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My Quest To Be A Single Dad
$17.99Add to cartAuthor Garry White’s instinctual desire to love and provide a home for disadvantaged youth has been denied again and again on the basis of what appears to be personal bias and an isolated episode of mental illness several years in the past. In My Quest to Be a Single Dad, Garry fights the social implication and double standard that single men are unfit to be parents. Anyone involved in social family services or potential adopters will be intrigued by this determined author’s tale of continues rejection and social stigmas. Single adults hoping to adopt will also find valuable tips on the dos and don’ts of adoption, many of which Garry had to learn the hard way.
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Fledge : Launching Your Kids Without Losing Your Mind
$28.99Add to cart22 Chapters
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Your kids are spreading their wings. Are you ready? In Fledge, counselor, educator, and mother Brenda L. Yoder helps Christian parents navigate the many transitions of the launching years. How do you parent tweens at home and young adults away from home at the same time? What’s a good balance between boundaries and freedom? How can you pray for your fledgling youth? And what do you do with all that mom grief? Your job as a parent isn’t over; it’s just changing. Equip yourself with biblical wisdom for this season of transition in your family life. Learn the patterns to avoid and the habits to pursue. Launching your children can be scary, and some days it might make you crazy. But you’ve been raising them to do just this. Fledge will help you release your children into the future that God has planned for them. -
Loving Your Spouse When You Feel Like Walking Away
$16.99Add to cartWhat to do when you feel like giving up
When you said, “I do,” you entered marriage with high hopes, dreaming it would be supremely happy.
You never intended it to be miserable.
Millions of couples are struggling in desperate marriages. But the story doesn’t have to end there. Dr. Gary Chapman writes, “I believe that in every troubled marriage, one or both partners can take positive steps that have the potential for changing the emotional climate in their marriage.”
Loving Your Spouse When You Feel Like Walking Away, the revised and updated edition of the award-winning Desparate Marriages, teaches you how to:
Recognize and reject the myths that hold you captive
Better understand your spouse’s behavior
Take responsibility for your own thoughts, feelings, and actions
Make choices that can have a lasting, positive impact on you and your spouseAn experienced marriage and family counselor, Gary Chapman speaks to those whose spouse is any of the following:
Irresponsible
A workaholic
Controlling
Uncommunicative
Verbally abusive
Physically abusive
Sexually abusive
Unfaithful
Addicted to alcohol or drugs
DepressedMarriage has the same potential to be miserable as it does to be blissful. Read Loving Your Spouse When You Feel Like Walking Away to learn how you can turn things around.
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31 Days Of Prayer For My Children
$16.99Add to cartJesus is praying for your children and He invites you to join Him!
Recall an image of Jesus you’ve likely seen–Jesus, on His knees, praying. Imagine leaning in to listen to what He is praying and you hear Jesus speaking your child’s name.
Experience Jesus’ heart for your children and:
*Declare their freedom and passion to love the Lord and their family.
*Claim Bible promises for your children’s future.
*Intercede for your children’s spiritual growth and witness.
*Become an answer to your own prayers.31 Days of Prayer for My Children provides:
*True stories from mothers and fathers praying for their children to help you understand common challenges and opportunities for children.
*A powerful, Scripture-based prayer strategy for your children to better love the Lord, live God’s Word, love people, and live His mission.
*Scriptures, prayers, and promises to declare over your children.
*A practical resource for personal devotions, family studies, small groups, and parenting ministries.God has given you your children for a purpose. Support them through prayer and see the benefits in your own life.
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Read Aloud Family
$19.99Add to cartConnecting deeply with our kids can be difficult in our busy, technology-driven lives. Reading aloud offers us a chance to be fully present with our children. It also increases our kids’ academic success, inspires compassion, and fortifies them with the inner strength they need to face life’s challenges. As Sarah Mackenzie has found with her own six children, reading aloud long after kids are able to read to themselves can deepen relationships in a powerful way.
Founder of the immensely popular Read-Aloud Revival podcast, Sarah knows first-hand how reading can change a child’s life. In The Read-Aloud Family, she offers the inspiration and age-appropriate book lists you need to start a read-aloud movement in your own home. From a toddler’s wonder to a teenager’s resistance, Sarah details practical strategies to make reading aloud a meaningful family ritual. Reading aloud not only has the power to change a family–it has the power to change the world.
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Raising Passionate Jesus Followers
$19.99Add to cartFor Christian parents, there is no greater joy than seeing their children learn to walk with the Lord. And there is no greater fear than that their children will walk away from God.
