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100 Days Of Prayer Daily Devotional
$14.99Discover the comfort, power, and peace only God can give! Covering topics including the effects of prayer, the Lord’s guidance, and growing in Christ, Arterburn urges you to search for divine direction when you are faced with powerful temptations or seemingly unsolvable problems. Includes memory verses, brief meditations, inspirational quotes, and closing prayers. Approx. 200 pages, imitation leather from Rose.
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Untouchable
$14.99Too many Christians believe that they’re too faithful to lie, steal, cheat, or betray. Failing to fortify themselves, they end up doing those very things. Pastor Brittany Rust was one such person, and here she unravels the myth of being untouchable, gives practical ways to guard against temptation, and shows that no one is beyond God’s redeeming love.
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Stop Asking Jesus Into Your Heart Teen Edition
$9.99Am I saved? How do I know for sure?
Many teens struggle with assurance of salvation. Despite God’s desire that you be fully confident of your place with Him, you might often wonder if you truly belong to Jesus and He truly belongs to you.
In this teen edition of Stop Asking Jesus into Your Heart, the authors answer the tough questions about assurance:What exactly is faith? What is repentance? Why are there so many warnings that seem to suggest we can lose our salvation?
With the right answers, you will understand that salvation isn’t about just saying a prayer, walking an aisle, or holding up your hand. You will know for sure that salvation rests on your response of repentance and faith toward the finished work of Jesus.
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Itll Be Okay
$14.99A nationally-known Bible teacher addresses the healthy role doubt can play in a Christian’s life and encourages addressing doubts head-on to feed faith while teaching that misgivings and fears can be happily resolved through the grid of God’s Word-without leading to an unbelieving way of life.
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Unbound : Finding Freedom From Unrealistic Expectations Of Motherhood
$14.99In UNBOUND, Jamie Sumner gives a hope-filled voice to the silent ones, the women in the Christian community whose picture of motherhood is strained by difficulty, otherness, and even despair. She helps women find hope and companionship by detailing her own difficult journey and highlighting women from the Bible who triumphed in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds.
Women, especially Christian women, do not talk enough about the reality of motherhood: the enormous struggles it takes to get there, the loneliness of it, the unspoken or unmet expectations. We are often too afraid, ashamed, or unwilling to share our stories of disillusionment or pain. We quietly absorb the posts of sonograms and happily messy houses on Facebook as we inwardly wonder what’s the matter with us. We listen to friends coo about their child’s latest success as we watch our own terrorize their sibling or scream for an hour. We struggle to raise kids with special needs, physical disabilities, and social challenges, caught by surprise that this is what motherhood looks like.
With honesty and vulnerability, Jamie Sumner walks readers through each chapter of her own journey to motherhood through infertility and special needs parenting and pairs it with that of a woman in the Bible so that readers can find comfort, hope, companionship and honesty rooted in biblical truths.
The book is broken into four parts: The Wanting, The Waiting, The Getting and The Appreciating. UNBOUND will share the heartbreak of infertility and offer encouragement from someone who has had to wait for the fulfillment of motherhood; detail the specifics of infertility treatments, miscarriage, and raising special needs children through a Christian lens; honestly discuss the expectations versus the reality of being a mother; and highlight specific biblical women in each chapter who did not fit the expectations of their times through verses, scriptural anecdotes and guiding questions.
UNBOUND shows you through Scripture how to be thankful for each step wherever it leads. Happiness is found as we release into His hands our own well-laid plans for His better, and more beautiful one, no matter how different it may look from what we first imagined.
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When You Pray
$12.99Prayer is one of the most important areas of a Christian’s life. Written in 2010 by spiritual formation leader, Bishop Rueben P. Job, When You Pray has reached over 20,000 readers since its publication. This daily prayer guide offers a full year of readings and scripture and is an excellent tool to use in daily prayer time. Each four-page weekly segment includes daily office of scripture, prayer, offering of self and blessing, a brief essay from the author, and collection of quotes from well-known voices in spiritual formation. The new edition will include the same weekly scripture suggestions and essays with refreshed quotes and additional material and prayers. In addition, readers will find helps in the back of the book offering ways to explore prayer as a group or as a family.
