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Alzheimer’s Disease: Help for Families in Crisis
$5.62It starts out as small moments of forgetfulness that can be chalked up to simply getting older. But as time passes and symptoms accumulate, you are forced to face the fact that your loved one has Alzheimer’s disease. Now you’re wondering how the course of the disease will run and how you will provide for their care. How do you help your loved one when you feel overwhelmed by the diagnosis yourself?
Drawing from his years of experience as a physician, Robert Smith takes you through the various stages of Alzheimer’s disease and the difficulties that each presents. Pointing you to Christ for strength and encouragement, he offers many practical suggestions to help you care for your loved one, both physically and spiritually.
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Hope for the Depressed: Beyond a “Cheer-Up” Theology
$5.62Depression makes so many things hard. Things you used to take for granted—a good night’s sleep, having goals, responding to someone’s love, looking forward to the future—now seem beyond reach. Is there any hope and help for those who are struggling with depression?
Edward T. Welch insightfully describes the world of the depressed person and gives a biblical perspective on the causes of depression. Then he outlines small, practical steps that will teach you to cry out to God and depend on him in the middle of your struggle.
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How to Talk to Your Kid About Sex
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Honesty and Openness on a Sensitive Subject.You don’t want to make a big deal out of it. Isn’t everyone else already talking about sex? Yes, they are talking, and their words are shaping your child’s understanding right now. In a culture that glorifies casual sex, kids will only learn to think biblically about it when parents speak up.
William P. Smith shares a practical, non-threatening model that will connect your child to God’s perspective on sex and intimacy. As you initiate intentional conversations, you will create a safe and God-honoring space for your child to ask questions about sex and receive biblical answers.
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Leadership: How to Guide Others with Integrity
$5.62How do you lead people? You’ve been called to a position where you must guide and direct others, but you wonder what a good leader is supposed to do and if you really have what it takes to lead well. Who will direct you as you direct others?
Stephen Viars shows you the importance of integrity as the foundation of leadership and points you toward a vibrant relationship with Christ, the greatest leader of all. As you see how Christ demonstrates his integrity by caring well for his people, you too will grow in your ability to lead well for the sake of others.
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Leading Your Child to Christ: Biblical Direction for Sharing the Gospel
$5.62You want to lead your child to Christ, but you often wonder exactly what you should be saying and sharing with your child. How do you know what parts of the gospel to share? How do you know if your child is really understanding the good news of the gospel or just trying to please you?
With decades of experience in children’s ministry and as a father, Marty Machowski outlines the core truths of the gospel and explains them in ways a child can understand. Using reflective questions, he helps you understand how to live the gospel openly with your children, allowing them to see how Christ is changing you, as well as how he desires to love and bring change to their lives.
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Leaving Your Family Behind: Preparing for Military Deployment
$5.62As you face deployment, you need more than sympathy and gratitude. You need hope and guidance for yourself and those you love. Jesus Christ experienced the pain of separation when he left heaven for earth, and he understands what you are facing. You can trust him to help in your time of need.
Rob Green shares timely biblical guidance for the soon-to-be-deployed on trusting God’s deliverance, cultivating a deep spiritual life now, and making the most of the time before you leave. His counsel will help to prepare you and your family for the challenges ahead.
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Living in a Dangerous World: Moving from Fear to Faith
$5.62Everyone is afraid of something. Fear is part of the human experience of living in a broken, fallen world. We try to manage our fears, but our coping mechanisms impact our faith. We hoard resources and stop praying for provision. We stockpile information and forget to seek godly wisdom. Yet we continue to live anxious lives.
William P. Smith explains that our faith should, instead, change our strategies for dealing with fear. He offers practical guidance on how to exchange fear for faith by learning to find security in our relationship with an all-sufficient, unchanging God.
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Infertility: Comfort for Your Empty Arms and Heavy Heart
$5.62The progression should have been natural. You got married, and children were supposed to follow in due time. But every month that ends in a period rather than a pregnancy has you feeling more and more depressed. Perhaps you even find yourself avoiding people and places with children because it is just too painful.
Amy Baker and Daniel Wickert help you see God’s presence and provision for you in the midst of your pain. With compassion and understanding, they walk through some of the struggles and pitfalls of dealing with infertility and offer practical help for leaning on Christ, connecting with your spouse, and engaging with others.
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Making Friends: Beyond Loneliness to Rich Relationships
$5.62Making friends is one of the most basic aspects of life, so why does it often feel so difficult? You reach out to others, but they don’t reach back. You think you’ve found a friend, but then they let you down or move away. How do you forge genuine friendships that provide the encouragement and support you need?
With understanding and grace, Dee Brestin unpacks the dynamics of godly friendships and how to develop them. Using several biblical friendships as examples, she guides you to see how Christ provides for your relational needs, both in himself and through others.
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Managing Your Emotions: Keeping your Feelings from Running the Show
$5.62Emotions are a powerful and important part of life, but sometimes it feels like they are out of control. Mild frustration quickly turns to anger. Sadness becomes despair. Disappointment deepens into bitterness. You may begin to wonder if you control your feelings or if they control you!
Amy Baker explains that our emotions don’t have to run our lives. Instead, our emotions can reflect God’s character even in our broken world. Through discussing how Jesus expressed his emotions and working through practical examples of real-life struggles, she shares how the gospel offers new resources for handling your emotions productively and reshapes the desires and interpretations that fuel your feelings.