After serving together in pastoral ministry for forty years, Phil and Diane Comer know those hopes and fears well. Thirty-seven years ago, they became parents themselves. And like all new parents, they were intimidated and unsure about how to take on the task of spiritually training their young children.
Now, with all four of their children grown and establishing their own households of faith, Phil and Diane have embarked on a quest to help the next generation of parents raise passionate Jesus followers. Drawing on years of pastoral counseling, teaching, leading, and decades of watching families from the perspective of pastors and leaders in ministry, Phil and Diane instruct, guide, encourage, and offer hope and practical help to Christian parents.
Raising Passionate Jesus Followersis a manual full of practical, biblically based guidelines that parents will be able to turn to again and again through each stage of their children’s development. Starting at birth, into grade school, through the daunting teenage years, to launching them into college, and finally letting go, this book contains the why’s and the how’s parents need. This book will serve as an invaluable resource for any parent whose greatest longing is to shepherd their children into a vibrant faith in God.
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Have A New Sex Life By Friday
$18.00Add to cartGiven enough time, stress, and kids, even the most satisfying sex life can turn ho-hum. Before long, you find that your conversations center on taking the garbage out, you only make love with the lights off, and experimenting in the bedroom means changing the color of the duvet.
Dr. Kevin Leman throws bored and frustrated couples an intimacy lifeline. In just one week, couples will learn
– why women need sex (and what stops them from wanting it)
– why men want sex (and why what’s important to her is important to him too)
– how to reclaim space just for the two of them
– how to communicate better for a more intimate connection
– how to spice things up in the bedroom
– and moreDr. Leman’s candid advice comes with a guarantee that with just a little attention to these doable strategies, husbands and wives can experience the kind of exciting intimacy they long for–not only by Friday, but throughout their entire marriage. Includes a bonus section of questions and answers on how couples can improve their sexual communication.
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Real Life Romance
$16.99Add to cartIs True Love Real?
See for Yourself!Does it seem like all you ever see is heartbreak and all you ever hear is how love never lasts? The world would have you believe that marriages are doomed from the start and romance isn’t worth the risk.
Immerse yourself in inspiration with these true stories of couples who found their deepest satisfaction in God…which opened their hearts to the love of a lifetime. Each account offers sigh-worthy sweetness, powerful perspective, and an abundance of hope from the highest source.
Whether you’re single and looking for a reason to believe or a parent watching your own child fall in love, this collection will provide you with spontaneous smiles and great examples to ponder.
Don’t let the world define romance for you! See how God is at work in the hearts of His people.
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Loved Fearless
$10.00Add to cartRachael Sanowski
Christian relationship book with group discussion questions and prayer prompts. Topics include: co-dependence, loving human enemies and defeating spiritual ones, learning to trust, leaving home and saying goodbye, parenting, and confession and forgiveness.
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12 Ways To Experience More With Your Husband
$17.99Add to cartWhen You’re Still Together…
But Feel Miles ApartDo you long for how it used to be? Your relationship isn’t a disaster, but it lacks the affection of its early days. Your husband is a good man, but something’s changed. The two of you don’t feel as close, and that initial spark has disappeared.
Let noted author and speaker Cindi McMenamin show you the small changes you can make to touch your husband’s heart in a big way! Through gentle guidance, you’ll be encouraged to…
*try 10 little habits that can make your home a refuge
*respond to your spouse in ways that intrigue him
*see the bigger picture when misunderstandings ariseRenew and reglue your relationship as you discover how to strengthen your marriage and reignite the passion you and your husband once shared.
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Stronger Knot : Tying Together A United Marriage
$16.99Add to cartBeing a Christ-like spouse is a daunting challenge that can feel impossible. Throughout his years of marital counseling, the author provides a manual for how two broken people can love God and each other in the midst of their imperfections.
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Finding My Son
$12.99Add to cartEric was perfectly happy being one half of a dual income, no kids family. Having the freedom to travel the world with his wife Christine, while indulging his hobbies and furthering his education and career, was a pretty sweet life.
Christine wanted to be a mom.
Though he was scared he didn’t have what it took to be a good dad, Eric wanted to fulfill his wife’s dream. After years of trying to conceive, however, the couple received a devastating diagnosis: infertility.
For Christine, adoption was the obvious answer. Eric wasn’t so sure.
In Finding My Son: A Father’s Adoption Journey, author Eric Odell-Hein offers an unfiltered view into the heart and mind of a man who has experienced the sometimes messy and often awkward process of becoming a father through adoption. Encouraging men to acknowledge the fears they don’t want to admit while advocating a thoughtful, deliberate transparency as the best approach to even the most unnatural, uncomfortable aspects of the adoption process, Eric shares his misgivings and mistakes with an honesty that does not deny his insecurities.
