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Do I Need Boundaries?: Seeking to Please God by Learning to Say No
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 theAsk the Christian Counselor series, walking readers through their deepest and most profound questions.Compact format goes deeper than New Growth Press’s popular minibooks without overwhelming the reader.
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 theAsk the Christian Counselor series, walking readers through their deepest and most profound questions.Compact format goes deeper than New Growth Press’s popular minibooks without overwhelming the reader.
84 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 15, 2025
About the author
Jim Newheiser
28 books13 followersJim Newheiser, DMin, Westminster Theological Seminary, California, has served in pastoral ministry and has practiced biblical counseling for over thirty years. He is the Director of the Christian Counseling Program at Reformed Theological Seminary in Charlotte and the Executive Director of IBCD. He is an ACBC Fellow and board member.
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December 11, 2025
Although short and concise, this little gem is full of practical examples of common situations in which Christians struggle to hold boundaries. Looking at it from God's perspective, that we are to please him by loving others, sets this book apart from others on the same topic.
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