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Grief: Finding Hope Again
$5.20Retail: $6.50No 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...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Overcoming Anxiety: Relief for Worried People
$5.20Retail: $6.50You know the feeling your mind keeps spinning around and around with the same worries, problems, and fears. You feel like you can't breathe. Some days your anxiety is so overwhelming that it's hard for you to believe that anyone, even God, could help...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Hope for the Depressed: Beyond a "Cheer-Up" Theology
$5.20Retail: $6.50Depression makes so many things hard. Things you used to take for granted: a good nights sleep, having goals, responding to someone's love, looking forward to the future. Is there any hope and help for those who are struggling with depression? Edward T...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Anxiety and Panic Attacks: Trusting God When You're Afraid
$5.20Retail: $6.50Suffering from anxiety and panic attacks can feel incapacitating. One minute you feel fine, and the next your heart is pounding, your mind is racing, and your stomach is clenching. Sometimes it even feels like you might be having a heart attack. The...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Forgiving Others: Joining Wisdom and Love
$5.20Retail: $6.50Forgiving 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...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Controlling Anger: Responding Constructively When Life Goes Wrong
$5.20Retail: $6.50What 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?...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Building a Marriage to Last: Five Essential Habits for Couples
$5.20Retail: $6.50Where is your marriage? Newly married, in a rut, coming off a major transition, or coming out of a period of crisis or conflict? Regardless of your situation, it's never too early—or too late, for that matter—to build habits that will...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Helping Your Anxious Child: What to Do When Worries Get Big
$5.20Retail: $6.50When your child is anxious, it's easy to get anxious too. You want to help your child regain a sense of peace and safety, but how can you? This world is big and scary, and sometimes our worries get big too. Julie Lowe, a skilled family counselor with...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Renewing Marital Intimacy: Closing the Gap Between You and Your Spouse
$5.20Retail: $6.50You started out telling each other everything. Time flew by when you were together. It all seemed so easy then. But now it seems like there's nothing to say. The intimacy and trust you once enjoyed are gone replaced by bickering, long silences, and...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
How Do I Stop Losing It with My Kids? Getting to the Heart of Your Discipline Problems
$5.20Retail: $6.50The kids are hungry, dinner is late, everyone's tired and on edge, and then it happens—you lose control and blow up at them again. Is losing control with our children inevitable in our busy world? Or is there a better way? Learn from William P...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
How to Love Difficult People: Receiving and Sharing God's Mercy
$5.20Retail: $6.50Prickly, defensive, nasty, volatile, withdrawn, miserable...aren't there days when you feel surrounded by difficult people? How do you cope? You can try avoiding them, gossiping about them, or giving them a piece of your mind. But wait! Don't your...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Conflict: A Redemptive Opportunity
$5.20Retail: $6.50Everyone has their own style of dealing with conflict. Some people try to win at all costs and will do or say anything to get their own way. Others hate conflict and will do or say anything to avoid or end it. Sadly, neither fighting nor avoidance leads...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Leading Your Child to Christ: Biblical Direction for Sharing the Gospel
$5.20Retail: $6.50You want to lead your child to Christ, but you often wonder exactly what you should be saying and sharing with your child. How do you know what parts of the gospel to share? How do you know if your child is really understanding the good news of the...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Obsessed with Your Phone: Disconnecting to Connect
$5.20Retail: $6.50Do you own your smartphone, or does it own you? How quickly do you pick it up in the morning? Do you check it multiple times an hour to make sure you know what's going on in the world? Do you find yourself turning to it first when you're sad, angry, or...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
PTSD: Healing for Bad Memories
$5.20Retail: $6.50The event occurred in the past, possibly many years ago, but you still carry it with you wherever you go. Some days the memory keeps replaying over and over again in your mind. You feel angry, jumpy, maybe even guilty or ashamed. You want to move on...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Freedom from Addiction: Turning from Your Addictive Behavior
$5.20Retail: $6.50You'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...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
I Just Want to Die: Replacing Suicidal Thoughts with Hope
$5.20Retail: $6.50Are you having suicidal thoughts and feelings? Perhaps you are convinced that life is not worth living. Your life seems hopeless, like a black hole with all love, hope, and joy sucked out. David Powlison describes the various reasons you might be...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Accepting God's Forgiveness: Believing in God's Love for You
$5.20Retail: $6.50Do past failures still trouble you? Perhaps regret over a mistake, the betrayal of someone close to you, an undone task, an angry outburst has left you feeling uneasy. You wonder if God really does forgive you. Sometimes he seems like a dark cloud...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Angry Children: Understanding and Helping Your Child Regain Control
