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Smart Stepfamily : 7 Steps To A Healthy Family (Revised)
$17.99Add to cartStepfamilies frequently encounter difficulties in attaining the idealistic dream of “blending” their separate family members. Ron Deal provides seven effective, achievable steps toward building a healthy marriage and a workable and peaceful stepfamily. The Smart Stepfamily has been developed from Deal’s nationwide seminars on the topic. Equally useful for individuals, families, small groups, pastors, and counselors, this is perhaps the best tool available for families.
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Get Your Teenager Talking
$17.00Add to cartVeteran youth expert Jonathan McKee presents 180 creative discussion starters to help teens open up about issues that matter. And unique to this book, he provides tips for interpreting their responses and follow-up questions. From light-hearted to more serious, these conversation springboards will get even the most reluctant teen to talk about friends, school, values, struggles, and much more. Perfect for anyone who wants to make a teen feel noticed and heard. Includes a topical index.
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Smart Money Smart Kids
$31.99Add to cartDave Ramsey and Rachel Cruze teach parents how to raise money-smart kids in a debt-filled world. In Smart Money Smart Kids, financial expert and best-selling author Dave Ramsey and his daughter Rachel Cruze equip parents to teach their children how to win with money. Starting with the basics like working, spending, saving, and giving, and moving into more challenging issues like avoiding debt for life, paying cash for college, and battling discontentment, Dave and Rachel present a no-nonsense, common-sense approach for changing your family tree.
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Building A Successful Family
$15.49Add to cartThe miracle of the 21st century is that a man and woman who are mature and differentiated can fall in love, marry, and enjoy a beautiful and flourishing marriage for the rest of their lives by following the principles in this book. This book is not for the “select few” only: If a couple is totally committed to each other and constantly looking for ways to positively communicate their love and commitment to each other, they will be inseparable, forget what is happening to others around them and focus on their love and enjoy their blessed marriage forever!
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Help And Hope For The Single Parent
$7.99Add to cartIf you’ve ever wished that you could hold hands with someone other than your child, this book is for you. And if you miss the season of life when you had more grown-up conversations than discussions about Dora the Explorer, this book is for you.
Nearly half of all children born in America are born into single parent homes. Dr. Evans tells of a conversation he had with one of these children: My heart was broken recently when the son of one of the single parents in our church looked up at me and said, “Pastor, why won’t God give me a dad? Every night I ask God to give me a dad, but He won’t give me one.”
Single parents have the toughest job in the world because the obstacles can be overwhelming. You’ve got to work, clean, take care of the kids, help with homework, pay the bills, fix the car, shop for groceries, cook, prepare your income taxes, etc. And though single parents are always around another person, this season can be quite lonely. Additionally, there is often guilt that can creep in and make you feel like you are the worst parent in the world. Though being a single parent is tough, it is also a hopeful season.
In Help and Hope for Single Parents, Dr. Evans gives an encouraging reminder – You are not alone! And your child has the most amazing Parent in the Lord. God can and will help you take care of your children. There is Help & Hope for Single Parents.
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Before You Go
$14.99Add to cartWhat do I say? Many of us are faced with the moment when our children leave home and begin the next chapter of their lives. We hope they are prepared to face the challenges to come. In this book, author William Rice, shares what every parent needs to speak and every kid needs to hear before time slips away. Using practical insights and personal letters he brings the timeless wisdom of Proverbs into focus for a new generation. Take a journey through these teachings and learn the essential lessons that one generation needs to pass along to another.
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Train Up A Child
$16.49Add to cartTRAIN UP A CHILD is a teacher education textbook for Christian parents engaged in laying the foundation for life and learning during the preschool years. It defines the meaning and purpose for education and provides a curriculum for the parents in developing the necessary educational awareness in all areas of learning. Following are several quotations that highlight the Christian character and Biblical worldview of both the author and the Book.
You have given birth to a one and only model, with a potential never before registered on earth, and now God also tells you that you are responsible to train up this little one in the way he should go-both for time and for eternity.
Teaching/Learning should begin in the womb and never cease.
Learning is (1) the acquisition of knowledge, (2) the structuring of the knowledge processing systems resulting in a proper understanding and use of knowledge, and (3) the structuring of the individual-building what we know as character.
The way he should go- is the path especially belonging to this child fitted for his individual characteristics.
A child must be systematically instructed, initiated in the way of life, from the earliest dawn of intelligence.
First, the parents must be characterized by their supreme love for God. Loving Him as LORD with all their hearts, with all their souls, and with all their might. This is the highest teaching credential for training children in the way they should go.
If you desire to raise your children to love and obey Jesus Christ then you must give prime attention to instilling a value system within their minds that is truly minted from the gold of heaven-values that have eternal meaning.
Think of it this way, God is trusting you to work with Him to conform your child into the likeness of Christ. This is the great goal, and reward for faithful parenting.
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Mystery Of Jack
$15.99Add to cartAlthough there have been several books written on the topic of Autism, The Mystery of Jack is a book of Hope and Excitement while coping with life’s new reality. The majority of books on this topic take a clinical approach and/or focuses on types of therapy, various diets, and the struggles of Autism. Basically, the books are focused strictly on Autism and not the physical and emotional impact it has on a family.
However, The Mystery of Jack’s primary focus is the parents (as viewed through the eyes of a father) and their adaptation to their newly defined world. The stories of the child (Jackson) are used to illustrate joy and happiness in areas of life often taken for granted. There are areas of sadness which is an unfortunate reality. But, the reader will experience an open and honest reflection of life’s new direction and how the joy or sadness is ultimately within their own control. -
Power Of A Praying Parent
$16.99Add to cartStormie Omartian’s bestselling The Power of a Praying(R) series (more than 23 million copies sold) is rereleased with fresh new covers and new material to reach a still-growing market of readers eager to discover the power of prayer for their lives.
After 20 years of raising her son and daughter alongside her husband, Michael, Stormie looks back at the trials and joys of parenting and the power in praying for her children. In these easy-to-read chapters, Stormie shares from personal experience as to how parents can pray for their kids’
*safety
*character development
*adolescence
*peer pressure
*school experiences
*friends
*relationship with GodThis resource will help you to be an amazing praying parent whether your kids are three or thirty-three.
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Power Of Praying For Your Adult Children
$16.99Add to cartStormie Omartian’s bestselling The Power of a Praying(R) series (more than 23 million copies sold) is rereleased with fresh new covers and new material to reach a still-growing market of readers eager to discover the power of prayer for their lives.
In this important follow-up to The Power of a Praying(R) Parent (2 million copies sold), Stormie addresses areas of concern you may have for your grown children and shares how to lift them up to God. With stories from other parents and insight gleaned from personal experience, Stormie helps you pray with the power of God’s Word over your adult children and their:
*career choices and sense of purpose
*marriages and other vital relationships
*parenting skills and leadership
*struggles, addictions, or emotional trials
*faith commitment and prayer lifePerhaps you are watching your grown children step out into the world and wishing you could do more to support them while giving them the freedom they crave. You can. It doesn’t matter how young or old they are, you can rest in the power of God working through your prayers.
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Praying For Boys (Reprinted)
$16.00Add to cartLeader of Thriving Online Community Teaches Moms How to Pray for Boys
Christian mothers desperately want to raise their sons to be men who love God, but they often feel under equipped. This easy-to-use book shows moms how to use the best and most empowering tool there is: prayer.
At the heart of this unique resource are scores of Scripture-based prayer prompts for 21 areas in which boys struggle most, such as obedience, patience, gentleness, self-control, anger, and forgiveness. It also includes a guided 21-day prayer challenge for moms to pray with other moms and encourage each other, in person or online. With uplifting stories and winsome parenting wisdom, this book will help moms (and dads) raise godly young men.
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Woven Together : Testimonies To God’s Grace In Adoption
$16.99Add to cartThinking of adopting? Are you an adoptive family and need encouragement? Do you know an adoptive family in your church and want to minister to them more? Within the pages of Woven Together there is deep insight, warmth, and valuable truth for Christians on the adoption journey. Woven Together is a compilation project by Funding Hope whereby 18 authors share and unpack GodOs grace and goodness in adoption. Woven Together brings testimonies to life from adult adoptees to birthmothers, domestic and international adoption, special needs to embryo adoption, and each author speaks from their heart as they experienced God move in their family though the gift of adoption. As Christians, we know that God is all about adoption as He has adopted each of us through Jesus. Woven Together explores His love of adoption in testimonies.
All authors have donated their writings. All profits will go directly to Funding Hope to provide adoption grants to Christians.
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Focus On The Family Guide To Talking With Your Kids About Sex (Revised)
$19.99Add to cartSexual images saturate today’s culture–and children will learn about sex somewhere. But research shows that they want to learn from the parents they trust.
Talking about sex doesn’t have to be a fear-filled challenge. The Focus on the Family(R) Guide to Talking with Your Kids about Sex shows parents how to talk with confidence to their kids about sex and sexuality. This candid resource is full of the latest information, practical insights, and age-appropriate answers to the questions parents and children ask about sex. Focus on the Family’s Physicians Resource Council, along with research from The Medical Institute for Sexual Health provides parents with the tools and empowering encouragement they need in order to communicate more effectively and biblically about sex, self-control, and self-respect at every stage of a child’s development.
