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From This Day Forward
$28.00Weddings have become a billion-dollar industry, with the average cost of a wedding estimated at $30,000. Taking into account dramatic shifts in attitudes toward marriage in recent years, many pastors are confused and frustrated about their role. This book offers a foundational understanding of marriage for today’s North American church. Exploring current sociological analyses of marriage and the history of Christian marriage rites, Kimberly Bracken Long suggests that the church rethink its involvement in weddings and offers a distinctively Christian understanding of marriage. Today’s church, Long contends, needs to reinterpret classic biblical metaphors and expand the range of scriptural sources that inform our understanding of marriage. Long also looks closely at each element of the wedding service and what makes a marriage liturgy faithful, inclusive, and sensitive to pastoral concerns. She provides practical suggestions for music and Scripture during wedding services as well as guidance on how to respond faithfully to those who are divorced or divorcing. Packed with constructive pastoral wisdom, From This Day Forward-Rethinking the Christian Wedding delivers a practical theology of marriage that will be of help to clergy, seminarians, and others interested in this topic.
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Spiritual Warfare For Your Family
$26.66A Practical Guide to Preparing and Protecting Families from Spiritual Attack
Parents and grandparents long to protect their children, yet many don’t know how to fight spiritual battles for their kids. But you can win the battle on the home front! In these pages you will be equipped to defend and fight for your family. You will learn what spiritual warfare is as it relates to your children as well as offensive tactics for how you can strike first through prayer and knowledge of God’s Word. Discover why you might be losing battles at home and weapons for waging war on behalf of your loved ones. Through personal and biblical stories, you will be empowered to recognize areas of vulnerability in your own family and keep your loved ones safe.
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More Than Happy
$18.99In the tradition of Bringing Up Bebe and Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, an in-depth look at the practices and principles of Amish parents and how they raise children who are self-sufficient, hard-working, and remarkably happy.
The more time Serena Miller spent in Holmes County, Ohio, doing research for her popular Amish novels, the more she began to notice something-Amish children were the happiest children she’d ever seen. Despite not having modern toys and conveniences, they are joyful, serene, calm, and respectful-not to mention whipping up full meals and driving buggies before most of us will allow our children to walk to school alone. And yet, when she started asking questions about what these parents were doing differently, she was startled to learn that happiness is not a goal Amish strive for at all.
In More Than Happy Miller uncovers many surprising insights, including the significance of real responsibilities, the wisdom of unplugging from technology, the value of unstructured time to play, the importance of firm rules, and the importance of each teenager’s freedom to decide what is best for their future.
Full of practical takeaways, More Than Happy shows you how to apply the basic principles and parenting techniques the Amish use, so you can raise happy, well-adjusted kids.
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Missional Motherhood : The Everyday Ministry Of Motherhood In The Grand Pla
$19.99Sometimes moms see the never-ending laundry, dirty diapers, and skinned knees as relatively insignificant when compared to activities and callings that seem more important and lasting. But there is eternal value in even the most mundane moments if the Great Commission informs how we’re thinking about all of life, including what it means to be a mom. Tracing motherhood in the story of the Bible and drawing out key implications for moms today, Gloria Furman helps women live out God’s story of redemption in their daily lives as they nurture their children and joyfully share the message of the gospel with those around them.
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5 Love Languages Of Children
$16.99More than 1 million sold! You know you love your child. But how can you show it so they really feel loved?
The #1 New York Times bestselling The 5 Love Languages has helped millions of couples learn the secret to building a love that lasts. Now discover how to speak your child’s love language and make them feel loved in a way they understand.
Dr. Gary Chapman and Dr. Ross Campbell help you: Discover your child’s love language, understand the link between successful learning and the love languages, see how the love languages can help you discipline more effectively, and build a foundation of unconditional love for your child.
Plus: Find dozens of tips for practical ways to speak your child’s love language. Discover your child’s primary language, then speak it, and you will be on your way to a stronger relationship and seeing your child flourish.
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Daddy Tried : Overcoming The Failures Of Fatherhood
$15.99Tim Bayly offers a frank and hope-filled path to overcoming the inherent failures of imperfect fathers. Drawing from decades of his own journey as an imperfect son, father, and pastor, Bayly makes it clear there are no quick fixes. The road to recovery is paved with blood, sweat, and tears, but our Savior walked this path before us.
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Full Circle : Full Circle
$38.60How is one supposed to cope with being left a widow after fifty plus years of marriage to a wonderful man? That was the question in Louise’s mind in the days following her husband’s passing.
During the several years of his prolonged illness, Ray had, as best he could, tried to prepare his wife to be self-sufficient. So, after she proved she could handle things on her own, Louise decided she could carry on and decided she would never remarry. She had one cat for companionship and that was sufficient. Thoughts of getting a dog for added security quickly disappeared; dogs require way too much care.
Imagine the shock when this “self-sufficient” lady found herself the owner of a little red dog with soft brown eyes. Then, as if that were not enough, a good friend from the past suddenly appears in her life, a man she had known for over forty years.
Read about the inspiring ways in which Jim and Louise reconnected after so many years and how a little dog “helped” get them together. You will be blessed by their love, faith, and commitment to each other and their ministry. This is a testimony of how a second marriage brought fulfillment and happiness to a couple and how their adult children quickly became a unit.Add to cartin stock within 3-5 days of online purchase
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Full Circle : Full Circle
$15.93How is one supposed to cope with being left a widow after fifty plus years of marriage to a wonderful man? That was the question in Louise’s mind in the days following her husband’s passing.
