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War On Children
$26.99Add to cartA Masters Seminary Press Title
In The War on Children, bestselling author, John MacArthur, offers the tools needed to understand the enemy’s battle plan and be ready for the next assault. As God’s people, we need to:
*Teach our children God’s Word
*Train them in righteousness
*Give them wise and biblically based guidance
*And above all, give them our extravagant loveEvery day, on a multitude of battlefronts, Satan is deploying weapons of mass corruption against our children. Modern culture has been systematically designed with an agenda that is aggressively anti-God, anti-Christ, and anti-Scripture, intended to corrupt and consume young, impressionable hearts and minds.
We are in the middle of a dangerous ideological conflict with eternity at stake. Christian parents cannot simply float passively along with the drift of our culture. We need to:
*Be aware of the threats this world poses to our children
*Understand the enemy’s battle plan and be ready for the next assault
*Prepare our children for the attacks they will face from a culture intent on their destruction. -
Lights A Lovely Mile
$27.00Add to cartEugene H. Peterson’s never-before-published wisdom for each season of the Christian year
The glorious, never-dull reality of the gospel is this: Christ sets us free. All of us can be doers of the word, using the stuff of the everyday to make something to the glory of God.
Long before his iconic paraphrased Bible translation, The Message, Eugene H. Peterson (1932-2018) faithfully preached for decades to the small congregation of Christ Our King Presbyterian Church in Bel Air, Maryland. As the seasons passed, along with the accompanying fasts and feasts, Peterson faithfully revealed ways to cultivate a robust, authentic life of faith, intimacy, obedience, and joy.
Now you can gain new insights into Peterson’s preaching and pastoral life through this collection of his most compelling yet never-before-published sermons. Following the calendar of the church year, from the darkness of Advent to the light of Epiphany, the wilderness of Lent to the celebration of Easter, and the fire of Pentecost to the everyday glory of ordinary time, these remarkable sermons point to the eternity beyond our experience of time.
With his trademark wit and wisdom, Peterson shows how to pursue a “long obedience in the same direction” through all the seasons, colors, and rhythms of our lives.
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Strong Girls Strong World
$27.99Add to cartYou Can Make a Global Impact–One Girl at a Time
In Strong Girls, Strong World, Dale Hanson Bourke draws on her international leadership and reporting experience to offer personal insights we can all use as a road map to understanding the issues girls face–and the tangible ways we can each make a difference. Filled with personal stories, hope-filled examples, and specific opportunities, readers will discover:
*how investing in girls changes communities and entire countries
*eight areas that create high-impact investments for girls
*what leading organizations are doing to change the lives of girls, and
*dozens of specific and practical ways you can make a difference today.Investing in the life of a girl can bring about global change. In Strong Girls, Strong World, you’ll find out how to take the first steps.
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Unshakable Kids : Three Keys To Raising Spiritually Strong And Emotionally
$29.99Add to cartYou may feel anxious about sending your child out into a world that too often feels dark and scary. But you can prepare your kids to live in the real world by equipping them with a sound mind and strategies for establishing a foundation of faith.
Adversity is a normal part of life, and when we keep our children too protected, we rob them of the opportunity to learn and practice essential life skills like discernment, understanding, boldness, and resilience. Using Scripture and principles of cognitive behavioral therapy, Unshakable Kids gives you the tools to equip your children to withstand the negative pressures of society and walk bravely into the world with wisdom. This book will show you how to model the qualities you want to build in your kids, control anxious thoughts, and help your kids rest in their identities as children of God.
With God’s Word and these brain-based tools, you can raise emotionally healthy and spiritually strong children who not only remain unshaken by the world, but can actually make a positive impact on it.
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Love Your Kids Without Losing Yourself
$28.99Add to cartLoving your kids isn’t supposed to mean you completely disappear or get swallowed up by the demands of motherhood.
You want to be a great mother. But how do you care for yourself without neglecting your kids needs, feeling overwhelmed by guilt, or succumbing under the pressure to be perfect?
