No Place for Abuse: Biblical Practical Resources to Counteract Domestic Violence Paperback – October 12, 2010

It would be great to have an updated version of this book. I used the information in this book as a supplemental reading for a college course I was teaching. It was a great additive to the class discussion.

We need more books like this on the market that combine domestic violence education with biblical values. This one was pretty good. After coming out of a savagely abusive marriage for seven years this book helped me to reconcile my faith with my decision to leave. Leaving saved mine and my daughters lives. God is now working mightily in our lives to rebuild us. Whether you have left your abusive situation already or not, this book will help you balance that decision against scripture. Another word for abuse in the Bible is oppression. The Psalms talk a lot about that and it is never ok. Oppression is an abuse of authority and an abuse of power. I prayed and prayed for many years for God to get me out of that situation. I realized that I was begging him to bless something that wasn't his will in the first place. I had to make the physical move to leave and once I did God backed me up hundred percent of the way and still has. I left my house my career and my dog temporarily just to save our lives but God has worked out all the details and provided everything we needed and more. I have no regrets and I know God is with us. Good luck to you!

This is a very important book in both the Evangelical Christian community and the community of those dealing with general domestic violence. For Evangelicals, the book gives a little discussed but important alternative view to the classic take of living with the abuse because "God hates divorce". The book should be read by every Evangelical pastor and should be on the shelf of every church library. It gives an entirely biblically based way of addressing domestic violence that does not require the victim to suffer in silence and shame. With a paradigm based in God's love for each and every person, His passion for justice and His compassion for the suffering, this book provides a basis for communication between the Church and providers of secular domestic violence services. Thus, it should be required reading for anyone providing services to victims of domestic violence. The authors have provided the basis for effective dialog between secular service providers and the Evangelical subculture. In the area of domestic violence, being crossculturally competent is essential to effective service provision to this community. While the book was written a number of years ago and the statistics are out of date, the concepts are timeless and essential to understanding and responding to this life-threatening problem.

Still reading, helpful, women need to come together, to encourage, support, up-lift each other, we are mother, sister, wives, daughter, co-worker, we make the family stand firm, and to order Satan out of every area of our lives, family, all who we come in contact with in Jesus, Yahshua Name Amen, People are not the enemy, we all need to pray, lets up-hold each other for our Souls and the Souls of our families, grandchildren and off-springs that has not be born yet, lets be smarter the Serpent and harmless as doves. Father Eternal forgive us of all our sins we have committed against You, Heaven and Earth and forgive us of our sins as a Nation in Jesus, Yahshua, Name Amen. Pray for the men in your family the Eternal Father's Will be done! Thanks for all that will be in pray with me!

I chose this rating because, for the average person looking for help and what to do in an abusive relationship, this is not the book. It is full of statistics and what their organization and others are doing around the world to investigate the crisis and what the extent of abuse entails. Marketed as a Christian book, there is little in it about how God views abuse and the help needed to be free, emotionally, spiritually and physically. Abuse in a spiritual problem and not a cultural, psychiatric, socio-economic problem. God has the answers and the Bible is very clear about why the problem is escalating. As a writer and speaker on this subject, I read a great deal of material and I was disappointed because it seems quite impersonal.

This is an excellent book. I would recommend it to all women but especially to Christian women. As Christian women, we need to acknowledge that domestic violence happens in our church. The more we understand domestic abuse, the easier it will be to talk about it and find ways to help our sisters heal. It is also important that we come to a more balanced interpretation of the scriptures on marriage and relationship. The influence of faith on how Christian women deal with abuse is addressed -- this is a must read. The book provides good resource material for further study.

I teach on the college level on the topic of The Biblical Role of Men and Women. I found this and the other books by Catherin Clark Kroeger to be excellent! How in the world did The Prince of Peace's followers ever think that violence was approved by Jesus Christ? He never did! This book should be made available to every pastor, teenager and young engaged couple! A must read!

I had this book before and found it useful and revelant about Domestic Violence and the church.

Excellent resource to vindicate victims and to show perpetrators the error of their ways and how they cannot use scripture to excuse their behaviourCatherine Kroeger is a lady I met in Essex UK spent her life to be a scholar to free women from oppression and bondage of abuse and the misuse of scripture, to free them from their captives. I very devote and spiritually led women.

Useful and informative