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Finish Line : Dispelling Fear, Finding Peace, And Preparing For The End Of
$27.99Add to cartFacing your ultimate death can be scary, but in light of God’s promises, it doesn’t have to be. Finish Line provides practical and biblical help on topics such as finances, blessing others, end-of-life choices, heaven, and caring for those you leave behind so you can approach your own finish line with hope, joy, and peace.
It’s normal to have questions about how to face the last season of our lives well, and though we long to end our lives with grace and gratitude, sometimes we feel fear and uncertainty instead.Robert Wolgemuth knows what it is like to face death, having lost his first wife of almost 45 years to cancer and battling cancer twice himself. Finish Line distills a lifetime of spiritual wisdom as Robert helps you:
*Find true peace and reassurance about the end of life
*Discover the things you can do to prepare those you love before you die
*Understand the truth about heaven and what God has for his followers in the next life
*Learn from people in the Bible about what crossing the finish line should–and shouldn’t–look like
*Take care of specifics such as planning your funeral service, determining end-of-life issues, and preparing a will
*Let go of physical, relational, and emotional clutter
*Receive what God has for you in your final years
A rich guide for this season of your life, Finish Line offers unvarnished–even lighthearted–truth to comfort your heart, practical help to ease your mind, and a reminder of God’s promises to comfort your spirit so you can look toward your own finish line with both peace and hope.
Gettin Old Aint For Wimps Volume 2
$14.99Add to cart” It takes grit and wit to keep standing when your skin doesn’t fit the way it used to, when you think someone stole your car but in truth you forgot where you parked it, when your grandchild looks at your figure and observes, ‘Grandma, you look like a teenager– except for your face!'”
–Karen O’ConnorThis second volume of Gettin’ Old Ain’t for Wimps celebrates the most beloved stories of acclaimed humorist Karen O’Connor. These funny and relatable tales of fellow Baby Boomers navigating theirs Golden Years will encourage you to cherish every antic and adventure that comes with growing older.
Gettin’ Old Ain’t for Wimps Volume 2 is a heartfelt, joyful reminder to keep living to the fullest, no matter how much life you’ve got behind you. In addition to Karen’s signature wit and wisdom, you’ll find scriptures and prayers to nurture your spirit and remind you to keep your eyes on the One who made you, who numbered your days, and who promises that He will never leave nor forsake you, right up to your last breath–and beyond!
Aging Faithfully : The Holy Invitation Of Growing Older
$16.99Add to cartEvery new year of life is an undiscovered country.
There’s no map through our later years, and the new terrain can bring anxiety and uncertainty, when our souls are more preoccupied with what has been lost than what is to come. While our physical stamina, independence, and career fulfillment decline, each of these losses invites us to grow, inward and upward. God calls us to let go of our need for fulfillment and embrace the gift of fruitfulness so that we might be transformed in this final season of our lives.
In Aging Faithfully, spiritual director Alice Fryling guides our walk with God in a vulnerable time, listening for his voice and responding. As we age, something unusual happens: God renews us from within, when we allow him access. As we accept our responses to the aging process, we grow closer to God and experience his grace.
Are you open to increased hope, joy, and transformation? Would you like to grow in life-giving ways–no matter the circumstances? Do you have the courage to let go of former ways of thinking to receive love and life in new ways?
We all age differently, and God calls each of us to new spiritual birth as we mature. Whether you are approaching the beginning, middle, or end of your senior years, you are invited. Come and be transformed.
Aging With Grace
$18.99Add to cartAging with Grace by the Power of the Gospel
There are many blessings that come with age: retirement, grandchildren, travel, and life experience. Today’s culture, however, marginalizes old age, often portraying it as burdensome and hopeless. Many older women can feel like an encumbrance rather than a blessing to their friends and family members. In response to these struggles, Sharon Betters and Susan Hunt encourage women to find hope through both real-life and biblical accounts of women who rediscovered gospel-rooted joy later in life. In each chapter, readers will be encouraged as they experience afresh a gospel that is big enough, good enough, and powerful enough to make every season of life significant and glorious.
OH To Be 108 Again
$13.95Add to cartAn Outskirts Press Title
For forty years, James K. Wagner was a United Methodist minister. Now that he is retired and living in community with other older people, he has found that no one ages out of asking questions about their Christian faith.
Oh, to Be 108 Again: Aging Gracefully by Living Fully in the 4th Quarter of Life answers questions such as: Why is forgiveness so hard to do? Why is the Bible so difficult to understand? What evidence do we have of an afterlife? Is there any help in coping with grief?
Wagner’s Spiritual and Ethical Wellness Checklist personalizes the book for each reader, and each chapter concludes with four questions for personal reflection and small group discussion.
There are no wrinkles on one’s soul. Spiritual growth has no limitations. And with a heart that cares for others, with eyes that see beyond everyday happenings, and with a spirit in tune with the spirit of God, we will find that good things can and do happen in our later years.
Best Is Yet To Come
$16.95Add to cartDo you wish your later years came with a manual? While we all face fears about growing older, we can still approach our time and our relationships with faith, fun, and fulfillment. God gives us his grace to take risks and make decisions at this stage of our lives–with wisdom, peace, and joy. Find out how your second half of life can be the best years yet!
Vesper Time : The Spiritual Practice Of Growing Older
$23.00Add to cartVesper Time addresses the yearning among elders for continued growth, expansiveness of heart, improvement of mind, and a meaningful understanding of our lives in our later years. With a new Introduction and Discussion Guide, it provides expert guidance and gentle encouragement for those in this stage of their journey of life.
Uncommon Guide To Retirement
$15.99Add to cartHow to have a retirement worth having
There’s a lot of advice about retirement out there. Some try to tell you retirement can and should be a perpetual vacation. Others might speak about retirement as a time for your second career. And there’s some truth in all of it, but there’s a lot wrong with it too.
An Uncommon Guide to Retirement gives you a new way of looking at retirement (that doesn’t reject the good from the old ways of doing things). In it, Jeff Haanen explores ideas like Sabbath, calling, and purpose, and teaches you how to:
-reframe conversations around the body and healthcare decisions
-understand your family system, set boundaries, and leave an intentional legacy
-love God, bear witness to the gospel, and serve your neighbors in retirement
-and more!If you’re retired or thinking about retirement and want a more purpose-filled retirement, this book is for you!
Safe And Secure10 Essential Steps For Seniors To Protect Against Financial
$14.99Add to cartThieves and scammers are on the prowl for easy targets who have significant exposed assets-and if you’re a senior citizen who saved for retirement, you may be the perfect mark.
Fran Tarkenton, the NFL Hall of Fame quarterback who became a succesful entrepreneur, has partnered with financial executive and software developer Rick Gossett to present this practical, up-to-date guide to scam-proofing your savings during your golden years. Safe & Secure will give you ten specific actions steps that will turn you from an “easy” target into a “hard” target. A well-prepared senior who understands the potential for financial abuse and has taken the precautions recommended in this book is more than likely to remain safe and secure through a long and comfortable retirement.
Aging Gracefully
$7.99Add to cartHow does the Bible instruct us as we grow older? Age gracefully, age wisely, age resolutely to the glory of God.
There are few longings in my heart deeper than this: That God would let me live a godly, purposeful, dignified old age. I mean to encourage us both to age gracefully, to age wisely, to age resolutely to God’s glory.