Dr. Morgan–a psychotherapist and relationship expert–has helped over 100,000 moms regain their sanity and prevent burnout through her popular courses, coaching, and social media wisdom. In her debut book, Love Your Kids Without Losing Yourself, she offers a proven step-by-step plan that any mom can follow. In this powerful book, she reveals how to:
*rid yourself of mom-guilt for good,
*identify your needs and express them with confidence,
*create a self-care plan that goes beyond pedicures and bubble baths, and
*thrive as a woman after being on the back burner for too long.Love Your Kids Without Losing Yourself is a must-read book for modern moms. You don’t have to choose between self-abandonment or child-abandonment. You can love yourself and love your kids. Discover how to flourish as a mother, know exactly how to care for yourself in ways that actually make a difference, and finally feel joy in motherhood.
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How To Help Your Child Clean Up Their Mental Mess
$28.99Add to cartEvery Parent’s Guide to Supporting Their Child’s Mental Health
Increasingly, children ages 3-10 are struggling with anxiety, depression, and mental health challenges. These can be brought on by many factors–stress at home, upheavals in society, breaks in routine, isolation from friends, bullying or social pressure–and if left unaddressed, they follow kids into their teens and adulthood, causing mental, emotional, and relational problems that will steal their peace and joy.
But there is hope. Bestselling author Dr. Caroline Leaf helps you teach your kids how to:
– recognize negative feelings and respond in a healthy way
– navigate a world that can feel scary and overwhelming
– manage uncomfortable or challenging situations
– replace toxic thoughts with brain-building practices that produce better outcomes
– develop resilience and emotional strengthBased on up-to-date research, clearly illustrated with case studies, and practically applied to the problems kids are facing today, How to Help Your Child Clean Up Their Mental Mess is what parents, caretakers, teachers, and counselors have been waiting for. Dr. Leaf shares a clear and effective five-step plan to teach your child how to manage their mind so they can live a life with greater resilience, health, and happiness.
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Raising Families The Jesus Way
$29.99Add to cartHow to Raise Godly Kids Today so They Can Transform Tomorrow
In today’s culture, raising godly kids is harder–and more important–than ever. In this innovative new book, pastors Frank and Mary Garcia team up with their adult children, Sarah and Sal, to offer you powerful, practical keys to grow your family God’s way.
As Mary and Frank share parenting tips, advice, encouragement, and how-tos, Sarah and Sal share their own insights on how these same lessons shaped and impacted them. Engaging, profound, and humorous, each chapter digs deep into the rich soil of God’s Word, going past surface solutions to discover the root issues of difficult behaviors and parenting problems, including how to:
* have a healthy soul to be a godly model to your kids,
* discipline effectively, not harshly,
* resolve sibling rivalry,
* protect family time,
* nourish your child’s identity and gifting,
* discern and break generational strongholds,
* and more.Full of rich wisdom and practical application, this real-world guide ultimately shows how you can shape future generations by becoming the godly role model and support your kids need.
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Shaping Of A Christian Family
$29.99Add to cartParenting in today’s world can feel like an uphill battle. How do we guide our children through the social and spiritual minefields of our culture? How do we make sure that they are ready when they leave the nest? And how do we trust God to watch over them as they do?
In this classic book, beloved author Elisabeth Elliot reveals cherished memories and valuable insights she gathered from her experiences growing up in a Christian home. Through the stories of her parents, grandparents, and siblings, Elliot extols the importance of obedience, prayer, trust, courtesy, and forgiveness, among many other lessons she learned as a child.
The Shaping of a Christian Family is an inspiring book for new and experienced parents, grandparents, and all who have come to trust Elliot’s compassionate wisdom.
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Raising Healthy Teenagers
$29.99Add to cartOur kids are experiencing an unprecedented sense of isolation, interacting virtually in a world that seems ever more fearful with each news cycle. They absorb and internalize the stress and anxiety they see on their parents’ faces and on the phone, laptop, tablet, and TV screens that are ever before their eyes. Not surprisingly, their mental and physical health are suffering. As parents, we want to know how we can help.
