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Is God Listening? What if He Doesn't Answer?
Joni and Friends
$84.92Retail: $106.15Nothing 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...$84.92Retail: $106.15 -
Breaking the Addictive Cycle: Deadly Obsessions or Simple Pleasures?
David Powlison
$84.92Retail: $106.15You 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...$84.92Retail: $106.15 -
Dealing with Your Rebellious Teenager: Help for Worried Parents
Barbara Miller Juliani
$84.92Retail: $106.15When 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...$84.92Retail: $106.15 -
How to Talk to Your Kid about Sex: Honesty and Openness for a Sensitive Subject
William P. Smith
$84.92Retail: $106.15You 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...$84.92Retail: $106.15 -
A New Normal: Learning to Thrive in Suffering
Joni and Friends
$84.92Retail: $106.15A 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...$84.92Retail: $106.15 -
Divorce Recovery: Growing and Healing God's Way
Winston T. Smith
$84.92Retail: $106.15The 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...$84.92Retail: $106.15 -
Who Should I Date? Relationship Advice for the Real World
William P. Smith
$84.92Retail: $106.15Who 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 look...$84.92Retail: $106.15 -
Living with an Angry Spouse: Help for Victims of Abuse
Edward T. Welch
$84.92Retail: $106.15You 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...$84.92Retail: $106.15 -
Helping a Hurting Friend: Bringing the Hope of Christ in Hard Times
Garrett Higbee
$84.92Retail: $106.15If 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...$84.92Retail: $106.15 -
A Father's Guide to Raising Girls
Andy Farmer
$84.92Retail: $106.15Raising 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...$84.92Retail: $106.15 -
Help for the Caregiver: Facing the Challenges with Understanding and Strength
Michael R. Emlet
$84.92Retail: $106.15You 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...$84.92Retail: $106.15 -
Facing Death with Hope: Living for What Lasts
David Powlison
$84.92Retail: $106.15Is 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 happening--the...$84.92Retail: $106.15 -
Overeating: When Enough Isn't Enough
Michael R. Emlet
$84.92Retail: $106.15If 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...$84.92Retail: $106.15 -
Freedom from Guilt: Finding Release from Your Burdens
Timothy S. Lane
$84.92Retail: $106.15Are 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...$84.92Retail: $106.15 -
A Father's Guide to Raising Boys
Rob Green
$84.92Retail: $106.15Being 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...$84.92Retail: $106.15 -
Self-Esteem: Looking Up Instead of Looking Inside
Leslie Vernick
$84.92Retail: $106.15How 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,...$84.92Retail: $106.15 -
Why Do I Care? When Others' Approval Matters Too Much
Amy Baker
$84.92Retail: $106.15It 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...$84.92Retail: $106.15 -
Suffering: Where to Turn When Life Falls Apart
Steve Brown
$84.92Retail: $106.15Someone you love is ill, your child is in trouble, financial problems mount, you lost your job, your spouse left you–the list of troubles we experience is both uniquely difficult and depressingly similar. In this world we will suffer, Jesus...$84.92Retail: $106.15 -
Dealing with Rejection: How to Respond to Deep Hurt
C. John Miller
$84.92Retail: $106.15You 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 time for a...$84.92Retail: $106.15 -
Struggling Through Singleness: Help for the Journey
Jayne V. Clark
$84.92Retail: $106.15Are 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...$84.92Retail: $106.15
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