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Raising Disciples: : How To Make Faith Matter For Our Kids
$29.99Add to cartChildren and youth will just “catch” the faith of their parents, right?
Not necessarily. Talking with kids about Jesus no longer comes naturally to many Christian parents. In Raising Disciples, pastor Natalie Frisk helps us reconnect faith and parenting, equipping parents to model what following Jesus looks like in daily life. Filled with authenticity, flexibility, humor, and prayer, Frisk outlines how parents can make openings for their children to experience God in their daily lives.
As curriculum pastor at The Meeting House, one of the largest churches in Canada, Frisk calls parents who follow Christ to ask the big questions about the spiritual formation of children and teens. In practical and thoughtful ways, she equips parents to disciple their kids in various stages of childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood. Raising Disciples will awaken parents to the possibly of Jesus-centered parenting and encourage us to engage in the lost art of discipling our own kids.
Foreword by Marv Penner, director of the National Center for Excellence in Youth Ministry
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Parenting Your Parents
$12.99Add to cartHelp and Hope for the Hard Road Ahead
If you are currently providing care for your aging parents or facing the prospect of doing so in the near future, you are definitely not alone. Dr. Grant Ethridge and his wife, Tammy, have been there, having given care during their dads’ last days. They know the stress and uncertainty you face.
Through their story and those of other caregivers, Grant and Tammy share research and practical tips to aid you in dealing with everyday caregiving struggles and situations. You will learn how to decide which care is best, prepare legal documents, handle family disputes, and much more.
They will also share encouragement and advice from the Bible. You’ll discover that with God’s help, you can make it through even the most difficult days in your journey.
Looking after an elderly or sick parent is a physically and emotionally draining experience. Let this book give you the tools you need to be successful without giving away your peace of mind in the process.
And remember, as you give care to your parents, your Heavenly Father is always caring for you.
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When You Love A Prodigal
$14.99Add to cartLoving a prodigal is a long and desperate journey, filled with fear, worry, anger, and self-recrimination. Author Judy Douglass has traveled the same road and delivers hope and strength through this collection of 90 essays, giving perspective on what God offers you as you love your prodigal.
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Raising Worry Free Girls
$16.99Add to cartIn a world fraught with worry and anxiety, veteran counselor Sissy Goff offers practical advice on how you can instill bravery and strength in your daughter, helping her understand why her brain is often working against her when she starts to worry and what she can do to fight back.
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Smart Stepfamily Guide To Financial Planning
$15.99Add to cartThis guide to financial planning for blended families offers help and encouragement as you plan your combined financial future while protecting your marriage in the process. You’ll be given tips on handling debt, bills, and child support from previous relationships and advice on planning for college expenses, retirement, and an inheritance.
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Honestly Adoption : Answers To 101 Questions About Adoption And Foster Care
$16.99Add to cartDiscover What Foster Care and Adoption Really Look Like
If you are considering adoption or foster care or are already somewhere in this difficult and complicated process, you need trusted information from people who have been where you are.
Mike and Kristin Berry have adopted eight children and cared for another 23 kids in their nine-year stint as foster parents. They aren’t just experts. They have experienced every emotional high and low and encountered virtually every situation imaginable as parents. Now, they want to share what they’ve learned with you.
Get the answers you need to the following questions, and many more:
Should I foster parent or adopt? How do I know?
What is the first step in becoming an adoptive or foster parent?
What are the benefits of an open versus closed adoption?
How and when do I tell my child that he or she is adopted?
How do I help my child embrace his or her cultural and racial identity?
Honestly Adoption will provide you with practical, down-to-earth advice to make good decisions in your own adoption and foster parenting journey and give you the help and hope you need.
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Reclaimed : Finding Your Identity After Marital Betrayal
$14.99Add to cartStephanie Broersma lived a charmed life . . . until the day she discovered a deleted online conversation between her husband and another woman. When confronted, he confessed to a ten-year addiction to pornography and multiple affairs. Yet even as her world crumbled, Stephanie refused to allow Satan to turn her marriage into another dismal statistic. Reclaimed: Finding Your Identity after Marital Betrayal is Stephanie’s story–from revelation to reconciliation and all the pain and confusion in between. But it’s also a guide for those whose lives have turned upside down–a raw and honest look at the emotions, decisions, and difficulties women face in marital betrayal. It’s a collection of stories shared by real women, a journal with leading questions to help put words to feelings, and an encouraging compilation of Scripture verses to give strength to the weary.
Stephanie’s goal in sharing her story is that you will realize that you are not alone. That you are not without hope despite the chaos and pain around you. That you will find healing from the shame, anger, and brokenness that overwhelms you. That you will gain confidence as you rebuild trust and self-worth. And that you will walk out of this fire with your head held high, giving God the glory for the amazing, reclaimed story of your life. Stephanie Broersma is a living example of how God brings beauty from ashes in the lives of His children.
Married since 2002, she and her husband, Tim, have walked through the valley of marital betrayal and come out the other side stronger, more in love, and fully devoted to Christ. She now heads Reclaimed Ministry, an organization that seeks to help other broken brides recover from the pain and devastation of marital infidelity. For more information or to find help, visit reclaimedministry.com.
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Protecting Your Child From Predators
$17.00Add to cartEven good parents often underestimate the dangers their children face. Research indicates that one in four females and one in six males are sexually abused before age 18. In most cases, the enemy is not a faceless stranger; it’s someone you know and trust–a neighbor, a coach, or even a family member.This book provides practical steps to ensure you’re doing all you can to reduce the risks of abuse. But since you cannot be with your children 24/7, it goes beyond what you can do as a parent to teach you how to increase your child’s own awareness and strategies in the face of potential dangers–without making them fearful.Dr. Robinson, whose decades-long practice focuses on abused and endangered children, calls on her own case studies to show age-appropriate conversation starters for parents, teaching them how to ask the right questions and provide the right boundaries.This book will help you move from fear to confidence on this heavy topic that is just too important to ignore.
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Love Talk Workbook For Women Newly Updated And Expanded (Workbook)
$12.99Add to cartWe set off to crack the code for meaningful conversation . . . a plan that would move our communication from good to great. And we found it. A deep and simple plan for everything a loving conversation has to offer. We call it Love Talk. –Drs. Les and Leslie Parrot
This women’s workbook will help you personalize the concepts you encounter in the Parrotts’ book Love Talk and put them to work in your relationships. Inside, you’ll find exercises, assessments, self-tests, tips, applications . . . all the tools and guidance you need to:
*Identify your personal communication style
*Understand how it interacts with that of your partner
*Talk your way to a healthier, stronger relationshipLove Talk is like no other communication book you’ve ever read. The fruit of years of research by two foremost relationship experts (who also happen to be husband and wife), this book forges a new path to the heart of loving conversation. You’ll begin by identifying your security need and determining your personal communication style. Then you’ll put together everything you discover to learn how the two of you can speak each other’s language like never before.
This very day, you can begin an adventure in communication that will draw the two of you closer, and closer, and closer . . . consistently, in a way that creates the depth and connection you long for in your relationship.
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Detoured : The Messy, Grace-Filled Journey From Working Professional To Sta
$17.99Add to cartYou don’t have it have it all together to live the life you’re called to live
A former marketing executive turned elementary school teacher, Jen Babakhan already knew something about career transitions when she traded her teaching career for motherhood. She prepared her new role by reading pregnancy books, yet she felt empty when trying to navigate the isolation that came with leaving her career behind. Detoured is the book she wished she had.
With honesty and an open heart, Jen shares the grief she experienced leaving her vocation behind and unpacks the falsehoods she believed about “having it all.” As she walks you through her journey, she shows you how to…
*confront your own misplaced sense of identity and learn who you are in Christ
*gain confidence and peace in your decision to hit pause on your career
*find you are not alone in your motherhood journey, whatever it looks likeMotherhood doesn’t offer performance evaluations or a pat on the back for a job well done. But when you follow the path God calls you to, you gain so much more.
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Gods Words Of Life For Grandmothers
$14.99Add to cartThis beautiful topically arranged devotional will encourage you whether you are a new grandma or have years of grandparenting experience. With hundreds of verses on topics such as hope, family, and God’s faithfulness, God’s Words of Life for Grandmothers reminds you of God’s presence as you delight in loving your grandchildren well.
With hundreds of Bible verses covering more than 40 topics important to grandparents such as family, prayer, wisdom, health, legacy, and God’s love, this beautifully designed book with a flexcover and scalloped edges, the latest book in the bestselling God’s Words of Life series, is arranged by topics relevant to the joys and hopes of being a grandparent. With specially chosen Bible verses and rich devotional thoughts, God’s Words of Life for Grandmothers strengthens your heart and mind as you build a legacy for the next generation.
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Jesus Calling Family Devotional
$16.99Add to cartThis special edition of Sarah Young’s #1 bestselling book Jesus Calling is perfect for families.
Each day offers an adult devotion from Jesus Calling and a children’s devotional excerpted from Jesus Calling : 365 Devotions for Kids. With the devotions side by side for children, parents and children can read their own devotion and then read, talk, and pray together. These beloved devotions are based on Scripture and written as though Jesus is speaking directly to you and your children-including enriching questions designed to take you deeper into the Savior’s heart for your family.
