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Suffering: Where to Turn When Life Falls Apart
Steve Brown
$5.00Retail: $6.25Someone you love is ill, your child is in trouble, financial problems mount, you lost your job, your spouse left you–the list of troubles we experience is both uniquely difficult and depressingly similar. In this world we will suffer, Jesus...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
Talking to Your Children about Race: A Biblical Framework for Honest Conversations
Jerome Gay
$5.00Retail: $6.25Conversations about race and ethnicity can be uncomfortable. Often parents don’t know what to say or how to say it. It might seem easier to duck a hard, confusing subject, but your children are already learning about race from the world...$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 -
Teens and Anxiety: How Parents Can Help
Eliza Huie
$5.00Retail: $6.25Anxiety is the number one mental health issue facing people today, and teens are not exempt. The causes are many—school pressure, relationship struggles, social media issues—and the results can be debilitating for your teen. If you are...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
Teens and Suicide: Recognizing the Signs and Sharing Hope
Julie Lowe
$5.00Retail: $6.25Many teenagers are not navigating adolescence successfully. Often, even though they have material things, the latest electronics, and spending money, they can be stressed, unhappy, and feel directionless. For an increasing number of teenagers, their...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
Temptation: Fighting the Urge
Timothy S. Lane
$5.00Retail: $6.25How many times have you tried to change a behavior only to find yourself doing the same thing again? Do these phrases sound familiar? "There I go again!" "I've had this struggle for years, and I just can't seem to win." "I do okay for awhile, but then I...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
The Empty Nest: Finding Hope in Your Changing Job Description
Elyse Fitzpatrick
$5.00Retail: $6.25Your children are growing up and leaving home. You know this is a good thing, but at the same time, you're wondering who you are when you're not busy being your children's mother. You know this is a new season of life, but it's hard not to look back with...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
The Gay Dilemma and Your Church: Reaching Out to Those Who Struggle
John Freeman
$5.00Retail: $6.25Whether it’s a friend, family member, neighbor, or coworker, chances are you know someone who’s gay. You want to respond well, but you’re not sure how. How do you help and encourage other Christians struggling with same-sex attraction?...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
The Gift of Addiction: How God Redeems Our Pain
Erik Guzman
$5.00Retail: $6.25You did it again. You drank. You got high. You slept with him/her. You surfed the Internet. What gift could you possibly find in so much failure? But when your helplessness drives you to turn to God and admit your need, you will experience the...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
The Problem with Masturbation
Winston T. Smith
$5.00Retail: $6.25"It's normal." "Everyone does it." "Nobody gets hurt." These are some commonly held beliefs about sexual fantasy and masturbation, but are they really true? Are sexual fantasies and masturbation harmless ways of dealing with sexual frustration? ...$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 -
Trauma and Abuse Minibook Sample Pack
$48.75Retail: $75.00Our Trauma and Abuse Minibook Sample Pack features one each of 12 New Growth Press minibook titles. In it, you will find a wealth of practical, biblical help for trauma sufferers, abuse victims, and those who seek to help. Topics covered include...$48.75Retail: $75.00 -
Uncovering Domestic Abuse: Knowing What to Look For
Timothy St. John
$5.00Retail: $6.25You may be surprised to learn how prevalent domestic abuse really is, even within your church community. Sadly, because spousal abuse pervades every pocket of society, the statistical reality is that we all have people in our church who have suffered as...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
What Do You Do for a Living?
Justin S. Holcomb
$5.00Retail: $6.25“What do you do for a living?” Whether you have a great answer to that question (“I have an important job!”) or a not-so-great answer (“I’m unemployed!”), the problem of defining ourselves by what we do instead...$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 -
What's Wrong with a Little Porn When You're Married?
R. Nicholas Black
$5.00Retail: $6.25You feel emotionally isolated and sexually disengaged from your spouse. Could it be that the fantasy world of pornography has intruded upon your real-life marriage? Nicholas Black of Harvest USA, a ministry for people struggling with sexual issues,...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
What's Wrong with a Little Porn When You're Single?
R. Nicholas Black
$5.00Retail: $6.25"I know porn is wrong for a married person, but I'm single. What can it hurt?" The accessibility of pornography through the Internet means that more singles are asking themselves if porn use really matters. But Nicholas Black of Harvest USA, a ministry...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
When Bad Things Happen: Thoughtful Answers to Hard Questions
William P. Smith
$5.00Retail: $6.25Is a personal God really involved in our suffering? And if he is, what in the world is he up to? Why would a good God allow suffering in his world? William P. Smith addresses these and other hard questions by reflecting on what the Bible teaches...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
When Cancer Interrupts
David Powlison
$5.00Retail: $6.25Your cancer diagnosis comes as a surprise—and not a pleasant surprise. It is a hard and threatening jolt. Perhaps you are still in shock. Still trying to wrap your mind around the new reality of your diagnosis and what it means for your present and...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
When Children Experience Trauma: Help for Parents and Caregivers
Darby A. Strickland
$5.00Retail: $6.25When our children experience a traumatic event, we can feel powerless to help. We fear getting it wrong or reminding them of the hurt. Or we miss important cues that signal a child is in distress, leading us to address problematic behaviors with...$5.00Retail: $6.25
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