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Finding Joy In The Empty Nest
$18.99Add to cartWhen the kids are gone, you can discover a richer, deeper, and more fulfilling life than you ever imagined!
Whether you’ve been looking forward to it or dreading it, the experience of coming home to an empty nest brings with it a well of emotions, realizations, and one gigantic, all-consuming thought: Now what? As an empty nester, the options before you are practically limitless–a fact that can be as exciting as it is terrifying.
In this book, Jim Burns combines his personal experiences with extensive research, interviews with other empty nesters, and his professional work as a family educator to help you navigate your new life as an empty nester and find joy in the opportunities for life-change before you.
Rather than offering shallow suggestions of hobbies you should take up, Burns encourages you to actively pursue a fresh start, reinvent yourself, and thrive beyond this new stage. To help you do this, he equips you with practical advice and timeless principles, including how to:
*Change the relationship you once had with your children–for the better
*Face big issues (like aging parents, finances, and kids returning home) with confidence
*And rekindle your fire and purpose to live with passion day by dayAmid his wealth of know-how, you’ll uncover what may be the most important takeaway of all: hope that the best is yet to come.
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Point Man Revised And Updated 30 Anniversary Edition (Anniversary)
$18.00Add to cartThe bestselling guide for Christian men who want to lead their families well is now revised and updated to help fathers and husbands navigate the complexities of today’s challenges.
With more than half a million copies sold, Point Man has long been the go-to resource for men who want to serve as effective spiritual leaders in their home. This updated edition of the classic resource provides powerful inspiration, clear biblical direction, and contemporary examples to equip you to take your God-given position on the front lines in the battle for your family.
New material examines how recent cultural and societal forces affect the family, including the rise of fatherlessness, shifting views of masculinity and femininity, the declining influence of church and faith, and fractured perspectives on morality and values even within the church.
Point Man is your trustworthy guide to leading a family, showing you how to faithfully love your wife and children, walk boldly through challenging seasons of marriage and parenting, stand firm against personal temptation, and help your family forge a faith that shines brightly amid a culture of compromise and corruption.
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Digital Detox : The Two-Week Tech Reset For Kids
$29.99Add to cartParents are familiar with the sight: grumpy, irritable, inattentive kids. You know the cause of it–too much time on digital devices. But it’s hard to know what to do about it. One day, Molly DeFrank had had enough and pulled the plug on her kids’ screen time. She was tired of her sweet children acting like addicts desperate for their next fix. The results were better than she could have ever dreamed. What started as a two-week experiment changed her family’s life.
In this shame-free book, you’ll learn and apply all of Molly’s secrets with her 14-day kick-start plan. Then, Molly equips you with all of the simple, practical, flexible tools you’ll need to continue for a lifetime.
Making a change is easier than it sounds, and the results are immediate. No more screen zombies. Digital Detox is the simple guide to overnight course correction that will help parents get their wonderful kids back.
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Digital Detox : The Two-Week Tech Reset For Kids
$16.99Add to cartParents are familiar with the sight: grumpy, irritable, inattentive kids. You know the cause of it–too much time on digital devices. But it’s hard to know what to do about it. One day, Molly DeFrank had had enough and pulled the plug on her kids’ screen time. She was tired of her sweet children acting like addicts desperate for their next fix. The results were better than she could have ever dreamed. What started as a two-week experiment changed her family’s life.
In this shame-free book, you’ll learn and apply all of Molly’s secrets with her 14-day kick-start plan. Then, Molly equips you with all of the simple, practical, flexible tools you’ll need to continue for a lifetime.
Making a change is easier than it sounds, and the results are immediate. No more screen zombies. Digital Detox is the simple guide to overnight course correction that will help parents get their wonderful kids back.
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Special Grace : Prayers And Reflections For Families With Special Needs
$16.00Add to cartThe world of special needs is filled with statistics: in the United States, about 17 percent of children have a diagnosed developmental disability, and 14 percent of public school students receive special education services.
But behind these statistics are stories–stories of children struggling to fit into a world that wasn’t designed for them, and stories of parents giving everything they have to advocate for their children. Most of these parents didn’t choose this path; they were thrust upon it unknowing, unprepared, and often overwhelmed. They may struggle to talk about their experiences in relatable ways with family, friends, and even God. Special Grace is a collection of 127 prayers for all aspects of life for families with special needs. Here are prayers for family life, school, and church; prayers for an initial diagnosis, for the first day of school, and for celebrating a milestone. Each section is set off by a reflective essay from Evans’s own family life. Filled with humor and wisdom, these prayers and reflections will help families process their experiences together and offer them to God with hope and simple trust. In moments when the cries of your heart leave you speechless, Special Grace provides words you can bring before your Father in heaven.
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Jesus Calling For Moms
$19.99Add to cartGive the moms in your life this beautiful gift of encouragement and reassurance from Jesus Calling (R). Jesus Calling for Moms includes selected 50 devotions to celebrate mothers and their love, comfort, and strength.
With 50 themed selections, you’ll find devotions that include:
*the power of love
*the gift of strength
*courage in any season
*trusting Him during challenging times
*God’s guidance and comfort
*joyous reasons to celebrate mothers and motherhoodThis beautiful compilation of devotions from Sarah’s bestselling brand also includes:
*a new introduction and prayer for moms by Sarah Young
*journaling prompts and questions to encourage deeper growth
*space to write thoughts, prayers, and reflections
*stunning imagery
*written-out Scripture versesWhether a gift for your own mom or for a mom who means so much to you, this is the perfect gift for Mother’s Day, birthdays, Valentine’s Day, and more. Jesus Calling for Moms will be a cherished favorite for years to come.
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Preparing For Marriage (Revised)
$39.99Add to cartCreated by FamilyLife, one of America’s leading marriage and family ministries, Preparing for Marriage is a dynamic, comprehensive program designed to help you prepare for life together after the cake is cut and the guests head home. That is when the real adventure begins–the adventure of creating an intimate, lasting, and biblical marriage!
This third edition is again restructured and refreshed for today’s young couples, while still offering the solid, dependable information it has since first published.
Centered around five essential conversations about God, finances, sex, and more, inside you’ll find a fun, romantic study that will help you target areas for growth in your relationship. You can work through Preparing for Marriage as a couple or with a mentoring couple, pastor, or premarital counselor.
Don’t just plan your wedding . . . prepare for your marriage!
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Domestic Monastery : Creating A Spiritual Life At Home
$12.99Add to cartWhat is a monastery? A monastery is a place set apart–a place to learn the blessings of powerlessness, and that time is not ours but God’s. Our home and our duties can, just like a monastery, teach us those things. The vocation of monastic men and women is to physically withdraw from the world. But the principle is equally valid for those of us who cannot go off to monasteries. Certain vocations offer the same kind of opportunity for contemplation, and provide a desert for reflection.
In ten brief and powerful chapters, Fr. Ron explores how monastery life can apply to those who don’t live in a cloister:
– Monasticism and Family Life
– The Domestic Monastery
– Real Friendship
– Lessons from the Monastic Cell
– Ritual for Sustaining Prayer
– Tensions within Spirituality
– A Spirituality of Parenting
– Spirituality and the Seasons of Our Lives
– The Sacredness of Time
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When Anxiety Roars
$29.99Add to cartAccording to the American Psychological Association, today’s children and teenagers are anxious about many things. In addition to the stressors common to any generation–family issues, financial instability, pressure to perform in school or sports–these young people also worry about gun violence, social justice, the state of their divided nation, the fate of a warming planet, and much more. To top it off, recent global events and resulting restrictions have added significant stress even as they have stripped away support systems.
For parents, teachers, counselors, and youth leaders longing to understand and help the young people in their lives, When Anxiety Roars unpacks the biological, psychological, social, and spiritual factors that influence anxiety in children and offers specific practical steps to take together to tame that anxiety. Integrating faith with best practices to reduce anxiety, it also teaches coping skills that will help children live more confidently today and into the future.
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Raising Them Ready
$16.99Add to cartWhat is the difference between the kid who struggles to “adult” and the one who jumps in feet first, ready to thrive? It all comes down to mindsets, skillsets, and toolsets. Either we as parents raise kids who are dependent on us or we raise kids who are confident, capable, and eager to take on the challenges of an independent adult life.
In Raising Them Ready, parenting experts and bestselling authors Jonathan and Erica Catherman give you practical ways to prepare your kids for life on their own. They help you assess how your kids respond to the everyday demands of life, provide practices for redirecting them from seeing adulthood as a series of threats to anticipating exciting challenges, and give you an inventory of the real-world adulting mindsets, skillsets, and toolsets your kids should acquire before leaving the nest.
By putting into practice the advice in this book, you can stop worrying about if your kids will make it on their own and start celebrating alongside them this adventure called life.
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When Anxiety Roars
$15.99Add to cartAccording to the American Psychological Association, today’s children and teenagers are anxious about many things. In addition to the stressors common to any generation–family issues, financial instability, pressure to perform in school or sports–these young people also worry about gun violence, social justice, the state of their divided nation, the fate of a warming planet, and much more. To top it off, recent global events and resulting restrictions have added significant stress even as they have stripped away support systems.
For parents, teachers, counselors, and youth leaders longing to understand and help the young people in their lives, When Anxiety Roars unpacks the biological, psychological, social, and spiritual factors that influence anxiety in children and offers specific practical steps to take together to tame that anxiety. Integrating faith with best practices to reduce anxiety, it also teaches coping skills that will help children live more confidently today and into the future.
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Raising Prayerful Kids
$15.99Add to cartMore than a book, Raising Prayerful Kids is a tool parents can use to make prayer fit naturally into their daily routines without it feeling like a chore or a lecture. Relatable stories of the authors’ successes and failures along with fun activities and games help parents turn everyday moments into faith-filled moments that are naturally filled with prayer.
Praying with your kids can be connecting, fun, nonintimidating, and even life changing.
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Raising Them Ready
$29.99Add to cartWhat is the difference between the kid who struggles to “adult” and the one who jumps in feet first, ready to thrive? It all comes down to mindsets, skillsets, and toolsets. Either we as parents raise kids who are dependent on us or we raise kids who are confident, capable, and eager to take on the challenges of an independent adult life.
In Raising Them Ready, parenting experts and bestselling authors Jonathan and Erica Catherman give you practical ways to prepare your kids for life on their own. They help you assess how your kids respond to the everyday demands of life, provide practices for redirecting them from seeing adulthood as a series of threats to anticipating exciting challenges, and give you an inventory of the real-world adulting mindsets, skillsets, and toolsets your kids should acquire before leaving the nest.
By putting into practice the advice in this book, you can stop worrying about if your kids will make it on their own and start celebrating alongside them this adventure called life.
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Darkest Night Brightest Day
$21.00Add to cartStart a new Easter season tradition with your family by reading this beautifully illustrated “upside-down” book from Marty Machowski that includes fourteen Bible stories. The first side, Darkest Night, has seven stories that recount the events of Passion week ending with Christ’s crucifixion and burial. Flip the book over and continue by reading Brightest Day with seven more stories that progress from Christ’s resurrection through Pentecost. Children are sure to remember the contrast between the darkness at the death of our Lord and the light-filled events from Christ’s resurrection onward.
