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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 youÐthe list of troubles we experience is both uniquely difficult and depressingly similar. In this world we will suffer, Jesus promised that...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
Struggling Through Singleness: Help for the Journey
Jayne V. Clark
$5.00Retail: $6.25Are 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...$5.00Retail: $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. Counselor Lauren Whitman helps...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
Overeating: When Enough Isn't Enough
Michael R. Emlet
$5.00Retail: $6.25If 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?...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
Miscarriage: You Are Not Alone
Stephanie Green
$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 -
Helping Students with Same-Sex Attraction: Guidance for Parents and Youth Leaders
Cooper Pinson
$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 -
When to Get My Kid a Phone: Navigating the Tensions
Drew Hill
$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 steward...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
Social Anxiety: Being Comfortable in Your Own Skin
Amy Baker
$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 -
Bipolar Disorder: Understanding and Help for Your Extreme Mood Swings
Edward T. Welch
$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
Amy Baker
$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 -
Should We Get Married? How to Evaluate Your Relationship
William P. Smith
$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 -
Grief and Your Child: Sharing God's Comfort in Loss
Bob Kellemen
$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 -
Stressed to the Max: Peace for Women Under Pressure
Joni and Friends
$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 -
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 describes...$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 are exposed to an experience perceived as...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
Raising Sexually Healthy Kids
David White
$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 -
Financial Crisis: What to Do When the Bottom Drops Out
Jim Newheiser
$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 -
Grieving a Suicide: Help for the Aftershock
David Powlison
$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 -
How to Love Difficult Parents: Wisdom for a Challenging Relationship
Jim Newheiser
$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 -
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
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