We are all aging. We are passing through time until we reach the end of our time. We soon learn that greater age brings greater sorrow but also greater joy, especially to those who are in Christ.
To age gracefully we must age in Christ and for Christ. What does it look like to age gracefully? What do we need to be doing now to ensure we finish this race strong?
These are questions for all Christians, young and old. Thankfully the Bible speaks clearly about how to age and how to age well. Join me in exploring what the Bible has to say about age and aging and learn how we can all hear those beautiful words, “well done, good and faithful servant.”
-Tim Challies
30 Days Of Hope When Caring For Aging Parents
$9.99Add to cartIn 30 Days of Hope When Caring for Aging Parents, author and fellow caregiver Kathy Howard offers the encouragement needed as you strive to care for your parents in a way that pleases God and shows them honor and respect while maintaining their dignity. Through Scripture passages, prayer prompts, and Kathy’s personal stories, be strengthened in the knowledge that the giver of all wisdom will empower you in the daily moments when you are caught between being your parents’ child and their caregiver.
Whats Age Got To Do With It
$16.99Add to cartIf you think that being old is about having a rocking chair and an easy life style, think again. You’re looking through the binoculars backwards. What’s Age Got To Do With It? turns the lenses the right way around and gives a clear, Scriptural view of God’s purpose for old age. When He created the universe, God set in motion times and seasons and the ageing process. Old age was part of His plan from the beginning – that people should ripen to maturity, developing wisdom through a lifetime of experience and relationship with Him, eventually enriching others with attributes that have been honed over lifetimes. But instead of contributing as God intended, many see themselves as “useless” and are afraid of being a burden. Ageism has destroyed their self-image and expectations, and they give up and become passive – and we are all the losers. Here are stories of many people living full, purpose-driven lives well into their 90s and even 100s. For example, you’ll meet the lay preacher who wrote a book at 100 years of age because he couldn’t stand long enough to preach, and the 95-year-old who organized more Christian support from local churches for his care home, as well as many ordinary people who are making a difference to the lives of those around them. What’s Age Got To Do With It? shows how to take off the reins and live the way God intended from the beginning.
Aging Honorably And Happily
$16.95Add to cartThe author provides inspiration, challenge, and encouragement to help others embrace the Golden Years optimistically, courageously, productively, uprightly, and joyfully. His inclusion of humor in each chapter is potent medicine for the soul.
On Broken Pieces
$15.99Add to cartIn the 27th chapter of the book of Acts, Luke describes how the apostle Paul and his shipmates endure a storm-tossed shipboard voyage to Rome. They commit the ship to the sea and themselves into the hands of God. The ship is broken into pieces–not to destroy them, but to save them, for some reached the safety of shore on planks and debris from the broken ship. They came in on broken pieces.
Award-winning author Joshua A. McClure was compelled by a vision from God to share encouraging words with all who desire release from their prisons of despair, to the land of hope and freedom. Here he shares 32 years of transforming messages from The Pleasant Street Baptist Church Pulpit after frequent encounters with a loving, caring God. The sermons collected within these pages are simple, clear, and personal. It is Joshua’s hope and prayer that God will use these simple words to resurrect the hearts of those who have been waiting and longing for him.
Embodied Hope : A Theological Meditation On Pain And Suffering
$25.00Add to cartA Necessary Prelude
Part I: The Struggle
1. Hard Thoughts About God
2. Don’t Answer Why
3. Longing And Lament
4. Embracing Embodiment
5. Questions That Come With PainPart II: The Strangeness Of God
6. One With Us: Incarnation
7. One For Us: Cross
8. Risen And RemainingPart III: Life Together
9. Faith, Hope, And Love
10. Confession And The Other
11. FaithfulAdditional Info
This book will make no attempt to defend God. . . . If you are looking for a book that boasts triumphantly of conquest over a great enemy, or gives a detached philosophical analysis that neatly solves an absorbing problem, this isn’t it. Too often the Christian attitude toward suffering is characterized by a detached academic appeal to God’s sovereignty, as if suffering were a game or a math problem. Or maybe we expect that since God is good, everything will just work out all right somehow. But where then is honest lament? Aren’t we shortchanging believers of the riches of the Christian teaching about suffering? In Embodied Hope Kelly Kapic invites us to consider the example of our Lord Jesus. Only because Jesus has taken on our embodied existence, suffered alongside us, died, and been raised again can we find any hope from the depths of our own dark valleys of pain. As we look to Jesus, we are invited to participate not only in his sufferings, but also in the church, which calls us out of isolation and into the encouragement and consolation of the communal life of Christ. Drawing on his own family’s experience with prolonged physical pain, Kapic reshapes our understanding of suffering into the image of Jesus, and brings us to a renewed understanding of-and participation in-our embodied hope.
Strong Memory Sharp Mind
$15.99Add to cartDr. Frank Minirth offers medical insights, practical tips, and brain stimulating exercises you can use to prevent dementia, improve focus, and keep your mind sharp.
When Did Everybody Else Get So Old
$29.99Add to cartFrom writer and veteran columnist Jennifer Grant comes an unflinching and spirited look at the transitions of midlife. When Did Everybody Else Get So Old? plumbs the physical, spiritual, and emotional changes unique to the middle years: from the emptying nest to the sagging effects of aging. Grant acknowledges the complexities and loss inherent in midlife and tells stories of sustaining disappointment, taking hard blows to the ego, undergoing a crisis of faith, and grieving the deaths not only of illusions but of loved ones. Yet she illuminates the confidence and grace that this season of life can also bring. Magnetic, good-humored, and full of hope in the sustaining power of the Spirit, this is a must-read for anyone facing the flux and flow of middle age.
When Did Everybody Else Get So Old
$16.99Add to cartFrom writer and veteran columnist Jennifer Grant comes an unflinching and spirited look at the transitions of midlife. When Did Everybody Else Get So Old? plumbs the physical, spiritual, and emotional changes unique to the middle years: from the emptying nest to the sagging effects of aging. Grant acknowledges the complexities and loss inherent in midlife and tells stories of sustaining disappointment, taking hard blows to the ego, undergoing a crisis of faith, and grieving the deaths not only of illusions but of loved ones. Yet she illuminates the confidence and grace that this season of life can also bring. Magnetic, good-humored, and full of hope in the sustaining power of the Spirit, this is a must-read for anyone facing the flux and flow of middle age.
Joys Of Getting Older
$7.99Add to cart“A straightforward, clear-cut how-to book for putting a spark (or two!) back into your life. It truly describes the magical beauty to be found in the twilight years.” –Yule Biyung, author and inspirational speaker
“An inspirational look at the beauty found within the Circle of Life.” -The Times
Thomas and Cindy Senior are the best-selling husband-and-wife team who authored Retiring Gracefully and Senior Sex: How to Rekindle the Sizzle in Your Bedroom. In The Joys of Getting Older the tradition of their previous books, they have collected all their best advice and share their insights into how you can lead a happy and energetic life after reaching “that certain age.” The Seniors are living out their dream retirement in sunny Florida, where hurricanes and theme parks provide routine stimulation in their lives.
And not surprisingly, in the pages of this telling tome, readers will find 120 blank pages. Because in reality, getting older sucks!
Upside Down Living Identity And Aging
$9.99Add to cartWe get older every day, and as we age our lives change. In moving from youth to young adulthood, from middle-aged to retiree, we discover that life marches on even as our situations and identities continue to change. This study explores how we can age faithfully and gracefully, embracing ourselves through each phase of life.