A valuable resource for any man considering growing his family through adoption-or anyone seeking to understand the process-this engaging memoir is a testament to the beautiful gift of adoption and a touching account of a father’s love.
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Pass The Joy Please
$15.99Add to cartThere is a joy inexpressible and uncontainable that is delivered to a woman’s heart when she delivers a baby to the world! When an ordinary woman gazes into the eyes of her baby, joy is real and recognizable; love is unconditional and bottomless.
However, sometimes that delicious joy is lost amidst sleepless nights, potty-training, strong-willed two year olds and never-ending mountains of laundry! When a weary mother is facing yet another day of tantrums, sibling rivalry, last week’s dishes in the sink and a house filled with unmade the beds, the joy of motherhood is often no where to be found.
Carol McLeod is the mother of five and the “Marmee” to currently seven precocious and precious little people. When it comes to the days of being overwhelmed with the demands of children, she “gets” it. Carol understands the desire to be the world’s greatest mom and yet falling on your face … day after day after day.
Carol is a mom who deeply cares about the next generation of women who are raising their children to make a difference in the world. She has written this devotional from the wealth of years of motherhood and from a heart that knows the true source of joy.
If you have forgotten how to giggle or sing with your children … then this book is for you!
If you have lost yourself in the quagmire of whining children … then this book is for you!
If you have screamed at your children this week for no reason other than they were acting like children … then this book is for you!If you long to wring the joy out of motherhood … then this book is for you!
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From Single To The Knot
$14.99Add to cartOur society holds a very corrupted view of marriage. At the same time that marriage is glamorized in entertainment, it is devalued by pop culture. So, if you are single and would like to be married someday, or if you are already married and need a refresher on what marriage is really all about, join the conversation in “From Single to the Knot.”
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Hope For Your Marriage
$16.99Add to cartAre you willing to do whatever it takes to have the marriage you dreamed of? Interestingly, this is the question Clayton and Ashlee ask young couples before they get married and married couples in crisis. If they answer yes, then there is hope for the couple. If they are willing to commit to the hard work ahead, they have a very good shot.
Hope for Every Marriage is a book designed for couples who desire to have the best marriage possible. Every marriage has the potential to be incredible when God is at the center.
In Hope for Your Marriage, Clayton and Ashlee share personal stories on overcoming fairy-tale pitfalls; keeping Jesus at the center of your marriage; practicing healthy communication on sex, conflict, and forgiveness; declaring life over your marriage; and leaving a God-honoring legacy.
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Kingdom Marriage : Connecting Gods Purpose With Your Pleasure
$16.99Add to cartWhat happens when a kingdom man marries a kingdom woman? Kingdom Marriage: Connecting God’s Purpose with Your Pleasure helps couples grow together as a kingdom couple to fulfill God’s design and purpose for their marriage. Through practical insights and powerful stories, Dr. Tony Evans inspires and instructs so couples will discover the hope, challenge, and guidance God’s Word provides for their journey together.
“You can reflect the glory of God and the unity of the Trinity through your shared purpose, honor, and love as a true kingdom couple.” -Tony Evans
Kingdom Marriage shows couples that the key to influencing our society and world with lasting impact is found in solidifying biblical marriage in the way God intended. It starts with both wife and husband reflecting God and His image and modeling that reflection within the roles and responsibilities of their union. This is based on a correct understanding of God’s kingdom and their responsibilities in it. Kingdom Marriage and the Kingdom Marriage devotional and video resources are part of an entire line of Kingdom products by Tony Evans, including Kingdom Man, Kingdom Woman, Raising Kingdom Kids, and the Kingdom Quest strategy guides for kids and teens.
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Mama Lista Mama Rica – (Spanish)
$14.99Add to cartCada madre conoce las decisiones dificiles que conlleva el tener un hijo, como los gastos familiares y las interminables jornadas de trabajo. Como cumples con las demandas que exige la maternidad a la vez que mantienesn tus finanzas y tu carrera bajo control? Este libro explora como las mujeres de hoy enfrentan los retos profesionales y los familiares. Escrito por una columnista de finanzas y madre, este libro combina consejos profesionales, estrategias de gastos y ahorros con entrevistas a madres profesionales en varios campos laborales. Inspirador y practico, este libro ayuda a las mujeres a crear estrategias sobre como criar a sus hijos y a la vez tomar decisiones financieras sabias que las pongas en el camino a la prosperidad.
