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Caring For An Aging Parent
$6.25Add to cartCaring for aging parents is complex and challenging even under the best of circumstances. How do we help them and remain sane when distance, dementia, depression, disaster, divorce, disintegrated relationships, deteriorating health, and discouragement set in? Thankfully, God’s Word guides us in this important work, starting with the all-important truth that our parents, like us, are image bearers of God.
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Building A Marriage To Last
$6.25Add to cartWhere is your marriage? Newly married, in a rut, coming off a major transition, or coming out of a period of crisis or conflict? Regardless of your situation, it’s never too early-or too late, for that matter-to build habits that will strengthen and grow your marriage. Forming habits is inevitable, but intentionality can make it beneficial.
Counselor and pastor Brad Hambrick encourages couples at all stages to intentionally adopt five core practices to help foster healthy, God-honoring rhythms of communication and care. Learning how to steward time, money, and community, practicing healthy self-care, avoiding criticism and defensiveness, seeking to know your spouse deeply, and expressing gratitude for the opportunity to grow are just some of the wisdom gifts from God that will help deepen your relationship and also call you into a deeper walk with Jesus.
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Love Her Well
$18.99Add to cartMoms are eager for tips and wisdom to help them build strong relationships with their daughters, and Kari Kampakis’s Love Her Well gives them ten practical ways to do so, not by changing their daughters but by changing their own thoughts, actions, and mind-set.
For many women, having a baby girl is a dream come true. Yet as girls grow up, the narrative of innocence and joy changes to gloom and doom as moms are told, “Just wait until she’s a teenager!” and handed a disheartening script that treats a teenage girl’s final years at home as solely a season to survive.
Author and blogger Kari Kampakis suggests it’s time to change the narrative and mind-set that lead moms to parent teen girls with a spirit of defeat, not strength. By improving the foundation, habits, and dynamics of the relationship, mothers can connect with their teen daughters and earn a voice in their lives that allows moms to offer guidance, love, wisdom, and emotional support.
As a mom of four daughters (three of whom are teenagers), Kari has learned the hard way that as girls grow up, mothers must grow up too. In Love Her Well, Kari shares ten ways that moms can better connect with their daughters in a challenging season, including:
*choosing their words and timing carefully,
*listening and empathizing with her teen’s world,
*seeing the good and loving her for who she is,
*taking care of themselves and having a support system, and more.This book isn’t a guide to help mothers “fix” their daughters or make them behave. Rather, it’s about a mom’s journey, doing the heart work and legwork necessary to love a teenager while still being a strong, steady parent. Kari explores how every relationship consists of two imperfect sinners, and teenagers gain more respect for their parents when they admit (and learn from) their mistakes, apologize, listen, give grace, and try to understand their teens’ point of view. Yes, teenagers need rules and consequences, but without a connected relationship, parents may never gain a significant voice in their lives or be a safe place they long to return to.
By admitting her personal failures and prideful mistakes that have hurt her relationships with her teenage daughters, Kari gives mothers hope and reminds them all things are possible through God. By leaning on him, mothers gain the wisdom, guidance, protection, and clarity they need to grow strong relationships with their daughters at every age, especially during the critical teen years.
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Faithful Families For Advent And Christmas
Original price was: $12.99.$5.20Current price is: $5.20.Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of Faithful Families: Creating Sacred Moments at Home, this new book of Advent and Christmas practices provides 100 easy ideas to make the season sacred.
In the hustle and bustle of the holidays, it’s easy for families to forget the true meaning of the season. In this new book of faith practices for Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany, parents, grandparents, Sunday school teachers, pastors, and anyone who cares about kids will find easy, fun, and meaningful ideas for bringing the sacred back into the season. The book is divided into three sections: prayers; practices; and lessons.
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2nd Chance At Love
$15.99Add to cartWhether your marriage was blissful or challenging, lengthy or short, it didn’t end the way you imagined. Regardless of how you found yourself without a life partner, you may be at a point where you’d like to experience the love of a spouse again. Authors Shirley and Jim Mozena experienced devastating losses and then struggles in their relationships before finding renewed love with each other, and in Second Chance at Love they offer their insights to these difficult questions:
*Are you really ready?
*Is now the time?
*How do you know if you’ve found the right one?
*Is the potential pain of losing another spouse worth it?The authors approach their answers with practical reality and their own vulnerability. They share the experiences of their first marriages, their second marriages, their journeys through what seemed like devastating losses, and the gifts of finding love and another chance to share their lives with a spouse after death and divorce.
In addition to the down-to-earth guidance on the situations you face when considering marrying again, Shirley and Jim have created valuable questionnaires to identify issues and facilitate discussions with potential mates. The information contained in this book will give you confidence and peace as you navigate these hopeful waters.