$5.20Retail: $6.50If 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 out of...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Faith and Doubt: When Belief is Hard
$5.20Retail: $6.50You made a commitment to Jesus (or maybe you didn't), but now you are questioning everything. Is there a God? Are you really forgiven and accepted for Jesus's sake? It sounds too good to be true. And if the Bible really is true and Jesus really did rise...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Healing Broken Relationships: What to Do When You've Been Hurt
$5.20Retail: $6.50Arguments. Betrayal. Inattention. Some of the reasons that relationships shatter. Anger. Confusion. Hurt. Frustration. Some of what we feel when a relationship falls apart. We all have experienced how hard relationships can be in this broken world...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
I'm Exhausted: What to Do When You're Always Tired
$5.20Retail: $6.50As a chronic fatigue sufferer, life as you once enjoyed it has ceased. Fatigue can be brought on by a myriad of physical, emotional, or spiritual issues. But, whatever the cause, your entire world is now affected by your diminished physical strength...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Explaining LGBTQ+ Identity to Your Child: Biblical Guidance and Wisdom
$5.20Retail: $6.50LGBTQ+ identities and their widespread acceptance have produced a host of questions and quandaries for Christian families. How do you help your child navigate a world where a classmate may be transgender and neighbors are a gay couple? How do you...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
When Bad Things Happen: Thoughtful Answers to Hard Questions
$5.20Retail: $6.50Is 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 about...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
When Cancer Interrupts
$5.20Retail: $6.50Your 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...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Burned Out? Trusting God with Your To-Do List
$5.20Retail: $6.50Often, in our busy world, our lives feel like one long to-do list. It's easy to get so busy that we don't even notice how exhausted and anxious we are. Do you find yourself saying yes to activities you don't have time for? Have you ever said, "If I...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Managing Your Emotions: Keeping Your Feelings from Running the Show
$5.20Retail: $6.50Emotions are a powerful and important part of life, but sometimes it feels like they are out of control. Mild frustration quickly turns to anger. Sadness becomes despair. Disappointment deepens into bitterness. You may begin to wonder if you control...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Freedom from Resentment: Stopping Hurts from Turning Bitter
$5.20Retail: $6.50Everyone 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...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Redeeming Your Painful Past: Present Grace, Future Hope
$5.20Retail: $6.50Do you ever feel like your past is haunting you? Maybe it's a mistake you made that can't be made right or something that was done to you that can never be undone. You see the effects of it in your daily life, but struggle to know how to move forward...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Single and Lonely: Finding the Intimacy You Desire
$5.20Retail: $6.50Are you a single adult who sometimes feels isolated, vulnerable, and alone? Like everyone else you want to be known and understood; you don't want to feel invisible. You want to be included and cared about. You don't want to be lonely; you want to be...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Caring for an Aging Parent: Honoring as You Serve
$5.20Retail: $6.50Caring for aging parents is complex and challenging even under the best of circumstances. How do we help them and remain sane when distance, dementia, depression, disaster, divorce, disintegrated relationships, deteriorating health, and discouragement...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Can We Talk? The Art of Relationship Building
$5.20Retail: $6.50Another conversation ends in frustration or even anger. You want to communicate well and to grow deeper in your relationships, but either you can't seem to find the words or always seem to come up with the wrong ones. How can you develop greater...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Sexual Addiction: Freedom from Compulsive Behavior
$5.20Retail: $6.50If you're struggling with a sexual addiction of any sort, you understand that feeling of being trapped, out of control, and afraid of being found out. No matter what you try, it seems impossible to break free from the lure of illicit sexual thoughts and...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Single Parents: Daily Grace for the Hardest Job
$5.20Retail: $6.50If you are a single parent, you already know you have one of the hardest jobs in the world. Trying to be both dad and mom breadwinner, cook, chauffeur, comforter, dishwasher, homework helper, disciplinarian, nurse, and role mode can wear down the...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Mom Guilt: Escaping Its Strong Hold
$5.20Retail: $6.50Do 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. Counselor Lauren Whitman helps...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Chronic Pain: Living by Faith When Your Body Hurts
$5.20Retail: $6.50Chronic pain is different from other kinds of physical pain because it doesn't stop. It is daily, unrelenting, soul-wearying pain for which there is no end in sight. Can you still experience God's grace and help even in the midst of never ending pain?...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Temptation: Fighting the Urge
$5.20Retail: $6.50How 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...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Breaking the Addictive Cycle: Deadly Obsessions or Simple Pleasures?