Practical and encouraging, Raising Healthy Teenagers helps you understand the mental, physical, and social toll the past couple years have taken on your kids. Then it offers proven strategies to help your teen get back onto a healthy path by:
– reducing screen time and increasing green time
– learning how to be a social being again
– developing strategies to deal with disruptions in schooling
– reclaiming a structured day
– breaking the cycle of anxiety and depression
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Finding Our Way Forward
$29.99Add to cartWhen our children turn 18, we hope to happily launch them into the world to become the adults we’ve been preparing them to be. Their pathway seems clear: most will go to college, find a vocation and then a true love, and settle into a comfortable life while we parents keep in touch through occasional phone calls, family gatherings, and surprise trips home for Christmas. But now more than ever, these expectations fail to acknowledge the significant challenges faced by many young people, from a pandemic to racial unrest to a climate crisis that is setting the world on fire, figuratively and literally.
While young people are consistently told they need to discern God’s calling, in Finding Our Way Forward, Melanie Springer Mock draws on her decades as a college professor and mom to four adult children to explore how finding our way means developing a more expansive understanding of calling for ourselves and for the young adults we love, one that moves beyond vocation and capitalistic enterprises to what God really calls us to: Seeking justice. Loving mercy. Walking with humility. Loving others. Loving God. As we do so, our relationships can be transformed as together we find our way forward.
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Parenting : Getting It Right
$27.99Add to cartAm I getting parenting right? Most parents, at any and every stage, find themselves asking this question.
Whether you’re sleep deprived with a colicky newborn or navigating the emotional roller coaster of a teenager, parenting has its ups and downs, its confusion and clarity, its big blowups and small victories. And no matter our family makeup or our children’s personalities, many of us experience anxiety over our children’s futures and often fear making a mistake.
Andy and Sandra Stanley are no strangers to this feeling. As parents of three grown children and cofounders of North Point Ministries, they are seasoned experts on faith and parenting. Together they have spent decades counseling countless families, mentoring others, and learning from mentors of their own, all while leading one of the largest churches in the country.
In Parenting: Getting It Right, Andy and Sandra combine their experience and wisdom into a guide that helps readers understand and live by essential parenting principles. In an inviting, conversational approach that is both informative and accessible, the Stanleys help readers understand the most important goal in parenting and learn the steps to pursue it by:
*Learning the four distinct stages of parenting
*Clarifying the primary goal of parenting and developing a parenting orientation around that goal
*Identifying and adapting their approach–not their rules–to their children’s distinct personalities
*Deciding on their shortlist of non-negotiables and learning to stick to it
You don’t have to constantly doubt if you’re getting it right as a parent. Start here and feel confident about raising a healthy and happy family.
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Mystery Of The Child
$30.99Add to cartMuch of today’s writing on children treats the child of any age as a problem or a set of problems to be solved, effectively reducing the child to a complex of biological and chemical factors, explainable in scientific terms, or regarding children as objects of adult control. In contrast, Martin Marty here presents the child as a mystery who invokes wonder and elicits creative responses that affect the care provided him or her.
Drawing on literature as new as contemporary poetry and as old as the Bible, The Mystery of the Child encourages the thoughtful enjoyment of children instead of the imposition of adult will and control. Indeed, Marty treats the impulse to control as a problem and highlights qualities associated with children — responsiveness, receptivity, openness to wonder — that can become sources of renewal for adults.
The Mystery of the Child represents a new tack for Martin Marty — universally respected as a historian, theologian, and interpreter of religion and culture — but displays the same incisive, erudite quality marking the fifty-plus books and thousands of articles that he has previously written. Marty’s broad, thoughtful perspective will inspire readers to think afresh about what it means to be a child — and to be a caregiver.
