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The essential companion book for God Speaks Your Love LanguageDo you want to feel God's love more personally?These ten lessons--created to strengthen and deepen your relationship with God and others--provide workable strategies for applying the principles of God Speaks Your Love Language. This workbook includes interactive questions, quizzes, charts, and diagrams--all aimed at helping you better experience love, express love, and identify areas for development.As you begin to identify the variety of languages God uses to communicate love to you and others, you can learn to lovingly respond to God and to those around you. No matter what love language you prefer, you will become more deeply connected with God. And you will see this bond transform your relationships.This interactive workbook helps you take the joy-filled insights of God Speaks Your Love Language and put them into practice!

You weren't meant to do this on your own. Whether it's day one or year ten of your homeschooling journey, you can draw from this well of wisdom and encouragement! Homeschooling can be rich and rewarding. But it can also be exhausting and lonely. In Hope for Your Homeschool, September McCarthy--seasoned homeschooling mom of ten children and twelve grandchildren--addresses the fears and concerns that accompany homeschooling. And she provides a successful, well-tested plan! Through biblical insight and personal stories, September shows us how to create a culture at home that will fortify hearts and sharpen young minds. September gives us practical steps to follow and mistakes to avoid.Your days will be infused with joy and strength. As you draw from the wisdom of this homeschooling friend, your mothering heart will find hope, guidance, and encouragement for the daily work of homeschooling well.

From the first page of history, God has been teaching us about rest.Twenty-first-century Americans often approach Genesis as a science manual. How did it all happen? But the ancient Israelites were concerned with different questions--questions of purpose . . . who and why. Rachel helps us focus on the who of Creation so that we can find meaning and rest for our souls.God set up a perfect home for us full of provision, significance, and purpose. As we anchor ourselves in His character, we find a rest that grounds us when we're faced with the daily crises of life, big and small.Smith shares theologically rich insights that bring us into the rest we need, the rest we crave--the rest for which we were made. This book is for all who desire to have a life of flourishing, rooted in sacred trust and rest.

"Esther was given one of the world's hardest assignments: to protect God's special people from an evil plan. But it wasn't because she was extra-brave or super-extraordinary. Her life reminds us that every True Girl has a purpose and that it sometimes takes great patience to live it out"--

Resiliently rooted in Christ--living into this formational moment.What would it look like to form kids with lasting faith in Jesus, no matter the culture or context? Does this seem possible? It's getting harder to imagine in our highly secularized culture. Current approaches to faith formation aren't working.Forming Faith helps us understand what isn't working, why it doesn't work, and what we can do to build the church. Markins, Luce, and Handler--fathers and leaders--look at the blueprint often employed in children's ministries that seems innovative but is greatly misguided. Forming Faith brings not only analysis; it provides biblically based, backed-by-research solutions to form lasting faith in our children.We have real concerns and fears for the kids we love. More than anything we want to see younger generations follow Jesus with conviction and compassion. This resource provides the focus, resiliency, and hope we all need!

The view from above is majestic.Have you ever experienced that thrill of looking out the window of a plane? The beauty of the mountain, the vastness of the water, the lights of the city--it all just looks so amazing from above. You might be familiar with the area, but you've never seen it like this. You think to yourself: This. Is. Stunning. That's what it's like to Fly Through the Bible. With pastoral heart and insight, Colin Smith helps you find the right altitude to take in the big-picture landscape of God's story. In this journey, you will meet five people from the Old Testament, explore five events from the life of Jesus, and discover five gifts God gives to every Christian. Even if you've never opened the Bible, this short flight will introduce you to God's Word and leave you marveling at how it all fits together.

The essential companion book for The 5 Love Languages(R) Singles EditionYou want to be able to love effectively and truly feel loved in return. The 5 Love Languages(R)Singles Edition Workbook provides the sure steps to meaningful, relational connection.These ten lessons--created to strengthen and deepen your relationship with God and others--provide workable strategies for applying the principles of The 5 Love Languages Singles Edition. This workbook includes interactive questions, quizzes, charts, and diagrams--all aimed at helping you better experience love, express love, and identify areas for development. Whether you want to be closer to your parents, reach out more to your friends, or give dating another try, this workbook gives you the confidence to love well.This companion book--designed for individuals or small groups--helps you take the joy-filled insights of The 5 Love Languages Singles Edition and put them into practice.

