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Smart Stepfamily Participants Guide Revised And Updated (Student/Study Guide)
$14.00Add to cartGet the Most out of The Smart Stepfamily
Discover the key steps to building a healthy family with stepfamily expert Ron L. Deal. This interactive workbook is guaranteed to help you benefit from The Smart Stepfamily book and DVD. It includes:
– discussion questions for before and after each DVD session
– space to take notes
– bonus question and answer section
– group leader instructions
– guidelines for facilitating effective groupsThrough eight engaging sessions, you’ll learn useable solutions for everyday living and glean valuable insight and practical tips for becoming a smart stepfamily.
Ideal for small groups, premarital counseling, or personal study. Use with The Smart Stepfamily book (Revised and Expanded Edition) and Small-Group DVD Resource (Revised and Expanded Edition).
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Single Parent : Confident And Successful
$14.99Add to cartWhether you became a single parent through divorce, death, adoption, or some other situation, you’ve probably wondered what the future holds for you and your children. Will you be able to provide the emotional, financial, and spiritual support your family needs?
The Single Parent will encourage you in your journey and help avert problems before they arise. It is filled with wise counsel, biblical truth, and real-life stories–the author’s own as well as those of the many single moms and dads who have come across her path through the years. It will help you bolster your abilities in such areas as
– improving your child’s behavior
– negotiating boundaries
– graciously seeking and accepting help from others
– trusting God in the processGod cares for the single parent and will provide for you and your children. Let this book give you the tools you need as you walk with him in this journey.
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Heart Of The Caregiver
$16.99Add to cartAscender Books Title
As a long-hour caregiver, you face incredible stress: financial, emotional, and physical. Yet, in the midst of all that, God is gently calling you to come to Him. Come, so you no longer feel desperate and overwhelmed. Come, so you can discover the deep soul-satisfying meaning in your difficult work. Come, experience satisfaction, peace and joy like never before. The Heart of the Caregiver is the path to finding God’s heart in your unique situation. Diving into scripture that is relevant to all caregiving situations, fellow caregiver Mary Tutterow shares personal insights and Scripture passages that will help transform your perspective and purpose as you move from overwhelmed to overjoyed. Discover how you were made to love others through the care you provide. The Heart of the Caregiver is the first study in a ministry resource series dedicated to supporting caregivers by addressing issues specific to their spiritual needs. In addition to meeting the spiritual needs of caregivers, this two-part series aims to equip local churches with quality resources as they minister to these dynamic families.
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DIY Guide To Building A Family That Lasts
$13.99Add to cartTools for Renovating Your Relational Space
You know those home improvement shows where they take an ugly, run-down house and make it beautiful? Whether you like the shows or not, everybody loves seeing those moments of total transformation–the before and after picture, the dramatic reveal… Well, what if you could experience that kind of transformation in your family life? That’s what The DIY Guide to Building a Family that Lasts is all about.
In it, you’ll find practical tools for transforming your home life and dramatically improving your family’s culture from Shannon Warden and Gary Chapman. Plus, each step is paired with a home improvement metaphor that makes it fun and easy to remember. We all want to create an environment that our spouse and kids love to come home to, but how do we do it? Take your first steps with The DIY Guide to Building a Family that Lasts.
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Mama Bear Apologetics
$16.99Add to cart#RoarLikeAMother
The problem with lies is they don’t often sound like lies. Their attraction is their appeal. They seem harmless, and even sound right. So what’s a Mama Bear to do to protect her children and raise them in the truth?
Mama Bear Apologetics is the book you’ve been looking for. This mom-to-mom guide will equip you to teach your kids how to form their own beliefs about what is true and what is false. Through honest storytelling and practical application, this band of Mama Bears offers tools to train your kids how to spot the lie traps intended to trip them up and the steps to take to stand strong on God’s Word.
Are you ready to answer the rallying cry, “When you mess with our kids, we will demolish your arguments”? Join the Mama Bear movement and raise your voice to protect your kids.
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Tus Hijos Si Importan – (Spanish)
$14.99Add to cartTodos tenemos una historia, cada familia esta configurada de forma unica y especial por toda una serie de recuerdos y vivencias, que conforman nuestro sentido de identidad y pertenencia. Nuestra historia esta marcada por el testimonio de nuestra propia experiencia como hijos y en la gran mayoria de los casos tambien como padres. La vida nos moldea y va formando nuestro caracter utilizando para ello luces, pero tambien sombras, risas, pero tambien lagrimas, siendo el crisol de nuestro matrimonio y familia, el lugar idoneo donde se va forjando nuestra impronta familiar y el sello de nuestra propia herencia generacional. Este libro se estructura en tres partes principales: recibiendo, modelando, enviando. La idea principal en esta estructura planteada, es mentalizar a los padres de que los hijos no son nuestra propiedad, son regalos y encargos divinos que recibimos de Dios con la responsabilidad de modelar y consolidar principios de educacion y formacion en valores, que constituyan una lanzadera solida, para enviarlos a un mundo hostil equipados con las herramientas adecuadas.
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Cranky Mom Fix
$16.00Add to cartIf we’re honest with ourselves, almost every mom knows she can go from being kind to cranky in no time flat. When we’re tired, busy, anxious, preoccupied–okay, so anytime, really–we tend to default to snapping and barking at the people we love best. But life doesn’t have to be this way.
Through coaching other moms who share a desire to be a kinder, gentler parent, Becky Kopitzke has learned the keys to taming the “momster” in all of us. And in this grace-filled book, she will help you
– assess the triggers that spark your angry responses
– understand your children better so you can minimize frustrations
– learn gentle, effective responses to trying situations
– and much moreConsider The Cranky Mom Fix your personal battle plan to focus on who you are and how to wield God’s wisdom and strength in your family. With an extensive resource section of practical activities, tips, and self-assessment tools, this book will help you reclaim true peace for your soul and your home.
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ABCs Of Adoption
$20.95Add to cartGod sent his Son to the earth so that we may all be adopted into his loving arms. He showed us, through his perfect love, how adoption takes what is lost and makes it complete. ABC’s of Adoption is a playful book that helps children understand the beauty of God’s plan in their lives and how loved they truly are.
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Blessing : Giving The Gift Of Unconditional Love And Acceptance
$19.99Add to cartChildren of every age long for the gift of The Blessing–the unconditional love and approval that comes from a healthy relationship with their parents.
This life-changing gift for Christian parents and their children, essential for instilling a deep sense of self-worth and unshakable emotional well-being, contains five essential elements:
*meaningful touch
*a spoken message
*attaching high value
*picturing a special future
*an active commitmentOffering solid, practical advice and a fresh perspective on making this gift a bigger part of our families, The Blessing powerfully communicates these biblically based elements as necessary to prepare children for positive future relationships, including their relationship with a loving God.
New to this updated edition are:
*giving The Blessing to others in your circle of influence,
*practical application tools and stories of how this is lived out,
*insight and help for those who didn’t receive The Blessing,
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Fight Forward : Reclaim The Real You
$19.99Add to cartI’m not good enough. It’s my fault. I am alone. I am worthless. The voices and lies you give power to shape who you are and attempt to hijack your identity, twisting your perspective on God, family, career, church, and other relationships. Whose voice are you listening to?
You are a champion by God’s design. In Fight Forward, Brenda Crouch bravely shares her story of overcoming the abuse she suffered as a child and an adult. She offers practical solutions that will help you – find courage to dismantle the faade and embrace your true identity.
– break the cycle of a victim mindset and trust the power of God to set you free.
– discover the strength to say no to users and learn to recognize authentic love.
– ditch self-ambition and explore the wealth of your divine purpose.
– find your voice and help others heal.Be propelled into favor and fulfillment as you listen to God’s voice. He wants you to know the relevance of your authentic value and the unique purpose for which you were born.
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100 Way To Motivate Kids
$8.99Add to cart100 Ways to Motivate Kids offers challenging options for children ages 6 through 18 to engage with the world in relevant, creative ways. Dividing this guide by age group and subject area, Julie Polanco includes fresh ideas that help develop 21st century skills through fun, developmentally-appropriate experiences. In addition, 100 Ways encourages community involvement, a love for the environment, and an entrepreneurial spirit. No need to buy expensive kits or subscriptions because this pocket-sized book provides the same STEAM benefits at a fraction of the cost and includes the humanities.
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Powerful Prayers To Protect The Heart Of Your Child
$14.99Add to cartFROM BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF SATAN, YOU CAN’T HAVE MY CHILDREN
Expose your child to spiritual blessing, and protect them from spiritual attack.
This book will help you protect your children from evil assignments and show you how to tap into the supernatural protection of the Holy Spirit.
*Scripture-based categories help you target your most important needs
*Counsel and prayers for parents who are hurting and dismayed because of the adverse situations in their homes
*Declarations of faith will build your faith to believe God and to never stop believing for the protection and transformation of your childrenWe are involved in a war-a spiritual war in which Satan and his demons are attempting to break up our families and disrupt our children’s lives-that can be engaged in and won only with spiritual weapons. We cannot remain passive.
In this valuable and effective book Iris Delgado provides an indispensable guide for anyone who wants to win the spiritual battle being fought over their children. You’ll discover how to:
*Tap into the supernatural power of the Holy Spirit to protect your child
*Put a hedge of protection into action through specific and focused prayers
*Establish a spiritual security system in your home
*Become free from generational strongholds and cursesFilled with practical counsel and Scripture-based prayers, this powerful guide will give you confidence and faith to stand firm against the influences and attacks of the enemy.
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Dancing In The Kitchen
$14.99Add to cartDancing in the Kitchen is a lighthearted, yet honest look at what it takes to build lasting love in marriage, even through adversity.
As a Jazz recording artist, Debbie Cunningham has entertained couples with songs of love and romance for more than a decade. Married to her high school sweetheart for more than thirty years and unwilling to sit idly by while divorce rates climb in today’s society, she began writing songs about the journey and celebration of committed love. That writing led to her search for and gleaning wisdom from married couples who had gone through hard circumstances and stayed together, all to provide hope for other couples in their journey of making love last.