During the several years of his prolonged illness, Ray had, as best he could, tried to prepare his wife to be self-sufficient. So, after she proved she could handle things on her own, Louise decided she could carry on and decided she would never remarry. She had one cat for companionship and that was sufficient. Thoughts of getting a dog for added security quickly disappeared; dogs require way too much care.
Imagine the shock when this “self-sufficient” lady found herself the owner of a little red dog with soft brown eyes. Then, as if that were not enough, a good friend from the past suddenly appears in her life, a man she had known for over forty years.
Read about the inspiring ways in which Jim and Louise reconnected after so many years and how a little dog “helped” get them together. You will be blessed by their love, faith, and commitment to each other and their ministry. This is a testimony of how a second marriage brought fulfillment and happiness to a couple and how their adult children quickly became a unit.Add to cartin stock within 3-5 days of online purchase
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Asegure El Exito En Su Matrimo – (Spanish)
$14.99Con mas de un millon de ejemplares vendidos, Asegure el exito de su matrimonio antes de casarse se ha convertido en la norma de oro para ayudar a los prometidos y recien casados de hoy a disfrutar de un amor que dure toda la vida. Esta edicion ampliada y actualizada ha sido perfeccionada por anos de sugerencias, experiencias personales y lo ultimo en el campo de las investigaciones, haciendo que esta obra sea mas util e informativa que nunca antes. Asegure el exito de su matrimonio antes de casarse, creado por los doctores Les y Leslie Parrott, expertos en relaciones, es un amplio programa de matrimonio disenado de forma especifica por una pareja para las parejas de hoy. Es mas que un simple libro; es una experiencia capaz de transformar la vida. Los doctores Les y Leslie les presentan los secretos para edificar un matrimonio duradero. Asi podras * descubrir las creencias falsas mas importantes acerca del matrimonio * aprender a comunicarse con una comprension inmediata * descubrir el secreto para reducir y resolver los conflictos * dominar el arte del manejo del dinero * comenzar de una manera excelente su vida sexual * comprender los tres ingredientes esenciales de un amor que perdura * descubrir la importancia de que se conviertan en almas gemelas- y mas Haz que tu matrimonio sea todo lo que se supone que sea. Salva tu matrimonio- antes (y despues) que comience. Sencillamente, Asegure el exito de su matrimonio antes de casarse es el medio mas popular y comprobado para iniciar un amor que perdurara toda la vida.
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Risking Grace : Loving Our Gay Family And Friends Like Jesus – A Father’s S
$16.99RISKING GRACE, Loving Out Gay Family and Friends Like Jesus by Dave Jackson As someone who helped write a book advocating reparative therapy for gay people back in 1987, it was with gut-wrenching love that my wife and I did not let our daughter go when she came out 16 years ago. We first prayed that God would change her, then that he would work out his purpose in her life, and finally, “Lord, what are you trying to teach us?” God answered with insights that led me to write RISKING GRACE, Loving Our Gay Family and Friends Like Jesus. It’s a father’s story about my agonizing personal journey of coming to realize that we evangelicals have lost our way when it comes to gay people by substituting a works/righteousness requirement for the clear Gospel message that salvation comes by grace through faith alone. I explore alternative interpretations to the “prohibitive texts,” but the main foundation for my change of heart is the life and ministry of Jesus, how he embraced marginalized people, and the way he and the early church dealt with difficult issues. I share our story with you, our church family, because many of us have family members or friends who are gay, and we all need help learning how to love like Jesus. I’ve written with as much transparent vulnerability as I can, wrestling with the questions and presuppositions of the average straight dad (or mom) . . . who loves his daughter and his church but discovers that we have been driving gay people away from Jesus.
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5 Things Every Parent Needs To Know About Their Kids And Sex
$15.99Real Help for the Toughest Talks
Most parents dread talking about sex with their children. Anne Marie Miller loves giving “the talk.” As she has shared her personal story and talked about God’s gift of sex with almost half a million young people, she’s noticed some disturbing patterns:
– Google is how kids learn about sex
– Kids are learning about sex and viewing pornography earlier than parents think
– The sexually abused often don’t tell anyone for fear of getting in trouble
– Sexual messages are being consumed daily through mainstream and social media
– Most parents think their child is the exception
Instead of sweeping this topic under the rug, Miller wants to change the narrative. In this immensely practical and well-researched book, she equips parents to have meaningful and age-appropriate conversations with their children about sex, pornography, and sexual abuse. She advises parents on how to keep the lines of communication open so that their children know they can trust them with their fears, struggles, and mistakes. Most important, she offers hope to worried parents that their children can grow up with a healthy biblical view of sex as a gift from God.Add to cartin stock within 3-5 days of online purchase
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Teach Your Child To Fish
$24.98Don’t you wish someone would’ve taken the time to teach you money-management concepts at a young age? This faith-based playbook is easy-to-digest and provides guiding principles and practical activities for parents to teach school-age children money management concepts.
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Faith And Foster Care
$16.99Discover what happens when individuals and a church, corporately, begin to minster to their neighbor with intentionality, consistency, and passion. The Care Effect beautifully demonstrates how love of neighbor the Great Commandment is essential to gospel proclamation, not incidental to it. Walk the streets of New Orleans with a body of believers as they show love to neighbor. Be inspired to find a way to let your deeds of love be united with words so you too manifest the gospel to your neighbor.”
