The Missing Commandment: Love Yourself: How Loving Yourself the Way God Does Can Bring Healing and Freedom to Your Life - Softcover

Basel, Jerry And Denise

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0983992487 ISBN 13: 9780983992486

Publisher: Heart and Life Publishers, 2013

Synopsis

What keeps you from loving someone God loves so much? How might your life change if you really believed God loves you—not just in your head but down where it counts, in your heart? Imagine how different things could be : The lies you’ve believed about yourself all these years dispelled. The wounds of abuse healed. Your future lit with hope, peace, and purpose. Your closeness with God and others deepened immeasurably. The true, heaven-born you free at last to live a life unclouded by shame, guilt, and fear and empowered to love others fully. That can be you. The truth is far, far better than you’ve known. Drawing on their many years of biblical counseling practice, Jerry and Denise Basel invite you on a journey of God-discovery, self-discovery, and truth-discovery. The Missing Commandment: Love Yourself will help you experience God’s love as the daily, motivating force in your life. And it will show you how to stop punishing and start loving someone whom your heavenly Father loves very much—YOU. You see, the missing commandment has never been missing from the Bible, only from your life. But that can change, starting now.

About this title

About the Author

Jerry and Denise Basel, who have been married for over 40 years, have co-directed The Father’s Heart Intensive Christian Counseling Ministry for almost twenty years, counseling individuals and couples worldwide. Both completed Master's Degrees in Christian Counseling at Regent University in Virginia Beach, with Jerry completing an additional Master's Degree in Theology, and Denise, a Post Master's Certificate with a Biblical Counseling emphasis. The Basels also hold Master's Degrees in Higher Education from Michigan State University. Prior to committing their lives to pastoral ministry, they both held teaching and administrative positions at the college and university level for almost 20 years. Jerry is also an ordained pastor.The Basels reside in Cleveland, Georgia. Visit their websites at www.fathersheart.com and www.jerryanddenisebasel.com

Review

---I have known Jerry and Denise for the better part of three decades. These two academics-turned-well-trained-counselors know suffering hearts and the heart of God like few others. In The Missing Commandment: Love Yourself, they place emotional and spiritual health on a solid foundation of love--for God, for others, and for self. -----Gary W. Moon, MDiv, PhD, executive director, Dallas Willard Center for Christian Spiritual Formation; author, Apprenticeship with Jesus

---Jerry and Denise Basel are living out in a profound way what a growing move­ment of authors, songwriters, theologians, and everyday people have been dar­ing to express, believe and try on. It is the Original Good News, aimed at the lies we've been telling ourselves about us. The Basels are displaying, with win­some confidence, the astonishing love of the Father; which alone allows us to love ourselves honestly, deeply and wonderfully.-----John Lynch, Bruce McNicol, and Bill Thrall, bestselling co-authors of The Cure, Bo's Cafe, and The Ascent

---Jerry and Denise brilliantly uncover the issues that are hiding in the dark corners of our story. This book will give you permission to love yourself the way that God loves you--though it may feel selfish, it's the most unselfish thing you can do.-----Pattie Mallette, New York Times best-selling author of Nowhere but Up

---When you read The Missing Commandment: Love Yourself, you need to be ready for open-heart surgery. As I read, I felt the invisible hands of grace soothe the pain and numbness out of my heart. If you want to live from the whole of your heart and feel Jesus living through and in you, then this book is a must.-----Pablo Giacopelli, professional tennis coach on the WTA Tour and author of Holding On Loosely

---I am so excited about this book that words fail me. I don't think I've read anything like it: personal and didactic at the same time in a very easy flow. I felt like I was sitting in the counseling room talking to Jerry and Denise. Their easy style of talking yet getting to the heart of the matter came through so well. I thought of my clients in the addiction center and knew just how much I can use this book. I can see it transforming lives, and I can't wait for it to come out because I'll buy it in bulk.-----Dr. Bill Curnow, L.I.F.E. Coaching International, Wyoming, Michigan

Edition details

• Publisher: Heart and Life Publishers
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0983992487
• ISBN 13: 9780983992486
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208