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10 Secrets Of A Successful Achiever
$12.99In 10 Secrets of a Successful Achiever, Frank Damazio shows you how to go beyond your limita-tions. Don’t let your past, your circumstances, your problems, or the opinions and criticism of others defeat you. Allow God to give you the courage and the determination to overcome every obstacle and become all that He wants you to be.
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Healing Care Healing Prayer
$16.99This book is a guide for those caregivers who want to include inner healing prayer as part of their ministry. Whether professionals or concerned laypeople, Christians can be used consistently by the Lord to facilitate deep change and healing in wounded people.
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Bible Counseling : Equipping Christians For Evangelistic Counseling
$22.99Yes, the twenty-first century is now here, and along with it, the pressures and stresses of life have grown immeasurably. Marriages are pummeled on every side; the divorce count is rising; we see an increase in the number of victims of sexual and physical abuse. Pastors are inundated with requests for counseling. What is the church’s solution? Should churches send their people to secular sources for “professional” help? Or does God have a different solution? This book is a foundational wealth of resources to train everyone in the church to apply biblical truth in a practical way to overcome the problems they face. BIBLE (Biblical Insights for Basic Living Everyday) counseling is an effective method that uses basic Bible truths about God to transform people’s emotional, mental, and spiritual states, bringing them back to the root of their faith and confidence in the God who created them.
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From Pastor To Pastor
$9.9925 Chapters
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From Pastor to Pastor provides encouragement for pastors from someone who knows what it’s like to go through the trials and the triumphs of the job. Part memoir, part devotional, these reflections will help both new and experienced pastors improve their leadership skills as they learn from the reflections of a pastor who’s been in ministry for over 20 years.Add to cartin stock within 3-5 days of online purchase
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Swans Soup And Salad
$13.95(When placing your order, please mention that this is a Lightining Source book.)
You’ve heard that chicken soup is good for the soul . . . now here’s some soup and salad! Swanberg, “The Minister of Encouragement,” serves up deliciously funny and delightful anecdotes to fill your heart and tickle your funnybone. From “Funeral Fans and Tongue Depressors” to “The Zipper Revenge,” you’ll find his off-beat humor irresistible!
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Heaven In The Real World
$15.95(When placing your order, please mention that this is a Lightining Source book.)
Let the reality of Heaven shape your experience on Earth! Through inspiring real-life stories on how the transforming power of Heaven—God incarnate—changes lives, Pastor McLaughlin helps you live a life you wouldn’t dream of giving up, build relationships you’d never think of leaving, and weather difficulties without being washed away by life’s storms.
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Rescued By The Cross
$16.99In This Compelling Book, One Of America’s Most Popular, Influential, And Compelling Youth Evangelists Reveals His Own Incredible Story Of Rescue. This Book, Ken Freeman’s First Release, Offers Hope, Encouragement, And Insight To Young Christians About How To Step Out Of The Past, No Matter How Painful, And Into God’s Purpose. No One Communicates This Message With More Clarity And Vision. Linking A Passionate Plea For An Uncompromised Life Lived In God’s Purpose With A Compassionate Understanding Of Painful Pasts, Freeman Offers A Message Of Hope And Direction To Searching Young People And Those Who Love Them. 239 Pages, Softcover. Howard Publishing.
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God Will Make A Way
$12.99(When placing your order, please mention that this is a Lightining Source book.)
Brutal double murder . . . the loss of a best friend-these are the tragedies that compelled Rush to write this compassionate book of healing. In God Will Make a Way, Rush tells his own story and the stories of others who were dealt devastating blows but trusted an unseen God to lead them on an uncharted course to the comfort and assurance they so desperately sought.
Divorce, death, disease, and broken dreams-people everywhere are searching for answers that mend and heal. This book is a hand that grasps yours and leads you to that healing.
The sections of the book move from “Heartbreak” to “Hope,” “Pain’s Joys,” “God’s Prescription for Pain,” and finally to “Victory.” For anyone who needs practical help in surviving crisis and pain-this is the book!