Machowski weaves each Gospel account together into one harmonized story and provides questions for family discussion. Focusing on the main events the week of the crucifixion, Darkest Night is designed for families to read one story each day, beginning on Palm Sunday. Once the week ends, they will start with Brightest Day on Easter Sunday. The stories for the week following Easter recount appearances of Jesus after the resurrection, his ascension, and Pentecost.
This beautiful hardback book, illustrated by Phil Shorr, is sure to become a treasured favorite of the family to be used every Easter as a reminder of how God turned the darkest night into the brightest day.
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5 Steps To Romantic Love (Workbook)
$21.99Add to cartFive Steps to Romantic Love will help you and your spouse to know and meet each other’s needs and overcome the habits that destroy your love. This workbook takes the proven concepts found in Dr. Harley’s His Needs, Her Needs and Love Busters and helps you make them a reality in your marriage. All of the worksheets, inventories, and questionnaires that Dr. Harley recommends in these two bestsellers are available here in a full-sized and easily reproducible format. Fall in love again and enjoy an intimate, passionate marriage that lasts.
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Conversation Starters For Couples
$9.99Add to cartBecome a student of your partner, find out what makes them tick, reconnect, or simply have some fun when you engage using the Conversation Starters for Couples Boxed Set. Relationships require time and effort, so set some time aside to purposefully connect with the one you love.
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Why Youre So Amazing Dad
$10.95Add to cartIn Why You’re So Amazing, Dad: A Book Made by Me by Danielle Leduc McQueen and illustrator, Jill Labieniec, kids can let Dad know how great and loved he is with this creative keepsake gift. Filled with kid-friendly prompts, children can express their love and admiration for Dad that will make him feel one-in-a-million.
Playful prompts include:
*You’re cooler than ________, and even more fun than _________.
*You make the best days even better when you _________.
*When I’m with you, I’m sooooooo ____________.END
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Translating Your Past
$29.99Add to cartUncover the spiritual strength of your family story.
We all have a desire to learn more about where we’ve come from, and technology has made this more possible than ever. But our family stories are more than a list of DNA results on a piece of paper or a bunch of fading Kodachrome images filling old photo albums.
In an era often marked by both fragmentation in family and culture and a hunger to discover our genetic roots, our family stories–including the difficult, complex ones–can carry great spiritual strength. The desire to trace, interpret, and pass on our family’s history is embedded in Scripture from beginning to end–there are nine genealogies found in the book of Genesis alone. When we bring together the various threads of our family stories with Scripture’s insights, they can provide the key to decoding our identity and helping us discover our place in family, church, and world.
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In Translating Your Past, author Michelle Van Loon helps readers uncover how patterns and gaps in family histories, generational trauma, adoption, genetic clues and surprises, spiritual history, and the church help us translate our own pasts and understand why these stories matter. Each chapter includes questions designed for individual reflection or small group discussion, as well as an appendix of helpful tools readers can use to translate their own pasts and create meaning in order to transform their unique family history into living, faith-filled heritage. -
Confident Mom : Simple Ways To Give Your Child What They Need Most
$16.99Add to cartDo you long to go to bed at night knowing you’ve done the best you could with what you have as a mom and made a difference in your child’s life–even if you can’t see it yet? It’s easy to compare yourself to other moms and set unrealistic expectations that make you doubt you’re doing enough. You need hope and encouragement to help you find a new place to start on the days you’re tempted to quit!
Sharing vulnerable stories of her own struggles and doubts, award-winning author, popular speaker, and mom of three Renee Swope is a friend, cheerleader, and mentor who will come alongside to help you find purpose and meaning in the challenges and adventures of motherhood. By unpacking powerful truths of grace and love God used to rescue her from discouragement and guilt that buried her in the dirt of defeat, Renee fills this book with hope, wisdom, and practical help every mom needs.
Let Renee show you simple ways to give your child what they need most through the power of heart-centered parenting that is character-focused and relationship-driven. This book will transform not only the way you parent but also the way see yourself as a mom and as a child of God.
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Moms Bringing Out The Best In Dads
$9.99Add to cartTeam Up to Help Your Family Thrive
Not every dad who wants to be there for his kids has the knowledge, training, and confidence he wishes he’d been given. But a great mom has the incredible ability to give a hesitant dad the encouragement and wisdom he needs to succeed.
In Moms Bringing Out the Best in Dads, both moms and dads will learn skills, habits, and attitudes they can use to help their families thrive. This book will help them…
*work and communicate with their parenting partner to protect, shepherd, and empower their kids
*nudge, sweet talk, admonish, and inspire each other in this mission that must not fail
*understand the other parent’s unique strengths and assets–and identify how their own gifts can serve as a balance and complement
You can do this. Together! Moms Bringing Out the Best in Dads is a heartfelt celebration of the strong, self-assured moms who bring out the best in their husbands so they can be great dads.
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Translating Your Past
$17.99Add to cartUncover the spiritual strength of your family story.
We all have a desire to learn more about where we’ve come from, and technology has made this more possible than ever. But our family stories are more than a list of DNA results on a piece of paper or a bunch of fading Kodachrome images filling old photo albums.
In an era often marked by both fragmentation in family and culture and a hunger to discover our genetic roots, our family stories–including the difficult, complex ones–can carry great spiritual strength. The desire to trace, interpret, and pass on our family’s history is embedded in Scripture from beginning to end–there are nine genealogies found in the book of Genesis alone. When we bring together the various threads of our family stories with Scripture’s insights, they can provide the key to decoding our identity and helping us discover our place in family, church, and world.
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In Translating Your Past, author Michelle Van Loon helps readers uncover how patterns and gaps in family histories, generational trauma, adoption, genetic clues and surprises, spiritual history, and the church help us translate our own pasts and understand why these stories matter. Each chapter includes questions designed for individual reflection or small group discussion, as well as an appendix of helpful tools readers can use to translate their own pasts and create meaning in order to transform their unique family history into living, faith-filled heritage. -
Foster The Family
$29.99Add to cartThere are great rewards that come along with being a foster parent, yet there are also great challenges that can leave you feeling depleted, alone, and discouraged. The many burdens of a foster parent’s day–struggling children, difficult biological parents, and a broken system–are only compounded by the many burdens of a foster parent’s heart–confusion, anxiety, heartache, anger, and fear.
With the compassion and insight of a fellow foster parent, Jamie C. Finn helps you see your struggles through the lens of the gospel, bringing biblical truths to bear on your unique everyday realities. In these short, easy-to-read chapters, you’ll find honest, personal stories and practical lessons that provide encouragement and direction from God’s Word as you walk the journey of foster parenting.
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5 Steps To Romantic Love (Workbook)
$39.99Add to cartFive Steps to Romantic Love will help you and your spouse to know and meet each other’s needs and overcome the habits that destroy your love. This workbook takes the proven concepts found in Dr. Harley’s His Needs, Her Needs and Love Busters and helps you make them a reality in your marriage. All of the worksheets, inventories, and questionnaires that Dr. Harley recommends in these two bestsellers are available here in a full-sized and easily reproducible format. Fall in love again and enjoy an intimate, passionate marriage that lasts.
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Intended For Pleasure
$21.99Add to cartGod gave humankind the gift of sex. But many couples don’t experience the kind of joy and fulfillment God intended. If you’ve ever been frustrated with a lack of intimacy in your marriage, or if you just want to know more about how you can get the most out of your relationship, Intended for Pleasure is for you. This honest and frank resource will answer your questions about sex and sexuality, improving sexual response, sex techniques for pregnancy, birth control, sex at any age, solutions for sexual problems, and much more. All of the questions you’ve been afraid to ask (or didn’t even know to ask!) are answered right here.
A perfect gift for newlyweds and a trusted resource for pastors and marriage counselors, this classic book has helped more than a million people understand and enjoy the gift God intended for pleasure.
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Raising Sons Of Promise
$18.00Add to cartMillions of single mothers find themselves in the difficult position of raising boys alone.
Many of those boys are at risk of falling behind in school or falling into addictions and dangerous behaviors, repeating the patterns of their own absent or neglectful fathers. Single mothers, who are often the only parental influence on their sons, are critical to reversing this troubling trend. But how? You might be wounded by the broken promises of your child’s father. But God offers a greater promise to you and your family. Raising Sons of Promise invites single mothers on a journey to not only heal their hearts but also to parent their boys to become healthy men, good husbands, and strong fathers. Roland Warren, himself the child of a single mother, offers guidance and wisdom to moms who want to raise sons who will make and keep their commitments. Drawing from the Genesis story of Hagar and Ishmael, he shares insights and stories of how mothers can find healing and hope for their sons to become better men of character and action. -
Honey For A Childs Heart Updated And Expanded (Expanded)
$22.99Add to cartA modern classic with over 250,000 copies sold, Honey for a Child’s Heart is a compelling, essential guide for parents who want to find the best books for their children ages 0-12. This updated and expanded edition includes a new preface, an updated list of recommended reads for each age group, and audiobook suggestions.
A good book is a gateway into a wider world of wonder, beauty, delight, and adventure. But children don’t stumble onto the best books by themselves. They need a parent’s help. Author Gladys Hunt, along with her son, Mark, discusses everything from how to choose good books for your children to encouraging them to be avid readers.
Illustrated with drawings from dozens of children’s favorites, Honey for a Child’s Heart Updated and Expanded includes completely updated book lists geared to your child’s age and filled with nearly one thousand longtime favorites, classics, wonderful new books, and audiobooks that will enrich your child’s life. It will also show you how to:
*Understand the importance of being a read-aloud family, enjoying books together by reading aloud
*Give your children a large view of the world, of truth, and of goodness
*Encourage each child’s imagination and good use of language
*Find the best books for your children
Thousands of parents have used this guide to furnish their children’s inner spirit with the wonder and delight of good reading. Updated and expanded to keep pace with the ever-changing world of children’s literature, it is sure to enrich the cultural and spiritual life of your home.
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Family : A Christian Perspective On The Contemporary Home
$69.99Add to cartThis proven, comprehensive resource covers every issue that affects Christian family life. It has been in print for over thirty years and has sold nearly 100,000 copies. This new edition is updated throughout with discussions of recent family-related issues. It includes a new chapter on work and family balance and a new section on the increasing role grandparents take in parental responsibilities.
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Family : A Christian Perspective On The Contemporary Home
$37.99Add to cartThis proven, comprehensive resource covers every issue that affects Christian family life. It has been in print for over thirty years and has sold nearly 100,000 copies. This new edition is updated throughout with discussions of recent family-related issues. It includes a new chapter on work and family balance and a new section on the increasing role grandparents take in parental responsibilities.
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Sex Thing : Reimagining Conversations With Young People About Sex
$21.99Add to cartSo often we about sex as ‘it’, a vague, unnameable thing, but as culture continues to move rapidly, it’s more important than ever that our voices are clear and confident when we talk to youth about sex. With the advancement in sex-tech and changing societal attitudes, we’re preparing young people for a very different world – one we all need to be able to talk about.
In The Sex Thing, Rachel Gardner unpacks a visual framework that can inspire and empower conversations with young people about sex. Focusing on both how young people explore sexual wholeness and what conversations they would need to engage with in that journey of sexual maturity, she offers practical advice for navigating difficult conversations with youth and talking to them confidently and openly.
Whether you are involved in youth ministry or are parenting young adults yourself, The Sex Thing is a brilliant Christian book for anyone looking for a better, more productive way of talking to youth about sex. Packed full of tips and guidance drawn from years of experience, it will equip you with all the tools you need to engage with young people surely and positively.