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Angry Bird And Killer Bees
$13.99Add to cart1. High Voltage!
2. Sex Talks
3. Don Juan, Conquistador
4. Princess
5. Generation “Sext”
6. Power Surge: Sex And Development
7. Nester Or Nomad: Sex And Attachment
8. START “the Conversation”Additional Info
“”Mom, Dad what is sex?”Angry Birds and Killer Bees is a book that can help you turn “The Talk” into an ongoing conversation that counters the myriad sources of bad information children are exposed to on a daily basis and helps them understand the beauty of true intimacy.
The three main sections “Sex: Myths and Messages,” “Sex and Biology,” and “Sex and God,” you’ll find information to help you talk with your children about sex, puberty, and the biological, emotional and spiritual levels of relationships. You’ll be able to help them:
Navigate the social influences of their peers and the culture we live in.
Understand the deep bonds that come from a healthy sexual relationship.
View sex as a beautiful, God-given gift that is designed to enhance our emotional and spiritual lives.
This book is designed to teach you how to talk to your children about sex in ways that do more than just label body parts and will help them grow into emotionally and sexually healthy adults.
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Prayers And Promises For Worried Parents
$15.99Add to cartAre you waiting for God to work his plan in your child’s life? This inspirational collection of powerful stories and prayers offers comforting advice to concerned moms and dads.
Countless parents feel helpless and lost when their teenage or young adult children fall into destructive lifestyles and walk away from the principles they were raised with. Distressed and wearied, moms and dads often feel they’ve tried everything: begging, praying, arguing, reasoning, making rules, and setting boundaries. But nothing works. What more can they do? Just accept it?
Pastor and father Rob Morgan sympathizes with these parents, and in this powerful and hopeful book, he offers more than 100 readings to uplift and encourage them. Through Scripture-based prayers, excerpts from classical literature, brief messages, hopeful quotes, personal stories, and more, he speaks the language of hurting parents and offers the spiritual and practical help they need.
Divided into eleven sections, each offering different methods of hope and healing, Prayers and Promises for Worried Parents shows parents how to intercede more effectively for their children, deal with worry and anxiety, and face difficult questions, such as: What do we do when God doesn’t answer our prayers? What did Jesus do when he had trouble with his children? How can we best reach out to our prodigal sons and daughters?
Full of powerful messages and answered prayers, this inspirational guide shows you what you can do while waiting for God to work in your children’s lives.
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Moms In Prayer
$18.99Add to cartWhat principles enabled the concerned mom of two junior high school students to move from deciding she needed to pray for her kids at school to becoming the founder of a worldwide prayer movement called Moms In Prayer International? Fern Nichols is a passionate believer in the power of prayer. She knows that a regular habit of prayer can change things–can bring home wayward children, heal broken marriages, and provide answers to desperate situations. Prayer can also bring a new kind of peace and contentment no matter what hardships or disappointments we face. But most important, Fern knows that through prayer we can experience, firsthand, an ever-increasing intimacy with God. In Moms In Prayer, Fern Nichols reveals how she teaches women to pray in a way that changes their lives and the lives of those they love. She teaches the principles and practices that will not only revolutionize the way people think about prayer, but the way they do pray, leading them into a deeper intimacy with Jesus, who is always interceding on our behalf. Sparkling with real-life stories of God at work in the lives of praying moms, Fern introduces us to the four prayers that are the foundation of the Moms In Prayer approach to prayer:
*Praise–Praying according to the attributes of God
*Confession–Breaking strongholds
*Thanksgiving–Expressing a grateful heart
*Intercession–Standing in the gap with Jesus.What transforms these well-known elements of prayer into such a powerful force in Moms In Prayer International? Fern Nichols introduces a way of praying that energizes, creates an appetite for intimacy with God, overcomes spiritual paralysis, eliminates fear, unveils the heart and character of God, and transforms the pray-er’s life and perspective. She teaches how to pray effectively with others, how to prepare for the spiritual battles that swirl when prayer is on the move, how to persist in prayer in the face of hopelessness and despair, and how to use Scripture for effective prayer. God hears. God acts. God moves. God works.
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Parenting By The Book
$18.99Add to cartImagine respectful, responsible, obedient children who entertain themselves without TV or video games, do their own homework, and have impeccable manners. A pie-in-the-sky fantasy? Not so, says bestselling author John Rosemond. Any parent can raise children who fit that description-happy, emotionally healthy children who honor their parents and their families with good behavior and do their best in school.
As America’s most widely read parenting and family expert, Rosemond offers practical, Bible-based, time-tested advice that will help parents be the best they can possibly be, with children of all ages. Instead of cultivating high self-esteem in your children, Rosemond recommends, instilling self-respect, which comes from teaching them the Three R’s: Respect for others, a willingness to accept Responsibility, and a Resourceful attitude toward the challenges of life.
Educational, informative, and humorous, Parenting by the Book promises to become the standard for church family education programs, as well as a primary reference for parents. Says Glenn Stanton, director of Global Family Formation Studies at Focus on the Family and author of My Crazy Imperfect Christian Family, “John Rosemond does all parents a huge service by skillfully illuminating the timeless wisdom of Scripture that has served generations in raising healthy, happy, obedient human beings….Parenting by the Book could start a parenting revolution, and I pray it does for the sake of our children.”
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Sex Plus Faith
$21.00Add to cartTalking with your child about sex can be scary! Sex + Faith helps parents incorporate their faith values with sexual information so they can answer questions, discuss sexuality at each stage of childhood, and show support of sexual differences. Section one explains how faith relates to sexuality and the essential role parents play in forming healthy, faithful, sexual children . The second section designates a chapter for four age groupings of children from infancy through high school. Each chapter explains the biological and developmental issues of the age, answers questions children tend to have, provides relevant Biblical and faith stories helpful to discuss with children of that age, and lists five to ten key educational issues for parents to keep in mind. Shaded text boxes are interspersed throughout the book with real life, practical questions that parents and children ask. Expertly written by Kate Ott, Sex + Faith is an easy to use reference guide for parents of kids of all ages.
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Faith Of Their Own
$13.99Add to cart1. The Common Cry Of Today’s Preteen And Young Teen
2. The Origins Of The Common Cry
3. What Happens If We Don’t Regard The Cry?
4. How Do We Patents Guide Them Well?
5. On The Move
6. The Virtues Of Jesus As A Way Of Life
7. Help For Parents On The Journey
8. Why The Common Cry MattersAdditional Info
If you are the parent of a preteen, you may feel as if you are the only person in the world trying to deal with this almost-grown stranger in your home. You might describe your preteen as opinionated, sometimes defiant, seeking independence one day and totally dependent on you the next, inquisitive, and–above all–seeking to break the world record for the number of text messages sent and received in one day. How, with all that is going on in the hearts and minds of preteens, can we parents help them develop A Faith of Their Own?Chris Folmsbee is an experienced youth worker, an author and speaker, and a dad. He understands that you the parent of a preteen is learning as you go.
Understanding the Common Cry of Preteens is the first piece of a three-part series designed to help you help your teen develop spiritually as he or she develops physically and mentally. The ultimate goal is to prepare you as you lead your child to conform to the image of God through Jesus Christ.
By encouraging, inspiring, and equipping you, Folmsbee gives you practical and realistic tools to help you accept and meet the challenge to guide your preteen into spiritual formation for the mission of God.
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Message For My Child
$11.99Add to cart‘Message for my Child’ is Patrick Atkinson’s international classic that has been enjoyed by millions. Rich with powerful and straight-forward advice for people of all ages, and particularly teens and young adults, this book guides the reader to take control of their life, responsibility for their decisions, and create victory and success. Simple and beautifully-illustrated by the author’s son, Ernesto, ‘Message for my Child’ is the perfect birthday, graduation, holiday, and just-because-I-love-you gift. This easy-to-read book has the power to change lives forever.
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Why Children Matter
$10.00Add to cartRaising a child has never been more challenging. If you ever doubt yourself or wonder if it is worth the heartache, read this little book. If you worry that your family will not weather life s storms or if you fear losing your children to the prevailing culture, read it again. “Why Children Matter” offers biblical wisdom and commonsense advice on how to hold a family together and raise children with character.
Johann Christoph Arnold, a father, grandfather and pastor, has written eleven books, including three on parenting and children s education. As the fabric of family and society is torn apart, this book offers up concrete steps to encourage parents faced with difficult child-rearing decisions.”
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Passionate Mom : Dare To Parent In Todays World
$19.99Add to cartIt is a different world and we need a different kind of mom that is ready to take on that world.
What exactly is the job description of a mom? How can the job be accomplished in a culture of entitled privilege and uncensored technology? Who is doing it right? Every mother desires to do her job well. But how?