Author Sarah Young has touched millions of lives through her devotionals. This special edition of Jesus Calling invites you to take your children along for the journey-grow closer while experiencing Jesus’ love in a fresh, joyful way.
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Smart Stepfamily Participants Guide Revised And Updated (Student/Study Guide)
$11.00Add to cartGet the Most out of The Smart Stepfamily
Discover the key steps to building a healthy family with stepfamily expert Ron L. Deal. This interactive workbook is guaranteed to help you benefit from The Smart Stepfamily book and DVD. It includes:
– discussion questions for before and after each DVD session
– space to take notes
– bonus question and answer section
– group leader instructions
– guidelines for facilitating effective groupsThrough eight engaging sessions, you’ll learn useable solutions for everyday living and glean valuable insight and practical tips for becoming a smart stepfamily.
Ideal for small groups, premarital counseling, or personal study. Use with The Smart Stepfamily book (Revised and Expanded Edition) and Small-Group DVD Resource (Revised and Expanded Edition).
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Single Parent : Confident And Successful
$14.99Add to cartWhether you became a single parent through divorce, death, adoption, or some other situation, you’ve probably wondered what the future holds for you and your children. Will you be able to provide the emotional, financial, and spiritual support your family needs?
The Single Parent will encourage you in your journey and help avert problems before they arise. It is filled with wise counsel, biblical truth, and real-life stories–the author’s own as well as those of the many single moms and dads who have come across her path through the years. It will help you bolster your abilities in such areas as
– improving your child’s behavior
– negotiating boundaries
– graciously seeking and accepting help from others
– trusting God in the processGod cares for the single parent and will provide for you and your children. Let this book give you the tools you need as you walk with him in this journey.
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Play To Their Strengths
$15.99Add to cartBring Out the Best in Your Children
When you see your kids struggle to find their way in the world, do you wish you could do more to propel them toward God’s calling for their lives?
You can help your children thrive when you adopt a new perspective on parenting, one that focuses on what’s right with your kids rather than what’s wrong.
Certified Strengths Coach Brandon Miller and his wife, Analyn, are the parents of seven kids, and they want to share their journey with you, so you can encourage your children to develop their own unique set of passions, skills, and talents.
When you play to your children’s individual strengths, you allow them to move with their natural momentum toward their best possible outcomes. And suddenly, you’ll see your kids’ insecurity fade, their confidence grow, and their worlds expand with new possibilities.
Now is the perfect time to experience a fresh fascination with your children and uncover the hidden gem that lies inside each of them.
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DIY Guide To Building A Family That Lasts
$13.99Add to cartTools for Renovating Your Relational Space
You know those home improvement shows where they take an ugly, run-down house and make it beautiful? Whether you like the shows or not, everybody loves seeing those moments of total transformation–the before and after picture, the dramatic reveal… Well, what if you could experience that kind of transformation in your family life? That’s what The DIY Guide to Building a Family that Lasts is all about.
In it, you’ll find practical tools for transforming your home life and dramatically improving your family’s culture from Shannon Warden and Gary Chapman. Plus, each step is paired with a home improvement metaphor that makes it fun and easy to remember. We all want to create an environment that our spouse and kids love to come home to, but how do we do it? Take your first steps with The DIY Guide to Building a Family that Lasts.
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Blessing : Giving The Gift Of Unconditional Love And Acceptance
$19.99Add to cartChildren of every age long for the gift of The Blessing–the unconditional love and approval that comes from a healthy relationship with their parents.
This life-changing gift for Christian parents and their children, essential for instilling a deep sense of self-worth and unshakable emotional well-being, contains five essential elements:
*meaningful touch
*a spoken message
*attaching high value
*picturing a special future
*an active commitmentOffering solid, practical advice and a fresh perspective on making this gift a bigger part of our families, The Blessing powerfully communicates these biblically based elements as necessary to prepare children for positive future relationships, including their relationship with a loving God.
New to this updated edition are:
*giving The Blessing to others in your circle of influence,
*practical application tools and stories of how this is lived out,
*insight and help for those who didn’t receive The Blessing,
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Mama Bear Apologetics
$16.99Add to cart#RoarLikeAMother
The problem with lies is they don’t often sound like lies. Their attraction is their appeal. They seem harmless, and even sound right. So what’s a Mama Bear to do to protect her children and raise them in the truth?
Mama Bear Apologetics is the book you’ve been looking for. This mom-to-mom guide will equip you to teach your kids how to form their own beliefs about what is true and what is false. Through honest storytelling and practical application, this band of Mama Bears offers tools to train your kids how to spot the lie traps intended to trip them up and the steps to take to stand strong on God’s Word.
Are you ready to answer the rallying cry, “When you mess with our kids, we will demolish your arguments”? Join the Mama Bear movement and raise your voice to protect your kids.
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Dancing In The Kitchen
$14.99Add to cartDancing in the Kitchen is a lighthearted, yet honest look at what it takes to build lasting love in marriage, even through adversity.
As a Jazz recording artist, Debbie Cunningham has entertained couples with songs of love and romance for more than a decade. Married to her high school sweetheart for more than thirty years and unwilling to sit idly by while divorce rates climb in today’s society, she began writing songs about the journey and celebration of committed love. That writing led to her search for and gleaning wisdom from married couples who had gone through hard circumstances and stayed together, all to provide hope for other couples in their journey of making love last.
In Dancing in the Kitchen, Debbie shares her own marriage experience through seasons of grief and her daughter’s unexpected health issues, weaving in stories of other couples who have stayed together through infidelity, terminal illness, loss, infertility, addiction, and, in an unusual twist, even the journey of an arranged marriage. These couples have found connecting points that allowed them to stay in love and defeat the rising divorce statistic. Ultimately, every married couple has seasons of struggle, which can either bring a couple together or push them apart. With lighthearted candor, Dancing in the Kitchen reveals to readers how to cultivate connection with their spouse in the hard seasons and stay in love for a lifetime.
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Love Is Patient Love Is Kind
$17.99Add to cartAn Althea Press Title
Your faith can heal your marriage.
In marriage and in life, there are times that test our strength and commitment to ourselves, our partners and our faith. Know this-you can overcome any obstacle when you turn to the true source of healing. This marriage devotional reminds you of the promises you made to each other and God on your wedding day-and shows you how live these promises.
April and Aaron Jacob’s marriage devotional invites you and your spouse to take time each week to deepen your connection to each other and Christ. With compassionate guidance from the scriptures, you’ll find resolution to tough issues and build a strong marriage with Christ at the center.
In this marriage devotional, you’ll find:
*52 weekly devotionals- Reconnect with your spouse using quotes from the scriptures, questions for guided discussions, and weekly exercises.
*Scripture in real life-Tackle trouble like trust, forgiveness, money, communication and all the travails of daily life with God’s words to guide you.
*Rebuild and restart-Re-commit to growing your faith and the bonds of your relationship with each marriage devotional.“Love never gives up; and its faith, hope and patience never fail.”-Corinthians 13:7. Rediscover the unwavering power of love and faith with this marriage devotional.
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Powerful Prayers For Your Son
$12.00Add to cartParents know that their children need their prayers. But sometimes, they aren’t sure where to start. For moms and dads who long to lift their kids up in prayer, Powerful Prayers for Your Daughter and Powerful Prayers for Your Son offer hope, encouragement, and practical help.
Rob and Joanna Teigen assure parents that just because they don’t always understand their son or daughter, that doesn’t mean that God doesn’t. Collecting specific prayers parents can use, along with stories from other parents about how God has answered their prayers, Rob and Joanna give readers a strong foundation to build a lifelong habit of praying for their kids. They also explain what boys and girls need to learn as they grow up, including character, courage, modesty, self-control, forgiveness, and more, so parents can pray for every part of their kids’ lives.
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Powerful Prayers For Your Daughter
$15.00Add to cartParents know that their children need their prayers. But sometimes, they aren’t sure where to start. For moms and dads who long to lift their kids up in prayer, Powerful Prayers for Your Daughter and Powerful Prayers for Your Son offer hope, encouragement, and practical help.
Rob and Joanna Teigen assure parents that just because they don’t always understand their son or daughter, that doesn’t mean that God doesn’t. Collecting specific prayers parents can use, along with stories from other parents about how God has answered their prayers, Rob and Joanna give readers a strong foundation to build a lifelong habit of praying for their kids. They also explain what boys and girls need to learn as they grow up, including character, courage, modesty, self-control, forgiveness, and more, so parents can pray for every part of their kids’ lives.
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Overcoming Grandparenting Barriers
$12.00Add to cartEven under the best circumstances, it takes time and intention to disciple grandchildren and pass on a legacy of faith. So how much harder is the assignment in a family experiencing fractures such as divorce, estrangement, or prodigals? How are grandparents to reach grandchildren for Christ when there are such barriers? In Overcoming Grandparenting Barriers, Larry Fowler, founder of the Legacy Coalition, offers a helpful guide to influencing grandchildren’s spiritual lives even in the most discouraging and hurtful situations, such as when- an adult child is not following the Lord- grandchildren are not being raised by the adult child and access to them is limited- grandparents are prohibited from addressing spiritual matters when they visit their grandchildrenOvercoming Grandparenting Barriers provides guidance and strategies along with encouragement for grandparents to persevere–to understand that they are not alone and that their role is too crucial to give up on reaching the next generation for Christ.
