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What I Wish Id Known Before I Got Married
$16.99Add to cartBuilding a marriage is a lifelong endeavor for both men and women. Most marriage books cover the three C’s–communication, compromise, and consideration-but fail to address many issues critical to a healthy relationship. Family advocate Kay James calls these the “things I wish I had known before I got married”: advice on finances, sex, children, and dealing with the extended family. Noting that the apostle Paul exhorted older women not to inspire or counsel younger women, but to teach them how to be wives to their husbands, Kay offers a lifetime’s wealth of wisdom for creating an unbreakable marriage relationship.
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Case For Marriage
$20.00Add to cartA groundbreaking look at the most basic and universal of all human institutions, this authoritative and provocative book reveals the benefits-emotional, physical, economic, and sexual-that marriage brings to individuals and society as a whole.
Everyone knows that we are experiencing an epidemic of divorce; rates of single-parenthood and unmarried cohabitation are skyrocketing while marriage rates continue to decline. Yet 93% of Americans still say they hope to form a lasting and happy union with one person, though fewer now believe that this is possible.
Numerous books have been written about the impact of divorce on men, women, children, and society at large. But no one has yet studied the long-term benefits of being and staying married. The Case for Marriage is a critically important intervention in the national debate about the future of the family. Based on the authoritative research of family sociologist Linda Waite and other scholars, the book’s findings dramatically contradict the anti-marriage myths that have become the common sense of most Americans. Today a broad consensus holds that marriage is a bad deal for women, that divorce is better for children when parents are unhappy, and that marriage is essentially a private choice, not a public institution. Waite and Gallagher flatly contradict these assumptions, arguing instead that by a broad range of indices, being married is actually better for you physically, materially, and spiritually than being single or divorced. Married people live longer, have better health, earn more money and accumulate more wealth, feel more fulfilled in their lives, enjoy more satisfying sexual relationships, and have happier and more successful children than those who remain single, cohabit, or get divorced. Statistics show, for example, that violence is less prevalent in married households and that divorce reduces male life expectancy on the order of a pack-a-day cigarette habit.
While their book is not primarily a work of moral exhortation, the authors argue that in order for marriage to do its beneficial work it must be treated as a socially preferred option, not merely one choice among others that are equally valid. Combining clearheaded analysis, penetrating cultural criticism, and practical advice for strengthening the institution of marriage, the authors provide clear, essential guidelines for reestablishing marriage as the foundation for a healthy and happy society.
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Federal Husband : Covenant Headship And The Christian Man
$12.95Add to cartWhat does it mean to be a covenantal husband? What does it mean to be a covenantal father?
The Fifth Book in the Family Series
Federal thinking is foreign to the modern mind. Federal has come to mean nothing more than centralized or big. Because our federal government has become so uncovenantal, it is not surprising that the original meaning of the word is lost. But federal thinking is the backbone of historic Protestant theology, and the Church needs to recover the covenantal understanding of federal headship. Husbands are to lead their families, taking responsibility for them as covenant heads-as federal husbands.
This book is a part of Douglas Wilson’s series of books on the family, which has helped many people trying to deal with the everyday messes that come with sinners living under the same roof. This book on covenantal headship contains much practical and biblical wisdom that is never more timely than now, but which we will always need to be reminded of again and again.
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Avoiding Mr Wrong
$18.99Add to cartYou know the man. He’s the one who looks good at a glance — but not so good once you get to know him. What kind of women fall for him, and why? What are the chances he will change? And what if you’ve already married him?More than just a checklist of men to steer clear of, Avoiding Mr. Wrong is a powerful tool to help women learn more about themselves and the Mr. Wrongs to whom they often feel drawn. Those men include: The Control Freak, The Mama’s Boy, The Cowardly Lion, The Ungodly Man, and Mr. Wonderful.Complete with a diagnostic quiz and quick reference lists, Avoiding Mr. Wrong is ideal for women whose hopes have been dashed again and again by a seemingly promising relationship. The book helps them to see more clearly, think more rationally, and act more wisely in the pursuit of Mr. Right.
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Life You Want Your Kids To Live
$12.99Add to cart1. Think Well Of Yourself
2. Adjust To Things Beyond Your Control
3. Delay Your Gratification
4. See The Glass Half Full
5. Bite Your Tongue When Necessary
6. Practice Total Commitment
7. Build Relationships That Endure
8. Expect Your Own Gethsemane
9. Make Your Faith Your Own
102 PagesAdditional Info
Well-known counselor and popular author Les Parrott III teams with his dad, Les Parrott Sr., to give hope, help, and advice for parents wanting to instill a lasting legacy in their children’s lives. Through the authors’ warmth and personal experiences you’ll find solid advice for helping your kids not only get off the ground but soar high all of their lives.
Help you kids soar with:
* Self-esteem
* Self-control
* A healthy attitude
* Optimism
* Kindness
* Commitment
* Strong relationships
* Strength in adversity
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Lets Talk Marriage
$18.99Add to cartIn a time when one out of every two marriages fails, sound, experience-based advice for marital success is needed more than ever. This book is an exceptional premarital guide for couples preparing for marriages that will last a lifetime. Writing in a friendly, conversational style, F. Dean Lueking extends a steadying hand of guidance, offering affirmation where a couple is already confident and practical help in getting at touchier issues not as easily addressed. In the course of the book Lueking talks about the crucial role of communication in healthy, enduring marriages, explores the physical side of married life, and gives helpful insights into the benefits of grounding a marriage in shared spiritual values. Filled with questions and comments for readers to ponder, this book will be a valuable aid to engaged couples and those who counsel them.
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Opening Your Childs Nine Learning Windows
$19.99Add to cartYour child’s capacity for learning is truly astonishing — and you are the teacher. How can you make the most of your incredible, God-given opportunity? In Opening Your Child’s Nine Learning Windows, educator Cheri Fuller shares amazing insights into how children learn. You’ll find chapter after chapter of principles, activities, motivation boosters, and practical tips and suggestions to help you take full advantage of nine critical “learning windows” in your child’s life: musical, language, emotional, creativity, curiosity, math and logic, physical, spiritual, and values. Punctuated with personal anecdotes and filled with recent, fascinating findings of research on the brain development of babies and children, Opening Your Child’s Nine Learning Windows can help you start equipping your child today for a fruitful, satisfying tomorrow. Formerly titled Through the Learning Glass.
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As For Me And My House
$19.99Add to cartIn this repackaged bestselling classic, award-winning storyteller Walter Wangerin, Jr., offers a personal and pastoral look at marriage, told with the fine narrative style that has become his trademark.
Most books on marriage offer ten easy steps and twenty-five proven principles for achieving marital bliss. But Walter Wangerin side-steps such easy answers and offers us instead an intimate portrait of his own courtship and thirty-two year marriage – and a pastoral view of married life that inspires readers to view their own marriages with new honesty and hope. Wangerin’s six tasks of marriage encourages couples to better understand and happily live out the vows they made, giving them tools to nurture and maintain a strong marital relationship. In his endorsement, Philip Yancey accurately describes this book as “an enduring classic and a book of wisdom, beauty, compassion, and piercing honesty.”
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What A Difference A Daddy Makes
$18.99Add to cartStudy after study shows that fathers set up their daughters for success. Involved fathers_whether or not they live in the same house as their daughters boost their daughters’ academic achievement, promote their emotional health, increase their compassion for others, and even bolster the status of women.
