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Grief and Your Child: Sharing God's Comfort in Loss
$5.00Retail: $6.25When your child faces the loss of someone close, their world no longer feels safe. Grief and its aftermath take us all by surprise, but even more so children, who don't have the words or tools to face grief and can respond with fear, withdrawal, and...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
What the Bible Says to Abuse Survivors and Those Who Hurt Them
$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 -
Raising Sexually Healthy Kids
$5.00Retail: $6.25In 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...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
Caring for Survivors of Sexual Abuse
$5.00Retail: $6.25How is your church ministering to children in your congregation who have experienced sexual abuse? Jesus told us that whoever received a child in his name received him (Matt. 18:5). Is this the guiding principle that informs how your congregation cares...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
Becoming a Widow: The Ache of Missing Your Other Half
$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...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
Living in a Dangerous World: Moving from Fear to Faith
$5.00Retail: $6.25Everyone 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...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
Sex Before Marriage: How Far is Too Far?
$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 -
Sexual Assault: Healing Steps for Victims
$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 -
Helping Your Family Grieve: Lament and Remember Together
$5.00Retail: $6.25Grief is overwhelming, especially for children, who do not naturally know how to respond to loss. They need help to express the sadness, fear, and anger that comes after encountering death. Thankfully, God has given us a pathway through grief. He...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
Grieving with Hope: Walking with Jesus in Heartbreak
$5.00Retail: $6.25Are you facing a great loss? Perhaps a loved one or close friend has died. Great love brings great sorrow, and healthy sorrow recognizes the immensity of loss. But when death and loss come close, the temptation toward despair and hopelessness is often...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
Domestic Abuse: Help for Victims
$5.00Retail: $6.25Do you suspect that you or someone you love is suffering from marital domestic abuse? Is there intentional harm happening to you in your home, whether physical, verbal, sexual, or emotional? What should you do? How do you seek help? Heather Nelson...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
Who Does the Dishes? Decision Making in Marriage
$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 -
When You Love an Addict: Wisdom and Direction
$5.00Retail: $6.25Loving an addict is incredibly painful. Not only do you have to watch them make the same mistakes over and over again, but along the way they often lie to you, hurt you, and betray you. And yet, against all odds, you still love them and hope and pray...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
Feeling Guilty? Grace for Your Mistakes
$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
$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,...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
iSnooping on Your Kid: Parenting in an Internet World
$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 -
When Trouble Shows Up: Seeing God's Transforming Love
$5.00Retail: $6.25Where is God in all this? Does he really love me? Perhaps you are asking questions like these in the midst of tough situations that come your way. You want to trust God's plan for your life, but when hardship intrudes, it is often difficult to believe...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
Teaching Your Child about Money: Biblical Stewardship for Beginners
$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 -
The Spiritual Impact of Sexual Abuse
$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 -
Help for Stepfamilies: Avoiding the Pitfalls and Learning to Love
$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
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