Together, Rachel Gardner demonstrates how we can talk about The Sex Thing in a way that actively forms a sexual ethic that our young people can thrive in.
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No I Cant Make Your Wife Disappear
$16.99Add to cartYour marriage can be magical.
World-renowned illusionist Danny Ray pulls back the curtain and shares the biblical truths he has discovered in his career to expose the secrets of a successful marriage. Drawing from his own experiences of building an enduring, magical marriage, Danny, together with his wife Kimberly, will help you unlock the secrets to:
*Experience effective communication
*Overcome impossible situations
*Thrive in your marriageNo, I Can’t Make Your Wife Disappear is a lighthearted, practical, and sometimes hard-hitting guide to building a stronger relationship with your spouse. So don’t ask the magician to make your spouse vanish! Instead embrace his secrets for a magical marriage and enjoy a lifelong, loving, fun-filled relationship.
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Mama Bear Apologetics Guide To Sexuality
$16.99Add to cartRaise Them to Value God’s Design
Starting at a young age, kids are being fed damaging misinformation about sexuality, gender identity, and human biology. As a parent, it’s up to you to help your children understand God’s truth about these integral concepts in the face of the candy-coated lies that saturate today’s world.
In the footsteps of the bestselling Mama Bear Apologetics comes this invaluable guide to training your kids to know and respect God’s design in a world that has rejected it. This book will equip you to;
*understand God’s design for gender, sex, marriage, and family as a beautiful portrait that reveals the nature of God Himself
*identify the tactics being used to trick children into adopting an unbiblical view of sexuality under the guise of Christian-sounding words like love, identity, tolerance, and justice
*teach your kids to treat those who hold different beliefs with gentle, Christlike compassion without compromising biblical values
As society continues to blur the lines of what is good, true, and acceptable, God’s standards remain clear and unchanging. This book will give you the wisdom to confidently raise your children to understand sex and gender through a biblical lens.
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Dating With Discernment
$21.99Add to cartDone with dating? Don’t know where to start? Wondering if your date is the one to marry? Pastor-scholar Sam Andreades brings single Christians in that vulnerable life moment the practical, theological help to make the dangerous decision confidently. Bringing the Bible’s wisdom on relationships to bear on the dating scene, he helps you lay a foundation for a love that lasts.
This book will teach you how to:
*Confidently say good-bye to ill-suited suitors
*Deepen your relationship with God as you date
*Find, and make a lifelong commitment to, a worthy, compatible mate
*Understand the role of gender in developing intimacy
*Form a strong foundation for marriage in your dating as you grow into what marriage is about
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Power Women : Stories Of Motherhood Faith And The Academy
$28.00Add to cart“The dominant narrative we hear as professor mothers is that motherhood and academia are incompatible.”
Two challenging vocations, each filled with complexities and daily ups and downs. Yet more and more women are answering the call to both the academy and motherhood. A growing body of literature addresses parent-professors, but what about the particular needs of Christian women seeking to navigate both callings while living out their faith? With Power Women, Nancy Wang Yuen and Deshonna Collier-Goubil have curated a unique resource by and for Christian academic mothers. This collection of essays includes the voices of women of different backgrounds, academic disciplines, institutions, and stages of parenting and career. Together contributors provide wisdom, encouragement, and solidarity for women who share a similar vocational journey. Combining research with personal stories, they address topics such as these:
*how parenting and teaching can be mutually enriching
*managing ambition, identity, and time
*addressing misconceptions about motherhood in the academy, church, and society
*navigating gender roles in marriage
*taking maternity leave
*flourishing as an adjunct professor
*mentoring professor moms
*resisting imposter syndrome by finding rest in GodThere is no magic formula, but there are many paths to thriving in the call to motherhood and the academy. Christian academic moms will find in this book honest yet uplifting reminders that they are not alone. In addition, administrators, family members, and friends will grow in understanding and appreciation of the power women in their lives.
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Rewilding Motherhood : Your Path To An Empowered Feminine Spirituality
$29.99Add to cartWomen are often told by their communities that being a mother will complete or define them. But many women find themselves depleted and spiritually stagnant amid the everyday demands of being a mom. They long to experience a rich inner life but feel there is rarely enough time, energy, or stillness to connect with God in a meaningful way.
This book takes the concept of rewilding and applies it to motherhood. Just as an environmentalist seeks to rewild land by returning it to its natural state, Shannon Evans invites women to rewild motherhood by reclaiming its essence through an expansive feminine spirituality.
Drawn from the contemplative Catholic tradition and Evans’s own parenting experience, Rewilding Motherhood helps women deepen their connection to God through practices inherent to the life they’re living now. Topics include work-life balance, identity, solitude, patience, household work, and mission for the common good. Throughout, Evans encourages women to see motherhood as an opportunity to discover a vibrant feminine spirituality and a deeper knowledge of God and self.
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Rewilding Motherhood : Your Path To An Empowered Feminine Spirituality
$16.99Add to cartWomen are often told by their communities that being a mother will complete or define them. But many women find themselves depleted and spiritually stagnant amid the everyday demands of being a mom. They long to experience a rich inner life but feel there is rarely enough time, energy, or stillness to connect with God in a meaningful way.
This book takes the concept of rewilding and applies it to motherhood. Just as an environmentalist seeks to rewild land by returning it to its natural state, Shannon Evans invites women to rewild motherhood by reclaiming its essence through an expansive feminine spirituality.
Drawn from the contemplative Catholic tradition and Evans’s own parenting experience, Rewilding Motherhood helps women deepen their connection to God through practices inherent to the life they’re living now. Topics include work-life balance, identity, solitude, patience, household work, and mission for the common good. Throughout, Evans encourages women to see motherhood as an opportunity to discover a vibrant feminine spirituality and a deeper knowledge of God and self.
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Praying Mom : Making Prayer The First And Best Response To Motherhood
$15.99Add to carthis book was sparked by a simple question to thousands of moms: “If you believe you should be praying but you aren’t, why not?” Their answers revealed seven common challenges and beliefs moms have, including:
– I don’t know what or how to pray
– I don’t know if my prayers really matter
– I can’t pray until I get my life together
– I’m so busy!The answer Brooke McGlothlin has seen in her years as a prayer mentor is to pray Scripture over your family and yourself. God’s Word is living and active (Hebrews 4:12) and does exactly what God purposes (Isaiah 55:11). This means nothing is more powerful and faith-building than praying God’s Word for those you love. Complete with prayers for specific everyday situations, this book will have you making prayer your first and best response to every aspect of family life.
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Unexpecting : Real Talk On Pregnancy Loss
$17.99Add to cartWhen your baby dies, you find yourself in a life you never expected. And even though pregnancy and infant loss is common, it’s not common to you. Instead, you feel like a stranger in your own body, surrounded by well-meaning people who often don’t know how to support you.
What you need during this time is not a book offering easy answers. You need a safe place to help you navigate tough issues, such as:
– coping with a postpartum body without a baby in your arms
– facing social isolation and grief invalidation
– having faith when you feel let down by God
– dealing with the overwhelming process of making everyday decisions
– learning to move forward after loss, and
– creating a legacy for your childInUnexpecting, bereaved mom Rachel Lewis is the friend you never hoped to need, walking you through the unique grief of baby loss. When nothing about life after loss makes sense . . . this book will.
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Curso Para Parejas Guia Del Li – (Spanish)
$11.99Add to cartHoy nos enfrentamos a una crisis mundial en lo que respecta a las familias. Existe una necesidad que van en aumento de invertir en el matrimonio y en la vida familiar, porque las sociedades fuertes se construyen sobre familias solidas, y las familias solidas se basan en matrimonios fuertes. La Guia del Lider del Curso Para Parejas contiene lo que se necesita para llevar a cabo el Curso Para Parejas.
El Curso Para Parejas fue desarrollado por Nicky y Sila Lee, quienes lideran los ministerios para familias en la Iglesia HTB en Londres, y ha sido revisado y actualizado para proporcionar herramientas practicas para ayudar a las parejas en cada etapa de su relacion. Esta actualizacion incluye charlas de expertos como el Dr. Gray Chapman, el Dr. Henry Cloud y la Dra. Sue Johnson sobre temas como dinero, sexo, lenguajes del amor, limites saludables y fomentar conexiones. El curso tambien cubre como las parejas pueden:
*Entender mejor las necesidades de los demas.
*Comunicarse de una manera mas eficaz.
*Acercarse el uno al otro aprendiendo metodos para resolver conflictos.
*Recuperarse despues de haberse lastimado.
*Reconocer como la crianza ha afectado su relacion.
*Mejorar las relaciones con los padres y los suegros.El Curso Para Parejas se basa en una comprension cristiana del amor y sirve para fortalecer los matrimonios y relaciones dentro de la iglesia, siendo accesible para todas las parejas de cualquier origen cultural, con o sin antecedentes en la fe cristiana. Esta guia para lideres esta incluida con la serie de videos del Curso Para Parejas (9780310116714), la cual se vende por separado.
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Help Your Kids Learn And Love The Bible
$18.00Add to cartAs parents, we deeply desire the best for our kids. We look for the right preschool, teach them to read, and get them involved in extracurriculars. We take our job as parents seriously.
But are we also putting our time and energy into teaching them the Bible? Leading our kids to life through Scripture is not only doable, it’s an essential part of parenting kids for Jesus. And the good news is studying God’s Word as a family doesn’t have to be hard or overly time-consuming.
This book will give you the tools and confidence to study the Bible as a family. It will help you identify and overcome your objections and fears, give you a crash course in what the Bible is all about and how to teach it, and provide the tools and techniques to set up a family Bible-study habit.
You will finish this book feeling encouraged and empowered to initiate and strengthen your child’s relationship with the Lord through his Word.
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Grace-filled Marriage : Strengthened And Transformed Through God’s Redempti
$13.99Add to cartMarriage is a beautiful expression of love. Yet it can also sometimes cause us pain. We need God’s help and grace to navigate this most precious of relationships well.
Interwoven with biblical teaching and practical application, Claire and Steve Musters honestly share their own story of rebuilding a marriage after loneliness, betrayal and separation as well as telling the stories of other couples who have faced specific challenges such as infertility, physical and mental ill health.
Whether you want to lay good foundations in your marriage, or feel you are struggling and need help, Grace-Filled Marriage will encourage you that God has a new portion of grace and mercy for you each day.
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6 Necesidades De Cada Nino – (Spanish)
$13.99Add to cartComo la mayoria de los padres, Amy y Jeffrey Olrick salieron del hospital con su primer hijo desesperados por saber: Que hacemos?. Pero aos de crianza de tres hijos y el trabajo de Jeffrey como psicologo infantil los convencio de hacer una pregunta mejor: Como debo estar con esta nueva persona?. En una cultura obsesionada con las formulas parentales, es facil pasar por alto el hecho de que la ciencia y la experiencia vivida han demostrado que el desarrollo humano y la prosperidad son una cuestion de relacion. Basandose en decadas de investigacion psicologica, neurociencia y su propia experiencia como padres y personas de fe, los Olrick presentan seis necesidades relacionales para el crecimiento humano que transformaran la forma en que piensa sobre su hijo y sobre si mismo. Juntas, las necesidades forman una brujula confiable para guiarlo a usted y a su hijo hacia un camino de proposito y plenitud relacional.