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30 Days Out Of Depression
$5.95Harvest Show TV guest, Susan has been a guest speaker and musician at various churches and groups around the U.S. Her Prayer Workshop, taught at Calvary Chapel Albuq., is now a workbook. Susan has been a frequent television guest and a Sky Angel Satellite Radio guest on God Answers Prayer which airs nationally. She once led a prayer group during the services at her church It became such an adventure for us. We often saw our answers for the nation and world on the television news.
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Hope In The Face Of Cancer
$15.99Harvest House Print On Demand Title
When the word “cancer” enters a person’s life many questions and fears arise. What will my journey look like? What do I do next? Is there any hope? Amy Givler, M.D. a cancer survivor, warmly shares her experience and the stories of others with the voice of encouragement, faith, and strength she so desperately needed at the point of her diagnosis. With medical knowledge and insight into the path to come, Dr. Givler is able to offer answers and hope as she discusses how to: look at cancer through the lens of hope; seek, evaluate, and make decisions for treatment; draw closer to God along the journey; and face family and friends. Dr. Gilver shares more than professional wisdom; she extends her friendship. And as a guide and a fellow traveler she provides a comforting presence during an experience that too often is mired in uncertainty, fear, and loneliness. Finally, a book that can be given to anyone, male or female, who faces cancer and to the friends, counselors, and family members who accompany someone along this journey.
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Finding Hope Again
$16.00This is a book of comfort and encouragement for all those facing difficulty or distress, based on the author’s own story of the sudden death of his wife. Full of inspiring quotations and stories of hope and courage from all over the world, the text includes letters and poetry from friends and strangers alike – all pointing to the mystery of God’s transforming presence. aaAfter his wife collapsed and died in a matter of minutes, the author’s life was turned upside down as he tried to make sense of his devastating loss. Drawing on the very practical faith he had shared with his wife, he reflected on the world’s greater sorrows: the many deaths from AIDS in Africa; the terrorist attacks in America; and the asylum-seeking children trying to fit into Glasgow life. In these stories, the light of Christ shines through human courage and kindness, pointing the way through sorrow to healing and peace.
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Gift To Listen The Courage To Hear
$12.99The Gift to Listen, the Courage to Hear interweaves listening techniques with spiritual principles that emphasize the importance of listening and provide a framework for more effective listening. Author Cari Jackson explores common causes of communication breakdowns and offers strategies for moving toward communication breakthroughs. This book will deepen the rewards of every type of human relationship.
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Pastor : A Reader For Ordained Ministry
$31.99Brings together the finest wisdom from 20 centuries of church history focusing on the core concerns of preaching the Word, caring for souls, and celebrating the sacraments via the roles of priest, preacher, teacher, evangelist, counselor, prophet, and leader. Excerpts from major lights of the past.
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When Your Childs Marriage Ends
$8.00Parents want the best for their children, from the playground to the prom and to the big promotion at work. When a child faces something as devastating as a divorce, it can be hard for everyone involved. The emotional, spiritual, social, and financial effects of the end of a marriage ripple throughout an extended family and can weigh heavy on a parent’s heart. With sound spiritual advice, this volume helps the reader heal and rebuild, offering insight into handling a divorce when it affects one of your children and yourself.
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When You Are Depressed
$8.00Depression comes in many forms and can affect virtually anyone. It can separate you from God, alienate your friends and family, and make you feel like a stranger in your own life. With encouraging, straightforward, spiritual guidance, this volume is perfect for anyone facing depression personally or dealing with it indirectly. Practical solutions encourage the reader to reconnect spiritually with God, resolve issues, and find peace.
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When You Have A Chronic Illness
$6.99Illness can strike at anytime, but dealing with a life-long ailment takes faith, patience, and adjustment to a different kind of lifestyle. Accepting and living with a chronic illness is a process that has many facets, from emotional grappling and physical adjustments to spiritual reckoning and hopeful resolution. This powerful volume will aid readers in dealing with these issues when they are facing a chronic illness.
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When Your Family Is Living With Mental Illness
$8.00Mental illness is a disease like any other. Those dealing with mental illness–whether personally in their family, or with a friend–can be confused or frustrated by a disease that is unpredictable and detrimental. With straight-forward spiritual guidance, this volume is perfect for anyone affected by mental illness. Using practical suggestions for encouraging the reader to reconnect spiritually with God, this book can help sufferers resolve issues and find peace.
