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Freedom from Guilt: Finding Release from Your Burdens
$5.00Retail: $6.25Are 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...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
Why Do I Care? When Others' Approval Matters Too Much
$5.00Retail: $6.25It is difficult and sometimes frightening not to have the good opinion of others. No one likes to face the possibility of rejection, humiliation, or opposition. Yet, making our goal others' approval confines us to a small world where life consists of...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
Helping Children with Body Image: Teaching Them to See What God Sees
$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, strength, and appearance, something is wrong with them. Children...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
Miscarriage: You Are Not Alone
$5.00Retail: $6.25Anyone who has suffered through a miscarriage knows that it is one of the most painful experiences a woman can have. There's an emptiness inside that you cannot describe and that no one else seems to understand. How can you grieve so much for a person...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
Stressed to the Max: Peace for Women Under Pressure
$5.00Retail: $6.25Does it seem like your to-do list always gets longer instead of shorter? Do you try to slow down but find yourself scrambling just to keep up? Stress is an unavoidable part of life, but it often seems you have more than your fair share. You can't...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
Should We Get Married? How to Evaluate Your Relationship
$5.00Retail: $6.25You know you're in love Ð you always want to be together, and you think about each other all the time Ð but does that mean you're ready to get married? How do you decide if your relationship is strong enough for marriage? William P. Smith gives you a...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
Financial Crisis: What to Do When the Bottom Drops Out
$5.00Retail: $6.25Are you facing an unexpected financial crisis or anticipating the possibility of difficult times ahead? Financial problems happen for so many reasons, but right now the uncertainty of the future, coupled with unstable economic conditions, means that...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
Social Anxiety: Being Comfortable in Your Own Skin
$5.00Retail: $6.25"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,...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
Eating Disorders: The Quest for Thinness
$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 describes...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
Suffering: Where to Turn When Life Falls Apart
$5.00Retail: $6.25Someone you love is ill, your child is in trouble, financial problems mount, you lost your job, your spouse left youÐthe list of troubles we experience is both uniquely difficult and depressingly similar. In this world we will suffer, Jesus promised...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
Children and Trauma: Equipping Parents and Caregivers
$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 are exposed to an experience perceived as...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
When to Get My Kid a Phone: Navigating the Tensions
$5.00Retail: $6.25Determining when to get your child a smartphone is a complicated yet critical decision. Parents today are facing new challenges as technology and our children's access to it gives rise to new worries and concerns. Thoughtful parents wonder how to...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
Help! My Spouse Committed Adultery: First Steps for Dealing with Betrayal
$5.00Retail: $6.25Your spouse was unfaithful. Those four words don't begin to do justice to the horror you are experiencing. Rage, fear, grief, and even numbness are all normal responses to the shock of betrayal. The pain of betrayal is like touching a hot stove. Your...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
Parenting Your ADHD Child: Biblical Guidance for Your Child's Diagnosis
$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 -
Helping Students with Same-Sex Attraction: Guidance for Parents and Youth Leaders
$5.00Retail: $6.25A student sits in your office and shares about his or her struggles with same-sex attraction. Or perhaps it's your child asking you for help. What can you say or do that will bring the gospel into this struggle? Cooper Pinson begins by helping parents...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
Grieving a Suicide: Help for the Aftershock
$5.00Retail: $6.25Someone 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...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
Bipolar Disorder: Understanding and Help for Your Extreme Mood Swings
$5.00Retail: $6.25Everyone feels better some days than others, but some people struggle with exaggerated and unrestrained mood swings. These kinds of mood swings have come to be known as mania, manic-depression, or bipolar disorder. Bipolar disorder is confusing and...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
Children and Divorce: Helping When Life Interrupts
$5.00Retail: $6.25Sadness, depression, anger, fear, anxiety, loyalty conflicts; your children are struggling with at least some of these emotions after your divorce. To make things even more difficult, you are struggling too. How do you help your child cope with the...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
Teens and Suicide: Recognizing the Signs and Sharing Hope
$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 -
How to Love Difficult Parents: Wisdom for a Challenging Relationship
$5.00Retail: $6.25We are used to having our parents help us, but how do we handle it when the tables are turned and our parents are the ones who need help? Declining health, financial needs, divorce, relational issues—what's an adult child's role when their parents...$5.00Retail: $6.25
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