Overcoming Bitterness: Moving from Life's Greatest Hurts to a Life Filled with Joy

“Pastor Steve's latest offering, Overcoming Bitterness, tackles a much-needed but oft-neglected topic. People from all walks of life can carry and harbor pockets of bitterness, and we can all too frequently ignore the fruit of bitterness in our life. With a pastor's heart and a counselor's skill, Viars brings biblical clarity and practical counsel for this common issue. Readers will be surprised, encouraged, and convicted by the helpful counsel contained in this brief book. I commend it to you heartily!”

“This wonderful volume helpfully addresses an all too common heart issue by carefully and comprehensively walking us through biblical teaching and examples that show how the grace of God in Christ can enable us to overcome bitterness. It often reads like a good biblical counseling session and will be of great help to both counselors and counselees.”

“This book brims with hope for the bitter person and for those who live with them. This will be an extremely helpful resource for biblical counselors.”

“In Overcoming Bitterness, Pastor Steve Viars provides practical biblical counsel for an issue that everyone faces at one time or another. Yet, few of us truly understand bitterness biblically. Steve artfully, compassionately, and comprehensively addresses bitterness both as a lament over suffering to be brought to our caring Father and as a heart issue of sin to be brought to our forgiving Savior. Overcoming Bitterness will be a wonderfully beneficial equipping tool for individuals and small groups, and for pastors and counselors."

“Guiding people to see bitterness from behavioral, conditional, and heart perspectives is brilliant! Dr. Viars writes with the precision of a theologian and the practicality of a pastor. This is a great read and very helpful for people who truly want to address bitterness.”