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From Growing Up Pains To The Sacred Diary
$19.99The Growing Up Pains Of Adrian Plass
The Sacred Diary Of Adrian PlassAdditional Info
Two favourite works by best-selling author Adrian Plass in one volumeAdrian Plass has a way of telling our stories by telling his, and by so doing has endeared himself to a multitude of readers. Perhaps his secret lies in his humour, from the dark to the absurd. Or it could be his penchant for poking gently but frankly at the foibles of Christian living. Both qualities are on display here, with two of Plass’s best-loved books rolled into one. The Growing Up Pains of Adrian Plass offers reflections on a difficult passage in the author’s personal journey, during which the television programme Company and some of its memorable guests made a deep impact on Plass’s faith. The Sacred Diary of Adrian Plass Aged 37 1/2 is a laugh-filled, fictional daily chronicle of family and church exploits, featuring Plass’s literary alter ego and a memorable cast of supporting characters. Referring to The Sacred Diary, Plass writes, ‘I don’t think I shall ever be unhappy enough to write such a funny book again.’ Though different in character, both books in this volume explore the darker side of living the Christian faith–and, in Plass’s inimitable style, point beyond to the bright hope that lies in Jesus.Add to cartin stock within 3-5 days of online purchase
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Healing Grief : Walking With Your Friend Through Loss
$9.991. The First Day
2. The Second Day
3. The Visitation
4. The Funeral
5. Changes
6. The Second Year
7. AdjustmentAdditional Info
Many of us feel awkward and hesitant when talking to a recently bereaved person. We don’t want to say or do the wrong thing. A Healing Grief responds to this problem. Author Sara Wengerd had years of experience with death through work as a hospice nurse and care the for the elderly. Then it happened to her. Beginning with the moment that she heard the news of her husband’s accident, through the first day, the funeral, and the next two years, Wengerd illuminates the grieving process with heartfelt and surprising candor. Practical advice and suggestions at the end of each chapter make this book the perfect gift for the grieving person or a guide for the one who is walking with a friend through loss.Add to cartin stock within 3-5 days of online purchase
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When You Lose Your Job
$6.99Job loss seems to be everywhere these days, but no matter how often it happens a person may feel ill-prepared to face the many emotions that accompany it. Donna Bennett offers readers a brief guide to getting through the first days and weeks of a job loss, and suggestions for getting the next position off to a great start.
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101 Formulas For Success
$16.49101 Formulas for Success is much more about eternal success than the temporary success we can experience during our short life on planet earth. By living our life from an eternal perspective as emphasized in this book, we then possess the resources of God’s wisdom to allow us success both in this life and our soon coming eternal life. Jesus tells us in one of His last statements in the Bible: “And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.” Revelation 22:12, (KJV). Read and succeed.
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When You Are Facing A Divorce
$6.99The process of divorce begins long before the legal day of divorce and ends long after that day, and it challenges us on many fronts: physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. Writing as a survivor of divorce, Jan Ansorage addresses individuals who are facing divorce and yet care enough about their marriages, themselves, and their families to seek guidance from a variety of sources as they learn to live with this life-altering decision.
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When You Are Coping With Infertility
$6.99Most couples approach starting a family with nothing but excitement and anticipation. Unfortunatley, not every couple will conceive as easily as they had hoped they would. In this brief work, Vera Snow guides readers through the often rocky terrain of infertility. Snow encourages readers to recognize what they can and cannot control in their situations, then suggets ways to live with these challenges.
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When Your Friend Dies
$6.99Sometimes friends feel that they don’t have permission to grieve because they have a less significant experience than family members. In When Your Friend Dies, Harold Ivan Smith explores the concept of “friendgrief” and offers compassionate guidance for those who have suffered the death of a friend and yearn to come to terms with their loss. This is an extremely helpful book that provides understanding and courage for you and other friends.
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Do Not Lose Heart
$14.99Do Not Lose Heart is a legacy of encouragement for men and women struggling with the adversities of life. Whether the circumstance is divorce, the death of a loved one, the loss of a career, or a terminal illness, these brief, hope-filled devotions by Dave and Jan Dravecky will minister comfort, understanding, and encouragement. Based on 2 Corinthians 4:6-18. Do Not Lose Heart affirms the deep peace that comes from trusting in a wise and loving God.