In Dancing in the Kitchen, Debbie shares her own marriage experience through seasons of grief and her daughter’s unexpected health issues, weaving in stories of other couples who have stayed together through infidelity, terminal illness, loss, infertility, addiction, and, in an unusual twist, even the journey of an arranged marriage. These couples have found connecting points that allowed them to stay in love and defeat the rising divorce statistic. Ultimately, every married couple has seasons of struggle, which can either bring a couple together or push them apart. With lighthearted candor, Dancing in the Kitchen reveals to readers how to cultivate connection with their spouse in the hard seasons and stay in love for a lifetime.
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What A Great Word For Moms
$15.00Add to cartWHAT A GREAT WORD FOR MOMS is a unique gift book that offers inspiring devotional thoughts, literary quotes, Scriptures and prayers, all built around key Bible words. Each word is intended to encourage, challenge, and bless those who are moms at any age and stage.
Readers will discover words meant to be pondered and digested, each one offering a fresh, new perspective on a biblical word as it applies to motherhood. Each word will inspire the hearts of moms and help them remember that God is with them wherever they may be.
WHAT A GREAT WORD FOR MOMS offers encouragement for the hearts and minds of moms, grandmothers, and those who are like a mom to others, giving them a new opportunity to draw closer to God. -
Let Love Go Forward
$15.99Add to cartWhen a person’s “love bucket” of appreciation and encouragement is empty, they don’t have much to give.
What is the secret to a lasting marriage? What makes it good? How can a couple overcome rough patches? Could your marriage use a “booster shot”?
Let Love Go Forward brings to life the dynamics of the marital relationship, both the good times and the difficult. Beginning with the bonding phase, referred to as “The Chase,” former marriage and family counselor Terry Olsen explains the pitfalls and potholes that can sour a relationship to the point of going off the rails with a flatline pulse and the pilot light of the soul all but diminished. Filled with relatable examples (included lessons learned from Olsen’s failed first marriage), Let Love Go Forward offers practical helps, encouragement, and positive resolutions to get struggling marriages back on track. With the help of discussion questions, couples will gain a hopeful outlook for their days ahead, and hope is a powerful ally.
This is the ideal book for young couples and those who need a reminder that there is hope for a more nurturing marriage.
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Male And Female Made In Gods Image
$42.95Add to cartIn this era of distorted ideas about our inherent roles, identities, and purposes as men and women, it has never been as important that we seek reconciliation in marriage and families so there can be a more rational approach to the real problems the whole world suffers. We must disseminate God’s truth and extinguish the lies and myths that Satan has embedded into the hearts and minds of many people.
Building on these ideas, in Male and Female Made in God’s Image, author Frances O’Dair offers her perspective on dating, marriage, and family, which she believes reflects the experiences of most married couples before the sexual revolution of the 1960s. She encourages men and women to reflect on the wise or self-serving natures of their past dating and mating choices. If we can stop the reckless self-gratifying use of human sexuality with our children, our loving direction and understanding of God’s truth can set them free from the temptations that have been passed down to recent generations. We must be ready to admit that sexual freedom is a myth and isn’t intended for the well-being of men, women, children, and the unborn.
This faith-inspired treatise explores the true source of happiness, meaning, and fulfilment that God has planned for everyone within the sacrament of marriage and the family circle.
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Trading Places Workbook For Women
$10.99Add to cartSlip on his shoes and see where they lead you. Have you been spending a lot of time stepping on your husband’s toes? Maybe it’s time you put yourself in his shoes. Trading Places: The Best Move You’ll Ever Make in Your Marriage is part of the key to winning much, much more from your relationship with your husband–more understanding, more laughter, and yes, more loving. Using this workbook as you read Trading Places will help make sure you get it right. Bestselling authors Drs. Les and Leslie Parrott wrote this workbook to help you make the most of the little-known secrets of putting the time-tested strategy of trading places to work in your marriage. Packed with practical helps and tips you’ve never thought of, you’ll learn the simple, three-step strategy to trading places and, as a result, you’re sure to:Increase your levels of passionBolster your commitmentEliminate naggingShort-circuit conflictDouble your laughterForgive more quicklyTalk more intimatelyUse the workbook to drill down through the three crucial steps to trading places–you’ll find self-tests, journals, even exercises to do together with your husband. Specific suggestions for practicing empathy make learning easier–and it’s all tied to the book. When you’re done you’ll be prepared to experience “the intimate dance of trading places.” And you’ll have learned a skill that will make your marriage more rewarding–and more exciting–than you ever thought possible.
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Trading Places Workbook For Men
$10.99Add to cartStop stepping on her toes and learn how to dance. Have you been spending a lot of time stepping on your wife’s toes? Maybe it’s time you put yourself in her shoes. Trading Places: The Best Move You’ll Ever Make in Your Marriage is part of the key to winning much, much more from your relationship with your wife–more understanding, more laughter, and yes, more loving. Using this workbook as you read Trading Places will help make sure you get it right. Bestselling authors Drs. Les and Leslie Parrott wrote this workbook to help you make the most of the little-known secrets of putting the time-tested strategy of trading places to work in your marriage. Packed with practical helps and tips you’ve never thought of, you’ll learn the simple, three-step strategy to trading places and, as a result, you’re sure to:Increase your levels of passion Bolster your commitment Eliminate nagging Short-circuit conflict Double your laughter Forgive more quickly Talk more intimately Use the workbook to drill down through the three crucial steps to trading places–you’ll find self-tests, journals, even exercises to do together with your wife. Specific suggestions for practicing empathy make learning easier–and it’s all tied to the book. When you’re done you’ll be prepared to experience “the intimate dance of trading places.” And you’ll have learned a skill that will make your marriage more rewarding–and more exciting–than you ever thought possible.
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Smart Stepmom : Practical Steps To Help You Thrive
$18.00Add to cartStepfamily experts Ron L. Deal and Laura Petherbridge show you how to survive and thrive as a stepmom, including how to be a positive influence on the children and how to deal with conflict, as well as practical issues like dealing with holidays and between-home communication.
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Intimate Connection : Secrets To A Lifelong Romance
$19.00Add to cartCreating a happy, lifelong marriage is about much more than physical compatibility. It’s about a lifestyle of 24-7 intimacy that bonds couples in a mutually satisfying relationship. In The Intimate Connection, bestselling marriage expert Dr. Kevin Leman explores key secrets to the love life couples crave. He helps readers:
– understand each other’s needs, backgrounds, and personalities (and how those factors influence every marital interaction)
– talk so their spouse really listens
– turn negative game
-playing into positive behaviors that help couples grow closer
– create deep, long-lasting intimacy that’s divorce
-proofWhether couples are new to marriage or have been married a long time, Dr. Leman’s time-tested strategies will create the kind of exciting intimacy, mutual respect, and fulfilling communication that will keep husbands and wives in each other’s arms for a lifetime.
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Shiny Things : Mothering On Purpose In A World Of Distractions
$16.99Add to cartCalling All Moms…
When the glow of pregnancy wears off and a constant stream of distractions claim your attention, it’s easy to get sidetracked from the all-important role of Mom.
Enter Shiny Things. Written by two moms who know that motherhood is most definitely not always buckets of rainbows and big bouquets of daisies–that real-life mothering calls for responsibility, intentionality, and a whole lot of sacrifice. This book examines the joys and difficulties that walk hand-in-hand with parenthood. It will help you evaluate what is truly important and show you how you can live out your calling as a mom, present and engaged.
Just because motherhood is hard doesn’t mean it’s not also good, beautiful, and totally worthwhile. There will always be hard moments that will bring you to your knees, but there will also always be God.
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Long Distance Grandparenting
$12.00Add to cartYour heart aches for your grandchildren, even if you don’t get many chances to see them in person. You deeply want them to know how much God loves them, to grow in their relationship with him, and to make wise, God-honoring decisions. The good news is, just because you can’t spend as much time with them as you’d like, that doesn’t mean you can’t have a huge impact on their lives!
In Long-Distance Grandparenting you’ll learn how to make the most of the opportunities you do have to connect with your grandchildren, including using technology to keep your relationship strong and taking advantage of the time you have together.
But going beyond your relationship with your grandkids, this book emphasizes something that matters even more–your grandchild’s relationship with God. Find the encouragement and guidance to connect with your grandchildren and invest in their faith like never before!
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Love Is Patient Love Is Kind
$17.99Add to cartAn Althea Press Title
Your faith can heal your marriage.
In marriage and in life, there are times that test our strength and commitment to ourselves, our partners and our faith. Know this-you can overcome any obstacle when you turn to the true source of healing. This marriage devotional reminds you of the promises you made to each other and God on your wedding day-and shows you how live these promises.
April and Aaron Jacob’s marriage devotional invites you and your spouse to take time each week to deepen your connection to each other and Christ. With compassionate guidance from the scriptures, you’ll find resolution to tough issues and build a strong marriage with Christ at the center.
In this marriage devotional, you’ll find:
*52 weekly devotionals- Reconnect with your spouse using quotes from the scriptures, questions for guided discussions, and weekly exercises.
*Scripture in real life-Tackle trouble like trust, forgiveness, money, communication and all the travails of daily life with God’s words to guide you.
*Rebuild and restart-Re-commit to growing your faith and the bonds of your relationship with each marriage devotional.“Love never gives up; and its faith, hope and patience never fail.”-Corinthians 13:7. Rediscover the unwavering power of love and faith with this marriage devotional.
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Powerful Prayers For Your Son
$12.00Add to cartParents know that their children need their prayers. But sometimes, they aren’t sure where to start. For moms and dads who long to lift their kids up in prayer, Powerful Prayers for Your Daughter and Powerful Prayers for Your Son offer hope, encouragement, and practical help.