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Suddenly Single : Rebuilding Your Life After Divorce
$16.99This compassionate guide through grief, fears, and the challenges of divorce encourages readers to see this painful time as potentially one of the most powerful.
Kathey Batey understands the trauma of going through a divorce. In Suddenly Single, she guides readers who have experienced divorce in how to:
*Grieve the past and learn God has a future for them;
*Develop a network of experts for legal, financial, spiritual, and emotional needs;
*Navigate parenting decisions;
*Give structure and protection in fragmented relationships; and
*Embrace God’s comfort in the midst of deep pain.Divorce is not the end of the story. Suddenly Single comes alongside readers to help them move forward into life a full of possibility.
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Light Within Me
$27.99The celebrated Fox News star and #1 New York Times bestselling author offers a powerful, uplifting look at her life and her spiritual journey, reflecting on her family, her faith, and her successful career.
In her bestselling children’s book Take Heart, My Child, Ainsley Earhardt drew on her childhood and the inspirational notes her father wrote her before school each morning. In this moving memoir, she reminisces about growing up with a father who loved his children unconditionally–a cherished model of parenthood she has adopted with her own daughter–how her Christian faith has shaped her life, and the dynamic journalism career that has made her a trusted household name.
From her insightful political coverage, including a sit-down with Melania Trump, to her powerful reporting covering some of the most headline-making national events, to her live coverage, including Pope Francis’ visit to New York, Ainsley considers her career and the factors that have propelled her to the top of her field, becoming a cohost of Fox & Friends and contributor to Hannity. Ainsley credits her success to the values she learned from her parents, and to the enduring Christian faith that has been her ballast through thick and thin, in good times and in periods of great difficulty.
Filled with inspirational quotes taken from Scripture and illustrated with sixteen pages of never-before-seen photos, her memoir is infused with her spiritual beliefs and will touch the hearts of all her fans, reminding them to count the blessings God has given them every day of their lives.
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Parents Rising : 8 Strategies For Raising Kids Who Love God Respect Authori
$14.99How to raise godly children in a godless world
Do you feel like you’re fighting a losing battle? Against the culture, against the busyness, sometimes even against your spouse and kids… Often it seems like everything is against you as a parent, and your everyday life can feel far from joy-filled. But it doesn’t need to be that way. Parents Rising will show you nine cultural trends that parents face today and what you can do to claim victory.
This book is about growth not guilt. It’s not a pep talk, or a “try harder” speech. This is real help for real problems that every parent faces. It’s a way to focus your efforts so that they’ll be more effective and you’ll be less exhausted.
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Case For Miracles Student Edition
$16.99From the well-renowned, bestselling series exploring the life of Jesus and what it means to be a Christian, The Case for Miracles Student Edition tackles tough questions about God, Jesus, and miracles, offering historical evidence that miracles are possible. With content tied to his adult title, The Case for Miracles, this book is also ideal for students who want to learn how to share their faith and knowledge about God with others. Mixing light-hearted prose and a conversational style with facts, research, and true stories, The Case for Miracles Student Edition brings the miracles and ministry of Jesus to life.
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Why Her : 6 Truths We Need To Hear When Measuring Up Leaves Us Falling Behi
$16.99Have you ever made life plans and watched them painfully fall apart–all while other people, apparently doing life better than you, seem to be walking away with the dreams you’ve been denied?
Why Her? Why not you? You may not ask this question out loud, but you think it just the same.
Why does she get the flavor-filled enjoyment of the things you always wanted for yourself? And when will being forced to watch her doing it not make you feel so bitter?
In her honest, transparent, creatively crafted style, Nicki Koziarz unpacks her own experience with failed dreams, dashed hopes, and paralyzing comparisons. Using the up-close competitiveness of Old Testament sisters Rachel and Leah as her template, she walks you through a half-dozen truths from Scripture that may not completely eliminate the feeling of not measuring up to others, but can settle you in satisfying places where God’s acceptance of you is all that matters.
These “6 Truths” she’s discovered will help you walk among the wisdom of ultimate realities, accept your weaknesses as rich opportunities for exhibiting God’s grace, and become motivated by others’ successes rather than pointlessly aiming your life toward outperforming them.