In What a Difference a Daddy Makes, renowned psychologist and bestselling author Dr. Kevin Leman seamlessly weaves the latest research on fathering with funny, moving stories about his own parenting experiences. He gives practical ideas and inspiration for fathers and provides specific direction for helping daughters grow into loving, confident, caring adults.
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Opening Your Childs Spiritual Windows
$19.99Add to cartJust as children have critical windows of opportunity when circuits in their brains are being wired for language, music, and emotions, as Through the Learning Glass discusses, they also have spiritual windows of opportunity-periods of time in their development when their hearts and minds are most open to experiencing the wonder of God’s creation, learning his ways through the Bible, and talking and listening to God through prayer, through service, and through being a part of the family and the church. These are the windows of the heart.
Parents invest hundreds of hours in sports, education, and other opportunities. Yet, unfortunately for many families in the hyper-hectic lifestyles of our culture, the windows that are full of opportunity for their kids’ spiritual growth may be bypassed, misunderstood, or closed.
Opening Your Child’s Spiritual Windows opens the reader’s eyes to these incredible windows of opportunities in a positive, inspiring way and shows how to make the most of them. One of the greatest desires and felt needs of Christian parents is for their children to come to know God and grow in grace, to have better knowledge of the Bible, and to walk daily in his ways because of a loving relationship with him. Through stories, Scriptures, applications, practical suggestions, and resources for spiritual development, Opening Your Child’s Spiritual Windows helps to meet these needs.
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Whats A Christian To Do With Harry Potter
$17.99Add to cartIn the world of publishing, few successes have equaled that of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series–magical stories centered on one boy’s adventures at Hogwarts, a school for witchcraft and wizardry. Yet this popular series presents a perplexing–even divisive–challenge to the Christian community. Although the book presents a clear picture of the epic battle between good and evil, they appear to support the use of magic and have had a controversial impact on our culture. As a result, many of us are wondering, “How should I respond to this Harry Potter thing?” In this book, you’ll explore the valid concerns some Christians have about the series, sort out the fact and fiction at the center of the debate, discover biblical answers that may surprise you, and learn how you can tap into this powerful cultural phenomenon to help advance the kingdom of God.
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Joy Of A Promise Kept
$14.99Add to cartWives—discover your role in your husband’s promise-keeping success! This profound collection features articles from wives of prominent Christian leaders, including Denalyn Lucado, Vonette Bright, Norma Smalley, Cindy Trent, and others, providing a clear vision for godly women today. Learn how to help your spouse keep his promises to God, family, church, and community.
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Becoming Parents : How To Strengthen Your Marriage As Your Family Grows
$26.95Add to cartMoving into parenthood is typically a time of great joy and excitement, but it also brings fatigue, stress, and conflict. From the authors of the best-selling Fighting for Your Marriage and A Lasting Promise, this unique and innovative guide offers indispensable advice on how to protect and preserve your marriage and take care of yourselves as you become parents. Based on scientific research and containing real-life examples, Becoming Parents challenges you to seize this opportunity to really thrive in your relationship and in parenting together as a team.
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Dating Intimacy And The Teenage Years
$17.99Add to cart1A Daughter’s Vision
2A Boy’s Desire
3God’s Likeness
4The Bonding Of Women To Men
5Male Bonding To Women
6More About God’s Design Of People
7Our Weakness: How Man Fell
8Comparing Girls And Boys
9Attributes Given To Boys And Girls
10Sovereignty: Who’s The Head?
11Setting The Stage For The Lie
12Believing The Big Lie
13Fruit Of The Big Lie
14Boaz: A Man’s Man
15Boys: Setting The Stage For The Lie
16Boys: Believing The Big Lie
17More Fruit Of The Lie
18The Destruction Of Men And Women-Part One
19The Destruction Of Men And Women-Part Two
20Role Reversal
21Strongholds
22Strongholds In Girls
23Strongholds In Boys
24Warfare Between Strongholds
25Making A Man
26Making Men: Joseph
27Making Men: Judah
28More About God’s Design
29Patterns Of Truth
30A Summary Of Lies That Destroy Teens
31A Summary Of Truth And Life For Teens
32A Final Review Of A Girl’s Vision
33A Final Review Of A Boy’s Desire
34Restoration
35Eyes And EarsAdditional Info
The dreams and visions of young hearts are part of God’s plan for our lives-including our dreams of the perfect mate. In Dating, Intimacy & the Teenage Years, Karl Duff explains God’s design for the sexes and warns of the ways it can be distorted and ruined. The short chapters in this book make it ideal for individual and group study by families and youth groups. -
Learning To Live The Love We Promise
$15.99Add to cartMaster wordsmith Lewis Smedes helps readers look at relationships and how they work. He answers such questions as: What do committed relationships do for us? To whom should we commit our time and devotion? Which, if any, relationships should last forever and how can we make them last?
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Marriage After Gods Own Heart
$14.99Add to cartIsn’t sexual — or emotional — intimacy enough? “No,” says Christian psychologist Dr. David Clarke. “Spiritual bonding is the process by which a couple cultivates the presence of God in their relationship,” he says, “and it’s the only ‘glue’ that sustains relationships long-term.” Working with hundreds of couples, Clarke observes that when we take specific steps to keep God at the center of our relationships, every area of intimacy is energized. This book teaches men and women in a committed relationship how to pray together, create “spiritual conversations,” read and study Scripture together, hold private worship sessions, and allow the Holy Spirit to guide them. It’s extremely practical counsel all couples need today.
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Games Grandmas Play
$20.00Add to cartJoan Jacobs is a wise and experienced grandma. She wants grandmothers everywhere to love what they do and to grow in faith. She brings her theological training, life experience, good humor, and imagination together in an inspiring reflection on one of life’s greatest opportunities–being a grandma. Jacobs explores the grandmother/grandchild relationship, showing grandmothers how to offer practical guidance and spiritual wisdom in a way that encourages the development of their grandchildren.
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When Couples Pray
$16.99Add to cartDo you wish you could pray with your spouse, but don’t know how to begin? Here’s help! You’ll find daily Scripture verses, concrete exercises, and insightful meditations to start you and your mate on a meaningful prayer relationship. Experience the “double blessing” of spiritual and marital intimacy as you unite your hearts before God!
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When You Feel Like Screaming (Revised)
$15.99Add to cartMany moms feel guilty about screaming at their children but don?t know how to stop. Ketterman says, ?Having grown up with a loving but screaming mother, I know the emotional damage it causes. Being a mother of three, I also know how easy it is to fall into the habit of screaming.? From their research and personal and professional experience, Dr. Ketterman and Pat Holt share why mothers fall into the habit of yelling and what factors drive mothers to lose control.
Using real stories from real moms, they discuss examples of how screaming and anger affects children, and also the debilitating affects it has on moms. The authors challenge parents to look at their own anger and choose to react differently. Practical steps are given for more effective and positive ways to get children to do what they must do. The second part of the book offers commonsense answers to specific questions relating to all areas of child-rearing, from infancy through teens.
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Helping Your Struggling Teenager
$24.99Add to cartThis book is a practical resource tool and handbook for parents who strive to help their teenagers through times of struggles. The book details thirty-six common teenage problems arranged alphabetically from abuse to suicide. In between are topics such as anger, body image, depression, eating disorders, guilt, homosexuality, loneliness, peer pressure, school work, sleep disturbance, spiritual doubt, and stuttering.
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Child In Christian Thought
$47.99Add to cartThis seminal book opens windows into the history of Christian thinking on neglected but important topis: the child, the care of children, the education of children, the responsibility of parents, and the many theological, spiritual, and practical repercussions connected with these concerns. In rich and subtle way this book provides both orientation and new contemporary perspectives on child rearing and its consequences for religious communities, culture, society, and the common good.