Passion. The plan begins with the one thing every mother possesses-passion. In the heart of every mother is the passionate desire to protect and provide her child with a promising future. We must capture that passion and build on it. To do so she must perceptively study our children, ponder what we perceive, pray believing there is hope, prepare for opportunities, plan patiently, overcome persecution, and persevere at all times. These are the building bricks for parenting with passion.
Dare. There was someone who so passionately loved his people that he boldly dared to build a wall to protect them and to provide a future for them. The prophet Nehemiah saved their lives, and his story has purpose for our lives. Moms must dare to do the same for their children. Save their lives by following his lead and his passionate plan.
It is pertinent to build a plan that will save this generation of children. To do so, that requires deep prayer, discipline to prepare, great patience and perseverance for a lifetime.
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Christian Parenting Handbook
$19.99Add to cartWith advice on parenting coming from several angles, what do you listen to and what do you ignore? Develop your own biblical philosophy of parenting and use it to filter the many ideas that come your way.
In this book you’ll learn how to:
Identify character qualities to address problems
Build internal motivation
Transfer responsibility for change to the child
Teach kids to be solvers instead of whiners
Use creativity to teach your kids spiritual truths
Avoid the “boxing ring”
Envision a positive future
And much more!With these strategies you’ll be able to move from behavior modification to a heart-based approach to parenting. Instead of relying on rewards, incentives, threats, and punishment, you’ll learn how to identify heart lessons to teach your child and implement them in practical ways.
The Christian Parenting Handbook by Dr. Scott Turansky and Joanne Miller, founders of the National Center for Biblical Parenting, compiles fifty parenting principles that use heart-based strategies to teach you how to face daily challenges. When parents focus on the heart, kids learn to ask different questions about life. Instead of asking, “What’s in it for me?” they learn to ask, “What’s the right thing to do?” You’ll soon see how a heart-based approach to parenting looks deeper and brings about greater, lasting change.
The daily interaction you have with your children can impact them for the rest of their lives. With these fifty heart-based strategies, you’ll develop your own biblical philosophy of parenting and gain perspective, greater motivation, and confidence that you’re moving in the right direction. As you envision a positive future for your children, they’ll experience hope and direction and you will too. Start applying these principles today!
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Power Of A Parents Blessing
$15.99Add to cartThere are seven critical times in life at which God intends for every person to receive a powerful impartation from Him of identity and destiny. In the first six God uses parents, and in the seventh He uses adult children to impart blessing back to their parents.
The primary connotation of the Hebrew word baruch, “to bless,” is “to empower to prosper.” Thus, parents who bless their child at these six critical times literally empower the child to prosper, while parents who, through lack of knowledge, fail to bless-or actually curse-may spiritually and emotionally cripple the child.
Craig Hill answers key questions for each critical time in a child’s life, including:* What is the key identity and destiny question to be answered in the heart of the child?
* When is the appropriate time to bless?
* What are potential consequences of not blessing?
* What is the role of each parent in blessing at this specific time?
* What are practical tools to use in blessing?Blessing is a custom established by God and meant to function in every family. The Power of a Parent’s Blessing gives readers the practical tools by which they can experience the transformational blessings of God for themselves and their families.
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Intentional Parenting : Autopilot Is For Planes
$18.99Add to cartThis is about you, not just your child.
Regardless of age, parenting requires a certain amount of uncertainty. But you can be certain that your children look to you to help them discover who they are. And you can only offer that to the degree that YOU know who you are.
Over the years, Sissy Goff, David Thomas, and Melissa Trevathan have helped countless families through their ministry known as Daystar Counseling in Nashville, TN. Due to the unique setup of Daystar, each is frequently counseling not only the child but the parent as well. Having both perspectives provides an opportunity to speak into some of the most common struggles that parents face in today’s fast-paced society.
Intentional Parenting is built around 12 chapters that each dispel some of the most common parenting myths and reminds all parents of truths that can empower them to be not only the parents that their children need but that God has called them to be.
The book helps you discover first who you are and then takes that healthy person into a discovery of being more intentional, playful, consistent, merciful, and connected to your children.
Understanding your child. Understanding you.
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Love No Matter What
$18.99Add to cartHow will you respond when your child makes a decision you don’t agree with?
Parents and kids will never agree on everything but what can mom and dad do when that decision – whether a matter of preference, spirituality, or morality – is something they think is totally wrong? Author and speaker Brenda Garrison knows all too well that how parents respond will either build a wall or a bridge between them and their child.
Brenda and her husband were forced to answer this question when their oldest daughter Katie abruptly moved out of the house with no means of support. It was not an illegal or immoral decision, but it was one that wasn’t good for her. Their determination to keep an open door of communication is documented not only by their story, but by comments from Katie in each chapter as she offers insights from her own perspective.
Also included are other family scenarios – everything from matters of preference to foolish, immoral, and even illegal decisions – as well as insights into different styles of parenting such as servant, checked-out, gotcha, scared, and controlling parents.
With practical tips and relatable stories, Brenda shares how to model God’s parenting style and explains the difference between the parent’s responsibilities and the child’s, then helps mom and dad discover ways to develop and nurture a relationship with their child that will last a lifetime.
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Parenting In The Pew (Revised)
$18.99Add to cartForeword By Ruth Bell Graham
Preface To The 3rd Edition (2013)
Preface To The Expanded Edition (2001)
Thank You
1. Daddy, I’d Like You To Meet My Children
2. Worship B.C. And A.D.
3. Praise And Puppies
4. Sunday Morning Starts Saturday Night
5. Counting Bricks Or Encountering God
6. Make A Joyful Noise
7. Prayer, Confession And Canned Goods
8. Just How Long Was That Sermon?
9. Saving Up For Something Special
10. The Holy Hug
Discussion Questions And Reflections
Appendix A: Parenting In A Wiggly Pew, The Challenge Of An Overactive Child
Appendix B: Childrens Worship For Seeker Churches
Appendix C: Guidelines And Ideas For The “Children’s Sermon” In Worship
Appendix D: Developing An Intergenerational Approach To MinistryAdditional Info
Daddy, I’d like you to meet my children. That’s Robbie Castleman’s attitude about taking her children to church. She believes that Sunday morning isn’t a success if she has only managed to keep the kids quiet. And she knows there’s more to church for kids than trying out their new coloring books. Children are at church for the same reason as their parents: for the privilege of worshiping God. Worship, Castleman writes, is “the most important thing you can ever train your child to do.” So with infectious passion, nitty-gritty advice and a touch of humor, she shows you how to help your children (from toddlers to teenagers) enter into worship. In this significantly revised and updated third edition Castleman includes a new preface and two new appendices that provide new perspectives on children’s sermon and intergenerational community. She also provides a study guide for personal reflection or group discussion. More than ever, Parenting in the Pew is essential reading for parents and worship leaders who want to help children make joyful noises unto the Lord. -
Dancing With Max
$18.99Add to cartMeet a remarkable young man. Max doesn’t communicate like we do. But he communicates better than we do about the most important things. Max doesn’t think like we do. But his actions reflect deep spiritual truths. With candor and wit, Emily Colson shares about her personal battles and heartbreak when, as a suddenly single mother, she discovers her only child has autism. Emily illuminates the page with imagery—making you laugh, making you cry, inspiring you to face your own challenges. Chuck Colson, in his most personal writing since Born Again, speaks as a father and grandfather. It is a tender side Max brings out of his grandfather, a side some haven’t seen. As Emily recalls her experiences, we discover that Max’s disability does not so much define who he is, but reveals who we are. Dancing with Max is not a fairy tale with a magical ending. It’s a real life story of grace and second chances and fresh starts in spite of life’s hardest problems. And Max? Max will make you fall in love with life all over again, leaving you dancing with joy.
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You Cant Make Me But I Can Be Persuaded
$17.00Add to cartFor more than 10 years, this popular resource has been equipping exasperated parents with proven techniques to motivate, discipline, and communicate effectively with even the most frustrating strong-willed child.
It’s easy to recognize a strong-willed child. Difficult to discipline, at times impossible to motivate, strong-willed children present unique, frustrating, and often exhausting challenges to those who care for them. But now, the miracle parents long for can happen. Offering new hope, achievable goals, and a breath of fresh air to families and teachers, Cynthia Tobias explains how the mind of a strong-willed child works – and how to use that information to the child’s best advantage.
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Daddy Dates : Four Daughters One Clueless Dad And His Quest To Win Their He
$19.99Add to cartOne day motivational leader Greg Wright realized that the four set of pretty young eyes under his own roof were looking to Dad to be strong, fearless, and wise.
The reality was, the lone male in an all-girl household (“heck, even the dog was female”) was only thirty years old and felt like he had been shoved into the deep end of the estrogen pool without swimming lessons.
That’s when the love-struck father of four gorgeous pre-teens started searching for a plan for how to be a successful Dad, and did what any sensible guy would do. He bailed. Not only on his family, but into the woods, to seek a “solution.”
Daddy Dates is an entertaining and practical look at how one American father found his sea legs and is navigating through the tricky waters of parenting girls. In this game-changing book, Greg shares his easy-to-follow secrets for how married and single dads can go beyond high-fiving to bridge the gender gap and become the clued-in man who knows his daughter best.