Weary of Christian faith wrapped in a flag and trapped in your heart? Tired of faith as usual? Live out your Christian faith through the lens of Jesus. Follow values that seem so counter-cultural they appear to be upside down. Each compelling six-session Upside-Down Living Bible study helps us encounter the teachings of Jesus and wrestle with living out the kingdom here and now. The Bible isn’t a cookbook with solutions for every ethical dilemma, but it helps us raise the right questions, encounter the teachings of Jesus, and discover new ways of faithful living in the world. Ideal for Sunday school or Bible study sessions, each topical study covers a specific theme or issue, and comes with thought-provoking discussion questions and activities. Be inspired and transformed in your faith. Live upside down.
Making Meaning In Older Age
$14.99Add to cartMaking meaning in life can be challenging at any age. However, making and sustaining meaning in advancing age can be especially difficult due to physiological changes, declining health, and multiple losses. From years of personal and professional experience, and with much warmth, the authors address the multifaceted nature of meaning and offer practical ways in which older adults can find and sustain meaning despite the transitions experienced with advancing age. They also offer ways in which family members can help their aging loved ones in their journey of meaning-making. Bringing together the pieces of one’s life through meaning-making is vital for older adults and offers a precious gift for their loved ones!
Grace Factor : Makeup Techniques For The Woman Over 50
$16.95Add to cartThis is a book about beauty for women who are aging! In a world that embraces and values youth. You can’t be made beautiful in the way you were when you were younger. But this book can help you appreciate what you have and make the most of what you have with these simple techniques. Every woman will find a WOW moment in the grace Factor
Poetry Aging Redefined
$22.00Add to cartMary Anne Miceli’s fifth poetry book, “Poetry: Aging Redefined,” reflects on many aspects of change through Life and examines how on-going positive thinking and questioning ever motivate us. Her seascape photos, all taken at Hospital Point-overlooking the Beverly/Salem MA Harbor at twilight, visually display on-going changes- reflective of Life’s continual changes.
My Corner : My Time
$11.00Add to cartAs one enters the ages between 70 and 80 one reaches a milestone and enters their golden years. While a milestone, entering the 70-80 age bracket comes with serious questions.
As we age, many become less and less independent, although the desire to be so does not diminish. Simple pleasures and loved activities are not as effortlessly done nor are they as pleasantly experienced. The life changes experienced in the 70-80 year milestone initiate the question of mortality. When do we accept it? More importantly, when and will society allow us to ask this question of ourselves?
And The End Was The Beginning
$7.99Add to cartGrow In Wisdom Foundation
Christian embarks on a fascinating adventure that begins as an ordinary day. At times, he finds himself drowning in the monotony of his day-to-day routine; but today, he will learn the truth about relationships, love and many of life’s unanswered questions. After this journey, Christian will never view life the same.
Gray Matters : 100 Devotions For The Aging
$18.00Add to cartRay Frazier has provided us with short, insightful and quality devotional thoughts. His inclusion of quotes and prayers from a diverse collection of writers, along with Scripture references, deepens the reading and reflection experience. Well worth one hundred days!
Moments To Remember
$14.95Add to cartThis book offers a faith perspective for reflection upon the experience of aging, drawing especially upon the wisdom of St. Ignatius of Loyola. It provides the reader with a context for understanding their spiritual journey and a variety of reflection questions aimed at deepening their gratitude and hope. The book uses poetry and quotations of well known people to affirm the reader s reflection process.
Victory Lap : Growing Old With God
$13.99Add to cartIt happens to all of us if we live long enough. We grow older, with all the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual challenges that implies. But that’s really good news. It means we’re living longer, healthier lives and that we have the opportunity to continue learning and growing and contributing for a long time.
The Victory Lap is about all that. It’s also about exercise, good diet, sleep. About our need for each other, to be involved with life and to prepare for death and the legacy we leave behind.
It’s about treasuring life, feeling gratitude to God and the people around us, adjusting to retirement and filling that extra time well. It’s about being honest and real, with ourselves and other people.
Loving Later Life
$20.50Add to cartNobody enjoys growing old. We normally fear our own aging and generally do not love old people — they remind us that death is inescapable, the body frail, and social status transitory. In “Loving Later Life” Frits de Lange shows how an ethics of love can acknowledge and overcome the fear of aging and change our attitude toward the elderly.De Lange reframes the biblical love command this way: We must care for the aging other as we care for our own aging selves. We can encourage positive self-love by embracing life as we age, taking good care of our own aging bodies, staying good friends with ourselves, and valuing the last season of life. When we cultivate this kind of self-love, we are released from our aversion to growing old and set free to care about others who are aging — our parents, our relatives, and others in their final season of life.”
Jewish Wisdom For Growing Older
$16.99Add to cart15 Chapters
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Offers inspiration and guidance to help you make greater meaning and flourish amid the challenges of aging. It taps ancient Jewish wisdom for values, tools and precedents to frame new callings and beginnings, shifting family roles, and experiences of illness and death. For seekers of all faiths; for personal use and caregiving settings.
Launch Your Encore
$15.00Add to cartIn 2011, the first of the 76 million baby boomers–nearly a quarter of the US population–began turning 65. Every day for the next fifteen years, over ten thousand of them will celebrate that birthday. And for the first time in history, this generation will enjoy many years post-career pursing meaning and purpose outside of traditional retirement. What will they do with that time? One thing is for sure: most of them want to find something meaningful. This book lays out the choices to be made to find fulfillment in the encore years of life.
Launch Your Encore is a game plan for life after one’s main-act career. Hans Finzel and Rick Hicks show boomers how to enter this new stage of life poised for personal satisfaction and contributions to society. They offer tested advice on finding new life potential and thriving in these later decades of life. With real-life examples of people who have made the transition from full-time work to volunteering, ministry, or even second careers, Launch Your Encore shows boomers how to make an impact later in life.
Voices Of Aging
$11.99Add to cartNationally recognized older adult advocate Missy Buchanan offers a compassionate look at the concerns of two generations – adult children and their parents – as they struggle with the fears and frustrations of aging.
2nd Forgetting : Remembering The Power Of The Gospel During Alzheimers Dise
$14.99Add to cartCharles is 78 years old and there is much he cannot remember. He cannot remember the names of his children, why he lives in a nursing home, or even whether he ate breakfast today. His forgetting causes confusion, and in his fear and uncertainty he sometimes lashes out at those who try to care for him. But when someone reads a favorite Psalm he quickly joins in, reciting each cherished word. When he hears an old hymn of faith, his hand slowly raises and he breathes out each word quietly, his face reflecting a peace that passes all understanding. Alzheimer’s disease has been described as the ‘defining disease’ of the baby boomer generation. Millions of Americans will spend much of their retirement years either caring for a loved one with Alzheimer’s disease or experiencing its effects on their lives firsthand. When a person is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, they face great uncertainty, knowing that they can expect to live their remaining years with increasing confusion and progressively greater reliance upon other people to care for them. As the disease advances it seems to overwhelm a person, narrowing their focus and leading them to forget critical truths about the Lord, their life with him, and his promises. Through the personal stories of those affected and the loved ones who care for them, Dr. Benjamin Mast highlights the power of the gospel for those suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. Filled with helpful, up-to-date information, Dr. Mast answers common questions about the disease and its effect on personal identity and faith as he explores the biblical importance of remembering and God’s commitment to not forget his people. In addition, he gives practical suggestions for how the church can come alongside families and those struggling, offering help and hope to victims of this debilitating disease. If you are a Christian who knows or loves someone with Alzheimer’s disease, have recently been diagnosed with early Alzheimer’s disease, or are a pastor or ministry leader seeking to better understand and minister to people with Alzheimer’s disease this book will encourage you with the good news of God’s faithfulness and the future hope he calls us to.