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Parents Guide To Autism
$18.99This guide will help readers have an in-depth understanding of autism, and provide a plan for parents to raise happy, healthy children.
One in every sixty-eight children will be diagnosed with autism. More children will be diagnosed with autism than with AIDS, diabetes, and cancer combined. This means every year in America sixty thousand families will receive the diagnosis that their precious son or daughter has an autism spectrum disorder. With diagnosis at such an alarming rate, how can parents be equipped to confidently raise children with autism?
All children can flourish and mature through love.
A Parent’s Guide to Autism offers interviews from forty experts, exclusive teaching on bully-proofing children, as well as practical wisdom, biblical knowledge, and life experiences from Ron Sandison. He compassionately shares his own personal struggles with overcoming autism as a minister and professional in the medical field to help parents raise outstanding children.
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Chosen For Charlie
$14.97A Life Bridge Press Title
“I chose you to be her mom.”
When faced with a diagnosis that says your child will never be “normal” or that he or she will always have “special needs,” you don’t feel chosen. You feel fearful, angry … confused. Questions race through your mind:
Why did this happen?
What am I supposed to feel?
How do I raise this child?
What do I do now?
When doctors told Jen Forsthoff that her daughter had Down syndrome, her emotions swelled. And then, God spoke: “I chose you to be her mom.”
Those words brought clarity and helped Jen see the privilege she’d been given–the honor of loving and caring for her precious daughter.
If you are the parent (or parent-to-be) of a special-needs child, you may feel lost, scared, hurt, angry, or confused. But know this: You are not alone. In Chosen for Charlie, you will find hope and encouragement for living with faith and finding the blessing in the most challenging circumstances. No, you are not alone. You are chosen.
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Managing Stress In The Christian Family
$23.68This book includes practical tools for handling stress based on solid biblical principles. Christian families experience stress just like any other family. They go through crises and conflicts, sin and sickness, fear and failure. Children and teens wrestle with pressures their parents never imagined. Loving families sometimes fight. Faithful people still struggle with finances. Yes, being Christian does not exempt anyone from the stressors of regular life. At work, in school, and around the community, believing families struggle with many issues that add stress to their lives. This book speaks to parents, teens, and children. It can help adults in the workplace and kids in schools. Within these pages are solutions for resolving conflict, dealing with bullies, managing time and money, and building sound relationships. You will learn how to develop spiritual, physical, emotional, mental, and behavioral skills to manage life’s stress effectively. No one can escape all the sources of stress, but you can discover God’s guidance in achieving peace in the midst of turmoil.
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Wrap You Up In Jesus Name
$15.93When you are young and first start raising your children there are so many questions and worries. I hope this book will be a guideline to help you get in the word of God and know what he wants us to do while we are raising our children. We have to do our part praying, reading the bible and teaching them right from wrong. But the hardest part is learning to say “Ok Lord, I know they belong to you, I have to trust you to do the rest.” Just remember what the bible says in John 15;7, “If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you”
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Dads Guide To Praying For His Kids
$13.99You want to pray for your kids, but life gets hectic. You forget. An emergency occurs. You have to work late. Bestselling author and dad Steve Chapman understands. He’s found a great solution he wants to share with you. This easy-to-remember prayer plan provides key principles and strategies to help you pray faithfully, including:
*realizing the impact of prayer so you’ll remember to do it
*discovering life-building steps for prayer to maintain your focus on God’s will
*setting up prayer accountability with another dad to encourage each otherAs a loving parent, you want your kids to know God, talk to Him, and follow His principles. This effective formula will help you pray intimately and consistently for your child.
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Small Matters : How Churches And Parents Can Raise Up World Changing Childr
$16.99Children have always been close to the heart of God and as followers of Jesus it is our responsibility to protect, nurture, and pass our faith to children. In Small Matters: Why Children are Such a Big Deal, authors Greg Nettles and Santiago “Jimmy” Mellado offer a model of discipleship that encourages parents to raise up the next generation to be deeply committed to and in love with Jesus. When we awaken to the fact that children between the ages of four and fourteen are the most likely to make a decision to follow Jesus, and that the discipleship that children receive forms their future, it will transform the way we view children, invest in them, reach out to them, teach them and ultimately, empower them to be disciples of Jesus. In recent history the church has embraced a model of discipleship that encourages parents to, “Bring your children to us and we will disciple them. And, by the way, we would love it if you would help.” This model is ineffective as much as it is unbiblical. It is imperative that the church today shifts to a new model of discipleship that encourages parents to, “Disciple your children as your primary responsibility. And, we (the church) would love to help.” Because our world is becoming more and more sensitive to the needs of children, a reflection of the heart of God, it provides those of us who follow Jesus with an unprecedented opportunity to disciple children in our homes, in our churches, in our communities and throughout the world. Now more than ever people are willing to invest in the cause of children through new church planting, equipping children’s ministries, and child sponsorship; all of which are committed to holistic child development.
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Esposo Que Quiere Para Mi Hija – (Spanish)
$15.99Un hombre integro, amable, considerado, dispuesto a obedecer la voz de Dios.
!Ese es mi yerno!
Una mujer generosa que camine a su lado y le honre con su amor incondicional.