Your worth is of too great a value to measured on someone else’s yardstick. You don’t have to be her. You get to be you. And no one else can do that better.
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Words Of Grace
$16.99Just as the body needs bread, so the soul needs grace. The Word of God is full of grace-filled words and is nourishment for our souls. God’s Word is grace and prayerful mediation on the Word is an act of faith. By grace through faith we press the Word of God into our everyday lives.
Words of Grace: A 100-Day Devotional, is a pastor’s encouragement, written with a congregation in mind, to build a life centered on God’s Word. Each day’s reading starts with the Scripture, which is the written Word of God. The devotionals expand on the Scripture and are designed to shape your mind by a vision of God and stir your heart’s affection for him. The goal of this book is your flourishing faith and fruitful obedience to Christ.
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Notes From Jesus
$8.99Jesus is the stuff best friends are made of–especially if you’re a kid!
He’s always up for hearing how the day went, listening to worries, and laughing at silly jokes. And he wants to share about himself, too, as best friends do.
Notes From Jesus are his messages to new friends. Each playfully illustrated note includes:
* Answers to common faith questions kids ask, like “”What happens when I mess up?”” and “Is it okay to pray with my eyes open?””
* An inspirational Bible verse for kids to tuck away in their hearts
* Doable, kid-sized ideas for readers to become even better friends with JesusEach note reminds kids that Jesus enjoys their company, and he wants a lifelong friendship that deepens with each new conversation.
This is the perfect gift for kids just starting a relationship with Jesus…for young families joining a church…or as a meaningful birthday, holiday, or Christmas gift!
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Fresh Wind Fresh Fire (Expanded)
$18.99The times are urgent. God is on the move.
Pastor Jim Cymbala believes that Jesus wants to renew his people-to call us back from spiritual dead ends, apathy, and lukewarm religion. Cymbala knows the difference firsthand. Back in the early 1970s, his own church, the Brooklyn Tabernacle, was a struggling congregation of twenty. Then they began to pray, God began to move, and street-hardened lives by the hundreds were changed with the love of Christ. Today, they are nearly ten thousand strong.
This well-loved book shares the story of what happened to this broken-down church in one of America’s toughest neighborhoods points the way to new spiritual vitality in the church and in your own life. Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire shows what the Holy Spirit can do when believers get serious about prayer and the gospel. As this compelling book reveals, God moves in life-changing ways when we set aside our own agendas, take him at his word, and listen for his voice.
In this new edition, Cymbala will update some of the classic stories, including that of his own daughter Chrissy Cymbala Toledo. He will talk about how the church has grown and how God helped the church move from its location on Flatbush Avenue to a larger facility that the growing church couldn’t “afford.” And it is so appropriate that the church meets in a building that was once a theater, as God is dramatically reshaping the life stories of so many people who encounter Christ and the power of the gospel. This message of hope and transformation continues.
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Courage For Life
$14.99Ann White shares with authenticity the story of how she walked away from a life steeped in dysfunction to a life restored in God’s grace. With kindness and vulnerability, she provides step-by-step direction through seven intentional steps that will ultimately alter your life, no matter what difficult situation you’re experiencing.
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God In Every Moment
$12.99Introducing DaySpring’s Signature 365 Devo format. This devotional format is the perfect gift or daily go-to for reminders and glimpses of God’s grace.
There are days when our faith feels challenged on every front – and in those times our hearts need reminded that God is with us and for us. This daily devotional will give you little glimpses of God’s grace and the spiritual hug you need, renewing your mind to the truth that God is in the details of every breath you take.
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If You Only Knew
$17.99Among our greatest fears is the dread of what others would think of us “if they only knew”–the parts of our past we hope to forget, the parts of our present we work to conceal. Yet the part we actually do the best job of hiding is not the unsightly debris of our own mess, but rather the stunning beauty of God’s grace. The fear that demands we protect this false image at all costs leads us to unwittingly declare a false gospel at every turn. Jamie Ivey finally grew tired of doing that, tired of being too ashamed and insecure to let others see the full extent of what God was capable of doing with our unworthiness. So she quit hiding. She let Him get praise for what she’d been pretending she didn’t need. What she found as a result is how a willingness to just open up and say the stuff that most people refuse to reveal about themselves gives others permission to join us in our transparency. And how the process of becoming real ignites an ongoing passion in us for living out our ongoing redemption, enabling us to more fully embrace not only our relationship with Him but also with one another. If You Only Knew is the utterly inviting, often humorous, incredibly authentic back-story of one woman’s life, told for the purpose of helping you strip away both the inner and outward hypocrisy that cripples Christian freedom, choosing instead to live with courageous confidence in God’s ability to make you truly one person. His.