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Raising Giant Killers Leaders Guide (Teacher’s Guide)
$17.00Add to cartWith honesty, humor, and keen biblical insight, bestselling authors Bill and Beni Johnson help you discover the keys to successful parenting in God’s kingdom. “Parents, we rule for the purpose of protection, but we also serve with the purpose of empowering,” they write. “We want to release our children into their destiny–that’s the privilege of parenting.”
In these pages you will gain the wisdom, kingdom concepts, and practical tools you need to help raise your children to their best.
You’ll discover how to parent to their uniqueness, gifts, and strengths, as well as how you can demonstrate and reveal who God is to your kids. The authors also address pressing issues parents face today, including how to:
*be fully engaged in hearing what the Lord is saying over each child
*maintain relationship and discipline
*develop character
*train your children for worship
*fan the flame of what God has put in their hearts
*and moreNo matter what age your kids are, you have an incredible opportunity to shape their hearts, minds, and values. Here is everything you need to help your children walk into the destiny of their lives and see them become the awesome people they were created to be.
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Mended : Restoring The Hearts Of Mothers And Daughters
$16.99Add to cartSticks and Stones may break your bones
But words will never harm you…You know the rhyme about sticks and stones isn’t true. Words can wound, and when those words are exchanged between mother and daughter, the damage can seem impossible to undo.
Mended gives you the script you need to speak life into your relationship with your mother or daughter. Discover powerful words that usher in healing for wounded hearts and rebuild, restore, and reconcile your connection.
Through Scripture, prayer and practical applications, you will…
find common ground and put your relationship ahead of your differences learn what to say when you don’t what to say grow closer when you do hard things together
If you have a rocky history with your mom or daughter, you don’t have to repeat those patterns of brokenness. God wants to mend your heart and make you whole. -
Male And Female Made In Gods Image
$27.95Add to cartIn this era of distorted ideas about our inherent roles, identities, and purposes as men and women, it has never been as important that we seek reconciliation in marriage and families so there can be a more rational approach to the real problems the whole world suffers. We must disseminate God’s truth and extinguish the lies and myths that Satan has embedded into the hearts and minds of many people.
Building on these ideas, in Male and Female Made in God’s Image, author Frances O’Dair offers her perspective on dating, marriage, and family, which she believes reflects the experiences of most married couples before the sexual revolution of the 1960s. She encourages men and women to reflect on the wise or self-serving natures of their past dating and mating choices. If we can stop the reckless self-gratifying use of human sexuality with our children, our loving direction and understanding of God’s truth can set them free from the temptations that have been passed down to recent generations. We must be ready to admit that sexual freedom is a myth and isn’t intended for the well-being of men, women, children, and the unborn.
This faith-inspired treatise explores the true source of happiness, meaning, and fulfilment that God has planned for everyone within the sacrament of marriage and the family circle.
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What A Great Word For Moms
$15.00Add to cartWHAT A GREAT WORD FOR MOMS is a unique gift book that offers inspiring devotional thoughts, literary quotes, Scriptures and prayers, all built around key Bible words. Each word is intended to encourage, challenge, and bless those who are moms at any age and stage.
Readers will discover words meant to be pondered and digested, each one offering a fresh, new perspective on a biblical word as it applies to motherhood. Each word will inspire the hearts of moms and help them remember that God is with them wherever they may be.
WHAT A GREAT WORD FOR MOMS offers encouragement for the hearts and minds of moms, grandmothers, and those who are like a mom to others, giving them a new opportunity to draw closer to God. -
Raising Giant Killers Participants Guide (Student/Study Guide)
$18.99Add to cartWith honesty, humor, and keen biblical insight, bestselling authors Bill and Beni Johnson help you discover the keys to successful parenting in God’s kingdom. “Parents, we rule for the purpose of protection, but we also serve with the purpose of empowering,” they write. “We want to release our children into their destiny–that’s the privilege of parenting.”
In these pages you will gain the wisdom, kingdom concepts, and practical tools you need to help raise your children to their best.
You’ll discover how to parent to their uniqueness, gifts, and strengths, as well as how you can demonstrate and reveal who God is to your kids. The authors also address pressing issues parents face today, including how to:
*be fully engaged in hearing what the Lord is saying over each child
*maintain relationship and discipline
*develop character
*train your children for worship
*fan the flame of what God has put in their hearts
*and moreNo matter what age your kids are, you have an incredible opportunity to shape their hearts, minds, and values. Here is everything you need to help your children walk into the destiny of their lives and see them become the awesome people they were created to be.
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Before You Say I Do Devotional
$13.99Add to cartYou’re engaged or thinking about getting engaged–how exciting! Now you’re ready to dig deeper and really get to know each other. Through noted Christian counselor Norm Wright’s interactive questions and insights, you’ll explore the interests you have in common, identify the qualities you appreciate in each other, and discover important areas worthy of further discussion. You’ll also find biblical wisdom, practical advice, and time-tested principles to help you
-make Jesus the cornerstone of your relationship
-create special times for the two of you
-establish a healthy sexual relationship
-understand each other’s role expectations
-clarify how you’ll handle joint financesAs you and your partner enjoy reading the Before You Say “I Do” Devotional, you’ll also be cultivating tools to help you keep your relationship vibrant and strong.
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Before You Say I Do
$12.99Add to cartIs marriage on your mind? Have you found “the one”? This popular and helpful interactive workbook is designed to strengthen your love relationship and deepen your bond. You’ll find all you need for fun and thoughtful discussions as you explore vital areas, including:
-What does the Bible teach about marriage?
-What makes you feel loved?
-How do you handle conflicts?
-Do you plan to have children? Why or why not?
-What are your priorities when it comes to money?Drawn from years of marriage preparation seminars and counseling sessions, these insightful questions will help you build a solid future together. With Jesus as your cornerstone, your partner and you can create a loving, successful marriage.
More than 500,000 couples helped!
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Doing Life With Your Adult Children
$18.99Add to cartIf you have an adult child, you know that parenting doesn’t stop when a child reaches the age of eighteen. In many ways, it gets more complicated. Both your heart and your head are as involved as ever, whether your child lives under your roof or rarely stays in contact.
In Doing Life with Your Adult Children, parenting expert Jim Burns helps you navigate the toughest and the most rewarding parts of parenting your grown kids. Speaking from his own personal and professional experience, Burns offers practical answers to questions such as these:
-Is it OK to give advice to my grown child?
-What’s the difference between enabling and helping?
-What boundaries should I have if my child moves back home?
-What do I do when my child doesn’t seem to be maturing into adulthood?
-How do I relate to my grown child’s significant other?
-What does it mean to have healthy financial boundaries?
-How can I support my grown children when I don’t support their values?Including positive principles on bringing kids back to faith, ideas on how to leave a legacy as a grandparent, and encouragement for every changing season, Doing Life with Your Adult Children is a unique book on your changing role in a calling that never ends.
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Communication Sex And Money (Reprinted)
$14.99Add to cartThree Essential Elements to Build Relationships that Last!
Most men would do almost anything to overcome their three primary problems in relationships with women. Communication, Sex & Money has solid solutions for all three. Filled with everyday examples, the book will teach readers how to defeat difficulties and create a satisfying, peace-filled, and long-lasting marriage.
For years, men have called this Christian bestseller the “sex and money” book, while wives have bought it for husbands in hopes of improving communication. Whatever the motivation, thousands of men have turned their relationships around by applying these time-proven patterns and principles.
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Grit And Grace
$16.99Add to cartHang in There, Mama!
For those moments when you think you’ll never live up to the Supermoms around you–when you’re elbow deep in the grind of diapers and laundry and peanut butter sandwiches–you need a good dose of Grit and Grace.
This refreshing collection of 90 daily devotions comes from two moms who’ve found themselves face-to-the-floor in need of encouragement and now offer it to you. These short messages of truth remove the filter of perfection with humor and vulnerability. As you read the Scripture and prayer that accompanies each day’s message, you’ll discover more fully who you are in the Savior and learn to raise your children to be image-bearers of His love to the world.
In giving yourself grace, you will receive even more grace from the One who is present in your life right now and in every moment.
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Naked Marriage : Undressing The Truth About Sex, Intimacy And Lifelong Love
$14.99Add to cart“Now the man and his wife were both naked, but they felt no shame.” (Genesis 2:25)
Imagine a marriage with complete intimacy, vulnerability, transparency and trust. Imagine a marriage rooted in faith, friendship and mutual fulfillment. Imagine a marriage with amazing sex, but where great sex is only the icing on the cake. This might all sound too good to be true, but it’s actually what God designed marriage to be, and He doesn’t want you settling for anything less.