!Esa es mi nuera!Los primeros pensamientos sobre el espinoso o delicioso tema del matrimonio de los hijos surgen cuando vemos casarse a los hijos e hijas de nuestros amigos. No dudamos en preguntar: y que tal tu futuro yerno? Como ves a tu proxima nuera?
Asi empiezan hondas conversaciones donde un completo escaneo de los candidatos es el menu de todos los dias. !Que delicia conversar sobre el matrimonio de los hijos de los demas! Pero cuando empezamos a pensar en el esposo que queremos para nuestra hija o la esposa que deseamos para nuestro hijo, todo cambia. Todo.
Es valida esta preocupacion? Deberiamos mantenernos al margen, y guardar una razonable distancia con este tema? Cuanta es la medida correcta para involucrarnos? Querido prospecto de suegro, estimada casi suegra, Guillermo y Milagros Aguayo creamos este libro para contestarte esas preguntas y todas las demas. Te armaremos de valor para intervenir con inteligencia y sagacidad en esa seleccion, desde antes de la edad casadera de tus hijos.
Al leer este libro provocador, preguntate lo siguiente:
*Son mis hijos los candidatos ideales para ser yernos o nueras respetables?
*Ya preparo a su descendencia para ser aquella persona que usted quisiera para la suya?Entonces, estas listo para lo que vas a encontrar aqui:
*Sus roles como padres en la seleccion del yerno y la nuera
*Como observar el reflejo familiar en los candidatos
*El arte de guiar a sus hijos en el cortejo y el noviazgo
*El proceso de identificar al verdadero amor en sus hijos y los otros
*Conductas que revelan honra, cobertura, entrega, valoracion y respeto de los candidatos hacia sus hijosExploremos juntos los conceptos que nos permitiran definir un estandar ideal de esposo y esposa, y decidir cual sera nuestra participacion en esta seleccion que se puede convertir en nuestra mayor bendicion.
English version
An honest, gentle, respectful man, willing to obey God’s voice
That’s my son-in-law!A generous woman who walks by his side and honors him with unconditional love
That’s my daughter-in-law!Our first thoughts on the scary theme of our children’s marriage come out as we watch our friends’ children getting married. We doubtlessly ask: “What about your future son-in-law?” or “How do you see your future daughter- in- law?”
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Family Prayer Made Easy
$14.99Today’s families are busy. Every morning, parents and children head out for a day full of school, work, sports, music lessons, church activities, and more. We return home, often tuning into television, computers, and technology-and tuning each other out! What would happen if we paused, as families, in the middle of packed schedules to seek the most important avenue of help and assurance available? What would happen if we stopped to pray?
Family Prayer Made Easy is a practical guide for praying together as a family in just ten focused devotions. Together, the family can seek God in Scripture-based, Spirit-driven, action-packed, answer-delivering prayers. It includes simple ways to come together in prayer, stories to share with children of all ages, Scriptures on prayer and God’s promises, and 100 interactive ideas for prayer and family worship.
Whether used once a week for ten weeks or once a day for ten days, these prayers and prayer activities will guide the family into powerful, consistent, inclusive prayer, with resources for years to come.
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Restoring The Pleasure (Revised)
$19.99Do you need help restoring the pleasure to your marriage? Whether you’ve been married a day, a decade, or half a century, if your sexual relationship is marred by pain, tension, or disappointment-you are not alone. Thousands of couples struggle with sexual problems that keep their marriages from being all that God intended them to be. But there is hope! Now, sexual therapists and best-selling authors Joyce and Cliff Penner share their proven methods in this comprehensive, easy-to-follow book of detailed explanations, realistic anecdotes, and clearly written exercises. Providing the biblical basis for the sexual relationship, as well as helpful diagnostic aids, the Penners help you improve communication and educate yourselves about your God-given sexual response. Then they lead you step-by-step through creative (and fun) sexual-retraining assignments to help you overcome various problems. The Penners provide straightforward advice and reassuring encouragement to help you start restoring the pleasure to your marriage. Beginning counselors and pastors will also find this an invaluable resource for helping others overcome their sexual barriers.
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Black And White Bible Black And Blue Wife
$19.99Ruth Tucker recounts a harrowing story of abuse at the hands of her husband, a well-educated, charming preacher no less, in hope that her story would help other women caught in a cycle of domestic violence and offer a balanced biblical approach to counter such abuse for pastors and counselors. Weaving together her shocking story, stories of other women, and powerful stories of husbands who truly have demonstrated Christ’s love to their wives, with reflection on biblical, theological, historical, and contemporary issues surrounding domestic violence, she makes a compelling case for mutuality in marriage and helps women and men become more aware of potential dangers in a doctrine of male headship.
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10 Secrets Of Becoming A Worry Free Mom
$19.98Every mom is concerned about her children and teenagers–their choice of friends and activities, their reluctance to talk, their dating life, their spiritual condition, and more. But when does legitimate care cross the line into fear and worry, which Scripture commands us to avoid?
Popular speaker and author Cindi McMenamin shares from personal experience–and the wisdom gleaned from many other moms–how you can;
* be a mom who encourages rather than nags
*pray, love, and care for your children’s needs and their futures
*replace your worries with peace and rest fully in God’s strengthStart now on the path to worry-free parenting–a path that leads to positive, affirming relationships between you and your kids!