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Love Like You Mean It
$17.99Add to cartEvery year, millions of men and women stand before friends and family to pledge their lifelong love to each other. Do they know what they’re getting into?
Unfortunately, many people have a shallow, superficial idea of what marriage is. As a result, many marriages don’t last, and many more married couples are trudging along looking for something more.
Love Like You Mean It gives husbands and wives a biblical understanding of what real love looks like in marriage by unpacking the ten attributes of genuine love listed in 1 Corinthians 13. Bob Lepine, marriage and family expert and host of the nationally syndicated radio program FamilyLife Today, helps husbands and wives discover that it’s not primarily emotions that define marital love, but actions and decisions that fuel emotions and cause marital love to grow.
Every person who is married, would like to be married one day, or wants to understand more about the biblical vision of marriage will find what they’re looking for as they dive deep into Love Like You Mean It.
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Love Notes For Couples
$7.99Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of The 5 Love Languages comes a short devotional for every couple looking to deepen their relationship with one another–and with God.
Are you and your spouse speaking the same language? He sends you flowers when what you really want is time to talk. She gives you a hug when what you really need is a home-cooked meal. The problem isn’t love?it’s your love language. Adapted from The One Year Love Language Minute Devotional, this devotional is perfect for the couples in your life–or for you and your spouse! As you learn how to express heartfelt love to your loved one, you’ll find yourselves deeper in love and growing closer to God–together–as a result.
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Day By Day Devotions For Dads
$14.99Add to cartNot Your Dad’s Devotional
Save the sermons for Sunday and join bestselling author and proud papa Jay Payleitner on a quest to become a better dad, one day (and devotion) at a time. This trip will not include guilt, just a lot of good advice on how to teach, inspire, and encourage your children from someone who’s been there.
Inside you’ll learn…
Who you can point your kids to when the GPS direction of their lives needs recalculating
What a firm handshake and a head nod can teach your children about respecting others
When to cash in your genius points and when to store them up for future use
Where men gather to worship God is where your son should be
Why simply being there is the best thing you can do for your children
How turning in your superhero cape and becoming vulnerable will benefit your kids as they become teenagers
…and so much more!
Far from preachy, this devotional will make you think clearer, smile bigger, and laugh harder about fatherhood than ever before. Better yet, it will draw you and your kids closer to God
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Grace For The Moment Family Devotional
$16.99Add to cartEach of the 100 devotions in this beautiful book offers an adult reading from Grace for the Moment and a children’s reading on the same topic from Grace for the Moment for Kids. With the devotions next to one another, you and your children can read each devotion and then talk and pray together. Devotions include Scripture for reading aloud and enriching questions designed to take your family deeper in faith–whether over the breakfast table, at family dinners, or just before bed.
This new family devotional comes in response to countless requests for a tool that equips a family to read Grace for the Moment together. Enjoy quality family time with the addition of richer faith discussions so that you can grow in Christ across the generations. Whether your family has shared devotions for years or you are hoping to jump-start a new habit, this book invites you to celebrate the grace God offers each one of us.
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Holding On To Love After Youve Lost A Baby
$15.99Add to cartA Powerful Resource for Grieving Couples
Almost everyone will agree, the loss of a child is the worst grief that humans can experience. And that crushing grief puts immense strain on the marriage, family relationships, and friendships that few can understand. That’s why this book was written. In it Candy McVicar, a grieving mom who leads a ministry for grieving parents, and Dr. Gary Chapman, relationship expert and author of The 5 Love Languages(R), team up to help couples who are facing the unimaginable.
They’ll teach you how to:
*cope with the complex feelings that come with the grief process
*understand your spouse’s unique grieving needs and support him/her
*use the five love languages in grief-appropriate waysThere is nothing that can make the pain of losing a child go away, but you can get help coping with it. This is a perfect resource for grieving parents or friends who’d like to help.
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Bible Promise Book For Fathers
$15.99Add to cartFatherhood really should come with an operator’s manual.
Our world sends many conflicting signals on the important issues of life. How should we approach anger? Is discipline a good thing, or not? Why speak with honesty? Is prayer for real? What is true wisdom?
In His kindness, God has answered all these questions–and many more–in the pages of His Word, the Bible. Whatever our needs, we can find in scripture the principles we need to address the issues we face.
This collection of Bible verses is a handy reference to some of the key issues that all people–and especially fathers–face. In these pages, you’ll find carefully selected verses that address more than five dozen topics like adversity, courage, family discipline, duty, labor, prayer, and temptation.
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Staying Power : Building A Stronger Marriage When Life Sends Its Worst
$16.99Add to cartToo often, when a life crisis hits, a marriage suffers–even a healthy one–and all the personality profiles and couples’ therapy in the world won’t keep your marriage from experiencing the tough stuff. So how do you and your spouse face the stresses put on your marriage and not only stay together but come out on the other side even more loving and committed?
