Eastgate Publishers

"Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls"

—Jeremiah 6:16

12 STEPS TO DESTRUCTION: CODEPENDENCY RECOVERY HERESIES is written for those who are suffering from the trials of life and for those who want to help. It is for those who are thinking about joining a recovery group or entering a treatment center for codependency or addiction. It is for those who have tried Twelve-Step programs and recovery treatment centers and found them lacking.

Exposes popular pseudoscientific practices impacting the church today. Numerous Christians believe in and promote the four temperaments as a means of understanding human nature and behavior. The two most prolific promoters are Dr. Tim LaHaye and Florence Littauer. Their books and seminars have touched and influenced millions of Christians.

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Martin and Deidre Bobgan's book Against Biblical Counseling drew some hostile responses from those who perceived it as critical of counseling from the Scriptures. This resource clarifies their position on that issue.

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Competent to Minister answers such questions as:

What can be wrong with "Christian psychology"? When it is comprised of the same confusion of contradictory theories and techniques as secular psychology. "Christian" psychologists have simply borrowed their theories and techniques from this world's wisdom.

This book reveals the origins and faults of problem-centered counseling, describes Christ-centered ministry and how it differs from problem-centered counseling, and encourages local congregations to minister as God has called them to without the influence of the psychological or biblical counseling movements.

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Hypnotism is potentially dangerous at its best and is demonic at its worst. Hypnotism opens an individual to psychic experiences and satanic possession. When mediums go into hypnotic trances and contact the dead, when clairvoyants reveal information that they could not possibly know, and when fortunetellers through self-hypnosis reveal the future, be assured that Satan is at work.

Contrary to Dr. Dobson's claims, much of his work originates from secular psychological theorists whose opinions are based on a godless foundation. Thus, Dobson uses the Bible as a sanction for dispensing unbiblical ideas. Self-esteem and psychology are the two major thrusts that too often supersede sin, salvation, and sanctification.

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By adding the wisdom of men, Christians lose sight of their God-given resources. This book calls Christians back to the Bible and to biblically ordained ministries and mutual care in the body of Christ.

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Psychoheresy exposes the fallacies and failure of psychological counseling theories and therapies; reveals the anti-Christian biases, internal contradictions, and documented failures of secular psychotherapy; examines various amalgamations of secular psychologies with Christianity; and explodes firmly entrenched myths that undergird these unholy unions.