Personal Growth
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Grieving with Hope: Walking with Jesus in Heartbreak
Randy Alcorn
$5.00Retail: $6.25Are you facing a great loss? Perhaps a loved one or close friend has died. Great love brings great sorrow, and healthy sorrow recognizes the immensity of loss. But when death and loss come close, the temptation toward despair and hopelessness is often...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
Why Should I Pray? How God Shares His Heart with Us
Scotty Smith
$5.00Retail: $6.25Have 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...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
Filled with Dread: Facing the Inevitable by Faith
Jayne V. Clark
$5.00Retail: $6.25Do you ever get a sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach in anticipation of something you don’t want to face? This sense of foreboding and apprehension is called dread. It could be about an upcoming life change, a conflict to resolve, a...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
Bitterness: When You Can't Move On
Paul Tautges
$5.00Retail: $6.25It’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,...$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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Obsessed with Your Phone: Disconnecting to Connect
William P. Smith
$5.00Retail: $6.25Do you own your smartphone, or does it own you? How quickly do you pick it up in the morning? Do you check it multiple times an hour to make sure you know what’s going on in the world? Do you find yourself turning to it first when you’re sad,...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
You Make Me So Mad! Managing Your Anger (eBook)
David Powlison
$5.00Retail: $6.25Anger. We all experience it, some more than others. When is it righteous and when is it not? How can we control our anger and not get caught in a maze of rage when things don’t go our way? David Powlison takes a close look at anger to help us...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
When You Are Worried: Finding Reasons for Peace (eBook)
David Powlison
$5.00Retail: $6.25Money, health, relationships. We have plenty of reasons to worry, right? In this minibook, David Powlison explains that, although circumstances bring difficult challenges, worry comes from our hearts. So to help our worried hearts, he highlights seven...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
Stressed Out: Becoming Peaceful on the Inside (eBook)
David Powlison
$5.00Retail: $6.25Have you traded in your peace for a life full of stress, worry, and anxiety? David Powlison points all who are stressed out to Psalm 131, a quiet little psalm with revolutionary potential. The psalmist’s composure in the midst of his difficult...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
Real Love: Better than Unconditional (eBook)
David Powlison
$5.00Retail: $6.25God’s love is unconditional, right? Actually, God cares too much about us to be unconditional in his love for us. In Real Love: Better Than Unconditional? biblical counseling expert David Powlison explains that God’s love is both different...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
Innocence Lost: Restoration after Victimization (eBook)
David Powlison
$5.00Retail: $6.25Every victim has a voice with which to cry out against God or cry out to him. In Innocence Lost: Rebuilding After Victimization, biblical counseling expert David Powlison encourages all who have been victimized to find their voice in Scripture, guiding...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
Coming Clean: Breaking Pornography's Hold on You (eBook)
David Powlison
$5.00Retail: $6.25Is it really possible to come clean once pornography has gained control of your life? In CCEF’s Coming Clean: Breaking Pornography’s Hold on You, biblical counseling expert David Powlison invites you to learn from a man called Bob, who...$5.00Retail: $6.25 -
Choices: Why Do I Do These Things (eBook)
Edward T. Welch
$5.00Retail: $6.25Why did I do that? Behind every choice is a motive–like pleasure, comfort, or control. Motives can be hard to identify and even harder to change. In CCEF’s Choices: Why Do I Do What I Do?, biblical counseling expert Edward T. Welch shows all...$5.00Retail: $6.25
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.