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.

Is There Someone Important You've Forgotten to Love? It's the second greatest commandment in the Bible: Love your neighbor as you love yourself. But what if you don't love yourself very well? How can you grow into a happier, freer, and more genuinely loving you? In Loving God, Loving Myself, biblical counselors Jerry and Denise Basel give you a traveling companion on your journey to healing from life's wounds and Satan's lies. These fifty-five engaging and hope-filled readings correspond to the Basels' book The Missing Commandment: Love Yourself and make a valuable accompaniment. However, this book is designed to stand by itself. The Basels say, "Some of the writings are inspirational. Others are informative and instructional to help you better understand yourself and your life story." Read just one short chapter a day. Steep in the wisdom and encouragement gleaned from God's Word. Learn from the stories of others as well as the Basels themselves. And gain daily hope, insight, and vision for your life as you walk the road with God toward loving yourself and others the way God does.

Through their book, The Missing Commandment: Love Yourself, Jerry and Denise Basel draw on their many years of biblical counseling practice and help you experience God's love as the daily, motivating force in your life. They help you see how to stop punishing and start loving someone whom your heavenly Father loves very much-YOU. The healing journey now continues with The Missing Commandment: Love Yourself DVD Study Guide as a companion to the Basels' 45-minute teaching DVD (sold separately at www.jerryanddenisebasel.com or www.gumroad.com/l/XPKY). The seven session study guide format includes Scriptures for reflection, the video narrative, reading assignments from the original book, and questions for individual reflection and/or sharing with others. Join Jerry and Denise as they take you deeper still into the healing process as you learn to love yourself the way God does. 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. You see, the missing commandment has never been missing from the Bible, only from your life. But that can change, starting now.

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.Used both individually and in Bible studies, recovery groups, men¿s and women¿s retreats, and private counseling across the country, The Missing Commandment: Love Yourself invites you on a journey of God-discovery, self-discovery, and truth-discovery. This expanded edition sheds still greater light on some of life¿s most wounding influences¿and the way to move beyond them. Drawing on their many years of biblical counseling practice, Jerry and Denise Basel help you experience God¿s love as the daily, motivating force in your life. And they show you how to stop punishing and start loving someone whom your heavenly Father loves very much¿YOU.Jerry and Denise Basel have codirected The Father¿s Heart Intensive Christian Counseling Ministry for more than twenty years, counseling individuals and couples worldwide. In addition to The Missing Commandment: Love Yourself book, DVD, and study guide, they are the authors of Loving God, Loving Myself: Finding the Heart of the Father in Our Daily Lives. The Basels reside in Cleveland, Georgia. Visit their websites at www.fathersheart.com and www.jerryanddenisebasel.com.

From the time Erin Lamb was a child, she was curious about the God of the Bible. She grew up in a home with a pastor and Sunday school teacher, which made knowing God a part of everyday life. More than reading about Him, her heart longed to know Him personally, as Moses knew Him. Along this journey, she picked up a pen and paper and began to write about her experiences with God and His responses. I Thought I Knew What Love Was is a book for every person who wants to plunge deeper into the heart of God. If circumstances or life have made God seem distant or cold, the words on these pages will lure your heart on a journey with the God of the high and low places. Understanding the depths of Gods love during the good and the challenging times is essential to living a joy-filled life. Erin has captured the heart of God through prayers, sonnets, and poems that reveal the human experience in relation to God. If you have ever felt as though God doesnt understand you, then poems like Agape, Even If, and Our Deepest Need will reveal Gods unfailing love for you. Whether you find yourself in the difficult places, or on the mountaintop, your heart and mind will be drawn to a more intimate place where you commune with God.

This book is about discovering together how to understand and live the Greatest Commandment. We’re not after the “art of thinking about God a little differently.” We’re here to uncover the needs God created within us—needs for meaning, intimacy, honesty, humility, justice, compassion, and more—and how he designed us to find those needs fulfilled in him. This is the art of living Jesus’ spirituality. God gives us the key in the Greatest Commandment, but we’ve got to do this stuff in the right order. Imagine I invite you to my sweet cabin by the lake. To start hanging out in that cabin, you need to get the key from me, pack your car, follow the GPS, and so on. There’s a natural order to it. It’s the same with the Greatest Commandment. We begin upward, with loving God. The God. God of the Old Testament, God of the New Testament. God the Trinity—Father, Son, Holy Spirit. We continue inward, with understanding our true identities in Jesus. And when we get those things right, God’s Spirit sends us outward, on mission into the world. These three movements—upward, inward, and outward—mirror the Greatest Commandment and help us learn the art of living harmoniously together in a chaotic world.

Helping Christian parents raise their children with grace and the gospel, this book addresses topics such as the law, God's forgiveness and love, and true heart obedience--a great resource for raising grace-filled kids.