Dads have more influence on their girls than anyone. Learn what makes your daughter tick, how to talk to her effectively and connect more profoundly, at any age.
If being their hero is your mission, it’s not impossible. Daddy Dates is your road map to get there.
“Hi honey. It’s Daddy. I’m calling to see if you’d like to go on a date with me tonight.”
“Um, yes, Daddy I think I would.”
It’s a phone call Greg Wright has made over and over again. By age thirty, Greg was the overwhelmed father of four beautiful little girls, with one thought running through his mind over and over again: Don’t Screw Up.
Daddy Dates is about a guy taking his best shot at being a successful dad by trying to know his girls-really know their fears, dreams, and opinions-and how he stumbled across an incredible strategy to do that with daughters of any age or stage. This funny, insightful, and relatable book poses the wildly original concept that should be a “duh” for most dads-but isn’t. In order to raise a confident woman-to-be, show your daughter what it feels like to be treated with love, respect, and true interest by a man who loves her.
Daddy Dates is not another “how to” book from a parenting expert. It’s a personal, eye-opening, often humorous look at an Average Joe’s intentional pursuit of his daughter’s hearts and minds, and the love-inspired steps he is taking to solidify Dad’s place in each of their lives, forever.
Whether married or single, Daddy Dates can help you
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Raising Financially Confident Kids (Reprinted)
$15.00Add to cartIt’s natural to want your kids to have a secure future. But when it comes to teaching the next generation how to handle money, parents are failing. Still there is hope! Financial expert Mary Hunt shows parents how to raise kids who have a healthy relationship with money–even if the parents themselves have made financial mistakes along the way or are struggling financially right now.
Drawing from solid statistics and her own hard-won knowledge and experience, Hunt helps parents protect their children from the financial pitfalls of easy credit, an attitude of entitlement, and our culture’s chummy relationship with debt. From preschool through the teen years, every stage of a child’s development is covered, including how to talk to them about money, how to help them start saving money and giving it away, and how to manage money wisely.
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Planned Purity : Creating An Environment For Sexual Purity Starting With Th
$19.99Add to cartA successfully planned parenthood starts with Planned Purity.
Saving a kiss like the young people in The Princess and the Kiss is just the beginning. In this groundbreaking purity training method for parents, best-selling children’s author Jennie Bishop shares the key to sexual purity and an honorable life: a good heart. Using Planned Purity, any reader can construct a household of purity for themselves, a child or a family. A resource section with parent/child scripts, object lessons and more makes this guide a must-have for any mom or dad planning for purity in today’s sexualized culture.
What’s inside:
* The simple secret of a pure life that even a child can understand.
* Family strategies for nurturing pure hearts, leading directly to the pursuit of sexual purity.
* Keys to raising children who refuse to view pornography.
* Initiative to overcome personal struggles as you evaluate your own pursuit of purity.
* Encouragement to help others live free of the effects of selfishness and sexual license.
Planned Purity goes beyond teen sex issues to a definition of purity that addresses heart and body, birth to legacy. Plan for that purity first, and see how not only parenthood, but all of life falls into place!
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Tough Guys And Drama Queens
$18.99Add to cartAre you ready for your child’s teen years?
If you’ve ever lain awake at night wondering what might be around the corner of your child’s adolescence, this book is for you! After more than thirty-eight years of working with more than 2,500 years, Mark Gregston, founder of heartlight, a Christian residential counseling center, introduces Tough Guys and Drama Queens?a must-read “how-to” book for parents of pre-teens and teens with time-tested, biblical techniques to guide you through these unavoidably challenging years.
Mark helps parents realize that some natural parenting approaches are actually counter-productive and therefore totally ineffective.In place of those, he offers tried and true wisdom on the vital importance of relationship, forgiveness, and explains how conflict is actually the precursor to change.
Everyday your child is bombarded by highly sexualized culture and over-exposed to words and images that can influence them beyond your reach.your connection to them during these years is critical as is your response to tough issues such as appearance, performance, authority and respect, boundaries, and many more.
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Ideas For Parents
$19.99Add to cart101 Creative Parenting Tips by Mark Matlock is divided into short, easy to read sections so parents can go straight to the topic most pressing in their household. Parents are given wise counsel, quick tips, and a Christian perspective on how to deal with a host of parenting concerns.
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Mothers And Daughters
$13.99Add to cartYou love your mother…
You hate your mother…
Mothers and daughters. In perhaps no other relationship are our hopes so high, and the dysfunction so disappointing. You feel locked into a hurtful relationship that you must deal with, and it’s wearing you down. But Jesus knew the brokenness we would face in the world, even in close places such as family relationships, and still He promised the Counselor would come alongside us.
As a daughter who has struggled to maintain a healthy relationship with her mother, author Teena Stewart will help you name your hurts, face the barriers that stand in the way of a healthy relationship, and forgive even the unforgivable. Learn how to cultivate a friendship, communicate more effectively, and become the change you want to see. There is hope for restoration and renewal.
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Have A New Kid By Friday (Reprinted)
$17.99Add to cartFamily out of control? Thinking of calling Nanny 911? Try Dr. Leman’s action plans instead! His straightforward advice offers doable day-by-day strategies to change your child’s attitude, behavior, and character—and help you become the parent you’ve always wanted to be. Includes indexed section on how to handle everything from rolling eyes to punching walls!
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Now That They Are Grown
$16.99Add to cartWe don’t stop being parents when our kids are grown…but some things do change. Life is filled with change. As our sons and daughters move into young adulthood, our role of what it means to be loving parents changes dramatically. This book aims to help readers miss as many potholes as possible in making the transition from parenting children to being parents of young adults. Here are ways to nurture our adult children while encouraging their independence and maturity. Learn to have balance. Here is how to respond to them in times of struggle. Readers will see how to be supportive, yet not intrusive, caring without enabling dependency. The questions are important. The answers are not obvious. It is a new day in our relationships with our children. The page has been turned, and we are now writing the new chapter in the life of our family. It is important that we get it right.
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Parenting Teenagers Course Leaders Guide (Teacher’s Guide)
$7.99Add to cartThe Parenting Teenagers Course consists of five sessions (or ten shorter ones), designed to equip those parenting or caring for 11 to 18-year-olds with the tools to build healthy relationship with their teenagers while guiding them into adulthood. Drawing on their own experience of bringing up four children and having talked to thousands of parents over the years on their parenting courses, Nicky and Sila Lee bring fresh insights and time-tested values to the task of parenting. The DVDs include film clips of parenting experts and of parents and teenagers sharing their own experiences of parenting or being parented, and they include breaks for practical exercises and discussions. This Leaders” Guide offers a concise yet thorough overview of the Parenting Teenagers” Course, session by session. It includes timetables for each session, suggested reading, details on how to set up and run the course, and practical tips for making your Parenting Teenagers” Course successful. The course is designed to be flexible and provides full instructions on how to use the material over five longer sessions or ten shorter sessions, depending on what suits your group. This Guide is also included in the DVD Set (SKU 100905).
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Parenting Children Course Leaders Guide
$7.99Add to cartThe Parenting Children Course consists of five sessions (or ten shorter ones), designed to equip those parenting or caring for 0 to 10-year-olds, as well as parents-to-be, with long-term strategies to build a healthy family life. Drawing on their own experience of bringing up four children and having talked to thousands of parents over the years on their parenting courses, Nicky and Sila Lee bring fresh insights and time-tested values to the task of parenting. The DVDs include film clips of parenting experts and of parents and children sharing their own experiences of parenting or being parented, and they include breaks for practical exercises and discussions. This Leaders” Guide offers a concise yet thorough overview of the Parenting Children Course, session by session. It includes timetables for each session, suggested reading, details on how to set up and run the course, and practical tips for making your Parenting Children Course successful. The course is designed to be flexible and provides full instructions on how to use the material over five longer sessions or ten shorter sessions, depending on what suits your group. This Guide is also included in the DVD Set (SKU 100902).
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My Daddy Calls Me Princess
$13.95Add to cart“Any man can be a father, but it takes a special man to be a Daddy.” Author unknown
My Daddy Calls Me Princess is a collection of ten fun-filled, beautifully illustrated stories for girls.
The short stories, about the adventures a young girl and her Daddy share, will delight every girl and teach her Daddy what she needs from him on an emotional and spiritual level.
A loving, secure and unconditional relationship with her own father is critical for a daughter to be able to relate to a loving, heavenly Father.
The book has an extraordinary message and provides fathers with a wonderful opportunity to establish and grow their relationship with their daughters.
My Daddy Calls Me Princess is a gift of love.
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Spiritual Parenting
$15.99Add to cartYour Child Is Worth All The Time, Money, Heartaches, And Effort Because Your Child Can Make A Difference In This World. From The Depths Of His God-given Wisdom, Charles Spurgeon Shows How You Can Establish A Secure, Nurturing, Christ-centered Home In Which To Grow Strong, Healthy, Happy Families. Here Is Encouragement And Advice To Parents On Guiding The Spiritual Development Of Children From Infancy Through Young Adulthood.