Rob and Joanna Teigen assure parents that just because they don’t always understand their son or daughter, that doesn’t mean that God doesn’t. Collecting specific prayers parents can use, along with stories from other parents about how God has answered their prayers, Rob and Joanna give readers a strong foundation to build a lifelong habit of praying for their kids. They also explain what boys and girls need to learn as they grow up, including character, courage, modesty, self-control, forgiveness, and more, so parents can pray for every part of their kids’ lives.
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Powerful Prayers For Your Daughter
$15.00Add to cartParents know that their children need their prayers. But sometimes, they aren’t sure where to start. For moms and dads who long to lift their kids up in prayer, Powerful Prayers for Your Daughter and Powerful Prayers for Your Son offer hope, encouragement, and practical help.
Rob and Joanna Teigen assure parents that just because they don’t always understand their son or daughter, that doesn’t mean that God doesn’t. Collecting specific prayers parents can use, along with stories from other parents about how God has answered their prayers, Rob and Joanna give readers a strong foundation to build a lifelong habit of praying for their kids. They also explain what boys and girls need to learn as they grow up, including character, courage, modesty, self-control, forgiveness, and more, so parents can pray for every part of their kids’ lives.
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Overcoming Grandparenting Barriers
$12.00Add to cartEven under the best circumstances, it takes time and intention to disciple grandchildren and pass on a legacy of faith. So how much harder is the assignment in a family experiencing fractures such as divorce, estrangement, or prodigals? How are grandparents to reach grandchildren for Christ when there are such barriers? In Overcoming Grandparenting Barriers, Larry Fowler, founder of the Legacy Coalition, offers a helpful guide to influencing grandchildren’s spiritual lives even in the most discouraging and hurtful situations, such as when- an adult child is not following the Lord- grandchildren are not being raised by the adult child and access to them is limited- grandparents are prohibited from addressing spiritual matters when they visit their grandchildrenOvercoming Grandparenting Barriers provides guidance and strategies along with encouragement for grandparents to persevere–to understand that they are not alone and that their role is too crucial to give up on reaching the next generation for Christ.
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Raising Giant Killers Leaders Guide (Teacher’s Guide)
$17.00Add to cartWith honesty, humor, and keen biblical insight, bestselling authors Bill and Beni Johnson help you discover the keys to successful parenting in God’s kingdom. “Parents, we rule for the purpose of protection, but we also serve with the purpose of empowering,” they write. “We want to release our children into their destiny–that’s the privilege of parenting.”
In these pages you will gain the wisdom, kingdom concepts, and practical tools you need to help raise your children to their best.
You’ll discover how to parent to their uniqueness, gifts, and strengths, as well as how you can demonstrate and reveal who God is to your kids. The authors also address pressing issues parents face today, including how to:
*be fully engaged in hearing what the Lord is saying over each child
*maintain relationship and discipline
*develop character
*train your children for worship
*fan the flame of what God has put in their hearts
*and moreNo matter what age your kids are, you have an incredible opportunity to shape their hearts, minds, and values. Here is everything you need to help your children walk into the destiny of their lives and see them become the awesome people they were created to be.
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Male And Female Made In Gods Image
$27.95Add to cartIn this era of distorted ideas about our inherent roles, identities, and purposes as men and women, it has never been as important that we seek reconciliation in marriage and families so there can be a more rational approach to the real problems the whole world suffers. We must disseminate God’s truth and extinguish the lies and myths that Satan has embedded into the hearts and minds of many people.
Building on these ideas, in Male and Female Made in God’s Image, author Frances O’Dair offers her perspective on dating, marriage, and family, which she believes reflects the experiences of most married couples before the sexual revolution of the 1960s. She encourages men and women to reflect on the wise or self-serving natures of their past dating and mating choices. If we can stop the reckless self-gratifying use of human sexuality with our children, our loving direction and understanding of God’s truth can set them free from the temptations that have been passed down to recent generations. We must be ready to admit that sexual freedom is a myth and isn’t intended for the well-being of men, women, children, and the unborn.
This faith-inspired treatise explores the true source of happiness, meaning, and fulfilment that God has planned for everyone within the sacrament of marriage and the family circle.
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Raising Giant Killers Participants Guide (Student/Study Guide)
$18.99Add to cartWith honesty, humor, and keen biblical insight, bestselling authors Bill and Beni Johnson help you discover the keys to successful parenting in God’s kingdom. “Parents, we rule for the purpose of protection, but we also serve with the purpose of empowering,” they write. “We want to release our children into their destiny–that’s the privilege of parenting.”
In these pages you will gain the wisdom, kingdom concepts, and practical tools you need to help raise your children to their best.
You’ll discover how to parent to their uniqueness, gifts, and strengths, as well as how you can demonstrate and reveal who God is to your kids. The authors also address pressing issues parents face today, including how to:
*be fully engaged in hearing what the Lord is saying over each child
*maintain relationship and discipline
*develop character
*train your children for worship
*fan the flame of what God has put in their hearts
*and moreNo matter what age your kids are, you have an incredible opportunity to shape their hearts, minds, and values. Here is everything you need to help your children walk into the destiny of their lives and see them become the awesome people they were created to be.
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Considering Others : Good Manners To Glorify God – A Biblical And Practical
$14.99Add to cartGood manners and etiquette begin in the home, or wherever a child is taught or mentored. From an early age, children learn how to behave, and as they grow, how to interact in their relationships at school, church, and in their communities. Though etiquette varies between cultures, practicing good manners is a kindness that extends across cultures, because the way we treat one another matters.
We want to raise and train our children in safe, healthy environments, but the daily encounters of a fallen world make it challenging. Much has been written on good etiquette, but this practical, captivating book points readers to Jesus Christ as the Lord and the Holy Spirit as the Teacher of good manners, clearly illustrating that the Bible is the Life Manual for good behavior that comes from God’s heart.
From biblical examples to personal examples, reflection verses and practical steps, and prayers and Scriptures to pray over children, Considering Others: Good Manners to Glorify God will help parents, teachers, and mentors shape and develop godly character and good manners in children so they may lead healthy, successful adult lives in their sphere of influence around the world. And there’s plenty of takeaways for adults too!
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Doing Life With Your Adult Children
$19.99Add to cartIf you have an adult child, you know that parenting doesn’t stop when a child reaches the age of eighteen. In many ways, it gets more complicated. Both your heart and your head are as involved as ever, whether your child lives under your roof or rarely stays in contact.
In Doing Life with Your Adult Children, parenting expert Jim Burns helps you navigate the toughest and the most rewarding parts of parenting your grown kids. Speaking from his own personal and professional experience, Burns offers practical answers to questions such as these:
-Is it OK to give advice to my grown child?
-What’s the difference between enabling and helping?
-What boundaries should I have if my child moves back home?
-What do I do when my child doesn’t seem to be maturing into adulthood?
-How do I relate to my grown child’s significant other?
-What does it mean to have healthy financial boundaries?
-How can I support my grown children when I don’t support their values?Including positive principles on bringing kids back to faith, ideas on how to leave a legacy as a grandparent, and encouragement for every changing season, Doing Life with Your Adult Children is a unique book on your changing role in a calling that never ends.
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Communication Sex And Money (Reprinted)
$14.99Add to cartThree Essential Elements to Build Relationships that Last!
Most men would do almost anything to overcome their three primary problems in relationships with women. Communication, Sex & Money has solid solutions for all three. Filled with everyday examples, the book will teach readers how to defeat difficulties and create a satisfying, peace-filled, and long-lasting marriage.
For years, men have called this Christian bestseller the “sex and money” book, while wives have bought it for husbands in hopes of improving communication. Whatever the motivation, thousands of men have turned their relationships around by applying these time-proven patterns and principles.
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In Sickness And In Health
$15.99Add to cartAre you sick and tired of being sick and tired?
Fear can make our hearts race and our palms sweat. So why is it so hard for us to see the connection between our physical health and our emotional well-being?
If your emotional pain feels physical and your physical pain feels emotional, your marriage may be making you sick–literally. Join Dr. David Hawkins and his sons, an internist and a surgeon, as they explore the effects relational stress and trauma can have on our bodies. You will learn to . . .
recognize the connection between emotional and physical pain embrace the power of choice to become empowered by hope find a path forward to ultimate healing and regain your life
No matter what kind of pain you’re experiencing, or how long your health has been in decline, you don’t have to stay stuck. Discover hope and healing when you take control of your life. -
Raising White Kids
$19.99Add to cartWith a foreword by Tim Wise, Raising White Kids is for families, churches, educators, and communities who want to equip their children to be active and able participants in a society that is becoming one of the most racially diverse in the world while remaining full of racial tensions. For white people who are committed to equity and justice, living in a nation that remains racially unjust and deeply segregated creates unique conundrums. These conundrums begin early in life and impact the racial development of white children in powerful ways. What can we do within our homes, communities and schools? Should we teach our children to be “colorblind”? Or, should we teach them to notice race? What roles do we want to equip them to play in addressing racism when they encounter it? What strategies will help our children learn to function well in a diverse nation? Talking about race means naming the reality of white privilege and hierarchy. How do we talk about race honestly, then, without making our children feel bad about being white? Most importantly, how do we do any of this in age-appropriate ways? While a great deal of public discussion exists in regard to the impact of race and racism on children of color, meaningful dialogue about and resources for understanding the impact of race on white children are woefully absent. Raising White Kids steps into that void.
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Parenting Forward : How To Raise Children With Justice, Mercy, And Kindness
$23.99Add to cartA progressive Christian parenting book with a social-justice orientation
How do we build a better world? One key way, says Cindy Wang Brandt, is by learning to raise our children with justice, mercy, and kindness.
In Parenting Forward Brandt equips Christian parents to model a way of following Jesus that has an outward focus, putting priority on loving others, avoiding judgment, and helping those in need. She shows how parents must work on dismantling their own racial, cultural, gender, economic, and religious biases in order to avoid passing them on to their children. “By becoming aware of the complex ways we participate in systems of inequality or hierarchy,” she says, “we begin to resist systemic injustice ourselves, empower our children, and change our communities.”
