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The Happiness Trap

April 3, 2022 by John

Publisher: Exisle Publishing (1 March 2007)
Language: English
Paperback: 284 pages
ISBN-10: 0908988907

A guide to ACT: the revolutionary mindfulness-based program for reducing stress, overcoming fear, and finding fulfilment.

Popular ideas about happiness are misleading, inaccurate, and are directly contributing to our current epidemic of stress, anxiety and depression. And, unfortunately, popular psychological approaches are making it even worse!
In this controversial but empowering self-help book, Dr Russ Harris reveals how millions of people are unwittingly caught in ‘The Happiness Trap’! He then provides an effective means to escape, through a revolutionary new approach which is shaking the very foundations of western psychology.

This book is for everyone, from CEOs to sales staff, from astronauts to housewives. Whether you’re lacking confidence, facing illness, coping with loss, working in a high-stress job, suffering from anxiety or depression, or preparing for the performance of your life – within these pages you will learn scientifically proven techniques to:

  • reduce stress and worry
  • rise above fear, doubt and insecurity
  • handle painful thoughts and feelings far more effectively
  • break self-defeating habits
  • improve performance and find fulfilment in your work
  • build more satisfying relationships and, above all,
  • create a rich, full and meaningful life.

‘Dr Harris shines a powerful beacon forward into the night. enjoy the journey. You are in excellent hands.’ Steven Hayes – bestselling author of Get Out of Your Mind And Into Your Life

About the Author
Dr Russ Harris is a medical practitioner with a passion for life, health and healing. A leading authority on stress management, Russ regularly travels all over Australia, and internationally, training coaches, psychologists, doctors, and other health professionals in the use of ‘mindfulness’.

Filed Under: Faith Formation - Books

God Attachment: Why You Believe, Act, and Feel the Way You Do About God

April 3, 2022 by John

Title: God Attachment: Why You Believe, ACT, and Feel the Way You Do about God
By: Tim Clinton, Ed.D.; Joshua Straub, Ph.D
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 256
Publisher: Howard Books; Reprint edition (November 29, 2014)

God. Whether one loves him, hates him, denies or defies him, it is hard to deny the worldwide fascination with God. This book explores why and suggests a personal response to the God Attachment in all of us.

Why has the human race, the world over, been so fascinated with…some might say obsessed with…God? This built-in attachment to God crosses religious, political, ethnic, cultural, and generational barriers.

Drs. Clinton and Straub reveal fascinating research about this worldwide phenomenon. From avoidant, anxious, and fearful to secure and personal, the range of responses to our internal attachment to God has a profound influence on the way we do relationships, intimacy, and life choices.

With helpful self-assessments, intriguing questions, and surprising revelations, this book moves from worldwide statistics to personal challenge, offering the means to become securely attached to God in a way that can have positive effects on our attitudes, approach to life, and overall life satisfaction.

Author Bio

Tim Clinton, Ed.D. (The College of William and Mary) is President of the nearly 50,000-member American Association of Christian Counselors (AACC), the largest and most diverse Christian counseling association in the world. He is Professor of Counseling and Pastoral Care, and Executive Director of the Center for Counseling and Family Studies at Liberty University. Licensed in Virginia as both a Professional Counselor (LPC) and Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT), Tim now spends a majority of his time working with Christian leaders and professional athletes. He has been married 30 years to his wife Julie and together they have two children, Megan and Zach.

Joshua Straub, Ph.D. has served on the executive staff for the American Association of Christian Counselors (AACC) for the past five years and is an adjunct professor at Liberty University. Having served either as a counselor, professor, or pastor since 2000, Josh now spends his time training and speaking to Christian counselors, pastors, and lay leaders across America for the AACC, Acquire the Fire conferences, and local churches. He specializes in attachment research, crisis and trauma, the Millennial Generation, and on cultivating healthy relationships both with God and others. Josh is married to his beautiful wife, Christi.

Filed Under: Faith Formation - Books

One Coin Found: How God's Love Stretches to the Margins

February 4, 2020 by Darren Wright

Title:  One Coin Found: How God’s Love Stretches to the Margins

Author:  Emmy Kegler

Pages:  209

Themes:  scripture, story, equality, exclusion, inclusion, acceptance, personal memoir, testimony

Audiobook:  We do not have this as an audiobook

Description

Emmy writes this book which is both memoir and exploration of scripture as a queer woman, a Lutheran pastor, a prophet and a story teller with a passion for the gospel, and for the god of the scriptures who accepts and loves us all. 