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Relational Trauma Of Incest
$39.00Add to cartThis volume presents a groundbreaking understanding of incest and an innovative, family-based approach to treatment. The authors show that while not all incestuously abused children experience the classic diagnostic symptoms of trauma, virtually all do experience “relational trauma” –disruptions in the sense of safety, security, loyalty, and trust that may block connection and communication with nonoffending family members. Systematically combining individual and family sessions, the relational treatment model focuses on strengthening the child’s protective relationships, mobilizing the family to help resolve the child’s emotional and behavioral symptoms, and building the family’s resiliency. Filled with annotated case material that illuminates the challenging treatment choices and dilemmas facing the clinician, this book offers essential guidance for anyone working with families in which incest has occurred.
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Raising Great Kids Workbook For Parents Of School Age Children (Workbook)
$14.99Add to cartA workbook for parents of school-age children (6-12) to accompany Raising Great Kids, which is a joint project of authors Henry Cloud, John Townsend and Mothers of Preschoolers International (MOPS). In Raising Great Kids, Henry Cloud and John Townsend approach parenting from the perspective of their unique theological and developmental system, and MOPS provides the hands-on application.
Most Christian approaches to character building focus on obedience to God and on moral functioning, but the authors will show how biblical character includes competent functioning in other areas such as relationship skills, responsibility and follow through, self-control, perseverance, delay of gratification, ability to lose and grieve, and the ability to forgive. Most resources for parents emphasize either structure and moral functioning over love, safety, and security or vice versa. Raising Great Kids provides a balance between these two parenting approaches.
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Raising Great Kids Workbook For Parents Of Teenagers (Workbook)
$14.99Add to cartWhen kids hit their teens, their character unfolds in increasingly consequential ways. Your job as a parent is far from done! During those stormy teenage years from ages 13 to 19, your child needs your help in developing traits that are vital to his or her future well-being: connection, responsibility, reality, competence, morality, and worship/spiritual life. Based on Raising Great Kids, the Raising Great
Kids Workbook for Parents of Teenagers is filled with self-tests, discussion material, exercises, and practical applications that can help you turn key concepts into a natural way of parenting. Look at it as your parents’ navigation guide for helping your son or daughter make the transition to adulthood safely and successfully. What Does It Take to Raise Great Kids? Conflicting opinions may leave you feeling confused. Get tough! Show acceptance. Lay down the rules. Lighten up, already. There’s got to be a balance – and there is. Drs. Henry Cloud and John Townsend help you provide the care and acceptance that make grace real to your kids, and the firmness and discipline that give direction. At last, here is an effective middle ground for raising your children to handle life with maturity and wisdom.
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Praise Her In The Gates
$12.00Add to cartFor a Christian, motherhood is the subtle art of building a house in grace the wise woman builds her house, but the foolish pulls it down with her hands (Prov. 14:1). Each day’s work is significant, for it contributes toward the long-term plan. Each nail helps a house stand in a storm. But motherhood isn’t a simple formula. Building a home childbirth, education, discipline requires holy joy and a love of beauty. The mother who fears God does not fear the future.
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Should I Get Married (Revised)
$27.99Add to cartIVP Print On Demand Title
Are your ready for marriage? Are you physically, spiritually and emotionally compatible? What if making such a big commitment scares you? How do you find God’s will in all this? These are crucial questions that evey man or woman asks. And they deserve our best thinking. In this revised edition M. Blaine Smith draws from his own experience and his years of counceling singles and couples and takes a refreshingly candid, open-hearted look at these issues, helping men and women think through the important disisions concerning marriage.
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Marriage Youve Always Wanted
$19.99Add to cartAn interactive couples guide for growing a stronger, more intimate relationship.
Your Marriage Is A Story Only You Can Tell
Your marriage is a story. . . a tale as unique as you are. Sometimes the story is beautiful, full of “happily ever after” togetherness. Other times, the story is full of pain, sadness, or deep disappointment. The story changes as time passes. Things happen. People come and go. Everyday pressures begin to build. Unless a couple guards against it, a downward spiral of unexpressed expectations, feelings of failure, negative perceptions, and increasing self-preservation eats away at the fabric of their marriage, tempting many couples to give up – and split up.
The good news is that this “cycle of disaffection” can be broken! Read The Marriage You’ve Always Wanted and find out how to. . .
* Recognize the four warning signs of emotional “distancing,” and how to break harmful patterns that have begun to take root,
* Recapture the closeness you once experienced as a couple,
* Build a “fortress for three” around your marriage, where together with God you can build a plan for the rest of your lives together.Each chapter contains an important topic for discussion, a Bible study, and optional activities. Working together, you and your spouse can experience a newfound sense of joy, passion, and companionship – all that God intended marriage to be.
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Say Goodbye To Whining Complaining And Bad Attitudes In You And Your Kids
$19.00Add to cartAdding honor as a factor in raising kids …and parent-child relationships.
Dr. Scott Turansky and Joanne Miller offer a thorough program for establishing honor as a basis of family life – not just children honoring parents, but parents respecting children and children honoring each other. Even if honor seems a long way off in your household, you will find practical suggestions here to bring that goal a little closer – suggestions for kids of all ages. Honor is the biblical value that will bring about good behavior. It’s more than just changing what kids do; it’s changing the deeper issues of the heart that triggered the behavior. -
Listen My Son
$36.95Add to cartListen, My Son (the opening lines of Benedict’s Rule) breaks the Rule into short daily readings and provides commentary too help strengthen men in their role as open-hearted, attentive, and intelligent fathers and husbands. Without underestimating the emotional, spiritual, and physical demands of fatherhood, Longnecker also holds up the joys of developing a strong bond with God – one that nutures the individual man and that provides him with the ability to grow himself and his family in faithfulness, service and love.
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Act Of Marriage After 40
$18.99Add to cart15 Chapters
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The Act of Marriage After 40, written by Tim and Beverly LaHaye with a Christian physician, follows the hugely popular book The Act of Marriage (more than two and a half million copies in print). The Act of Marriage After 40 covers such topics as nutrition (how do nutritional supplements affect your sex life?), fitness, sexual desire (does sexual desire actually reverse with age?), male impotence (psychological and physical causes, including a discussion of Viagra), female hormone drugs (the effect on desire), menopause and hysterectomy sex, first-time marriage after 40, and much more. -
From Culture Wars To Common Ground (Revised)
$52.00Add to cartWhat is the status of the American family? How is it changing? Are these changes making anything better? What is the future of the family? Does religion offer a positive answer?
Not since Habits of the Heart has one book confronted issues with such personal and societal impact. Using in-depth case studies and national surveys, and now with an updated Preface and new Appendix, this groundbreaking book presents arguments for the creation of a new family ethic that should be central to both the agenda of contemporary society and the mission of the church.
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Self Struggle And Change
$18.99Add to cartHow do I find greater wholeness in my life and in my family’s life?
“To appreciate the importance of the Bible and gain insight about ourselves from it, both Jews and Christians can use the process of midrash: The attempt to find contemporary meaning in the biblical text. The term midrash comes from the Hebrew root darash which means to seek, search, or demand (meaning from the biblical text). The starting point of our search for personal meaning is the Bible itself…. Each generation, each reader, can approach the text anew and draw meaning from it.” -from Self, Struggle & Change
The stress of late-20th-century living only brings new variations to timeless personal struggles. The people described by the biblical writers of Genesis were in situations and relationships very much like our own, and their stories still speak to us because they are about the same basic problems we deal with every day.
