
Product Details
- Cover Type:
- 224 Pages
- Publisher: P & R Publishing
- Publication Date: May 2021
- ISBN: FBETTESHW___TREASURESOFENCOURAGE9781629958811
Treasures of Encouragement: Women Helping Women
Encouragement is vital the spiritual health of all Christians. It's a blessing to both the encouraged and the encourager. As God's children, it's our responsibility to provide comfort to others. But when the need for comfort arises due to tragedy or hardship, we often fail to encourage our friends and family because we feel too awkward or nervous.
As she explores the power of biblical encouragement, Sharon Betters shows how to harness it to help those in need, even when it's difficult. We discover that a strong foundation in Christ enables us to step into the suffering of others and show them the comfort of the Holy Spirit. Through inspiring stories, key principles, and ideas for putting biblical encouragement into action, readers will learn that by sharing in each other's suffering, we can bring joy and contentment to our community and to ourselves.
Sharon Betters is a mother of four and grandmother of nine. She is a nationally known conference and retreat speaker and has also spoken to women’s groups in Africa and Japan. Author of Treasures of Encouragement and Treasures of Faith, she has also contributed articles to Today’s Christian Woman, Virtue, and Christian Parenting Today.
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“People often ask me how to walk alongside friends who are hurting. Practical, honest, and steeped in Scripture, this book provides better answers than anything else I have read. I have turned to it again and again, both for comfort in my own suffering as well as for ideas for ministering to others. I read the original twenty-three years ago, shortly after my son died, and it was truly a treasure of encouragement to me. Sharon’s words shaped my thinking and helped me to press into the Lord as I wrestled with questions, doubts, and fear. I am indebted to her for this work, and after you read Treasures of Encouragement, you will be too. I highly recommend it!”
Vaneetha Rendall Risner
Author, Walking through Fire and The Scars That Have Shaped Me
“While reading Sharon Betters’s passionate appeal to practice the privilege of God-glorifying, Spirit-empowered, biblical encouragement, my heart was arrested. I closed the book to contact a hurting friend. Treasures of Encouragement has the potential to transform churches into powerhouses of Christ’s compassion and love. May it be so!”
Leslie Bennett
Speaker, Author, Leader Connection (Blog) Content Manager, Revive Our Hearts; Editor, Women’s Ministry Leader Survival Guide and 10 Truths to Set Leaders Free
“Treasures of Encouragement is a timely reminder of the power of God’s Word to change a life and to make the impossible doable. I appreciated the encouragement to look around and see that I have a part in helping the Lord to comfort the wounded and restore the hurting. I heartily recommend this book to anyone who wants to experience more of the grace of God.”
Annie Chapman
Singer; Speaker; Author, Letting Go of Anger and The Mother-in-Law Dance
“Out of personal and profound grief, Sharon Betters has written a classic that is a must-have for every Christian’s library. In it, she lays out the essential aspects of a church whose culture is fueled by biblical encouragement and shows what it means to be part of a congregation that is a safe place of grace—that allows Christians to make mistakes, fall down, get up, and continue to grow together in Christ.”
Melanie Cogdill
General Editor, Beyond the Roles; Member, The Pelican Project
“Biblical encouragers helped me to climb out of a dark depression, so I love how this book reminds readers that all God’s children are called to be encouragers. In a self-centered and broken world, the combination of real-life personal stories and biblical focus reminds us that coming alongside one another is a privilege. I am grateful for the emphasis Sharon places on the power of Scripture to comfort others when we don’t know what to say. I hope that many read this book and know that they too are equipped and called to be God’s promise keepers through the practice of biblical encouragement.”
Jan Dravecky
Cofounder, Endurance with Jan and Dave Dravecky; Author; Speaker
“Encouragement is a gift, a treasure both to give and to receive from the body of Christ. Sharon Betters unpacks what this biblical encouragement looks like in the life of a believer. Using personal stories of those who entered into her own sorrow or who received this treasure from the godly, as well as Christ-centered teaching from Scripture, Betters equips readers to walk beside the hurting. May we show the world who Christ is as we encourage one another with the mutual hope we have in Christ.”
Christina Fox
Counselor; Speaker; Author, Closer Than a Sister
“With practical wisdom that nourishes the parched and brittle soul, Sharon introduces us to real women with real struggles. Through their stories she challenges us to think biblically about our own struggles while infusing the hope needed to navigate them.”
Vanessa K. Hawkins
Director of Women’s Ministry, First Presbyterian Church, Augusta, Georgia; Speaker; Cohost, Something to Talk About podcast
“To encourage is to inspire courage, hope, or confidence. Twenty-five years ago, I picked up Treasures of Encouragement as a young pastor’s wife who was desperately looking for these comforts. The truths contained within these covers have stood the test of time and personally sustained me. I am delighted to endorse this new edition of Treasures of Encouragement.”
Karen Hodge
Coordinator of Women’s Ministries, Presbyterian Church in America; Author, Transformed and Life-giving Leadership
“Sharon’s theological integrity and her personal pilgrimage through pain harmonize into a glorious doxology.”
Susan Hunt
Author, Spiritual Mothering and Aging with Grace
“Deeply moving, compelling, and extremely practical.”
Stephen Smallman
Author, Beginnings and The Walk
“Sharon Betters taught me about lament. This book is a discipleship treasure for practical encouragement in hard seasons. It equipped junior-high girls to boldly serve one another and me when my sister passed away. Treasures of Encouragement still gives me courage. I am a debtor to the way God faithfully uses Sharon’s suffering by His mercy for the ministry of encouragement in my life.”
Barbara Thompson
Author, Equipping the Church for Kingdom Prayer; Coauthor, The Legacy of Biblical Womanhood
Product Description
Encouragement is vital the spiritual health of all Christians. It's a blessing to both the encouraged and the encourager. As God's children, it's our responsibility to provide comfort to others. But when the need for comfort arises due to tragedy or hardship, we often fail to encourage our friends and family because we feel too awkward or nervous.
As she explores the power of biblical encouragement, Sharon Betters shows how to harness it to help those in need, even when it's difficult. We discover that a strong foundation in Christ enables us to step into the suffering of others and show them the comfort of the Holy Spirit. Through inspiring stories, key principles, and ideas for putting biblical encouragement into action, readers will learn that by sharing in each other's suffering, we can bring joy and contentment to our community and to ourselves.
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Product Details
- Cover Type:
- 224 Pages
- Publisher: P & R Publishing
- Publication Date: May 2021
- ISBN: FBETTESHW___TREASURESOFENCOURAGE9781629958811