Robbed While Grieving
$8.00Add to cartPeople are operating in the dark in matters of immortality. In the end, they face death unprepared and leave the bereaved similarly unprepared, bewildered, and frustrated. Ms. SMck’s book is a practical guide to prepare you and your loved ones for transition into the next life.
God Me And Being Very Old
$35.99Add to cartDeath and dying are a constant presence in the life and work of care homes. Residents stay, on average, around 20 months (nursing homes) or 36 months(residential/social care homes/assisted living) and die there. The care home is therefore the setting for the last major event of each residents life. Yet these experiences of the very old at the close of their lives have received remarkably little attention either in practice or in research. Nor have churches and theologians given their oldest members anything like the concern for their spiritual wellbeing that they give to the young. The heart of this book will aim to give voice to something similar from some of the oldest old as they reflect on their pilgrimage of faith from the perspective of extreme old age (over 90). In particular the authors explore what this perspective has to say to the other members of their faith communities, particularly in terms of the things that are seen as being of importance and value. The particular significance of reflections arising from the experience of approaching death will be explored. This is one area where religious thinking is often out of step with contemporary imagery and language.
I Love Growing Older But Ill Never Grow Old
$16.99Add to cartGrowing older is a process. Growing old is a conclusion. If you’re growing older you see some hope because you have perspective and you keep learning. If you’ve grown old, you may cynically think that times have never been as bas as they are now, and that they can only get worse.
This book is about learning how to “make peace with where you are right now.” It’s about learning from the past and then moving past it. It’s about growing – personally, spiritually, and in our relationships with God and with others. If we think properly about growing older we’ll never have to grow old.
Midlife Manhood And Ministry
$14.99Add to cartFacing midlife and ministry with grace, integrity, and faith.
KEY FEATURES:
Shares candid and conversational stories from ministers facing midlife
Looks at biblical men who struggled through their own midlife crises
Provides wisdom and practical counsel for ministering after age 40Middle age: the mere mention of it has been known to strike fear in the hearts of men across the nation. Pastors often counsel church members-individuals, couples, parents and children-who are struggling with the emotional, relational, and physical changes that midlife brings. But what happens when the man struggling with midlife is the pastor himself? Pastor, husband, father, and mentor Donald Hilliard courageously describes his own journey into midlife-and talks candidly with other clergy around the country who share their own stories. Featuring a chapter that explores biblical men who strove to master their own midlife crises, this honest and conversational book offers testimonies, wisdom, and practical counsel for facing life and ministry after age 40 with grace, integrity, and faith.
Other Side Of Life
$10.95Add to cartHealthy Life Press
Drawing on biblical examples and his 60-plus years of pastoral experience, Rev. Biebel helps older (and younger) adults understand God’s view of aging and the rich life available to everyone who seeks a deeper relationship with God as they age. Rev. Biebel explains how to: Identify God’s ongoing plan for your life; Rely on faith to manage the anxieties of aging; Form positive, supportive relationships; Cultivate patience; Cope with new technologies; Develop spiritual integrity; Understand the effects of dementia; Develop a Christ-centered perspective of aging.
Should We Live Forever
$19.50Add to cartIn Should We Live Forever? Christian ethicist Gilbert Meilaender puzzles over the implications of the medical advances that have lengthened the human life span, wrestling with what this quest for living longer means for our conception of living well and completely. As he points out in his introduction, “That we often desire, even greedily desire, longer life is clear; whether what we desire is truly desirable is harder to say.” The six chapters of this book take multiple perspectives on issues surrounding aging and invite readers to consider whether “indefinitely more life” is something worth pursuing and, if humans are created for life with God, whether longer life will truly satisfy our underlying hunger.
Trashed Or Treasured
$21.99Add to cart“Fearfully and wonderfully made (Psalm 139:14-16) in God’s image (Genesis 1:29-27) – mankind, at any age, is respected and valued by his Creator. How we treat the older adult is a reflection of our spiritual life (Leviticus 19:32). Men and women in their old age should not be rejected but rather reconnected and cared for by the family and the church. Assistance should be provided to help the older adult find purpose and a way to serve God until the last breath. From the first breath all in the human race begin a journey that hopefully ends with an abundant entrance into eternal life: crossing a bridge from life’s experience to life eternal, having lived a life of eternal significance and purpose…leaving a legacy for the coming generations. (See Philippians 3:12-14, 2 Peter 1:5-15 and Psalm 71:18.)”
Trashed Or Treasured
$13.49Add to cart“Fearfully and wonderfully made (Psalm 139:14-16) in God’s image (Genesis 1:29-27) – mankind, at any age, is respected and valued by his Creator. How we treat the older adult is a reflection of our spiritual life (Leviticus 19:32). Men and women in their old age should not be rejected but rather reconnected and cared for by the family and the church. Assistance should be provided to help the older adult find purpose and a way to serve God until the last breath. From the first breath all in the human race begin a journey that hopefully ends with an abundant entrance into eternal life: crossing a bridge from life’s experience to life eternal, having lived a life of eternal significance and purpose…leaving a legacy for the coming generations. (See Philippians 3:12-14, 2 Peter 1:5-15 and Psalm 71:18.)”
Mom Mumbles And Pop Cant Pee
$16.99Add to cartLucas Park Books
The golden years are seldom blissful and euphoric. Despite how much you love them, becoming parent to your parents will try your patience and resolve. Are you ready for this? Peter Christian Olsen’s book is a perfect complement to professional manuals for discovering the essentials of caring for difficult older parents.
When Your Parent Becomes Your Child
$15.99Add to cartHope and inspiration for helping parents through the aging process and the decline that comes with dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease.Dementia is one of the world’s fastest growing illnesses. Without a major medical breakthrough, the estimated 24 million people living with some form of the disease could easily jump as high as 84 million by the year 2040. It is rapidly becoming everyone’s problem.
When Your Parent Becomes Your Child tells the story of one family who reluctantly began to recognize and then deal with the common issues found in caring for their elderly loved one:
memory loss
physical decline
personal hygiene
dangers of driving and living alone
aberrant behavior
uncharacteristic attitudesAs he chronicles his own mom’s degenerative condition, New York Times bestselling writer Ken Abraham not only educates but offers inspiration to help readers cope with and manage their family circumstances.
With humor and spiritual reminders of God’s command to honor our parents, Abraham encourages readers, helping them shoulder the additional, often difficult responsibilities. And though patients will not recover this side of heaven, he suggests many practical things that families can do to make the experience safer, kinder, and more endurable for everyone involved.Helping our loved ones live out their remaining years in dignity paves the way for a rewarding and enriching experience for our families, and for the people whose lives they have affected for all eternity.
Pilgrimage Into The Last Third Of Life
$15.99Add to cartFrom age 60 to 90 and beyond, people face a time of special challenges and opportunities to draw closer to God. This book offers readers Bible-based meditations that address 7 tasks essential to living the last third of life with purpose. Inspiring topics covered include facing limitations, continuing spiritual growth, and leaving a legacy.