Learning from Adam and Eve, can we find the courage not only to face our other side, but to draw strength from it? Learning from Leah and Rachel, can we stop competing with our loved ones, and begin to accept them and find ourselves? Sarah, Hagar, Lot, Ishmael and Isaac, Rebekkah, Joseph and his brothers, Jacob and Esau…this vibrant cast of characters offers us new ways of understanding ourselves and our families and healing our lives.
A modern master of biblical interpretation brings us greater understanding of the ancient biblical text, and of the insights its characters give us about ourselves and our families today.
By bringing the people in Genesis to life-husbands and wives, fathers and sons, brothers and sisters-Self, Struggle & Change shows us how to find wholeness in our lives. -
Before A Bad Goodbye
$18.99Add to cartTim Clinton has seen three outcomes through his marriage counseling practice-divorce, marriage in name only, and reconciliation. Reconciliation is, by far, the most difficult option. In Before a Bad Goodbye, he shows couples at the breaking point how to nurture forgiveness, develop mutual respect and demonstrate selfless love on a new path to reconciliation.
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My Parents My Children
$30.00Add to cartCecil Murphey offers everyday advice and spiritual guidance to those who care for both school-age children and aging parents at the same time. He provides reflections and stories that illuminate some of the challenges facing those who respond to the physical and emotional needs of these widely differing age groups. Each devotional begins with a descriptive snapshot of a difficult or trying moment common to caregivers, and ends with an appropriate biblical passage and a prayer. Murphey’s uplifting words offer encouragement to those who find themselves in the role of long-term, intergenerational caregiver.
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Family : A Christian Social Perspective
$20.00Add to cart1. Families, Christian Ethics, And Civil Society
2. Family Bonds And Christian Community: New Testament Sources
3. Family As Church: Three Historical Representations
4. “Domestic Church”: Families And The Common Good
5. Lessons From African American Families
6. A Christian Family VisionAdditional Info
Cahill’s important work brings fresh historical, theological, and ethical thought to the explosive area of family_deeply contested territory in today’s cultural and religious skirmishes.In the religious arena, evangelical-conservative vs. mainline-feminist lines echo larger social battles, contesting the authentic meaning of family within a Christian framework.
Though “family” has been dissected in the academic and cultural wars, Cahill asserts that the usual religious agenda of restoring the traditional nuclear family is actually misinformed and misguided. It bolsters oppressive social, economic, and racial mechanisms that are destroying families at the bottom, middle, and even top of the ladder.
Is there an authentically Christian notion of family? Cahill’s contribution shows in a striking way how very different were counter-cultural New Testament and early-church notions of family from our ideas of “family values;” how, throughout history, other influential Christian examples have emerged in the work of John Chrysostom, Martin Luther, and the Puritans; how, despite distortion by gender and class divisions, there develops a Christian vision of the altruistic family, animated by Christian discipleship to stand for compassion, generosity, and justice; how pertinent this vision of the “domestic church” is to public debate and public policy.
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Walking Together : Building An Intimate Marriage In A Fallen World A Bible
$10.99Add to cart12 Chapters
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NAVPress Publlishers Print On Demand TitleThe Walking Together Bible study begins with this challenge from Larry Crabb. But how do we go about promoting our partner’s spiritual and personal welfare? And how can we build lasting, intimate marriages in a complex, busy world when so many relationships are falling apart?
Jack and Cynthia Heald share their insights about communication, commitment, and honesty gleaned from 40 years of married life. Walking Together combines the Heald’s personal life experiences with an enriching biblical study on marriage and its true foundation_intimacy with God. Each chapter will help you understand yourself and whether or not your actions and expectations are based on nurturing your spouse or protecting yourself. Adapted from Jack and Cynthia’s popular studies Loving Your Husband and Loving Your Wife, this new study will equip you to understand your individual identity in Christ, promote your partner’s spiritual and personal welfare, and walk together in an intimate, lasting relationship.
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Taboo Or Not Taboo
$29.00Add to cartIn a changing society, Christians and Jews have looked to the Bible for values and models. But the Hebrew Bible does not offer one single model of family behavior and relationships. This volume explores positive and negative aspects of family life in ancient Israel as portrayed in the Bible. Rashkow examines the relationships between husbands and wives, parents and children, and siblings, looking at the variety of conflicts that inevitably emerge: incest, rape, abuse, mureder, and hatred.
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Her Hand In Marriage
$12.00Add to cart1. The Authority Of Parents
2. Preparing Sons For Courtship
3. Preparing Daughters For Courtship
4. Culmination Of Courtship
5. Details Of CourtshipAdditional Info
The modern dating system is bankrupt. It does not train young people to form a relationship but rather to form a series of relationships, hardening themselves to all but the current one. Recreational dating encourages emotional attachments without convenantal fences and makes a joke of a father’s authority. The disrespect children have for their fathers in this area is an echo of the disrespect fathers have for their own office.Biblical courtship provides a wonderful freedom. It involves familial wisdom and godly protection. Grounded upon the involved authority of the father, courtship delights in its public connection to the lives of families. Sexual purity is a great inheritance for a marriage, and part of the fathers job is to guarantee to protect that heritage.
Biblical courtship is a humble affront to the sterility of modern relationships. And as a new generation rejoices in this ancient wisdom, the current waves of broken relationships will begin to recede.
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Gods Whisper In A Mothers Chaos
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Mothering infants and small children is exhausting, mind-numbing work. Just finding time to get dressed each day can be a challenge. How are we to find time for God? Yet we know that we need God in this time more than any other. We need God’s wisdom, guidance and, most of all, his peace. We need to find ways to hear that still, small voice in the whirlwind of life. Keri Kent offers down-to-earth ideas to help us along the way.
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Fantastic Families : 6 Proven Steps To Building A Strong Family (Workbook)
$16.95Add to cart1. Commit To Your Family
2. Express Appreciation And Affection
3. Share Positive Communication
4. Spend Time Together
5. Nurture Spiritual Well-Being
6. Learn To Cope With Stress And Crises
7. Becoming A Fantastic FamilyAdditional Info
The largest study on strong families ever done is the foundation of this dynamic, interactive workbook. Over 14,000 strong families were carefully studied to learn what made them so successful. The accumulation of years of research – research that spans the entire globe – is now available to you in an easy-to-read, practical-to-live format.Using both the hardcover Fantastic Families book and this powerful companion workbook, you and your family will learn how to implement the six proven steps to building a fantastic family. Uniquely designed to involve every family member, this workbook offers fun activities and practical exercises that will involve every age group and family type. As you implement each proven step, you will begin to see the elements of a fantastic family taking shape in your own home. Your family will learn to work together as a team to accomplish shared goals, enhance communication, and build closer relationships.
Open this book with confidence, put it into practice, and watch your family grow in love, trust, and acceptance.