How the gospel of Jesus empowers us to redeem the deep ache of loneliness.For years, Steve DeWitt was the only never married megachurch pastor in the United States. Over some 8,000 days as an adult single, and now eleven years of marriage, Pastor Steve has a unique perspective on solitude and aloneness. In a time when loneliness is at an all-time high, Loneliness--rich with biblical truth and practical help--speaks to all hearts. Writing on topics that affect us and the ones we love, he shows us the way out of our pain and into relational flourishing with God and others.Loneliness doesn't have to be our enemy. It can be the path God uses for our souls to experience the presence, promises, and power of Jesus Christ. Join Pastor Steve on a journey out of the ache and into love.

Is something from your past impacting your future? No one wakes up and says, "I think I'll make a mess of my life." But many people find themselves in places that feel beyond repair. If you've made decisions that have left you and others hurt--that have brought you to a place that feels dark or desperate--you're not alone. Professor and pastor Chris Rappazini looks to real life biblical characters who've made messes of their lives and shows how God delights in forgiveness and redemption.What happens when we honestly face our mess and seek God? Can beauty, love, or hope follow? Failure and regret can create humility and deepen our character. Those who seem permanently wrecked can experience joy, freedom, and a newfound dream. In Moving Forward After Messing Up, Rappazini takes us beyond despair to biblically based forgiveness and a faithful future.

Ben's life has been upended. He's leaving Atlanta. His mom's having a baby. He desperately wants a dog. Who said being twelve is easy? Meet Ben Washington. He's about to leave the place he loves for a new town--population: near nothing. Sixth grade is universally bumpy. And starting school in a pocket-sized town where no one looks like you is going to be an even bigger challenge. Is there a friend for Ben in Radnor Falls? What's he going to do about the trio of middle school bullies? And what about the mystery of "Spooky Fred," the town outsider? What has Fred done, and what will Ben do when he finds out? Will Ben come to love the slime green house with creaky floors and attic bedroom? Read this story of friendship, faith, and finding God in the hard spaces of life to find out.

God is for me--the most important truth to ever capture your kid's heart. It's important that our kids know what's true about God and themselves . . . to know what God has done and is doing for them. Focusing on Romans 8--one of the most studied and beloved chapters of the Bible--God is For Us cements kids in God's most precious, life-changing promises. Kids discover: What it means that we have a good FatherWhat is life in the SpiritWhy does it matter that we are heirs with Jesus . . . and much, much moreRomans 8 is overflowing with good news. Our kids need these promises to counter cultural messages that weaken their understanding of God's great love for them. The truth unearthed in God is For Us provides the foundation for Bible-loving, hope-filled, resilient, joyful, confident-in-Christ kids.

We need Jesus. The whole Jesus. Lawrence believes that the driving force propelling the church into irrelevance is its propensity reduce Jesus. Deeply researched and comprehensively sourced, Editing Jesus, explores the 8 ways the Jesus of the contemporary church has been edited to fit the spirit of the age. Lawrence writes on: The Co-Mingling of KingdomsThe Golden-Calfing of MaterialismThe Dismissing of the SupernaturalThe Siren-Song of PlatformingThe De-Prioritizing of Justice . . . and moreThis book is for every person who loves Jesus and His church--who longs to see the real Jesus worshiped and exalted. And it's for every person who wonders how the wheels came off Western Christianity and harbors a hunger that goes unmet in the church. When we discover and return to the unedited Jesus, it's impossible to remain unchanged.The church begins and ends with Jesus. The whole Jesus.

A timeless classic for solid grounding and renewal.Is your church adrift? Many churches are struggling to stay focused--to stay on point and hold fast to gospel essentials. Competing voices threaten to divide rather than unite and grow the church. Dr. Gene Getz has written a classic, insightful, biblical treatise on church renewal. Getz focuses on New Testament principles as applied to the unique needs of contemporary culture and roots readers in the perspective of the history of the church.Discover how to sharpen your church's focus through the lenses of Scripture, church history, and present-day needs. As you embark on this in-depth study of New Testament teaching, you'll experience the power of the Word and the power of the Spirit transforming your church from the inside out. You'll find positive, biblical solutions to the problems facing the church today, with practical advice for finding solutions to contemporary questions.

Answering the hard and painful questions in a sexually confused world.What does it mean that Jesus was known for love? We want to be like Him, but that can quickly become confusing when feelings, family, and dear friends come into the picture. Hough provides a biblical and theological framework for thinking through the hard situations we encounter with family and friends. Drawing from a well of faithful biblical scholars, Hough answers: What did Jesus say, if anything, about homosexuality? Should we refer to people as "gay" Christians? Should Christians attend the wedding of a gay marriage? Should I welcome my same sex attracted child and partner to my home? How do I love my daughter who now believes she's my son?This essential, timely, and compassionate resource gives us the wisdom and courage we need to live into these days with faithful and truly loving hearts.