Para los padres que se sienten atraidos en cientos de direcciones, mareados por el volumen de estrategias contradictorias y cansados por los programas para padres que complicaron su propia infancia, Las 6 necesidades de cada nio es un mapa de ruta innovadora que integra la ciencia de la conexion con herramientas practicas. Estara equipado con:
– Una mirada profunda a los seis elementos esenciales que su hijo necesita para prosperar
– Herramientas para usar cuando se sienta atrapado
– El secreto para asegurar la conexion con su hijo
– Herramientas de autoevaluacion para discernir su estilo de crianza unico
Mas que una guia para padres, este libro es su invitacion a liberarse del mito de la paternidad perfecta y abrazar el largo viaje de crecimiento de su hijo. Con perspicacia, humor y compasion, llama a los padres a descubrir el poder de estar imperfectamente presentes con sus hijos, desarrollando una capacidad de recuperacion mental, emocional y espiritual que los sostendra durante toda la vida.
The 6 Needs of Every Child
Like most parents, Amy and Jeffrey Olrick left the hospital with their first child desperate to know, “What do we do?” But years of parenting three kids and Jeffrey’s work as a child psychologist convinced them to ask a better question: “How shall I be with this new person?”
In a culture obsessed with parenting formulas, it’s easy to miss the fact that science and lived experience have proven that human development and thriving are a matter of relationship. Drawing on decades of psychological research, neur
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Strengthen Your Marriage
$18.99Add to cartBestselling authors and trusted relationship experts Drs. Les and Leslie Parrott help you strengthen and enhance your unique marriage with the perfect companion to your SYMBIS+ Assessment Report.
The SYMBIS+ Assessment is a powerful and personalized marriage insight tool that covers 17 key areas in your marriage, including well-being, social support, finances, personality, sex, communication, conflict, spirituality, time styles, and more.
Whether you are debriefing your SYMIBS+ Report one-on-one with your certified Facilitator or in a small group or class, this guidebook is an ideal companion to the SYMBIS+ Assessment. Each chapter perfectly correlates to a page of your report–and they are sure to enhance your experience by helping you deepen your understanding of your results, personalize the concepts, and apply the valuable insights you learn.
Chock-full of real-life action steps, no-guilt exercises, and fun discussion starters, you’ll discover how to:
*Utilize the strengths you and your spouse bring to your marriage
*Navigate your hot-button issues
*Cultivate deeper intimacy and lifelong passion
*Kick financial worries to the curb
*Engage in heartfelt and meaningful conversations free of the usual tensionWhether you have already debriefed your SYMBIS+ Report with a certified SYMBIS Facilitator, or you are about to, don’t miss out on what Strengthen Your Marriage will do for your relationship.
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Handing Down The Faith
$32.99Add to cartA new examination of how and why American religious parents seek to pass on religion to their children
The most important influence shaping the religious and spiritual lives of children, youth, and teenagers is their parents. A myriad of studies show that the parents of American youth play the leading role in shaping the character of their religious and spiritual lives, even well after they leave home and often for the rest of their lives. We know a lot about the importance of parents in faith transmission. However we know much less about the actual beliefs, feelings, and activities of the parents themselves, what Christian Smith and Amy Adamczyk call the intergenerational transmission of religious faith and practice. To address that gap, this book reports the findings of a new national study of religious parents in the United States. The findings and conclusions in Handing Down the Faith are based on 215 in-depth, personal interviews with religious parents from many traditions and different parts of the country, and sophisticated analyses of two nationally representative surveys of American parents about their religious parenting.
Handing Down the Faith explores the background beliefs informing how and why religious parents seek to pass on religion to their children; examines how parenting styles interact with parent religiousness to shape effective religious transmission; shows how parents have been influenced by their experiences as children influenced by their own parents; reveals how religious parents view their congregations and what they most seek out in a local church, synagogue, temple, or mosque; explores the experiences and outlooks of immigrant parents including Latino Catholics, East Asian Buddhists, South Asian Muslims, and Indian Hindus. Smith and Adamczyk step back to consider how American religion has transformed over the last 100 years and to explain why parents today shoulder such a huge responsibility in transmitting religious faith and practice to their children. The book is rich in empirical evidence and unique in many of the topics it explores and explains, providing a variety of sometimes counterintuitive findings that will interest scholars of religion, social scientists interested in the family, parenting, and socialization; clergy and religious educators and leaders; and religious parents themselves.
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Midnight Dad Devotional
$16.99Add to cartFor the new daddy changing diapers at 3 in the morning, for the dad of tweens who wonders if he is enough, for the father of teenagers who feels disconnected, Midnight Dad Devotional offers the encouragement and biblical grounding that has made the Midnight Mom and Midnight Dad Devotional Facebook Communities a help to parents around the world.
The Midnight Mom Devotional Community has become a global movement of prayer and encouragement for mamas everywhere, launching Midnight Mom Devotional to bestseller lists and into over a million moms’ hearts. Now author Becky Thompson and her dad, Dr. Mark Pitts, offer a new book for dads who need to know God is with them on the parenting journey. Midnight Dad Devotional gives dads in all seasons of life:
*A sense of connection with other fathers
*Strength for each night and the day ahead
*Wisdom from the Bible for tough situations
*Affirmation of the importance of their role
*Reassurance that God is with themWith its handsome cover and a presentation page, this devotional is a great gift for new daddies, Father’s Day, or any dad needing a little extra encouragement. As the Midnight Dad community says every evening, “Tonight we pray for the dad who . . .”
*Is trying to balance long work hours and a desire to be with family
*Wants to set a good example for his children
*Sometimes feels distant from his kids
*Is navigating a separation or a divorce
*Desires to pass on his faith in authentic waysJust as Midnight Mom Devotional has equipped so many moms to love their kids well, Midnight Dad Devotional helps each dad find courage in the calm of the night, knowing that men around the world are joining him in prayer–and that God is more than capable of guiding him into the morning.
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Womans Influence : Own Your WORTH, Cultivate Your POWER, And Change Your RE
$17.99Add to cartFrom celebrity life coach and motivational speaker, Tony Gaskins Jr. and his wife, Sheri, comes an essential guide with hard-hitting truths about a woman’s undeniable influence on a relationship–and the power she has to change her man for the better.
Tony Gaskins has inspired others by sharing his truth–drawing millions of followers online and making him one of America’s foremost experts on love and relationships. Now, he and his wife explore a woman’s positive impact on a relationship in this practical and accessible guide that walks you through a series of irreplaceable lessons on making personal changes that foster healthy relationships. Tony and his wife, Sheri, draw on their own relationship successes and failures as they examine the eighteen time-tested truths about how a woman’s influence can shift a relationship for the better–if used correctly.
Including advice for women such as “you are not a maid,” “show don’t tell,” and the “72-hour rule”–where the woman makes herself totally unreachable to her partner–Tony and Sheri tackle all of today’s important topics such as misogyny and the “grown boy syndrome,” while never losing the empowering and empathetic tone that Tony’s loyal following has come to love and trust.
Whether you are single, dating, engaged, or married, A Woman’s Influence is a hopeful response to a culture where men behave badly and women are victimized all too often. By providing a vision that empowers women to know their worth and simultaneously bring out the best in men, this guidebook can help you make a lasting, positive change to your relationship.
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Lifelong Love : Discovering How Intimacy With God Breathes Passion Into You (Rev
$17.99Add to cartA good marriage isn’t something found; it’s something made. In this revised and updated edition of the bestselling book A Lifelong Love, author Gary Thomas shares that when couples pursue spiritual purpose and worship it builds lasting intimacy and friendship between them.
In A Lifelong Love, Thomas takes couples on three essential journeys leading to a strong marriage:
*The journey toward each other
*The journey toward God
*The journey toward loveWhether readers are feeling discouraged about their marriage or simply want to infuse their relationship with greater spiritual and relational passion, A Lifelong Love offers the guidance they need to embrace the eternal intentions that God has for them.
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Vertical Marriage : The One Secret That Will Change Your Marriage
$18.99Add to cartHonest to the core and laugh-out-loud funny, marriage coaches Dave and Ann Wilson share the one key secret that brought them from the brink of divorce to a healthy and vibrant relationship.
He never saw it coming. It was the night of Dave and Ann’s tenth wedding anniversary and if asked how their marriage was doing, Dave would have said a 9.8 out of 10 and he even guaranteed Ann would say the same. But instead of giving a celebratory kiss, Ann whispered, “I’ve lost my feelings for you.”
Divorce seemed inevitable. But starting that night, God began to reveal to Dave and Ann the most overlooked secret of getting the marriage we are looking for: the horizontal marriage relationship just doesn’t work until the vertical relationship with Christ is first.
As founders of a multi-campus church and marriage coaches with 30 years of experience, Dave and Ann share the hard-earned but easy-to-apply biblical principles that ensure a strong marriage. Written in a funny and highly relatable dialogue between both husband and wife, Vertical Marriage will guide you toward building a vibrant relationship at every level including communication, conflict, intimacy, and romance–though Dave is still figuring that last one out. Through their unique perspectives, they share an intimate, sometimes hilarious and at times deeply poignant narrative of one couple’s journey to reconnecting with God and discovering the joy and power of a vertical marriage.
For anyone who is married, preparing for marriage, or desperate to save a relationship teetering on the edge of disaster, Dave and Ann offer hope and strategies that really work. Vertical Marriage will give you the insight, applications, and inspiration to reconnect with God together and to transform your marriage to everything you hoped it would be.
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Praying The Scriptures For Your Teens (Expanded)
$19.99Add to cartPrayer can be your greatest asset and source of wisdom in raising teenagers in today’s world. Now expanded, this book features updated content on issues like pornography, addiction, self-harm, anxiety, rebellion, technology use, dealing with disappointment, and more.It’s never been tougher to be a teenager–or the parent of one. Thankfully, from your teen’s first date to the next time he or she borrows the car keys, you can take your concerns to God through prayer. Drawing on the power of God’s Word, Praying the Scriptures for Your Teens equips you to pray about the difficult issues your teen may face:
*Relationship challenges
*Doubts about their faith
*Depression
*Rejection
*Sexual purity
*Substance abuse
*Eating disorders. . . and much moreThis book also guides you in praying about everything from your teen’s character and safety to the purposes and plans that God has for his or her future.
Filled with engaging illustrations, biblical insights, and compelling prayer principles, Praying the Scriptures for Your Teens shows how to make the Bible your source for prayers that can powerfully influence your teen’s life. With a grace-filled approach and a warm, personal style, author Jodie Berndt encourages you that there is not a need your teen will face that God has not already thought of, and provided for, in his Word–and that, no matter how far away our kids may be, they are never out of his reach.
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Great Sex Rescue
$17.99Add to cartWhat if it’s not your fault that sex is bad in your marriage?
Based on a groundbreaking in-depth survey of 22,000 Christian women, The Great Sex Rescue unlocks the secrets to what makes some marriages red hot while others fizzle out. Generations of women have grown up with messages about sex that make them feel dirty, used, or invisible, while men have been sold such a cheapened version of sex, they don’t know what they’re missing. The Great Sex Rescue hopes to turn all of that around, developing a truly biblical view of sex where mutuality, intimacy, and passion reign.