Helpful reflection questions make this book suitable for group use or for personal growth.
Dont Be Afraid Of 50
$10.00Add to cartSKU (ISBN): 9781434906779ISBN10: 1434906779Lisa SamiaBinding: Trade PaperPublished: November 2011Publisher: Dorrance Publishing Co., Inc. Print On Demand Product
Spirituality Of Caregiving
$9.99Add to cartYou already know that caregiving is hard work and is sometimes unappreciated, but have you ever considered that it isn’t easy to be the care receiver? In this encouraging book Henri Nouwen communicates warmth, respect, and compassion as he shares heartfelt insights on what it means to be a caregiver and to be cared for. His wisdom will change how you approach the caregiving relationship. A must read for every caregiver!
Aging Faithfully
$7.99Add to cart1. Accepting The Challenges Of Aging
2. Finding God’s Purpose In Aging
3. Overcoming The Temptations Of Aging
4. Discovering The Joy Of AgingAdditional Info
Old age isn’t a punishment – it’s a gift from God, Missy Buchanan says in Aging Faithfully. She believes it’s all a matter of how people choose to view aging. If they focus on negative images of growing old, they will likely miss the treasures right in front of them. But if they fix their eyes on God, they will discover the abiding joy that can accompany a long life.This book is divided into four weeks, each with a particular theme:
1. Accepting the challenges of aging
2. Finding God’s purpose in aging
3. Overcoming the temptations of aging
4. Discovering the joy of agingEach daily reading supports the weekly theme with a scripture passage, meditation, prayer and suggestions for deeper thought or practical application. Sunday of each week offers the reader a time to celebrate the culmination of the week’s readings.
Reflection questions at the back of the book may be used for small-group discussion or as another opportunity for individuals to explore the topics more fully.
Readers who take time to complete these 28 days of prayer will discover how to age both joyfully and faithfully. Aging Faithfully may be just the resource some persons need to see aging as a positive experience instead of fearing it.
Finishing Well : The Adventure Of Life Beyond Halftime
$19.99Add to cartAuthor Bob Buford called them “code breakers.” They are people age 40 and older who have pioneered the art of finishing well in these modern times, and who can teach us to do the same, starting today.
Buford sought out 60 of these trailblazers-including Peter Drucker, Roger Staubach, Jim Collins, Ken Blanchard, and Dallas Willard-and has recorded their lively conversations in these pages so that they can serve as “mentors in print” for all of us.
“Twenty years from now,” Buford writes, “the rules for this second adulthood as a productive season of life may be better known. But for now, we’re out across the frontier breaking new ground.”
Buford gives you a chance to sit at the feet of these pioneers and learn the art of finishing well so you can shift into a far more fulfilling life now, no matter your age, and pursue a lasting significance that will be a legacy for future generations.
Reflections On The Upsides Of Aging
$37.95Add to cartAging is God’s gift to you.
Even as your body grows old, learn how – as a Senior member of God’s Forever Family – to live the balance of your earthly life with hope, joy and purpose.
Reflections On The Upsides Of Aging
$22.95Add to cartAging is God’s gift to you.
Even as your body grows old, learn how – as a Senior member of God’s Forever Family – to live the balance of your earthly life with hope, joy and purpose.
Parent Talk : The Nine Conversations To Have With Your Aging Loved Ones
$26.99Add to cartAre You Ready? Each year, millions of Americans come face-to-face with the daunting task of providing for the care of an aging parent. Unfortunately, many find themselves ill-informed and unprepared. This reversal of roles, from care receivers to care providers, is often filled with conflicting emotions that are extremely tough to cope with amidst this enormous responsibility. Moreover, clashing opinions can quickly leave siblings and other family members at an impasse during a time when unity is crucial. For these newly challenged care providers, the tide has turned. For those who don’t know what signs to look for, this can happen without notice. As almost all of us will face this dilemma at some point, Parent Talk is a must read source of expertise and information for any adult child. Throughout this book, the author draws on his years of experience in senior healthcare to assist you in anticipating your parent’s decline, understanding the best care options, and making sound decisions. Come gain the invaluable insights revealed through The Nine Conversations as you become your loved one’s keeper.
Parent Talk : The Nine Conversations To Have With Your Aging Loved Ones
$16.99Add to cartAre You Ready? Each year, millions of Americans come face-to-face with the daunting task of providing for the care of an aging parent. Unfortunately, many find themselves ill-informed and unprepared. This reversal of roles, from care receivers to care providers, is often filled with conflicting emotions that are extremely tough to cope with amidst this enormous responsibility. Moreover, clashing opinions can quickly leave siblings and other family members at an impasse during a time when unity is crucial. For these newly challenged care providers, the tide has turned. For those who don’t know what signs to look for, this can happen without notice. As almost all of us will face this dilemma at some point, Parent Talk is a must read source of expertise and information for any adult child. Throughout this book, the author draws on his years of experience in senior healthcare to assist you in anticipating your parent’s decline, understanding the best care options, and making sound decisions. Come gain the invaluable insights revealed through The Nine Conversations as you become your loved one’s keeper.
How To Stay Young When Your Friends Are Getting Older
$16.49Add to cartIT AIN’T THE UPS AND DOWNS IN LIFE
THAT GETS YOU, IT’S ALL THE JERKS!
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WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU
YESTERDAY DOES NOT MAKE
YOU A VICTIM TODAY; NOR
DOES IT LIMIT WHERE
GOD CAN TAKE YOU
TOMORROW!
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IF YOUR SHIP HAS NOT YET
COME TO SHORE,
JUMP IN THE WATER AND SWIM
TOWARD IT!
Gift Of Years
$15.95Add to cartNot only accepting but also celebrating getting old, this inspirational and illuminating book looks at the many facets of the aging process, from purposes and challenges to struggles and surprises. Central throughout is a call to cherish the blessing of aging as a natural part of life that is active, productive, and deeply rewarding. Perhaps the most important dimension revealed lies in the awareness that there is a purpose to aging and intention built into every stage of life. Chittister reflects on many key issues, including the temptation towards isolation, the need to stay involved, the importance of health and well-being, what happens when old relationships end or shift, the fear of tomorrow, and the mystery of forever. Readers are encouraged to surmount their fears of getting older and find beauty in aging well.
Learning To Let Go
$14.95Add to cartA short, practical, and personal guide to residential care. Sooner or later many of us will have to “go into care.” How do we, and those who are involved in our care, make wise choices? This book is written both for those preparing to enter residential care and for those (professionals, volunteers, pastors, family members, and friends) who can offer support to ease the struggle of transition. Learning to Let Go acknowledges and explores the intense experience of grief and bereavement that surrounds the relinquishment of independent living. The book explores how to ensure that those going into care retain their identity and are not reduced to peripheral status as “patient” or “resident.” Covering practical details from how to choose a home to what to pack when moving, this book will help facilitate a smooth transition at this emotional time of upheaval.
Enjoying Retirement : Living Life To The Fullest
$14.95Add to cartOffers practical advice to retirees while challanging them to approach this period of life with fidelity to the inner values of their hearts, so they can truly live with purpose in later life.
Joys Of Successful Aging
$14.99Add to cartThough growing older is often a challenge, God intends for our “golden years” to be happy and fulfilling. Offering insight on everything from health and humor to having a Christ-honoring attitude, senior Christian statesman Sweeting shows you how to lighten up, let go of your fear, do your giving while you’re living, and finish with grace!