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Keep Showing Up
$18.99Add to cartIt is true that opposites attract–for a while. But often as the years go by in our marriages, opposites may also begin to attack. The habits and characteristics we once found endearing about our significant other are the exact things that drive us crazy years later!
Whether you and your spouse disagree about finances, parenting, or how to load the dishwasher, your differences don’t need to divide you. They can actually bring you closer together–and closer to God.
In Keep Showing Up, Karen Ehman shows you…
-How to play to each other’s strengths as you work on your own weaknesses
-The difference between having a soul mate and having a sole mate
-How to become a faithful forgiver who also forgets
-Strategies for avoiding the social media comparison trap
-Why it’s dangerous to mimic a friend’s marriage
-How to unearth the magic in the mundane
-Why a spouse who drives you crazy can drive you straight to JesusThroughout Keep Showing Up, Karen includes ideas to implement in your marriage right now, such as powerful statements to speak to your spouse, date-night-on-a-shoestring suggestions, and discussion starters. Discover how your “incompatibility” can become the strength of your marital team in this real-life guide to both living with and loving your spouse–differences and all.
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Winning The Heart Of Your Child
$17.00Add to cartMany of us enter parenthood with a perfect vision of what our family will be. But along the way we discover that the children we’ve been blessed with are real human beings, with their own minds, ideals, and views of the world. Our influence only goes so far, and when those children reach the pre-teen and teenage years, it may seem to have disappeared completely. Yet at no time in a kid’s life is their parents’ positive, godly influence more critical.
For parents who are concerned that their child is pulling away, following poor role models, or making choices that will lead to pain and difficulty, Mike Berry has good news: it’s not too late. He offers parents six keys to maximizing and leveraging their influence to help their children through these difficult years and develop a relationship with them that can weather any storm.
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Naked Marriage : Undressing The Truth About Sex, Intimacy And Lifelong Love
$14.99Add to cart“Now the man and his wife were both naked, but they felt no shame.” (Genesis 2:25)
Imagine a marriage with complete intimacy, vulnerability, transparency and trust. Imagine a marriage rooted in faith, friendship and mutual fulfillment. Imagine a marriage with amazing sex, but where great sex is only the icing on the cake. This might all sound too good to be true, but it’s actually what God designed marriage to be, and He doesn’t want you settling for anything less.
Having a “Naked Marriage’ is about much more than just nakedness in the bedroom (although that’s part of the fun). It means being naked emotionally and spiritually as well as physically. It also means undressing all the misconceptions our culture has used to cover God’s original, beautiful design for marriage and rediscovering all marriage can be. You and your spouse can have a thriving, Naked Marriage with a lifetime of love and laughter together. This book will show you how.
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Life And Faith Field Guide For Parents
$19.99Add to cartLearn How to Teach Your Kids the Skills They Need
“Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.” Proverbs 22:6
As a Christian parent, you want your children to develop good character and godly wisdom. But how do you go beyond hoping and praying to teaching them ethical knowledge, practical skills, and virtuous habits?
This innovative guide will not only identify 50 faith and character-building concepts your children need to know, but it will help you quickly learn and effectively teach these skills to your kid.
Help your child learn to
engage with the Bible and culture interact with God and others make good decisions become a better learner manage conflict
…and much more.Once you learn these concepts and how to teach them, you will be able to successfully shape the character and worldview of your child or teenager.
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Ready Or Knot
$16.99Add to cartThe wedding day is just one day in the life of a couple. But God’s design is for marriage to last a lifetime. So how can someone know that the person they’re with is the one they can truly build a life with–especially when so few marriages around them work?
Pastor Scott Kedersha has worked with more than 5,000 premarital couples to prepare them for the biggest decision of their lives. In Ready or Knot? he offers practical and Christ-centered guidance for couples for all of the days after the wedding day. Through authentic stories from real couples about the decisions they made (or wish they’d made), Scott asks the hard questions so his readers can break free from the watered-down Hollywood version of marriage and build their lives together on the right foundation–the unchanging Word of God.
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Emptied : Experiencing The Fullness Of A Poured Out Marriage
$14.99Add to cartFor a Marriage That Brims Over
Maybe you entered marriage with some pretty high expectations–most couples do. Jonathan and Wynter Pitts did. Until the reality of married life spilled into their expectations.
Jonathan and Wynter invite you on a journey to explore a different approach to your happily-ever-after marriage. They have navigated the ups and downs of early marriage, while raising four daughters, and learned it is only when they are emptied of their own self-focused motivations that God can pour new life into each of them to bless their marriage.
Here you will…
be encouraged to remove the pressure of a keeping-up-with-the-Jones’s marriage learn to let go of assumptions and embrace your role as servant-leader to your spouse experience how God can pour His purpose, passion, and fullness into your relationship
Emptied is a way of life. It’s not about trying harder, it’s about thinking differently. Are you ready to approach your marriage poured out, ready to be filled up? -
10 Choices Successful Couples Make
$17.00Add to cartMost books on marriage rightly address communication and conflict as key issues, then advise readers on how to fight fair since conflict is an inevitable reality and cannot be avoided. But Dr. Ron Welch asks the provocative question, Is it? Is every marriage doomed to one conflict after another? Shouldn’t we expect better than that?
In this practical and encouraging book, Welch offers a far more positive approach to marriage, outlining 10 specific choices couples can make to minimize or even avoid conflict and increase joy. With his expert guidance, couples will learn how to employ proven strategies to
– communicate accurately and positively
– choose forgiveness over unforgiveness
– understand their marriage type
– and make decisions more effectivelyWhether they are engaged, newly married, or have been married for decades, couples will find that this book will transform their relationship.
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14 Keys To Lasting Love
$19.99Add to cartDiscover the 14 secrets to a lasting and loving marriage.In this fresh, insightful marriage book, Dr. Kim talks directly to couples, showing you that marriage isn’t just meant to make you happy but to make you holy. Over the years, through his ministry, he’s conducted countless couples surveys. He knows what you struggle with and what areas of marriage scare you. He knows what you want and what you don’t want. By looking at 14 major areas of marriage, Dr. Kim shows couples how to stay on the right track. Through chapters on empathy, personal health, conflict behavior, talking, intimacy, sex, and more, you’ll learn how to have the happy, connected marriage you’ve dreamed of.This book will change your marriage, and it will most certainly change you. If you want to know God and love more deeply in this life, 14 KEYS TO LASTING LOVE will show you how to do that.
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Love Talk : Speak Each Other’s Language Like You Never Have Before
$18.99Add to cartLove Talk is like no other communication book you’ve ever read. The fruit of years of research by two foremost relationship experts (who also happen to be husband and wife), this book forges a new path to the heart of loving conversation. You’ll begin by identifying your security need and determining your personal communication style. Then you’ll put together everything you discover to learn how the two of you can speak each other’s language like never before.
This very day, you can begin an adventure in communication that will draw the two of you closer, and closer, and closer…consistently, in a way that creates the depth and connection you long for in your relationship.
Love Talk includes:
*The all-new Deep Love Assessment
*The secret to emotional connection
*When not to talk
*A Communications 101 primer
*Practical help for the “silent partner”Designed for use with the companion men’s and women’s Love Talk workbooks (sold separately).
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Biblical Grandparenting : Exploring Gods Design For Disciple Making And Pas
$17.00Add to cartMany powerful voices are influencing our grandchildren, from those at home and in their schools to those in the world of entertainment and media. What can you as a grandparent do to speak wisdom and godliness into their lives?
Grandparenting gives you a biblical foundation for investing spiritually in your grandkids, walking you through the principles of influencing them for Christ–from sharing with unbelieving grandkids to discipling them into a mature faith. This book is perfect for individual use, small groups, or Sunday school classes. A Grandparenting DVD is available that features eight family ministry experts with over six hours of video content.
Two other resources are also available:
Biblical Grandparenting is a full-length leadership book that places grandparenting
ministry on a firm scriptural foundation. It is ideal for pastors and church leaders as
well as for use in the classroom at seminaries.Equipping Grandparents is a brief book to teach pastors how to begin a grandparenting ministry in their church.
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Grandparenting : Strengthening Your Family And Passing On Your Faith
$18.00Add to cartMany powerful voices are influencing our grandchildren, from those at home and in their schools to those in the world of entertainment and media. What can you as a grandparent do to speak wisdom and godliness into their lives? Grandparenting gives you a biblical foundation for investing spiritually in your grandkids, walking you through the principles of influencing them for Christ–from sharing with unbelieving grandkids to discipling them into a mature faith. This book is perfect for individual use, small groups, or Sunday school classes. A Grandparenting DVD is available that features eight family ministry experts with over six hours of video content.
Two other resources are also available:
Biblical Grandparenting is a full-length leadership book that places grandparenting ministry on a firm scriptural foundation. It is ideal for pastors and church leaders as well as for use in the classroom at seminaries.Equipping Grandparents is a brief book to teach pastors how to begin a grandparenting ministry in their church.
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Crucibles Fire : A Story Of God’s Faithfulness
$14.99Add to cartThe Crucible’s Fire” paints a picture of God’s steadfast love through trials as he holds one family in the loving and protective crucible of his faithfulness. Strengthen your own trust in God’s refining faithfulness as you join this family through the joys and pains of raising a special needs child.
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Learnable Moments For Moms
$13.99Add to cartErin Greneaux Title
Meet my daughters, Maya and Everly. Maya is a headstrong two year old, leaping into the adventure of each day with enthusiasm and her fair share of strong-willed tantrums. Her baby sister, Everly, is all smiles, giggles, and pure joy! For 100 days, we will step into Maya’s shoes (if we can find them!) and see what we can learn as moms about God’s relationship with us, his will for our lives, and how we can continue to grow in following him.
