Minibooks
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Talking to Your Children about Race: A Biblical Framework for Honest Conversations
Jerome Gay
$5.00Retail: $6.25Conversations about race and ethnicity can be uncomfortable. Often parents don’t know what to say or how to say it. It might seem easier to duck a hard, confusing subject, but your children are already learning about race from the world...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
Do I Need Counseling? When and Where to Get Help
Robert D. Jones
$5.00Retail: $6.25Are your personal or relational problems overwhelming you, negatively impacting your daily life or relationships? While all of us face the common pressures of living in a broken world, sometimes those challenges become too much to handle alone, and they...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
Be Well: Learning to Steward Your Health
Lainey Greer
$5.00Retail: $6.25Would you like to take better care of your body but aren’t sure what to do? Focusing on our souls doesn’t mean we should neglect taking care of our bodies. But often we are so busy caring for others and keeping to our schedules that we think...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
Helping Children with Body Image: Teaching Them to See What God Sees
Jocelyn Wallace
$5.00Retail: $6.25The 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, ...$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...$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...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
Helping a Hurting Friend: Bringing the Hope of Christ in Hard Times
Garrett Higbee
$5.00Retail: $6.25If 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...$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...$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...$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...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
Helping Children with Shame: Resting in God's Approval
Edward T. Welch
$5.00Retail: $6.25Shame is the experience of feeling unacceptable, less than others, or different. Children often experience the sting of this particular sense of failing to measure up. Whether this heavy feeling comes from internal or external pressures, children...$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...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
Caring for an Aging Parent: Honoring as You Serve
Byron Peters
$5.00Retail: $6.25Caring 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...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
Building a Marriage to Last: Five Essential Habits for Couples
Brad Hambrick
$5.00Retail: $6.25Where 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...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
Opiate-Related Disorders: Helping Those Who Struggle
Eamon Wilson
$5.00Retail: $6.25Is someone you love struggling in the grip of opioid addiction? Is the person you once knew now obscured by a fog of half-truths, unfamiliar behaviors, and outright lies? As the opioid crisis in the United States intensifies, thousands upon thousands of...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
For Better or Worse: When Disability Challenges Your Marriage
Joni and Friends
$5.00Retail: $6.25Disability has a way of trying even the best of marriages. The cumulative effects of daily routines that never vary, social isolation, financial pressures, unmet expectations, and a life that is vastly different from most couples can wear on the spirits...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
A New Normal: Learning to Thrive in Suffering
Joni and Friends
$5.00Retail: $6.25A 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...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
Is God Listening? What if He Doesn't Answer?
Joni and Friends
$5.00Retail: $6.25Nothing 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...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
My Baby Has a Disability: Life-Giving Questions and Answers
Joni and Friends
$5.00Retail: $6.25Your world has just been rocked with news that the baby you’re expecting has been diagnosed with a significant disability. All of the hopes and plans you have for this baby are crumbling around you. Fears and questions are rising to take their...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
Domestic Abuse: Help for Victims
Heather Nelson
$5.00Retail: $6.25Do 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...$5.00Retail: $6.25
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