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Anchor Man : How A Father Can Anchor His Family In Christ For The Next 100
$15.99Add to cartAcknowledgments
1. Anchoring The Family Chain
2. It Takes More Than Sperm
3. Plymouth Rock Coaching Clinic
5. Confused Christian Kids
6. NASCAR Fathering
7. Taming Your Barbarians
8. Bent By God
9. Braveheart
10. Memorial Stones
11. Dry Copies
12. Three-Peat
13. Notes P. 243Additional Info
If you thought your parenting responsibilities ended after eighteen years per child, you thought wrong. Instead, it’s your privilege to lead your family-and influence succeeding generations-for a century…or more. The Bible talks about it, men have done it, and you can do it too. That is, if you’re up to the challenge of a lifetime. -
Raising Great Kids For Parents Of Preschoolers (Student/Study Guide)
$7.99Add to cart1. Raising Children Of Character
2. Ingredients For Growth: Grace, Truth, And Time
3. Developing Connectedness And Responsibility
4. Developing Reality And Competence
5. Developing Morality And Spirituality
6. When In Doubt, Connect!Additional Info
It takes tender strength to raise children of character and faith. What does it take to raise great kids? If you’ve read any books on parenting, conflicting opinions have probably left you feeling confused. Get tough! Show acceptance. Lay down the rules. Lighten up, already! There’s got to be a balance between control and permissiveness. And there is. Drawing on the expert insights of counselors and award winning authors Henry Cloud and John Townsend and on the parenting wisdom of MOPS International (Mothers of Preschoolers), Raising Great Kids shows you how truth and grace go together. They are allies in your most challenging and rewarding task: raising children with character that can withstand life’s rigors and make the most of its potential. Using principles described in Raising Great Kids, the Raising Great Kids Workbook for Parents of Preschoolers will guide you through those first, formative years in your child’s life from infancy to age five. It’s filled with sound Biblical information and expert advise. But most important, it supplies tools you can begin using today, from thought – provoking questions and self-assessments to an abundance of practical applications. Each chapter begins by introducing three or four key parenting principles, and ends with hands on exercise and a prayer that crystallize the concepts dealt with in that chapter. The Raising Kids Workbook for Parents of Preschoolers will help you start sowing the seeds of character early in your child’s life for good fruit that lasts a lifetime. -
What The Bible Says About Parenting
$19.99Add to cartMore than ever, Christians need to know what the Bible actually teaches about parenting, and put it into practice. In What the Bible Says About Parenting, pastor/teacher John MacArthure presents time-proven principles of biblical parenting clearly and carefully to help parents make sense of their duties before God and to bring up their children in the ways of the Lord. In addition to this new trade paper edition (previously titled Successful Christian Parenting), there is also a resource kit and two workbooks available to help Christian parents instruct their children in a godly manner.
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Raising Sons And Loving It
$19.99Add to cart15 Chapters
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In these days of daunting headlines, here’s some really good news: Your son was God’s idea, and you can help him weather the often rocky transition from boyhood to a manhood shaped by God’s character and purposes. Drawing from their extensive clinical and personal experience, Gary and Carrie Oliver show you – How boys really are different from girls – Five keys to raising “emotionally intelligent” sons – What your boys need from your marriage — and from you – How to help your sons cultivate a heart for God – How to cultivate your sons’ ability to deal with failure, loss, and grief . . . And much more. -
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.
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Homosexuality Science And The Plain Sense Of Scripture A Print On Demand Ti
$35.99Add to cartHomosexuality is one of the most hotly debated issues in the church today. This book arises directly out of the current discussion of what the Bible says about the morality of homosexual acts and relationships. Taking up the question from both sides of the debate, twelve biblical scholars, psychologists, and theologians debate the meaning of the scriptural passages on homosexuality–from Genesis, Leviticus, Romans, and 1 Corinthians–in light of contemporary scientific and exegetical evidence.
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Mother Daughter Connection
$18.99Add to cartThe Mother Daughter Connection is a book designed to help mothers form intimate, working relationships with their daughters by giving mothers an insider’s view of their daughters’ thoughts and feelings. The editor of Brio magazine for girls and a veteran youth expert, Susie Shellenberger helps mothers understand the angst and confusion teen girls feel when coping with such issues as body image, fashion envy, dating, fear of failure, and sharing one’s faith. With creative questions, conversation starters, and diary entries, mothers are given the tools to not only help their daughters, but also to learn the “stuff they gotta know” to help their daughters survive the teenage years.
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Real Family Values
$16.99Add to cartThis rerelease of the popular original edition continues to speak to parents in a society where “family values” no longer seem to exist. If anything, today’s community standards threaten the family. Airwaves and movie theaters are drenched with obscenities; perversion is glorified; divorce is cheap and easy; “safe sex” is promoted instead of abstinence; parental authority is undermined; sex roles are confused. In Real Family Values, parents will learn how to sort through today’s moral confusion, remove it from their homes, and change the world by zeroing in on the part they love most: their families.
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Facing Autism : Giving Parents Reasons For Hope And Guidance For Help
$21.99Add to cartPerhaps one of the most devastating things parents can learn is that their child has been diagnosed with autism. A multifaceted disorder, autism has long baffled parents and professionals alike. At one time, doctors gave parents virtually no hope for combating the disorder. But in recent years, new treatments and therapies have demonstrated that improvement is possible. With intensive, early intervention, some children have recovered from autism and have been integrated into school, indistinguishable from their peers. In this greatly needed book, author Lynn M. Hamilton draws upon her own experience of successfully parenting an autistic child to give overwhelmed moms and dads guidance, practical information, and hope for battling this disorder in their childrens lives. Parents will learn ten things they can do to begin battling autism right away, investigate cutting-edge biomedical treatments and other therapies, explore the benefits of dietary intervention, and much more as they learn how to begin the fight for their child’s future in Facing Autism.
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Love Honor And Forgive
$26.99Add to cartIVP Print on Demand Title
I’m sorry. Will you forgive me? Those simple words that we teach children to say can be the most difficult we will ever utter. Whether the issue is trivial or vital, forgiveness can be a challenge to any couple. How do we keep small hurts from building up? How do we forgive when we don’t feel like it? Here Bil and Pam Farrel provide a down-to-earth look at forgiveness as we experience it—or don’t—in our marriages.
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Reproduction Revolution A Print On Demand Title
$33.99Add to cartWithin the high-paced, highly controverted field of bioethics, the most hotly debated issues center on sexuality, reproducitve technology, and the family. This new volume from the Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity provides a thought-provoling appraisal of the wthical dimension of the reproductive revolution from a Christian perspective. Thirty scholars and medical practitioners discuss some of teh most pressing topics related to human reproduction.
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To Raise A Jewish Child
$19.99Add to cartIn a society with so many distractions, how can American Jewish parents teach their children to know and appreciate what it means to be a Jew? Updated with current resource material, this wise and practical book provides help in finding and evaluating a Hebrew school, in dealing with secular peer-group pressures on children, and in planning family observances in the home.
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Healing Journey For Adult Children Of Alcoholics
$25.99Add to cartChildren of alcoholic parents have suffered wounds that affect their lives for years to come. They learn to protect themselves from the pattern of hurt that they have come to expect in life. The results of such constant vigilance against pain can range from ulcers, sleeplessness, addictions, depression and anger to a string of broken relationships. But adult children of alcoholics can go through a healing journey that will help them recover from their painful past and be set free to live as God intended. Daryl Quick takes readers step by step through new ways of feeling, thinking and acting that will replace the ineffective patterns they have been locked into for years. With moving stories and helpful exercises, Quick shows how adult children of alcoholics can find hope and healing.