As moms we are constantly on the lookout for teachable moments with our kids, but this book will help us identify the many learnable moments that God places in our lives every day. The world around us, complete with the chaos of raising children, is the very classroom that God wants to use to connect us to him. It may be a feat to get out of the house without something sticky on our clothes, but that doesn’t mean we can’t have a growing, challenging, and life-giving personal relationship with God.
Learnable Moments for Moms will help women recognize God at work in the everyday routine of motherhood, learn how to apply scripture in a practical way, and celebrate even frustrating situations as opportunities to grow. This devotional will have moms laughing at Maya’s mistakes as well as learning from their own. Allow Maya and Everly to draw out the childlike joy and faith of the little girl inside you as you seek God in this unique season of motherhood.
Each day includes:
*Relatable Story from Motherhood
*Biblical Scripture
*Practical Application
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Surrendered Hearts : An Adoption Story Of Love, Loss, And Learning To Trust
$14.99Add to cartA lifetime of knowing. Decades of praying. Years of paperwork, research, and planning. Lots of tears. And the growing of faith in the waiting.
One look into a pair of sparkling brown eyes, and Lori and Bryan Schumaker fell head-over-heels in love with a beautiful young girl in Bulgaria. Certain this was the child God intended for them, they stepped confidently into the adoption process they’d been preparing for. They thought they knew what to expect, and they did–but there was so much more.
The application process moved smoothly ahead, and they began making plans for their daughter–only to be informed she’d been adopted by a family in Italy. Heartbroken, they struggled to move on, until, through a series of incredible events, they learned their daughter still languished in her Bulgarian orphanage. Turning heaven and earth, the Schumakers started over. Mix-ups, red tape, inexplicable delays, and a difficult judge threatened the adoption, but they were determined to bring their child home.
In a true story of learning that trust means surrendering your version of how the story should unfold, Lori and Bryan finally let go–of their dream, of their daughter, of their fears and frustrations. And in that relinquishment, God began to move.
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Amor Como Ese – (Spanish)
$14.99Add to cartEncuentra la senda revolucionaria que lleva al exito en el reto humano supremo: amar de verdad a las demas personas. En este nuevo libro pionero, el doctor Les Parrott, autor superventas numero uno del New York Times entrelaza los profundos conocimientos de la teologia, la psicologia y la sociologia para mostrarles a los creyentes corrientes como cambiar sus relaciones de forma radical.
Psicologo y experto en relaciones, el Dr. Les Parrott proporciona un camino revolucionario al exito en el desafio humano supremo: amar de verdad a las demas personas. Seamos sinceros. Cuantas veces no has dado la talla como buen amigo, como padre o madre sabio/a, o como conyuge abnegado/a, porque no has amado -amado de verdad- al mas alto nivel? Es duro. Estamos sujetos al fracaso. El liston esta demasiado alto, sobre todo si aspiras a amar como Jesus. Sin embargo, no es imposible.
En este libro, el Dr. Parrott toma los ultimos descubrimientos de la sociologia y la psicologia y los mezcla con el entendimiento biblico para revelar formas practicas y, con frecuentica, contraintuitivas de amar como nunca antes. Los desglosa en cinco factores -ser considerado, ser abordable, ser un dador de gracia, ser vulnerable y ser empatico-, y muestra como practicarlos en la vida diaria. El resultado hara que te sientas profundamente realizado y que tengas relaciones significativas con casi cualquier persona con la que te encuentres, pero sobre todo en aquellas relaciones que mas importan.
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New Every Day
$18.00Add to cartAlzheimer’s. It barges into your life, breaks your heart, bewilders your mind, disrupts your plans, impacts your finances, and consumes enormous amounts of time and energy. When someone you love has Alzheimer’s, you need more than just information on the disease–you need a break. You need a laugh. You need a friend by your side who knows exactly what you’re going through.
Award-winning humorist Dave M. Meurer is that friend. Packed with practical information–like how to get the DMV to take away the car keys or how you shouldn’t insist on correcting your loved one’s misperceptions–and plenty of true stories from his own experiences navigating life with a loved one who suffers from Alzheimer’s, New Every Day offers hard-earned wisdom and even some badly needed comic relief for readers journeying down this difficult road. With compassion born of experience, Meurer helps caregivers develop the ability to relax, adapt, and even sometimes laugh again.
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Heart Of Marriage
$14.99Add to cartThe best marriages are not necessarily the most perfect and picturesque. Marriage is about walking together through all of life’s ups and downs, its challenges and triumphs. And no relationship offers more chances for personal and spiritual growth, love and support, and just plain fun.
Collecting true stories from some of today’s best writers, Dawn Camp offers readers a chance to sit back and reflect on the heart of marriage. With beautiful photographs and poignant prose, this collection is a great gift for the bride-to-be, the couple celebrating a significant anniversary, or for any time readers need a lift. Contributors include Holley Gerth, Kristen Welch, Emily Wierenga, Renee Swope, and many more.
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Unexpected Blessings : The Joys And Possibilities Of Life In A Special Need
$17.00Add to cartUnexpected Blessings helps special-needs families move past the pain and confusion of their circumstances and slowly, firmly face the future with hope. Speaking honestly about struggles that accompany a variety of disabilities, Sandra Peoples shows readers how to
– let go of false beliefs that hold them back
– work through the cycles of grief
– focus on self-care and healthy routines
– understand disability based on what the Bible says
– rebuild a strong faith foundation
– create support systems for themselves and others
Filled with real-life stories and hard-earned wisdom, this book shines a light on the possibilities and blessings that come when parents see their new purpose in life–which was God’s purpose for them all along. -
Defending Your Marriage
$18.99Add to cartIntroduction: When Your Marriage Is A Target
1. The First Step: Making Sense Of Our Adversary
2. Why Would Satan Care About My Marriage?
3. How Can I Tell If This Is Spiritual Warfare?
4. The Serpent Was Crafty: Understanding The Tactics Of Satan
5. Fighting Back: Utilizing Our Spiritual Protection
6. Prayer: Energizing Our Spiritual Protection
7. Taking The Devil’s Perspective: Insights From C. S. Lewis
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
NotesAdditional Info
Is your marriage under attack?Sometimes it can feel like the world is trying to tear your marriage apart. Internal conflicts or external pressures might make you wonder if something sinister is going on. How can you tell if you’re facing spiritual opposition? And what can you do about it?
Tim Muehlhoff provides a straightforward resource for protecting your marriage from the threats of the evil one. He looks at what Scripture says about spiritual warfare and how our everyday struggles have deeper spiritual realities. And he provides practical steps for guarding our marriages with the whole armor of God.
In our marital challenges, we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against powers and principalities that try to separate us from God and each other. But fear not. Learn to stand firm in Christ and trust in the Lord to deliver us from evil.
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Keepers Of The Testimony 2nd Edition
$14.99Add to cartOur greatest gift to our children. . .
In our world of changing mores and mixed messages about parental rights and responsibilities, the task of passing into our children’s hands the “Faith once delivered to the saints” sometimes seems monumental. In this book about the testimony, we find a powerful tool that will help us share with our children, no matter what their age, the reason for our faith.
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Missionary Mom : Embracing The Mission Field Right Under Your Roof
$15.99Add to cartMission work is not for the faint of heart. We admire those brave souls who leave behind the comforts of home and go to foreign fields to bring the love of Christ to people in need. And sometimes it feels uninspiring to be stuck at home in the day-to-day of parenting when others are out there changing the world, soul by soul.
Shontell Brewer has a message to renew the spirits of everyday moms: they too have a critical calling as the very first missionaries their children meet. In her informal, funny voice, Brewer points out the many unexpected parallels: A missionary may need to learn a foreign language and new customs to understand and communicate with those around her. A missionary has to follow the path God puts before her, sacrificing sleep, comfort, time, and toilets. Sound like any moms you know?
Brewer tackles common challenges from mom-guilt to the temptation to be a martyr to those days when it feels like only a box of cookies and a Netflix binge can restore a sense of peace. But through it all, she shares the truth that there’s more to parenting than potty training and orthodontist appointments. Mothers make the love of Christ tangible and understandable to their children. With determination and a few purposeful steps, moms can embrace their own mission field, leading their families–heart, soul, mind, and strength–to Christ.
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Better Mom Devotional
$19.99Add to cartAs a mom, you always want to give your best to your family. The Better Mom Devotional will help you focus who you are becoming rather than what you are accomplishing. Find freedom from mom-guilt, the myth of perfection, and the endless to-do list of motherhood, and step into your greatest adventure yet: becoming The Better Mom.
Rediscover the gift of motherhood with The Better Mom Devotional by trusted author Ruth Schwenk. As a busy mom of four, she understands the constant needs of raising a family, but she has uncovered a secret: becoming a better mom starts not with what you are doing but with who you are becoming.
As you read The Better Mom Devotional, you will find:
How God changes you from the inside out so you can increasingly experience His presence
Intentional ways to grow deeper faith in this busy time of life
The true calling of motherhood: training, disciplining, and loving your children well
The life-giving impact of fostering honest, loving friendships
The importance (and simplicity!) of creating a welcoming, functional, and beautiful home for your family-no Pinterest boards required!One hundred devotions will encourage and inspire you with Scripture, reflection questions, and journaling space to jot down your thoughts and prayers. Each devotion, filled with Bible teaching, personal stories, and application, will help you open your heart to experience more of God’s love, truth, and grace.
Find freedom from mom-guilt, the myth of perfection, and the endless to-do list of motherhood, and step into your greatest adventure yet: becoming The Better Mom.
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Crianza Y Fe – (Spanish)
$9.99Add to cartGive your children the greatest gift of all–pass on your faith. In Passing It On, Kara Lassen Oliver provides a practical guide to help parents, grandparents, and other concerned adults nurture their children’s faith. For four weeks at a time, she offers easy-to-follow suggestions for families during the seasons of Advent, Lent, summer, and back to school. This book features plans for weekly Family Gatherings with age-appropriate activities symbols to remind family members of the week’s spiritual emphasis a suggested daily practice and prayer for each week a Leader’s Guide for parent groups studying this book together The most valuable legacy we can pass to our children, grandchildren, and other children is a spiritual heritage. Kara Oliver shows us how to do just that.