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Venus And Virtue
$58.00Add to cartVenus and Virtue are a match made in heaven. While popular culture often tends to think of Christianity as negative about sexuality and sexual pleasure, the fact is that Christians have the best of reasons to joyfully celebrate sex as a gift. Unfortunately, there is as much confusion about sex in Christian circles as there is in the culture at large. The authors of this book believe that this confusion can only be adequately addressed by drawing from the deep wells of biblical truth and traditional theology. The writers, however, are not only experts in biblical scholarship, theology, and philosophy, but also pastoral ministry, counseling, pop culture criticism, and women’s issues. This book is not sexy in the typical sense of that word, but by situating sexuality within the cosmic drama of biblical revelation, the true beauty and goodness of sex most clearly emerges. And as that beauty emerges, we can begin to see why Christian morality not only makes profound sense, but also why it positively enriches the meaning of sex in ways that far outstrip the sexy secular alternative.
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As One : Like Christ And The Church
$12.99Add to cartWhat does a man loving his wife like Christ loves the church look like?
As One: Like Christ and the Church guides men in ways to love their wives in daily conversation, actions, and gestures. The climate of the home, direction of the family, and the comfort and confidence of the wife all start with the man.
Marriage is not “one size fits all.” Reginald Holder prompts men to ask God for understanding and guidance, study their wives daily, and then to operate in love with the knowledge gained. “I desire to see men whole, vibrant, and operating in the authority given to them as citizens of the kingdom of God.”
Readers will find practical answers and suggestions to equip husbands, and strengthen husband and wife relationships, and families.
-Loving your wife right is possible.
-Showing outward affection shows strength.
-The payoff is worth it!For the married man who will learn from this book that it’s never to late to turn it around; for the single man hoping to one day marry; for the married woman who needs to know what to look for in her husband; and the single girl on what to expect from her future husband–this book will cover it all.
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Venus And Virtue
$38.00Add to cartVenus and Virtue are a match made in heaven. While popular culture often tends to think of Christianity as negative about sexuality and sexual pleasure, the fact is that Christians have the best of reasons to joyfully celebrate sex as a gift. Unfortunately, there is as much confusion about sex in Christian circles as there is in the culture at large. The authors of this book believe that this confusion can only be adequately addressed by drawing from the deep wells of biblical truth and traditional theology. The writers, however, are not only experts in biblical scholarship, theology, and philosophy, but also pastoral ministry, counseling, pop culture criticism, and women’s issues. This book is not sexy in the typical sense of that word, but by situating sexuality within the cosmic drama of biblical revelation, the true beauty and goodness of sex most clearly emerges. And as that beauty emerges, we can begin to see why Christian morality not only makes profound sense, but also why it positively enriches the meaning of sex in ways that far outstrip the sexy secular alternative.
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Disconnected Man : Breaking Down Walls And Restoring Intimacy With Him
$20.00Add to cartTHE DISCONNECTED MAN tracks the journey of one man’s surprise discovery of his own disconnectedness and his desire to help other men, and the women who love them, before it is too late.
Disconnected men hide out in plain view: in our churches, in our families and in our communities. They are competent, capable men who quietly ‘do their duty’ and attract little attention. They are fairly happy guys, relatively unemotional and capable of carrying heavy loads of responsibility, but are very difficult to get to know beyond superficial friendship. A closer examination inside their marriages reveals a desert strewn with emotionally emaciated spouses. While their competence may build the church, organize a group, or run a company, they haven’t the slightest notion how to connect intimately with those they love. Their wives suffer, usually in silence, while the church and culture press past this couple secretly falling apart.
Jim Turner was that disconnected man going about his life, happily fulfilling his duty within his own self-protective bubble, until God suddenly burst it in a most horrific way. His story starts when that devastation left him clinging precariously to the remaining shreds of his broken marriage. Jim longs to share with other disconnected men what he learned through that ordeal, to help them understand their disobedience and show how they can achieve real connection with those they love.
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Unpopular Culture
$13.99Add to cartMoney is the key to happiness. Work hard, play hard. Look out for number one. Popular culture is full of phrases like these, telling us the best way to live, the right things to buy, the right body shape to have, the right people to hang out with. These messages are everywhere we look, 24 hours a day. But what if there was another way to live? What if we chose to live differently: to stand against injustice, to live life for more than just ourselves, to dare to be unpopular? Guvna B is rebelling against the status quo, and he’s calling you to join him. It’s time to flip the script, to demonstrate another way to live, to find freedom in going against the grain. It’s time for unpopular culture to take the stage.