Alzheimers Depression And Dementia
$24.99Add to cartWhat would you do if your spouse, or anyone close to you, suddenly developed Alzheimer’s, Depression, and Dementia? Can you imagine how this would change your life-and the life of the one you love? This book tells how one couple faced this situation. It started as a daily journal with the idea that it would be very private and a short-term journal till his wife came home where they could live a normal life again. She was in a hospital first and then in a nursing home. She was away from home for almost ten months. Her husband took her out from the nursing home as often as possible. Sometimes they were able to spend a few hours at their home. Then she was able to go home where she lived with her husband for a little over two and a half years. This was a total of almost three and a half years from the beginning of her illness till the date of her death. D L Bennett, who compiled these notes, says he just wrote it like they lived it.
Alzheimers Depression And Dementia
$15.99Add to cartWhat would you do if your spouse, or anyone close to you, suddenly developed Alzheimer’s, Depression, and Dementia? Can you imagine how this would change your life-and the life of the one you love? This book tells how one couple faced this situation. It started as a daily journal with the idea that it would be very private and a short-term journal till his wife came home where they could live a normal life again. She was in a hospital first and then in a nursing home. She was away from home for almost ten months. Her husband took her out from the nursing home as often as possible. Sometimes they were able to spend a few hours at their home. Then she was able to go home where she lived with her husband for a little over two and a half years. This was a total of almost three and a half years from the beginning of her illness till the date of her death. D L Bennett, who compiled these notes, says he just wrote it like they lived it.
Jewish Visions For Aging
$24.99Add to cartAccessible, practical and honest. Jewish and non-Jewish clergy, chaplains, elder- and healthcare professionals, volunteers and family members will find this guide invaluable as they seek to empower elders and their families in spiritual and communal life.
Joy Of Retirement
$19.99Add to cartLife after work no longer conjures up images of couples wandering the malls, playing golf, and taking endless Caribbean cruises. As baby boomers reach their 50s and 60s, they are redefining what it means to retire. Many of them are still choosing to work or create a whole new life entirely. What they crave is vitality, joy, and meaning in their lives. Author David Borchard has been helping adults rejuvenate their careers and lives for 30 years. In The Joy of Retirement, he shows readers how to reinvent themselves and achieve the kind of fulfillment and meaning in their lives they have always dreamed of. Now, readers can start crafting their future and discovering their passions with advice on topics such as: * finding new interests that make the most of their unique talents * planning their lifestyle at 50+ * assessing what transitions they are ready and willing to make * defining priorities and goals * establishing their criteria for success * mastering the seven steps to maintaining vitality Revealing and hopeful, this book will reshape how people look at the next phase of their lives.
Colorful Memories : Aging With Style
$9.99Add to cartHow do we come to appreciate the beauty of maturing beyond our youthful years? This book informs us that aging should not be catastrophic event for us. It is vital reading for seniors and others who seek to understand what happens to us as we age and how aging provides new challenges and opportunities to live the abundant life.
Light At Evening Time
$25.00Add to cartThe perfect book for those who are advancing in years. This Large Print Volume contains more than 100 contiributions (all quite brief) from dozens of godly authors including; Augustine, Thomas Adams, J.W. Alexander, Richard Baxter, Horatius Bonar, Charles Bridges, Thomas Brooks, John Bunyan, Chrysostom, Samuel Davies, John Flavel, John Gill, Thomas Guthrie, Robert Hawker, Matthew Henry, James Hervey, John Howe, William Jay, F.W. Krummacher, Robert Leighton, Henry Martyn, Robert Murray M’Cheyne, John Milton, Hannah More, John Newton, Elizabeth Prentiss, William Romaine, Samuel Rutherford, Richard Sibbes, C.H. Spurgeon, Jeremy Taylor, A.M. Toplady, Isaac Watts, Charles Wesley, Mrs. Wesley, William Wilberforce, and Mary Winslow. Edited by John Stanford Holme. Introduction by Stephen H. Tyng.
Some Things You Just Have To Live With
$16.95Add to cartEverybody figures it out sooner or later: Even in a Botox world that promises eternal youth, some things-from aches and pains to wrinkles, from menopause to the empty nest-you just have to live with. But despite the challenges, those who are reaching middle age-yesterday’s Baby Boomers-might not want to turn back the clock. Instead, as their bodies change and their priorities shift, they’re looking to cull wisdom from their experience and find spiritual meaning in their re-examined lives. In Some Things You Just Have to Live With, author Barbara Cawthorne Crafton explores the “spilled milk” of our lives, the physical changes our bodies endure, and the new and energizing purpose we can discover by plunging into the middle of life in a deeper-and sometimes mystifying-relationship with God. A wonderful storyteller, Crafton writes with humor and pathos rather than a heavy hand, allowing readers to see themselves and their own lives in the unfolding pages. Some Things You Just Have to Live With is a source of inspiration-and smiles-to those navigating the turbulent waters of the middle of life.
Golden Years Become The Twilight Zone
$14.99Add to cartThe book details these changes in our elderly years and provides help, knowledge and encouragement in deciding what to do. Finding the right path and help for your loved one.
Golden Years Become The Twilight Zone
$22.99Add to cartThe book details these changes in our elderly years and provides help, knowledge and encouragement in deciding what to do. Finding the right path and help for your loved one.
Pastoral Care To The Aged
$13.95Add to cartHere, in handy pocket or purse-sized format, is a nuts-and-bolts guide to visiting the elderly in a variety of settings, to offer pastoral care and spiritual comfort. Kirkwood offers readers a thorough overview of the aging process, including the challenges of dementia and a look at the unique emotional and spiritual needs of the elderly. This book offers help to those who want to make visits to the elderly more meaningful.
Growing Older And Wiser
$12.00Add to cartYou can’t change the fact that you are getting older.
And, indeed, you may not want to! Age brings many gifts and opportunities for continued growth. In nine study sessions, Dale and Sandy Larsen help you discover the Bible’s perspective on aging. You’ll discover how God can effectively and powerfully use those who have grown wiser with the passing years.
This LifeGuide Bible Study in IVP’s revised format features questions for starting group discussions and for meeting God in personal reflection, as well as a new “Now or Later” section following each session to help you act on what you learn.
100 Simple Secrets Of The Best Half Of Life
$11.99Add to cartPractical advice on how to thrive in the second half of your life, based on scientific studies. The sixth book in the bestselling 100 Simple Secrets series.
What do people who relish the second half of their lives do differently than those who dread getting older? Sociologists, therapists and psychiatrists have spent entire careers investigating the ins and outs of successful aging, yet their findings are inaccessible to ordinary people, hidden in obscure journals to be shared with other experts.
Now the international bestselling author of The 100 Simple Secrets series has collected the most current and significant data from more than a thousand of the best scientific studies on the second half of life. These findings have been boiled down to one hundred essential ways to find and maintain joy, health, and satisfaction every day of your life. Each one is accompanied by a true story showing the results in action.
o The Baby Boomers are hitting retirement age. This upbeat, light approach will appeal to the enormous market of citizens grappling with the effects of becoming ‘senior’, looking to discover the positive benefits of aging beyond discount tickets at the movie theatre. Books about aging well continue to sell year in and year out. The Simple Secrets approach will stand out among the heavier self-help/psychology titles and will without a doubt become an affordable impulse and gifty mainstay in this category.
o A good inexpensive gift for parents and grandparents.