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Making Marriage Beautiful
$16.99What makes a marriage beautiful? Honesty? Compatibility? Physical and emotional intimacy? All of these are important, but there’s one component that determines the quality and longevity of a marriage more than anything else: a willingness to grow. Because a wedding joins together two imperfect people, all couples experience disappointment, conflict, and pain. How husbands and wives respond to these challenges determines the kind of people they will become and the kind of marriage they will have.
Making Marriage Beautiful reveals how the pursuit of Christ results in profound transformation for both the individual and the marriage. Rather than offering cliches and formulas, Greco relies on candor, humor, and real life stories to bring encouragement and wisdom to all couples, regardless of whether they have been married four weeks or forty years.
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Hope For Each Day Large Deluxe Edition
$29.99Billy Graham is one of the most respected and trusted evangelists of this era, and he has touched countless lives with the good news of Jesus Christ. Share that gift of hope with one of his best-loved messages, Hope for Each Day, newly available in a beautiful leathersoft cover. This book of 365 daily devotions will encourage your soul as you revel in the hope of Jesus.
With more than one million copies sold, Hope for Each Day has proven to be a timeless, encouraging message for believers everywhere. This classic 365-day devotional has been updated with a deluxe look, a ribbon marker, and larger “comfort print” sized text that will help you stay close to the Lord throughout the day. Encourage your heart and mind with a scripture and short devotion from one of America’s favorite pastors each day.
Enjoy the beautiful gift of God’s Word as you abide in the One who is our true hope for each day.
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1 Year Devotions For Couples
$24.99Whether you have been married a few months or a few years, it’s likely that your level of intimacy could be better. You know the problems stem from the ways you relate. But how can you change?
The One Year Devotions for Couples will help you give and receive love in a whole new way. Through the proven principles in this devotional, you will find fresh strength and new inspiration to meet your spouse’s relational needs. David and Teresa Ferguson, cofounders of Intimate Life Ministries, are seasoned counselors who can guide you toward better relational health. You can-and you will-improve your marriage and grow spiritually as a couple.
Whether your marriage is shaky or solid, this devotional will give you health, hope, and healing for your relationship. Discover true spiritual and marital intimacy through the practical and biblical principles found in this popular couples’ devotional.
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Jesus Always Deluxe Edition (Large Type)
$29.99Experience true joy-now and always. You have heard Jesus’ voice and responded to His invitation to peace and hope. With scripture and personal reflections, the #1 New York Times bestselling author Sarah Young, brings Jesus’ message of joy-for today and every day.
Life today is full of difficulties-loss, sadness, fear. In the midst of these challenges, joy often feels impossible or out of reach. But Jesus has more for His followers than a life of striving, pain, and discontent. He offers life abundant, life to the fullest, life brimming with joy! Jesus Always, the brand new 365-day devotional from bestselling author Sarah Young, was written as part of Sarah Young’s exploration of the promises of joy in scripture. Written as if Jesus Himself is speaking directly to the reader, Jesus Always invites you into a new way of living-a life of joy.
Reaching out with joy-filled reminders from the Word of God, these devotions will intimately and gently connect you with Jesus-the One who meets you where you are. Draw near to Him in Jesus Always.
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Prayers For Hope And Healing
$12.99God is There for You…and He Cares
Serious or chronic medical issues bring a litany of painful and confusing feelings that only someone else who’s been in a similar situation could possibly understand. Sarah Forgrave has walked the difficult road you find yourself on-she’s still walking it-and she empathizes with the uncertain future you face.