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Families At The Crossroads
$25.99Add to cart1. Postmodernity: A New Battlefield For The War Over The Family
2. The Unnaturalness Of Family
3. Advanced Capitalism And The Lost Art Of Christian Family
4. Church As First Family
5. The Superiority Of Singleness
6. Whose Fidelity? Which Intimacy?
7. Welcoming Children And Other Strangers
8. No Christian Home Is A Haven
170 PagesAdditional Info
IVP Print On Demand Title“Scant decades ago most Westerners agreed that…lifelong monogamy was ideal…mothers should stay home with the children…premarital sex was to be discouraged …heterosexuality was the unquestioned norm…popular culture should not corrupt children. Today not a single one of these expectations is uncontroversial.” So writes Rodney Clapp in assessing the status of the family in postmodern Western society. In response many evangelicals have been quick to defend the so-called traditional family, assuming that it exemplifies the biblical model. Clapp challenges that assumption, arguing that the “traditional” family is a reflection more of the nineteenth-century middle-class family than of any family one can find in Scripture. At the same time, he recognizes that many modern and postmodern options are not acceptable to Christians. Returning to the biblical story afresh, Clapp articulates a challenge to both sides of a critical debate.
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What Every Child Needs
$18.99Add to cart1. Security: Hold-Me-Close Love
2. Affirmation: Crazy-About-Me Love
3. Belonging: Fit-Me-Into-the-Family Love
4. Discipline: Give-Me-Limits Love
5. Guidance: Show-Me-and-Tell-Me Love
6. Respect: Let-Me-Be-Me Love
7. Play: Play-With-Me Love
8. Independence: Let-Me-Grow-Up Love
9. Hope: Help-Me-Hope Love256 Pages
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Drawing on the insights of moms across America and on the latest research, What Every Child Needs helps mothers meet their children’s nine basic needs for security, affirmation, belonging, discipline, guidance, respect, play, independence, and hope. Using a child’s language of love, Elisa Morgan and Carol Kuykendall of MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers) International show how moms can meet each need . . . and respect their own needs in the process. Seasoned with poignant stories and wise quotes from moms, this book will encourage mothers that the person they are is the mom their child needs. -
Spiritual Dimensions Of Mental Health
$19.99Add to cartIVP Print On Demand Title
Today’s health care workers are seldom taught about the spiritual aspects of mental health—other than to minimize or ignore them. But spiritual needs can play an important role in any illness. This series of essays will help all Christian health care workers learn how they can help people find complete health!
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Handbook For Married Couples (Student/Study Guide)
$10.99Add to cartIVP Print On Demand Title
In A Handbook to Enrich Your Marriage Alice and Robert Fryling offer married couples a chance to enhance their marriages. They help readers learn crucial reading skills such as how to make decisions together and how to resolve conflict. Then they apply these skills to tough marital issues like sex, spiritual growth, disappointment and money.
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Parents In Pain
$30.99Add to cartContents
244 Pages In 13 Chapters Divided Into 3 Parts
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IVP Print On Demand TitleWhen your kids are in trouble, you’re in trouble.
A police car rolls up in front of your house-with your son in it.
A voice on the phone says your daughter is all right but won’t tell you where she is-and then hangs up.
A wallet disappears from your dresser and you’re sure who took it-at least somewhat sure.How do we deal with the guilt, frustration, anger and inadequacy that inevitably grip us when our children are in trouble?
John White offers comfort to parents of children with severe problems-alcoholism, homosexuality, even suicide. With practical suggestions, he helps parents deal with their feelings and decide what to do in tough situations.
A book of comfort and counsel to parents in pain.
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Raising Great Kids
$18.99Add to cart13 Chapters
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What does it take to raise great kids? If you’ve read any books on parenting, conflicting opinions have probably left you feeling confused. Get tough! Show acceptance. Lay down the rules. Lighten up, already! – There’s got to be a balance — and there is. Joining their expertise with the wisdom of MOPS International (Mothers of Preschoolers), Drs. Henry Cloud and John Townsend help you provide both the care and acceptance that make grace real to your child, and the firmness and discipline that give direction. Avoiding the twin extremes of permissiveness and over-control, Drs. Cloud and Townsend show how you can help your child cultivate six necessary character traits: attachment, responsibility, reality, competence, morality, and worship/spiritual life. – At last, here is an effective middle ground for raising up children who will handle life with maturity and wisdom. Raising Great Kids will help you equip your son or daughter to accept life’s responsibilities, grow from its challenges, and freely and fully explore all that it has to offer. -
Can Anyone Fix My Broken Heart
$11.99Add to cartDivorce can be a heartbreaker. With so many marriages ending in divorce today, the author desires to bring hope to children who are deeply affected by the tragedy of divorce. Drawing from her personal experience and the experiences of others, Mrs. Crews portrays the physical, emotional, and spiritual journey of a young boy walking through his parent’s divorce.
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Match Made In Heaven 2
$14.99Add to cartA follow-up to the popular original, A Match Made in Heaven: Volume II is brimming with stories that will encourage singles, stir happy memories, ignite romance for married couples, and comfort the widowed. Despite the negative publicity and grim divorce statistics that surround marriage today, many unions survive and thrive because of couples’ faith and commitment to God and to one another. Featuring married couples from all ages and walks of life, this book of inspirational love stories offers hope, exhortation, and biblical values, reinforcing the truth that God cares about every aspect of our lives…including marriage.
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Founded On The Rock
$15.99Add to cartThe Christian marriage and the Christian home are under a concerted attack by the enemy of our souls all over the world, and we all need God’s help to overcome this attack. This book, a result of years of marriage counseling, special seminars for the family and a world of personal experience, has practical answers to the questions that have plagued many Christian families in recent years.
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For The Familys Sake
$19.99Add to cartTurn your house into a home! Using Christ as her foundation, Macaulay presents a solid blueprint for building a haven of peace and security. Discover how the tools of love, tradition, and common sense can help you create a nurturing environment where every family member can thrive and survive the challenges of modern living.
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Reclaiming Your Story
$24.00Add to cart“Healing you inner child” is common cliche for one of the imperatives of popular psychology: overcoming childhood patterns of relationship and self-understanding in order to become an independent, mature adult. Taking this thinking deeper, Jordan argues that we must examine the dynamics in our families of origin in order to rid our psyches of hurtful assumptions about our spiritual selves and about the nature of God’s love for us.
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Raising Great Kids Workbook For Parents Of Preschoolers (Workbook)
$14.99Add to cartIt takes tender strength to raise children of character and faith . . . What does it take to raise great kids? If you’ve read any books on parenting, conflicting opinions have probably left you feeling confused. Get tough! Show acceptance. Lay down the rules. Lighten up, already! – There’s got to be a balance between control and permissiveness. And there is. Drawing on the expert insights of counselors and award-winning authors Henry Cloud and John Townsend and on the parenting wisdom of MOPS International (mother of Preschoolers), Raising Great Kids shows you how truth and grace go together. They are allies in your most challenging and rewarding task: raising children with character that can withstand life’s rigors and make the most of its potential. – Using the principles described in Raising Great Kids, the Raising Great Kids Workbook for Parents of Preschoolers will guide you through those first, formative years in your child’s life from infancy to age five. It’s filled with sound biblical information and expert advice. But most important, it supplies tools you can begin using today, from thought-provoking questions and self assessments to an abundance of practical applications. Each chapter begins by introducing three or four key parenting principles, and ends with a hands-on exercise and a prayer that crystallize the concepts dealt with in that chapter. The Raising Great Kids Workbook for Parents of Preschoolers will help you start sowing the seeds of character in your child’s life — for good fruit that lasts a lifetime.