Having a “Naked Marriage’ is about much more than just nakedness in the bedroom (although that’s part of the fun). It means being naked emotionally and spiritually as well as physically. It also means undressing all the misconceptions our culture has used to cover God’s original, beautiful design for marriage and rediscovering all marriage can be. You and your spouse can have a thriving, Naked Marriage with a lifetime of love and laughter together. This book will show you how.
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Life And Faith Field Guide For Parents
$19.99Add to cartLearn How to Teach Your Kids the Skills They Need
“Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.” Proverbs 22:6
As a Christian parent, you want your children to develop good character and godly wisdom. But how do you go beyond hoping and praying to teaching them ethical knowledge, practical skills, and virtuous habits?
This innovative guide will not only identify 50 faith and character-building concepts your children need to know, but it will help you quickly learn and effectively teach these skills to your kid.
Help your child learn to
engage with the Bible and culture interact with God and others make good decisions become a better learner manage conflict
…and much more.Once you learn these concepts and how to teach them, you will be able to successfully shape the character and worldview of your child or teenager.
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Ready Or Knot
$16.99Add to cartThe wedding day is just one day in the life of a couple. But God’s design is for marriage to last a lifetime. So how can someone know that the person they’re with is the one they can truly build a life with–especially when so few marriages around them work?
Pastor Scott Kedersha has worked with more than 5,000 premarital couples to prepare them for the biggest decision of their lives. In Ready or Knot? he offers practical and Christ-centered guidance for couples for all of the days after the wedding day. Through authentic stories from real couples about the decisions they made (or wish they’d made), Scott asks the hard questions so his readers can break free from the watered-down Hollywood version of marriage and build their lives together on the right foundation–the unchanging Word of God.
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In Sickness And In Health
$15.99Add to cartAre you sick and tired of being sick and tired?
Fear can make our hearts race and our palms sweat. So why is it so hard for us to see the connection between our physical health and our emotional well-being?
If your emotional pain feels physical and your physical pain feels emotional, your marriage may be making you sick–literally. Join Dr. David Hawkins and his sons, an internist and a surgeon, as they explore the effects relational stress and trauma can have on our bodies. You will learn to . . .
recognize the connection between emotional and physical pain embrace the power of choice to become empowered by hope find a path forward to ultimate healing and regain your life
No matter what kind of pain you’re experiencing, or how long your health has been in decline, you don’t have to stay stuck. Discover hope and healing when you take control of your life. -
Emptied : Experiencing The Fullness Of A Poured Out Marriage
$14.99Add to cartFor a Marriage That Brims Over
Maybe you entered marriage with some pretty high expectations–most couples do. Jonathan and Wynter Pitts did. Until the reality of married life spilled into their expectations.
Jonathan and Wynter invite you on a journey to explore a different approach to your happily-ever-after marriage. They have navigated the ups and downs of early marriage, while raising four daughters, and learned it is only when they are emptied of their own self-focused motivations that God can pour new life into each of them to bless their marriage.
Here you will…
be encouraged to remove the pressure of a keeping-up-with-the-Jones’s marriage learn to let go of assumptions and embrace your role as servant-leader to your spouse experience how God can pour His purpose, passion, and fullness into your relationship
Emptied is a way of life. It’s not about trying harder, it’s about thinking differently. Are you ready to approach your marriage poured out, ready to be filled up? -
Grandparenting : Strengthening Your Family And Passing On Your Faith
$16.00Add to cartMany powerful voices are influencing our grandchildren, from those at home and in their schools to those in the world of entertainment and media. What can you as a grandparent do to speak wisdom and godliness into their lives? Grandparenting gives you a biblical foundation for investing spiritually in your grandkids, walking you through the principles of influencing them for Christ–from sharing with unbelieving grandkids to discipling them into a mature faith. This book is perfect for individual use, small groups, or Sunday school classes. A Grandparenting DVD is available that features eight family ministry experts with over six hours of video content.
Two other resources are also available:
Biblical Grandparenting is a full-length leadership book that places grandparenting ministry on a firm scriptural foundation. It is ideal for pastors and church leaders as well as for use in the classroom at seminaries.Equipping Grandparents is a brief book to teach pastors how to begin a grandparenting ministry in their church.
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Unexpected Blessings : The Joys And Possibilities Of Life In A Special Need
$17.00Add to cartUnexpected Blessings helps special-needs families move past the pain and confusion of their circumstances and slowly, firmly face the future with hope. Speaking honestly about struggles that accompany a variety of disabilities, Sandra Peoples shows readers how to
– let go of false beliefs that hold them back
– work through the cycles of grief
– focus on self-care and healthy routines
– understand disability based on what the Bible says
– rebuild a strong faith foundation
– create support systems for themselves and others
Filled with real-life stories and hard-earned wisdom, this book shines a light on the possibilities and blessings that come when parents see their new purpose in life–which was God’s purpose for them all along. -
Defending Your Marriage
$18.00Add to cartIntroduction: When Your Marriage Is A Target
1. The First Step: Making Sense Of Our Adversary
2. Why Would Satan Care About My Marriage?
3. How Can I Tell If This Is Spiritual Warfare?
4. The Serpent Was Crafty: Understanding The Tactics Of Satan
5. Fighting Back: Utilizing Our Spiritual Protection
6. Prayer: Energizing Our Spiritual Protection
7. Taking The Devil’s Perspective: Insights From C. S. Lewis
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
NotesAdditional Info
Is your marriage under attack?Sometimes it can feel like the world is trying to tear your marriage apart. Internal conflicts or external pressures might make you wonder if something sinister is going on. How can you tell if you’re facing spiritual opposition? And what can you do about it?
Tim Muehlhoff provides a straightforward resource for protecting your marriage from the threats of the evil one. He looks at what Scripture says about spiritual warfare and how our everyday struggles have deeper spiritual realities. And he provides practical steps for guarding our marriages with the whole armor of God.
In our marital challenges, we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against powers and principalities that try to separate us from God and each other. But fear not. Learn to stand firm in Christ and trust in the Lord to deliver us from evil.
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How To Connect With Your Troubled Adult Children
$17.99Add to cartWhat to Do When Parenting Gets Painfully Complicated
Are your adult child’s mental, emotional, and physical health issues driving you to despair? Are you tempted to bail your son or daughter out of yet another impossible circumstance?
When your child has reached (or long since passed) the point of independence, it’s difficult to know what your “help” as a parent should look like.
Following her bestselling book Setting Boundaries(R) with Your Adult Children, Allison Bottke offers an in-depth guide to build your confidence, knowledge, and hope as your child walks through specific situations such as…
*incarceration
*financial trouble
*disabilities
*military trauma
*personality disorders
*divorceTake a step back and let this book help you determine the best action plan for loving your adult child-without sacrificing your sanity.
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Keepers Of The Testimony 2nd Edition
$14.99Add to cartOur greatest gift to our children. . .
In our world of changing mores and mixed messages about parental rights and responsibilities, the task of passing into our children’s hands the “Faith once delivered to the saints” sometimes seems monumental. In this book about the testimony, we find a powerful tool that will help us share with our children, no matter what their age, the reason for our faith.
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Family Legacy Journal
$17.99Add to cartThe Family Legacy Journal is the journal that will build the family legacy parents dream of in just ten minutes each day. Most families are caught up in a whirlwind of busyness that leaves them feeling disconnected. Without a method to slow the pace of everyday life, families drift apart. The Family Legacy Journal equips men and women to reconnect with their family or spouse with just ten minutes of journaling each day. Through the power of gratitude, reflection, and affirmation, parents are empowered to resist the typical whirlwind of activity and establish thriving family relationships.
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Happily
$15.99Add to cartIn the beginning, marriage doesn’t seem as though it should be all that difficult. But it doesn’t take long for trouble to seep in and for bad habits to become entrenched. Before long, many married couples may be wondering when the “worse” part ends and the “better” part starts.
Pastor and author Kevin A. Thompson has good news for couples: the “better” part is always within reach when they practice eight specific commitments to each other. These commitments have the power to solve almost any problem a marriage faces, and to prevent new ones from occurring. With biblical insights and engaging personal stories, Thompson shows couples how to see their marriage as bigger than themselves, avoid both apathy and aggression, release the desire for power, make and maintain peace, endure difficult times, and more. Perfect for newlyweds and for married couples at any stage of life, Happily is the gateway to a more loving, more joy-filled marriage.
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Upside Down Living Parenting
$9.99Add to cartRaising kids is hard enough. But raising kids to heed Jesus upside-down call away from status and power and toward service and sharing? It can seem almost impossible. So how can parents model countercultural choices? What habits can help families joyfully follow Christ instead of the latest trend? Gather with your faith community to search the Scriptures and discuss how to raise faithful kids in the twenty-first century.
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. -
Bless Your Husband
$14.99Add to cartSometimes, choosing to love your husband is hard. Whether you’ve been married one year or 31 years, chances are he’s done things that have frustrated you, angered you, hurt you, or flabbergasted you. But after arguing over how to load the dishwasher yet again, you might be wondering how you can show him that you really do love him.
In as little as 15 minutes a day, you can do something meaningful for your husband and grow in your faith. From washing his car to writing a positive post about him on social media to watching his favorite movie with him, these pages are full of creative, simple, and interactive ideas on how to bless your husband. You’ll discover daily Scripture verses, inspirational readings, and journaling prompts to encourage you as well!