In Staying Power, two longtime couples offer insights, skills, and clear direction so that you can respond to trials in a way that strengthens rather than weakens your marriage. They show you how to:
– handle anger creatively, forgive freely, and persevere together
– nurture one another in powerful ways
– learn new techniques for connecting both verbally and nonverbally in the midst of crisis
– and much moreDon’t let financial trouble, infertility, health challenges, parenting cares, addiction of a loved one, or heartbreaking loss destroy your marriage. Instead, learn how through your strong relationship you can overcome all of life’s curveballs–together.
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365 Days Of Prayer For Couples
$17.99Add to cartWhether you’ve been a couple who has prayed together for many years or this is your first prayer devotional, inspiration is waiting for you in the daily prayers written here.
Ultimately, prayer is a conversation with God. You don’t need to use fancy words or recite long passages of Scripture. Just talk to God. Open your heart. He adores you, and he’s listening to every word you say.
Some days your prayers may be filled with gratitude, some days with repentance, and some with need. Just lay your heart and your prayers at the Father’s feet and wait for his powerful response.
Be blessed as you connect daily with God and each other.
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Prayers For Parents Of Prodigals
$8.99Add to cartWhere to Turn When You Love a Wayward Child
You know the most important thing your children need is love. And you’ve given it over and over again. You’ve done all you can to train your children up, and yet you’re left brokenhearted as you watch them choose a different path.
Parents who love their prodigals no matter what, know the guilt, frustration, and sadness can be overwhelming. Whether you’re still waiting for your child’s return or are navigating your relationship after he or she has come home, there is One you can turn to for strength in the storm. This collection of topical prayers offers God’s comfort, wisdom, and compassion–be encouraged in your journey with heartfelt prayers for:
*hope
*forgiveness
*heartbreak
*compassion
*courage
*peace
*miracles
*graceAs much love as you have for your prodigals, you can rest in the blessed assurance that your heavenly Father loves them even more.
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Meaning Of Marriage A Couple s Devotional
$25.00Add to cartFrom pastor and New York Times bestselling author Timothy Keller comes a gorgeously packaged daily devotional that takes us on year-long journey into discovering the meaning of marriage
Marriage is the most profound human relationship there is. Coming to know and love your spouse is one of the most rewarding and wondrous things we can experience in life. But it is also one of the most difficult and painful. In this 365-day devotional, Timothy Keller and his wife of forty-three years Kathy Keller share powerful instructions on how to have a successful marriage. The Kellers draw from and expand upon lessons they first introduced in their book The Meaning of Marriage, offering stories, daily scriptures, and prayer prompts that will inspire anyone who wants to know God and love more deeply in this life.
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Faith Forward Family Devotional
$16.99Add to cartIncluding 100 devotions for families, Faith Forward Family Devotional by parenting authors Patrick and Ruth Schwenk equip you to raise faith-filled kids who know, love, and live for God.
You’ve passed down to your kids your last name, your love, and maybe your sense of humor or favorite hobbies. But have you passed down the most important thing: your faith?
Somewhere between diapers and sippy cups, piano lessons and soccer practice, dating and college searches, even the most well-intentioned family can lose sight of creating a God-centered home. As parents of four, pastor Patrick Schwenk and his wife, Ruth, of The Better Mom blog, understand the challenges–and importance–of raising faith-filled kids.
In Faith Forward Family Devotional, Patrick and Ruth help you pass on your faith with devotions you can do at your own pace as a family. Each devotion features a Bible passage, a teaching that’s applicable for kids of any age, key ideas to learn about God and His character, questions to spark family discussion, and a prayer. Faith Forward Family Devotional is aimed primarily at families of kids ages 8-12 but also includes ideas for activities for younger children and recommendations for further study for older kids, so the whole family can join in the devotional gathering.
Faith Forward Family Devotional helps you grow closer to your kids as they grow closer to God. Whatever season of parenting you are in, sharing this devotional time together will help your children nourish a faith that lasts a lifetime.
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Raising Boys Who Respect Girls
$17.99Add to cartDave Willis, author, speaker, and father of four boys, talks biblically and practically about how to raise a generation of boys who are champions, encouragers, and respecters of women.
In the #metoo and #churchtoo era, with so many men and boys continuing to make the same mistakes, we have to ask: Where are we going wrong? And perhaps more importantly, how do we raise up men who will break this cycle?
As the father of four boys, relationship coach and author Dave Willis has studied this issue deeply, concluding that if we are to raise boys to respect girls—and not end up with men who say they respect women but whose actions reveal otherwise–we must go back to the heart of things. Or, more specifically, we must go back to our own hearts.