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Praying The Scriptures For Your Adult Children
$19.99Add to cartAs parents of adult children, we often wonder: Will my children make good choices when they’re on their own? How can I let them go when I’ve held them for so long?
Parent and author Jodie Berndt understands what it’s like to release children into the world and still care deeply about them and everything they will face in life from relationships to career decisions and everything in between. In Praying the Scriptures for Your Adult Children, Jodie continues her Praying the Scriptures series with biblical prayers for your adult children, whether they are just leaving the nest, flying well on their own, or struggling to take off at all.
Each section focuses on a different aspect of adulthood, with encouraging stories from experienced parents who are praying their children through rocky marriages, health concerns, financial challenges and other real-life issues. At the end of each chapter, you’ll find personalized prayers for your children taken straight from Scripture. Each chapter also includes verses for you to pray for yourself as you take the challenging step of trusting God to care for your children in ways that you can’t.
With grace and wisdom, Jodie addresses cultural trends such as couples living together before marriage and young adults leaving the church, as well as the painful realities of loneliness, addiction, and mental health issues. With hope-filled words for the parents of the prodigal, she is particularly sensitive to the long-term prayers we offer, even as we doubt ourselves and grieve over our children’s choices.
Whatever you are praying for, you will find confidence and peace in these powerful prayers for your kids. Praying the Scriptures for Your Adult Children guides you to the bedrock of God’s promises as you release your children to God’s shepherding care.
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Tie That Binds
$12.99Add to cartWhether you want to add spice, develop intimacy or revive your union, this book shows you how. The author shares how she and her husband went from an ok marriage to a dynamite relationship full of high-level atraction, terrific communication, mutual respect, tons of laughter, great romance, and exhilarating sex.
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Becoming Married Staying Married
$20.00Add to cartIt’s easy to fall in love and to get married. But what does it really mean to be married? And how do you stay married?
In Becoming Married, Staying Married, couples will be encouraged to see marriage as a process that never ends. Together they will reflect on current realities particular to African American couples. They will also discover nine key principles that are required for healthy marriages, including concepts like self-awareness, flexibility, maturity, and forgiveness. Practical suggestions on how to further enhance each quality are included, in addition to African proverbs and biblical Scripture that relate to marriage. Questions for discussion and reflection are included at the end of each chapter.
This insightful resource can be used by African American couples at various stages of their relationship, but it is especially helpful to engaged and newly married couples. Pastor may also choose to use this book as a discussion starter for premarital counseling.
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Together Forever Gods Design For Marriage 2nd Edition (Revised)
$20.00Add to cartMarriage By God
As you begin preparing for your big wedding day, this Marriage by GOD program is designed to assist you in preparing for a BIG MARRIAGE. Using the companion counselor’s guide, a mature Christian couple can come beside you and mentor you through biblical principles and time-tested techniques for fulfilling God’s great plan for marriage.
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Parents Guide To Understanding Your Childrens Dreams And Nightmares
$14.99Add to cartA child with regular nightmares can easily be dismissed by professionals as just overly imaginative or too sensitive. But for any parent at their wits’ end over their child’s suffering from dreams and nightmares, a deeper understanding is needed. Is it possible that a spiritual dimension is at play? //
A Parent’s Guide to Understanding Dreams and Nightmares by Recie Saunders offers help to concerned parents. With a clear, easy-to-read style, it is an invaluable resource for all parents who want to help their kids know whether a dream is from God, interpret their nightmares, find security in God’s control, and hear God’s voice in the night season as well as the day.Drawing on his extensive research on the prophetic, visions, and dreams, Recie also peppers this practical book with stories about his own kids and their dreams. He differentiates between dreams and visions, provides creative ideas for encouraging kids’ faith, explains lucid dreaming, and lists the most common images and symbols that come through dreams. Throughout this approachable book is Recie’s tender, fatherly passion that the kingdom of heaven belongs to the “little children.” Includes dream journal, descriptions of twenty common dreams, and a dream symbol dictionary.
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Adventures Of Pfreddy The Fetus
$10.99Add to cartThis is the story of Pfreddy the Fetus as he attempts to grow from a miracle in his mother’s tummy into a human being. The adventure takes Pfreddy through the dilemma of abortion. You will be surprised to see what happens as he travels to the Planning Parenthood Place.
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Incredible Growing Basketball Goal
$24.95Add to cartDad, why did you never tell me you loved me?” His answer spoke volumes to my soul, ringing deeply out of the past and with volume into the present: “My dad never told me he loved me…so I did not know how to tell you. But Son, I love you.” After that encounter, everything changed.
