Healing a Father's Heart

by Kathy Jones and Linda Cochrane

Book Overview

Includes practical information to help hurting men work through the stages of post-abortion syndrome and find comfort in the reassurance of God's love and acceptance.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801057221
• ISBN13: 9780801057229
• Release Date: November 1996
• Publisher: Baker Books
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 16 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 10 and higher

Customer Reviews

a "must have" for post-abortive men

I offer abortion recovery assistance to women through the companion book, Forgiven and Set Free. However, in the past two months, men who have been part of an abortion decision are asking for help in their recovery. I offered this book and now they are waiting in line for a group bible study for men. They are asking for help to process their role in the abortion decision, seek forgiveness for abandoning their child(ren), woman, and responsibility to protect and provide. This book restores the father's heart to love God, others, and self, as well as accept their God-given role in life.

Healing A Father's Heart-A Post Abortion Bible Study for Men

Overall, this book is a good foundation for any man to understand the grieving process he is going through in the aftermath of abortion. The questions at the end of each chapter are throught-provoking and will help the male to come out of denial if his feelings have been supressed. The questions chosen for group discussion will certainly assure the men that others are experiencing what he is experiencing and that he is not alone in his grief. I gave this book a 4-star rating as I see this Bible Study as a beginning process in the areas of anger, forgiveness, and depression. More counsel, either one-on-one or in a support group, would need to go more indepth for a greater healing to occur. Chapter 8 shows the real 'heart motives' behind an abortion choice, and chapter 9 has excellent closure for the man who has worked through his unresolved grief.Since this book is authored by two women, my main concern before reading this book was whether or not it would really be able to speak to the man, his issues, his perspective, and his grief. My concerns were relieved as I completed this reading. I am planning to use this book with post-abortive men in my own ministry, both professionally as a pastor, and as Counseling Director at our local Pregnancy Helpline.