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Explaining LGBTQ+ Identity to Your Child: Biblical Guidance and Wisdom
R88.51Retail: R110.64LGBTQ+ 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...R88.51Retail: R110.64 -
I'm Exhausted: What to Do When You're Always Tired
R88.51Retail: R110.64As 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...R88.51Retail: R110.64 -
Faith and Doubt: When Belief is Hard
R88.51Retail: R110.64You 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...R88.51Retail: R110.64 -
Burned Out? Trusting God with Your To-Do List
R88.51Retail: R110.64Often, 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...R88.51Retail: R110.64 -
When Bad Things Happen: Thoughtful Answers to Hard Questions
R88.51Retail: R110.64Is 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...R88.51Retail: R110.64 -
Freedom from Resentment: Stopping Hurts from Turning Bitter
R88.51Retail: R110.64Everyone 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...R88.51Retail: R110.64 -
Managing Your Emotions: Keeping Your Feelings from Running the Show
R88.51Retail: R110.64Emotions 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...R88.51Retail: R110.64 -
Caring for an Aging Parent: Honoring as You Serve
R88.51Retail: R110.64Caring 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...R88.51Retail: R110.64 -
Can We Talk? The Art of Relationship Building
R88.51Retail: R110.64Another 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...R88.51Retail: R110.64 -
When Cancer Interrupts
R88.51Retail: R110.64Your 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...R88.51Retail: R110.64 -
Sexual Addiction: Freedom from Compulsive Behavior
R88.51Retail: R110.64If 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...R88.51Retail: R110.64 -
Breaking the Addictive Cycle: Deadly Obsessions or Simple Pleasures?
R88.51Retail: R110.64You 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...R88.51Retail: R110.64 -
Single and Lonely: Finding the Intimacy You Desire
R88.51Retail: R110.64Are 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...R88.51Retail: R110.64 -
Single Parents: Daily Grace for the Hardest Job
R88.51Retail: R110.64If 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...R88.51Retail: R110.64 -
Chronic Pain: Living by Faith When Your Body Hurts
R88.51Retail: R110.64Chronic 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?...R88.51Retail: R110.64 -
Temptation: Fighting the Urge
R88.51Retail: R110.64How 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...R88.51Retail: R110.64 -
Dealing with Your Rebellious Teenager: Help for Worried Parents
R88.51Retail: R110.64When 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,...R88.51Retail: R110.64 -
A New Normal: Learning to Thrive in Suffering
R88.51Retail: R110.64A 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...R88.51Retail: R110.64 -
Restoring Your Broken Marriage: Healing After Adultery
R88.51Retail: R110.64Anger...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...R88.51Retail: R110.64 -
Family Feuds: How to Respond
R88.51Retail: R110.64Do 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,...R88.51Retail: R110.64
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