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Its Not Too Late
$17.00It has long been said that once kids are in high school and college, they are beyond the influence of their parents. This pervasive cultural myth is not supported by research, biblical teaching, or even anecdotal accounts. Yet because of it, many Christian parents live in silent angst about the faith of their older and adult children, thinking they can no longer do anything to shape their kids’ spiritual and life decisions.
Drawing on sociological research and Scripture, Dan Dupee shows parents that it is not too late–and in fact these turbulent years of transitioning into adulthood are a time when their kids may need their guidance the most. He shows parents how to make the most out of the opportunities they have to offer guidance, wisdom, and spiritual support, with the goal of seeing their children not just survive college with faith intact but enter adulthood with a faith of their own–one that will carry them through all that life brings their way.
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Pocket Prayers For Moms
$9.99No one knows how quickly the chaos of daily life can become overwhelming more than moms. We lean on them for everything from hurt feelings to missing homework to broken bones. So, where can moms turn for peace and rest in the midst of mayhem? Bestselling author Max Lucado points to the Source of all hope and strength in Pocket Prayers for Moms, which contains forty scriptures and guided prayers written especially for all moms.
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Fireflies : Sharing Gods Light In The Time Of Loss
$13.73Fireflies is a wonderful little book of a family with a loss. It explains death to a child in a simple way, showing hope and love. Tyler is puzzled why his little brother left to go to heaven, but after a friend shared with him about what death really is, Tyler was comforted and had peace.
The book also has a Memory Page in the back of the book, along with ‘How to Lead a Child to Christ’. Author has released copyright on this page so it may be copied and shared in a children’s ministry area.
The illustrations are bright and colorful, giving joy to the story. Little hidden messages are scattered throughout the book.
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Pocket Prayers For Dads
$9.99Dads wear many hats. From protector to playmate, confidante to counselor. No matter the role, families rely on dads to lead with strength and faith. And in Pocket Prayers for Dads, Max Lucado offers forty scriptures and guided prayers that will help dads do just that.
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5 Love Languages DayBrightener
$11.99Falling in love is easy. Staying in love – that’s the challenge! How can you keep your relationship fresh and growing amid the demands and conflicts of everyday life? In this day-by-day supplement to Gary Chapman’s #1 New York Times bestselling book, The 5 Love Languages, you’ll enjoy excerpts and Scriptures that will help you experience deeper and richer levels of intimacy with your spouse.
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10 Great Dates To Energize Your Marriage Updated And Expanded Edition (Expanded)
$18.99Do you remember early on, loving your spouse so much that your heart ached? Did you wonder what in the world could ever dampen your excitement? If you feel those emotions weakening, don’t resign to the notion it’s inevitable. That deep, soul-satisfying connection can (and will!) be yours again with this updated and expanded edition of 10 Great Dates to Energize Your Marriage, a proven plan to revive the awe and attraction that once kept you inseparable. Think simple, fun, zero-pressure. This book walks you through tips and conversation prompts that will help you connect clearly and deeply, share openly and in safety, get back to that place of fun sex, process disappointments as a unified team, enjoy each other’s quirks once again, and create balance in today’s crazy-busy culture. Invest in your marriage today, and anticipate “falling in love all over again” to be your limitless return. 10 Great Dates to Energize Your Marriage will show you exactly how. Already excited? Grab your married friends and do it together. Be warned: The husbands may enjoy it most!
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Love Feast : Together At The Table
$22.95With autism diagnoses rising, more and more parents find the challenges of caring for an autistic child added to the everyday strains and stresses – and joys — of family life. In a deeply personal, honest, humorous set of essays, Martha Johnson Bourlakas grapples with life — life as a person of faith, life as a wife and mother, life as a clergy spouse (her husband is bishop of Southwestern Virginia), life as the parent of a developmentally disabled young adult, life as one unable to maintain pretense. Reading these essays is like sitting down over coffee with a good friend to commiserate and laugh with someone who understands.
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Lifegiving Home : Creating A Place Of Belonging And Becoming
$17.99How to make home your family’s favorite place to be . . . all year long.
Does your home sometimes feel like just a place to eat, sleep, and change clothes on the way to the next activity? Do you long for “home” to mean more than a place where you stash your stuff? Wouldn’t you love it to become a haven of warmth, rest, and joy . . . the one place where you and your family can’t wait to be?
There is good news waiting for you in the pages of The Life-Giving Home. Every day of your family’s life can be as special and important to you as it already is to God. In this unique book designed to help your family enjoy and celebrate every month of the year together, you’ll discover the secrets of a life-giving home from a mother who created one and her daughter who was raised in it: popular authors Sally and Sarah Clarkson. Together they offer a rich treasure of wise advice, spiritual principles, and practical suggestions. You’ll embark on a new path to creating special memories for your children; establishing home-building and God-centered traditions; and cultivating an environment in which your family will flourish. (Don’t miss the companion piece, The Life-Giving Home Experience.)
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Battle Cry For Your Marriage
$15.28With raw honesty four couples tackle issues of spiritual, emotional and sexual intimacy along with many other marital stresses. The authors reveal marriage lessons learned through years of experience and from counseling others. Join the battle cry for healthy marriages in this generation.
Biblically-based insights will inspire spouses to face issues, communicate honestly, find life-changing strategies and-most of all-love the One who gave them the gift of each other.
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Navigating Public Schools
$15.99Prepare The Way Publishing
Who Should Read This Book?