The Great Sex Rescue pulls back the curtain on what is happening in Christian bedrooms and exposes the problematic teachings that wreck sex for so many couples–and the good teachings that leave others breathless. In the #metoo and #churchtoo era, not only is this book a long overdue corrective to church culture, it is poised to free thousands of couples from repressive and dissatisfying sex lives so that they can experience the kind of intimacy and wholeness God intended.
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Covenant Of Marriage Study Guide
$14.99Add to cartJoin us as we explore the historic understanding of Covenant, and see how this understanding can be used to build a love-for-a-lifetime marriage.
What is Marriage?
Does it shift with every-changing cultural values?
Is it a contract written by God?
Do the two just figure it out?Instead, marriage is a Covenant, a very definite thing. Sadly, its historically correct understanding has virtually disappeared from our culture. When questioned about Marriage, Jesus answered, “…in the beginning….” To understand marriage, consult God’s original definition. When two enter a Covenant, their identities are exchanged and changed; the two are joined by a bond of shared identity. This change and bond explain everything else we are to do. The two are to love each other as they love themselves–because the other has become an extension of one’s self. We love with actions when we feel the love, but feelings vary. Covenant is God’s detailed plan to bring our approach to our mate into line with reality. To love consistently, which builds the best marriage, many things within each must change. To build the relationship to its potential we must also learn to build ourselves–to grow, and grow together.
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Epic Grandparenting : Dozens Of Creative Ideas For Entertaining Children
$20.99Add to cart“Remember when you held your first grandchild? Every grunt and squeak, every adorable sneeze and snort, fascinated you. And you fell in love. Later, the baby’s siblings and cousins added to your joy. You played peek-a-boo and hide-and-seek and baked cookies together. If you’re looking for more exciting ways to engage with your grandchildren and enjoy your time with them to the fullest, this book is for you. One day you’ll only be a memory for your grandchildren. Make it a good one!”
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Mama Bear Apologetics Study Guide (Student/Study Guide)
$13.99Add to cartDo you have the right tools to teach your children to reject cultural lies?
It’s easy to feel overwhelmed and underprepared when today’s world has your children asking questions about everything from moral relativity, to cultural Marxism, to whether or not God really exists. Yet as a parent, you want to have the wisdom necessary to help them understand these concepts from a biblical perspective.
This informative companion to the bestselling book Mama Bear Apologetics will familiarize you with the secular world views your children encounter on a daily basis, and equip you to build the foundation of faith and knowledge needed to rebuke these ideas. This interactive workbook will help you…
*Gain a clear grasp of the issues that prevail in today’s society, while better understanding how God wants you to see them
*Sharpen your critical thinking skills
*Effectively counter non-biblical viewpoints with truth, gentleness, and respectKnowing what is true is the best way to argue against what is false. The Mama Bear Apologetics Study Guide will ready you to be confident in your understanding of God’s truth and prepared to stand for its reliability.
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Faith That Lasts
$17.00Add to cartIn their work as Christian apologists, father and son Stuart and Cameron McAllister hear from Christian parents who worry about raising their children in the faith amid a seductive culture. Reflecting on their own very different experiences of coming to Christian faith, they share how our homes can be places of honest conversation, open-handed exploration, and lasting faith.
“Please fix my kid.” In their work as Christian apologists, father and son Stuart and Cameron McAllister have heard many variations on this theme from concerned parents. It’s a sentiment many Christian parents can relate to-a deep and fearful sense of their own inadequacy to raise their children in the faith amid a seductive culture that’s often hostile to Christianity. In Faith that Lasts, the McAllisters reflect on their own experiences of coming to Christian faith-Stuart from a life of crime on the streets of Glasgow, and Cameron in the context of a loving Christian home. Together they outline three dangerous myths that we all too easily buy into: that fear can protect our children, that information can save them, and that their spiritual education belongs to the experts. They reconsider each myth in the light of the Christian faith and their own experiences. When our confidence is rooted in the good news of Jesus, our homes can be places of honest conversation, open-handed exploration, and lasting faith.
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True Companions : A Book For Everyone About The Relationships That See Us T
$24.00Add to cartHow do we cultivate the life-long relationship we are longing for, whether within marriage or friendship? Psychologist Kelly Flannagan shows how each of us can enjoy the deeply satisfying, transformational love of companionship. With self-knowledge and an understanding of our own loneliness and emotional defenses leading the way, we can make the choice to love more vulnerably.
When we quit sabotaging intimacy in our relationships by demanding unconditional love, we discover something much greater-the deeply satisfying, transformational love that is companionship. In these pages psychologist Kelly Flannagan shows how each of us has within ourselves, exactly the way we are, the gifts that are needed to cultivate the life-long relationship we are longing for, whether it is within marriage or friendship. He shows us how self-knowledge leads the way to growing in love for both God and others. He shows us how understanding our own loneliness can help us relieve the pressure on our companions. And he shows us how understanding our own psychological and emotional defenses can help us to make the choice to love more vulnerably. More than a marriage book, this is a companionship book. Anyone-from single young adults to elderly married couples, from the divorced to the widowed, from siblings to friends-can benefit from the wisdom it uncovers about what it means to be human and to be true companions. Groups, couples, and individuals can use the companion study guide for five sessions on how to show up in your most important relationships.
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Road To Love And Laughter
$18.99Add to cartANYONE can look like they have it all together in a 3-minute edited video clip.
But like they’ve shared in their popular YouTube videos, Kristin and Danny have weathered more than their hilarious lip-sync mashups might lead you to think. While they wholeheartedly believe their motto “laughter is the best medicine,” behind the scenes Kristin and Danny live a much different life than what you see onscreen.
Through honest and vulnerable stories recounting all the embarrassing details–like falling down on national television at an American Idol audition (Kristin), and facing the threat of murder after having a “man-to-man” talk with his future father-in-law (Danny)–the Adamses show that often the terrible experiences we fear are actually the beginning of greatness.
Life is going to take you for twists and turns. You will hit potholes and bumper-to-bumper traffic, detours, construction zones and . . . you get it. But with the Adamses as your fearless–or almost fearless–guides, you’ll gain the roadmap that has kept them from turning the car around or driving off a cliff.
So keep going, keep laughing, and turn up the music!
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Raising Spirit Led Kids
$17.00Add to cartWith all the responsibilities parents have raising children, one key area is often neglected: helping sons and daughters understand and grow in their spiritual gifting–at any age.
In this groundbreaking resource, children’s pastor Seth Dahl helps parents minister to and with their children, shaping them into the gifted individuals God designed them to be, while simultaneously doing damage to the kingdom of darkness. He covers important topics such as:
– creating a culture of faith at home
– helping your children navigate spiritual realities
– guiding your children to live out the kingdom in their everyday lives
– and more!By using the practical tools offered here, you will guide your children effectively and confidently. Bring the life-changing power of God into your home–and raise Spirit-led kids.
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Talking Back To Purity Culture
$18.00Add to cartThe generation born into evangelical purity culture has grown up, but many still struggle with its complicated legacy. Examining purity culture’s teachings through the lens of Scripture, Rachel Joy Welcher charts a path forward in the ongoing debates about sexuality-one that rejects legalism and license alike, steering us back instead to the good news of Jesus.
It’s time to talk back. The generation born into evangelical purity culture has grown up, and many have started families of their own. But as time goes on, it’s becoming more evident that many still struggle with purity culture’s complicated legacy-its idolization of virginity, its mixed messages about modesty and lust, and its promise of a healthy marriage and great sex for those who follow the rules. In Talking Back to Purity Culture, Rachel Joy Welcher reviews the movement carefully, examining its teachings through the lens of Scripture. Compassionate, faithful, and wise, she charts a path forward for evangelicals in the ongoing debates about sexuality-one that rejects legalism and license alike, steering us back instead to the good news of Jesus. It’s time to talk back to purity culture-and this book is ready to jump-start the conversation.
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10 Best Decisions A Single Mom Can Make
$18.00Add to cartNo matter how you became a single mom, you share the same challenges and fears all single moms have. You may feel stretched to the limit. You may suspect your children need more than you’re able to give. How are you going to do this on your own?
With humor, Scripture, and sage advice, Pam Farrel (child of a single mother) and PeggySue Wells (single parent of 7 children) show you how to:
– be decisive- create a nurturing home
– be proactive- date wisely- pray for your child
– embrace your happily-ever-after
– and moreYou are capable of parenting your children with courage, confidence, and clarity. This loving, practical guide shows you how.
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Marriage After God
$19.99Add to cartWhat if God has purposed your marriage for something so much more than happily ever after?
Since the very beginning, God’s design for marriage is for husbands and wives to be ambassadors of holy love to a hurting world. Still, so many couples stop short at happy and wonder why they feel unsatisfied. Rather than “you and me against the world,” God calls each couple to the rich and meaningful mission of “you and me for the world.”
Aaron and Jennifer Smith, popular marriage bloggers at HusbandRevolution.com and UnveiledWife.com, transparently share their journey from a marriage in crisis to a marriage built on Christ’s redemptive love. Through fresh biblical insight and intimate stories of their own struggles and victories, this book will guide you toward a God-centered, ministry-minded, and thriving marriage. You will discover the signature marks of a marriage after God, find principles for building an unshakable marriage foundation, learn how to let God’s story take the lead in your love story, and recognize the tools God has already equipped you with for a missional life together. Filled with helpful illustrations, this thorough and practical book will empower you and your spouse to dream, decide, and do as you step hand-in-hand into God’s ultimate purpose for your marriage.
Your oneness is also meant for witness. God has purposed your remarkable, romantic, and redemptive relationship to be a powerful light to a dark and hurting world. This is your invitation to marriage as God intended–a life-saving, hope-inspiring, and transforming force of God’s love.
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Praying The Scriptures For Your Children 20th Anniversary Edition (Anniversary)
$18.99Add to cartThis expanded edition of the bestseller features updated content on issues like technology and identity, and comes with new material designed to invite children into the family prayer circle.
There is not a need we will face in parenting–or that our kids will confront in their lives–that God has not already thought of, and provided for, in his Word. And there can be no greater privilege than partnering with him, through our prayers, to accomplish his best purposes in the lives of the people we love.
But where to begin?
In this updated and expanded edition celebrating the 20th anniversary of a modern classic, you will discover how using the Bible to shape your desires and requests opens the door to God’s provision–and frees us from things like worry and fear in our parenting!
It teaches you how and what to pray for your child(ren) in the following areas:
*Faith
*Character
*Safety
*Relationships
*FuturePlus, all-new material includes sections on praying for a child’s sense of identity, praying for their use of technology, and building a prayer legacy with specific strategies and a collection of child-friendly Bible verses designed to help children anchor their hope in God’s Word.
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Impossible Marriage : What Our Mixed-Orientation Marriage Has Taught Us Abo
$18.00Add to cart“People say our marriage is impossible.” Laurie and Matt Krieg are in a mixed-orientation marriage: a marriage in which at least one partner’s primary attraction isn’t toward the gender of their spouse. In the Kriegs’ case, Laurie is primarily attracted to women-and so is Matt. Some find the idea of mixed-orientation marriage bewildering or even offensive. But as the Kriegs have learned, nothing is impossible with God-and that’s as true of their marriage as anyone else’s. In An Impossible Marriage, the Kriegs tell their story: how they met and got married, the challenges and breakthroughs of their journey, and what they’ve learned about marriage along the way. Christianity teaches us that marriage is a picture of Jesus’ love for the church-and that’s just as true in a mixed-orientation marriage as in a straight one. With vulnerability and wisdom, this book lays out an engaging picture of marriage in all its pain and beauty. It’s a picture that points us, over and over again, to the love and grace of Jesus-as marriage was always meant to do.
