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What the Bible Says to Abuse Survivors and Those Who Hurt Them
Victor Vieth
$5.00Retail: $6.25Pastors and church personnel often struggle to apply intentional and appropriate doses of both biblical grace and stringent accountability to victims and perpetrators of child sexual abuse. Churches can regularly be prone to turn the tables on survivors...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
The Spiritual Impact of Sexual Abuse
Diane Langberg
$5.00Retail: $6.25Are you ministering to someone whose trauma of sexual abuse has shattered their trust in God? Do you see them wrestling with the dichotomy between what they are told about God and the bitter facts of their wounds? If the abuse happened when they were a...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
Women and Lust: Exposed, Forgiven, and Embraced
Sarah Taras
$5.00Retail: $6.25Women who struggle with sexual lust often think they are alone. Most of the time when they hear others talk about problems with sexual addiction, they are referencing men. But women also struggle with these issues, and they also need encouragement to...$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...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
Caring for Survivors of Sexual Abuse
Basyle Tchividjian
$5.00Retail: $6.25How is your church ministering to children in your congregation who have experienced sexual abuse? Jesus told us that whoever received a child in his name received him (Matt. 18:5). Is this the guiding principle that informs how your congregation cares...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
The Gift of Addiction: How God Redeems Our Pain
Erik Guzman
$5.00Retail: $6.25You did it again. You drank. You got high. You slept with him/her. You surfed the Internet. What gift could you possibly find in so much failure? But when your helplessness drives you to turn to God and admit your need, you will experience the...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
The Problem with Masturbation
Winston T. Smith
$5.00Retail: $6.25"It's normal." "Everyone does it." "Nobody gets hurt." These are some commonly held beliefs about sexual fantasy and masturbation, but are they really true? Are sexual fantasies and masturbation harmless ways of dealing with sexual frustration? ...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
Self-Esteem: Looking Up Instead of Looking Inside
Leslie Vernick
$5.00Retail: $6.25How 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,...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
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 you–the list of troubles we experience is both uniquely difficult and depressingly similar. In this world we will suffer, Jesus...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
Autism Spectrum Disorder and Your Child: Help for Your Family
Kathy Hoopmann
$5.00Retail: $6.25Your child’s diagnosis with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) may have left you feeling sad, confused, or perhaps even relieved to finally understand why he or she behaves differently from other children. Whatever your initial response to the...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
Living Together: Why Marriage Is the Best Choice
Ellen Mary Dykas
$5.00Retail: $6.25Past broken relationships, concerns about compatibility, and finances are just some of the reasons for the growing trend of couples living together without getting married. But marriage is not just a cultural institution by which people merge lives, bank...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
Why Do I Care? When Others' Approval Matters Too Much
Amy Baker
$5.00Retail: $6.25It 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...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
How to Say No When Your Body Says Yes: Finding True Satisfaction
Dan Wilson
$5.00Retail: $6.25There are so many good reasons to say yes to premarital sex–everyone around you seems to be doing it and you are physically ready! Are there any good reasons to say “no” and is there any good way to stick with your “no”? Dan...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
Healing Broken Relationships: What to Do When You've Been Hurt
Jayne V. Clark
$5.00Retail: $6.25Arguments. Betrayal. Inattention. Some of the reasons that relationships shatter. Anger. Confusion. Hurt. Frustration. Some of what we feel when a relationship falls apart. We all have experienced how hard relationships can be in this broken world...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
Feeling Guilty? Grace for Your Mistakes
Steve Brown
$5.00Retail: $6.25Right now you are probably feeling guilty about one thing or another–what you said to your spouse last night, those unrelenting thoughts, something you did years ago and regret, actual lying and cheating, the places where you are struggling right...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
Faith and Doubt: When Belief is Hard
Steve Brown
$5.00Retail: $6.25You 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...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
When Cancer Interrupts
David Powlison
$5.00Retail: $6.25Your 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...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
What Do You Do for a Living?
Justin S. Holcomb
$5.00Retail: $6.25“What do you do for a living?” Whether you have a great answer to that question (“I have an important job!”) or a not-so-great answer (“I’m unemployed!”), the problem of defining ourselves by what we do instead...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
Preparing for Fatherhood
Deepak Reju
$5.00Retail: $6.25So you’re going to be a father. How do you process that news? How do you get ready? Whether the news came as a complete surprise or it was long awaited, it probably has left you with lots of questions. Questions about yourself, your ability to be a...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
Life after Retirement
Steve Brown
$5.00Retail: $6.25Retirement can seem like the light at the end of a very long tunnel of hard work. But for many of us, the reality doesn’t quite match up to our hopes. We struggle with a loss of purpose, and the activities and interests we couldn’t wait to...$5.00Retail: $6.25
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