Gambling: Betting Your Life Away

Gambling: Betting Your Life Away

Statistics on addiction and gambling reveal the negative impacts of gambling addiction. Incidents of bankruptcy, crime, corruption, domestic abuse, destruction of marriages and families, and suicide attempts are higher in the lives of those with a gambling addiction than with any other addiction. This new 96-page, Christian addiction recovery mini-book, Gambling: Betting Your Life Away, helps you or your loved one find freedom from an addiction to gambling.

Once the exhilarating ecstasy of winning has captured the mind, will, and emotions, all bets are off on the likelihood that people will find freedom on their own without gambling treatment. But don't bet your life away! With the transforming work and intervention of the Holy Spirit, freedom from a gambling addiction is possible.

This Christian addiction recovery mini-book is easy-to-read and covers signs of the 4 different types of gambling

• social gambling
• professional gambling
• compulsive gambling
• pathological gambling

Gambling: Betting Your Life Away will give you

• God's heart on gambling--find out the parables Jesus told on money and gambling.
• Gambling's false promises
• How to beat the get rich quick mentality
• How do we reverse our focus: to worship God over gambling?
• How can you hang onto God love and let go of cheap love.

June Hunt, a Christian counselor, includes helpful insights and biblical wisdom to help you determine whether you or a friend struggle with a gambling addiction.

Learn--

• How to know whether you are a problem gambler and need gambling treatment
• The compulsive gambling quiz
• Treatment programs for gambling addiction
• How to target a transformed life
• How to walk out of problem gambling in a godly way
• How to conduct a crisis intervention
• And much more.

Look for all 42 titles in the Hope For The Heart Biblical Counseling Library. These mini-books are for people who seek freedom from codependency, anger, conflict, verbal and emotional abuse, depression, or other problems.

Paperback, 96 pages, 4 x 7 inches.
Product Code: 236X

June Hunt

June Hunt, M.A. Criswell College, is a biblical counselor whose award-winning radio program Hope For The Heart is heard on 900 radio outlets around the world. For more than 25 years, she has counseled people, offering them hope for today's problems. June has helped many people with emotional, relational, and spiritual problems experience God's love through biblical hope and practical help. Click here to find out more about Hope for the Heart.

Hope For The Heart Board of Reference

Dr. Henry Blackaby (Blackaby Ministries International), Dr. Rick Warren (Saddleback Church), Dr. Tony Evans (The Urban Alternative), Joni Eareckson Tada (Joni and Friends), Kay Arthur (Precept Ministries International), Dr. David Jeremiah (Turning Point), Dr. Tim Clinton (American Association of Christian Counselors), Dr. Bruce Wilkinson (Bruce Wilkinson Ministries), Dr. Chip Ingram (Living on the Edge), Roger Staubach (SRS Real Estate Partners), Steve Arterburn (New Life Ministries), Vonette Bright (Campus Crusade for Christ), Dr. Charles Stanley (In Touch Ministries), Zig Ziglar (Ziglar Training Systems)

Kind Words about June Hunt After decades of counseling men and women from all walks of life, June knows how to lead readers to truth--truth that liberates because it is truth from God.
Kay Arthur, Co-founder of Precept Ministries International, and author of When the Hurt Runs Deep-Healing and Hope for Life's Desperate Moments Those of us who have had to forgive the unforgiveable will find June's materials to be tremendous-- filled with hope and healing. She speaks from the heart with truth, directly to your broken soul."
Stephen Arterburn, Founder of New Life Ministries and author of Healing Is a Choice June Hunt has been addressing the root issue for hurting hearts as long as I have known her. God has given her insightful sensitivity not only to identify human problems, but also to uncover biblical solutions. She has done it for me more than once! All who have hurting hearts--or who minister to wounded spirits--need to read her resources.
Dr. Dorothy Kelley Patterson, Professor of Theology in Women's Studies, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary June walks you through the step-by-step process to forgive...yes, even the 'unforgiveable.' If you want your days ahead to be better than the days gone by, this is a must read for you.
Dr. Tony Evans, Senior Pastor, Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship, and President of The Urban Alternative