How to Handle Your Emotions (Counseling Through the Bible Series) (70 page)

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June Hunt is an author, singer, speaker, and founder of Hope for the Heart, a worldwide biblical counseling ministry featuring the award-winning radio broadcast by the same name heard daily across America. In addition,
Hope in the Night
is June’s live two-hour call-in counseling program that helps people untie their tangled problems with biblical hope and practical help. Hope for the Heart radio broadcasts currently air in 25 countries.

Early family pain was the catalyst that shaped June’s compassionate heart. Later, as youth director for more than 600 teenagers, she became aware of the need for sound biblical counseling. Her work with young people and their parents led June to a life commitment
providing God’s truth for today’s problems.

After years of teaching and research, June began developing scripturally based counseling tools called
Biblical Counseling Keys,
which address definitions, characteristics, causes, and solutions for 100 topics (such as marriage and parenting, anger and abuse, guilt and grief). Recently these individual topics were compiled to create the landmark
Biblical Counseling Library,
from which this handbook was extracted.

The
Counseling Keys
have become the foundation for the Hope for the Heart Biblical Counseling Institute initiated by The Criswell College. Each monthly conference in the Dallas-based institute provides training to help spiritual leaders, counselors, and other caring Christians meet the very real needs of others.

June has served as a guest professor at colleges and seminaries, both nationally and internationally, teaching on topics such as crisis counseling, child abuse, wife abuse, homosexuality, forgiveness, singleness, and self-worth. Her works are currently available in more than 20 languages, including Russian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Mandarin, Korean, Japanese, and Arabic.

She is the author of
How to Forgive… When You Don’t Feel Like It, Seeing Yourself Through God’s Eyes, Bonding with Your Teen Through Boundaries, Caring for a Loved One with Cancer,
and more than 30 topical HopeBooks. June is also a contributor to the
Soul Care Bible
and the
Women’s Devotional Bible.

As an accomplished musician, June has been a guest on numerous national television and radio programs, including the NBC
Today
show. She has toured overseas with the USO and been a guest soloist at Billy Graham crusades. Five recordings—
Songs of Surrender, Hymns of Hope, The Whisper of My Heart, The Shelter Under His Wings,
and
The Hope of Christmas
—all reflect her heart of hope.

Learn more about June and Hope for the Heart at…

Hope for the Heart, Inc.
P.O. Box 7
Dallas, TX 75221

1-800-488-HOPE (4673)
www.hopefortheheart.org

COUNSELING THROUGH YOUR BIBLE HANDBOOK

No matter what the problem, God doesn’t leave us without hope or help. The Bible is richly relevant when it comes to the difficult dilemmas we all face. Here you will find 50 chapters of spiritual wisdom and compassionate counsel on even the hardest issues, such as…

The guidance in this handbook is grounded in Scripture which—when used properly—has the power to pull us out of life’s ditches and put us on the road to inner freedom and fulfillment.

HOW TO FORGIVE… WHEN YOU DON’T FEEL LIKE IT

When someone hurts us, our natural response is to strike back. Rather than forgive, we want to return the pain and suffering. Rather than let go, we cling to our rocks of resentment, our boulders of bitterness. The result? We struggle under the weight of our grievances—all because we find it too hard to forgive.

Though we know God has called us to forgive, we find ourselves asking hard questions:

• What if it hurts too much to forgive?

• What if the other person isn’t sorry?

• How can I let someone off the hook for doing something
so wrong?

Biblical counselor June Hunt has been there herself, enabling her to speak from experience as she offers biblical help and hope with heartfelt compassion. If you’ve been pinned down under a landslide of pain, here’s how to find true freedom through forgiveness.