In Raising Boys Who Respect Girls, Willis helps readers inventory the blind spots that lead to accidental forms of disrespect, showing how to root out issues in our own hearts before we inadvertently pass along these same issues to our boys. He also teaches readers how to cultivate a healthy respect for God and for themselves as created in his image, as well as a similar respect for others. Full of scripture, research, age-specific tools, and conversation models, this book offers a practical strategy for mindful parents to first embody the right principles themselves and then teach them to their sons.
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Called 2 Love Devotions For Couples
$16.99Add to cartWhether you’ve 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?
Called 2 Love Devotions for Couples will help you give and receive love in a whole new way. Through the proven principles in this devotional, you’ll 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.
(Previously published as Never Alone Devotions for Couples and The One Year Devotions for Couples.)
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Celebrate Your Marriage
$17.99Add to cartStay happily married for life! Whether it has been twenty years or twenty minutes, every marriage needs encouragement. This daily devotional is for married couples who want to strengthen their relationship and center it on God. Designed with busy couples in mind, each reading is short enough to enjoy together over that first cup of coffee or right before bed.
Every day includes:
– practical tips for fostering meaningful connection,
– simple reminders on how to enjoy a Christ-like relationship,
– fun anecdotes from other couples, and
– space to record thoughts and action steps.Draw closer to your spouse and God with Celebrate Your Marriage – the perfect gift for newlyweds and seasoned couples alike.
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Right Combination : Finding Love And Life After Divorce
$15.99Add to cartWhat if you could have the marriage of your dreams–even when you think it’s too late?
Everyone wants to have healthy relationships. But too many women who’ve gone through divorce find themselves feeling lost and unsure about how to move forward into readiness for strong future relationships.
Barbie and Richard Armenta both have plenty of brokenness in their pasts. Richard’s party lifestyle put him one step away from disaster time and time again. Barbie’s two failed marriages and other dating relationships left her desperate for affirmation from men. When they came to Christ, they each had to figure out what it meant to live for Him in their dating lives. It was during this process that they found each other-and discovered that adding God’s love to theirs was the right combination for lasting love.
For those who have experienced divorce, long to heal emotionally and spiritually, and yearn for true intimacy, The Right Combination is a shout of hope. The Armentas ground their work in Scripture and pose thoughtful questions to women, encouraging them to begin their own process of discovering who they are in Christ and what it really means to live and date God’s way.
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Helping Your Anxious Child
$6.25Add to cartWhen your child is anxious, it’s easy to get anxious too. You want to help your child regain a sense of peace and safety, but how can you? This world is big and scary, and sometimes our worries get big too.
Julie Lowe, a skilled family counselor with more than twenty years of experience, guides parents in assessing their child’s anxiety and gives practical ways to encourage and help worried children.
She leads parents away from quick fixes that contribute to dependencies and points them to Christ, the One who is always available, loving, and powerful.
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For Better Or Worse
$6.25Add to cartDisability has a way of trying even the best of marriages. The cumulative effects of daily routines that never vary, social isolation, financial pressures, unmet expectations, and a life that is vastly different from most couples can wear on the spirits of the strongest husband and wife. Without Christ firmly in the center of the suffering, a spouse can crack under the pressure that disability brings to the marriage.
Ken Tada, husband to Joni Eareckson Tada, shares that disability does not have to be the defining word in your marriage. Instead disability is an invitation for you and your spouse to depend on Jesus in your weakness, and grow closer to each other than you ever thought possible. Ken shares how spouses can openly communicate about needs, expectations, disappointments, and then ask God for the help you need. As you ask, the transforming love of Jesus will be poured into your own heart, so you can be poured out for your spouse. Be encouraged that God knows you and your spouse intimately, and promises that when you are weak, he is strong and will be an ever-present help in the trouble you are facin
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Raising Worry Free Girls
$15.99Add to cartIn a world fraught with worry and anxiety, veteran counselor Sissy Goff offers practical advice on how you can instill bravery and strength in your daughter, helping her understand why her brain is often working against her when she starts to worry and what she can do to fight back.
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Love Talk Workbook For Women Newly Updated And Expanded (Workbook)
$10.99Add to cartWe set off to crack the code for meaningful conversation . . . a plan that would move our communication from good to great. And we found it. A deep and simple plan for everything a loving conversation has to offer. We call it Love Talk. –Drs. Les and Leslie Parrot
This women’s workbook will help you personalize the concepts you encounter in the Parrotts’ book Love Talk and put them to work in your relationships. Inside, you’ll find exercises, assessments, self-tests, tips, applications . . . all the tools and guidance you need to:
*Identify your personal communication style
*Understand how it interacts with that of your partner
*Talk your way to a healthier, stronger relationshipLove Talk is like no other communication book you’ve ever read. The fruit of years of research by two foremost relationship experts (who also happen to be husband and wife), this book forges a new path to the heart of loving conversation. You’ll begin by identifying your security need and determining your personal communication style. Then you’ll put together everything you discover to learn how the two of you can speak each other’s language like never before.