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Blessing Your Children
$17.00Add to cartThe seeds we plant in the lives of children will grow into good, healthy fruit or into weeds that choke out their potential and promise. But parents, grandparents, and mentors don’t always know how to speak life into a child or teen. Now Pastor Jack Hayford shows adults how to bless the kids in their lives with words of encouragement, nurture, protection, and challenge. In Blessing Your Children, Hayford shares Jesus’ tender heart for children and offers a biblical blueprint for passing on God’s blessing to future generations. This warm, insightful book, which includes an application and prayer at the end of each chapter, will be a treasured resource for parents and grandparents, children’s pastors and family counselors, and mentoring programs.
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No Easy Choice
$24.00Add to cartIn No Easy Choice, Ellen Painter Dollar tells her gut-wrenching story of living with osteogenesis imperfecta (OI)-a disabling genetic bone disorder that was passed down to her first child-and deciding whether to conceive a second child who would not have OI using assisted reproduction. Her story brings to light the ethical dilemmas surrounding advanced reproductive technologies. What do procedures such as in vitro fertilization (IVF) and preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) say about how we define human worth? If we avoid such procedures, are we permitting the suffering of our children? How do we identify a “good life” in a consumer society that values appearance, success, health, and perfection?
Dollar considers multiple sides of the debate, refusing to accept the matter as simply black and white. Her book will help parents who want to understand and make good decisions about assisted reproduction, as well as those who support and counsel them, including pastors and medical professionals.
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Special Mother Is Born
$19.95Add to cart“Your daughter has symptoms that are consistent with Down syndrome.” The nurses were surrounding author Leticia Velasquez in the delivery room when they uttered these fateful words-words that hit her stomach like a sucker punch. She was frightened and overwhelmed, but she was not alone. Four months earlier, God spoke to her in the depths of her heart; He told her that Christina had Down syndrome and that she was a gift from His hand.
If you are faced with a prenatal diagnosis or are raising a child with special needs, this book is for you. Thirty three parents who have walked in your shoes share how they encountered Christ alongside them in the darkness. You are not alone.
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Lighted Path : 101 Practical Lessons Using Gods Word As Guidance For Parent
$15.95Add to cartOlive Press Messianic (www.olivepresspublisher.com)
Publisher Marketing: This is a collection of lessons on raising children from a refreshingly different perspective and is presented in a most delightful way. The author starts with a Scripture and applies it in practical, personal ways to how we relate to our children. It is amazing how much child rearing guidance she has gleaned from the Word of God! Read it and be blessed! Buy it as a gift and bless someone else! With its beautiful interior design it makes a nice present for a young parent or a full-time grandparent or a child care worker, etc.
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Sticky Faith
$18.99Add to cartNearly every Christian parent in America would give anything to find a viable resource for developing within their kids a deep, dynamic faith that ‘sticks’ long term.
Sticky Faith delivers.
Research shows that almost half of graduating high school seniors struggle deeply with their faith. Recognizing the ramifications of that statistic, the Fuller Youth Institute (FYI) conducted the ‘College Transition Project’ in an effort to identify the relationships and best practices that can set young people on a trajectory of lifelong faith and service.
Based on FYI findings, this easy-to-read guide presents both a compelling rationale and a powerful strategy to show parents how to actively encourage their children’s spiritual growth so that it will stick to them into adulthood and empower them to develop a living, lasting faith.
Written by authors known for the integrity of their research and the intensity of their passion for young people, Sticky Faith is geared to spark a movement that empowers adults to develop robust and long-term faith in kids of all ages.
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Well Behaved Child
$18.99Add to cartA parenting workshop in a book! The biggest frustration felt by today’s parents is in the area of discipline. Family psychologist, best-selling author, and parenting expert John Rosemond uses his thirty-six years of professional experience working with families to develop the quintessential “how to” book for parents. Rosemond’s step-by-step program, based on biblical principles, traditional parenting approaches, and common sense, covers a wide range of discipline problems applicable to children from toddler to teen.
Sections include:
Essential discipline principles
Essential discipline tools
Perplexing problems and simple solutions
Not your everyday problems
General questions and answers
(Troubleshooting)Filled with real-life examples that anyone who’s ever been around children can relate to, this book is sure to be one of the most valuable, helpful resources parents have ever stumbled across.
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Co Parenting Works
$18.99Add to cartWhat if your child’s ‘life-after-divorce’ could be better than you’ve hoped for? As the post-divorce dust settles, your child’s chances of leading a healthy, successful life are directly linked to how you and your former spouse relate. So instead of listening to statistics, read this book to discover real world co-parenting strategies from author, counselor, and co-parent Tammy Daughtry. Discover how you can make positive co-parenting work for you and your child by:
* Understanding how today’s actions will affect your child in five, ten, and twenty years
* Teaming with your child’s co-parent to develop strategies in the best interest of your children
* Helping your child feel at ease in both homes
* Increasing your child’s self-esteem while minimizing anxiety
* Integrating stepparents into your co-parenting teamCo-parenting isn’t easy. But with these strategies for success, you’ll be prepared to create an enjoyable childhood and a healthy upbringing that will impact your child for a lifetime. Take heart—the future can be better and brighter than you’ve dared to hope.
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Satan You Cant Have My Children
$14.99Add to cartSatan, You Can’t Have My Children provides clear, powerful spiritual tools that can be used to nurture and raise godly children. One chapter is filled with Scripture-based prayers that can be used by readers to pray for their children-young and old. This book is a tool for showing parents that, with God, the impossible is possible. To the parent struggling with a disobedient or rebellious child, this book provides calming encouragement and godly principles that can bring about a transformation in the home. It reinforces the promise that God’s power is greater than the power of the enemy over their children’s lives. It taps into the supernatural power of the Holy Spirit to aid parents, and it advises readers: Never give up in the face of adversity. Prepare yourself to see the Word of God in action in the lives of your children, and believe that God will perform His Word.
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Just Too Busy
$14.99Add to cartJust Too Busy is the true story of the Kraft family’s head-on collision with busyness and the twelve-month experiment that changed their lives. When their children could recite the dollar value meals at McDonalds faster than their times-tables, they knew something was very wrong. So, instead of continuing their bad habits and fitting more into their schedules, they took a year off from all activities and learned how to be a family again.
In this book, readers will laugh their way to learning the ten tell-tale signs that they are too busy and discover the symptoms for a common disorder known to moms today: A.D.D. (Activity Denial Disorder). Families will find simple ways to guard themselves from the temptation of constant distraction.
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Family Driven Faith
$15.99Add to cartVoddie Baucham’s guide for nurturing a godly family is now available in paperback with added study questions.More teens are turning away from the faith than ever before: it is estimated that 75 to 88 percent of Christian teens walk away from Christianity by the end of their freshman year of college. Something must be done.Family Driven Faith equips Christian parents with the tools they need to raise children biblically in a post-Christian, anti-family society. Voddie Baucham, who with his wife has overcome a multi-generational legacy of broken and dysfunctional homes, shows that God has not left us alone in raising godly children. In his Word he has given us timeless precepts and principles for multi-generational faithfulness.Baucham’s celebrated guide for godly, healthy families is now available in paperback, with study questions added. Parents will find this a critical resource for the spiritual nourishment and protection of the next generation.
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Raising Your Childrens Children
$14.99Add to cartThere are more than six million children in the United States being raised by grandparents. In Raising Your Children’s Children, Martha Evans Sparks gives tips and wisdom so grandparents can find hope and direction to help them face their new and unexpected adventure in parenting once again. Included are the practical concerns of court proceedings, lawyer bills, hospital bills, and custody arrangememts. Your world may have just changed unexpectedly, but you are not alone. For quick, accurate answers to your sudden questions, this book is a great primer.
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What Dads Need To Know About Daughters What Moms Need To Know About Sons
$13.99Add to cartIt’s a boy!
New mothers welcome this announcement with both excitement and trepidation. It’s the beginning of a great adventure, as well as one of the most challenging jobs a woman can face.
Moms, your desire to understand your son can equip you with the power to influence his life for good, thereby influencing his family and generations to come. God made you this little boy’s mom on purpose! And with John Burns’s experienced help in this book, you can learn not only to endure it but to celebrate it.
It’s a girl!Those three little words create a rush of joy and anticipation for every new dad — typically followed by a healthy dose of fear and apprehension.
Dads, from God you can learn the qualities and characteristics that will make you the kind of dad your daughter needs you to be — and the kind of dad God always intended you to become. And with Helen Burns’s gentle advice about girls, it may be easier than you think.
Join us now as we celebrate the divine differences in sons and daughters. Learn to be gentle, loving, and understanding dads and moms from the wise and gracious Father of us all. -
Regret Free Parenting
$19.99Add to cartA motherhood expert teaches the seven essential principles every mom needs to confidently raise her children. Every mother wants her children to grow up happy, healthy, and fulfilled. But reaching that destination can be full of indecision, worry, and second-guessing. Ask any mother, “Do you think you’re doing a good job?” and she’ll likely give you a mixed answer.