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Incredible Growing Basketball Goal
$16.95Add to cartDad, why did you never tell me you loved me?” His answer spoke volumes to my soul, ringing deeply out of the past and with volume into the present: “My dad never told me he loved me…so I did not know how to tell you. But Son, I love you.” After that encounter, everything changed.
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Mr And Mrs LuxLeather
$16.99Add to cart“I found the one my heart loves.” Song of Songs 3:4
Making time to become still before the Lord together, is vital to a strong and happy marriage. This 366 devotional book written by Rob and Joanna Teigen especially for couples, will guide you to a deeper intimacy with each other and with God. The daily insights and advice will help you to grow closer to Him as you reconnect on a spiritual level. Each daily reading offers a Scripture verse, a short inspiring devotion, and a powerful pray. Whether it’s 5 or 30 minutes, the Mr and Mrs Devotions for Couples will give you a chance to become quiet and to draw on the Lord’s strength.
This beautiful blue luxleather devotional for couples has a debossed foiled title and gilt-edged pages. It is the perfect size to place on a nightstand, coffee table or bring along with you as you travel together. It has two color insides with a ribbon marker to hold your place. Featuring the verse from Song of Songs, this devotional makes a lovely gift book for a couple newly wed or ones celebrating an anniversary after many years together.
Size: 4 1/2″ (W) x 6 7/8″ (H)
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Understanding Your Teen
$17.99Add to cartPreface
How To Use This BookPart One: Parenting Teens To Become Responsible Adults
1. Understanding Your Teenager
2. Learning The Developmental Stages Of Adolescence
3. Shaping Behavior Without Crushing Character
4. Energizing Your Teen’s Spiritual Life
5. Creating A Media-Safe Home
6. Teaching Healthy Sexuality
7. Ending The Homework Hassle While Preparing For College
8. Keeping The Communication Lines Open
9. The Changing Culture
10. Your Marriage As You Raise Your Teen
11. Dealing With A Troubled TeenPart Two: Common Teen Issues And What Parents Can Do
12. Bullying And Cyberbullying
13. Tragedy
14. Dating Violence
15. Depression
16. Dinnertime
17. Driving
18. Drug And Alcohol Use And Abuse
19. Eating Disorders
20. Overweight And Obesity
21. Self-Injury
22. Sexual Abuse
23. Sleep
24. SuicideConclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes AcknowledgmentsAdditional Info
Parenting teenagers is one of the biggest challenges parents face. New realities make becoming independent more difficult. Teens are traveling a different road and are moving at a different pace than those of previous generations. Today’s cultural environment is more complicated and confusing than ever.But fear not! Family expert Jim Burns provides a handy guide for parenting teens. For teens to become responsible adults, parents need to help them grow through developmental changes to attain a healthy self-identity, establish good relationships, make wise decisions, and grow in their relationship with God. Burns shows how parents can shape behavior and character, navigate social media challenges, and communicate and resolve conflict healthily. He also tackles the realities of our day, including cyberbullying, dating violence, self-injury, depression, and much more.
Whether you’re facing serious troubles or need simple tips for a better family life, this book offers help and hope.
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Thinking About Adoption
$22.00Add to cart“Is God calling me to become an adoptive parent?” “Which path to adoption would be best?” Through simple introductions to the various kinds of adoption, thoughtful presentations of relevant biblical teaching and theological principles, and the sharing of the stories of ten adoptive families, Thinking About Adoption: A Practical and Theological Handbook for Christians Discerning the Call to Parent by Adoption is a must-read resource for Christians seeking answers to these questions. Read and reflect individually, as a couple, or in fellowship with other believers, and discover what God may (or may not) have for you!
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Why I Didnt Rebel
$16.99Add to cartIn this unique combination of personal history, interviews, and social science, a young millennial shares surprising reasons that youthful rebellion isn’t inevitable and points the way for raising healthy, grounded children who love God.
Teen rebellion is seen as a cultural norm, but Rebecca Gregoire Lindenbach begs to differ. In Why I Didn’t Rebel–based on a viral blog post that has been read by more than 750,000 people–Lindenbach shows how rebellion is neither unavoidable nor completely understood. Based on interviews with her peers and combining the latest research in psychology and social science with stories from her own life, she gives parents a new paradigm for raising kids who don’t go off the rails.
Rather than provide step-by-step instructions on how to construct the perfect family, Lindenbach tells her own story and the stories of others as examples of what went right, inviting readers to think differently about parenting. Addressing hot-button issues such as courtship, the purity movement, and spanking–and revealing how some widely–held beliefs in the Christian community may not actually help children–Why I Didn’t Rebel provides an utterly unique, eye-opening vision for raising kids who follow God rather than the world.