But you don’t have to face it alone. Even in the depths of your worst emotional and physical pain, God is right there beside you, offering His everlasting love and peace. Let this book be your manual to help navigate the complex set of emotions that come with significant health issues. As you read these prayers and devotions, be encouraged as you:
*sense God’s presence even when His love feels far away
*find hope even if your health issues don’t improve
*take comfort in knowing you are never aloneOver 35 million Americans are hospitalized every year. Prayers for Hope and Healing makes a thoughtful gift for someone who is experiencing serious health challenges.
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Why Motherhood Matters
$15.99Mama, Your Work Has Deep Worth
Do you ever wonder if your efforts as a mom make any difference?
Take heart. Whether you’re struggling through sleepless nights with your toddler or endless battles with your teen, September McCarthy’s story offers practical insights and powerful inspiration to encourage you on your own mothering journey.
As a mom for 25 years who continues to raise young children and love her young adults, September imparts words of wisdom and grace in key areas of Christian parenting, including…
*faith-navigating family devotions and your own lessons from God
*wellness-learning to take care of your kids…and yourself
*education-raising a new generation with creativity and character
*relationships-speaking to the heart of your children in unique waysIn these pages you’ll find sweet anecdotes and gentle guidance for those moments you need both a breather and a lifeline. Motherhood is an incredible labor of love-and in the scope of eternity, it matters more than you know.
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Fanning The Flame
$14.99Join this pilgrimage to reignite your spiritual lamp with a fresh, empowering faith-a faith that will stand through a time of testing.
In a time of increasing wickedness in the world, believers are examining their own spiritual health and walk with God. Some of us who once burned brightly for Jesus find ourselves going through the motions, living out a mediocre faith, and even watching our flames burning out. But God’s Word promises “a smoldering wick He will not extinguish” (Matt. 12:20 BSB). He values us and wants to help us identify and remove the obstacles keeping us from intimacy with him and ultimately from fulfilling the purposes he has for our lives.
Fanning the Flame identifies and addresses the issues which most affect a believer’s spiritual flame: the busyness of life, Christian service, pride, and worldly temptations. Drawing from her forty-year walk with God and travels around the world, Terri brings relevant stories alongside Scriptures to reveal key principles for stirring up and reigniting a Christian’s smoldering embers.
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Boundaries Updated And Expanded Edition (Expanded)
$19.99This New York Times bestselling and award-winning book helps readers set healthy boundaries in order to be the loving people God created, and now offers a whole new chapter.
Are you in control of your life?
Christians often focus so much on being loving and giving that they forget their own limits and limitations. Have you ever found yourself wondering: Can I set limits and still be a loving person? How do I answer someone who wants my time, love, energy, or money? Why do I feel guilty when I consider setting boundaries?
In this Gold Medallion Award-winning book and New York Times bestseller, Drs. Henry Cloud and John Townsend give you biblically based answers to these and other tough questions, and show you how to set healthy boundaries with your parents, spouses, children, friends, coworkers, and even with yourself. This updated and expanded edition specifically addresses boundaries in the digital age, online dating, single parenting, and the workplace.
Boundaries are personal property lines that define who you are and who you are not, and influence all areas of your life – physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually.
Unpacking ten laws of boundaries, Drs. Cloud and Townsend show you how to bring new health to your relationships. You’ll discover firsthand how sound boundaries give you the freedom to walk as the loving, giving, fulfilled individual God created you to be.
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Transformed Heart Pamphlet
$4.99Discover the signs of a heart truly transformed by the power of the gospel in Rose’s new pamphlet, The Transformed Heart. The Gospel has the power to transform hearts-hearts that were wounded, hardened, or that have grown cold. Whether you are a new or mature believer, God is interested in the condition and attitude of your heart. This pamphlet will deepen your understanding of what it means to follow Christ whole-heartedly. Features charts, simple summaries, and practical applications.
Features:
*Charts, simple summaries, and practical applications
*14 full-color pages with summaries and charts
*A side-by-side look at healthy or hardened heart
*Scripture references, definitions, and morePerfect for individual use, Bible studies, new believer’s classes, church giveaways, or to keep in your Bible to reference when someone has a question. Fits inside most Bibles covers. Size: 8.5 x 5.5 inches, full color, glossy coating. Folds out to 38 inches.
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Raising Men Not Boys
$14.99How to raise godly men in a godless age
Perhaps there has never been a more challenging time to raise children than in today’s culture. Parents are having to address challenges that their parents never had to address with them.