In her groundbreaking book, Regret-Free Parenting, Catherine Hickem offers seven principles for mothers to raise their children well . . . and know they’re doing it right. With nearly thirty years of experience as a psychotherapist, speaker, women’s ministry director, and founder of Intentional Moms, Catherine Hickem shows how to build respect, companionship, trust, and emotional health as well as how to usher confident, centered, and secure adults into the world. If any mother has ever wondered, Am I raising a good kid and am I doing it right? she needs the impactful teaching of Regret-Free Parenting.
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Intentional Parenting : Family Discipleship By Design
$9.99Add to cartThere are literally thousands of books available on how to live various aspects of the Christian life. Of these, at least a couple of dozen pertaining to family life and child training are well worth reading. This is not one of those books. This book is designed to help you take those other books, as well as all the sermons, teachings, and exhortations you have received on child training and leadership in the home, and make sense of it all. Pastor Tad Thompson has assembled a biblical approach to effective family discipleship. Let him share it with you in this clear, encouraging, accessible book. This is not another book of tactics and techniques. It is a book of strategy for parents who want to be intentional about discipleship in the home.
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Secure Daughters Confident Sons
$17.00Add to cartPacked with research-based insights and practical tools, this enlightening book explores why gender plays such a vital role in raising children to healthy manhood and womanhood.
“Boy or girl?” It’s the most common question every expectant or new parent hears, underscoring the fact that gender is a core component of every person’s understanding of self and also key to how others view them. Parents need to know how gender identity influences a child’s development as well as their own parenting style, so they can help budding young men and women navigate their way to gender-healthy adulthood. This book explores the important questions related to raising children with a healthy sense of their own masculinity or femininity, clears up cultural confusion surrounding the hot-button topic of gender, exposes the dangers of stereotypes, and reveals how moms and dads each play a vital role in shaping their child’s understanding of what it means to be a man or a woman.
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Thats My Teenage Son (Reprinted)
$15.00Add to cartThe teen years are a vital stage for a boy as he develops into a man. But these years can also make moms feel like they have lost influence in their sons’ lives. Friends and media pull one way while Mom pulls the other. How can a mom be sure she is doing everything she can to help her son grow into a mature and responsible adult?
A follow-up to the popular That’s My Son, this book helps moms use their considerable influence to help their teenage boys become good men. Moms will learn about
The emotional life of their boys
What changes are taking place in their bodies
How to help them develop healthy sexuality
What boys fear most
What traits they need to learn to grow into good men
How to communicate with them
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Principles To Survive And Thrive In The Daily Challenges Of Parenting
$11.95Add to cartThis book contains ten principals that, when followed whole-heartedly and bathed in prayer, will change a parent’s heart and develop healthy, God-honoring children. Since parenting is not for the weak or cowardly, this book is a must for any parent who wants their children to acheive all God has in mind for them to become. These principals work in every situation a parent might encounter and with every type of child. If you follow them consistently and humbly, you will succeed beyond your wildest dreams.
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Faith Conversations For Family
$16.00Add to cartMost Christian parents know that the best way to leave a God-honoring legacy to their family is to nurture their children’s faith . . . but many don’t know where to start! This new resource from Jim Burns, founder of HomeWord, will equip parents to start important conversations with their kids–family time with an eternal impact. Faith Conversations for Families makes it easy to invite God into quality family time. Each section outlines an easy-to-follow dialogue, which is flexible for children of different age groups. In addition, suggested activities and exercises make spiritual formation adaptable for kids with varying learning styles. The six family-friendly topics included in this book are: Who Is Jesus and Why It Matters: Help parents talk with their kids about why His life, death, and resurrection are so important.What Prayer Is All About: Parents can introduce vibrant conversation with God into their family’s time together.What It Means to Be Christian: Parents can lead their kids toward a faith commitment and spiritual growth, through open communication and exciting biblical expression.A Strong Family: Parents can teach, guide, and strengthen healthy bonds within the family.Loving and Serving Others: Parents can talk with their children about servant leadership and self-sacrifice and be challenged to serve in and outside of their home.Building Morals and Values: Parents can help their kids discern and navigate cultural influences that run contrary to a biblical worldview.In the heart of every Christian parent is a desire to help their children grow spiritually. Faith Conversations for Families helps parents make that desire a beautiful reality.
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Nobody Told Me (Reprinted)
$14.00Add to cartTeens have their whole lives ahead of them, but making poor choices can undermine their hopes for a bright future. Too many young adults look back on decisions they made in the heat of the moment and regret the path they chose–they wish someone had told them how premarital sex could negatively impact their future relationships. Here is a book to help teens make the right choices when it comes to sex, based on actual questions the author has received from real-life teens.Nobody Told Me is written for young men and women who want passionate, long-lasting marriages in the future but haven’t considered how the decisions they make now impact their chances for fulfillment. This accessible book contains information teens need about the physical, emotional, and spiritual risks associated with premarital sex, as well as guidelines for making healthy choices. Teens have questions about sex, and now there is somewhere to find the answers.
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God Loves Single Moms
$16.00Add to cartWritten by a psychologist who’s successfully navigated single motherhood herself, this book helps single moms believe they and their families deserve the best life has to offer. Packed with practical tips, smart strategies, and ways to improve the well-being of single moms and their children, this book shows single moms how to improve their leadership and parenting skills. It tackles pressing issues such as self-care, a support network, organizing, finances, discipline, and more. Teresa Whitehurst reminds single moms that they don’t need to be overwhelmed and that God loves them, is on their side, and wants to guide and support them every step of the way. While they may get weary, they need never feel alone.
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Why Is Collin Like That
$25.99Add to cartMy story begins with a very unhappy baby boy, screaming day and night. My son, Collin, was diagnosed with PDD (Pervasive Developmental Disorder), under the Autistic spectrum, by the age of two. As Collin grew, the unmasking of his disorders did also. PDD, ADHD and OCD were among them. So began my new career as “doctor” stay at home mom.
I remember a seminar I attended a couple years ago with my mother. Questions from concerned parents swarmed the room like bees around a disturbed hive. The presenter addressed everyone patiently. He calmly said, “Listen, most importantly, you are looking for very peculiar behaviors.” My mother turned to me and said with a sigh of relief, “Well, thank God Collin doesn’t have any of those.” I looked at her so strange and replied, “Yeah, mom, you’re right. His sucking on batteries, throwing away silverware, keeping the spoons under his mattress and licking his hands while “grooming” his face is certainly not peculiar. I think we are safe…” We burst out laughing.
My daughter, Karlie, is a beautiful and loving little girl. Unfortunately, it took me a few years to discover how much she had taken on emotionally being the “big sister”. As parents, we do not always recognize just how much children are affected when it comes to having a sibling with a disability. Just the simple task of watching television together can be so hard for them. As parents, we need to raise awareness on the affects our “non-disabled” children deal with every day. Many prayerful nights have been spent attempting to communicate these issues to others. Prayerfully, this book will help you and His children. God hears you…and I HEAR YOU!
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7 Ways To Be A S M A R T E R Mom
$14.99Add to cart1. We’re All In This Together
2. Everybody Has A Junk Drawer
3. Streamline The Situation
4. Make A Goal
5. Accept Reality
6. Resist The Call Of The Distracted Life
7. Take A Chance
8. Evaluate All Processes And Procedures
9. Reserve Time For You-Renew!Additional Info
Being a mom in the twenty-first century is tough. Thedemands and requests made of moms makesbalancing their responsibilities a challenging task.Through 7 Ways to Be a S.M.A.R.T.E.R. Mom, motherswill learn how to work smarter, rather than harder, asthey streamline the situations they encounter eachday. With this practical resource, author KaseyJohnson teaches mothers how to set and reach theirgoals and embrace a new approach to the dailydemands of being a mother and wife.
A text about returning to the basics of mothering, thisinspirational text will challenge women to redefinewho they are in the eyes of their children and theworld, and bring glory to God for His faithfulness andstrength in being a smarter mom.
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Infinite Playlists : How To Have Conversations Not Conflict With Your Kids
$7.70Add to cartWith the easy availability and abundance of downloadable music and MP3 players, almost every teenager knows exactly how to find their favorite bands and songs online. Recent studies show that more than 50 percent of teens own their own iPod and even more search for music on iTunes. A world of influence is at their fingertips, so how and when should Christian parents monitor the music their children are listening to without creating undue conflict and argument? For author Todd Stocker, the day his son asked his preference between Van Halen and Def Leppard was the day he realized he and his son needed to have the “music talk.” Infinite Playlists is a handy guide to healthy conversation between parents and kids. Writing as both father and music-lover, Stocker calls parents to recognize music as a gift from God so they can help their kids determine the emotional, physical, and spiritual influences of their song choices. He offers a balanced look at the difference between Christian and secular music, and gives practical guidelines parents and kids can follow to choose appropriate music-together. Competing titles may try to convince parents to hate or reject secular music or, alternately, convince them that Christian music is the only way to go. Infinite Playlists does neither, seeking first to provide parents with an understanding of God’s purpose for music, then to provide biblical and respectful guidelines to aid responsible music choices. Ultimately, the goal is healthy conversation-not conflict-between parents and children so everyone can see and appreciate what music can teach us about life, about God, about others, about relationships, and about the world.
