Good News for Victims of Rape (ePub)

Good News for Victims of Rape provides a biblical basis for counselors who are seeking to help female rape victims. It clears up common myths surrounding rape and gives insight into how this trauma impacts all aspects of their lives. Christ's transforming hope is shown through scriptural teaching about how He defines the victim and brings life out of evil. This book will help her to know and trust the Lord while living out who she is in Christ.

Editorial Reviews

I am thankful Anne Dryburgh has published this short book on caring for rape victims. You can read it in a couple of hours but will reflect on and refer to it for many years to come. Her clear writing style and obvious experience have given me a deeper understanding of the horrific and pervasive impact such assault has on victims. Such understanding is a necessary prerequisite for providing sensitive and appropriate biblical care. Anne equips her readers with the wisdom, sensitivity, and theological finesse she has been employing in her care of women over many years. In reading this book, you have the opportunity to be used by God to help women move from victim to victor in Christ, from shamed to redeemed daughter of God. Though short, this book addresses the complexities involved and is filled with plenty of relevant Scripture-providing a resource that I know I will return to time and again as I care for women.

Jane Kratz

Th.M. in Biblical Counselling

Care and Women's Ministry Coordinator Hope Church Auckland Park, South Africa

Chair of the National Board of Biblical Counselling, Africa

Member of ABC & BCC

In the United States, one in five women will be raped. I'm sickened even typing that horrific statistic. Biblical counselor, Anne Dryburgh, has written this book specifically to equip Christian women who are seeking to help female victims of rape. Anne combines thorough, current, relevant research, personal compassion, and biblical wisdom as she journeys with helpers through the relational and biblical process for bringing compassionate care and gospel hope to women who have experienced the horrors of sexual assault.

Dr. Robert Kellemen

VP/Academic Dean/Professor of Biblical Counseling at Faith Bible Seminary, Indiana, USA

Author of Gospel-Centered Counseling and Gospel Conversations

Written with an unusual and refreshing depth of understanding, compassion, and biblical wisdom, this book is a gift to Christian women (and men), counselors, and church leaders. Anne Dryburgh effectively dispels myths surrounding rape, shows how the Bible honestly addresses this unspeakable form of violence, and gives the reader an important understanding of its life-altering effects. Best of all, the author gives spiritual friends an example of how to bring gospel hope and help to victims by directing them to the stabilizing character of God and the newfound freedom and identity found in Jesus Christ alone.

Paul Tautges, D.Min

Pastor, Cornerstone Community Church

Founder, Counseling One Another (blog)

Author of Anxiety: Knowing God's Peace (31-Day Devotionals for Life) and A Small Book for the Hurting Heart

About the Author

Anne Dryburgh, Ph.D., is a biblical counselor certified by the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors (ACBC), the International Association of Biblical Counselors (IABC), and The Addiction Connection, a collective of biblical counselors and ministries united for the purpose of training and equipping the Body of Christ in biblically helping addicts and their loved ones. She has been a missionary with Echoes International in Flemish-speaking Belgium since the 1990s and partners with a number of biblical counseling organizations.