Navigating Public Schools will empower Christian parents to navigate the increasingly secular public school system with the aim to 1) cultivate strong relationships with their children in a season of immense secular pressure; 2) help their children stand firm in their Christian faith and Biblical worldview; 3) exercise their rights on campus; 4) become salt and light for Jesus Christ.This book will also be a powerful resource for all Christians involved in schools-teachers, administrators, staff, extra-curricular groups, Christian club volunteers, youth leaders, pastors-as they learn to discern the misapplication of the “separation of church and state” and appropriately live out their Christian faith on public school campuses.
How Can This Book Help You?
For Christians, navigating the public education system is becoming increasingly daunting. Christian parents often feel anxiety about sending their children into the public school environment. Kids spend more waking hours in school than in their homes, and while there, they face many challenges to their faith. The statistics on kids and faith reveal that roughly 50-70% of Christian teens walk away from church when they leave home, and only about 10% come out of the teen years with a Biblical worldview.Navigating Public Schools was not written to debate whether kids should be in public schools or not because the fact is, the majority of Christian kids are in public schools. This book was written to parents who are hungry for guidance on this journey. As a public school teacher for ten years, Stephen saw firsthand how a child’s faith may be eroded, so he desires to equip parents and concerned adults to protect children’s faith in schools. This book is perfect for busy parents who want clear tools to navigate curriculum pitfalls, exercise their rights in schools, build a strong worldview foundation as a family, and influence the culture for Christ. This book is meant to help Christian parents be intentional about charting a course to protect their child’s faith and Biblical worldview. But it’s not only for parents-Navigating Public Schools also equips teachers to step off the fear-induced cultural tightrope and appropriately incorporate Christianity into their curriculum. Christian educators, volunteers, pastors, and anyone who is involved directly or indirectly with public schools will learn to exercise their Constitutionally-protected rig
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In Search Of A Fathers Blessing
$19.00“There are times when I feel like the title ‘father’ is the worst name God could have given Himself. What a stupid idea, when ‘father’ means rejection in my world.”
-Excerpt from a troubled teen’s letter to Doug StringerBy the late 1980s, God began to give Doug Stringer insight regarding the state of our nation and the daily problems his ministry saw as it reached out to young people struggling with drugs, alcohol, abortion, prostitution, apathy, and other issues. The root and source of all these issues suddenly became clear: America is a nation devoid of fathers, both natural and spiritual. We are an orphaned nation with broken and dysfunctional families, a society of individuals in search of identity. Now, almost thirty years later, we have a “double generation” of fatherlessness-orphaned parents raising orphaned children. Even people with good fathers suffer from the widespread effects that fatherlessness has on our culture and our world.
Doug illustrates the heart of God and gives the reader a clear path to the affirmation, acceptance, and approval of a father. He draws from his own struggle with fatherlessness and the struggle of others to offer insight into the power of God, including:
*The answer to the problem of fatherlessness in our nation
*The importance of spiritual fathers in the church
*How to be a spiritual father
*How to find a spiritual father
*God’s heart for reconciliation between generations
*The power that is unleashed with generations work together
*How to overcome broken trust and learn to trust again.The church is only now awaking to the heart cry of a generation that has been abandoned and left to its own devices. Doug Stringer believes that God is ready to release a multigenerational anointing, calling forth generations of churches and nations to come back to their Abba Father.
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Raising Uncommon Kids (Reprinted)
$17.50The single greatest lesson parents teach their kids isn’t anything they say–it’s what they do. And while most parents would say they want to raise compassionate kids, they might be surprised to discover just how little they’re actually modeling the behaviors they hope to pass on–qualities such as unconditional love, gentleness, forgiveness, patience, gratitude, humility, and more.
In this unique book, Sami Cone shows parents a new way to look at molding their children, one in which focusing on adding good behaviors and attitudes is more powerful than eliminating bad ones. Grounding her advice in Scripture–specifically the twelve characteristics found in Colossians 3:12-17–Cone offers plenty of stories from her own life to show these principles in action. And she offers practical things parents can do right now to create a home and family that exhibits love, harmony, and generosity of spirit in a self-centered world.
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Tying The Knot
$18.99Advised by both tellers of fairy tales and harbingers of doom, many engaged couples simply don’t know what to expect from marriage, so they focus their anxious energies on the wedding day. Rob Green, a pastor, counselor, and veteran of many premarital counseling sessions, shares that the joy, fun, companionship, and love couples hope for before marriage are not only possible, they are actually God’s plan for marriage. But none of these wonderful things happen automatically when you tie the knot. A strong and satisfying marriage must be intentionally built on Jesus.
Tying the Knot offers soon-to-be-married couples a practical vision of Christ-centered marriage that is realistic, hopeful, and actionable. This nine-session study guides couples through issues like conflict, expectations, communication, finances, and intimacy, showing how each can be successfully resolved with Christ at the center of the marriage.
Knowing the stresses and needs of a couple in their season of engagement, Green has helpfully designed the study to require a manageable (and healthy) 60 minutes of at-home work per session, with questions and exercises to build communication and intimacy at the end of each chapter. Tying the Knot also includes an appendix for mentors, making it easy for a married couple, lay leader, or counselor to lead an engaged couple through the book.
Field-tested and recommended by multiple counselors in a thriving counseling practice, Tying the Knot has already guided many couples into a stronger and more joyful union. Let this nine-week premarriage study reorient your life and marriage around Christ, so you both will experience all the blessings of marriage as God designed it.