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Better Mom Devotional
$19.99Add to cartAs a mom, you always want to give your best to your family. The Better Mom Devotional will help you focus who you are becoming rather than what you are accomplishing. Find freedom from mom-guilt, the myth of perfection, and the endless to-do list of motherhood, and step into your greatest adventure yet: becoming The Better Mom.
Rediscover the gift of motherhood with The Better Mom Devotional by trusted author Ruth Schwenk. As a busy mom of four, she understands the constant needs of raising a family, but she has uncovered a secret: becoming a better mom starts not with what you are doing but with who you are becoming.
As you read The Better Mom Devotional, you will find:
How God changes you from the inside out so you can increasingly experience His presence
Intentional ways to grow deeper faith in this busy time of life
The true calling of motherhood: training, disciplining, and loving your children well
The life-giving impact of fostering honest, loving friendships
The importance (and simplicity!) of creating a welcoming, functional, and beautiful home for your family-no Pinterest boards required!One hundred devotions will encourage and inspire you with Scripture, reflection questions, and journaling space to jot down your thoughts and prayers. Each devotion, filled with Bible teaching, personal stories, and application, will help you open your heart to experience more of God’s love, truth, and grace.
Find freedom from mom-guilt, the myth of perfection, and the endless to-do list of motherhood, and step into your greatest adventure yet: becoming The Better Mom.
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When Your Kid Is Hurting (Reprinted)
$19.99Add to cartChildren today live in an unpredictable, disruptive, and often violent world. Many of them live in two different homes with different sets of expectations. They face bullying at school and online. They hear news of school shootings, and racially or religiously motivated violence. They may have lost a friend or a loved one.
As parents, the impulse to protect our children is strong, but that very protection can end up handicapping them for life. Rather than seek to save them from the hard things, parents must teach their kids how to cope with and rise above their problems. In one of his most important books to date, internationally known psychologist and bestselling author Dr. Kevin Leman shows parents how to
– be good listeners
– tell the truth, even when it’s difficult
– find balance between being protective and being overprotective
– approach hurt and injustice as a learning experience rather than fostering a victim mentality
– and much moreWhether your child is dealing with a difficult family situation, bullies, the loss of friends, the death of a loved one, discrimination, abuse, a teen pregnancy, or even just trying to make sense of what they see in the news, this compassionate and practical book will help parents equip them to process, learn from, and rise above their situation.
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I Call You Mine
$16.99Add to cartI Call You Mine is a six-week study focused on revealing the incredible spiritual insights available to those who embrace God’s heart of adoption. Just as Jesus used stories to engage and teach, the Scripture passages and personal stories in this study uncover greater truths about adoption as God s children. Caring for the unwanted is a privilege, and the perspective gained when working with God in this way is humbling. Realize anew what it means to be chosen and redeemed.
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6 Hearts Of Intimacy
$16.99Add to cartUnderstand the way your spouse gives and receives love to bring greater passion to your marriage.
The 6 Hearts of Intimacy is a “Love Languages” for sex in marriage. Rather than focusing on techniques, it unlocks the secret to true sexual fulfillment by revealing the unique way each spouse gives and receives love. Various books describe the distinct ways in which people express and accept love, but this idea has never before been specifically applied to intimacy in marriage.
Marriage experts Bob and Cheryl Moeller present six biblically based and proven ways to enhance your relationship with your spouse as they describe the Romantic Heart, the Giving Heart, the Guardian Heart, the Companion Heart, the Worshiping Heart, and the Ecstatic Heart. They also expose the “counterfeit hearts” that are present in many people’s marriages, leaving their sexual relationship self-focused and empty. Many couples spend a lifetime attempting to express their love yet fail to achieve true intimacy. Sensitively written with practical advice and humor, The 6 Hearts of Intimacy shows husbands and wives how to successfully resolve conflicts in their relationship and how to care daily for their spouse’s unique heart of sexual love.
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52 Conversations To Have With Your Teen
$11.99Add to cartAre you a busy parent? Do you find it difficult to have intentional conversations with your teenager? 52 Conversations to Have With Your Teen will provide you with one purposeful question to ask your teen each week in order to foster positive conversations on a regular basis. Each question is followed up with a short commentary and a Bible verse that ties into the theme of the week. This book will provide you with thought-provoking questions that will allow your teenager to share his or her thoughts with you consistently on a variety of topics. It will also challenge you, as the parent, to think about these questions for yourself and be prepared to share your thoughts. One of the best ways to instill authentic faith into kids is for parents to talk about God and faith with their kids regularly. 52 Conversations to Have With Your Teen will enhance your relationship with your teen and your relationship with Jesus.
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Family Bible Devotional
$18.99Add to cartAs a Christian parent, you want your children to know and understand God’s Word. You want your family devotional time to be relevant and vibrant–an opportunity to explore and understand what God desires for your lives. The Family Bible Devotional cultivates conversations through 52 Bible readings, paired with engaging discussion questions and background information. Open this book, read the Scripture passages, and ask the questions to get your family exploring together what the Bible says.
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True Love Dates
$19.99Add to cartIt is possible to find true love through dating.
In True Love Dates, Debra Fileta encourages singles not to “kiss dating goodbye” but instead to experience a season of dating as a way to find real love. Through powerful, real-life stories and Fileta’s personal journey, this book offers profound insights from the expertise of a professional counselor.
Christians are looking for answers to finding true love. They are disillusioned with the church that has provided little practical application in the area of love and relationships. They’re bombarded by Christian books that shun dating, idolize courting, fixate on spirituality, and in the end, offer little real relationship help.
True Love Dates provides honest help for dating by providing a guide into vital relationship essentials. Debra is a professional Christian counselor who reaches millions with her popular blog, Truelovedates.com, and her book offers sound advice grounded in Christian spirituality. She delivers insight, direction, and counsel when it comes to entering the world of dating and learning to do it right the first time around. Drawing on the stories and struggles of hundreds of young men and women who have pursued the search for true love, Fileta helps readers bypass unnecessary pain while focusing on the things that really matter in the world of dating.
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Marriage Challenge : A Finance Guide For Married Couples
$16.99Add to cartGod has a plan for your marriage and your money. It starts with a challenge. Will you accept?
For many couples, the collision of marriage and money is the beginning of relational havoc. But does it have to be this way?
What if the collision of marriage and money no longer tore couples apart but brought them together? What if money was no longer a topic to argue about but a topic around which couples rallied? What if the collision of marriage and money actually helped couples find contentment and purpose?
In The Marriage Challenge: A Finance Guide for Married Couples, financial expert and author of The Money Challenge Art Rainer takes you on a journey to a financially healthy marriage. Get started on the right foot, or get back on the right track, by accepting the challenge and realizing God’s design for money and marriage.
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Your Marriage Today And Tomorrow
$14.99Add to cartBuild a marriage now that your kids will thank you for later
Your parents’ marital choices have greatly affected your own attitudes and actions in marriage, for better or worse. Your choices will affect your children, and grandchildren, and so on. It’s time to get proactive about your marriage legacy.
Dr. Crawford and Karen Lorritts have been married 45 years and have spent the last 30 years speaking on marriage. This book contains their most successful, proven material. Interlaced with personal stories and letters from their four children this book will teach you:
–the biblical and theological foundation for marriage
–godly disciplines and habits that will improve your marriage
–how to use your marriage to shape future generationsWhether you’ve been married 40 years or just got engaged, this book is for you. Your marriage will change the lives of countless people. Start thinking about the kind of legacy you’ll leave, today.
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Quivering Families : The Quiverfull Movement And Evangelical Theology Of Th
$39.00Add to cartAmerican evangelicals are known for focusing on the family, but the Quiverfull movement intensifies that focus in a significant way. Often called “Quiverfull” due to an emphasis on filling their “quivers” with as many children as possible (Psalm 127:5), such families are distinguishable by their practices of male-only leadership, homeschooling, and prolific childbirth. Their primary aim is “multigenerational faithfulness” – ensuring their descendants maintain Christian faith for many generations. Many believe this focus will lead to the Christianization of America in the centuries to come.Quivering Families is a first of its kind project that employs history, ethnography, and theology to explore the Quiverfull movement in America. The book considers a study of the movement’s origins, its major leaders and institutions, and the daily lives of its families. Quivering Families argues that despite the apparent strangeness of their practice, Quiverfull is a thoroughly evangelical and American phenomenon. Far from offering a countercultural vision of the family, Quiverfull represents an intensification of longstanding tendencies. The movement reveals the weakness of evangelical theology of the family and underlines the need for more critical and creative approaches.
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Dancing Around The Chaos
$14.99Add to cartSince more than five million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s disease, most of us know someone whose world it has invaded. “Dancing around the Chaos” seeks to bring the experiences surrounding Alzheimer’s into the open so that we can learn from one another instead of struggling to figure it out alone.
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Great Connections : Loving With Limits 1.0.0
$14.99Add to cartAdoration Publishing Company
In Great Connections: Loving with Limits, the reader will learn to develop relationships that balance our connection with others while living independent lives not be controlled. From a Christian worldview, her looks to meaningful tools of psychology and Scriptures that explain how to make wise choices and enjoy connected relationships.
