Personal Growth
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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 -
Leaving Your Family Behind: Preparing for Military Deployment
$5.20Retail: $6.50As you face deployment, you need more than sympathy and gratitude. You need hope and guidance for yourself and those you love. Jesus Christ experienced the pain of separation when he left heaven for earth, and he understands what you are facing. You can...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
How to Love Difficult People: Receiving and Sharing God's Mercy
$5.20Retail: $6.50Prickly, defensive, nasty, volatile, withdrawn, miserable...aren't there days when you feel surrounded by difficult people? How do you cope? You can try avoiding them, gossiping about them, or giving them a piece of your mind. But wait! Don't your...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Help for the Caregiver: Facing the Challenges with Understanding and Strength
$5.20Retail: $6.50You 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...$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 -
Grief: Finding Hope Again
$5.20Retail: $6.50No matter what the circumstances, death shakes us to the core. It seems so wrong, and it is! We long for comfort, but we don't know where to look. Can God really help when we are overwhelmed with grief? With compassion and biblical wisdom, Paul David...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Freedom from Resentment: Stopping Hurts from Turning Bitter
$5.20Retail: $6.50Everyone experiences hurt in relationships, but most of the time we are able to forgive and forget. But sometimes we experience a major hurt that lingers in our minds and leads to bitterness. We feel trapped by the resulting hostility, ongoing broken...$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 -
Forgiving Others: Joining Wisdom and Love
$5.20Retail: $6.50Forgiving someone who has hurt you is one of the most difficult tasks anyone ever faces. In fact, it is so hard that most people avoid it at all costs. But when we don't forgive, we pay the price of bitterness that affects all of our relationships. Is...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Family Feuds: How to Respond
$5.20Retail: $6.50Do you dread family get-togethers and try to avoid your extended family whenever you can? When you see your family, do you sometimes regret the way you talk and act? Why is it so hard to get along with the people we grew up with? Childhood hurts,...$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 -
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 -
Conflict: A Redemptive Opportunity
$5.20Retail: $6.50Everyone has their own style of dealing with conflict. Some people try to win at all costs and will do or say anything to get their own way. Others hate conflict and will do or say anything to avoid or end it. Sadly, neither fighting nor avoidance leads...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Burned Out? Trusting God with Your To-Do List
$5.20Retail: $6.50Often, in our busy world, our lives feel like one long to-do list. It's easy to get so busy that we don't even notice how exhausted and anxious we are. Do you find yourself saying yes to activities you don't have time for? Have you ever said, "If I...$5.20Retail: $6.50 -
Accepting God's Forgiveness: Believing in God's Love for You
$5.20Retail: $6.50Do past failures still trouble you? Perhaps regret over a mistake, the betrayal of someone close to you, an undone task, an angry outburst has left you feeling uneasy. You wonder if God really does forgive you. Sometimes he seems like a dark cloud...$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.