* Presents a day-to-day vision of Christ-centered marriage that is realistic, hopeful, and practical * Demonstrates clearly-in just nine chapters or sessions-how issues like conflict, expectations, communication, finances, and intimacy can only be successfully and satisfyingly approached with Christ at the center of a marriage * Field tested and recommended by multiple counselors in a thriving counseling practice * Highly practical and accessible for couples, requires about 60 minutes of weekly at-home work * Includes chapter-by-chapter exercises and questions for couples to do separately and together to build communication and intimacy * Includes an appendix for mentors to guide couples through the book
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Peanut Butter And Jelly Prayers
$21.95The dinner table may be the only time that today’s busy families sit down together – and pray together. This book meets families where they are, offering prayers of thanks for macaroni and cheese, fast-food meals, and, yes, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Includes rhyming prayers for little kids, dinner-table prayers for special family occasions, and prayers marking the movement of the church year.
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Transforming Children Into Spiritual Champions (Reprinted)
$18.82No one can deny our culture is opposed to Christian values, and the influences bombarding our children’s moral development are difficult to contend with. But few parents and church leaders realize that a child’s moral development is set by the age of nine. It is therefore critical to start developing a child’s biblical worldview from the very earliest years of life.
The problem is complex: parents who themselves did not receive early spiritual training leave their children’s training to the church. Yet the church often focuses on older children. The answer is for churches to come alongside parents to provide them biblical worldview training, parenting information, and counseling that will equip them to help their children become the spiritually mature church of tomorrow. This helpful and hopeful book unpacks just how to develop this kind of dynamic church/parent relationship and includes profiles of churches that are effectively ministering to children and winning the war for their hearts and minds.
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Sacred Art Of Marriage
$27.00Cascade Books
The Sacred Art of Marriage explores married life as an art studio with fifty-two tools to creatively craft your spiritual life together. Drawing upon the fourth chapter of The Rule of St. Benedict, this book offers married couples fifty-two weeks of spiritual practices and ancient wisdom to deepen your marriage. Newlywed couples planning and preparing for married life will encounter in this book a variety of creative plans and patterns to put into practice, including daily, weekly, seasonal, and annual patterns of healthy, married living. Journeying through a year of marriage, readers move seasonally through this four-part book, from Summer, into Fall, through Winter, and around to Spring. In The Sacred Art of Marriage, you’ll discover ancient wisdom and practical ways to deepen your spiritual life together across seasons as you grow together in God’s gift of marriage.Add to cartin stock within 3-5 days of online purchase
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SuperMom Myth
$14.99“This book isn’t about raising kids. It’s about raising Moms. . .” says author, speaker, blogger, lunch packer, and sidewalk chalk artist Becky Kopitzke. In a Pinterest-perfect culture, you’ve likely sensed an accelerated pressure to measure up. Then you either weigh yourself down with guilt or become resigned–desensitized, even–to this so-called failure. The Supermom Myth–with humor and grace, yet all the while maintaining a firm grasp on reality–aims to empower you to become the mom God created you to be. With 8 chapters, each personifying a “dirty villain” of motherhood, including The Grouch on the Couch (Anger), Fear (Worry Woman), and Busyness (The Calendar Queen), Kopitzke offers a gentle reminder to rest in the super power of our grace-filled God.
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Grieving The Child I Never Knew
$16.99Warm, encouraging, and truly helpful for anyone experiencing the terrible loss of a baby
When the anticipation of your child’s birth turns into the grief of miscarriage, tubal pregnancy, stillbirth, or early infant death, no words on earth can ease your loss. But there is strength and encouragement in the wisdom of others who have been there and found that God’s comfort is real.Having experienced three miscarriages and the death of an infant son, Kathe Wunnenberg knows the deep anguish of losing a child. Grieving the Child I Never Knew was born from her personal journey through sorrow. It is a wise and tender companion for mothers whose hearts have been broken-mothers whose dreams have been shattered and who wonder how to go on.
This devotional collection will help those mothers grieve honestly and well. With seasoned insights and gentle questions, it invites the reader to present her hurts before God and to receive over time the healing that He alone can-and will-provide.
Each devotion includes:
*Scripture passage and prayer
*”Steps Toward Healing” questions
*Space for journaling
*Readings for holidays and special occasionsAlthough the book was originally released in 2001, it remains a bestselling title on this topic.
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Saving Your Second Marriage Before It Starts Workbook For Men Updated (Workbook)
$12.99Complete with twenty-eight self-tests-two of them brand-new-and a new group discussion guide, the expanded and updated Saving Your Second Marriage Before It Starts workbooks for men and women will help couples uncover and understand the unique shaping factors they bring into their second marriage both as men and women and as individuals.
Exercises and assignments will help couples identify and meld their love styles, face the myths of remarriage honestly, become soul mates, identify each person’s “hot topics,” and much more.
The discussion guide in each workbook integrates with the Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts DVD (sold separately and includes seven pre-marriage sessions plus one additional session specifically designed to help prepare couples for remarriage) to facilitate lively and eye-opening interaction. Each session links with the workbook exercises and concludes with exercises each couple can do together between each lesson.
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Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts Workbook For Women Updated (Workbook)
$12.99The Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts Workbook for Women will help you uncover and understand the unique shaping factors you bring into your marriage both as a woman/man and as an individual. Prepare for some surprising and helpful insights, for honest, intimate, and enjoyable relationship-strengthening conversations with you and your fiance, and for engaging discussions with a small group.