This very day, you can begin an adventure in communication that will draw the two of you closer, and closer, and closer . . . consistently, in a way that creates the depth and connection you long for in your relationship.
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Love Talk Workbook For Men Newly Updated And Expanded (Workbook)
$10.99Add to cartWe set off to crack the code for meaningful conversation . . . a plan that would move our communication from good to great. And we found it. A deep and simple plan for everything a loving conversation has to offer. We call it Love Talk. –Drs. Les and Leslie Parrott
This men’s workbook will help you personalize the concepts you encounter in the Parrotts’ book Love Talk and put them to work in your relationships. Inside, you’ll find exercises, assessments, self-tests, tips, applications . . . all the tools and guidance you need to:
*Identify your personal communication style
*Understand how it interacts with that of your partner
*Talk your way to a healthier, stronger relationshipLove Talk is like no other communication book you’ve ever read. The fruit of years of research by two foremost relationship experts (who also happen to be husband and wife), this book forges a new path to the heart of loving conversation. You’ll begin by identifying your security need and determining your personal communication style. Then you’ll put together everything you discover to learn how the two of you can speak each other’s language like never before.
This very day, you can begin an adventure in communication that will draw the two of you closer, and closer, and closer . . . consistently, in a way that creates the depth and connection you long for in your relationship.
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Promises From God For Mothers
$4.99Add to cartPromises From God For Mothers is a Christian gift book designed to fix your mind on God’s powerful promises for you and to allow His Word to guide you on your journey of motherhood. Thirty different topics will encourage and strengthen you when the days are long.
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When Your Child Is Grieving
$14.99Add to cart“It will never happen to us”
But it did. Your child is experiencing what one in every five children in the U.S. experience before the age of 18–death of a loved one or an equally painful loss.
How do you help your child get through this, especially when you might be dealing with your own grief? God sees your family’s pain and longs to ease it.
Dr. Amy Ford is a licensed professional counselor, professor, and mom who specializes in complex psychological issues, such as trauma and grief. She wants to share the latest research and her expertise with you, to not only help you and your child get through this difficult time, but to fully heal from it.
Amy will walk alongside you through the healing process with spiritual encouragement and practical advice that addresses your child’s specific needs. You will gain the wisdom, skills, and follow-through you need to mend your child’s broken heart.
Grief is a scary emotion, especially for a child, but if dealt with proactively, it can be successfully overcome. Your child will get through this…and so will you.
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Play To Their Strengths
$15.99Add to cartBring Out the Best in Your Children
When you see your kids struggle to find their way in the world, do you wish you could do more to propel them toward God’s calling for their lives?
You can help your children thrive when you adopt a new perspective on parenting, one that focuses on what’s right with your kids rather than what’s wrong.
Certified Strengths Coach Brandon Miller and his wife, Analyn, are the parents of seven kids, and they want to share their journey with you, so you can encourage your children to develop their own unique set of passions, skills, and talents.
When you play to your children’s individual strengths, you allow them to move with their natural momentum toward their best possible outcomes. And suddenly, you’ll see your kids’ insecurity fade, their confidence grow, and their worlds expand with new possibilities.
Now is the perfect time to experience a fresh fascination with your children and uncover the hidden gem that lies inside each of them.
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Blessing : Giving The Gift Of Unconditional Love And Acceptance
$19.99Add to cartChildren of every age long for the gift of The Blessing–the unconditional love and approval that comes from a healthy relationship with their parents.
This life-changing gift for Christian parents and their children, essential for instilling a deep sense of self-worth and unshakable emotional well-being, contains five essential elements:
*meaningful touch
*a spoken message
*attaching high value
*picturing a special future
*an active commitmentOffering solid, practical advice and a fresh perspective on making this gift a bigger part of our families, The Blessing powerfully communicates these biblically based elements as necessary to prepare children for positive future relationships, including their relationship with a loving God.
New to this updated edition are:
*giving The Blessing to others in your circle of influence,
*practical application tools and stories of how this is lived out,
*insight and help for those who didn’t receive The Blessing,
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Powerful Prayers To Protect The Heart Of Your Child
$14.99Add to cartFROM BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF SATAN, YOU CAN’T HAVE MY CHILDREN
Expose your child to spiritual blessing, and protect them from spiritual attack.
This book will help you protect your children from evil assignments and show you how to tap into the supernatural protection of the Holy Spirit.