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All Things Beautiful
$19.99Add to cartAt age fifteen, Nikki Leonti signed a record deal and had a successful Christian music career. Three years later she became pregnant out of wedlock, which caused many to turn away from her. When she envisioned her future, she didn’t foresee her life falling apart. Suddenly she was a single parent.
Many single parents feel alone, ashamed, hopeless, confused, or just plain tired–tempted to give in to the negative voices that say it’s impossible to fulfill the dreams of their youth. From personal stories of overcoming, to Scriptures that were her anchor during the most difficult moments, Nikki shares transparently her journey of experiencing God’s redeeming grace.
This book will help you:
*Re-center your heart and mind towards what is good.
*Navigate through the uncertainty that comes with single parenting.
*Discover that your baggage can be the source of the greatest joy and restoration.
*Get back on track to fulfill the incredible purpose God has for your life!There is no perfect parent and being a single parent can make you feel even more imperfect. If you’ve experienced the end of relationship, divorce, or loss of a spouse, this book is a great source of encouragement for parenting solo. There is not a past too messy that can keep God from transforming the most hopeless situation into a beautiful story.
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Preparing For A Kingdom Marriage (Workbook)
$15.99Add to cartEngaged Christian couples want to learn more about each other and prepare for a successful and God-honoring marriage. Based on Kingdom Marriage (2016), this workbook joins the successful Kingdom series of books by Tony Evans. It is interactive and can be used by both members of the couple, preferably in a pre-marriage counseling course led by a church pastor or other church leader.
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Marriageable : Alone Again But Not Alone
$13.95Add to cartDivorce and remarriage are the theme of this book, especially for those who are considering remarriage after a divorce. The author begins by outlining the aloneness many people feel, especially when they are in a loveless relationship. The objective is to promote lifelong relationships and help the victims of treacherous divorcers to find healing. Her descriptions include one group named divorcees (the victims) and the other group (the instigators of divorce), the divorcers.
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Marriageable : Alone Again But Not Alone
$30.95Add to cartDivorce and remarriage are the theme of this book, especially for those who are considering remarriage after a divorce. The author begins by outlining the aloneness many people feel, especially when they are in a loveless relationship. The objective is to promote lifelong relationships and help the victims of treacherous divorcers to find healing. Her descriptions include one group named divorcees (the victims) and the other group (the instigators of divorce), the divorcers.
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I Cant Believe You Just Said That
$16.99Add to cartThe bestselling author of Don’t Make Me Count to Three! lays out a simple, Bible-based plan that shows parents how to help their kids tame their tongues and walk in the transforming power of Christ.
Parents are often embarrassed or shocked by what comes out of their children’s mouths. Frustrated, they raise their voices, threaten, and coerce to try to change the behavior. But what if there were a plan–pulled directly from God’s Word–that equipped parents to see the root behind their kids’ words? A plan that helped them address the heart of the matter in a calm and effective way?
In I Can’t Believe You Just Said That! Ginger Hubbard offers parents her revolutionary three-step plan to reach beyond the outward behaviors of tongue-related struggles–such as lying, tattling, and whining–to address the heart. After all, as we are told in Matthew 12:34, “the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.” She provides a blueprint for moving beyond the ineffective methods of scolding, ignoring the offense, or merely administering punishment and resets the misconception that parenting is about rigid rule setting or behavior management. Hubbard challenges readers to view their children’s outbursts as opportunities to point them to Christ and his transformational power and leads them into a whole new method of parenting.
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Bed And Board
$14.00Add to cartRepublished for the first time, these musings on marriage and family life come from renowned theologian-chef Robert Farrar Capon. With an emphasis on grace and forgiveness, this “anti-marriage-manual marriage manual” is a uniquely accessible and beautifully written tool for those wanting a deeper understanding of relationships.
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Memory A Day For Moms
$16.99Add to cartJust one simple thought a day to preserve five years of memories with your children-finally, a record book that is doable! A Memory a Day for Moms,a beautiful five-year journal with carefully curated questions and writing prompts, offers you just that. Jot down a single thought, memory, or prayer, and build a treasured keepsake day by day.
Mothers in all stages of life will find something to love about A Memory a Day for Moms, as it allows you to reflect on and record your children’s growth and your own journey as a mom. Whether you are knee-deep with littles or navigating the tricky waters of high school and beyond, prompts such as “My child said the funniest thing today!” “My hope for my child is,” and “Lately we’ve been enjoying _____ together” will always resonate.
This luxurious journal makes a beautiful gift for a birthday or baby shower, or as a special treat for yourself. With spacious lines and a prettily designed interior, you will love coming back to A Memory a Day for Moms day after day.
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Raising Passionate Jesus Followers
$19.99Add to cartFor Christian parents, there is no greater joy than seeing their children learn to walk with the Lord. And there is no greater fear than that their children will walk away from God.
After serving together in pastoral ministry for forty years, Phil and Diane Comer know those hopes and fears well. Thirty-seven years ago, they became parents themselves. And like all new parents, they were intimidated and unsure about how to take on the task of spiritually training their young children.
Now, with all four of their children grown and establishing their own households of faith, Phil and Diane have embarked on a quest to help the next generation of parents raise passionate Jesus followers. Drawing on years of pastoral counseling, teaching, leading, and decades of watching families from the perspective of pastors and leaders in ministry, Phil and Diane instruct, guide, encourage, and offer hope and practical help to Christian parents.
Raising Passionate Jesus Followersis a manual full of practical, biblically based guidelines that parents will be able to turn to again and again through each stage of their children’s development. Starting at birth, into grade school, through the daunting teenage years, to launching them into college, and finally letting go, this book contains the why’s and the how’s parents need. This book will serve as an invaluable resource for any parent whose greatest longing is to shepherd their children into a vibrant faith in God.
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Stronger Knot : Tying Together A United Marriage
$16.99Add to cartBeing a Christ-like spouse is a daunting challenge that can feel impossible. Throughout his years of marital counseling, the author provides a manual for how two broken people can love God and each other in the midst of their imperfections.
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Finding My Son
$12.99Add to cartEric was perfectly happy being one half of a dual income, no kids family. Having the freedom to travel the world with his wife Christine, while indulging his hobbies and furthering his education and career, was a pretty sweet life.
Christine wanted to be a mom.
Though he was scared he didn’t have what it took to be a good dad, Eric wanted to fulfill his wife’s dream. After years of trying to conceive, however, the couple received a devastating diagnosis: infertility.
For Christine, adoption was the obvious answer. Eric wasn’t so sure.
In Finding My Son: A Father’s Adoption Journey, author Eric Odell-Hein offers an unfiltered view into the heart and mind of a man who has experienced the sometimes messy and often awkward process of becoming a father through adoption. Encouraging men to acknowledge the fears they don’t want to admit while advocating a thoughtful, deliberate transparency as the best approach to even the most unnatural, uncomfortable aspects of the adoption process, Eric shares his misgivings and mistakes with an honesty that does not deny his insecurities.
A valuable resource for any man considering growing his family through adoption-or anyone seeking to understand the process-this engaging memoir is a testament to the beautiful gift of adoption and a touching account of a father’s love.
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1 Minute Prayers For Husbands
$12.99Add to cartEvery Prayer Strengthens Your Marriage
As a husband, you have a unique set of responsibilities weighing on you each day. Your desire is to provide for your wife-and the very best way you can take care of her is by praying for her and your marriage. Let the Lord lead you step by step, decision by decision, moment by moment as you seek to…
*mature in your faith
*build relational confidence and intimacy
*overcome temptations and trials
*encourage your wife to be all she can beDiscover biblical direction in this collection of prayers and devotions written for busy husbands like you who need a minute of inspiration.
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Venus And Virtue
$38.00Add to cartVenus and Virtue are a match made in heaven. While popular culture often tends to think of Christianity as negative about sexuality and sexual pleasure, the fact is that Christians have the best of reasons to joyfully celebrate sex as a gift. Unfortunately, there is as much confusion about sex in Christian circles as there is in the culture at large. The authors of this book believe that this confusion can only be adequately addressed by drawing from the deep wells of biblical truth and traditional theology. The writers, however, are not only experts in biblical scholarship, theology, and philosophy, but also pastoral ministry, counseling, pop culture criticism, and women’s issues. This book is not sexy in the typical sense of that word, but by situating sexuality within the cosmic drama of biblical revelation, the true beauty and goodness of sex most clearly emerges. And as that beauty emerges, we can begin to see why Christian morality not only makes profound sense, but also why it positively enriches the meaning of sex in ways that far outstrip the sexy secular alternative.
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Kingdom Marriage : Connecting Gods Purpose With Your Pleasure
$16.99Add to cartWhat happens when a kingdom man marries a kingdom woman? Kingdom Marriage: Connecting God’s Purpose with Your Pleasure helps couples grow together as a kingdom couple to fulfill God’s design and purpose for their marriage. Through practical insights and powerful stories, Dr. Tony Evans inspires and instructs so couples will discover the hope, challenge, and guidance God’s Word provides for their journey together.