10 Gospel Promises For Later Life
$13.99Add to cart“May you live to be 120!” This old Jewish birthday blessing leads to a question Jane Marie Thibault regularly asks attendees at her workshops and retreats: Would you accept the gift of 120 years with joy and gratefulness, or would your response depend on your circumstances?
As Thibault is now an older adult herself and has been working with older adults as a clinical gerontologist for nearly 30 years, she has been confronted by the challenge many older adults face in relating to the message of the Gospel in this later season of life.
The material for 10 Gospel Promises for Later Life emerged as Thibault began to explore questions spawned by this blessing and compiled a list of ten challenges aging presents and the fears that accompany these challenges: fear of being left alone at the end of life, fear of not being good enough to go to heaven, fear of being a burden to others, fear that there’s nothing to live for now that the best years are over, difficulty believing in an afterlife, regretting missed opportunities to use talents, fear that it’s too late to fix relationships, feeling unneeded, wishing life had been different, and fear of extended suffering.
Thibault then took these fears to the Gospel in a spirit of prayer and meditation. As she read she asked whether the Gospel speaks to the fears of aging, whether there is any good news in the “Good News” for older adults, and whether aging as a Christian is different from aging in secular society. The message she found is that Jesus offers the promise of abundant life to the older adult. Some of the Gospel promises that emerged were:
*We are the beloved children of God the good parent.
*We have a mission and purpose that is lifelong.
*As spiritual siblings, we are interdependent upon each other for mutual care and assistance.
*Powerlessness is powerful.
*All that is, is gift, and God will continue to provide for us.
*Forgiveness is offered to us, but it must be shared.
*Suffering can have meaning for ourselves and others.
*Renewal is necessary for life; it is never too late to grow in wisdom and grace.
*Death is not the end of life.
*We will never be left alone; Christ is with us always.In each chapter Thibault addresses a particular fear, giving an example of how it has affected the daily life of a person in a negative way. She then presents a response, a promise of the Gospel. After examining the promise and discussing how it provides a message of hope in later life, she p
Lost In The Middle
$15.95Add to cartThe Bible never discusses midlife, just like it never discusses teenagers. Yet the Bible is able to unpack any of life’s experiences because it was written by the One who made them all. Although this book is directed at those who are facing the issues of midlife, it has a much broader net than that. Lost in the Middle can help all who are confronted with life in this broken world and have lost their way. The God who seems so distant to you in this moment is actually near and active.
Gettin Old Aint For Wimps
$14.99Add to cartIn this encouraging look at the passages of life, speaker and author Karen O’Connor urges her post-fifty friends to “laugh and love all the way home to the Father’s house.” With humor, wisdom, and vigor, Karen shares personal and gathered stories about the blessings of surviving and surpassing middle-age. for those who have already traded in their wimp status for a more courageous existence or those still wondering about what may be ahead, this delightful read affirms that the latter decades are filled with God’s wonders, promises, and sensational joys.
Aging Death And The Quest For Immortality Print On Demand Title
$25.50Add to cartA Print on Demand Title
Aging is a fact of life, and issues surrounding it are hot. There are currently 35 million Americans over the age of sixty-five – more than ever. This demographic shift is noteworthy not only because the ranks of the elderly will continue to swell in coming years but also because it is taking place in what the editors of this book call an “ageist society,” one that increasingly loathes every facet of aging. Indeed, the ethical issues associated with aging are among the thorniest in medicine and public policy today.
Aging, Death, and the Quest for Immortality is a timely volume by physicians, health-care professionals, pastors, and ethicists who explore the experiences, dilemmas, and possibilities associated with aging. The book opens by offering three distinct perspectives on aging; this section includes practical suggestions for dealing with retirement, disability, healing, and death. Several contributors then analyze controversial ethical issues raised by aging and health care, including medical decision-making, the moral standing of patients with dementia, health-care rationing, and assisted suicide. A third group of essays applies a theology of care to ministry to and through older adults, the counseling of seniors, and the application of palliative care. The book closes by discussing some of the emerging technologies and interest groups aimed at achieving immortality, also asking, appropriately, what insights the Christian faith brings to the discussion.
Reflecting much wisdom and sensitivity, this book will give welcome help to care providers and to those who are themselves in the later stages of life.
Aging Spirituality And Religion Volume 1
$49.00Add to cartNew! The first such comprehensive collection of articles on all aspects of gerontology and faith. Outstanding contributors from a variety of disciplines make this a potential library reference for chaplains, health-care workers, psychologists, etc.
Growing Old In Christ
$32.50Add to cart334 Pages
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One of the hallmarks of contemporary culture is its attitude toward aging and the elderly. Youth and productivity are celebrated in today’s society, while the elderly are increasingly marginalized. This not only poses difficulties for old people but is also a loss for the young and middle-agers, who could learn much from the elderly, including what it means to grow old (and die) “in Christ.”“Growing Old in Christ” presents the first serious theological reflection ever on what it means to grow old, particularly in our culture and particularly as a Christian. In a full-orbed discussion of the subject, eighteen first-rate Christian thinkers survey biblical and historical perspectives on aging, look at aging in the modern world, and describe the “Christian practice of growing old.” Along the way they address many timely issues, including the medicalization of aging, the debate over physician-assisted suicide, and the importance of friendships both among the elderly and between the elderly and the young.
Weighty enough to instruct theologians, ethicists, and professional caregivers yet accessible enough for pastors and general readers, this book will benefit anyone seeking faith-based insight into growing old.
Border Crossing
$14.95Add to cartSKU (ISBN): 9781931038089ISBN10: 1931038082Katie WiebeBinding: Trade PaperPublished: March 2003Publisher: Herald Press/MennoMedia Print On Demand Product
Teens Talk About Fear
$15.49Add to cartBEING A TEEN: It’s sort of like being in a time warp-caught somewhere between a kid and a grownup. You want to do your own thing, but sometimes you’re just really scared by the stuff in the real world. IT CAN BE A BUMMER because sometimes you feel so alone! BUT YOU AREN’T ALONE! Teens everywhere feel JUST LIKE YOU! Now you can read what other teens are saying about what scares them and how they’re beating it. YOU CAN BEAT IT! The cool thing is God has given us some awesome tools to be winners. In each chapter, we’ll give you ammunition against fear-straight from God’s Word. JOURNAL SECTION. Each chapter has a question/journal section to be filled out, alone or in small groups. EMPOWER yourself to be a strong, young Christian moving into adulthood.
Aging Spirituality And Religion Volume 2
$49.00Add to cartAging Spirituality, and Religion, Volume 1 published in 1995, provided the sociological, psychological, and theological perspectives for examining the ways in which spiritually and religion are experienced by aging persons in our society. As such, it provided the theoretical foundations for considering aging, spirituality and religion. This book picks up where volume 1 left off–with practical advice and tools for ministry with the aging in a variety of settings. Gerontological and theological perspectives undergird the practical guidance and a final section treats of the unique ethical issues involved in ministry with the aging.
How To Be A Parent For Your Parent
$12.95Add to cartThis is the guidebook for the adult child, who becomes an advocate for a parent, and wants to know what to expect, where to find additional information, and what you need to be doing for yourself. The most important person in the equation will be you. You are the one who will need as much care as your parent and you are the only person who can give that care to yourself and give yourself permission to accept it.