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Hiding In The Hallway
$16.99Add to cartWritten specifically to missionary teens, Hiding in the Hallway offers MKs a biblical context for faith in light of their unique circumstances, challenges, and opportunities. Filled with personal anecdotes, former MK Jeanne Harrison champions gospel relevancy and the need for MKs to continue to filter their lives through a biblical worldview. Covering seven key areas relevant to the missionary teen life both on and off the missions field, this book also includes a chapter for parents to help foster discussion.
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Talking With Your Kids About God (Reprinted)
$18.99Add to cartChristian parenting is hard work and it’s getting harder. Parents have a deep desire to pass on their faith, but fear that today’s increasingly skeptical and hostile world will eventually lead their kids to reject the truth of Christianity. That leaves many parents feeling overwhelmed–uncertain of what they can do to help their children, given the difficulty and extent of the faith challenges they will face.
This practical and timely resource gives parents the confidence of knowing what to discuss with their children and how to discuss it in order to facilitate impactful conversations that will form the basis of a lifelong faith. In a friendly, parent-to-parent voice, Natasha Crain identifies 30 specific conversations about God that parents must have with their children, organizing them under the categories of
– the existence of God
– science and God
– the nature of God
– believing in God
– the difference God makesChapters are sequenced in a curriculum-oriented way in order to provide a cumulative learning experience. Content is readily adaptable for use with kids of any age (elementary through high school).
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Journey Leaders Guide (Teacher’s Guide)
$54.95Add to cartThe Journey: Divorce Through the Eyes of a Teen is a small group curriculum designed to lead teens through the journey of recovery from the tragedy of divorce. This curriculum is filled with practical activities and hands-on tools to empower teens to make healthy choices.
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Exploring The Bible
$14.99Add to cartGod has given us an immeasurable gift-his very words, recorded in the Bible for us to read. Structured reading plans provide a great way to read through the whole Bible, but they’re usually not designed with kids in mind. In Exploring the Bible: A Bible Reading Plan for Kids, David Murray presents a simplified way to read the Bible by offering younger readers a plan tailored just for them. His 365-day plan guides children through key passages from Genesis to Revelation, helping them see and appreciate the big-picture storyline of the Bible. Each passage is also followed by a question to answer or a verse to write out, as well as space to write out a prayer- encouraging interaction with the text. This book will instill in children the habit of being in direct contact with God’s Word each day, equipping the next generation by laying the groundwork for a lifetime of Bible reading.
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Practical Help For Stressed Christians
$14.99Add to cartStress is now a huge factor in modern living, with one-third of British workers likely to suffer from it some stage in their careers. Christians are not immune. Indeed it is arguable that they are even more vulnerable to overstress or burnout than secular people because of behavioural expectations relating to God, Church, society, work and the prevailing culture. In order to address these particularities, each short chapter in this engaging book responds to a commonly asked question or typical statement, such as “How can I tell if I’m overstressed?’; “I’m so disillusioned and swamped at work. I don’t know how long I can carry on.’; “I’m not managing time for God as I used to.’ etc. The authors then offer basic information, followed by material for meditation or reflection; encouragement of some sort, and finally something for the reader to work on.
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Married Guys Guide To Great Sex
$14.99Add to cartKeep the sizzle in your marriage.
Sex matters in a marriage-a lot! Yet many men secretly wonder: Is she really satisfied? What do we do when our desires don’t match? How can we get back the passion we used to feel? The Married Guy’s Guide to Great Sex will tell you what you really want to know: how to make sex meaningful to your wife, build desire, get past sexual problems, and enjoy guilt-free sex.
Noted sex therapists Clifford and Joyce Penner also unveil the mystery of “what women want” and how simple it is to boost your love life by letting your wife lead. Their candid, clear style will encourage you to make great sex happen-or happen more often-in your marriage.
This title is a repackage of The Way to Love Your Wife, and is a companion to the new title Enjoy: God’s Gift of Sexual Pleasure for Women, also by the Penners.
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Becoming MomStrong : How To Fight With All That’s In You For Your Family An
$16.99Add to cartHave you ever looked into the faces of the people who call you “mom” and wondered what in the world you got yourself into?