This book is sure to claim a wide readership — parents, grandparents, schoolteachers, theologians, historians — engaging anyone wanting to explore more fully the profound realm of the child.
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Who Are You And What Have You Done With My Kid
$27.00Add to cartSo you have a Tween! What now? Dr. Amanda Craig knows what it’s like to watch your child go from sweet elementary student to moody tween in the span of just a few years and she’s here to help navigate you through it!
How do we keep our kids close while cultivating the confidence they’ll need to grow up? How do we navigate the inevitable dips, divides, and potholes? Where do we find the strength, self-awareness, and wisdom that amount to a path forward?
Despite the parenting opportunities in the tween years, we often spend time focused on academics and the social concerns of elementary school then quickly pivot to worries about safety, drugs, sex and the rebellious behavioral issues of the teen years. We think we’re connecting but we’re not. We miss the neurological explosion that is taking place before us as tweens experience four significant changes that shake them (and us) to their core.
*Their brains are changing.
*They feel and experience emotions they do not recognize.
*They’re hyperaware of themselves.
*They do not know how to express themselves.Most importantly, parents still have a “seat at the table” to make positive impressions on their tweens as they prepare them for the teenage years.
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Digital Detox : The Two-Week Tech Reset For Kids
$29.99Add to cartParents are familiar with the sight: grumpy, irritable, inattentive kids. You know the cause of it–too much time on digital devices. But it’s hard to know what to do about it. One day, Molly DeFrank had had enough and pulled the plug on her kids’ screen time. She was tired of her sweet children acting like addicts desperate for their next fix. The results were better than she could have ever dreamed. What started as a two-week experiment changed her family’s life.
In this shame-free book, you’ll learn and apply all of Molly’s secrets with her 14-day kick-start plan. Then, Molly equips you with all of the simple, practical, flexible tools you’ll need to continue for a lifetime.
Making a change is easier than it sounds, and the results are immediate. No more screen zombies. Digital Detox is the simple guide to overnight course correction that will help parents get their wonderful kids back.
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When Anxiety Roars
$29.99Add to cartAccording to the American Psychological Association, today’s children and teenagers are anxious about many things. In addition to the stressors common to any generation–family issues, financial instability, pressure to perform in school or sports–these young people also worry about gun violence, social justice, the state of their divided nation, the fate of a warming planet, and much more. To top it off, recent global events and resulting restrictions have added significant stress even as they have stripped away support systems.
For parents, teachers, counselors, and youth leaders longing to understand and help the young people in their lives, When Anxiety Roars unpacks the biological, psychological, social, and spiritual factors that influence anxiety in children and offers specific practical steps to take together to tame that anxiety. Integrating faith with best practices to reduce anxiety, it also teaches coping skills that will help children live more confidently today and into the future.
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Raising Them Ready
$29.99Add to cartWhat is the difference between the kid who struggles to “adult” and the one who jumps in feet first, ready to thrive? It all comes down to mindsets, skillsets, and toolsets. Either we as parents raise kids who are dependent on us or we raise kids who are confident, capable, and eager to take on the challenges of an independent adult life.
In Raising Them Ready, parenting experts and bestselling authors Jonathan and Erica Catherman give you practical ways to prepare your kids for life on their own. They help you assess how your kids respond to the everyday demands of life, provide practices for redirecting them from seeing adulthood as a series of threats to anticipating exciting challenges, and give you an inventory of the real-world adulting mindsets, skillsets, and toolsets your kids should acquire before leaving the nest.
By putting into practice the advice in this book, you can stop worrying about if your kids will make it on their own and start celebrating alongside them this adventure called life.
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Foster The Family
$29.99Add to cartThere are great rewards that come along with being a foster parent, yet there are also great challenges that can leave you feeling depleted, alone, and discouraged. The many burdens of a foster parent’s day–struggling children, difficult biological parents, and a broken system–are only compounded by the many burdens of a foster parent’s heart–confusion, anxiety, heartache, anger, and fear.
