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Mom Guilt: Escaping Its Strong Hold
R88.81Retail: R111.01Do 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...R88.81Retail: R111.01 -
Divorce Recovery: Growing and Healing God's Way
R88.81Retail: R111.01The 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...R88.81Retail: R111.01 -
Self-Esteem: Looking Up Instead of Looking Inside
R88.81Retail: R111.01How 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...R88.81Retail: R111.01 -
Is God Listening? What if He Doesn't Answer?
R88.81Retail: R111.01Nothing 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...R88.81Retail: R111.01 -
Homosexuality and the Bible: Outdated Advice or Words of Life?
R88.81Retail: R111.01As 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...R88.81Retail: R111.01 -
When Crisis Hits: Where to Turn When Life Falls Apart
R88.81Retail: R111.01When 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...R88.81Retail: R111.01 -
A Father's Guide to Raising Girls
R88.81Retail: R111.01Raising 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...R88.81Retail: R111.01 -
How to Talk to Your Kid about Sex: Honesty and Openness for a Sensitive Subject
R88.81Retail: R111.01You 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...R88.81Retail: R111.01 -
A Father's Guide to Raising Boys
R88.81Retail: R111.01Being 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...R88.81Retail: R111.01 -
Help for the Caregiver: Facing the Challenges with Understanding and Strength
R88.81Retail: R111.01You 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...R88.81Retail: R111.01 -
Peer Pressure: Recognizing the Warning Signs and Giving New Direction
R88.81Retail: R111.01Does 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...R88.81Retail: R111.01 -
Helping a Hurting Friend: Bringing the Hope of Christ in Hard Times
R88.81Retail: R111.01If 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...R88.81Retail: R111.01 -
Who Should I Date? Relationship Advice for the Real World
R88.81Retail: R111.01Who 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...R88.81Retail: R111.01 -
Overeating: When Enough Isn't Enough
R88.81Retail: R111.01If 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?...R88.81Retail: R111.01 -
Living with an Angry Spouse: Help for Victims of Abuse
R88.81Retail: R111.01You 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...R88.81Retail: R111.01 -
Struggling Through Singleness: Help for the Journey
R88.81Retail: R111.01Are 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...R88.81Retail: R111.01 -
Dealing with Rejection: How to Respond to Deep Hurt
R88.81Retail: R111.01You 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...R88.81Retail: R111.01 -
Facing Death with Hope: Living for What Lasts
R88.81Retail: R111.01Is 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...R88.81Retail: R111.01 -
When the Money Runs Out: Hope and Help for the Financially Stressed
R88.81Retail: R111.01If 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...R88.81Retail: R111.01 -
Freedom from Guilt: Finding Release from Your Burdens
R88.81Retail: R111.01Are 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...R88.81Retail: R111.01
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