If you’re like many Christian moms today, you’ve been reading the headlines and watching the rapid-fire changes in our culture with frustration and fear. Let’s face it: Moms today are facing questions that previous generations didn’t even see coming, and even our right to determine what is best for our own children is under fire. Popular speaker and blogger Heidi St. John (The Busy Mom) believes that today’s mothers need a special kind of strength. We need to be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. We dare not rely on human strength for the battles we’re facing right now. In Becoming MomStrong, Heidi has a powerful message just for you-the mom in the midst of it all. Through encouragement, practical prayer points, and authentic “me-too” moments, Heidi equips you for a job that only you can do: to train your children to hear God’s voice and to walk in truth no matter where our culture is heading. God wants to use this generation of mothers to do something extraordinary:
*To be strong in the Lord
*To know who you are in Christ, and
*To impart that strength to your kids.In other words, He wants you to be MomStrong! So if you’re feeling tired or inadequate today, get ready to find new strength as you join Heidi St. John in Becoming MomStrong.
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Commandment We Forgot
$7.99Add to cartA commandment from God. A commandment with a promise. A commandment we forgot.
We are all children, we ought to pursue God’s blessings, and we need to give prominence to God’s prominent command: Honor your father and your mother. For these reasons, we can no longer ignore the forgotten Fifth Commandment.
This commandment is not just for children. Rather, it pertains to the whole of life and to every person of every age. In the home, the church, and the workplace, it provides a stable foundation for all of society. Yet, we often neglect it and fail to appreciate its relevance to our lives. It is the commandment we forgot.
This booklet is a brief exploration of the Fifth Commandment: Honor your father and your mother. It answers important questions relevant to every Christian: Does this commandment expire when we move out of our parents’ home and gain our independence? Does it cease being relevant once we are married? Is obedience synonymous with honor? Do we need to be prepared to provide for them financially? What if our parents are especially difficult or unworthy of respect?
My hope is that this booklet will restore the centrality of the fifth commandment, even and especially to adults. Let’s look together to the Bible and, ultimately, to Jesus Christ as the perfect fulfillment of the commandment we forgot.
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All Im Created To Be Set Free
$19.95Add to cartLeave the ashes of failure, self-doubt, and discouragement, and discover who God created you to be. All I’m Created to Be: Set Free! is a biblically and psychologically based workbook written by a Christian psychologist. A winner of two awards, this workbook is designed to help you resolve issues from your childhood, develop and strengthen your self-esteem and confidence, and grow spiritually. Proceeds from the sale of this book will go to Christian charities whose focus is the prevention of child abuse and human trafficking.
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Mother God Made Me To Be
$19.99Add to cartA contributor to Guideposts annuals for ten years, Karen Valentin’s narrative pieces about her journey to marriage and motherhood and then to single motherhood have resonated with readers. Here she collects the longer versions of her pieces and adds many new ones.
Karen lived an adventurous single life but longed for a family of her own. After years of maintaining her vow of purity and waiting for a man who shared her Christian faith, she fell in love with her best friend and co-worker. They married. She bore two sons. They divorced.
With humor, honesty and raw emotion, Valentin tells her story of wrestling between God’s will and her own, with visions of happily ever after. In the midst of her weakness and grief, she experiences God’s strength and restoration like never before. Through her family and friends, mission workers, the pastor of Graffiti Church, and her two beautiful boys, God turns her ashes to beauty and her sorrow into joy.
Women who desire to be loved, who know the pain of rejection and who have found themselves in a dark place will be touched by her pain and encouraged by her victories.
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Strong Fathers Strong Daughters
$16.99Add to cartDrawing on her thirty years’ experience practicing pediatric and adolescent medicine, teen health expert Dr. Meg Meeker explains why an active father figure is maybe the single most important factor in a young woman’s development. In this invaluable guide, Meeker shows how a father can be both counsel and protector for his daughter as she grows into a spiritually and mentally strong young woman.
From cradling his newborn to walking her down the aisle, a father must relish his paramount responsibility-guiding the course of his daughter’s life. Meeker reveals
* how a man can become a “strong father”
* how a father’s guidance influences every part of a woman’s life, from her self-respect to her perspective on drugs, alcohol, and sex
* how to lay down ground rules that are respected without creating distance in your relationship with your daughter
* why you need to be your daughter’s hero
* the mistakes most fathers make and their serious consequences
* how to help daughters make their own good decisions and avoid disastrous mistakes
* how a father’s faith will influence his daughter’s spiritual development
* how to get through to you daughter, even during her toughest don’t-talk-to-me years
* true stories of daughters who were on the wrong path-and how their fathers helped to bring them backLearn how to grow, strengthen, or rebuild your relationship with your daughter to better both your life and hers in the bestselling Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters: 10 Secrets Every Father Should Know.