With the compassion and insight of a fellow foster parent, Jamie C. Finn helps you see your struggles through the lens of the gospel, bringing biblical truths to bear on your unique everyday realities. In these short, easy-to-read chapters, you’ll find honest, personal stories and practical lessons that provide encouragement and direction from God’s Word as you walk the journey of foster parenting.
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Grandparenting Teens : Leaving A Legacy Of Hope
$27.00Add to cartThree million kids have grandparents parenting them. Are you one of those grandparents? Are you in need of some help? Are you in a crisis with your teen that you’re not sure anyone has an answer for?
There are natural communication barriers between grandparents and their teenage grandkids:
– new and old cultures collide and the relationship sometimes flies out the window
– hurtful words stab at a grandparent trying to help
– memories are missed and arguments explode in a family
Both grandparents and grandkids face these triggers, but from opposite sides. And sometimes they result in teens getting into drugs, kids smoldering in unexpressed anger that deepens into depression, and kids even harming themselves. The teenagers want attention and relationships; grandparents want to help.
Help is available from author and well-known family expert Mark Gregston who has worked in teenage and family ministries such as Young Life and his own program, Heartlight, for over forty years. For Gregston, it’s all about relationships. Teens need to find out why they think no one understands them. And they need help to guide them through this contradictory world. Grandparenting Teens is a valuable resource that helps grandparents love their teens and relate to them in genuine, honest, life-changing ways.
This book gives practical tips on how to start grandparenting teens in a way that fosters connection. Mark teaches skills such as getting everyone to listen–really listen. As a grandparent, you can help your teen learn to paint their honest, big-picture perspective, so no one’s left out of their world. They will learn gratefulness instead of giving grief. They will recognize when their grandparent understands their troubles and becomes their role model for life when everyone else turns away. And both grandparents and teens will find their point of contact–their bond. Gregston’s stories will entertain you. They will teach you. They will move you. Some will even change your life.
This book is a must for every grandparent who wants to continue to have an influence on the life of their teen grandchildren. In this ever-important role, grandparents can offer something to their grandkids that they can receive from no one else.
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Raising Resilient Kids
$25.99Add to cartWith so many “experts” touting different approaches to raising thriving children, how do you know which is the best one?
Dr. Rhonda Spencer-Hwang, professor of public health at Loma Linda University and mom of three, had the same question. As a member of a community known worldwide for its health and longevity, often referred to as a Blue Zone, she decided to study the area’s many centenarians to find out what they-or their parents-did right in childhood to make them so resilient to stress, disease, and the adversities of life.
In Raising Resilient Kids, Dr. Spencer-Hwang reveals the intriguing findings from her research and offers eight principles for raising happier, healthier children who are equipped to flourish despite life’s inevitable adversities. Readers of Raising Resilient Kids will learn how to:
*Empower children with determination, motivation, and empathy
*Win over picky eaters and others who resist new routines
*Reduce negative stress and boost happiness
*Instill the values that motivate children to serve and help others
*Enhance academic performance through healthy habits
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Raising Disciples: : How To Make Faith Matter For Our Kids
$29.99Add to cartChildren and youth will just “catch” the faith of their parents, right?
Not necessarily. Talking with kids about Jesus no longer comes naturally to many Christian parents. In Raising Disciples, pastor Natalie Frisk helps us reconnect faith and parenting, equipping parents to model what following Jesus looks like in daily life. Filled with authenticity, flexibility, humor, and prayer, Frisk outlines how parents can make openings for their children to experience God in their daily lives.
As curriculum pastor at The Meeting House, one of the largest churches in Canada, Frisk calls parents who follow Christ to ask the big questions about the spiritual formation of children and teens. In practical and thoughtful ways, she equips parents to disciple their kids in various stages of childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood. Raising Disciples will awaken parents to the possibly of Jesus-centered parenting and encourage us to engage in the lost art of discipling our own kids.