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Family Legacy Journal
$17.99Add to cartThe Family Legacy Journal is the journal that will build the family legacy parents dream of in just ten minutes each day. Most families are caught up in a whirlwind of busyness that leaves them feeling disconnected. Without a method to slow the pace of everyday life, families drift apart. The Family Legacy Journal equips men and women to reconnect with their family or spouse with just ten minutes of journaling each day. Through the power of gratitude, reflection, and affirmation, parents are empowered to resist the typical whirlwind of activity and establish thriving family relationships.
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Upside Down Living Parenting
$9.99Add to cartRaising kids is hard enough. But raising kids to heed Jesus upside-down call away from status and power and toward service and sharing? It can seem almost impossible. So how can parents model countercultural choices? What habits can help families joyfully follow Christ instead of the latest trend? Gather with your faith community to search the Scriptures and discuss how to raise faithful kids in the twenty-first century.
Weary of Christian faith wrapped in a flag and trapped in your heart? Tired of faith as usual? Live out your Christian faith through the lens of Jesus. Follow values that seem so counter-cultural they appear to be upside down. Each compelling six-session Upside Down Living Bible study helps us encounter the teachings of Jesus and wrestle with living out the kingdom here and now. The Bible isn’t a cookbook with solutions for every ethical dilemma, but it helps us raise the right questions, encounter the teachings of Jesus, and discover new ways of faithful living in the world. Ideal for Sunday school or Bible study sessions, each topical study covers a specific theme or issue, and comes with thought-provoking discussion questions and activities. Be inspired and transformed in your faith. Live upside down. -
Bless Your Husband
$14.99Add to cartSometimes, choosing to love your husband is hard. Whether you’ve been married one year or 31 years, chances are he’s done things that have frustrated you, angered you, hurt you, or flabbergasted you. But after arguing over how to load the dishwasher yet again, you might be wondering how you can show him that you really do love him.
In as little as 15 minutes a day, you can do something meaningful for your husband and grow in your faith. From washing his car to writing a positive post about him on social media to watching his favorite movie with him, these pages are full of creative, simple, and interactive ideas on how to bless your husband. You’ll discover daily Scripture verses, inspirational readings, and journaling prompts to encourage you as well!
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God Schooling : How God Intended Children To Learn
$16.99Add to cartThe most frequently asked question on homeschool forums is, “How do I do this?” and the number one complaint is, “David won’t do (fill in the blank). How can I get him to do it?” God Schooling answers these questions and more. Parents gain the insight and confidence to teach their own children as they learn from experts, Biblical references, and the author’s own experiences from nearly fifteen years of homeschooling.
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When Your Kid Is Hurting (Reprinted)
$19.99Add to cartChildren today live in an unpredictable, disruptive, and often violent world. Many of them live in two different homes with different sets of expectations. They face bullying at school and online. They hear news of school shootings, and racially or religiously motivated violence. They may have lost a friend or a loved one.
As parents, the impulse to protect our children is strong, but that very protection can end up handicapping them for life. Rather than seek to save them from the hard things, parents must teach their kids how to cope with and rise above their problems. In one of his most important books to date, internationally known psychologist and bestselling author Dr. Kevin Leman shows parents how to
– be good listeners
– tell the truth, even when it’s difficult
– find balance between being protective and being overprotective
– approach hurt and injustice as a learning experience rather than fostering a victim mentality
– and much moreWhether your child is dealing with a difficult family situation, bullies, the loss of friends, the death of a loved one, discrimination, abuse, a teen pregnancy, or even just trying to make sense of what they see in the news, this compassionate and practical book will help parents equip them to process, learn from, and rise above their situation.
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Straight From The Heart
$30.95Add to cartStraight from the Heart: A Child’s Journey to Love and Be Loved is a beautifully written story about a child’s heartrending journey to love and be loved by the significant adults in his life. Straight from the Heart is a compilation of true-to-life scenarios that speak very candidly to the myriad of challenges faced by today’s youth in their quest to be loved and understood by others. Dr. Kennedy takes you on a riveting journey through the eyes and heart of the main character, Jamaal, with emphasis on his complex relationship with his mother, teachers, peers and estranged father. Drawing on her extensive clinical experience and expertise in working with vulnerable children, youth and families, Dr. Kennedy poignantly directs the reader’s attention to the underlying source of the main characters’ anger, fears and frustrations with emphasis on the importance of effective communications, perspective taking, problem-solving and decision making in managing and resolving conflicts across relationships. Straight from the Heart is a must-read for today’s children, youth and adolescents; and more so for the adults that are deeply invested in bringing about positive change in the lives of our youth and their families through the applied principles of compassion, understanding, unconditional positive regard and forgiveness.
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I Call You Mine
$16.99Add to cartI Call You Mine is a six-week study focused on revealing the incredible spiritual insights available to those who embrace God’s heart of adoption. Just as Jesus used stories to engage and teach, the Scripture passages and personal stories in this study uncover greater truths about adoption as God s children. Caring for the unwanted is a privilege, and the perspective gained when working with God in this way is humbling. Realize anew what it means to be chosen and redeemed.
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6 Hearts Of Intimacy
$16.99Add to cartUnderstand the way your spouse gives and receives love to bring greater passion to your marriage.
The 6 Hearts of Intimacy is a “Love Languages” for sex in marriage. Rather than focusing on techniques, it unlocks the secret to true sexual fulfillment by revealing the unique way each spouse gives and receives love. Various books describe the distinct ways in which people express and accept love, but this idea has never before been specifically applied to intimacy in marriage.
Marriage experts Bob and Cheryl Moeller present six biblically based and proven ways to enhance your relationship with your spouse as they describe the Romantic Heart, the Giving Heart, the Guardian Heart, the Companion Heart, the Worshiping Heart, and the Ecstatic Heart. They also expose the “counterfeit hearts” that are present in many people’s marriages, leaving their sexual relationship self-focused and empty. Many couples spend a lifetime attempting to express their love yet fail to achieve true intimacy. Sensitively written with practical advice and humor, The 6 Hearts of Intimacy shows husbands and wives how to successfully resolve conflicts in their relationship and how to care daily for their spouse’s unique heart of sexual love.
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Family Bible Devotional
$18.99Add to cartAs a Christian parent, you want your children to know and understand God’s Word. You want your family devotional time to be relevant and vibrant–an opportunity to explore and understand what God desires for your lives. The Family Bible Devotional cultivates conversations through 52 Bible readings, paired with engaging discussion questions and background information. Open this book, read the Scripture passages, and ask the questions to get your family exploring together what the Bible says.
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Irresistible : Focus Your Energy, Experience True Love
$14.99Add to cartIrresistible helps women focus their energy and experience true love. Women know what they want: love, peace, and joy. The challenge is, no one has figured out how to get it. With today’s technology, information, and communication, it seems that finding true love would be easy, as easy as walking into a jewelry store and choosing a diamond. Unfortunately, most women’s search for love feels more like digging in a coal mine: dark, messy, and frustrating. The wrong relationship seems to find and attach itself time after time, leaving the heart empty and soul angry.
In Irresistible, life coach and pastor Trina Petersen uses wisdom gained from personal experience and guiding others through the Four Cs of Love to lay out a workable and proven plan that works, if women work it. Discover how you can experience a relationship that meets your needs and exceeds your expectations–and find true love!
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Messy Life Of Parenting
$16.99Add to cartAs parents, we long for our kids to have family relationships that last a lifetime. But how do we create an atmosphere for connection while living the messy moments of parenting? The Messy Life of Parenting shows you small changes you can make now to build lasting relationships, even when the going gets tough. By applying God’s design for interdependence, you’ll be able to: strengthen family relationships, encourage leadership skills, distinguish between enabling and helping, discuss without creating division, and so much more.
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52 Conversations To Have With Your Teen
$11.99Add to cartAre you a busy parent? Do you find it difficult to have intentional conversations with your teenager? 52 Conversations to Have With Your Teen will provide you with one purposeful question to ask your teen each week in order to foster positive conversations on a regular basis. Each question is followed up with a short commentary and a Bible verse that ties into the theme of the week. This book will provide you with thought-provoking questions that will allow your teenager to share his or her thoughts with you consistently on a variety of topics. It will also challenge you, as the parent, to think about these questions for yourself and be prepared to share your thoughts. One of the best ways to instill authentic faith into kids is for parents to talk about God and faith with their kids regularly. 52 Conversations to Have With Your Teen will enhance your relationship with your teen and your relationship with Jesus.
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Reclaim Restore And Rebuild Includes Leaders Guide
$19.99Add to cartIf sexual brokenness–homosexuality or transgenderism–has touched your family, you’re on a painful and challenging journey. But you’re not alone.
Although Nehemiah lived more than two thousand years ago, he would have understood what you’re going through. He dealt with brokenness, weakness, and powerlessness in the face of his circumstances. His heart was broken over unfulfilled dreams. He is a role model for the challenges you face because he endured so much, yet he obeyed God and fulfilled God’s purposes for his life. His life reminds us that we often do not choose the circumstances God allows in our lives, but we can learn to make the best of them.
As you study portions of Nehemiah and the armor of God, you’ll learn to apply principles from these passages to help you reclaim and rebuild your relationship with a sexually broken family member or friend.
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Family Ministry And The Church
$26.99Add to cart“Chris Shirley provides a guide to establish a theological and practical framework for family ministry both inside and outside the church. Ministry leaders will discover the role of the church and its leaders to strengthen families and equip them to make disciples in the home, the church, and throughout the world. This work illustrates how healthy family ministry depends on effective disciple making that brings people to a close relationship with Christ both in the church and the home. The author also delivers an excellent resource for college and seminary training in the field of family ministry”–
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True Love Dates
$19.99Add to cartIt is possible to find true love through dating.
