Personal Growth
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When the Money Runs Out: Hope and Help for the Financially Stressed
$5.20Retail: $6.50If 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...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Helping a Hurting Friend: Bringing the Hope of Christ in Hard Times
$5.20Retail: $6.50If 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...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
A New Normal: Learning to Thrive in Suffering
$5.20Retail: $6.50A 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...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Is God Listening? What if He Doesn't Answer?
$5.20Retail: $6.50Nothing 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...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Homosexuality and the Bible: Outdated Advice or Words of Life?
$5.20Retail: $6.50As 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...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Dealing with Rejection: How to Respond to Deep Hurt
$5.20Retail: $6.50You 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...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Facing Death with Hope: Living for What Lasts
$5.20Retail: $6.50Is 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...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Grieving a Suicide: Help for the Aftershock
$5.20Retail: $6.50Someone you know and love has died. You feel the emptiness and sorrow of loss. That alone is extremely hard. But suicide adds many other painful reactions to the heartache that death brings. Common reactions are feelings of anger, guilt, betrayal, and...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Freedom from Guilt: Finding Release from Your Burdens
$5.20Retail: $6.50Are 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...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Why Do I Care? When Others' Approval Matters Too Much
$5.20Retail: $6.50It 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 of...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Suffering: Where to Turn When Life Falls Apart
$5.20Retail: $6.50Someone you love is ill, your child is in trouble, financial problems mount, you lost your job, your spouse left youÐthe list of troubles we experience is both uniquely difficult and depressingly similar. In this world we will suffer, Jesus promised...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Financial Crisis: What to Do When the Bottom Drops Out
$5.20Retail: $6.50Are 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 conditions, means that...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
How to Love Difficult Parents: Wisdom for a Challenging Relationship
$5.20Retail: $6.50We 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 their parents...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Sexual Assault: Healing Steps for Victims
$5.20Retail: $6.50Sexual assault is an invasive event of traumatic evil. You were victimized, and now you are suffering. Whenever sexual abuse occurs, love is not part of the equation. Rather, the perpetrator uses power, domination, and control to injure innocent victims...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Bitterness: When You Can't Move On
$5.20Retail: $6.50It's only natural to bristle when you are mistreated. Perhaps you were passed over for a well-deserved job promotion, hurt by a family member, falsely accused, or experienced a severe disappointment. An array of emotions—anger, frustration,...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Why Should I Pray? How God Shares His Heart with Us
$5.20Retail: $6.50Have you ever felt discouraged about praying? Sometimes it feels like there are more reasons not to pray than to pray. Discouraging circumstances that haven't changed, long-standing requests that haven't been given a yes, boring prayer meetings the list...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Living in a Dangerous World: Moving from Fear to Faith
$5.20Retail: $6.50Everyone is afraid of something. Fear is part of the human experience of living in a broken, fallen world. We try to manage our fears, but our coping mechanisms impact our faith. We hoard resources and stop praying for provision. We stockpile...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
When Trouble Shows Up: Seeing God's Transforming Love
$5.20Retail: $6.50Where is God in all this? Does he really love me? Perhaps you are asking questions like these in the midst of tough situations that come your way. You want to trust God's plan for your life, but when hardship intrudes, it is often difficult to believe...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Recovering from Child Abuse: Healing and Hope for Victims
$5.20Retail: $6.50The damage you suffered may have been done in one terrible moment or over time. But the healing and the restoration will unfold at your pace, at a human pace. It unfolds as part of your story, and it unfolds over time. As a vulnerable child, instead of...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Life Beyond Your Parents' Mistakes: The Transforming Power of God's Love
$5.20Retail: $6.50What if your human parents were violent, deceptive, cold, or even just occasionally disappointing? Can their failures keep you from understanding God's love and having a growing relationship with your heavenly Father? Some say that you can't know God's...$5.20Retail: $6.50
SHORT CHRISTIAN PERSONAL GROWTH BOOKS
The New Growth Press Personal Growth minibooks are designed to address common problems of daily life from a biblical perspective. Like all of our minibooks, they are short enough to be read in under an hour but deep enough to offer meaningful, practical help for the struggles we all face. Some of the topics covered by these concise booklets include grief, anger, anxiety, forgiveness, difficult relationships, and many more.