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Reading The Bible In Faith A Print On Demand Title
$23.99Reading the Bible in Faith gathers the deepest reflections of leading pastor-theologians dealing with the heart of Holy Scripture – the restoration of the proper relationship between God and his people. Speaking ecumenically, pastor to pastor, the contributors to this very special book provide sound encouragement, rooted in both the Bible and experience, to other church leaders who are also called to stand as the theologians of their local congregations. Seeing the present “crisis of the church” more truly as a crisis of faith that compels too many pastors to major in the minors, this volume confidently reaffirms the Christian gospel as the trustworthy and dynamic basis for the church’s mission and ministry. Short, insightful writings by respected leaders of local congregations urge church renewal through scripturally grounded preaching, teaching, pastoral care, and church administration.
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Practical Wisdom For Pastors
$21.99Some aspects of the minister’s life cannot be learned in a seminary classroom. Veteran pastor Thomas covers most of them with practical insights concerning everything from personal life to church life, study habits to e-mail, pulpit notes to litigation. A rich source of help and encouragement for church leaders. Includes a pastor’s self-evaluation questionnaire.
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Seminary Student Writes
$19.99Deborah Core offers practical guidance for beginning seminary students who feel overwhelmed and underprepared to write the number and quality of papers their courses require. The book begins with reflections on writing as a sacred action, then addresses such practical matters as choosing and researching a topic; outlining, drafting, and polishing a paper; and using the proper format for footnotes and bibliography. Also included are sample papers in MLA and Chicago styles and an overview of grammar and usage.
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Letters To A Devastated Christian
$9.95Damaged by the domination of an overly authoritative Christian group, Ken finds himself a troubled young man with many questions. Ken’s experience is representative of the large number of individuals who have been hurt by different Christian movements during the last decade.
In Letters to a Devastated Christian, Gene Edwards explores the different techniques practiced by Christian groups who demand extreme submission and passivity from their members.
The book’s final chapters include some very personal and practical letters to those who have left such groups only to be faced with the difficult tasks of dealing with bitterness and resentment and rebuilding their faith and trust.Add to cartin stock within 3-5 days of online purchase
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Finding Peace For Your Heart
$18.99The purpose of this book is to bring hope, healing, and growth to anyone who is emotionally hurting or unfulfilled and to show practical steps to take a way out of pain and frustration. This is not a book to define problems but to show the solution to any problem.
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Words That Inspired The Dreams
$16.99It’s amazing what a few choice word can do…
What difference can a few choice words make to a life? Open the pages of this delightful book and take an adventure into the amazing lives of people who were inspired to new dreams and new heights by a few influential words.
And with each page, you’ll gain new visions of what your words can mean to others, and you’ll come back to the heroes and heroines of this book again and again. This is a book you’ll want to read yourself and give to anyone who aspires to inspiring dreams.
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Either Way I Win
$16.001. Trouble Ahead
2. Walk Out Of Fear
3. Standing Up When Feeling Down
4. Free To Live!
5. The Gift Of Communication
6. All Things, Lord?
7. Prayer That Makes A Difference
8. God’s Remedy For Pain
9. Words That Give Us Life
10. You Can Hear The Voice Of God
11. Going Beyond Confusion
12. God’s Provision For Wholeness
13. Making Christianity Practical
14. Healing From The Inside Out
15. Lonesome For Home
16. The Season Of SingingAdditional Info
In this short book, Lois Walfrid Johnson offers readers hope. Not just heartfelt get-well wishes, but the life-giving hope that is found in the presence of Jesus. It is because Johnson understood her life to be in tune with the Spirit of God that she was able to say, “Either way, I win.” It is her hope that this book will give anyone facing cancer or any difficult time the same reassurance.Add to cartin stock within 3-5 days of online purchase
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Keeping Hope Alive
$18.99In this fearful and cynical age, when doom and gloomers forecast catastrophe and fear mongers try to get us to hedge our bets on the future with insurance policies and safety nets, we need to rediscover real hope. Lewis Smedes says, “Hope is a native to our spirits as thinking is to our brain. Keep hoping, you keep living. Stop hoping, you start dying.” He shows how hope powers every good thing we accomplish and helps us overcome every bad thing we encounter. He talks about how to keep hope alive in difficult times, discern false hope from true hope, and move beyond worry to trust in God.