In True Love Dates, Debra Fileta encourages singles not to “kiss dating goodbye” but instead to experience a season of dating as a way to find real love. Through powerful, real-life stories and Fileta’s personal journey, this book offers profound insights from the expertise of a professional counselor.
Christians are looking for answers to finding true love. They are disillusioned with the church that has provided little practical application in the area of love and relationships. They’re bombarded by Christian books that shun dating, idolize courting, fixate on spirituality, and in the end, offer little real relationship help.
True Love Dates provides honest help for dating by providing a guide into vital relationship essentials. Debra is a professional Christian counselor who reaches millions with her popular blog, Truelovedates.com, and her book offers sound advice grounded in Christian spirituality. She delivers insight, direction, and counsel when it comes to entering the world of dating and learning to do it right the first time around. Drawing on the stories and struggles of hundreds of young men and women who have pursued the search for true love, Fileta helps readers bypass unnecessary pain while focusing on the things that really matter in the world of dating.
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Marriage Challenge : A Finance Guide For Married Couples
$16.99Add to cartGod has a plan for your marriage and your money. It starts with a challenge. Will you accept?
For many couples, the collision of marriage and money is the beginning of relational havoc. But does it have to be this way?
What if the collision of marriage and money no longer tore couples apart but brought them together? What if money was no longer a topic to argue about but a topic around which couples rallied? What if the collision of marriage and money actually helped couples find contentment and purpose?
In The Marriage Challenge: A Finance Guide for Married Couples, financial expert and author of The Money Challenge Art Rainer takes you on a journey to a financially healthy marriage. Get started on the right foot, or get back on the right track, by accepting the challenge and realizing God’s design for money and marriage.
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Naked And Unashamed
$16.99Add to cartHappy marriages don’t just happen.
Despite the abundance of magazines and self-help books available, people continue to struggle with marriage. Wedding planners, consultants, Pinterest pages, and bloggers have shaped young hearts to dream and plan for the biggest day of their lives. The day is everything, and they will plan each element with precision, from flowers to cake decorations to party favors. Couples will spend an enormous amount of time and money preparing for the wedding, but they will spend little to no time in preparation for the marriage itself.
It takes work to make a marriage successful. Divorce rates are clear evidence of this, but so also are the many married people who are in dire need of counseling and care, who persist in loneliness and difficulty, feeling ill-equipped to navigate the unforeseen difficulties of marriage.
?This book exists to coach couples through strategies which will assist them to succeed.
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Your Marriage Today And Tomorrow
$14.99Add to cartBuild a marriage now that your kids will thank you for later
Your parents’ marital choices have greatly affected your own attitudes and actions in marriage, for better or worse. Your choices will affect your children, and grandchildren, and so on. It’s time to get proactive about your marriage legacy.
Dr. Crawford and Karen Lorritts have been married 45 years and have spent the last 30 years speaking on marriage. This book contains their most successful, proven material. Interlaced with personal stories and letters from their four children this book will teach you:
–the biblical and theological foundation for marriage
–godly disciplines and habits that will improve your marriage
–how to use your marriage to shape future generationsWhether you’ve been married 40 years or just got engaged, this book is for you. Your marriage will change the lives of countless people. Start thinking about the kind of legacy you’ll leave, today.
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Why Children Matter
$13.95Add to cartIn the Garden of Eden, there was only one “No.” Everything else was “Yes.”
In this short book on childrearing, Douglas Wilson points out that we have a Father who delights in us and makes it easy for us to love and obey him. If that is the kind of Father we have, shouldn’t we earthly parents do the same? Wilson explains how parents should not just try to get their kids to obey a set of rules or to make their house so fun that following the rules is always easy. Instead, he calls for parents to instill in their kids a love for God and His standards that will serve them well all their days.
This book also features an appendix in which Doug and his wife Nancy answer various parents’ questions about various applications of the principles discussed in this book.
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Meditations On Proverbs For Couples
$17.99Add to cartIf yours could be the ideal marriage, what would it look like? Would it be one where hearts are open? Where faith is shared, personal growth is encouraged, dreams are nurtured, individual strengths are appreciated, romance flourishes, and even fights lead to deeper care and understanding? You can have such a marriage . . . when you build it on wisdom. Meditations on Proverbs for Couples imparts choice gems from the richest treasury of practical wisdom ever known — the book of Proverbs. You and your mate will gain insights that can help you make your marriage a source of deep satisfaction and fruitfulness. In these thirty-one meditations by marriage experts Les and Leslie Parrott, you’ll explore the Bible’s books of ancient wisdom to uncover thoroughly modern perspectives on communication, money, sex, commitment, recreation, anger, forgiveness, praise, humility, conflict, and more. The Parrotts share refreshing, down-to-earth reflections, brought home by candid vignettes from their own marriage and other true-life examples. Each meditation includes questions you can reflect on by yourself or discuss with your mate. The wise sayings of Proverbs must be talked about, say the Parrotts. “Read them aloud together. Commit a few to memory. And fill you marriage with wise and good conversation.” It’s a great way to join hearts and minds — as together you lay wisdom for the foundation of a strong, happy relationship.
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He Made Me Brave
$16.99Add to cartThis is not a fairy tale–but it does have suspense, humor, a quest, and a happy ending. When Jason and Pam Ogden decided to adopt a baby, they had no idea that their adoption process would stretch over a period of two years, and that their baby would be a toddler by the time they were able to bring him home. Taken straight from Pam’s personal travel journal, He Made Me Brave chronicles the long-awaited emotional trip she and her husband took to South Korea to meet their new son. Through these powerful journal entries, you will:
-Experience Pam’s fear, grief, anticipation, and joy as you read her private, honest thoughts.
-Discover the challenges faced by these adoptive parents as they started the bonding process.
-Be encouraged by God’s sovereignty and power over anxiety.He Made Me Brave is the touching memoir of a mother defying fear to be united with the little boy she had been dreaming of for two years, and an account of hope fulfilled.
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Marriage And Sexuality In Early Christianity
$40.00Add to cartMarriage and Sexuality in Early Christianity is part of Ad Fontes: Early Christian Sources, a series designed to present ancient Christian texts essential to an understanding of Christian theology, ecclesiology, and practice. The books in the series make the wealth of early Christian thought available to new generations of students of theology and provide a valuable resource for the church. Developed in light of recent patristic scholarship, the volumes provide a representative sampling of theological contributions from both East and West.The series provides volumes that are relevant for a variety of courses: from introduction to theology to classes on doctrine and the development of Christian thought. The goal of each volume is not to be exhaustive but rather to be representative enough to denote for a nonspecialist audience the multivalent character of early Christian thought, allowing readers to see how and why early Christian doctrine and practice developed the way it did.
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This Is My Body
$14.99Add to cartKneeling at the communion rail, Hannah Shanks heard the familiar words “The body of Christ, broken for you” as the server tore off a piece of bread and placed it in her hands. And then “The blood of Christ, shed for you” as she dipped her bread into the common cup. Just hours before she had found out she was pregnant. Now she heard the words “This is my body” as she’d never heard them before.
It occurred to her that Jesus’ words spoken at the Last Supper”This is my body, broken; This is my blood poured out”-were as fitting a description of birth as they are of death. Not only do the words describe Jesus’ death, but they also apply to every birth that has ever taken place. Making this connection shifted Shanks’s thinking about the familiar ritual of communion.
This Is My Body is a journey of discovery and reclamation, of finding familiar paths in unfamiliar territory and new facets to ancient rituals. Part personal narrative and part unearthing of scripture passages from a woman’s point of view, it draws women and men closer to the God we profess, a God who is in all things, a God who is present in all genders and beyond them. Readers discover that God can be seen through the eyes, bodies, and experiences of women just as God has long been viewed from a male perspective. Using the communion liturgy and elements of the common table (where all are welcome) as a framework, the book offers much material for reflection on this central act of Christianity.
This Is My Body is about getting surprised by positivity toward one’s body in a time of life when negativity is expected. It is about finding a new relationship to the acts of Christian community through the experience of a woman’s body, including pregnancy and birth. The author approaches motherhood with one foot in the sacred and the other in the often difficult space of the stereotypes the church attaches to mothering.
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Preparing For Marriage (Revised)
$9.99Add to cartDesiring God
John Piper wants to help you faithfully walk the road to becoming husband and wife. Here you’ll find his counsel on topics like engagement, wedding planning, finances, and sex. Plus, he presents his most important word on marriage, a vision grander than many have ever dared to dream, a vision of what God is doing in every Christian marriage. -
Quivering Families : The Quiverfull Movement And Evangelical Theology Of Th
$39.00Add to cartAmerican evangelicals are known for focusing on the family, but the Quiverfull movement intensifies that focus in a significant way. Often called “Quiverfull” due to an emphasis on filling their “quivers” with as many children as possible (Psalm 127:5), such families are distinguishable by their practices of male-only leadership, homeschooling, and prolific childbirth. Their primary aim is “multigenerational faithfulness” – ensuring their descendants maintain Christian faith for many generations. Many believe this focus will lead to the Christianization of America in the centuries to come.Quivering Families is a first of its kind project that employs history, ethnography, and theology to explore the Quiverfull movement in America. The book considers a study of the movement’s origins, its major leaders and institutions, and the daily lives of its families. Quivering Families argues that despite the apparent strangeness of their practice, Quiverfull is a thoroughly evangelical and American phenomenon. Far from offering a countercultural vision of the family, Quiverfull represents an intensification of longstanding tendencies. The movement reveals the weakness of evangelical theology of the family and underlines the need for more critical and creative approaches.
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Dancing Around The Chaos
$14.99Add to cartSince more than five million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s disease, most of us know someone whose world it has invaded. “Dancing around the Chaos” seeks to bring the experiences surrounding Alzheimer’s into the open so that we can learn from one another instead of struggling to figure it out alone.
