"Healing Family Relationships: A Guide to Peace and Reconciliation"--specific steps you can take in your relationships with your family members to pursue peace and healing in your homes--each chapter includes key biblical examples as well as present-day stories of families who have experienced spiritual help and healing (see my review)

Healing Family Relationships: A Guide to Peace and Reconciliation

Every family is hurting, and the wounds that come from our relatives can be deeper than all others. Conflict within a family can range from daily frictions and annoyances to rage and hatred and eventually estrangement. We want things to be different but have no idea where to start.

After 25 years of ministering to families, Rob Rienow believes reconciliation is at the heart of the gospel--reconciliation with God and one another. You will come away with specific steps you can take in your relationships with your family members to pursue peace and healing in your homes. Each chapter includes key biblical examples as well as present-day stories of families who have experienced God's help and healing--including the author's own miraculous healing of his relationship with his father.

Our families can bring out the best, as well as the worst, in all of us. May this book guide you in making your home and family a blessing in a broken world.

"Don't miss out on this life-transforming message."--DRS. LES & LESLIE PARROTT, #1 New York Times bestselling authors of Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts

"There is not a family in the universe who would not benefit from this book. It's hope filled, biblical, and practical."--JIM BURNS, PhD, president, HomeWord; author of Doing Life with Your Adult Children: Keep Your Mouth Shut & the Welcome Mat Out and The Purity Code

MY REVIEW:  While some hurtful family relationships may seem damaged beyond repair, there is still hope for reconciliation and spiritual renewal. In "Healing Family Relationships: A Guide to Peace and Reconciliation", Rob Rienow, Doctor of Ministry, offers practical guidelines, biblical insights, and personal stories (including the healing of his relationship with his own father). Not much in our lives is more painful than broken relationships with loved ones. Such situations have negative effects on every aspect of our lives. Dr. Rienow acknowledges "the power of forgiveness" and advises healing through Prayer, Repentance, Listening, Acceptance, Spiritual Warfare, Boundaries, Compassion, Patience, Mediators, and Mercy. He then explains how the positive effects of spiritual healing and reconciliation can work life-changing miracles down through generations. He includes his own story of how his troubled relationship with his father came full circle. No matter how deep the rifts may seem in relationships with loved ones, don't give up. Instead, clarify in your mind what you need to do and what you want the outcome to be--then work as hard as you can spiritually--and every way--to hold on to those you hold most dear.

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Rob Rienow

 

Rob Rienow (DMin, Gordon-Conwell) sees his most important ministry as loving his wife, Amy, and partnering with her to help their seven children follow God. In 2011, Rob and Amy launched Visionary Family Ministries, whose mission is to build the church through a global reformation of family discipleship. Through their conferences, seminars, and resources they seek to equip and encourage parents, couples, families, and church leaders around the world. He and Amy have written several books on family relationships, including Visionary Parenting and Visionary Marriage. When Rob is not fishing for men, he enjoys fishing for fish. The Rienow family lives in the western suburbs of Chicago. Learn more at www.visionaryfam.com.