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When God Interrupts
$18.991. Losing Our Lives
2. Terrifying Opportunity
3. A Place You’d Rather Not Go
4. Abandoned 17y Success
5. Abandoned By Health
6. Abandoned By Family
7. Abandoned By GodAdditional Info
When you’re facing difficult times and unwanted changes—the death of a loved one, a child leaving home, an illness—doesn’t it seem as though God has moved far away? Barnes wants you to understand that the opposite is true. He promises hope without denying despair by showing that God is always right at your side—even in the middle of unwanted change.Add to cartin stock within 3-5 days of online purchase
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Waiting : Finding Hope When God Seems Silent
$24.99Are you waiting? For a spouse, for a child, for a new career, for healing, for relief in an unhappy marriage? Patterson uncovers two virtues of waiting patiently: humility and hope. You’ll learn how humility teaches us that we exist for God’s sake, not our own; and how hope assures us that there is something worth waiting for.
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Intimacy With Christ
$11.95Within the pages of this book you will find spiritual insight and Christian counseling from church history’s best-known woman. These letters contain her advice as shared with common people, famous people and clergy who sought her guidance.
You will receive from her, help in such areas as discouragement, failure, self-conciousness, poor self-esteem, emotional ups and downs, sorrow, embarrassment, and persecution.
She will counsel you concerning decision making, your search for God’s will in your life, and following Him and uncertainties.
You will come away from this book with more understanding of accepting others, even your opposites and responding to Christians who are at odds with you. You will gain a new perspective on peoples’ faults, as well as the church’s short-comings.
Guyon lights up the precious and powerful value of Christian fellowship. She offers advice and encouragement for Christian workers. Guyon will meet you where you are in your walk with Christ.
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Colors Of The Spirit
$15.00Seldom does a teacher come along with the ability to take the exuberance of spiritual joy and put it on a page in lessons of graceful simplicity and life-giving power. But in Colors of the Spirit, readers are introduced to just such a teacher in Dorothy Ederer. Here she shares her own prescription for a fulfilling life, and illustrates it with the stories of those who have enriched her own journey. You will see in these stories people who looked inside themselves and discovered the potential God gave them to touch others. These individuals were the colors that brightened Dorothy’s world, a world which was sometimes darkened by the hopelessness she encountered in her work as a counselor and teacher. Yet she found that just as white light is filtered through raindrops to create a rainbow, so too is God’s light filtered through all of creation and manifested in each being in a unique way. In Colors of the Spirit, Ederer goes through each color of the rainbow to share the special meanings they have for her, and how the qualities they represent can bring us peace and joy in our own lives.
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Living By The Fruit Of The Spirit
$16.99How can we experience the reality of God’s presence in our lives? This practical book shows how the fruit of the Spirit-love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self control-can put life into your faith and faith into your life.
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Is Life Fair (Reprinted)
$13.00Preface To The Second Edition
Preface To The First Edition
Chapter 1. Strong In Broken Places
Chapter 2. Loving God… For Nothing
Chapter 3. What Judas Did Not Know
Chapter 4. Medicine And Prayer: The Ways Of Healing Grace
Chapter 5. Is Life Fair?
Chapter 6. When It Isn’t The Thought That Counts
Chapter 7. The Rugged Side Of Easter
Chapter 8. What Should We Say?Additional Info
When life is complex, hearts are broken, and dreams go unfulfilled, we do not need words that are misty-eyed with shallow sentimentality, starry-eyed with naive optimism, or dry-eyed with cold logic. Rather, we need words that are clear-eyed with realism and wide-eyed with hope.These are the kinds of words that fill the pages of Charles E. Poole’s bestselling title Is Life Fair? Good Words for Hard Times. They are not perfect words or final words. Rather they are hopeful, good words for the weary ones who must stumble around on the rugged terrain of hard times.
This second edition contains a new introduction by Poole to further provide words of hope for some of life’s toughest struggles, darkest tragedies, and deepest mysteries
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