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Living In The Masters Plan
$19.99Add to cartThirty family devotions featuring unique, original art from the bestselling, 25-year That the World May Know film series.
Devotions are from Ray Vander Laan, teacher and biblical historian known for exploring Scripture in its historical, geographical, and cultural context by teaching on location at the actual ancient, historical sites where biblical history occurred.
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Future Of Christian Marriage
$32.99Add to cartMarriage has come a long way since biblical times. Women are no longer property, and practices like polygamy have long been rejected. The world is wealthier, healthier, and more able to find and form relationships than ever. So why are Christian congregations doing more burying than marrying today? Explanations for the recession in marriage range from the mathematical–more women in church than men–to the economic, and from the availability of sex to progressive politics. But perhaps marriage hasn’t really changed at all. Instead, there is simply less interest in marriage in an era marked by technology, gender equality, and secularization.
Mark Regnerus explores how today’s Christians find a mate within a faith that esteems marriage but in a world that increasingly yawns at it. This book draws on in-depth interviews with nearly two hundred young-adult Christians from the United States, Mexico, Spain, Poland, Russia, Lebanon, and Nigeria, in order to understand the state of matrimony in global Christian circles today. Regnerus finds that marriage has become less of a foundation for a couple to build upon and more of a capstone. Meeting increasingly high expectations of marriage is difficult, though, in a free market whose logic reaches deep into the home today. The result is endemic uncertainty, slowing relationship maturation, and stalling marriage. But plenty of Christians innovate, resist, and wed, and this book argues that the future of marriage will be a religious one.
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Crianza Responsiva – (Spanish)
$15.99Add to cartThis book identifies five problem areas in parenting that, if left unchecked, will produce problems in adolescence. They are:
a) Isolation
b) Unrestrainedness
c) no boundaries
d) poor parental accessibility
e) shameThe antidote for all five are connection, self-control, good boundaries, accessibility to the parents, and the parents’ ability to mitigate shame in their children’s lives.
One of the primary differences between families who enjoy each other and families who do not enjoy each other is the way they approach conflict. Reactive families do not possess the skills to resolve conflict, while responsive families do. All around us are adolescents who are isolated, with little self-control over their emotions. They easily get into trouble because of poor parental boundaries and subsequently experience shame. They do not have accessibility to their parents and do not know how to resolve their conflicts and confusion. Young parents can avoid these deadly pitfalls beginning at the toddler stage by parenting in a responsive way. They will raise children who know how to interact with others, control their emotions, respect and accept good boundaries, enjoy accessibility with their parents, and know how to mitigate shame when it occurs in their lives.
The reactive family is literally going in circles. Their cyclical, reactive patterns include inattentiveness, misunderstanding, put downs, rejection, shame, and isolation. They can be disconnected, angry, and resentful. They are on an emotional merry-go-round and do not know how to get off. On the other hand, the responsive family has learned how to stop the cycle. They have employed listening, understanding, and clarification. When they apologize–it means something. When they forgive, they do not bring it up again. Instead of being rigid, they have learned to be flexible. They are connected and forgiving. As a result, they are emotionally strong and respectful of each other. They enjoy spontaneous moments in a mutually satisfying way.
This book helps the reader identify deadly patterns that are draining the life out of their relationships and presents change as a real possibility. With the use of metaphors and word pictures, the reader can see both kinds of families, but also learn how to introduce change into their family–the kind of change that is not easy but is transformative.
Parenting is a daunting task, especially if you’re young and inexperienced. Today many parents
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Emmanuel God With Us
$19.99Add to cart”Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.” –Matthew 1:23 KJV
Celebrate God’s greatest gift, Jesus with the entire family this Christmas.
Emmanuel, God With Us advent ornament book is a fun, interactive board book to involve young children with Christmas decorating while celebrating the gifts God gave us in His son, Jesus Christ. There are six removable ornaments for your child to hang on the Christmas tree. To go with each Christmas ornament, there is a short advent devotion, a promise from scripture and a short prayer. It’s the perfect way for the whole family to share the greatest story ever told together this Christmas!
Simply pop out the die-cut ornaments, then add ribbon or hooks and hang them on anything from a Christmas tree to holiday garland! At the end of the Christmas season, simply place the ornaments back into the book and easily pack away. Whether used as a daily countdown or read in one sitting, this advent activity can be reused year after year so you can start a new family Christmas tradition. It’s a meaningful gift for sharing and celebrating Jesus, Emmanuel, the promise spoken, the promise hoped for, and the promise fulfilled with friends and loved ones.
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Raising Your Grandchildren
$11.00Add to cartYou thought you were done raising children. But now, unexpectedly, your child isn’t able to raise their own kids, so you step up to fill in the gap.
But what comes next? Do you have the energy to get the job done? Are you equipped in this ever-changing world? And will you be able to help your grandchildren draw close to the God you love?
In Raising Your Grandchildren, you’ll discover the practical tools as well as the encouragement you need to find hope in Christ and strength for the journey. With wisdom and compassion, this book focuses on common emotional and spiritual challenges, and along the way readers will hear true stories from other grandparents going down this road themselves.
No one expects to be a grandparent raising a grandchild, and it can be a daunting task. But take courage–it can also be a blessing. Let this book be your guide to finding hope and joy in the journey.
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Love Her Well
$19.99Add to cartMoms are eager for tips and wisdom to help them build strong relationships with their daughters, and Kari Kampakis’s Love Her Well gives them ten practical ways to do so, not by changing their daughters but by changing their own thoughts, actions, and mind-set.
For many women, having a baby girl is a dream come true. Yet as girls grow up, the narrative of innocence and joy changes to gloom and doom as moms are told, “Just wait until she’s a teenager!” and handed a disheartening script that treats a teenage girl’s final years at home as solely a season to survive.
Author and blogger Kari Kampakis suggests it’s time to change the narrative and mind-set that lead moms to parent teen girls with a spirit of defeat, not strength. By improving the foundation, habits, and dynamics of the relationship, mothers can connect with their teen daughters and earn a voice in their lives that allows moms to offer guidance, love, wisdom, and emotional support.
As a mom of four daughters (three of whom are teenagers), Kari has learned the hard way that as girls grow up, mothers must grow up too. In Love Her Well, Kari shares ten ways that moms can better connect with their daughters in a challenging season, including:
*choosing their words and timing carefully,
*listening and empathizing with her teen’s world,
*seeing the good and loving her for who she is,
*taking care of themselves and having a support system, and more.This book isn’t a guide to help mothers “fix” their daughters or make them behave. Rather, it’s about a mom’s journey, doing the heart work and legwork necessary to love a teenager while still being a strong, steady parent. Kari explores how every relationship consists of two imperfect sinners, and teenagers gain more respect for their parents when they admit (and learn from) their mistakes, apologize, listen, give grace, and try to understand their teens’ point of view. Yes, teenagers need rules and consequences, but without a connected relationship, parents may never gain a significant voice in their lives or be a safe place they long to return to.
By admitting her personal failures and prideful mistakes that have hurt her relationships with her teenage daughters, Kari gives mothers hope and reminds them all things are possible through God. By leaning on him, mothers gain the wisdom, guidance, protection, and clarity they need to grow strong relationships with their daughters at every age, especially during the critical teen years.
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Small But Mighty
$16.99Add to cartA Parent’s Guide to Raising Spiritual Warriors
Every night, Sharee Dorsett’s three-year-old son was tormented by frightening dreams and visions. She would turn on the lights to show him that nothing was there. But each morning, he would wake with bites and scratches all over his body.
Crying out to God for answers, Sharee heard the Holy Spirit say, “Why are you lying to him? There is something in his room.” She questioned: “God, what do you want me to do, tell my little boy that there are monsters in his room?” The Lord responded “No! Teach his hands to war.”
Sharee began seeking God’s strategy for equipping children to know their own spiritual authority, to walk in spiritual discernment, and to wield supernatural weapons for spiritual warfare.
In Small but Mighty, she imparts these strategies to you.
Empower your children to…
*Overcome bullying dark forces
*Discover their identity as children of the King
*Walk in peace and confidence because of a relationship with God
*Guard their gates connected to the supernatural realm
*Pray scripture to activate angelic assistanceNow more than ever, we must equip this generation for victory over the enemy. Start training your children for victorious spiritual warfare today!
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Adventuring Together : How To Create Connections And Make Lasting Memories
$18.99Add to cartA modern, practical, and inspiring guide to creating deep heart connections with kids by regularly creating new experiences and intentional adventures together.
Parents today complain of fragmented relationships with their kids. What parents yearn for–and their kids too–is deep, heart-to-heart connections. But how can parents compete with all the other noise fighting for their kids’ attention?
The answer, says Greta Eskridge, is to break free from regular routines and familiar comforts of home to experience new places and adventures–even if those adventures go awry. From simply reading a book together to going on an overnight backpacking trip, activities together provide unique and crucial bonding opportunities. Adventuring Together highlights Greta’s stories of doing just that, including:
*an array of ideas for outdoor and indoor ventures,
*what to do when your finances are limited,
*and how to adventure if your family can’t hit the hiking trail or spend the night at a campground.Giving readers the tools to make adventures happen, Adventuring Together is a step-by-step guide for parents–whether in the city or the country–to start building connections today that will last a lifetime.
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Headship Of Men And The Abuse Of Women
$21.00Add to cartIn recent years the issue of domestic abuse and violence has gained a lot of attention as the extent of it has become known. Domestic abuse and violence is now of high concern to most churches because it is evident that domestic abuse figures are much the same in our churches, and possibly higher in evangelical churches where the headship of men and the submission of women is made the God-given ideal. In this book, Kevin Giles surveys competently the scientific information on this matter now available and notes that the consensus is that the most sure indicator of higher incidences of abuse are found in communities where men are privileged and expected to be in charge and women are subordinated. This, he argues, should make complementarians consider afresh if in fact the subordination of women is the God-given ideal, established in creation before the fall.
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Headship Of Men And The Abuse Of Women
$41.00Add to cartIn recent years the issue of domestic abuse and violence has gained a lot of attention as the extent of it has become known. Domestic abuse and violence is now of high concern to most churches because it is evident that domestic abuse figures are much the same in our churches, and possibly higher in evangelical churches where the headship of men and the submission of women is made the God-given ideal. In this book, Kevin Giles surveys competently the scientific information on this matter now available and notes that the consensus is that the most sure indicator of higher incidences of abuse are found in communities where men are privileged and expected to be in charge and women are subordinated. This, he argues, should make complementarians consider afresh if in fact the subordination of women is the God-given ideal, established in creation before the fall.
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700 Real Christian Names
$16.99Add to cartChoosing a name for a child is one of the most important decisions parents make and it requires careful thought and consideration. The twenty-first century has seen a revival in names from the Bible, challenging the popularity of more modern names. This book is a guide for parents who want to choose a real Christian name for their child, answering the questions: What does the name mean? Where does it originate from? What are its Christian roots? How did it come to be a Christian name? Where applicable, the name day of the saint associated with the forename is given, for those parents who would like their child to know and celebrate their own special name day.