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OCD: Freedom for the Obsessive-Compulsive
$5.49Repeated thoughts about contamination. Recurring doubts. A need to have things in a particular order. An irrational fear of getting a life-threatening disease. Repetitive checking, washing, cleaning, arranging. Hoarding. These are some of the common obsessions and compulsions experienced by people with OCD (Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder). Do you know anyone who struggles like this? What causes obsessive-compulsive behavior? Is this primarily a spiritual or sin issue? “These questions must be answered if we are to minister wisely and compassionately to those who struggle in this way,” writes Michael Emlet. In this booklet, he discusses the causes of OCD and gives a biblical approach to helping those who fight it. He shows how trusting in Jesus Christ “brings freedom from the tyranny of performance and perfectionism.”
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Peer Pressure: Recognizing the Warning Signs and Giving New Direction
$5.75Does your child do and say things just to be liked and accepted by others? Does he constantly talk about what others think of him or say about him? Does he go from one relational drama to the next? These are all warnings signs that your child is feeling the weight of peer pressure.
Paul Tripp explains the fears that underlie your teenager’s struggle with peer pressure, and offers specific things to do and not to that will encourage your child to live for God’s approval, instead of the acceptance of friends.
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Priorities: Mastering Time Management
$5.49Do you wish for more hours in the day? A shorter “to do” list? Control in the midst of chaos?
With insight and clarity, James C. Petty helps bring focus into frazzled lives. Using the “Assessing My Priorities” worksheet, he walks us through the process of organizing time under the categories of God, the people of God, and God?s work in the world. With sound biblical advice and practical application, this booklet demonstrates ways in which we can reduce unnecessary stress, identify true priorities, and begin to get our overbooked schedules under control.
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PTSD: Healing for Bad Memories
$5.62The event occurred in the past, possibly many years ago, but you still carry it with you wherever you go. Some days the memory keeps replaying over and over again in your mind. You feel angry, jumpy, maybe even guilty or ashamed. You want to move on with your life and wonder why you can’t just “get over it.”
With wisdom and compassion gleaned from many years of counseling, Timothy S. Lane walks with you through this difficult struggle. As he unpacks God’s message to you in the Bible, you will begin to realize that you are not alone in your struggle. Christ, who himself suffered intensely, is with you. You can trust him to guide you through the gradual process of healing.
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Raising Sexually Healthy Kids
$5.62In an increasingly sexualized world, it’s difficult to know how to teach your children about their sexuality in a godly way. On the one hand, you don’t want to give the impression that sex is bad or make them feel ashamed of their bodies. But on the other, you don’t want to reinforce the message, “If it feels good, do it.” How do you instill a godly view of sexuality into your child without just giving them a list of “don’ts”?
From his years of ministry on sexual issues, David White equips you to help your child form a positive, biblical framework for their sexuality. He walks you through how to build a basic foundation for understanding God’s purposes for sex, as well as giving you tips for how to address more complex issues that may arise as your child grows older and more aware of other expressions of sexuality.
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Bitterness: The Root that Pollutes (Lou Priolo)
$6.29When people treat you wrongly, insult you, or are outright sinful to you, how do you react? Are you satisfied to hold grudges against those who wrong you, as long as they don’t lead to action? Unfortunately, your decision to harbor bitterness is just as much of a sin as the one originally committed against you, and your reaction to others’ sin is a spiritual battle you are called on to win.
Lou Priolo focuses on that battle in this vital booklet that seeks to weed out the problem of bitterness. By offering a biblical definition and identifying its outward signs, the author equips you to recognize bitterness in your own life, and he lays out a scriptural plan to ensure victory by repaying others’ evil with good. You will find grudges losing their grip as you focus instead on how to show love.
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Relief Without Cutting: Taking Your Negative Feelings to God
$5.62People handle the hard things in life in all different ways. What do you do when you get upset? Cry? Blow-up? Get depressed? Or perhaps, no one notices when you’re upset because you find a quiet place and cut yourself. You’re looking for relief, but is this the respite you really want?
There is a better way to manage your negative emotions. Instead of cutting–the never-ending cycle of hiding and going deeper and deeper–you can go to Jesus with all of your troubles. You are precious to him. So precious that he shed his blood for you! His power is big enough to fill you with peace and liberate you from cutting.
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Reuniting After Military Deployment: Help for the Transition
$5.62Your excitement at the prospect of reunion is tempered with anxiety. You have heard the stories of divorce, discouragement, and depression. Will your account be any different?
Rob Green assures you that successful reunification is possible because of the help found in Jesus Christ. Green offers practical advice for seeking to understand your spouse’s struggles, reevaluating schedules and responsibilities, and using your new family time with purpose. By taking steps to intentionally transition out of “deployment mode” and back into the unity God has given you as husband and wife, you can rebuild a family that is stronger than ever.
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Social Anxiety: Being Comfortable in Your Own Skin
$5.62“I’m just shy.” You’ve worn the label for so long that it has become your identity. A counselor recently described it as social anxiety, but the new label does nothing to ease the pain. You wish you could feel “comfortable in your own skin” but instead, in social situations, you feel anxious and out of place. Where can you go for help?
Amy Baker explains that confidence in God, not self-confidence, is the answer to the problem of social anxiety. Trusting in God breaks the paralyzing grip of fear, freeing formerly “shy” people to enter fully into relationship with God and others.
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Stress: Peace Amid Pressure
$5.49Are you overwhelmed by stress? On edge? Pressured to achieve? Spinning into free fall? What is the “noise” going on inside you? Or are you quiet inside? David Powlison invites you to look at Psalm 131 to learn how to calm your soul. “Psalm 131 gives us intimate access to the inner life of someone who has learned composure,” Powlison writes.
“This person is quiet on the inside because he has learned the only true and lasting peace.” Psalm 131 is not about unruffled detachment or stoic indifference. It’s not about having an easygoing personality or low expectations. It is about learning composure through a relationship with Jesus Christ. His presence in our lives is the only thing strong enough to overpower stress. We can learn how to say with the psalmist, “Surely I have composed and quieted my soul.” (Psalm 131:2)
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