Life's Healing Choices Revised and Updated: Freedom from Your Hurts, Hang-ups, and Habits

John Baker

Jun 2008 · Sold by Simon and Schuster

About this ebook

With a foreword by Rick Warren, author of The Purpose Driven Life, this revised and updated edition will help you find true happiness—if you choose to accept it.

We’ve all been hurt by other people, we’ve hurt ourselves, and we’ve hurt others. And as a result, every single one of us ends up with some sort of hurt, hang-up, or habit. But the question we all face is, Where do we go from here?

Ten years after the original edition of Life’s Healing Choices, this newly revised edition contains updates to basic teaching principles—based on ten years’ experience—as well as new and contemporary testimonies. Using the Beatitudes of Jesus as a foundation, Rick Warren and John Baker, pastors at Saddleback Church, developed the eight choices shared in this book.

In addition to practical, encouraging biblical teaching, each chapter includes two real-life testimonies of men and women whose lives have been transformed by living out the eight choices in this book. Through making each of these choices, you too will find God’s pathway to wholeness, growth, spiritual maturity, happiness, and healing. You’ll find real answers, real hope, and a real future—one healing choice at a time.

Ratings and reviews

I've been facilitator of the LHC small group at our church and God always does amazing things there. Lives truly change and people find hope, healing and victory. I'm blessed to witness the power of God's work through this study every time we offer it!

Church pews are full of wounded soldiers, adhesions ( internal scars that entwine the vital organs of our spiritual being) of the past "blocking", interferring with how our spirit is "suppose" to operate. Disillusioned, many pull away to avoid "the truth"...abundant life is for other christians, not me. This book guides you thru the spiritual surgery to release our "vital organs" from these adhesions. You will know the truth and it will set you free. You'll be surprised to find that this Truth is GOOD.

I'm liking it not finished yet I can c myself getting a lot from this book.

About the author

John Baker is the founder of Celebrate Recovery, a ministry started at Saddleback Church. Over the last twenty-three years, it is estimated that more than 3.5 million people have gone through this Christ-centered recovery program. There are currently 30,000+ churches that have weekly meetings. John and his wife Cheryl have been married over four decades and have served together in Celebrate Recovery since 1991. They have two adult children, Laura and Johnny, and five grandchildren.

Rick Warren is the founding pastor of Saddleback Church, one of the largest churches in the world, with campuses in the US and around the globe. He is the author of The Purpose Driven Life, one of the bestselling nonfiction books in publishing history. It has been translated into 137 languages and sold more than 50 million copies in multiple formats.