Foreword by Marv Penner, director of the National Center for Excellence in Youth Ministry
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Imaginative Prayer : A Yearlong Guide For Your Childs Spiritual Formation
$26.00Add to cartImaginative Prayer Creedal Poem
Introduction
How To Use This Book
Part I: God’s Love
1. God Loves So Many Things
2. He Loves Me
3. When I Am Lost, He Will Come Looking For Me
4. When I Am Sick, He Wants To Heal Me
5. When I Make Mistakes, He Will Always Have Grace On Me
6. There Is Nothing That Can Separate Me From The Love Of GodReview Week
Part II: Loving Others
7. God Invites Us To Live A Life Of Love
8. Love Looks Like Being Patient And Kind And Not Making A List Of People’s Mistakes
9. Love Looks Like Inviting People Who May Be Left Out
10. Love Looks Like Taking Care Of People When They Need Help
11. We Love Others With The Love That God Pours Into Us
12. People Will Know That We Are Followers Of Jesus Because Of Our Love For Each OtherReview Week
Part III: Forgiveness
13. Forgiveness Means We Can Have Peace With God
14. Forgiveness Means God Welcomes Anyone
15. Forgiveness Means God Takes Away Our Sin
16. Forgiveness Means We Can Forgive The Sins Of Others
17. When We Forgive, We Will Be Forgiven. When We Give, It Will Be Given Unto Us
18. Love And Forgiveness Make Room For ReconciliationReview Week
Part IV: Jesus Is The King
19. Jesus Is The King Who Came To Undo The Power Of Death
20. Jesus Is The King Who Came To Defeat The Power Of Sin
21. Jesus Is The King Who Came To Defeat The Power Of The Accuser
22. Jesus Is A Faithful King, Even When We Don’t Have Faith
23. We Have Life With God Through The Faithfulness Of Jesus The King
24. God Became King Through Love And ForgivenessReview Week
Part V: The Good News Of God
25. God Made Us A Promise, And It Comes To Us Through Jesus
26. The Good News Of God Comes To Us Through The Words Of Jesus
27. The Good News Of God Comes To Us Through The Life Of Jesus
28. The Good News Of God Comes To Us Through The Death Of Jesus
29. The Good News Of God Comes To Us Through The Resurrection Of Jesus
30. We Receive The Promises Of God When We Choose To Follow JesusReview Week
Part XI: The Mission Of God
31. When We Choose To Follow Jesus, We Join The Mission Of God To Bring His Love Into The World
32. The Mission Of God Is To Make Everything In The World Good Again
33. The Mission Of God Is To Bring All Things Under The Reign Of King Jesus
34. The Mission Of God Is To Bring Peace And Reconciliation To Everything
35. The Mission Of God Is To Take Away The Veil That Covers Up The Presence Of God
36. God Is At WoAdditional Info
How do we help our kids connect with God? Most parents want their kids to learn to love God. But most of us struggle to facilitate real spiritual experiences. It’s hard enough to have a meaningful conversation with our kids about spiritual things, let alone help them experience true transformation in the presence of God. Jared Patrick Boyd discovered that children’s spiritual formation is rooted in the imagination. When we lead our children through guided times of imaginative prayer, they can experience a connection with God that transcends mere Bible knowledge or doctrinal content. This unique resource provides six units of weekly guided imaginative prayer, themed around core topics: God’s love, loving others, forgiveness, God as king, the good news of God, and the mission of God. Each unit has six sessions, providing a yearlong experience of spiritual formation for children ages 5-13. Through imaginative prayer you can help your child connect with God. As you do so, you may find yourself connecting more closely with your child, and your own formation as a parent will deepen into greater awareness of God’s work in your lives. -
Faith At Home
$25.95Add to cartHome (not the congregation) and parents (not clergy, youth ministers, or Sunday School) are the key mechanisms by which religious faith and practice are transmitted intergenerationally. Recent studies indicate that the single most important factor in youth becoming committed and engaged in their religious faith as young adults is that the family talks about religion at home. However, for many parents in the United States, religious language is a foreign language. Faith at Home will help parents learn this “second language” and introduce it to their children in simple, meaningful, concrete ways. Parents often ask: How do we introduce prayer to our children if we do not necessarily believe prayer changes outcomes? How do we approach reading the Bible with our children when our own relationship with it is mixed or complicated? How do we talk about difficult things and where do we find God in the midst of them? How do we teach our children to make a difference in the world? How do we connect what happens at church to what happens at home? These questions and many more are addressed with talking points, practices, and resources provided for each subject.