$5.20Retail: $6.50You are bored or stressed or hurt. Something is hard in life and you want a break. What do you grab for that you hope will protect, soothe, and comfort? Whatever it is—shopping, overeating, drinking, drugs—promises relief, but never delivers...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Dealing with Your Rebellious Teenager: Help for Worried Parents
$5.20Retail: $6.50When your teenager is estranged from you and God and is making unwise (and perhaps downright awful) choices, it's natural to feel hopeless and helpless. Perhaps you have already done everything you know to do—you have talked with them at length,...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
A Father's Guide to Raising Boys
$5.20Retail: $6.50Being a father of boys is a privilege and a joy, but it's also challenging. We know that fathers are an important influence on their sons, and we want to have a positive impact on their lives. But we wonder exactly how we can help them grow to be the...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Restoring Your Broken Marriage: Healing After Adultery
$5.20Retail: $6.50Anger...fear...despair...guilt...shame...when your marriage is broken by adultery, the core struggles of your heart are revealed. But although you and your spouse may be experiencing many of the same emotions, you are standing on opposite sides of a...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
A Father's Guide to Raising Girls
$5.20Retail: $6.50Raising daughters is a joy. Nothing prepares a dad for the rush of feelings that accompany holding your baby girl for the first time. But along with the joy comes the questions. How do you protect her from harm, set her on a good path, and help her...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Grieving with Hope: Walking with Jesus in Heartbreak
$5.20Retail: $6.50Are 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...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
A New Normal: Learning to Thrive in Suffering
$5.20Retail: $6.50A loved one has walked out on you. A car crash has left you disabled and in constant pain. You or a family member just received a serious medical diagnosis. Even worse, perhaps you've just returned from a funeral. How do you begin to piece your life...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Divorce Recovery: Growing and Healing God's Way
$5.20Retail: $6.50The pain of divorce has many different faces: the end of your hopes and dreams for your marriage; a life full of unwanted changes; and the daily struggle with a mixture of grief, fear, guilt, and anger. Is recovery possible? Winston T. Smith, using...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Help for the Caregiver: Facing the Challenges with Understanding and Strength
$5.20Retail: $6.50You spend your days (and maybe nights) helping someone else. If you are a caregiver for someone who is chronically ill, you have already discovered there is a need to be more compassionate, thoughtful, and sacrificial than you ever anticipated. But, to...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Family Feuds: How to Respond
$5.20Retail: $6.50Do 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,...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
When Crisis Hits: Where to Turn When Life Falls Apart
$5.20Retail: $6.50When life falls apart, we feel deep confusion. Our emotions may shatter no matter how strong we have been. Our minds fill with unanswered and painful questions like the following: "Why me?" "What did I do to deserve this?" "Is there any hope for my...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Living with an Angry Spouse: Help for Victims of Abuse
$5.20Retail: $6.50You married someone you trusted, and now you are facing unpredictable anger or outright physical abuse. This is betrayal at its worst. Most likely you are numb, scared, confused, and paralyzed. How do you take a step when you are so afraid? Edward T...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Who Should I Date? Relationship Advice for the Real World
$5.20Retail: $6.50Who should you date? You might be drawn to someone who is fun, good-looking, and interested in the same things you are, but even more important than what's on the surface is what someone is like inside. But how can you find that out? What should you...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Self-Esteem: Looking Up Instead of Looking Inside
$5.20Retail: $6.50How do you answer the question: "Who am I?" Do you base your self image on your successes, failures, acceptance, and/or rejections by others? Most of us do, but when we base our value and worth on external sources rather than what God says, our...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Struggling Through Singleness: Help for the Journey
$5.20Retail: $6.50Are you wrestling with questions related to your singleness and wondering what God is up to? You have dreams and desires that seem to be unmet, and you feel unsettled and long for something more. Author Jayne V. Clark shares her journey of...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Is God Listening? What if He Doesn't Answer?
