Do I Need Boundaries?

Counselor Jim Newheiser helps readers learn to use biblical wisdom when setting boundaries within their relationships with family, friends, coworkers, and churches.

The inability to say “no” can result in overcommitment, leaving us exhausted and even bitter toward those who make demands on our time and energy. Similarly, compromising our beliefs to keep a relationship can draw us away from who God has made us to be and what he has called us to do. In both cases, we need to be able to set wise boundaries, prioritizing pleasing God rather than pleasing others or even ourselves.

In Do I Need Boundaries? counselor Jim Newheiser offers practical advice for setting appropriate boundaries in our relationships and uses real-life scenarios to teach how to manage difficult situations. He highlights how our struggles to set boundaries are often due to having the wrong motives and offers a Christ-centered alternative to popular cultural solutions.

Offers biblical principles for setting boundaries with time, money, and emotional resources in a variety of circumstances and situations. Learn how to address heart issues that lead to overcommitment and people-pleasing. Part of the Ask the Christian Counselor series, walking readers through their deepest and most profound questions.

1. Opening Credits
2. Chapter 1: Thinking Like a Christian About Boundaries
3. Chapter 2: Biblical Principles for Setting Boundaries
4. Chapter 3: Applying Biblical Principles: A Job Without Boundaries
5. Chapter 4: Applying Biblical Principles: A Child Who Comes Out as Gay or Transgender
6. Chapter 5: Applying Biblical Principles: A Single Girl Who Hopes for a Ring by Spring
7. Chapter 6: Applying Biblical Principles: In-Laws Who Act Like Outlaws
8. Chapter 7: Applying Biblical Principles: Sexual Boundaries in Marriage
9. Chapter 8: Applying Biblical Principles: Dealing with Past Abuse
10. Chapter 9: Applying Biblical Principles: Financial Boundaries
11. Chapter 10: Applying Biblical Principles: Failure to Launch
12. Chapter 11: Applying Biblical Principles: Addicted to Screens
13. Conclusion
14. Appendix: A Biblical Perspective on Cloud and Townsend’s Treatment of Boundaries
15. Closing Credits