{"id":52230,"date":"2022-09-16T16:48:29","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T21:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=52230"},"modified":"2022-09-16T16:56:49","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T21:56:49","slug":"14-biblical-counseling-resources-on-empty-nest-midlife-retirement-aging-alzheimers-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=52230","title":{"rendered":"14 Biblical Counseling Resources on Empty Nest, Midlife, Retirement, Aging, &#038; Alzheimer\u2019s Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Word from Bob<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve adapted today\u2019s post from <a href=\"https:\/\/partners.biblicalcc.org\/purchase-the-annual-guide\/\"><em>The Annual Guide to Biblical Counseling Resources: 2022 Edition<\/em><\/a>. The Biblical Counseling Coalition now oversees and distributes <em>The Annual Guide<\/em>. For 2022 (as for 2018-2021), I provided the collation and content for <em>The Annual Guide<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>Empty Nest<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Fitzpatrick, Elyse. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Empty-Nest-Finding-Changing-Description\/dp\/193826780X\/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_1?keywords=The+Empty+Nest%3A+Finding+Hope+in+Your+Changing+Job+Description&amp;qid=1551911931&amp;s=books&amp;sr=1-1-fkmrnull\"><em>The Empty Nest: Finding Hope in Your Changing Job Description<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Your children are growing up and leaving home. You know this is a good thing, but at the same time, you\u2019re wondering who you are when you\u2019re not busy being your children\u2019s mother. You know this is a new season of life, but it\u2019s hard not to look back with longing and sometimes regret. In <em>The Empty Nest<\/em>, Elyse Fitzpatrick helps you see that Christ sympathizes with you in this vulnerable time. Unpacking the opportunities and challenges, she offers encouragement that this can be a season of fruitfulness in your life as you draw near to God and see new opportunities to love those around you.\u00a0<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <strong>Midlife<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Fitzpatrick, Elyse. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Afternoon-Life-Finding-Purpose-Midlife\/dp\/0875521975\/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1551911810&amp;sr=1-1\"><em>The Afternoon of Life: Finding Purpose and Joy in Midlife<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Afternoon of Life<\/em>\u00a0is written for women in the middle years of their lives. As we age, we wonder at the many changes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the population ages, increasingly biblical counselors are ministering to older adults. Here are 14 biblical counseling resources to equip you for this vital ministry.<br \/>\nThe post 14 Biblical Counseling Resources on Empty Nest, Midlife, Retirement, Aging, &#038; Alzheimer\u2019s Disease appeared first on RPM Ministries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":52232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[3456,5070,5071,5072,154],"class_list":["post-52230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rpm-ministries-bob-kellemen","tag-aging","tag-alzheimers-disease","tag-empty-nest","tag-midlife","tag-retirement","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/cropped-RPM-Ministries-Logo-Square-5.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52230"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52233,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52230\/revisions\/52233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/52232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}