“You can reflect the glory of God and the unity of the Trinity through your shared purpose, honor, and love as a true kingdom couple.” -Tony Evans
Kingdom Marriage shows couples that the key to influencing our society and world with lasting impact is found in solidifying biblical marriage in the way God intended. It starts with both wife and husband reflecting God and His image and modeling that reflection within the roles and responsibilities of their union. This is based on a correct understanding of God’s kingdom and their responsibilities in it. Kingdom Marriage and the Kingdom Marriage devotional and video resources are part of an entire line of Kingdom products by Tony Evans, including Kingdom Man, Kingdom Woman, Raising Kingdom Kids, and the Kingdom Quest strategy guides for kids and teens.
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Praying The Scriptures For Your Adult Children
$19.99Add to cartAs parents of adult children, we often wonder: Will my children make good choices when they’re on their own? How can I let them go when I’ve held them for so long?
Parent and author Jodie Berndt understands what it’s like to release children into the world and still care deeply about them and everything they will face in life from relationships to career decisions and everything in between. In Praying the Scriptures for Your Adult Children, Jodie continues her Praying the Scriptures series with biblical prayers for your adult children, whether they are just leaving the nest, flying well on their own, or struggling to take off at all.
Each section focuses on a different aspect of adulthood, with encouraging stories from experienced parents who are praying their children through rocky marriages, health concerns, financial challenges and other real-life issues. At the end of each chapter, you’ll find personalized prayers for your children taken straight from Scripture. Each chapter also includes verses for you to pray for yourself as you take the challenging step of trusting God to care for your children in ways that you can’t.
With grace and wisdom, Jodie addresses cultural trends such as couples living together before marriage and young adults leaving the church, as well as the painful realities of loneliness, addiction, and mental health issues. With hope-filled words for the parents of the prodigal, she is particularly sensitive to the long-term prayers we offer, even as we doubt ourselves and grieve over our children’s choices.
Whatever you are praying for, you will find confidence and peace in these powerful prayers for your kids. Praying the Scriptures for Your Adult Children guides you to the bedrock of God’s promises as you release your children to God’s shepherding care.
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Together Forever Gods Design For Marriage 2nd Edition (Revised)
$20.00Add to cartMarriage By God
As you begin preparing for your big wedding day, this Marriage by GOD program is designed to assist you in preparing for a BIG MARRIAGE. Using the companion counselor’s guide, a mature Christian couple can come beside you and mentor you through biblical principles and time-tested techniques for fulfilling God’s great plan for marriage.
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Parents Guide To Understanding Your Childrens Dreams And Nightmares
$14.99Add to cartA child with regular nightmares can easily be dismissed by professionals as just overly imaginative or too sensitive. But for any parent at their wits’ end over their child’s suffering from dreams and nightmares, a deeper understanding is needed. Is it possible that a spiritual dimension is at play? //
A Parent’s Guide to Understanding Dreams and Nightmares by Recie Saunders offers help to concerned parents. With a clear, easy-to-read style, it is an invaluable resource for all parents who want to help their kids know whether a dream is from God, interpret their nightmares, find security in God’s control, and hear God’s voice in the night season as well as the day.Drawing on his extensive research on the prophetic, visions, and dreams, Recie also peppers this practical book with stories about his own kids and their dreams. He differentiates between dreams and visions, provides creative ideas for encouraging kids’ faith, explains lucid dreaming, and lists the most common images and symbols that come through dreams. Throughout this approachable book is Recie’s tender, fatherly passion that the kingdom of heaven belongs to the “little children.” Includes dream journal, descriptions of twenty common dreams, and a dream symbol dictionary.
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Thinking About Adoption
$22.00Add to cart“Is God calling me to become an adoptive parent?” “Which path to adoption would be best?” Through simple introductions to the various kinds of adoption, thoughtful presentations of relevant biblical teaching and theological principles, and the sharing of the stories of ten adoptive families, Thinking About Adoption: A Practical and Theological Handbook for Christians Discerning the Call to Parent by Adoption is a must-read resource for Christians seeking answers to these questions. Read and reflect individually, as a couple, or in fellowship with other believers, and discover what God may (or may not) have for you!
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Why I Didnt Rebel
$16.99Add to cartIn this unique combination of personal history, interviews, and social science, a young millennial shares surprising reasons that youthful rebellion isn’t inevitable and points the way for raising healthy, grounded children who love God.
Teen rebellion is seen as a cultural norm, but Rebecca Gregoire Lindenbach begs to differ. In Why I Didn’t Rebel–based on a viral blog post that has been read by more than 750,000 people–Lindenbach shows how rebellion is neither unavoidable nor completely understood. Based on interviews with her peers and combining the latest research in psychology and social science with stories from her own life, she gives parents a new paradigm for raising kids who don’t go off the rails.
Rather than provide step-by-step instructions on how to construct the perfect family, Lindenbach tells her own story and the stories of others as examples of what went right, inviting readers to think differently about parenting. Addressing hot-button issues such as courtship, the purity movement, and spanking–and revealing how some widely–held beliefs in the Christian community may not actually help children–Why I Didn’t Rebel provides an utterly unique, eye-opening vision for raising kids who follow God rather than the world.
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Hiding In The Hallway
$16.99Add to cartWritten specifically to missionary teens, Hiding in the Hallway offers MKs a biblical context for faith in light of their unique circumstances, challenges, and opportunities. Filled with personal anecdotes, former MK Jeanne Harrison champions gospel relevancy and the need for MKs to continue to filter their lives through a biblical worldview. Covering seven key areas relevant to the missionary teen life both on and off the missions field, this book also includes a chapter for parents to help foster discussion.
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Understanding Your Teen
$17.00Add to cartPreface
How To Use This BookPart One: Parenting Teens To Become Responsible Adults
1. Understanding Your Teenager
2. Learning The Developmental Stages Of Adolescence
3. Shaping Behavior Without Crushing Character
4. Energizing Your Teen’s Spiritual Life
5. Creating A Media-Safe Home
6. Teaching Healthy Sexuality
7. Ending The Homework Hassle While Preparing For College
8. Keeping The Communication Lines Open
9. The Changing Culture
10. Your Marriage As You Raise Your Teen
11. Dealing With A Troubled TeenPart Two: Common Teen Issues And What Parents Can Do
12. Bullying And Cyberbullying
13. Tragedy
14. Dating Violence
15. Depression
16. Dinnertime
17. Driving
18. Drug And Alcohol Use And Abuse
19. Eating Disorders
20. Overweight And Obesity
21. Self-Injury
22. Sexual Abuse
23. Sleep
24. SuicideConclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes AcknowledgmentsAdditional Info
Parenting teenagers is one of the biggest challenges parents face. New realities make becoming independent more difficult. Teens are traveling a different road and are moving at a different pace than those of previous generations. Today’s cultural environment is more complicated and confusing than ever.But fear not! Family expert Jim Burns provides a handy guide for parenting teens. For teens to become responsible adults, parents need to help them grow through developmental changes to attain a healthy self-identity, establish good relationships, make wise decisions, and grow in their relationship with God. Burns shows how parents can shape behavior and character, navigate social media challenges, and communicate and resolve conflict healthily. He also tackles the realities of our day, including cyberbullying, dating violence, self-injury, depression, and much more.
Whether you’re facing serious troubles or need simple tips for a better family life, this book offers help and hope.
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Talking With Your Kids About God (Reprinted)
$16.99Add to cartChristian parenting is hard work and it’s getting harder. Parents have a deep desire to pass on their faith, but fear that today’s increasingly skeptical and hostile world will eventually lead their kids to reject the truth of Christianity. That leaves many parents feeling overwhelmed–uncertain of what they can do to help their children, given the difficulty and extent of the faith challenges they will face.
This practical and timely resource gives parents the confidence of knowing what to discuss with their children and how to discuss it in order to facilitate impactful conversations that will form the basis of a lifelong faith. In a friendly, parent-to-parent voice, Natasha Crain identifies 30 specific conversations about God that parents must have with their children, organizing them under the categories of
– the existence of God
– science and God
– the nature of God
– believing in God
– the difference God makesChapters are sequenced in a curriculum-oriented way in order to provide a cumulative learning experience. Content is readily adaptable for use with kids of any age (elementary through high school).
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Why Motherhood Matters
$17.99Add to cartMama, Your Work Has Deep Worth
Do you ever wonder if your efforts as a mom make any difference?
Take heart. Whether you’re struggling through sleepless nights with your toddler or endless battles with your teen, September McCarthy’s story offers practical insights and powerful inspiration to encourage you on your own mothering journey.
As a mom for 25 years who continues to raise young children and love her young adults, September imparts words of wisdom and grace in key areas of Christian parenting, including…
*faith-navigating family devotions and your own lessons from God
*wellness-learning to take care of your kids…and yourself
*education-raising a new generation with creativity and character
*relationships-speaking to the heart of your children in unique waysIn these pages you’ll find sweet anecdotes and gentle guidance for those moments you need both a breather and a lifeline. Motherhood is an incredible labor of love-and in the scope of eternity, it matters more than you know.