Women At Midlife
$9.99Add to cartMidlife is a time of transitions, some welcome and others not so welcome. Thankfully, the Bible provides principles and guidance for dealing with difficult times–midlife included. In these studies, you’ll tap into that wisdom and learn how you can experience God’s grace today and move forward with confidence.
Whether you’re struggling with the challenges of the present, mired down by mistakes in your past, or excited about the prospects of the future, you’ll benefit from these important questions and life-enhancing answers for “Women at Midlife.
Forgetting Whose We Are
$29.99Add to cartFORGETTING WHOSE WE ARE by David Keck Compassionate and theological response to questions of identity and humanity posed by Alzheimer’s disease.
When Christians Retire
$14.99Add to cartIn this book, Dwight Hervey Small will help you cope with the adjustments you will inevitably face with retirement and then turn expectantly to the exciting possibilities ahead. Rest assured, God has a plan for you in retirement as He did in your youth, and He waits to make it known.
When Our Parents Need Us Most
$13.99Add to cartYour parents are entering their senior years. How can you, as a caregiver:
*help them face retirement?
*assist them in financial decision making?
*handle your own emotions while “parenting” your parent?
*cope with sickness and physical changes?
*encourage them to reflect on their spiritual lives?Dr. McKenna speaks powerfully from his own experiences with four aging parents, two of whom lived in his home. He offers comfort and guidelines for times of transition, and explores in everyday terms the biblical meaning of caregiving.
Faithful Living Faithful Dying
$19.95Add to cartWhat do faithful living and faithful dying mean as we near life’s end? With all the technology and choices available to us today, making decisions about the end of life grows ever more difficult. As a result of all the theological and ethnical issues that have arisen around the dying process in recent years, the 72nd General Convention of the Episcopal Church created a task force to study and responds to the broad range of theological, ethical, pastoral and policy issues that are generated by the need to provide loving and fitting care at the end of life.
Creative Aging : Rethinking Retirement And Non Retirement In A Changing Wor
$16.99Add to cartIn a practical and useful way, Marjory Zoet Bankson explores the spiritual dimensions of retirement and aging. She offers creative ways for you to share your gifts and experience, particularly when retirement leaves you questioning who you are when you are no longer defined by your career.
Drawing on stories of people who have reinvented their lives in their older years, Bankson explores the issues you need to address as you move into this generative period of life:
Release: Letting go of the vocational identity associated with your career or primary work
Resistance: Feeling stuck, stagnant, resisting change
Reclaiming: Drawing energy from the past, discovering unused gifts
Revelation: Forming a new vision of the future
Crossing Point: Moving from stagnation to generativity
Risk: Stepping out into the world with new hope
Relating: Finding or creating new structures for a new kind of work
Creating A Spiritual Retirement
$14.99Add to cartWhat now? Where do I go from here?
In many parts of the world, retirement from the daily workforce is a door you walk through in order to discover your soul. In the last third of life, it is an opportunity to focus on the goals that are most important to you.
Creating a Spiritual Retirement invites you to examine your spiritual life and explore ways of making it more meaningful, from three different perspectives:
“The Individual Spirit”-Contemplate the possibilities for spiritual growth that come with retirement from the daily workplace
“The Great Spirit”-Discover how to look for the sacred in this life, in both ordinary and extraordinary ways
“Practical Spirituality”-Create your path to more fully develop a spiritual practice that will provide support, strength, challenge, and comfort in the later years of life.With creative exercises and warm, practical advice, this book is a helpful tool for anyone on their retirement journey.
This unusual “guidebook” helps you deepen your relationship with the unseen but no less real presence of spirit in your life. Each chapter focuses on a particular idea for consideration from a spiritual point of view, and concludes with a reflection and questions designed to help you explore your thoughts during this important time in life.
Keeping Spiritual Balance As We Grow Older
$16.99Add to cartSKU (ISBN): 9781594730429ISBN10: 1594730423Molly Srode | Bernie SrodeBinding: Trade PaperPublisher: Skylight Paths Publishing
Through The Wilderness Of Alzheimers
$19.00Add to cartIn telling the story of their journey into Alzheimer’s, the Simpsons offer families accurate, firsthand information about the disease, as well as support and practical help for patients and caregivers. Their dramatic story, told from both of their perspectives, uses journal entries, conversations, letters, and prayers to trace the onset, diagnosis, and treatment of Robert’s condition.
Creating A Successful Retirement
$16.99Add to cartCreating a Successful Retirement looks at retirement in an entirely new way–as the commencement of a new life. Grounded in a Christian faith experience, it demonstrates how faith is the pivotal issue enabling retirees to capture and apply the vitality of their life experiences.
How To Honor Your Aging Parents
$9.99Add to cartToo often, people enter the role of caregiver for an aging parent unprepared, and, as a result of exhaustion, exasperation, and guilt, fail in their objective. These are not bad, lazy, negligent people. Most of the time, they simply tried to do too much. Written for any person who is caregiving or who anticipates that they will be called upon to give some form of care to an elder, this book sets out to prepare caregivers to do the best job possible to truly honor their aging parent, relative, or friend and yet not lose themselves in the process.
Growing Young : Embracing The Joy And Accepting The Challenges Of Mid Life
$15.99Add to cartEnthusiastic and mature, vigorous and insightful, we women between the ages of forty and mid-sixty find ourselves in an incredibly unique phase in our lives-a time marked by fulfillment, introspection, and tremendous growth. From our outward appearance to our inner spirituality, our maturing relationship with our children to our shifting perceptions of self, it seems as though everything is on the cusp of change.
Many of these changes are liberating. Some are unnerving. But all are a part of God’s beautiful tapestry design for our lives. With excitement, humor, and warm-hearted understanding, Lois Mowday Rabey explores these peaks and valleys in Growing Young, inspiring us to laugh, reflect, and celebrate as we move through the surprising — and truly glorious — God-ordained changes of mid-life.
Virtues Of Aging
$15.00Add to cart“We are not alone in our worry about both the physical aspect of aging and the prejudice that exists toward the elderly, which is similar to racism or sexism. What makes it different is that the prejudice also exists among those of us who are either within this group or rapidly approaching it. When I have mentioned the title of this book to a few people, most of them responded, ‘Virtues? What could possibly be good about growing old?’ The most obvious answer, of course, is to consider the alternative to aging. But there are plenty of other good answers–many based on our personal experiences and observations. “
–from THE VIRTUES OF AGING
12 Keys To Spiritual Vitality
$14.99Add to cartAging is not the beginning of the end, but is part of God’s eternal plan for human happiness. Through this book, readers will tap into the wisdom and grace that come with aging and discover the keys to maturing in the way God intended.
Art Of Growing Old
$16.00Add to cartThis book is for all adults interested in increasing satisfaction in their lives. Each chapter moves from theory to practice with thought-provoking questions, specific suggestions, and clear illustrations of how the various tasks of aging can be accomplished. The author emphasizes the importance of setting goals, making plans, and enacting those plans as the practical means to moving into the last decades of life with a sense of expectation, grace, and fulfillment.
Aging Comes Of Age
$24.00Add to cartSKU (ISBN): 9780664251888ISBN10: 0664251889Frank HutchinsonBinding: Trade PaperPublished: April 1991Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press Print On Demand Product
Learn To Grow Old
$29.00Add to cartThis very positive book gives a down-to-earth, realistic, and constructive perspective on againg for readers of any age . . . It is excellent for both professional and lay persons.