Disorders

Easy distractibility or forgetfulness? Mouths, arms, hands, and legs that run ahead of thinking? Impulsive decisions, chronic difficulties meeting deadlines, mistaken notions of one's own abilities? ...behaviors often associated with Attention Deficit Disorder. What is ADD? What are the strengths and weaknesses of ADD children? What can be done about the puzzling disorder? Noting both the challenges and...

Eating Disorders: The Quest for Thinness What started as an innocent diet has turned into a monster. You eat too little. You eat too much. You restrict. You binge. Some days you wish you could just forget about food. Can someone like you ever learn to eat normally? Edward T. Welch describes how easy it is, in a weight-conscious world that also uses food for comfort, to take the small steps that lead to a full-blown...

Help for Weary Parents Never. It's a hard word for any parent to hear. He'll never walk. She'll never feed herself. Your lives will never be the same. While the prospect of raising a special needs child can be overwhelming, Jesus Christ makes himself constantly available to the weary and heavy laden. Stephen Viars helps parents of special needs children to be authentic before the Lord about their pain, guiding them...

Non-Christians and Christians alike often embrace a low view of God, and consequently a casual view of sin and Scripture. Instead of perceiving God as "Most High", they attempt to make God subservient to man by thinking of "Man (as) Most High." This low view of God is reflected in their attitudes about God, their attitudes about Scripture, and their attitudes of the heart. If our minds are to be transformed to think...

Taking Your Negative Feelings to God What do you do when you get upset? Cry? Blow-up? Get depressed? Or perhaps, no one notices when you're upset because you find a quiet place and cut yourself. You're looking for relief, but is this the respite you really want? There is a better way to manage your negative emotions. Instead of cutting - the never ending cycle of hiding and going deeper and deeper - you can go to...