$5.20Retail: $6.50Nothing in life is turning out the way you expected. You pray and ask for relief, help, and changed circumstances. But what are you to think when it seems like life is going from bad to worse? You wonder if God is even listening. Does he hear your cries...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Helping a Hurting Friend: Bringing the Hope of Christ in Hard Times
$5.20Retail: $6.50If you have been in a dark or desperate place, you already know that the best kind of friend sits with your pain and listens. What does it take to be a compassionate, helping friend when those you love are struggling? A godly friend with a heart to...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
How to Talk to Your Kid about Sex: Honesty and Openness for a Sensitive Subject
$5.20Retail: $6.50You don't want to make a big deal out of it. Isn't everyone else already talking about sex? Yes, they are talking, and their words are shaping your child's understanding right now. In a culture that glorifies casual sex, kids will only learn to think...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
When the Money Runs Out: Hope and Help for the Financially Stressed
$5.20Retail: $6.50If you are experiencing financial difficulties, you might be feeling anger, discouragement, fear, or even panic. There are many reasons people struggle financially-job loss, unexpected expenses, poor decisions-but, whatever the reason, money troubles...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Social Anxiety: Being Comfortable in Your Own Skin
$5.20Retail: $6.50"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,...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Should We Get Married? How to Evaluate Your Relationship
$5.20Retail: $6.50You 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...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Helping Your Family Grieve: Lament and Remember Together
$5.20Retail: $6.50Grief 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...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Suffering: Where to Turn When Life Falls Apart
$5.20Retail: $6.50Someone 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...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Facing Death with Hope: Living for What Lasts
$5.20Retail: $6.50Is 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...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Homosexuality and the Bible: Outdated Advice or Words of Life?
$5.20Retail: $6.50As the conversation around homosexuality becomes increasingly hostile on all sides, it can be difficult to know where to stand as a Christian. You don't want to compromise God's Word, either by blindly following the culture or by treating others with...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Dealing with Rejection: How to Respond to Deep Hurt
$5.20Retail: $6.50You 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...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Grieving a Suicide: Help for the Aftershock
$5.20Retail: $6.50Someone 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...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Stressed to the Max: Peace for Women Under Pressure
$5.20Retail: $6.50Does 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...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Freedom from Guilt: Finding Release from Your Burdens
$5.20Retail: $6.50Are 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...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Peer Pressure: Recognizing the Warning Signs and Giving New Direction
$5.20Retail: $6.50Does your child do and say things just to be liked and accepted? Constantly talk about what others think and say? Go from one relational drama to the next? These are all warning signs that your child is feeling the weight of peer pressure. Paul David...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Miscarriage: You Are Not Alone
$5.20Retail: $6.50Anyone 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...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Why Do I Care? When Others' Approval Matters Too Much
$5.20Retail: $6.50It 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...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Overeating: When Enough Isn't Enough
$5.20Retail: $6.50If we're honest, most of us can remember eating more than we need. More often than we might care to admit, we finish a meal knowing we've had too much. Why do we push the limits of our food consumption? Does God have anything to say about this struggle?...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Helping Children with Body Image: Teaching Them to See What God Sees
$5.20Retail: $6.50The 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...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Teens and Anxiety: How Parents Can Help
$5.20Retail: $6.50Anxiety is the number one mental health issue facing people today, and teens are not exempt. The causes are many school pressures, relationship struggles, social media issues and the results can be debilitating for your teen. If you are noticing...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
When to Get My Kid a Phone: Navigating the Tensions
$5.20Retail: $6.50Determining 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...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Bipolar Disorder: Understanding and Help for Your Extreme Mood Swings
$5.20Retail: $6.50Everyone 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...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Parenting Your ADHD Child: Biblical Guidance for Your Child's Diagnosis
$5.20Retail: $6.50If 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...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Financial Crisis: What to Do When the Bottom Drops Out
$5.20Retail: $6.50Are 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...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Help! My Spouse Committed Adultery: First Steps for Dealing with Betrayal
$5.20Retail: $6.50Your 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...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Children and Trauma: Equipping Parents and Caregivers
$5.20Retail: $6.50Children 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...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Becoming a Widow: The Ache of Missing Your Other Half
$5.20Retail: $6.50No 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...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Grief and Your Child: Sharing God's Comfort in Loss
$5.20Retail: $6.50When 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...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Sex Before Marriage: How Far is Too Far?