Set in British Columbia, Canada, the Jodi Mystery Series follows the adventures of Jodi Fischer and her friend, Lexie Marshal, as they find solutions to mysterious and dangerous problems. In The Secret in the Silver Box, Jodi helps an old man recover a lost silver box. The box is a beautiful silver creation with an inlaid picture of an emerald-eyed dragon. But what secret does it contain that forces so many people to risk their lives for it? Come with Jodi to the old mining town of Barkerville as she finds a mystery that leads into danger. Jodi and Lexie risk their own lives to find the answer to this thrilling puzzler.

Do you like horses, adventure and mysteries? Join Jodi Fischer and her friend Lexie Marshal as they find a mysterious cabin up in the woods behind their homes in British Columbia, Canada. They also find an incomplete message tucked inside a knitted baby's sock. Who kidnapped the baby? Where is the child being held? Jodi and Lexie think they know and this knowledge puts their lives in danger. With painstaking detective work, the girls sift through clues trying to locate the baby in time. Counting on the Lord to keep them and the baby safe, the girls enter a dangerous situation as they unravel the secret of the missing message.

The essential companion book for The 5 Love Languages(R) of ChildrenYou know you love your child. But how can you make sure your child knows it?The twelve lessons in this book were created to strengthen and deepen your relationship with your kids. These lessons give you workable strategies for applying the principles of The 5 Love Languages(R) of Children. They offer glimpses of your relationship's potential when you understand and speak your child's love language.

The essential companion book for The 5 Love Languages(R) of TeenagersThese thirteen lessons--created to deepen your relationships with the teens in your life--provide workable strategies for applying the principles of The 5 Love Languages(R) of Teenagers. They offer glimpses of your relationship's potential when you understand and speak a teenager's love language.This workbook includes interactive questions, quizzes, charts, and diagrams--all aimed at helping you express love and identify areas for development. Whether you're working with this book as an individual, a couple, or in a small group, let patience, grace, and humor be your companions.Never before has raising teens been so perplexing. If you are wondering what on earth you're doing wrong, you're not alone. But there's hope. By learning to meaningfully express love amid your teen's many changes, you can stay connected, maintain influence, and help your teen grow into a healthy adult.

What if your life was immersed in mercy?In a culture that is short on compassion, maybe that's difficult to imagine. We can all attest to the hardening impact of judgment and criticism; there's not nearly enough patience or tenderness in the world.Maybe you're in the middle of a hard season and feel disheartened. Or you're struggling to show mercy and kindness to the people in your life.What if you could savor the warmth of God's unending love towards you? In Overflowing Mercies, Cooper opens readers to the beautiful, merciful heart of our triune God.In this 100-day devotional, you will be comforted as you meditate on God's character. You will find courage in His promises to you. And as you soak deeply in God's love and compassion, you will become better equipped to love and bless the family, friends, and people God has placed in your life.

The inspiring true story of Everett Swanson, a preacher who stumbled upon starving orphans in war-torn Korea in the 1950s. He could've walked away. But the plight of these children broke his heart. He faced the question: "What are you going to do?"Those six little words led to the organization known today as Compassion International. Seventy years later, over two million children all over the world have been sponsored through Compassion International, providing meals, education, vocational training, Bibles, letters of support, and more.We are often faced with the same question. And, like Swanson, we feel inadequate, afraid, or ill-equipped. Readers will see how small faithful choices can lead to larger ones--and in so doing, change the world for generations to come. Everyone--young and old--should be acquainted with this amazing story of faith, courage, and compassion.

When God nudges us into the unknown, it can be thrilling and exciting but also overwhelming. Whether you're a stay-at-home mom, a corporate leader looking to follow God's calling, or retiree who knows you have more to give to the world, this book is for you. Rachel equips readers to go from delay to action. What kind of leap are you being invited to make? And how can you prepare, plan, and execute that leap? This book outlines five types of leaps you can take using illustrations from the Bible and personal stories. I would love to be your leap mentor . . . I want to cheer you on as you learn from my mistakes and successes about how to leap into God's destiny for you. Taking leaps always includes risks and tons of unknowns, but I want you to remember that the risk is worth Heaven's reward.

Kindness has fallen on hard times. Almost daily, we witness or experience cynicism, impatience, or incivility. And it begins to wear on a soul. Overall, we're not doing well. We need hope. We need truth. We need God.In The Kindness of God, pastor and teacher Nate Pickowicz shows how our lives must be understood and lived in light of God's kindness. This book offers biblical salve to spiritual wounds and answers how God's own character remains intact even when wounds are inflicted by others. Pickowicz brings us along a joy-filled journey of discovering God's life-giving lovingkindness and compassion.You will come away from this book, marveling and thanking God for His immeasurable kindness. And you will come to reflect His kindness more deeply in your own life toward others. In a world that can feel dark and cold, this resource is a light of God's kindness!