*Scripture-based categories help you target your most important needs
*Counsel and prayers for parents who are hurting and dismayed because of the adverse situations in their homes
*Declarations of faith will build your faith to believe God and to never stop believing for the protection and transformation of your childrenWe are involved in a war-a spiritual war in which Satan and his demons are attempting to break up our families and disrupt our children’s lives-that can be engaged in and won only with spiritual weapons. We cannot remain passive.
In this valuable and effective book Iris Delgado provides an indispensable guide for anyone who wants to win the spiritual battle being fought over their children. You’ll discover how to:
*Tap into the supernatural power of the Holy Spirit to protect your child
*Put a hedge of protection into action through specific and focused prayers
*Establish a spiritual security system in your home
*Become free from generational strongholds and cursesFilled with practical counsel and Scripture-based prayers, this powerful guide will give you confidence and faith to stand firm against the influences and attacks of the enemy.
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Considering Others : Good Manners To Glorify God – A Biblical And Practical
$14.99Add to cartGood manners and etiquette begin in the home, or wherever a child is taught or mentored. From an early age, children learn how to behave, and as they grow, how to interact in their relationships at school, church, and in their communities. Though etiquette varies between cultures, practicing good manners is a kindness that extends across cultures, because the way we treat one another matters.
We want to raise and train our children in safe, healthy environments, but the daily encounters of a fallen world make it challenging. Much has been written on good etiquette, but this practical, captivating book points readers to Jesus Christ as the Lord and the Holy Spirit as the Teacher of good manners, clearly illustrating that the Bible is the Life Manual for good behavior that comes from God’s heart.
From biblical examples to personal examples, reflection verses and practical steps, and prayers and Scriptures to pray over children, Considering Others: Good Manners to Glorify God will help parents, teachers, and mentors shape and develop godly character and good manners in children so they may lead healthy, successful adult lives in their sphere of influence around the world. And there’s plenty of takeaways for adults too!
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Staying I Do
$15.99Add to cartAuthors Ted and Charity Bradshaw don’t claim to be marriage experts, but they do know what it takes to put marriage first–ahead of children, extended families, jobs, debt, differences of opinion, and everything else that life hands out.
In Staying I Do: Committed, Connected & Crazy in Love for a Lifetime, they offer their personal stories and advice on communication, money matters, intimacy, family values, and more.
The Bradshaws share their trials and triumphs with honesty and humor, getting to the root of issues many couples face. Their goal is to help engaged couples, tired parents, empty nesters, and everyone in between rekindle the love, fun, and passion they felt on their wedding day.
The authors help you work through real-life, nitty-gritty situations that can make you and your spouse feel like roommates. They inspire you to find hope for your marriage and live “crazy in love” once again.
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5 Conversations You Must Have With Your Son Revised And Expanded Edition (Revise
$16.99Add to cartFrom the cradle to college, tell your sons the truth about life before they believe the culture’s lies.
For parents with boys newborn to eighteen, 5 Conversations You Must Have with Your Son will be as much a part of the boyhood journey as those Legos you’re still finding under the sofa cushions and the garage full of sports equipment. Award-winning youth culture commentator Vicki Courtney helps moms and dads pinpoint and prepare the discussions that should be ongoing in a boy’s formative years.
Fully addressing the dynamic social and spiritual issues and other influencers at hand, several chapters are written for each of the conversations, which are:
1. Don’t define manhood by the culture’s wimpy standards; it’s okay to be a man!
2. What you don’t learn to conquer may become your master.
3. Not everyone’s doing it! (And other naked truths about sex you won’t hear in the locker room.)
4. Boyhood is only for a season. P.S. It’s time to grow up!
5. Godly men are in short supply-dare to become one!
The book also offers invaluable tips on having these conversations across the various stages of development: five and under, six to eleven, and twelve and up.
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Fighting For Your Marriage While Separated
$17.99Add to cartIn this practical, gospel-centered book on the subject of separation, men and women who are separated but hopeful for restoration will discover life-changing truths about God, themselves, and their marriages. Fighting for Your Marriage While Separated by Linda W. Rooks explores practical answers for men and women in the midst of a marriage crisis. A home ripped apart by one spouse leaving reverberates with a host of unanswered questions. Simple answers dont existheartrending complexities do. After finding hope, strength, and encouragement for their marriages in the words of Broken Heart on Hold, many readers continue on their journeys with new questions as they take the next step. Fighting for Your Marriage While Separated begins where Broken Heart on Hold left off, continuing to guide readers through the labyrinths of separation, this time with practical answers to their questions. From diving into topics such as relationship dynamics and healing, protecting children, and praying for restoration, to deciding on boundaries and learning to live with the same spouse in a new marriage, Rooks illustrates what rebuilding a marriage looks likeand how the sweet intimacy of Christ is in the waiting. Through biblical wisdom, personal experience navigating her own separation and restoration in marriage, and nine years of ministry to marriages in crisis, author Linda W. Rooks offers hope to many who feel hopeless, sharing true stories, practical answers, and Scripture-based truth along their journeys toward wholeness.
