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Restoring the Christian Soul: Overcoming Barriers to Completion in Christ through Healing Prayer » (Reprint)

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Authors: Leanne Payne, Leanne Healing Payne
ISBN-13: 9780801056994, ISBN-10: 0801056993
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Date Published: March 1996
Edition: Reprint

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Author Biography: Leanne Payne

Leanne Payne is the founder of Pastoral Care Ministries (PCM), based in Wheaton, Illinois, and the author of seven books, including The Broken Image, Crisis in Masculinity, and Listening Prayer.

Book Synopsis

In this award-winning book, Leanne Payne reveals how to overcome the three great barriers that keep us from becoming whole persons: inability to receive God's forgiveness, inability to forgive others, and inability to accept ourselves.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Preface
1Self-Hatred: The Traitor Within When Temptation Comes19
2First Great Barrier to Wholeness in Christ: Failure to Accept Oneself25
3Struggling Through to Self-Acceptance31
4Affirmation: What It Is and How It Is Received45
5Listening Prayer: The Way of Grace and the Walk in the Spirit57
6Healing of Memories: The Forgiveness of Sin67
7Second Great Barrier to Wholeness in Christ: Failure to Forgive Others81
8Prolonged Healing of Memories: Abandonment Issues and the Repression of Painful Emotions103
9Third Great Barrier to Wholeness in Christ: Failure to Receive Forgiveness141
10Conclusion to Healing of Memories153
11The Use of Holy Water and Other Powerful Christian Symbols and Agencies163
12The Gift of Battle183
13Cosmic Dimensions of Spiritual Warfare in Christian Organizations191
14Wrong Ways to Do Battle201
15Restoring the Christian Hope of Heaven and the Grace to Persevere217
Notes233
Index243

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