walked the path from “hurt to hope in Christ,” then God’s Healing for Life’s Losses is just the book for you.
—Ian Jones, Ph.D., Chairman, Counseling Department, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary

God’s Healing for Life’s Losses takes on traditional thoughts about grief and loss and turns them upside down. Dr. Kellemen takes us down to take us up as he develops a biblical theology of suffering and hope. There is a refreshing honesty about the pain of loss and the permission to be real with God and others as we embrace the mourning process together. This book is biblical, personal and healing; I highly recommend it.”
—Garrett Higbee, Psy. D., President, Twelve Stones Ministries; Executive Director, Harvest Biblical Soul Care

Robert W. Kellemen, Ph.D., LCPC, served for over a dozen years as Chairman of the Master of Arts in Christian Counseling and Discipleship Department at Capital Bible Seminary. In his three pastoral ministries, Bob has ministered to 100s of grieving parishioners. In his role as Founder and CEO of RPM Ministries (http://www.rpmminstries.org/) Bob is known for his Christ-centered, comprehensive, compassionate, and culturally-informed approach to equipping God’s people to use God’s Word in their personal ministry.

Saturday, January 16, 2010

The Forty-Day Journey of Promise

We've Moved!

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The Forty-Day Journey of Promise
Learning Life Lessons from the Legacy of African American Christianity

Do you desire to learn how to move beyond suffering to the place of God’s healing hope?

Do you long for church community that’s truly a taste of eternity (Rev. 7:9-10) where we’ll worship together forever in unity and diversity?

Do you want to grow in your ability to relate across cultures?

Then join the journey!

Join the Journey

Join me on a forty-day intercultural journey of promise.

I’ll be blogging during the forty (+) days from Martin Luther King Day on January 18, 2010, to the end of Black History Month on February 28, 2009.

I know, technically, that’s forty-two days.

On January 18, I’ll kick-off our journey by linking the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., to some of his historic African American predecessors in the faith. In fact, from January 16-18, I’ll offer three posts related to MLK Day and Black Church history.

Then on February 28, we’ll share a day of reflection on the previous forty-day journey.

Our Journey Together: The Big Idea

We’ll focus on learning life lessons from the legacy of African American Christianity.

Each day we’ll enjoy a stirring narrative from the heroes and heroines of Black Church history.

Then we’ll ponder applications of this remarkable legacy to all of our lives today—regardless of our ethnicity, nationality, race, or cultural background.

Every post will include discussion questions so that in your family and your church you can ponder the implications for your lives and ministries.

Bonus for Joining the Journey

As an added bonus, I’ll select five people who commented the most during these 40 (42/44) days to receive:

1. A complimentary, autographed copy of Beyond the Suffering: Embracing the Legacy of African American Soul Care and Spiritual Direction.

2. A complimentary e-copy of the entire Forty-Day Journey of Promise.

Your Head Start on Our Journey of Promise

The Journey is your appetizer. If you’d like the full course meal, go here to learn about, read a sample chapter from, and purchase your autographed copy of Beyond the Suffering: Embracing the Legacy of African American Soul Care and Spiritual Direction.

Join the Conversation (Post a Comment Here for a Chance to Receive a Copy of Beyond the Suffering)

1. In your life, where do you long for help in moving beyond suffering and hurt to God’s healing help and hope?

2. What does the Church today need to do to reflect the multi-ethnic diversity commanded (Col. 3:10) and illustrated (Rev. 7:9-10) in Scripture?

3. What are some of the reasons that Sunday morning remains the most segregated hour in America?

Note: This series is based upon material from the book Beyond the Suffering. If you’d like to learn more about Beyond the Suffering, click here.