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Broken Vessels : Gods Power Through Autism
$10.99Add to cartWhy is Autism on the rise? Why are more and more children suffering from this “incurable” disease? Why can’t anyone, including the medical community, pinpoint what is really going on? Having a son diagnosed with Autism, these are just a few of the questions I have asked, yet received no real answers. Until I asked God, the Supreme Authority. Do you know that God has something to say about Autism? Believe it or not, He has plenty to say. For the sake of our children, it’s time to listen.
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Parenting With A Purpose
$27.99Add to cart“Parenting with a purpose” is the process designed by God during which each child is led to establish a foundation on which he can build a responsible, productive adult life. There are many situational variations of this process, but each variation includes a commitment to three fundamental building blocks. These building blocks are:
* A Sound Moral Base
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Im Outnumbered : One Moms Lessons In The Lively Art Of Raising Boys
$17.99Add to cartBoy #1 is a blessing. Boy #2 is a joy. But what happens with boy #3? And what if there is a #4? Or more? Suddenly, Mom is outnumbered. Throw Dad into the mix, and you have enough testosterone to chase Mom out the front door and keep her on the run from dawn to dusk. A father can tell you a lot about raising boys. Researchers and psychologists can give you a lot of statistics and advice. Other parenting books can generalize. But only a mom of all boys can really explain what life is like when you are surrounded by men. From one “boy-mom” to another, I’m Outnumbered! offers sound advice and encouragement for every mom who has more than one son, even if there’s a girl in the mix. Author Laura Lee Groves has raised four redheaded boys and has lived-in fact loves-to tell about it. Her strategy of intentional parenting (guiding moms to see their role as proactive parents) has been gleaned from her own experience, from other boy-moms, and from parenting experts. Her combination of personal anecdotes and authoritative research will show boy-moms how to handle sibling rivalry foster leadership and teamwork combat conflict stay organized love them unconditionally and much more Laced with touching and humorous stories, this practical manual provides encouragement, inspiration, and information-especially for the outnumbered mom.
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Parenting Skills
$16.99Add to cartParenting is not a one-sided affair. In order for a parent to instill character traits effectively and to instill an inward desire to serve God, the child must also have a willing spirit. The premise of this book is that no parent should set a goal of having their child turn out right; rather, the parent should set a goal of having the child do right.
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Smile From The Other Side
$16.99Add to cartVictory can come through tragedies when we lean on the strength of Jesus Christ and each other.
The Smile from The Other Side offers practical help and hope for parents who find themselves traveling the uncertain path of caring for a terminally ill child. Each chapter begins with a portion of the author’s personal story and ends with a self-help section of resources and Scriptures. The gripping account of what Lynette Norton and her teenage daughter Melissa endured, and how they got to The Other Side, will inspire and encourage you to hold fast to the persistence and faith that life-and-death situations require.
Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial, because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love him. (James 1:12 NIV) -
Surround Your College Child With Prayer
$12.49Add to cartSurround Your College Child with Prayer is the cry of a parent’s heart, your heart, for God to be real in the life of your child. This book will help you put those cries into words as you focus on certain aspects of your college child’s life and education. Don’t be intimidated by the many questions and unknowns regarding your child going to college. Take those concerns to the only One who can truly know. After all, His Word does instruct us to cast our care upon Him because He cares for us, and for our children. As you pray regularly for your college child, you will be amazed to discover your faith grow and your fears lessen as you stand on God’s Word for your child, and you will be comforted by His peace and the assurance that He hears your every word. Why not begin today?!
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Parenting Book (Revised)
$19.99Add to cart“How are we supposed to raise a kid when it wasn”t that long ago that we were kids?” Many parents have thought this as they start their families and oftentimes they hope to just figure it out as they go. But parenting isn”t easy and eventually questions will arise: How can we meet our children”s needs? How and where do we set the boundaries? How can we pass on our values to our children? While parenting carries a big cost, it also can bring the highest of rewards: the depth of love a parent feels and the privilege of knowing that we have helped shape a life. Drawing on their own experience of bringing up four children and having talked to thousands of parents over the years on their parenting courses, Nicky and Sila Lee bring fresh insights and time-tested values to the task of parenting. Full of valuable advice and practical tips, The Parenting Book is a resource for parents to come back again and again. This book is a companion to the Parenting Children Course and the Parenting Teenagers Course which are five or ten week courses including DVDs, guest manuals, and leaders” guides. About the Speakers: Nicky and Sila Lee have been married for over thirty years and have four grown children. They are on staff at Holy Trinity Brompton in London and have spoken internationally to thousands on the subjects of parenting and marriage. 550 pages Volume pricing is available
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Dont Give In Give Choices
$13.49Add to cart“We have to leave NOW!” you call up the stairs.
“No! I’m not ready. I can’t find my shoes!” comes back the whiny response.
What will you do?
A. Give in, find the shoes, and put them on your child
B. Remind the child of all the other things ‘lost’ this week
C. Find the shoes and fling them at the child
D. Put the barefoot child into the car
E. Give the child a choice of ways to leave immediatelyEvery day parents are faced with power struggles. As your child grows, the need for cooperation increases, yet it becomes more difficult to get. Grace Ketterman and Pat Holt offer simple, practical advice: you get the results you want; the child gains confidence and self-reliance. Included here are specialized chapters dealing with each stage of childhood from infancy to adolescence.
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Favorite Bible Stories For Elementary Children
$14.99Add to cartAll-in-One Bible Fun is the perfect children’s program for teachers on a budget or looking for a simpler approach. Each book is a collection of 13 Bible lessons for children containing a plan with opening, story, activity, and craft. The material is undated so teachers can use throughout the year.
Favorite Stories of the Bible lessons include:
Jacob’s Ladder
Joesph
Ruth
David and Jonathan
The Two Houses
The Sower
The Good Samaritan, and others -
Hurting Parent : Help And Hope For Parents Of Prodigals
$18.99Add to cartThis classic resource for parents of prodigal sons and daughters has been updated to not only offer tried-and-tested wisdom and hope for the newest generation of prodigals’ parents, but also to provide fresh insight and added encouragement for hurting mothers and fathers everywhere. For the first time, here is the rest of the story that inspired the original edition of this book.
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Battle Ready Moms Raising Battle Ready Kids
$25.99Add to cartMom, you are in a war for the lives of your children. The enemy is real and deceptive, and his weapons are varied. If your children are going to become the men and women that you want them to be, you must take this battle seriously and prepare to fight.
Battle-Ready Moms Raising Battle-Ready Kids equips mothers with the weapons they need to fight for the spiritual survival of their children. You’ll learn
* Why your role as mom is critically important to the well-being of your children
* How to encourage good choices through connection, not rules alone
* How to build character and nurture individuality
* How to guide both girls and boys from infancy to young adulthoodUsing Bible-based wisdom and experience-based advice, Reba Bowman challenges you to become the best mom you can be-because the destiny of your children depends on it.
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Battle Ready Moms Raising Battle Ready Kids
$16.49Add to cartMom, you are in a war for the lives of your children. The enemy is real and deceptive, and his weapons are varied. If your children are going to become the men and women that you want them to be, you must take this battle seriously and prepare to fight.
Battle-Ready Moms Raising Battle-Ready Kids equips mothers with the weapons they need to fight for the spiritual survival of their children. You’ll learn
* Why your role as mom is critically important to the well-being of your children
* How to encourage good choices through connection, not rules alone
* How to build character and nurture individuality
* How to guide both girls and boys from infancy to young adulthoodUsing Bible-based wisdom and experience-based advice, Reba Bowman challenges you to become the best mom you can be-because the destiny of your children depends on it.
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Wounded Children Healing Homes
$17.99Add to cartWhy doesn’t our child return our love? What are we failing to understand? What are we failing to do? These questions can fill the minds of adoptive parents caring for wounded, traumatized children. Families often enter into this experience with high expectations for their child and for themselves but are broadsided by shattered assumptions. This book addresses the reality of those unmet expectations and offers validation and solutions for the challenges of parenting deeply traumatized and emotionally disturbed children.
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Padres A Prueba De Crisis – (Spanish)
$12.99Add to cartFights at school, sexual abuse, eating disorders, school crises – the list goes on and on. Hardly a day passes without a local crisis at involving junior highers or high schoolers. This practical resource covers the whole continuum of private and public crisis, equipping parents to work with their kids to deal with any crisis in a way that helps the individual and helps the family stay intact.
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Praying For Baby
$15.99Add to cartPraying for Baby is a prayer journal designed to guide parents, friends and family on weekly prayer topics throughout pregnancy. It seems that today, more than ever, our children, from conception, need prayer. Is there any better gift than your prayers to God on their behalf? This prayer journal also includes freezable recipes and room to include your own favorite recipes, memories and parenting tips. What a great gift to give parents when their little bundle of joy arrives or a wonderful gift to give your child on their wedding day
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Dress For Anna
$16.95Add to cartEvery little girl loves a pretty new dress, and my daughter Anna was no exception. Trembling with emotion, she ripped open the department store bag that contained her new dress, tights, shoes, and undergarments. Then she pulled out the lavender floral print dress, caressing the silk lining and rubbing her face in the soft fabric.