And while the core elements to raising children are the same, parents need wisdom for applying them to this day and age.
That’s what this book is about: navigating the times and raising a generation of men on godly principles-sons who are ready, able, and motivated to represent God during their days of sojourn on this earth. The hope is that through generational transmission, the promises of God will extend to the third and fourth generation and beyond.
Parents will be equipped to:
*Envision their son’s future every day
*Set his spiritual trajectory
*Build a home that builds godly men
*Address the rebellion in their son’s heart
*Prepare him to face the world and contribute to it
*Help their son toward a right view of play and leisure
*Navigate the teenage yearsThere is an epidemic of grown men with the maturity of young boys. Be a parent who saves your child from prolonged adolescence. Scripture says, “The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; he who fathers a wise son will be glad in him” (Prov. 23:24). Children are a gift from the Lord. Read Raising Men, Not Boys to steward the gift of parenting, and shepherd your sons to be men of God.
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Gift Of Heaven
$17.99Everyone has heard of the golden streets and pearly gates of heaven, but what will eternal life actually be like? Trusted pastor and bestselling author Dr. Charles Stanley explores the immeasurable perfection of the life Jesus promised in our heavenly home in this beautiful new book, The Gift of Heaven.
Dr. Charles Stanley is one of the most recognizable teachers and pastors in the world, having sold more than 11 million books through HarperCollins Christian Publishing. The Gift of Heaven, his first book on heaven, offers biblically based teaching and insights for anyone who has questions about God and what happens after we die. Drawn from a popular sermon series that Dr. Charles Stanley delivered at First Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, this teaching has never been available in book form. The Gift of Heaven will appeal broadly to existing fans of Dr. Stanley as well as believers and those with questions about faith.
Throughout the book, Dr. Stanley will cover such illuminating topics as the way to heaven, what will life in heaven be like, what it means to serve a God who cares enough to prepare heaven for us, and how we will actually spend eternity.
The Gift of Heaven will be a source of encouragement and inspiration for the weary traveler on earth who seeks a heavenly home. Take a moment out of your busy day to reflect on life beyond this world, and prepare your heart for the truest fulfillment of your Christian faith-the day you reach that eternal place and see the face of God welcoming you into His fullness.
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Dwelling In Gods Peace
$12.99In Dwelling in God’s Peace, the eighth study in the Jesus Calling Bible Study Series, participants are guided through eight sessions of study that explore what the Bible has to say about the peace God provides, how they can obtain it, and why Jesus said that peacemakers are blessed. They will discover what God’s promises to them when they go to Him in prayer, how to find the rest only God can provide, and how they can share God’s love and peace with others.
Each of the Jesus Calling Bible studies includes devotional readings from Jesus Calling, selected passages of Scripture for reflection, Bible study questions, and additional questions to help you apply the material. This study can be used for personal reflection and Bible study or in a small-group setting.
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Choose Hope : 3 Minute Devotions For Women
$4.99Got 3 minutes to spare? You’ll find the spiritual pick-me-up you need in Choose Hope: 3-Minute Devotions for Women. Written especially the twenty-first-century woman, this delightful devotional packs a powerful dose of comfort, encouragement, and hope into just-right-sized readings.
Minute 1: scripture to meditate on; Minute 2: a short devotional reading; Minute 3: a prayer to jump-start a conversation with God.
This portable package makes a fabulous any-occasion gift for every woman.
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Put The Disciple Into Discipline
$14.99PUT THE DISCIPLE INTO DISCIPLINE gives parents the tools they need to truly disciple their kids through their most trying discipline situations.
What do you say when your kid has really messed up?
How do you respond when your three-year-old is throwing pennies at other carts as you walk through the aisles at Target? Or when your eight-year-old daughter rolls her eyes in a dramatic fit of preteen angst? Or when your sixteen-year-old son is lying as he attempts to go somewhere that he never should be?
These are the tough moments in parenting.
But they are also the moments that will define your kids.