As she shares her own story Emmy delves into scripture and creates a beautiful space for all to hear that there is most definitely a space for them in the story of god in the hope that each of us may also be found by a love that is invitational, merciful, healing, divine, expansive and unconditional.

If you’ve ever found yourself being pushed to the edges of community, or of the church this book will be a breath of fresh air.

Get to know the author: 

Website: http://emmykegler.com

Podcast: 

Emmy Kegler on her book One Coin Found on the Her Story Speaks Podcast

Emmy Kegler on her book One Coin Found on A People’s Theology Podcast 

Emmy Kegler speaking to the Queerology Podcast

Video: 

Emmy Kegler on her book One Coin Found on the Love, Rinse, Repeat Podcast

Filed Under: Faith Formation - Books

The Very Good Gospel: How Everything Wrong Can Be Made Right

February 4, 2020 by Darren Wright

Title:  The Very Good Gospel: How Everything Wrong Can Be Made Right

Author:  Lisa Sharon Harper

Pages:  224

Themes:  Peace, Shalom, Kingdom of God, Relationship, Scripture, Discipleship, Justice, Hope, Healing, Love

Audiobook:  We do not have this book on audio, but it can be accessed through Audible.com.au

Description

This is a beautiful exploration of Shalom, and what peace might look like…

  • At work?
  • In our homes?
  • In our schools?
  • To you?
  • To God?

Lisa invites the reader on a journey to spend some time in the book of Genesis asking us how the stories may open up the Kingdom of God to us, and wondering what this might mean to us as a church and as individuals.  Lisa opens up the scriptures to us all and asks us to look at how we have used the scriptures to enable, encourage and empower racism and violence and challenges us to uncover a gospel of peace.

Lisa invites us all to live out the freedom and peace of the Gospel and heal the world.

Get to know the author: 

Website: https://lisasharonharper.com 

Podcast: 

Lisa Sharon Harper on How to create a politics of love on the For The Love podcast

Lisa Sharon Harper on Very good news in bad times on the A Better Story podcast

Lisa Sharon Harper on her book on The Pulpit Fiction podcast

Video: 

Lisa Sharon Harper on her book A Very Good Gospel on the Love, Rinse, Repeat Podcast

Lisa Sharon Harper speaking on The Very Good Gospel: How Everything Wrong Can Be Made Right

Filed Under: Faith Formation - Books

Inspired by Rachel Held Evans

February 4, 2020 by Darren Wright

Title:  Inspired

Author:  Rachel Held Evans

Pages:  236

Themes:  Bible, Story, Inspiration, Creation, Theology, Creativity, Gospels, War Stories, Songs, Wisdom

Audiobook:  We have a copy of this book as a CD in the library, you can also access the book via Audible and iTunes

Group Reading Guide: The author has written a reading guide for groups with conversation questions, scripture, activities for further exploration etc  

Description

This was my (Darren) favourite book of 2018, its a love letter to the bible, full of personal testimony, deep theology, creative story telling, poetry, humour and passion.  

Inspired is full of creative ways to enter the stories of the bible, Rachel speaks of how she has been challenged by and inspired by a variety of texts, and in doing so opens the bible up in a way that very few books have.

This book will open up the bible to those who read it, to the bible’s wonder, poetry and prose, it’ll invite readers to wrestle with the bible, and in ding so find inspiration.

Get to know the author: 

Tragically the author, Rachel Held Evans passed away not that long ago and will be greatly missed, her writing can be found on her website and she had written a number of books before Inspired, I highly recommend Searching For Sunday.

Website: https://rachel-held-evans.squarespace.com 

Podcast: 

A number of podcasts invited Rachel on to discuss her book Inspired, here are a few of the better interviews.

“Reading the Bible Creatively” with Rachel Held Evans on The Bible For Normal People Podcast

“Loving The Bible Again” with Rachel Held Evans on The Nomad Podcast

“Inspired” with Rachel Held Evans speaking with Jonathan Martin on the Son of a Preacher Man Podcast

“Loving, Leaving and Finding The Church Again” with Rachel Held Evans on the For The Love Podcast

Filed Under: Faith Formation - Books

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We are a community on a journey, we’ve grown from a small faith community planted in Ngunnawal in the early years of Gungahlin’s development to a thriving inclusive, intergenerational & multicultural community. As Gungahlin has grown we have seen a lot of change.

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Every Sunday, 9:30am
Gungahlin Uniting Church and Community Centre
108 The Valley Avenue
Gungahlin, ACT, 2913

Worship is for all ages, (0 to 93!) and seeks to be meaningful in different ways for us all.

In Jesus Christ we see how he drew near to each and all and so we hope our worship expresses this nearness too.

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