EXERCISES AND ASSESSMENTS
Twenty-four exercises will shed amazing new light on the way you are put together, how that affects specific aspects of how you and your loved one relate, and how you can improve those areas to build a better relationship. You will gain unprecedented insights into – your personal “Ten Commandments” – making your roles conscious – getting your sex life off to a great start – identifying your “hot topics” – your spiritual journey … and much, much more
DISCUSSION GUIDE
Les and Leslie will help both of you enjoy lively and eye-opening interaction through seven sessions and bonus sessions on the DVD. For small groups, individual couples, and pastors and marriage counselors, each session links with the workbook exercises and concludes with an exercise each couple can do together over the next week.Add to cartin stock within 3-5 days of online purchase
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Dudes Guide To Marriage
$16.99This is a book for men who are tired of drama-filled, dead-end relationships or business-like, passionless marriages and who want to make a change. Pastor Darrin Patrick, along with his wife Amie, offers down-to-earth advice in a solutions-oriented style that will change the way men approach their most important commitment.
Each chapter focuses on a single topic-Listen, Talk, Fight, Grow, Provide, Rest, Serve, Submit, Pursue, Worship-with specific action steps for improving that aspect of a couple’s relationship. Chapters end with “Five Good Questions” that can be used as conversation starters for couples who want to put ideas into practice.
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Power Of A Praying Mom
$12.99If we can be sure our children have strong faith in God and His Word, and the love of God in their hearts, then we can trust that they are set for eternity. Our prayers play a big part in helping them achieve that. ~Stormie
Bestselling author Stormie Omartian’s heart resonates for you as a mom who wants to lift up your children to the One who is a Father to all.
Gathered in this charming little book are prayers in pairs: One for you, Mom, and a corresponding one for your children. Each set covers a topic dear to your mother’s heart–such as your children’s relationship with the Lord, their growth in faith, their health, family, and friends, and so much more. Also included are Scripture verses and blank lines for you to write prayers that are specific and personal to you and your family.
Let this lovely keepsake be a powerful reminder of how God works through praying mothers, and how covering your children in prayer will give you peace for every aspect of their lives.
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Dear Child Of Mine
$50.60In Dear Child of Mine, Deirdre Tolhurst finds the beauty in each day that passes from conception to birth. Addressing the growth of the baby within and giving God the glory for each of His miraculous works is the mainstay of this powerful devotional.
To be read out loud, each devotion begins with sweet words to the baby. The baby is told every day that it is loved and wanted, and the devotion notes what miracles are happening as the child grows. Followed by a prayer, the exciting changes inside the mother are spoken of with adoration of God’s kindness and miraculous ways. A scripture completes the devotion, always bringing the glory back to God.
This uniquely personal devotional has lines included each day so the mom can write the feelings and thoughts that captured her own heart at that stage of her pregnancy, making this a beautiful heirloom for generations to enjoy!
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Its Great Being A Dad
$19.98Three veteran dads offer their best practical advice so you can build awesome relationships with your kids. In partnership with the National Center for Fathering, they draw on their day-in, day-out experience to help you…
creatively express care and affection in ways only a father can
convey a positive perspective on life and the future
teach, counsel, and guide in ways your children can receive and remember
remind your kids–and yourself–that God is always there, listening and participating
be a dad through all the stages of your kids’ livesThese time-tested ideas will reignite your passion for being a dad. You’ll find the inspiration and know-how you need to engage with daughters and sons in the best ways possible and make your home their favorite place to be.
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Saving Your Second Marriage Before It Starts Workbook For Women Updated (Workboo
$12.99Complete with twenty-eight self-tests-two of them brand-new-and a new group discussion guide, the expanded and updated Saving Your Second Marriage Before It Starts workbooks for men and women will help couples uncover and understand the unique shaping factors they bring into their second marriage both as men and women and as individuals.
Exercises and assignments will help couples identify and meld their love styles, face the myths of remarriage honestly, become soul mates, identify each person’s “hot topics,” and much more.The discussion guide in each workbook integrates with the Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts DVD (sold separately and includes seven pre-marriage sessions plus two additional sessions specifically designed to help prepare couples for remarriage) to facilitate lively and eye-opening interaction. Each session links with the workbook exercises and concludes with exercises each couple can do together between each lesson.
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Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts Workbook For Men Updated (Student/Study Gu
$14.99The Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts Workbook for Men will help you uncover and understand the unique shaping factors you bring into your marriage both as a woman/man and as an individual. Prepare for some surprising and helpful insights, for honest, intimate, and enjoyable relationship-strengthening conversations with you and your fiance, and for engaging discussions with a small group.
EXERCISES AND ASSESSMENTS
Twenty-four exercises will shed amazing new light on the way you are put together, how that affects specific aspects of how you and your loved one relate, and how you can improve those areas to build a better relationship. You will gain unprecedented insights into – your personal “Ten Commandments” – making your roles conscious – getting your sex life off to a great start – identifying your “hot topics” – your spiritual journey … and much, much more
DISCUSSION GUIDE
Les and Leslie will help both of you enjoy lively and eye-opening interaction through seven sessions and bonus sessions on the DVD. For small groups, individual couples, and pastors and marriage counselors, each session links with the workbook exercises and concludes with an exercise each couple can do together over the next week.Add to cartin stock within 3-5 days of online purchase