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Legacy Moments
$25.99Add to cartLegacy Moments is a creative and participatory guide to rethinking your legacy. This book will support you in stirring up the deep wealth of legacy within yourself, while guiding you to record one of the most valuable gifts you will give to your child or loved ones. It is a unique gift of intergenerational wealth, filled with meaningful details, stories, values, life principles, instructions, declarations and prophetic blessings.
Legacy Moments will support you in your call to connect the next generation to their legacy in God, as you also honour one of His greatest gifts to humanity – the intangible wealth that is within each of us.
Each defining moment of life, when placed together, then becomes a priceless gift of legacy for the future.
Never again will the legacy you truly wish to remember be forgotten!
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Why Is Collin Like That
$25.99Add to cartMy story begins with a very unhappy baby boy, screaming day and night. My son, Collin, was diagnosed with PDD (Pervasive Developmental Disorder), under the Autistic spectrum, by the age of two. As Collin grew, the unmasking of his disorders did also. PDD, ADHD and OCD were among them. So began my new career as “doctor” stay at home mom.
I remember a seminar I attended a couple years ago with my mother. Questions from concerned parents swarmed the room like bees around a disturbed hive. The presenter addressed everyone patiently. He calmly said, “Listen, most importantly, you are looking for very peculiar behaviors.” My mother turned to me and said with a sigh of relief, “Well, thank God Collin doesn’t have any of those.” I looked at her so strange and replied, “Yeah, mom, you’re right. His sucking on batteries, throwing away silverware, keeping the spoons under his mattress and licking his hands while “grooming” his face is certainly not peculiar. I think we are safe…” We burst out laughing.
My daughter, Karlie, is a beautiful and loving little girl. Unfortunately, it took me a few years to discover how much she had taken on emotionally being the “big sister”. As parents, we do not always recognize just how much children are affected when it comes to having a sibling with a disability. Just the simple task of watching television together can be so hard for them. As parents, we need to raise awareness on the affects our “non-disabled” children deal with every day. Many prayerful nights have been spent attempting to communicate these issues to others. Prayerfully, this book will help you and His children. God hears you…and I HEAR YOU!
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Parenting With A Purpose
$27.99Add to cart“Parenting with a purpose” is the process designed by God during which each child is led to establish a foundation on which he can build a responsible, productive adult life. There are many situational variations of this process, but each variation includes a commitment to three fundamental building blocks. These building blocks are:
* A Sound Moral Base
* The Best Available Education
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Battle Ready Moms Raising Battle Ready Kids
$25.99Add to cartMom, you are in a war for the lives of your children. The enemy is real and deceptive, and his weapons are varied. If your children are going to become the men and women that you want them to be, you must take this battle seriously and prepare to fight.
Battle-Ready Moms Raising Battle-Ready Kids equips mothers with the weapons they need to fight for the spiritual survival of their children. You’ll learn
* Why your role as mom is critically important to the well-being of your children
* How to encourage good choices through connection, not rules alone
* How to build character and nurture individuality
* How to guide both girls and boys from infancy to young adulthoodUsing Bible-based wisdom and experience-based advice, Reba Bowman challenges you to become the best mom you can be-because the destiny of your children depends on it.
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Losers Loners And Rebels
$26.00Add to cartThe early years of adolescence are a tumultuous time, full of challenges and opportunities that can shape one’s whole life. In recent years several books have analyzed this period of life for girls, but this is the first book that investigates that interior life of boys as they develop their sense of self and begin the spiritual journey that will carry them throughout their lives.