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Power Of Mother Love
$16.99Add to cart1. The Power Of Mother Love
2. The Power To Transform A Life
3. The Power Of Surrender
4. The Power Of Simplicity
5. The Power To Heal
6. The Power Of Attachment
7. The Power Of Separation
8. The Power To Impart Faith
9. The Power To Hone A Conscience
10. The Power To Create Empathy
11. The Power To Build A Brain
12. The Power Of Time
13. The Journey To The Heart
253 PagesAdditional Info
Mother love shapes cultures and individuals. While most mothers know that their love and emotional availability are vital to their children’s well-being understand the profound and long-lasting impact we have in developing our young children’s brains, teaching them first lessons about love, shaping their consciences. Drawing on psychological research and her own experiences as a mother and therapist, mother-child champion Brenda Hunter shows us that mother love is far more powerful than many of us realize.At a time when society urges women to seek their worth and personal fulfillment in things that take them away from their families and intimate bonds, Hunter invites women to come home-to their children, their best selves, their hearts. And in the process, she promises that women everywhere will discover the radiant, life-changing Power of Mother Love.
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Sold Out TwoGether (Student/Study Guide)
$24.99Add to cartPromise Keepers founder McCartney and his wife present an engaging hands-on workbook to help you and your spouse grow closer to each other, to your children, and to God. Each of their daily sessions combines uplifting stories with spiritual lessons that help you strengthen your relationships and fully experience God’s purpose for your lives!
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Coaching Kids : Practical Tips For Effective Communication
$15.00Add to cartTestimonials
Foreword By Calvin Miller
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Tip #1 Break The Cycle Of Passed-on Parenting
Tip #2 Communicate With Respect
Tip #3 Promote Diplomatic Dialogue
Tip #4 Adjust Your Communication Style
Tip #5 Celebrate Differences In Temperament
Tip #6 Accept Various Social Preferences
Tip #7 Affirm Diversity In Information Gathering
Tip #8 Honor Different Paths To Decision Making
Tip #9 Embrace Variety In Lifestyle Approaches
Tip #10 Emphasize The Uniqueness Of Personality Types
Tip #11 Respect Differences Between Siblings
Tip #12 Inspire Self-discipline And IndependenceAdditional Info
The most exasperating, important, difficult, thankless, yet fulfilling assignment in life is parenting. Coaching Kids is a guide to creating and maintaining harmonious communication with children when they are very small and lasting throughout their adult years when they are parents themselves.Excellent parenting is not a substitute, but merely a launching pad for children to develop their own true identity. The authors present to young parents, single parents, grandparents, teachers, and caregivers the importance of understanding who kids are and are not–for everyone’s good. With this understanding in mind, the book guides readers toward diplomatic dialogue and how to blend effectively several different personalities in a family setting.
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Becoming Family : How To Build A Stepfamily That Really Works
$17.00Add to cartMore than one in five families with two parents is a stepfamily, and eight million children live in stepfamilies. The stepfamily is both a wonderful blessing and a challenge. Drawing on their own experiences, and that of the stepfamilies with whom they have worked, Robert and Jeanette Lauer give realistic, helpful advice on how to deal with the major challenges in stepfamily life: loss, adjustment, personal identity, family identity, loyalty conflicts, former spouses, resources, stepparenting, and marital intimacy. The authors encourage the formation of stepparent support groups, and an appendix includes activities and suggestions for small-group discussion.
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Love Is : Meditations For Couples On 1 Corinthians 13
$14.99Add to cart“And now I will show you the most excellent way. . . .”
No words, no passage, no song, no poem in all of human history has crystallized the qualities of love into simple absolutes more elegantly than 1 Corinthians 13. The Love Chapter of the Bible paints a perfect picture of love. It reveals the ideal love for which everyone yearns. But the passage is not a fantasy of what might be nice. It is a serious essay on how love can be lived, describing qualities ordinary people can cultivate to build extraordinary relationships.Relationship experts Drs. Les and Leslie Parrott have compiled fifteen translations of 1 Corinthians 13 to inspire and teach anyone wanting to be a better lover. In the preface, the Parrotts describe love as the supreme good, a gift that lifts us outside of ourselves. They follow with meditations on very diverse translations and creative paraphrases of 1 Corinthians 13 – from the 20th Century New Testament translation published in 1900 to The Message, published in 1995, from J. B. Phillips (1947) to The Living Bible (1979), and from the Basic Bible (1950) to the New King James Version (1979).
This book makes a beautiful gift for engagements, weddings, Valentine’s Day, anniversaries, or any occasion when love is celebrated.
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Hearts Rest
$12.95Add to cartAuthor Kathryn Popio suddenly lost her thirteen-year-old son, Macaulay, in 1988. Her chronicled steps toward healing will inspire and uplift others who have lost a child.
Popio writes, “It is my hope in sharing these experiences that they will also help someone else work through to a better resolution of their sorrow.”
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Tending The Flock
$40.00Add to cartMany churches are unprepared to face the challanges inherent in family life today. Others, though, have developed innovative and exciting responses. In this book, case studies provide insights and stategies to help develop a practical theological perspective on family ministry. This new perspective represents a fresh and powerful witness to the place of families within contemporary communities of faith.
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Shepherding A Childs Heart (Anniversary)
$16.99Add to cartMany parenting books are based on hit-or-miss theories steeped in secular thinking. This one draws from Pastor Tripp’s seasoned experience as a father-and from God’s Holy Word. Grounded in the Bible’s divine plan for parenting, this guide defines your goals as a parent and provides the Scriptural methods for accomplishing them.
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Boundaries With Kids Workbook (Workbook)
$16.99Add to cart1. The Future Is Now
2. What Does Character Look Like?
3. Kids Need Parents With Boundaries
4. What Will Happen If I Do This?
5. Pulling My Own Wagon
6. I Can’t Do It All, But I’m Not Helpless, Either
7. I’m Not The Only One Who Matters
8. Life Beyond Because I’m The Mommy
9. Pain Can Be A Gift
10. Tantrums Needn’t Be Forever
11. I Am Happier When I Am Thankful
12. Jump-Starting My Engine
13. Honesty Is The Best Policy
14. Roll Up Your Sleeves160 Pages
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1. The Future Is Now
2. What Does Character Look Like?
3. Kids Need Parents With Boundaries
4. What Will Happen If I Do This?
5. Pulling My Own Wagon
6. I Can’t Do It All, But I’m Not Helpless, Either
7. I’m Not the Only One Who Matters
8. Life Beyond Because I’m The Mommy
9. Pain Can Be A Gift
10. Tantrums Needn’t Be Forever
11. I Am Happier When I Am Thankful
12. Jump-Starting My Engine
13. Honesty Is The Best Policy
14. Roll Up Your Sleeves160 Pages
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Preparing Your Child For Dating
$19.99Add to cart17 Chapters
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No other significant area of a child’s life is so unsupervised today as dating. But this important subject doesn’t have to be left to chance. Dr. Bob Barnes insists that it’s never too early to begin planning for the dating years_and with a reasonable game plan, both parents and adolescents can come out winners. Preparing Your Child for Dating empowers parents to prepare their children for the challenges of making dating choices. It answers questions such as: What is the purpose of dating? When should a child date? Who should he or she date? Where should they go and what should they do on a date? Preparing Your Child for Dating offers a template for successful dating and moving into responsible adulthood. -
Recreating Marriage With The Same Old Spouse (Teacher’s Guide)
$24.00Add to cartRecreating Marriage with the Same Old Spouse A Guide for Couples is “a pearl of wisdom necessary for long-term marriage. In a personal and practical way, Dr. Bender leads couples to see their relationship as a lifelong process of change. Her thoughtful execises challenge couples to know intimately their unique and changing spouse as an individual gifted by God and to see long-term love as both possible and healthy.