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She Is Yours
$14.99Add to cartGod Gave Her to You Now Learn How to Give Her Back
She is yours. Wow!
Do you remember when you first held your newborn daughter in your arms and the reality of parenthood set in? God had given you this tiny little girl to care for and to love. What an awesome responsibility and immense privilege.
Now comes the hard part-raising your daughter up from a baby to a happy, healthy adult and navigating all the highs and lows along the way.
Wynter and Jonathan Pitts want you to know you are not alone. As parents of four young daughters, they’ve learned a lot that can assist you in your parenting journey. In fact, they are still learning as their girls make their way toward their teen years. They’ve been right where you are.
Get practical advice and encouragement to help you improve your daughter’s relationship with God, with you, and with the world around her.
Start this journey by making this commitment to God: Lord, she is yours and I trust you with her.
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All Im Created To Be Set Free
$19.95Add to cartLeave the ashes of failure, self-doubt, and discouragement, and discover who God created you to be. All I’m Created to Be: Set Free! is a biblically and psychologically based workbook written by a Christian psychologist. A winner of two awards, this workbook is designed to help you resolve issues from your childhood, develop and strengthen your self-esteem and confidence, and grow spiritually. Proceeds from the sale of this book will go to Christian charities whose focus is the prevention of child abuse and human trafficking.
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Mother God Made Me To Be
$19.99Add to cartA contributor to Guideposts annuals for ten years, Karen Valentin’s narrative pieces about her journey to marriage and motherhood and then to single motherhood have resonated with readers. Here she collects the longer versions of her pieces and adds many new ones.
Karen lived an adventurous single life but longed for a family of her own. After years of maintaining her vow of purity and waiting for a man who shared her Christian faith, she fell in love with her best friend and co-worker. They married. She bore two sons. They divorced.
With humor, honesty and raw emotion, Valentin tells her story of wrestling between God’s will and her own, with visions of happily ever after. In the midst of her weakness and grief, she experiences God’s strength and restoration like never before. Through her family and friends, mission workers, the pastor of Graffiti Church, and her two beautiful boys, God turns her ashes to beauty and her sorrow into joy.
Women who desire to be loved, who know the pain of rejection and who have found themselves in a dark place will be touched by her pain and encouraged by her victories.
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Mom Set Free
$17.99Add to cartCombining modern research, personal stories, professional experience, and real-life examples, Jeannie Cunnion shows parents how to embrace God s grace and let go of the pressures external and internal that come with raising children.
When it comes to their children, parents feel constant pressure to get everything right. They face overwhelming moments of weakness when they believe they re doing it all wrong or feel like they re not enough leaving them with a constant fear that their kids won t turn out the way they hoped, or worse, have already turned out badly.
Jeannie Cunnion is here to tell you that the pressure is off.
Mom Set Free is an invitation to parents to stop worrying about the minor details and embrace God s role in their child s life. This isn t an excuse to be a lousy parent, but instead offers a chance to focus on your relationship with God and what he has asked of you. This book is a long overdue permission slip for parents everywhere to stop ceaselessly trying to be perfect and trust God with the children He has entrusted to them, and learn to reflect His grace in the everyday moments of parenting.”
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Sacred Parenting : How Raising Children Shapes Our Souls
$16.99Add to cartParenting is a school for spiritual formation, says author Gary Thomas, and our children are our teachers. The journey of caring for, rearing, training, and loving our children profoundly alters us forever…even when the journey is sometimes a rough one.
Sacred Parenting is unlike any other parenting book on the market. This is not a “how-to” book that teaches readers the ways to discipline their kids or help them achieve their full potential. Instead of a discussion about how parents change their children, Sacred Parenting turns the tables and demonstrates how God uses children to change their parents.
Stepping beyond the overly-tilled soil of method books, parents can learn a whole new side of parenting. They’ll be encouraged by stories that tell how other parents handled the challenges and difficulties of being a parent – and how their children transformed their relationship with God.
The lessons the author writes about are timeless. But in this edition, Thomas adds in some additional insights and stories that he’s learned and lived over the past fifteen years of his own parenting. Gary has found that the lessons have remained much the same but there are new applications for the readers in this generation who are just now coming to his book.
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101 Conversation Starters For Couples
$9.99Add to cartYour spouse is a treasure trove of meaningful, humorous, and profound experiences, thoughts, memories, dreams and beliefs. These 101 questions celebrate the depth and wonderful mystery of your mate. So have fun, get to know your spouse and watch intimacy grow in your marriage. Marriage and family experts Gary Chapman author of “The 5 Love Languages” and Ramon Presson bring you 101 questions to facilitate this process.
These 51 double sided cards ask questions and prompt conversations. They can be enjoyed over dinner, on date night, or any time you’d like to dig a little deeper in getting to know your spouse.
Size: 3.57″ (L) x 1.21″ (W) x 4.7″ (H)
51 Cards
Glossy Card Stock
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Strong Fathers Strong Daughters
$16.99Add to cartDrawing on her thirty years’ experience practicing pediatric and adolescent medicine, teen health expert Dr. Meg Meeker explains why an active father figure is maybe the single most important factor in a young woman’s development. In this invaluable guide, Meeker shows how a father can be both counsel and protector for his daughter as she grows into a spiritually and mentally strong young woman.
From cradling his newborn to walking her down the aisle, a father must relish his paramount responsibility-guiding the course of his daughter’s life. Meeker reveals
* how a man can become a “strong father”
* how a father’s guidance influences every part of a woman’s life, from her self-respect to her perspective on drugs, alcohol, and sex
* how to lay down ground rules that are respected without creating distance in your relationship with your daughter
* why you need to be your daughter’s hero
* the mistakes most fathers make and their serious consequences
* how to help daughters make their own good decisions and avoid disastrous mistakes
* how a father’s faith will influence his daughter’s spiritual development
* how to get through to you daughter, even during her toughest don’t-talk-to-me years
* true stories of daughters who were on the wrong path-and how their fathers helped to bring them backLearn how to grow, strengthen, or rebuild your relationship with your daughter to better both your life and hers in the bestselling Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters: 10 Secrets Every Father Should Know.
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Grandparenting : Loving Our Childrens Children (Student/Study Guide)
$12.00Add to cartGetting The Most Out Of Grandparenting
1. A Grandfather’s Blessing
Genesis 48:1-20
2. Praying For Our Grandchildren
Ephesians 1:15-22; 3:14-21
3. From Generation To Generation
Psalm 78:1-8
4. Nurturing Contentment
1 Timothy 6:2-10
5. Loving Your In-Laws
Ruth 1:1-19; 2:8-13; 4:9-16
6. The Problem With Favoritism
Genesis 27:30-41; 37:1-26
7. Family Forgiveness
Matthew 18:21-35
8. Never Too Late To Change
2 Chronicles 33:1-20
9. When It Is Time To Step Aside
2 Samuel 19:31-40
Leader’s NotesAdditional Info
Written by grandparents and expert Bible study authors Phyllis and Andrew T. Le Peau, this LifeGuide Bible study explores the biblical framework for being a godly grandparent. In nine sessions, this study guides you in how to be a loving and caring presence in not only the lives of your grandchildren, but also for your adult children as they parent. -
Staying Together : Marriage A Lifelong Affair
$16.99Add to cartYou’ve done it; you’ve taken the plunge and said, “I do” to one another. Couples face some daunting marriage statistics these days. When so many marriages fail, how do you know yours won’t?
So, now what? What’s next for your marriage?
Staying Together is a unique book that’s been written for you to read as a couple. Together, you’ll hear from us and what we’ve learned over more than 40 years of marriage, as well as from other couples whose marriages have endured heartbreak, hardship, and even infidelity. You’ll read about their solutions and healing, applicable to your marriage oneness.
You will be confronted with questions about what it looks like to walk out your vows on a daily basis as life partners. Whether it’s communication, trust, or sex; money, loss, or mission; kids, jobs, or insecurities, Staying Together has insight on how to better navigate waters when they’re rough and better enjoy them when they’re smooth.
Whether you’ve been married for months, years, or decades, now is the time to make sure you’re in a marriage that’s not just surviving, but thriving.
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Would You Die For Me
$16.99Add to cart“In Would You Die for Me, Patrick Irish takes you through an expedition of time, as his life unfolds to tell the true events of what happens between the seen and unseen lines of reality.
Who was I to pass judgment, who was I to decide what some deserved? Was I innocent? No, not by any means, but in the life I had lived, I hated those that preyed on the weak, those that stood above. In my mind, I was doing the world a favor.
For most, life is a journey, from one road to another, and for some, there is a journey that brings life to the brink of death. Pulling the reader in deeper with every turn of the page, his world soon becomes yours, as you find yourself in the imprint of each letter. Would You Die for Me was inspired to prove, when all seems to be lost, no matter how young, old, or indifferent, we all share one common goal, that is simply…to be loved. “
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Journey Student Workbook (Student/Study Guide)
$24.95Add to cartThe Journey: Divorce Through the Eyes of a Teen is a small group curriculum designed to lead teens through the journey of recovery from the tragedy of divorce. This curriculum is filled with practical activities and hands-on tools to empower teens to make healthy choices.