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Emptied : Experiencing The Fullness Of A Poured Out Marriage
$14.99Add to cartFor a Marriage That Brims Over
Maybe you entered marriage with some pretty high expectations–most couples do. Jonathan and Wynter Pitts did. Until the reality of married life spilled into their expectations.
Jonathan and Wynter invite you on a journey to explore a different approach to your happily-ever-after marriage. They have navigated the ups and downs of early marriage, while raising four daughters, and learned it is only when they are emptied of their own self-focused motivations that God can pour new life into each of them to bless their marriage.
Here you will…
be encouraged to remove the pressure of a keeping-up-with-the-Jones’s marriage learn to let go of assumptions and embrace your role as servant-leader to your spouse experience how God can pour His purpose, passion, and fullness into your relationship
Emptied is a way of life. It’s not about trying harder, it’s about thinking differently. Are you ready to approach your marriage poured out, ready to be filled up? -
New Every Day
$15.99Add to cartAlzheimer’s. It barges into your life, breaks your heart, bewilders your mind, disrupts your plans, impacts your finances, and consumes enormous amounts of time and energy. When someone you love has Alzheimer’s, you need more than just information on the disease–you need a break. You need a laugh. You need a friend by your side who knows exactly what you’re going through.
Award-winning humorist Dave M. Meurer is that friend. Packed with practical information–like how to get the DMV to take away the car keys or how you shouldn’t insist on correcting your loved one’s misperceptions–and plenty of true stories from his own experiences navigating life with a loved one who suffers from Alzheimer’s, New Every Day offers hard-earned wisdom and even some badly needed comic relief for readers journeying down this difficult road. With compassion born of experience, Meurer helps caregivers develop the ability to relax, adapt, and even sometimes laugh again.
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Cheers To The Diaper Years
$15.99Add to cartYou’re the perfect parent for your child.
Many parents spend too much time striving for perfection or feeling pressure to do so. Constantly bombarded with the latest parenting trends, they endlessly research nutritional values, product safety ratings, socializing opportunities, and educational activities. While these actions are valuable, it’s all too easy to become overwhelmed and discouraged.
There’s no one-size-fits-all style of parenting. However, the Bible provides us with an encouraging framework for godly parenting. Cheers to the Diaper Years provides ten biblical truths that will help you:
-relinquish the idea of a perfect mom.
-rely on God and his guidance for raising children in a loving, Christian home.
-feel secure in knowing that God designed you to be the ideal mother for your child.
-focus on the true mission of a Christian parent: to guide your child to Christ.Mothers do not need to succumb to unattainable or self-imposed parenting pressures. God’s satisfaction is the only stamp of approval required.
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Sacred Ground Sticky Floors
$15.99Add to cartCome find the miracle in the mayhem.
As moms, we know we’ve messed up in so many ways. Royally. We think to ourselves:
Why can’t my children get along with one another? Truthfully, I don’t remember the last time my husband and I worked on our own relationship. Now my oldest daughter is turning away from the faith, and I don’t know how to get her back.
Did you know that in the midst of your failures and fears, you are still loved–royally? As a child of noble birth? Do you believe your children are in better hands than your own that grip so desperately?
Jami Amerine, author of Stolen Jesus, returns with a totally relatable account of her experiences as a mom. She’s eager to help you see how to let your Heavenly Father parent you, so you can embrace peace as you parent.
Come meet the One whose presence turns sticky floors into sacred ground.
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I Call You Mine
$15.99Add to cartI Call You Mine is a six-week study focused on revealing the incredible spiritual insights available to those who embrace God’s heart of adoption. Just as Jesus used stories to engage and teach, the Scripture passages and personal stories in this study uncover greater truths about adoption as God s children. Caring for the unwanted is a privilege, and the perspective gained when working with God in this way is humbling. Realize anew what it means to be chosen and redeemed.
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Storm Tossed Family
$22.99Add to cartWhy do our families have so much power over us? In The Cross-Shaped Family, best-selling author Russell Moore ( Onward, Christianity Today’s 2016 “Beautiful Orthodoxy Book of the Year Award Winner”) teaches readers whether you are married or single, whether you are childless or herding a quiverfull of offspring, you are part of a family. Family is difficult because family–every family–is an echo of the gospel.
Family can be the source of some of the most transcendent human joy, and family can leave us crumpled up on the side of the road. Family can make us who we are, and family can break our hearts. Why would this social arrangement have that much power, for good or for ill, over us?