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Amandolo Bien – (Spanish)
$16.99Add to cartEn este libro confiable y comprobado, escrito por Gary Thomas, ganador del Medallon de oro, muestra como las mujeres pueden inspirar a sus esposos, influir en ellos y ayudarlos a avanzar en una direccion positiva. Sustituir el plan de accion de la esposa por el plan de Dios conduce a una transformacion matrimonial en la cual ambos se enfocan el uno en el otro, de la manera que Dios quiere.Gary se basa en conceptos de su best seller Matrimonio sagrado y presenta aplicaciones practicas que las esposas pueden comenzar a usar hoy mismo, mostrando como estos metodos transforman los matrimonios.En estas paginas, las mujeres encontraran tambien una nueva perspectiva que les ayudara a comprender a sus esposos: la vision de la relacion matrimonial a traves de los ojos de un hombre. Thomas brinda informacion valiosa a las esposas sobre la forma en que los hombres piensan, sienten y se les puede motivar.
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Great Connections : Loving With Limits 1.0.0
$14.99Add to cartAdoration Publishing Company
In Great Connections: Loving with Limits, the reader will learn to develop relationships that balance our connection with others while living independent lives not be controlled. From a Christian worldview, her looks to meaningful tools of psychology and Scriptures that explain how to make wise choices and enjoy connected relationships.
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Educando Hijos Del Reino – (Spanish)
$13.99Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of Kingdom Man and Kingdom Woman, Raising Kingdom Kids equips parents to raise their children with a Kingdom perspective and also offers practical how-to advice on providing spiritual training as instructed in Scripture.
Dr. Tony Evans begins with an overarching look at the need for Kingdom parenting, our roles and responsibilities in raising God-following children, and how to prepare children to take on the assignments God has for their lives. He then takes a practical turn, with examples and illustrations to help parents understand and provide specific training for kids in the power of prayer, wisdom, loving God’s Word, getting through trials, controlling their tongues, developing patience, the surrender of service, and much more.
This book is for every dad or mom who wants to fulfill the parenting role God has given them-not just in raising healthy kids intellectually, physically, and socially, but in contributing to their child’s relationship with God and alignment under His plan.
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Suddenly Single : Rebuilding Your Life After Divorce
$16.99Add to cartThis compassionate guide through grief, fears, and the challenges of divorce encourages readers to see this painful time as potentially one of the most powerful.
Kathey Batey understands the trauma of going through a divorce. In Suddenly Single, she guides readers who have experienced divorce in how to:
*Grieve the past and learn God has a future for them;
*Develop a network of experts for legal, financial, spiritual, and emotional needs;
*Navigate parenting decisions;
*Give structure and protection in fragmented relationships; and
*Embrace God’s comfort in the midst of deep pain.Divorce is not the end of the story. Suddenly Single comes alongside readers to help them move forward into life a full of possibility.
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Unbound : Finding Freedom From Unrealistic Expectations Of Motherhood
$19.99Add to cartIn UNBOUND, Jamie Sumner gives a hope-filled voice to the silent ones, the women in the Christian community whose picture of motherhood is strained by difficulty, otherness, and even despair. She helps women find hope and companionship by detailing her own difficult journey and highlighting women from the Bible who triumphed in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds.
Women, especially Christian women, do not talk enough about the reality of motherhood: the enormous struggles it takes to get there, the loneliness of it, the unspoken or unmet expectations. We are often too afraid, ashamed, or unwilling to share our stories of disillusionment or pain. We quietly absorb the posts of sonograms and happily messy houses on Facebook as we inwardly wonder what’s the matter with us. We listen to friends coo about their child’s latest success as we watch our own terrorize their sibling or scream for an hour. We struggle to raise kids with special needs, physical disabilities, and social challenges, caught by surprise that this is what motherhood looks like.
With honesty and vulnerability, Jamie Sumner walks readers through each chapter of her own journey to motherhood through infertility and special needs parenting and pairs it with that of a woman in the Bible so that readers can find comfort, hope, companionship and honesty rooted in biblical truths.
The book is broken into four parts: The Wanting, The Waiting, The Getting and The Appreciating. UNBOUND will share the heartbreak of infertility and offer encouragement from someone who has had to wait for the fulfillment of motherhood; detail the specifics of infertility treatments, miscarriage, and raising special needs children through a Christian lens; honestly discuss the expectations versus the reality of being a mother; and highlight specific biblical women in each chapter who did not fit the expectations of their times through verses, scriptural anecdotes and guiding questions.
UNBOUND shows you through Scripture how to be thankful for each step wherever it leads. Happiness is found as we release into His hands our own well-laid plans for His better, and more beautiful one, no matter how different it may look from what we first imagined.
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Cuando La Crianza No Es Perfec – (Spanish)
$14.99Add to cartLa perfeccion es el enemigo de la crianza de los hijos. Jim Daly es testigo de como las madres y los padres se esfuerzan por buscar la perfeccion. Escuchan a los expertos y leen los mejores libros. Cuando alguien les regala una taza que dice la mejor mama del mundo o el papa no. 1 desean que eso sea verdad. Y anhelan que sus hijos tambien busquen la perfeccion.Es admirable que lleguen a ser los mejores mamas y papas que puedan ser para sus hijos. Pero a veces al hacerlo, dejan de lado la gracia, tanto para si mismos como para sus hijos. Jim cree que nuestra busqueda de la perfeccion, la cual el considera es particularmente fuerte entre los cristianos, va en contra del don de la gracia infinita de Dios. Podemos convertirnos en padres fariseos, citando reglas interminables y estableciendo estandares imposibles de alcanzar. Pero Dios no quiere que seamos perfectos, ni tampoco nuestros hijos necesitan serlo. Como padres, estamos llamados a hacer nuestro mejor esfuerzo. Y cuando fallamos, tenemos la obligacion de volver a intentarlo.Aunque Jim es el presidente de Enfoque a la familia, no promete que su libro sera un catalizador para una familia perfecta. Pero puede guiar el camino hacia una buena familia, que se sienta segura y calida, llena de amor y sonrisas. Este libro animara a madres y padres a aceptar el caos de la paternidad y mostrar gracia a sus hijos aunque no sean perfectos. A traves de sus propias experiencias, conocimientos e historias, Jim guiara a mamas y papas hacia una mejor comprension de lo que es ser una buena familia.
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Better Mom : Growing In Grace Between Perfection And The Mess
$18.99Add to cartMothering is messy. Our joy and hope in raising children doesn’t change the reality that being a mom can be frustrating, stressful, and tiring. But just as God is using us to shape our children, God is using our children and motherhood to shape us.
In The Better Mom, author Ruth Schwenk, herself a mother of four children, encourages us with the good news that there is more to being a mom than the extremes of striving for perfection or simply embracing the mess. We don’t need to settle for surviving our kids’ childhood. We can grow through it.
With refreshing and heartfelt honesty Ruth emboldens moms to:
Find freedom and walk confidently in purpose
Create a God-honoring home environment
Overcome unhealthy and destructive emotions such as anger, anxiety, and moreAvoid glorifying the mess of mom-ing or idolizing perfection
Cultivate life-giving friendshipsAt the heart of The Better Mom is the message that Jesus calls us to live not a weary life, but a worthy life. We don’t have to settle for either being apathetic or struggling to be perfect. Both visions of motherhood go too far. Ruth offers a better option. She says, “It’s okay to come as we are, but what we’re called to do and be is far too important to stay there! The way to becoming a better mom starts not with what we are doing, but with who God is inviting us to become.”
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Fierce Marriage : Radically Pursuing Each Other In Light Of Christs Relentl (Rep
$17.99Add to cartPopular marriage bloggers Ryan and Selena Frederick offer couples personal insights and practical tools for building a Christ-centered marriage and fiercely fighting to protect their marriages against the challenges they will face.
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Most Important Year In A Womans Life The Most Important Year In A Mans Life
$19.99Add to cartYour marriage could be one of history’s great love stories! As newlyweds, it’s time to ensure that your marriage can meet the challenges it will face right around the corner. Cultivating good habits during these first twelve foundational months of your marriage and knowing what to focus on will set the stage for years to come. Robert and Bobbie and Mark and Susan know that there’s a big difference between preparation and actual experience. This is your guide to actually dealing with all the things that come after “I do.” In this unique flip-over format, the chapter topics are the same but one half is written by men for the husband, and the other half is written from a women’s perspective for the wife. As a couple, you’ll each progress through your part of the book and meet somewhere in the middle. Become an expert on what really makes your spouse happy, and enjoy the benefits of a great partnership. Take an honest look at the family you grew up in: its unwritten codes, how it has shaped you, and the ways it affects your relationship with your mate. Learn how to speak each other’s “language” and appreciate the qualities each of you brings to your marriage. You’ll also get an eye-opening look at communication skills, secrets for a great sex life, budget basics, dealing with in-laws, navigating tough times, and much more. Above all, you’ll cultivate a spiritual unity that draws the two of you closer to each other as you draw closer to God. Start reading, and make this first year together what it was meant to be: the most important year in your life.
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All Things Beautiful
$19.99Add to cartAt age fifteen, Nikki Leonti signed a record deal and had a successful Christian music career. Three years later she became pregnant out of wedlock, which caused many to turn away from her. When she envisioned her future, she didn’t foresee her life falling apart. Suddenly she was a single parent.
Many single parents feel alone, ashamed, hopeless, confused, or just plain tired–tempted to give in to the negative voices that say it’s impossible to fulfill the dreams of their youth. From personal stories of overcoming, to Scriptures that were her anchor during the most difficult moments, Nikki shares transparently her journey of experiencing God’s redeeming grace.
This book will help you:
*Re-center your heart and mind towards what is good.
*Navigate through the uncertainty that comes with single parenting.
*Discover that your baggage can be the source of the greatest joy and restoration.
*Get back on track to fulfill the incredible purpose God has for your life!There is no perfect parent and being a single parent can make you feel even more imperfect. If you’ve experienced the end of relationship, divorce, or loss of a spouse, this book is a great source of encouragement for parenting solo. There is not a past too messy that can keep God from transforming the most hopeless situation into a beautiful story.