We want to give parents the tools they need to truly disciple their kids through their most trying discipline situations. With these tools, parents can guide their kids’ hearts towards the God who loves them deeply, and survive those pull-out-your-hair parenting moments. We pray that PUT THE DISCIPLE INTO DISCIPLINE will help parents to connect with their kids in a heartfelt way so that their kids, in turn, can connect with the God who created them to be truly and imperfectly His.
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Sacrament Of Happy
$16.99Imagine hearing your physician tell you that chips and queso contain more nutritional benefits than kale and quinoa. Or opening an envelope that looks like just another bill, and unfolding instead an official document declaring you the sole beneficiary of an anonymous billionaire’s estate.
In her new book, The Sacrament of Happy: Surprised by the Secret of Genuine Joy, Lisa Harper unveils a similarly extravagant, unexpected surprise, declaring that happiness-just plain feeling happy-is a gift from God that you can unashamedly enjoy.
Wearing the twin hats of seminarian and belly-laughing adoptive mom, Harper delivers a warm, vignette style built upon solid theological scaffolding. She observes, for example, that God’s choice of wording for the first verse of the first psalm (a word often translated as “blessed”) literally means happy-one of many biblical reasons for dismantling the old-school idea that joy, not happiness, is the truly spiritual one of the Christian family. In truth, they’re more like fraternal twins than distant cousins, meaning we as Christ-followers are not called to jettison happiness-like a no-longer-needed set of spiritual floaties-as we learn to swim in the deep waters of intimacy with God. Beyond merely a circumstances-based, up-and-down emotion, happiness comes from a deep conviction in the unmitigated goodness of our Creator-Redeemer, freeing us to feel and express genuine joy, fulfillment, and contentment, regardless of personal or global tumult.
The author’s personal story includes such happiness killers as sexual abuse, the deaths of near loved ones, a heartbreaking failed adoption, followed by the arrival of an adopted daughter from Haiti who is HIV-positive. Yet she writes on themes like: “The lost sacrament of laughter”-“Does happy have a personality type?”-“Tuning out the Pharisees who try to mute your happiness in the context of spiritual maturity.” So this is obviously not a book of trite, untested cliches. It goes well beneath most people’s surface understanding of happiness, gently guiding readers closer to the heart of God . . . with naturally a few genuine laughs and grins to enjoy along the way.
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When Parenting Isnt Perfect
$16.99Perfection is the enemy of parenting. Jim Daly sees and hears from mothers and fathers trying hard to pursue perfection. They listen to the best experts and read all the right books. When someone gives them a “World’s Best Mom” or “No. 1 Dad” coffee mug, they want it to be true. And they want their children to pursue perfection, too.
It’s admirable for parents to be the very best moms and dads they can be for their children. But sometimes in so doing, they leave grace behind-both for themselves and their children. Jim believes that our quest for perfection, a quest that he believes is particularly strong among Christians, runs counter to God’s own boundless gift of grace. We can become Pharisaical parents, quoting endless rules and holding everyone to impossible standards. But God doesn’t want us, and our kids don’t need us, to be perfect. As parents, we’re called to simply do our best. And when we fail-which we will-we’re called to try again tomorrow.
Though he’s the President of Focus on the Family, Jim does not promise that his book will be a catalyst for a perfect family. But it can help point the way toward a good family-one that feels safe and warm; one filled with love and laughter. This book will encourage mothers and fathers to embrace the messiness of parenthood and show grace to their own less-than-ideal children. Jim, through his own experiences, expertise, and array of stories, will lead both moms and dads to a better understanding of what being a good family is all about.
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Peace In The Face Of Cancer
$16.99Millions of us are living in the shadow of cancer. Some are hoping to beat the odds and become cancer-free, while others know they are facing cancer for the long haul. And even more of us are standing by someone with a cancer diagnosis and feeling helpless as we grapple with the uncertainty it brings.
Whether the cancer is considered “in remission,” “cured,” or “chronic,” it is possible to find peace as we face it.
In this beautiful, giftable book, cancer patient advocate Lynn Eib shares how to live well from the moment you are diagnosed through the rest of your life. She weaves the story of her own experience as a longtime cancer survivor with those of others around the world in its hope-filled pages. You’ll discover how to bring God’s peace into your own home and life-regardless of your or your loved one’s medical prognosis. (Deluxe LeatherLike binding.)
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