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When Your Kid Is Hurting (Reprinted)
$19.99Add to cartChildren today live in an unpredictable, disruptive, and often violent world. Many of them live in two different homes with different sets of expectations. They face bullying at school and online. They hear news of school shootings, and racially or religiously motivated violence. They may have lost a friend or a loved one.
As parents, the impulse to protect our children is strong, but that very protection can end up handicapping them for life. Rather than seek to save them from the hard things, parents must teach their kids how to cope with and rise above their problems. In one of his most important books to date, internationally known psychologist and bestselling author Dr. Kevin Leman shows parents how to
– be good listeners
– tell the truth, even when it’s difficult
– find balance between being protective and being overprotective
– approach hurt and injustice as a learning experience rather than fostering a victim mentality
– and much moreWhether your child is dealing with a difficult family situation, bullies, the loss of friends, the death of a loved one, discrimination, abuse, a teen pregnancy, or even just trying to make sense of what they see in the news, this compassionate and practical book will help parents equip them to process, learn from, and rise above their situation.
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Give Them Wings (Revised)
$17.99Add to cartUpdated and Revised
Your teen comes home with her driver’s license. College catalogs fill your mailbox. Senior pictures are taken, and graduation gowns are fitted. The family car is loaded to take your college freshman to his dorm.
During that transition time when a teen becomes a young adult, family roles must stretch and adjust to accommodate spreading wings. What can you expect in this process? Give Them Wings offers insight into how families change as parents and teens make room for the future. Emphasizing the need for independence and responsibility, Give Them Wings explores many ways that parents can equip their teen.
If your children are on the brink of adulthood, Give Them Wings can help you survive the changes and thrive on the challenges the next few years will bring. You can be prepared to help your teens journey into adulthood, as well as learn to enjoy the process of emptying the nest.
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Marriage Challenge : A Finance Guide For Married Couples
$16.99Add to cartGod has a plan for your marriage and your money. It starts with a challenge. Will you accept?
For many couples, the collision of marriage and money is the beginning of relational havoc. But does it have to be this way?
What if the collision of marriage and money no longer tore couples apart but brought them together? What if money was no longer a topic to argue about but a topic around which couples rallied? What if the collision of marriage and money actually helped couples find contentment and purpose?
In The Marriage Challenge: A Finance Guide for Married Couples, financial expert and author of The Money Challenge Art Rainer takes you on a journey to a financially healthy marriage. Get started on the right foot, or get back on the right track, by accepting the challenge and realizing God’s design for money and marriage.
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Men Women And Money Hers Edition (Workbook)
$12.99Add to cartToday’s young couples want more than being told to cut up credit cards when it comes to managing their finances. They are looking for a bigger picture that is less about surface fixes and more about being in sync with their partner on a heart level and making informed decisions together.
Bringing to light how men and women handle money differently, bestselling author Shaunti Feldhahn partners with Thrivent, a leading Fortune-500 financial company, to help couples strengthen their marriages and think and communicate more effectively about their finances. Backed by in-depth research and full of expert advice, this dynamic six-week curriculum gives couples the tools to:
*Diffuse tension when talking about finances
*Truly understand their differences–and their spouse’s thinking–around money
*Foster goodwill, intimacy, and financial unity in their relationship
*Make more informed financial decisions together
*Get their finances–and relationship–on track for a brighter future
*And moreThe study includes six video sessions, approximately 20-30 minutes each, that introduce a key relationship component, how it applies to money, and what a couple can do about it. The curriculum kit includes a “His” workbook, a “Her” workbook, and video content available via DVD.
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Men Women And Money His Edition (Workbook)
$12.99Add to cartToday’s young couples want more than being told to cut up credit cards when it comes to managing their finances. They are looking for a bigger picture that is less about surface fixes and more about being in sync with their partner on a heart level and making informed decisions together.
Bringing to light how men and women handle money differently, bestselling author Shaunti Feldhahn partners with Thrivent, a leading Fortune-500 financial company, to help couples strengthen their marriages and think and communicate more effectively about their finances. Backed by in-depth research and full of expert advice, this dynamic six-week curriculum gives couples the tools to:
*Diffuse tension when talking about finances
*Truly understand their differences–and their spouse’s thinking–around money
*Foster goodwill, intimacy, and financial unity in their relationship
*Make more informed financial decisions together
*Get their finances–and relationship–on track for a brighter future
*And moreThe study includes six video sessions, approximately 20-30 minutes each, that introduce a key relationship component, how it applies to money, and what a couple can do about it. The curriculum kit includes a “His” workbook, a “Her” workbook, and video content available via DVD.
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Unbound : Finding Freedom From Unrealistic Expectations Of Motherhood
$14.99Add to cartIn 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.
