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Controlling Anger: Responding Constructively when Life goes Wrong
$5.62What makes you angry? Sometimes it’s small things: traffic jams, a waiter’s mistake, or a friend’s inattention. And sometimes it’s big things: betrayal, injustice, meanness, violence, oppression, selfishness, and lying. How do you deal with your anger? Do you dump it on those around you? Or stuff it deep inside?
David Powlison surprises us with the news that God is angry too, but his anger is expressed constructively, by giving his own Son to right what’s wrong with this world. Learn the five questions to ask yourself that will help you express your anger God’s way in the difficult situations and relationships you face every day.
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Dealing with Rejection: How to Respond to Deep Hurt
$5.62You feel betrayed. Someone close to you has hurt you deeply. You want to move past the pain and your obsession with what happened, but how? The usual strategies–trying to get even, trying to forget–just aren’t working for you. Perhaps it’s time for a different approach.
Jack Miller unpacks the different ways that people respond to betrayal and rejection and offers a new way to respond–forgiveness rooted in the gospel of Jesus Christ. Forgiveness doesn’t mean “forgetting” or acting as if nothing happened, but it does mean being free from hurt and able to be like Jesus and return good for evil.
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Depression: The Way Up When You Are Down
$5.49Lost ambition. Emotional numbness. Fear and withdrawal. Fatigue. Marks of what is commonly called depression.If you are one of the many people suffering from depression, there is hope and there is help—a way up when you are down. Even if you don’t feel like doing anything, this booklet provides manageable steps for getting started on the path that leads out of depression. Edward T. Welch helps us understand the spiritual issues involved, whether one’s depression is caused by physical problems or results in them. Getting to the heart of what depression says and means, Welch guides us through a process of dealing with depression biblically and effectively.
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Diagnosed with Breast Cancer: Life After Shock
$5.62It may be your greatest fear coming true or something you never thought would happen to you. Either way, breast cancer has entered your life and turned it upside down. Now you’re wondering how you’re going to make it through: Are you going to be alright? Is your family going to be okay? And where is God in your struggle? Has he deserted you?
Joni Eareckson Tada, herself a survivor of breast cancer, walks with you through the struggles and questions that naturally arise in the face of suffering and offers you hope through Christ. With the understanding, wisdom, and grace that comes from experience, she points the way to a deepening trust and hope in the God who provides daily grace and strength even in the midst of great suffering.
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Domestic Abuse: Recognize, Respond, Rescue
$5.49Experienced Christian counselor Darby Strickland demonstrates how to recognize and uncover oppression, then uses Scripture to show what is truly happening in abusive marriages. She equips us to be wise and informed as we confront oppressors and advocate for the oppressed.
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Facing Death With Hope: Living for What Lasts
$5.62Is a life-threatening illness, a major life change, or just plain old age forcing you to face your own mortality? Probably, like most of us, you’d rather not think or talk about your own death. But ignoring your death won’t stop it from happening–the mortality rate is still 100%!
David Powlison explains why you don’t have to take this journey alone. Jesus faced death for you, and he promises to be with you as you pass through the valley of the shadow of death. This booklet is written to help you face death honestly and know Jesus intimately. Take a moment to read through it. It’s a matter of life or death.
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Family Feuds: How to Respond
$5.62Do you dread family get-togethers and try to avoid your extended family whenever you can? When you see your family, do you sometimes regret the way you talk and act? Why is it so hard to get along with the people we grew up with?
Childhood hurts, unrealistic expectations, and old patterns resurfacing are just some of the reasons that Timothy S. Lane shares for unresolved family feuds. But despite these challenges, you can learn to love your family. Change happens as you look honestly at your family and yourself, grow in understanding God’s love and mercy for you, and reach out with love in concrete, practical ways.
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Forging a Strong Mother-Daughter Bond: Beyond Manipulation and Control
$5.62Moms want to be close to their daughters. Daughters (for the most part) want a good relationship with their moms. But when that relationship is strained by one person’s attempt to control and manipulate, closeness is replaced by hurt, disappointment, anger, and fear.
Leslie Vernick shares two stories of moms and daughters who learned how to move beyond the cycle of manipulation and control and give and share love honestly and without fear. By revealing how Christ calls and empowers us to love, she offers hope and practical help in breaking these destructive patterns of relating.
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Forgiveness: I Just Can’t Forgive Myself
$5.49Sally, a Christian, laments having an abortion years ago. “I know the Lord has forgiven me, but I just can’t forgive myself.” What would you say to her? Maybe you yourself have struggled with “self-forgiveness” and wonder how to deal with feelings of guilt. Why is self-forgiveness such an attractive notion? What, if anything, does the Bible say about it? Robert D. Jones identifies five possible assumptions behind the longing for self-forgiveness. In the process, he pinpoints a deeper problem—and a deeper solution to ongoing guilt. By dispelling a number of misconceptions, Jones clears the path to a joyful realization of complete forgiveness in Christ.
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Forgiving Others: Joining Wisdom and Love
$5.62Forgiving someone who has hurt you is one of the most difficult tasks anyone ever faces. In fact, it is so hard that most people avoid it at all costs. But when we don’t forgive, we pay the price of bitterness that affects all of our relationships. Is it possible to forgive a great wrong and treat others with compassion despite the way they have treated us?
Timothy S. Lane, drawing on his personal, pastoral, and counseling experience, explains that only when you understand God’s love and forgiveness for you, will you be able to forgive those who have deeply hurt you. He applies that truth by explaining what forgiveness looks like in different situations and how to wisely practice forgiveness in the midst of difficult circumstances.
