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Helping Children with Body Image: Teaching Them to See What God Sees
Jocelyn Wallace
$5.00Retail: $6.25The world is streaming messages to children about what makes them valuable. Children learn early from TV, media, friends, and classmates that if they don’t have the right size, weight, ...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
Becoming a Widow: The Ache of Missing Your Other Half
Elizabeth W.D. Groves
$5.00Retail: $6.25No matter whether your husband's death was expected or sudden, your loss is a total shock. Your world will never again be the same. You wonder how you can go on without him. And how will you manage the details of a life you built together? How do you get...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
Who Does the Dishes? Decision Making in Marriage
Winston T. Smith
$5.00Retail: $6.25Who should pay the bills? Do the laundry? Work outside the home? Stay home with the kids? For many couples, answering these questions is difficult and frustrating. How do you decide which family responsibilities belong to you and which belong to your...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
Sex Before Marriage: How Far is Too Far?
Timothy S. Lane
$5.00Retail: $6.25"If we're in love, what's wrong with having sex before marriage? And even if we're not, isn't everyone else doing it? Why should we be the only ones who wait?" Have you ever thought or said things like this? If your answer is yes, you have a lot of...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
Parenting Your ADHD Child: Biblical Guidance for Your Child's Diagnosis
Rita Jamison
$5.00Retail: $6.25If your child is diagnosed with ADHD, don't give up hope! No diagnosis can negate the fact that your child is made in the image of God. You can help your child, as one of God's image bearers, to deal with the behaviors associated with ADHD. The Bible...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
Sexual Assault: Healing Steps for Victims
David Powlison
$5.00Retail: $6.25Sexual assault is an invasive event of traumatic evil. You were victimized, and now you are suffering. Whenever sexual abuse occurs, love is not part of the equation. Rather, the perpetrator uses power, domination, and control to injure innocent victims...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
Your Child Says, "I'm Gay"
Tim Geiger
$5.00Retail: $6.25Four little words that will rock any parent’s world: “I think I’m gay.” If your child said this, you are probably experiencing a combination of shock, denial, anger, confusion, and uncertainty. Despite your shock you still want to...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
What the Bible Says to Abuse Survivors and Those Who Hurt Them
Victor Vieth
$5.00Retail: $6.25Pastors and church personnel often struggle to apply intentional and appropriate doses of both biblical grace and stringent accountability to victims and perpetrators of child sexual abuse. Churches can regularly be prone to turn the tables on survivors...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
Help for Stepfamilies: Avoiding the Pitfalls and Learning to Love
Winston T. Smith
$5.00Retail: $6.25How do you blend two separate families into one household? 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...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
Feeling Guilty? Grace for Your Mistakes
Steve Brown
$5.00Retail: $6.25Right now you are probably feeling guilty about one thing or another–what you said to your spouse last night, those unrelenting thoughts, something you did years ago and regret, actual lying and cheating, the places where you are struggling right...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
Living Together: Why Marriage Is the Best Choice
Ellen Mary Dykas
$5.00Retail: $6.25Past broken relationships, concerns about compatibility, and finances are just some of the reasons for the growing trend of couples living together without getting married. But marriage is not just a cultural institution by which people merge lives, bank...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
Eating Disorders: The Quest for Thinness
Edward T. Welch
$5.00Retail: $6.25What started as an innocent diet has turned into a monster. You eat too little. You eat too much. You restrict. You binge. Some days you wish you could just forget about food. Can someone like you ever learn to eat normally? Edward T. Welch...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
Relief without Cutting: Taking Your Negative Feelings to God
Amy Baker
$5.00Retail: $6.25People 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...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
Teaching Your Child about Money: Biblical Stewardship for Beginners
Marty Machowski
$5.00Retail: $6.25Guess who is watching you spend your money? Your children are not just hearing your words about spending; they are watching you do it. What lessons are your children learning about the financial choices you make? Are they learning to trust God and...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
Mom Guilt: Escaping Its Strong Hold
Lauren Whitman
$5.00Retail: $6.25Do you feel like you’re failing as a mom? Are you plagued by a sense of inadequacy and feel like you’re constantly missing the mark?These feelings describe mom guilt—a surprisingly common experience for modern moms...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
Healing after Abortion: God's Mercy is for You
David Powlison
$5.00Retail: $6.25The turmoil women experience after having an abortion is sometimes called "post-abortion syndrome." But you don't need a technical term to describe what you are feeling. The guilt, regret, depression, and grief are the honest struggles of a woman who's...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
iSnooping on Your Kid: Parenting in an Internet World
R. Nicholas Black
$5.00Retail: $6.25In our increasingly wired world, your children have access to people, images, and media that you don't want them to experience. What's a concerned parent to do? What does wisdom look like when technology floods into your home bringing access to...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
The Spiritual Impact of Sexual Abuse
Diane Langberg
$5.00Retail: $6.25Are you ministering to someone whose trauma of sexual abuse has shattered their trust in God? Do you see them wrestling with the dichotomy between what they are told about God and the bitter facts of their wounds? If the abuse happened when they were a...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
Helping Children with Shame: Resting in God's Approval
Edward T. Welch
$5.00Retail: $6.25Shame is the experience of feeling unacceptable, less than others, or different. Children often experience the sting of this particular sense of failing to measure up. Whether this heavy feeling comes from internal or external pressures, children...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
Children and Trauma: Equipping Parents and Caregivers
Justin S. Holcomb and Lindsey A. Holcomb
$5.00Retail: $6.25Children can experience trauma from a variety of experiences, including neglect, physical, sexual, or psychological abuse, death of a loved one, bullying, racial trauma, and more. Trauma occurs when children...$5.00Retail: $6.25
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