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Discipling Your Grandchildren
$14.99Add to cartYou are a grandparent with a passion to impact your grandkids for Christ, but sometimes you struggle to find fun and meaningful ways to disciple them and leave a lasting legacy of faith. Help is at hand in Discipling Your Grandchildren: Great Ideas to Help Them Know, Love, and Serve God, in which grandparenting expert Dr. Josh Mulvihill has compiled dozens of suggestions and strategies to help you do just that.
With an assortment of actionable ideas–from pragmatic tips on how to better connect with your grandchildren to fun, age-appropriate activities– Discipling Your Grandchildren is an invaluable tool chest for grandparents who want to build a biblical foundation, lead by example, and point their grandchildren to Christ. Practical yet powerful, the information, ideas, and best practices shared by Mulvihill can be implemented and adapted in ways that work for your unique grandparenting situation, whether your grandkids are two or twenty, around the corner or across the globe.
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See Through Marriage
$29.99Add to cartMarriage is all about sharing: sharing space, sharing joys and sorrows, sharing hopes and dreams. Yet we often hold back a part of ourselves because we fear that being wholly transparent–about our past, our desires, our failures, our faults–will bring judgment, rejection, or even just unwanted friction to our relationship. We are afraid to be fully known. As a result, we never experience being fully loved.
Fierce Marriage authors Ryan and Selena Frederick think your marriage deserves better. In this new, paradigm-shifting book, they show you how to develop a see-through marriage, one that is marked by full transparency and confident vulnerability. Through personal stories, testimonies from other couples, and biblical truth, they make the case that living authentically in front of each other is the only way to experience love the way we were designed to.
If you desire an honest, no-holding-back marriage where you are fully known, fully accepted, and fully loved, you need this book.
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100 Ways To Love Your Daughter
$13.99Add to cartWith simple, practical ideas based on scriptural truth, bestselling authors and founders of Club31Women.com and FaithfulMan.com offer 100 easy ways to love your daughter well and understand what she needs to thrive–and create a lasting, loving relationship.
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Blessed Christian Family
$9.99Add to cartAs for this second book, each topic of the books explains the following matters:
The Blessed Christian Family
Family is a unit created by God Himself. Since the very beginning when God created man, He planned to make man as the object of His love. This book explains what kind of people are blessed with a good family and what kind of blessed family God promised.
Family Worship
Inviting God to be present in our homes is the core or essence of family worship which was revealed by the Lord Jesus in Matthew 18:19-20.
The writer’s family has been doing family worship for more than twenty-five years and he give an example of the liturgy of family worship they usually do. He also explained the blessing he and the rest of his family received because of this family worship.
The Major Ministry
Serving or ministering is not an unfamiliar word for God’s children, and if we intend to discuss matters related to service or ministry, certainly there are many related aspects we can dig into. Therefore, this book discusses only two of them. Those are:
*The concept or perception of ministry.
*The major ministry.Blessings
Since 2003 the writer has been spending time to make a study of blessings. Why? Because the writer wondered why God has been so kind and generous to him and his family. This book explained that in fact God has provided incredible blessings for us and the writer will discuss only 7 greatest blessings. What are they, and how can we get them, and where do they come from.
Our Attitude in the House of God
Many people assume that because we are saved by grace, we may act at will in worship. If we read Isaiah 1:10-15 we will find out that God was so angry at people who entered God’s house improperly, exceeding His wrath to the idol worshippers. Why was so? Because when we enter the house of God in inappropriate manners and attitudes, we are actually insulting God as the owner of the house. And the Lord pronounces His punishment to those who insult Him.
Worship the Father in Spirit and in Truth
John 4:20-24 explains three types of worship, namely:
1. Worship prior to the existence of the Law.
2. Worship based on the Law.
3. Worship in spirit and in truth, that is applying the Word of God in every second of our lives wherever we are.To be Children of God or Servants of God
Today there are many Christian sermons and songs with the theme that “Our life is for serving God.”
If we read Luke 10:38-42 which tells a
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Emotionally Healthy Marriage
$18.00Add to cartWhen it comes to a successful, satisfying marriage, it’s not about how many workshops you’ve attended, how many counseling sessions you’ve experienced together, or which conflict resolution tools you’ve been taught. What it really all comes down to is emotions–understanding your own and your partner’s, and then walking hand in hand through those inevitable situations where emotions run high.
In The Emotionally Healthy Marriage, Drs. David and Jan Stoop take you and your spouse through a 5-step process of developing the emotional intelligence you need to stay strong and stay together. With personal inventories that help you discover where you are doing well and where you need improvement, as well as practical action steps you can take now to implement what you’ve learned, this book is perfect for couples, counselors, and pastors.
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Como Amarme Y Amar A Los Demas – (Spanish)
$15.99Add to cartEEl verdadero amor es un estilo de vida, mas que una emocion. Involucra la expresion de nuestro mas profundo aprecio por otro ser humano. Es una manera especial de actuar, de sentir, y de pensar. Es la mejor forma de darnos a la otra persona, sin herir, humillar ni lastimar. Porque el amor piensa, razona, reflexiona y nos conduce a una relacion extendida en el tiempo.
“El amor crece a partir de verme como una persona realizada, plena, llena, feliz y completa. Esto es lo que me potencia para buscar a una persona con las mismas caracteristicas y asi compartir un proyecto de vida donde no dependamos, sino que nos complementemos. Entonces el amor hacia los demas se inicia en el amor hacia mi mismo”, resume Sixto Porras al presentar el tema de su nuevo libro, Como amarme y amar a los demas, un analisis profundo y aleccionador de lo que es en verdad el amor. Este libro te llevara a conocer los fundamentos de lo que hasta hoy pensaste que era tan solo una emocion que puede causarte una gran felicidad o sumirte en una triste decepcion.
“El amor se aprende mientras caminamos juntos, es una decision que hay que cultivar, defender y proteger.”
True love is a lifestyle, rather than an emotion. It involves the expression of our deepest appreciation for another human being. It is a special way of acting, feeling, and thinking. It is the best way to give ourselves to the other person, without hurting, humiliating or hurting. Because love thinks, reasons, reflects and leads us to an extended relationship in time.
“Love grows from seeing me as a fulfilled, full, full, happy and complete person. This is what empowers me to look for a person with the same characteristics and thus share a life project where we do not depend, but complement each other. Then love for others begins in love for myself”, summarizes Sixto Porras by presenting the theme of his new book, How to love myself and love others, a deep and sobering analysis of what love really is. This book will take you to know the basics of what until today you thought it was just an emotion that can cause you great happiness or plunge you into a sad disappointment.
“Love is learned while walking together, it is a decision that must be cultivated, defended and protected.”
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Reconnected : Moving From Roommates To Soulmates In Marriage
$16.99Add to cartOver time, the business of life creeps in and even the most deeply committed couples can feel like they’re living parallel lives rather than enjoying life together. Their once happily-ever-after can quickly turn into an endless grind of work, chores, errands and carpool. And the pull of social media becomes more compelling than engaging with one’s spouse. In this book, Dr. Greg and Erin Smalley offer practical ways to rekindle the passionate, intimate, heart-to-heart spark of connection between husbands and wives.
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Marriage Course Study Journal
$14.99Add to cartToday we are facing a global crisis when it comes to families. Marriages are under more pressure than ever. Many children are growing up without experiencing the security of their parents’ love and commitment to each other-and consequently are finding it harder to receive God’s unconditional love. There is an urgent need to invest in marriage and family life, for strong societies are built on strong families, and strong families are built on strong marriages.
The Marriage Course, developed by Nicky and Sila Lee of Alpha, has been revised and updated to provide practical tools to help couples at every stage of their relationship. This update includes talks from experts including Dr. Gray Chapman, Dr. Henry Cloud, and Dr. Sue Johnson on topics such as money, sex, love languages, healthy boundaries, and building connections. The course will also cover how couples can:
*Better understand each other’s needs
*Communicate more effectively
*Grow closer by learning methods to resolve conflicts
*Recover from the way they may have hurt each other
*Recognize how their upbringing has affected their relationship
*Improve relationships with parents and in-lawsThe Marriage Course is based on a Christian understanding of love and serves to strengthen marriages within the church while being accessible for all couples from any cultural background, with or without a background in the Christian faith.
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Cousin Camp : A Grandparent’s Guide To Creating Fun, Faith, And Memories Th
$14.99Add to cartIn a world where our families are more scattered than ever, true and lasting family connections are hard to forge and even harder to maintain–and they don’t happen by accident. For grandparents who long to create a close-knit bond in their family, popular speaker and parenting expert Susan Alexander Yates has a revolutionary new book.
Cousin Camp is an inspiring, practical book that outlines how grandparents can plan and host a camp. Grandmother to 21 grandchildren, Yates has been creating cousin camps and family camps for years. Now she passes on what she’s learned so you can help your children and grandchildren develop meaningful, lasting connections with each other–and with you!
Full of specific, practical ideas and hilarious stories, this book contains everything you need to know from initial planning (who, when, and where) to a daily schedule to specific ways to build friendships among family members. Yates also includes plenty of ideas for family camps and reunions to draw everyone closer.
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7 Traits Of Effective Parenting
$15.99Add to cartIn today’s complex world, parenting is a tough job. Beyond the difficulties of the changing world we live in, there are also the daily frictions of imperfect people sharing a home together. However, Daniel P. Huerta, Focus on the Family’s Vice President of Parenting, offers hope and help for you to become an effective parent.Based on exhaustive research, Huerta presents a collection of seven powerful character traits designed to help parents grow and thrive as they take on the task of raising children. Parents will be encouraged to navigate family life with grace and love so their children ultimately see God’s transformative power, love, and influence.
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Spiritual Conversations With Children
$20.00Add to cartWe are born into this world with a natural longing to connect to God and other human beings.
When children have a listening companion who hears, acknowledges, and encourages their early experiences with God, it creates a spiritual footprint that shapes their lives. How can we increase our capacity to engage children in spiritual conversations? In this book Lacy Finn Borgo draws on her own experience of practicing spiritual direction with children. She offers an overview of childhood spiritual formation and introduces key skills for engaging conversation–posture, power, and patterns–from a Christ-centered perspective. “When we are fully present and open to another, we will be changed,” Borgo writes. “Indeed, as you listen to God with a child, the child will lead you into a fuller experience of God’s love and acceptance.” In this book you’ll find:
*Sample interactive dialogues with children
*Ideas for engaging children with play, art, and movement
*Prayers to use togetherWhether you are a parent or grandparent, pastor or spiritual director, you will find this to be a friendly guide into deeper ways of listening.
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Midnight Mom Devotional
$15.99Add to cartA one-year book of prayers to bring nightly hope and a sense of connection to mothers who feel alone, from the mother and daughter team behind the Midnight Mom Devotional Facebook page.
Mothers are often the last ones to sleep in their homes, no matter the age of their children. Newborn babies, unsettled toddlers, fear, crazy schedules, and endless responsibilities all steal a mom’s good night of rest. But the late nights don’t just wear on a momma physically. There is something about a quiet and dark house that causes thoughts, anxiety, and stress that have been ignored throughout the day to rise to the surface of a mother’s heart when the world goes around her goes still.
It doesn’t have to be this way. Moms don’t have to feel alone, because there are women across the world awake when they are, doing the very same things they are. And there is a God who wants to meet them right there in the darkness.