$5.20Retail: $6.50"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...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Eating Disorders: The Quest for Thinness
$5.20Retail: $6.50What 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...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Postpartum Depression: Hope for a Hard Season
$5.20Retail: $6.50Many new mothers experience what some call postpartum "baby blues" a short period of feeling sad, irritable, anxious, and overwhelmed. But what happens when those feelings worsen as the newborn weeks go by? What help is there for you when sleepless...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Teens and Suicide: Recognizing the Signs and Sharing Hope
$5.20Retail: $6.50Many 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...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
How to Love Difficult Parents: Wisdom for a Challenging Relationship
$5.20Retail: $6.50We 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...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Sexual Assault: Healing Steps for Victims
$5.20Retail: $6.50Sexual 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...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Who Does the Dishes? Decision Making in Marriage
$5.20Retail: $6.50Who 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...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Living in a Dangerous World: Moving from Fear to Faith
$5.20Retail: $6.50Everyone 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...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Children and Divorce: Helping When Life Interrupts
$5.20Retail: $6.50Sadness, 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...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Living Together: Why Marriage Is the Best Choice
$5.20Retail: $6.50Past 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,...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
iSnooping on Your Kid: Parenting in an Internet World
$5.20Retail: $6.50In 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...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Domestic Abuse: Help for Victims
$5.20Retail: $6.50Do 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...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Teaching Your Child about Money: Biblical Stewardship for Beginners
$5.20Retail: $6.50Guess 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...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Helping Students with Same-Sex Attraction: Guidance for Parents and Youth Leaders
$5.20Retail: $6.50A 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...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Why Should I Pray? How God Shares His Heart with Us
$5.20Retail: $6.50Have you ever felt discouraged about praying? Sometimes it feels like there are more reasons not to pray than to pray. Discouraging circumstances that haven't changed, long-standing requests that haven't been given a yes, boring prayer meetings the list...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Bitterness: When You Can't Move On
$5.20Retail: $6.50It's only natural to bristle when you are mistreated. Perhaps you were passed over for a well-deserved job promotion, hurt by a family member, falsely accused, or experienced a severe disappointment. An array of emotions—anger, frustration,...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Helping Your Child with a Bully: Learning to Respond Wisely
$5.20Retail: $6.50It's hard to know what to do when you see your child struggling with a bully. Do you encourage them to tell an authority figure? Call the other child's parents? Intervene? What is the right response? It's always important to take bullying seriously and...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
When Trouble Shows Up: Seeing God's Transforming Love
$5.20Retail: $6.50Where 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...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
What the Bible Says to Abuse Survivors and Those Who Hurt Them
$5.20Retail: $6.50Pastors 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...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Feeling Guilty? Grace for Your Mistakes
$5.20Retail: $6.50Right 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...$5.20Retail: $6.50
Christian Booklets & Counseling Minibooks
New Growth Press offers a diverse collection of Christian counseling booklets that apply biblical principles to everyday challenges, questions, and struggles. Designed to provide practical support during difficult times, these booklets are available in both minibook and eBook formats. With an easy-to-read layout, each booklet can be completed in under 30 minutes, making them perfect for teens and adults seeking quick, insightful guidance. Ideal for anyone looking for accessible, faith-based support, these resources offer practical wisdom for men and women alike.
Mini Bible Booklets and Short Christian Books
Our minibooks are available for purchase in bulk, as single copies, in display packages for churches, or in topical sample packs that address a variety of issues. Covering subjects such as marriage, parenting, singleness, addiction, anxiety, depression, trauma, abuse, medical and psychiatric challenges, men’s and women’s issues, and support for military families, these Christian booklets offer practical, biblical guidance.
Written with those facing specific struggles in mind, these church booklets are used by pastors, counselors, chaplains, lay helpers, and friends to equip themselves and provide support to others. Our Christian bookstore offers a wide selection of religious booklets, including the best-selling CCEF minibooks and many others written by professionals in Biblical counseling and ministry.