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Freedom from Addiction: Turning from Your Addictive Behavior
$5.62You’ve tried to stop more times than you can count. Now you’ve given up. Can someone who can’t “just say no” really change? There is hope — if you are willing to look deeper than your addictive behavior.
Edward T. Welch helps you face what fuels your addiction and takes you straight to the heart of what your addiction reveals about you and your relationship with God. You will discover your true motives and discover that true change is possible — one small step at a time.
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Freedom From Guilt: Finding Release from your Burdens
$5.62Are you living under a cloud of guilt that you can’t seem to shake no matter what you do? Do you feel guilty about everything, all the time? We all have different ways of dealing with our guilty feelings, but none of them work for very long.
Timothy S. Lane explains that our strategies for dealing with guilt don’t work because guilt is not just a bad feeling. It’s a real problem between us and God. Depending on Jesus to restore your relationship with God is the only way to be truly free from the guilt and shame that weighs you down. Discover how to step into the forgiveness and freedom that Jesus offers you.
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Freedom From Resentment: Stopping Hurts from Turning Bitter
$5.62Everyone experiences hurt in relationships, but most of the time we are able to forgive and forget. But sometimes we experience a major hurt that lingers in our minds and leads to bitterness. We feel trapped by the resulting hostility, ongoing broken relationships, and inability to move on. Can you escape the sorrow and soul impoverishment that bitterness brings?
Robert Jones explains how a relationship with Jesus, a man of sorrows and familiar with suffering, can free you from bitterness. Then he outlines practical ways to live out the gospel in difficult relationships. Healing and freedom is possible, even for long-lasting hurts.
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Angry Children: Understanding and Helping Your Child Regain Control
$5.62If you have an angry child you are most likely worn out, confused, and looking for answers to questions like these:
“How can I restore sanity to this chaos?”
“How can I prevent these anger storms in my child?”
“Why does this rage seem to explode from out of nowhere?”Dr. Michael R. Emlet offers you needed help by explaining both the deeper heart issues and possible physical weaknesses that can fuel a child’s angry explosions. Then, using his experience as a doctor, counselor, and parent, he applies the truths of the Bible to your child’s struggles with anger and outlines practical strategies for helping your child learn self-control.
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God’s Love: Better than Unconditional
$5.49“God’s unconditional love.” Sounds nice, but is it enough? Is there more to God’s love?
Describing unconditional love as detached “blanket acceptance” and “benign affirmation,” David Powlison challenges our common assumption about the nature of God’s love. Although wonderfully accepting, divine love is also intrusive, intimate, personal, and active. Instead of simply loving us as we are, God loves us enough to change us.
Powlison acknowledges four underlying truths of unconditional love, offers biblical improvements on the idea, and urges us to see God’s love for what it really is—better than unconditional.
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Grief: Finding Hope Again
$5.62No matter what the circumstances, death shakes us to the core. It seems so wrong and it is! We long for comfort, but we don’t know where to look. Can God really help when we are overwhelmed with grief?
With compassion and biblical wisdom, Paul David Tripp shows us how to think and what to do when death enters our door. He reminds us that we have a Savior who knows our sorrows, hears our cries, and promises to one day wipe away all tears. Hope and healing come from our relationship with Jesus, the One who promises to walk all the way through the valley of the shadow of death with us.
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Grieving A Suicide: Help for the Aftershock
$5.62Someone you know and love has died. You feel the emptiness and sorrow of loss. That alone is extremely hard. But suicide adds many other painful reactions to the heartache that death brings. Common reactions are feelings of anger, guilt, betrayal, and many, many unanswerable questions.
This is one of life’s broken, dark experiences in which you need help and encouragement to remember that the promises and presence of your God and Savior are real. In the midst of this darkness, David Powlison points you toward God who will be with you, uphold you, and help you live by faith through this tragedy.
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Grieving the Loss of Your Child: Comfort for Your Broken Heart
$5.62The unthinkable has happened. Your beautiful child is gone, and you are left with a gaping hole in your heart and in your life. How could this have happened? How is it possible that you have outlived your own child?
Ryan Showalter understands the magnitude of grief and pain that has entered your life. With compassion, grace, and a pastor’s heart, he walks with you through the valley of the shadow of death and leads you toward the comfort only God can provide.
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Guidance: Have I Missed God’s Best?
$5.49What choice should I make? How do I know that my decision will fit with God’s plan for me? “We tend to think that while God has a ‘best’ plan for our life, he also has ‘cheaper’ plans for people who miss the best,” writes Petty. “But for those who are in Christ, there is only one plan.” Petty explains that God’s plan and our actions work in concert. With all the decisions we face and despite the mistakes we make, God works in all things for the good, transforming us into the image of Christ (Rom. 8:28). How comforting to know that our choices fulfill that plan in every detail.
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Help For Stepfamilies: Avoiding the Pitfalls and Learning to Love
$5.62How do you blend two separate families into one house-hold? Family traditions, values, interests, and parenting styles are often so far apart that simple questions like, “Who takes out the trash?” or “Where shall we go for Christmas?” can quickly become flashpoints of conflict.
Winston T. Smith provides a road map to the unique challenges that each member of a stepfamily faces. Drawing on his experience as a marriage and family counselor, Winston Smith shows how understanding each other’s struggles, honest sharing, and sacrificial love can transform and unify your stepfamily. As you learn to practically apply these biblical principles, you will find that there are also unique blessings to be found in your new, blended family.
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