?Platya,? she whispered. Dress. The quiet was only momentary, though as the reality of the situation sank in. ?Platya,? she then cheered. ?Halya doma.? Halya is going home.
Although it was the first time in her life that she had ever owned any piece of clothing, it was not the dress that brought such emotion, but what it represented. The new dress meant that it was finally the day that Halya (whom we would name Anna) would leave the orphanage and travel home to live with her new family. It was a day she had awaited for over three years, and a day that I had worked for nearly as long.
A Dress for Anna: The Redemption of the Life of a Ukrainian Orphan tells the fascinating story of how God led Deborah and Rob Amend to adopt a handicapped preschooler from an orphanage in Ukraine, and intricately knit her into their family. Beginning with the circumstances that opened their hearts to adoption, continuing through the entire process, and culminating with the difficult adjustments for Anna as she experiences life in a new culture, this book honestly shares the struggles, grief, and joy the Amend family faced as they followed God down the rocky path of international adoption.
This powerful narrative not only provides readers with a clear understanding of the often challenging aspects of adoption, particularly for special needs children, it also offers inspiration by illustrating just how much an average, ordinary family can do when listening to God and following His call.
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Diseasing Of Americas Children
$18.99Add to cartHow parents, teachers, and even professionals are being deceived by the “ADHD Establishment” regarding ADHD and other childhood behavior disorders and the drugs used to treat them. The issue of diagnosing children with behavioral diseases that do not conform to a scientific definition of disease, and then medicating them is a scandal ready to erupt. In The Diseasing of America’s Children, popular family psychologist, speaker, and best-selling author John Rosemond joins with pediatrician Dr. Bose Ravenel to uncover the fiction and fallacy behind attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), early-onset biopolar disorder (EOBD), and the drugs prescribed to treat them. Rosemond and Ravenel will: reveal the pseudo-science behind these diagnoses explain how parents, teachers, and even professionals are deceived expose the short- and long-term dangers behavioral drugs pose to children discuss how America’s schools are unwittingly feeding the diagnostic beast reveal the simple, common sense truth behind these behavior problems and give parents a practical program for curing these problems without drugs or dependence on professionals.
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Lost In Translation Book Of Revelation 2
$22.99Add to cartLost in Translation The Book of Revelation Through Hebrew Eyes is a worthy follow-up to its predecessor, Rediscovering the Hebrew Roots of Our Faith. This is the second in a three-volume series that will cover the entire book of Revelation in awe-inspiring detail, expounding and expanding on familiar verses in Gods Word that have been misunderstood and misconstrued for many years. Or, in some cases, linking together verses and concepts that have been repeatedly overlooked. In this volume the authors explore the first half of Revelation from the perspective they established so clearly in Volume 1 that of a Hebrew God speaking through a Hebrew believer to an audience that was intimately familiar with the Hebrew language, culture, customs, and concepts that form both the literal and the metaphorical foundation for vast portions of Revelation. *Who are the 144,000, anyway? What will be their true function in the End Times? *Who is the Bride of Messiah? Does that designation automatically include everyone who accepts salvation, no matter when or where? *What does the book of Revelation really tell us about two vastly different and completely separate sequences of events that transpire at one and the same time, in entirely different places yet all as integral parts of the same vast panorama of end-times happenings? How do the Wedding and the Judgments fit together if they even DO? These are just some of the questions to which youll find plausible, sensible, biblically sound answers in this volume. Please join us, right now, for another voyage of discovery unlike anything youve embarked on before, even if you’ve already read volume 1
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When Kids Hurt (Reprinted)
$20.00Add to cartChap Clark’s groundbreaking Hurt: Inside the World of Today’s Teenagers revealed the hard truth about contemporary adolescence: societal changes and systemic abandonment have left teenagers struggling to navigate the ever lengthening and ever more difficult transition to adulthood without caring adults.
When Kids Hurt offers these challenging insights to youth workers and parents in a more accessible form, with greater focus on how adults should respond. Practical sidebars and application sections, contributed by other youth experts, provide additional insights into youth culture and how adults can better guide adolescents into adulthood. This book will be an important resource for youth workers, parents, counselors, and others who work with youth.
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Get Outta My Face
$16.99Add to cartAs a seasoned parent and student counselor, Dr. Rick Horne understands the world in which teenagers live and the communication difficulty of talking to a disinterested and unmotivated teen. In Get Outta My Face, he combines biblical wisdom from the book of Proverbs with practical and specific directives that will make a difference in the life of you and your teen. Divided into three major sections, Part 1 addresses what you must understand to connect with your teen. Part 2 tells you what you must do help your teen and Part 3 tells you how to make the changes stick.
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Parenting Is Your Highest Calling
$18.00Add to cartIn search of an ideal blueprint for raising their children, many Christians believe mistaken ideas about parenting, such as:
God gives you children to make you happy, and fulfilled.
You will always feel unconditional love for your children.
Your success as a parent can be measured by your children’s behavior.
There is one “right” biblical model for family life.
Good parenting will result in happy children.As a result of buying into these assumptions, many parents struggle under a burden of guilt, frustration, and fear.
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Raising Kids To Extraordinary Faith
$14.99Add to cart1. Where Disciple-Making Begins
2. Hearing Jesus Call
3. Affirming Faith
4. Following To Obey
5. Making Prayer A Life Skill
6. Learning To Read And Study The Bible
7. Discovering The Joy Of Giving God All
8. Helping Children Take Their Places In The Faith Community
9. Never Stop DisciplingAdditional Info
We want our children to know and love Jesus and learn what it means to be His disciple. We want their lives to be defined by service to others, love for their enemies, and a deep, trusting faith in God. But even though the home is the first and best place to begin a faith journey, it takes more than home to grow a disciple. Helping kids become lifelong followers of Christ requires the investment of parents, extended family, and Christian ministry workers who partner together in raising them as disciples.Raising Kids to Extraordinary Faith is a valuable resource that gives parents and teachers a practical guide for developing Christian virtue in children. Filled with spiritual growth ideas and suggestions for developing a faith-enriched home and church environment, it provides everyone who influences children purposeful advice, spiritual insight, and essential awareness to help them make discipleship the key component of their parenting, teaching, or mentoring.
From prayer and Bible study to spiritual gifts and global awareness, Raising Kids to Extraordinary Faith shows parents and ministry workers how to partner together to help children love Jesus and learn to grow His fruit in their lives.
Features include:
Thought-provoking questions to help parents and ministry workers clarify how they can impact the spiritual lives of the children around them
Useful side bars, real-life examples, scriptural principles, and age-appropriate ideas for discipling children
A family accountability model to help the entire family add the practice of discipleship into their daily lives
A Bible study for children to help them apply God s truth to their daily lives
Downloadable resources including, a 13-week leader’s guide and student sheets for studying the book in a group setting
A bibliography of helpful resources for more spiritual growth -
Help I Dont Like My Child
$13.49Add to cartEver think that you were all alone in your struggles of life? This book is a true story about a woman and her daughter, written to help set the captive free and to help bring healing to all those who are struggling in relationships, struggling with being real, and struggling for their very soul.
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How To Be A Hero To Your Kids
$18.99Add to cartYou don’t have to be a super-parent to be a hero to your kids. All it takes is love, motivation and a workable plan. Josh McDowell and Dick Day offer a six-point, biblically-based plan for positive parenting that will set you on the path to being a hero to your child.
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ScreamFree Parenting : The Revolutionary Approach To Raising Your Kids By K
$14.99Add to cartParents are facing the toughest challenge of their lives. They want to create a loving family environment filled with mutual respect and cooperation… but they find instead that human nature and the influence of our culture combine to produce an atmosphere of anxiety, exhaustion, and far too much screaming. Perhaps you can relate!
Whether you scream at your children or not, you no doubt feel anxious about them and their choices. You worry how they’ll turn out. Unfortunately for parents, many of the techniques some experts present only seem to make matters worse. Hal Edward Runkel has discovered why: Parents are spending far too much time orbiting their lives around their children. They need to return the focus to themselves. They need to grow up and calm down.
ScreamFree Parenting is about taming your reactive responses to your deep anxiety. Rather than learning new techniques, you’ll discover the liberating principles, based on scriptural truths, that are inspiring parents just like you to revolutionize their family life. Principles that will enable you to remain cool, calm, and connected with your children, no matter what.
Learn how to parent less out of your deepest fears and more out of the highest principles in ScreamFree Parenting.
Special edition distributed through Christian booksellers.
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Teaching Your Children Healthy Sexuality (Reprinted)
$16.00Add to cartTrusted family authority Jim burns outlines a simple and practical guide for parents on how to develop in their children a healthy perspective regarding their bodies and sexuality. Much more than just the when and how of having “the talk,” this invaluable resource encourages building a “theology of healthy sexuality” through the introduction of age-appropriate dialog throughout a young person’s life.