In this new book, Becky Thompson and her mom, Susan Pitts, bring support and hope into a momma’s hands, translating what began online into a physical reminder to every mom that the Lord is with her. Each prayer will begin with the familiar opening, “Tonight, we pray for the momma who….” In language that might describe her day, her lifestyle, or her emotions, each mom will see either herself or someone she knows in every prayer.
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Your Time Starved Marriage
$17.99Add to cartConnect your time styles–and your hearts.
The moments you miss together are irreplaceable, gone forever. Now, just in time, relationship experts Drs. Les and Leslie Parrott help you better manage this priceless resource. They show you how to reclaim the time you’ve been missing and how to maximize the moments you have together. This is not a book about being more productive, but a book about being more connected.
After resolving communication meltdowns, finding time together is the number one relational need of most couples. Where does it go? We try to make it. Save it. Seize it. Buy it. And borrow it. And yet time continues to elude too many couples. At the heart of this book is the Internet-based Time-Style Marriage Assessment, which helps you uncover your unique time style. Once you know your time style and that of your spouse, this book will show you how to leverage them for powerful results. Your Time-Starved Marriage helps you:
*Dispel the two lies every time-starved couple believes.
*Maximize the minutes that matter most in your marriage.
*Recoup the time you’ve been leaving on the table.
*Understand why “loving on borrowed time” is lethal to your love life.
*And discover how to “get a grip on the time of your life.”Your Time-Starved Marriage gives you tools to feed your time-starved relationship, maximizing the moments you have together and enjoying them more than you ever imagined.
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You Got This Dad
$14.99Add to cartWhat to Expect When You’re Your Wife Is Expecting
Pregnancy books for couples abound, but You Got This, Dad is just for guys. Aaron Sharp, a dad of four, draws from his experiences to help husbands, especially first-time dads, navigate the amazing, uncertain, and sometimes scary process of pregnancy and childbirth.
With self-deprecating honesty, plenty of humor, and amusing asides from his lovely wife, Elaina, Aaron steers soon-to-be dads through the complex events and emotions surrounding pregnancy. From finding out their spouse is expecting to bringing baby home, husbands will be equipped to handle whatever the next nine months (or their wife) throws at them.
Guys will receive not only practical guidance but also a better appreciation for God’s miraculous gift of a new life to care for. When they know what to expect and how to support their wife, new dads will gain confidence and learn to laugh at their foibles.
Give this guide to an expecting father with a reassuring smile and remind him, “You got this.”
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Keep The Doors Open
$15.99Add to cartWill You Open Your Heart and Home to Children in Need?
As a teenager, Kristin Berry had heard all the horror stories surrounding foster care and adoption–abuse, neglect, rejection, anger, and misunderstandings. But instead of closing her heart, God opened it wide.
This is Kristin’s honest, unvarnished story of her experiences as a foster parent of twenty-three children over the course of nine years.
What she learned is that living in a foster home is like living with a revolving door. You never know who will arrive or who you will have to say goodbye to. Leaving the door open means there will be heartache and pain, but also adventure and unexpected joy. Kristin and her husband, Mike, have been through it all in their unique parenting journey.
If you have ever wondered what it’s really like to be a foster parent, this book will help you gain a true understanding of the everyday trials and triumphs these moms and dads face. It will also inspire you to consider opening your door…and to leave it wide open.
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Marriage Triggers : Exchanging Spouses’ Angry Reactions For Gentle Biblical
$17.99Add to cartA husband-wife team offers practical advice for married couples to end the cycle of reactionary arguments by examining the most common issues that trigger disagreements and applying God’s Word to radically transform relationships.
Many couples know their marriage has room for improvement, but it is hard to pinpoint exactly why a relationship is suffering. Often times everyday triggers are the culprit. If you are wondering how to break out of the cycle of reactionary outbursts, cold shoulders, resentment, and pain that harms your relationship, you are not alone. Experiencing peace and joy rather than anger and frustration is not as hard as you think!
Marriage Triggers walks you through thirty-one of the most common marital issues that sabotage great relationships, like poor communication, lack of spiritual leadership, busy schedules, and different parenting styles. Married for fourteen years, authors Amber and Guy Lia are your typical couple and they share tips for countering negative reactions to triggers with gentle, biblical responses.
Rather than run from the things that cause conflict, Amber and Guy believe these triggers are opportunities for growth, both individually and as a couple. They challenge you to let Marriage Triggers renew your commitment to responding gently and biblically towards your partner.
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Us Against The World
$18.99Add to cartDavid and Tamela Mann have been married for thirty years, but the singers, actors, and entrepreneurs are just as, if not more than, happily in love as they were in the early days of their relationship. The couple relates the story of their first encounters as teenagers, the importance of communication, and how they’ve been able to keep that spark burning through all these years.
The Manns have delighted and inspired audiences through music and a string of plays and movies, as well as several television series: Meet the Browns, The Manns, and Mann & Wife. In Us Against the World they reveal their often hilarious and sometimes controversial interactions with each other as well as their blended family of five grown children and ten grandchildren, and how these relationships enrich their lives. Given their recording careers, touring, filming, and managing an outrageous family, the Manns share with readers the day-to-day challenges, successes, and joys that happen behind the scenes.
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Acceptance : What Brings And Keeps Lifelong Love
$19.99Add to cartDrawing from the latest research, top experts, and 25 years of experience helping couples, Jon R Anderson reveals what is at the core of what motivates us to desire a mate, and how those dynamics continue to play out for the duration of the relationship. The Acceptance will provide you with numerous “Ah-ha” moments and bring clarity to many practical ways you can actively bring about positive change and establish a relationship that will keep growing for a lifetime.
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Acceptance : What Brings And Keeps Lifelong Love
$32.99Add to cartDrawing from the latest research, top experts, and 25 years of experience helping couples, Jon R Anderson reveals what is at the core of what motivates us to desire a mate, and how those dynamics continue to play out for the duration of the relationship. The Acceptance will provide you with numerous “Ah-ha” moments and bring clarity to many practical ways you can actively bring about positive change and establish a relationship that will keep growing for a lifetime.
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When Mommies Cry
$14.99Add to cartWhen Mommies Cry details the journey of the author as she experiences the loss of her baby.
Beth Withers Banning delves deep into her soul to express lessons she learned from her first-hand knowledge of grief and offers life lessons to assist in the grieving process for mothers everywhere. Ms. Withers Banning takes the reader through a personal narrative of her experience and shares on every level the emotions, reactions, associations, and results that came from losing her newborn son. The author has provided a resource to bring about healing for grieving mothers.
In 2011, there were almost 24,000 known infant deaths in the United States and the average number of abortions per year is 1.06 million. Even more alarming, an estimated one in 75 conceptions miscarry, many of which create physical repercussions for the mother. These disturbing statistics expose the very real need for mothers who have lost or aborted a child. Millions of women are mourning in silence leaving their broken hearts vulnerable during the most susceptible time of their lives.
When Mommies Cry is a valuable resource for grieving mothers. Joyce Landorf Heatherly, Owner/Author of Balcony Publishing, states, “Not too many of us that have gone through the loss of a loved one are able to articulate and record the devastation and at the same time reach and comfort the point of pain in another’s grief filled heart. But Beth Withers Banning does exactly that in When Mommies Cry. I know as she did it for me even though my son David died in 1964.” Ms. Withers Banning puts in print what some women who have gone through losing a child only think in their darkest hour.
Women, as a whole, all want the same things–true happiness and fulfillment. When those things are threatened, lost, or severed in our lives, the journey back can be overwhelming. The author provides a step-by-step climb back to healing for the grieving mother.
Because we are created for community, providing a forum for mothers to learn and grow from one another’s experiences can also help bring healing and produce beauty for ashes. Grieving mothers are encouraged to share this website and take advantage of this FREE opportunity to not only work through their grief by sharing their own story but help others as well.
Feel free to contact Beth Withers Banning through her website to schedule a book signing or speaking engagement to support grieving mothers as they trek through this most devastating time of life. Ms. Wi
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When Your Kid Is Hurting
$19.00Add to cartAs parents, we have a strong impulse to protect our children, but that very protection can end up handicapping them for life. Rather than seek to save them from the hard things, we must teach our 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 a 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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Setting Boundaries With Your Adult Children
$14.99Add to cartThis important and compassionate new book from the creator of the successful God Allows U-Turns series will help parents and grandparents of the many adult children who continue to make life painful for their loved ones.
Writing from firsthand experience, Allison identifies the lies that kept her, and ultimately her son in bondage–and how she overcame them. Additional real life stories from other parents are woven through the text.
A tough-love book to help readers cope with dysfunctional adult children, Setting Boundaries(R) with Your Adult Children will empower families by offering hope and healing through S.A.N.I.T.Y.–a six-step program to help parents regain control in their homes and in their lives.
*S = STOP Enabling, STOP Blaming Yourself, and STOP the Flow of Money
*A = Assemble a Support Group
*N = Nip Excuses in the Bud
*I = Implement Rules/Boundaries
*T = Trust Your Instincts
*Y = Yield Everything to GodForeword by Carol Kent (When I Lay My Isaac Down)
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Raising Boys Who Respect Girls
$17.99Add to cartDave Willis, author, speaker, and father of four boys, talks biblically and practically about how to raise a generation of boys who are champions, encouragers, and respecters of women.
In the #metoo and #churchtoo era, with so many men and boys continuing to make the same mistakes, we have to ask: Where are we going wrong? And perhaps more importantly, how do we raise up men who will break this cycle?
As the father of four boys, relationship coach and author Dave Willis has studied this issue deeply, concluding that if we are to raise boys to respect girls—and not end up with men who say they respect women but whose actions reveal otherwise–we must go back to the heart of things. Or, more specifically, we must go back to our own hearts.
In Raising Boys Who Respect Girls, Willis helps readers inventory the blind spots that lead to accidental forms of disrespect, showing how to root out issues in our own hearts before we inadvertently pass along these same issues to our boys. He also teaches readers how to cultivate a healthy respect for God and for themselves as created in his image, as well as a similar respect for others. Full of scripture, research, age-specific tools, and conversation models, this book offers a practical strategy for mindful parents to first embody the right principles themselves and then teach them to their sons.
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Becoming Us : Using The Enneagram To Create A Thriving Gospel-Centered Marr
$24.99Add to cartBecoming Us is a wake-up call for couples who feel stagnant, revealing what happens when two people in a committed relationship risk seeing each other from a fresh perspective.
Couples often enter into marriage with a potentially harmful assumption: they assume they “know” themselves and their spouse. The reality is that whether a couple’s been married a few months or many decades, conflict and misunderstandings happen. Beth and Jeff McCord provide a glimpse into how the Enneagram, used from a biblical perspective, brings astonishing clarity to couples so they can break free from self-condemnation, fear and shame, by knowing and experiencing the unconditional love, forgiveness, and freedom they have in Christ. Beth and Jeff guide couples through discovering their Enneagram type and core motivations, as well as those of their spouse, gaining insight into how their family of origin shapes the way they relate to their spouse, and understanding what “assumicide” is and how to put a stop to it. Couples are made for an intimate and thriving marriage relationship. For those baffled by the person sleeping beside them and looking for an instruction manual, Becoming Us serves as a roadmap for couples to transform into the best versions of themselves–together.