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Legacy
$16.99Add to cart14 Chapters
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What will you leave them?Every man leaves a lasting impact on his children that will affect generations to come. It’s more than a financial inheritance-it’s an inheritance money can’t buy and time can’t take away. It’s your spiritual legacy that increases in value and lasts for eternity.
And it’s never too late-or too early-to instill the values that are at the core of a godly inheritance. No matter how many years you have with your children, you’ll discover how to make the most of that time-and create a legacy that endures.
“Fathers. . .bring up your children in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.” Ephesians 6:4
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Dont Sweat The Small Stuff With Your Family
$21.99Add to cartIn his number one national bestseller, Don’t Sweat The Small Stuff, Richard Carlson, Ph.D., showed listeners how not to let the small things in life drive them crazy. In Don’t Worry, Make Money, also a number one bestseller, he discussed ways to have a more abundant and joyful life, all while refusing to let financial concerns overcome us.
Now, in Don’t Sweat The Small Stuff with Your Family, we hear how not to let small annoyances in our home lives get us down. From defusing kids who are whining or fighting, to working out issues with a spouse, to reducing the hassles over household chores, Richard Carlson tells us ways to make our relationships at home — the place where it counts most — more peaceful and loving.
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What Children Need To Know When Parents Get Divorced (Revised)
$14.00Add to cart43 Chapters
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From trusted author and licensed family counselor William L. Coleman, practical help
for children ages 6 to 12.Because it is often hard for children to express feelings, fears, and questions, it is easy to assume they are adjusting and coping with their parents’ divorce–when instead they may feel guilty that they are somehow to blame for the break-up.
William L. Coleman provides an honest, understandable, and simple way for concerned adults to broach discussion of this sensitive subject with the children they care about, covering such crucial areas as:
*The uniqueness and importance of each child
*Reassurance of the continued love of both parents for the child
*Encouragement to talk openly of painful subjects
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Act Of Marriage (Revised)
$19.99Add to cart1. The Sanctity Of Sex
2. What Lovemaking Means To A Man
3. What Lovemaking Means To A Woman
4. Why God Created Sex
5. Sex Education
6. The Art Of Lovemaking
7. For Men Only
8. For Women Only
9. The Unfulfilled Woman
10. The Key To Feminine Response
11. The Impotent Man
12. Sane Family Planning
13. Sex Survey Report
14. The Missing Dimension
15. Practical Answers To Common Questions
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This updated and expanded edition gives a fresh, informative edge to an already definitive book.New sections discuss “sex after sixty” and five reasons why God created sex. All supported by the very latest findings in the fields of medicine and sociology.
For engaged couples and newlyweds who want to make lovemaking a joy from the start…for couples who have been married for years and want to maintain the flame or rekindle the embers…for every husband or wife who wants to be a better lover—here are the insights into each other’s bodies, psychosexual makeup, and need for tender, unselfish affection that can help you achieve your goal.
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Following Jesus Without Dishonoring Your Parents
$20.99Add to cartIntroduction: Learning Our Names / Paul Tokunaga
Pressure, Perfectionism & Performance / Paul Tokunaga
Your Parents Love You, My Parents Love Me / Jeanette Yep
Honor & Obey / Greg Jao
Doctor Or Lawyer? / Susan Cho Van Riesen
Relating To Others-Understanding Yourself / Greg Jao
Marriage & Singleness / Peter Cha & Susan Cho, Van Riesen
The Gender Trap / Peter Cha & Jeanette Yep
Racial Reconciliation / Susan Cho, Van Riesen &-Peter Cha
Spiritual Growth / Greg Jao
Finding A Church Home / Peter Cha
Gifts Asian Americans Bring / Paul Tokunaga
For Further Reading
ContributorsAdditional Info
These are some of the hopes of our Asian parents. Knowing that our parents have sacrificed for us, we want to honor their wishes. But we also want to serve Jesus, and sometimes that can seem to conflict with family expectations. Discovering our Asian identity in the midst of Western culture means learning to bridge these conflicting values. This book can serve as our guide along the way as we explore
our parents’ ways of loving us
vocations that show respect for our parents and allow us to serve God
the “model minority” myth and performance pressures
marriage, singleness, and being male and female
racial reconciliation
spirituality and church experiences
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Love Dad : Letters Of Faith To My Children
$11.99Add to cartCan Also Receive Booktalk Guide #6000099517
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A marvelous collection of: memories, family nostalgia, spiritual wisdom, and an abiding sense of God’s presence. In his wonderfully poetic voice, Herbert Brokering bequeaths his children–and all children and parents–a rich legacy of faith. Each letter offers fresh understandings about God and faith, plus advice on finding and living full lives. -
At The Heart Of Every Great Father
$14.99Add to cart1. At The Heart Of Every Great Father You’ll Find Self-Control
2. At The Heart Of Every Great Father You’ll Find Gentleness
3. At The Heart Of Every Great Father You’ll Find Faithfulness
4. At The Heart Of Every Great Father You’ll Find Goodness
5. At The Heart Of Every Great Father You’ll Find Kindness
6. At The Heart Of Every Great Father You’ll Find Patience
7. At The Heart Of Every Great Father You’ll Find Peace
8. At The Heart Of Every Great Father You’ll Find Joy
9. At The Heart Of Every Great Father You’ll Find Love
10. At The Heart Of Every Great Father You’ll Find Jesus ChristAdditional Info
Once upon a time, you were sure that being a father–being a really good father- couldn’t be that hard to do. And then you gazed for the very first heart-stopping moment into your child’s trusting eyes. If you long to be the kind of father your child needs-if you long to be a father who unmistakably reflects your heavenly Father’s loving care-you’ll be deeply encouraged by Clark Cothern’s inspiring collection of powerful, straight-talking stories. Each one grabs you by the heart, models great fathering in action, and encourages you to choose God pattern for your own.You’ll discover that bubbling up from the heart of every great father are the strong character qualities that Jesus himself modeled for us: Love. Joy. Peace. Patience. Kindness. Goodness. Faithfulness. Gentleness. Self-control. And you’ll discover that you can allow Him to create those priceless qualities in you. Whether your children are toddlers or teens, you can be a truly great father. These unforgettable stories remind you how.
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2nd Half Of Marriage
$19.99Add to cartYour children are gone or leaving soon. It’s time to focus once again on your own future and especially on your marriage. What’s in store for the second half? David and Claudia Arp provide answers and practical help in this groundbreaking book. Drawing on their national survey of hundreds of “second-half” couples, the Arps reveal eight marital challenges every long-term marriage faces, and they offer strategies and exercises for meeting each of them. The Second Half of Marriage will challenge you to create a vision for the rest of your life together — and inspire you to make that vision a reality.
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Getting Ready For The Wedding
$19.99Add to cartHow do we know when we’re ready for marriage? What’s the secret to having a great engagement? How can we get married without drowning in debt? Where better to turn for answers than those who have gone before — experts in the area of marriage, relationships, and finance who know from experience what it takes to make the days leading up to the wedding (and the years that follow) a success! How To Know When You’re Ready For Marriage–Les & Leslie Parrot – Secrets To Having A Great Engagement–David & Claudia Arp – Getting Married Without Drowning In Debt–Ron Blue – What To Do With Wedding Jitters–Robert & Rosemary Barnes – Making Your Wedding More Than A Ceremony–David & Jan Stoop – How To Have A Great Wedding Night–Cliff & Joyce Penner – Getting Married When Your Parents Don’t Approve–John Trent – How To Handle The Wedding Bell Blues–H. Norman Wright – For Those Getting Married Again–Thom Whiteman – After the Honeymoon–Les & Leslie Parrott
