The Wounded Heart by Dan Allender (Book Review)
The Wounded Heart by Dan Allender
Is your heart wounded and your body and soul defiled after painful experiences in your past? Are you a victim of sexual abuse at some point in your life? How does an act become sexual abuse? Is there hope of complete healing and recovery for victims? Is it not too late to begin this healing journey?
The Wounded Heart: Hope for Adult Victims of Childhood Sexual Abuse is the result of Dr. Dan Allender’s psychological counseling and ministry to sexual abuse victims for decades. On a daily basis, he is being confronted with men and women suffering the ill-effects of childhood molestation, incest, rape, and physical, verbal, and sexual assaults by their family member or those closest to them. The Wounded Heart book documents these profiles and how they found freedom through biblical counseling and psychology and more importantly, through God’s intervention and ministry upon their lives.
The Wounded Heart by Dan Allender is written primarily to compel us to be more loving towards God and others, not only to alleviate pain. The “ultimate goal is love, not pain-relief.” Growth, substantial healing, and total recovery in heaven are the focus of the Wounded Heart paperback and accompanying workbook. The Wounded Heart book is divided into three parts:
Part 1 – The Dynamics of Abuse
Part 2 – The Damage of Abuse
Part 3 – Prerequisites of Growth
Dan Allender is the president and professor of counseling at Mars Hill Graduate School in Seattle, Washington. He is a fly fisherman, a psychotherapist in private practice and a conference speaker and author. His published works include The Cry of the Soul, Breaking the Idols of Your Heart, Bold Love, Intimate Allies, To Be Told: Know Your Story / Shape Your Future, How Children Raise Parents, and The Healing Path.
The Wounded Heart is an excellent resource also for those who have not experienced abuse but know of people going through the same. Statistics say 32% of population has been sexually abused by age 18. The enemy meant this for evil and destruction but God offers redemption.
The Wounded Heart by Dan Allender and other Christian books are available in our Christian book store or wherever books are sold.
About the author: Haydee
I have a passion to love God above all else. It is my desire to worship Him and to serve Him for the rest of my life. He is my first love. In Him, I live and move and have my being. I am His child, His treasured possession and His ambassador to reach souls for His kingdom. I am currently the Book Reviewer for CBB and in-charge of CBB book marketing here. God called me to be a Prayer Minister in Healing Rooms and IAHR Online Healing Rooms and connected with Wholeness Ministries and Elijah House.