The authors contend that adolescent boys often experience themselves at various times as losers, loners and rebels. As self-defined losers, boys begin to realize self-awareness; as loners they begin to understand their own relatedness to the larger world; as rebels they gain as sense of self-sufficiency. Through these common experiences of life, boys gain self-awareness, self transcendence, and self-sufficiency, concepts that take root in the spirituality that will last their lifetime.
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Welcoming Children : A Practical Theology Of Childhood
$34.99Add to cartWelcoming Children develops a theology of childhood both from a theological perspective and from practical experience in children and youth ministry. The author draws insights from classic and modern feminist theologians, pastoral theologians, and contemporary cultural criticism to offer strategies for educational and liturgical practices in congregations that welcome children and contribute to their flourishing. Mercer outlines a feminist practical theology of childhood exploring five basic theological claims: 1) children as gifts and parenting as a religious practice of stewardship; 2) welcoming those who care for children; 3) children as fully human; 4) children as part of God’s purposes; and 5) acknowledging and transforming the sufferings of children. Her compelling argument reframes ministries with children as processes through which the church can become the foundation for children forming identities that resist consumerist culture and instead walk in the ways of Jesus.
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Becoming Parents : How To Strengthen Your Marriage As Your Family Grows
$26.95Add to cartMoving into parenthood is typically a time of great joy and excitement, but it also brings fatigue, stress, and conflict. From the authors of the best-selling Fighting for Your Marriage and A Lasting Promise, this unique and innovative guide offers indispensable advice on how to protect and preserve your marriage and take care of yourselves as you become parents. Based on scientific research and containing real-life examples, Becoming Parents challenges you to seize this opportunity to really thrive in your relationship and in parenting together as a team.
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Listen My Son
$36.95Add to cartListen, My Son (the opening lines of Benedict’s Rule) breaks the Rule into short daily readings and provides commentary too help strengthen men in their role as open-hearted, attentive, and intelligent fathers and husbands. Without underestimating the emotional, spiritual, and physical demands of fatherhood, Longnecker also holds up the joys of developing a strong bond with God – one that nutures the individual man and that provides him with the ability to grow himself and his family in faithfulness, service and love.
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Parents In Pain
$30.00Add to cartContents
244 Pages In 13 Chapters Divided Into 3 Parts
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IVP Print On Demand TitleWhen your kids are in trouble, you’re in trouble.
A police car rolls up in front of your house-with your son in it.
A voice on the phone says your daughter is all right but won’t tell you where she is-and then hangs up.
A wallet disappears from your dresser and you’re sure who took it-at least somewhat sure.How do we deal with the guilt, frustration, anger and inadequacy that inevitably grip us when our children are in trouble?
John White offers comfort to parents of children with severe problems-alcoholism, homosexuality, even suicide. With practical suggestions, he helps parents deal with their feelings and decide what to do in tough situations.
A book of comfort and counsel to parents in pain.
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For The Love Of Children
$45.00Add to cartChoices in reproductive technology have multiplied at a staggering rate. Is our society prepared to decided on issues about procreation such as artificial insemination and in vitro fertilization, or genetic engineering such as “designer children,” or selective abortion? How can we protect children – both born and unborn – who are conceived in these ways from being regarded as merchandise in the expanding marketplace of genetic services? Ted Peters sets out the challenges of these new technologies with clarity and precision. He looks anew at Christian theology and proposes an ethic “for the love of children.” Peters contends that only by affirming all children and their claims upon parents will society deal constructively and ethically with the many reproductive choices available now and in the future.
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Helping Teenagers Grow Morally
$29.95Add to cartHow can church members help teenagers acquire Christian moral standards? C. Ellis Nelson views morals as a practical outgrowth of beliefs about the meaning of life, and outlines seven strategies that help adults influence young adults. He emphasizes what Christians can do in congregations to create a caring community that encourages young people to embody virtues that build a better society.
