Product Description

This book will help you to learn, even in the hardest
situations, what you could say.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #214729 in Books
• Published on: 2000-11-17
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

Roy Barker; Anvil; September 2002
This handbook is very good, easy to read, simple, well indexed and
up to date.

From the Back Cover
At your kitchen table your best friend, struggling to hold
together a crumbling marriage, pours out her heart. At housegroup that
evening the lonely widower, still grieving after more than a year, just
wants to talk. Later your sister telephones, trying to come to terms with
why she can't have children.

You long to help, to bring words of comfort and healing. But where do you
start: What should you say?

Peter Hicks believes that some sufferers, perhaps one in ten, need
professional help. What the other nine need, so very badly, is the
listening ear of a Christian friend.
This is a book to help you be that listening, friend, giving: Bible
passages to point to: principles for sharing Christ's love; explanations
of specific conditions; strategies for coping and changing habits;
guidance about when to involve expert help.

Above all, this book will help you to learn, even in the hardest
situations, what you could say.

Review
I have often had people say to me that, faced with someone upset, or
struggling with a deep personal problem, they simply didn't know what to
say. Or they were afraid of saying the wrong thing, and so said nothing.
They wanted to help but did not feel able to. We've probably all been there
at some time. Well, help is at hand. For this book by Peter Hicks is
written, as the subtitle indicates, as a handbook for helpers. A helper
incidentially, is potentially any Christian, as is made clear in the
introduction. So this is a book written not for 'experts' but for
'ordinary' Christians who want to help others. ...it provides a valuable
resource at an accessible, non-specialist level, for any Christian serious
about helping others. Actually, shouldn't that be every Christian? This
book is a must.
London Bible College Annual Review 2000

About the Author
Peter Hicks, was a church pastor who formerly lectured in
philosophy and pastoral care at London School of Theology.

He is also the author of 'What could I do?' and 'What could I be?', both
published by IVP