Based on Chapman's best-selling The 5 Love Languages(R)--a specialized resource of intentional love for families of adopted children.Adoption brings unique challenges. Love and bonding don't always come naturally. There can be emotional distress, frustration, and disappointment.In addition to the beauty and healing you'll discover in the chapters on the love languages--Service, Gifts, Physical Touch, Quality Time, and Words of Affirmation--the authors provide essential chapters on subjects such as: When You Don't "Feel the Love"Getting Spouses on the Same PageHelp for Single ParentsStopping Sibling RivalrySupport--Why it's Needed and Where to Find It . . . and more.With empathy for adoptive parents, Chapman and Shaler provide an honest and invaluable resource of wisdom, joy, and healing. Apply the lessons from Loving Adopted Children Well, and you will see love grow and flourish in your home.

Many of us read our Bibles and pray, but we can still feel fragile, tired, and defeated. This is the book we've longed for.We need a breakthrough. We need healing. From our pasts. And from our present battles. But sometimes we feel stuck or despairing--as if nothing is ever going to change.Breakthrough! goes beyond the usual one-size-fits-all answers. Written from a Christian perspective, this book takes the Bible and brain science--with the Holy Spirit--and provides an integrative approach to building emotional resilience that changes lives.As you explore five strategies--Be aware of your body, unleash your beliefs, increase your belonging, listen to the Spirit, and defeat demons (BUILD)--you will discover a breakthrough. Our memories and hearts can heal. We can mature and grow in Christ. Whether you're at your end or simply in need of some spiritual vivacity, this book will not disappoint.

When Jeff Simmons started in ministry, he was surprised at how much of his time involved business. Yet business was never a part of his theological education.He's not alone. Most people in ministry receive little or no training in this area. When faced with multiple business decisions and tasks a day, leaders can become discouraged or frustrated.We need help and guidance to become effective and wise stewards of the money and resources entrusted to us by God. When pastors and nonprofit leaders are good at the business side of their ministry, more people can be blessed and supported.Pastor and entrepreneur Jeff Simmons explores topics such as: The Tension between Faith and BusinessThe Importance of Strategic PlanningFinancial TransparencyResources and BuildingsWork and Life BalanceDeveloping a Community--and moreThis book will help every ministry, church, and nonprofit maximize their resources for greater kingdom impact.

Death teaches us how to live.This book is a companion for those experiencing the lonely season of suffering and death. Whitney reaches across the pages to hold your hand. Walking through death with a loved one can be incredibly isolating and unsettling. But we can experience God's very presence in life's dark and deep valleys. Whitney draws from her own experience, shedding light and hope. She reveals the mysterious way that God ministers to and transforms us through death and suffering.Beautifully honest and theologically rich, Whitney invites us to consider death so that we might understand life and how to live it.A book for those who are caring for the sick and dying . . . for those who will care for parents, family, or friends in their last days . . . and for those who've already walked this journey. This book is for us.

Even in the hardest things, we get to fix our eyes on the God who brings us out of the dark night. Broken dreams. Discouragement. Grief. Kathryn Shultis has been there. Kathryn shares with honesty and depth about walking through valleys and days of wilderness. Kathryn delves into the heart of our heavenly Father when you find yourself amidst a story that is not what you'd hoped it to be.How do you set your eyes on heaven when your life has not turned out as planned? How do you walk through hard seasons of disappointment and learn to heal? Kathryn discusses our identity in Christ and how we can rely on Him for comfort, peace, and purpose in all circumstances. You will find your heart strengthened as you travel with Kathryn--through her triumphs and failures--and discover the hope of persevering in the love and power of Jesus.

Women, this is a journey toward freedom as we learn to experience Christ-centered empowerment-not by believing in ourselves . . . but by trusting in our faithful God. Becky devotes chapters to the most common messages promoted by our culture and gives readers dependable biblical truths grounded in the gospel: Believe in Your God vs. Believe in YourselfSpeak THE truth vs. Speak Your TruthFollow Your King vs. Follow Your HeartYou Be His vs. You Be YouAnd so much more!We will be lifted of the burden to find strength in ourselves and reassured of the hope, joy, and power that comes from living in Christ. We don't have to be the savior of our own stories.Contrary to what you've been told, true female empowerment doesn't start with a woman. It starts with a man, and His name is Jesus Christ. --Becky Beresford

Whatever you think about Jesus, He is more.Incomparably more.Get to know this Jesus by joining beloved author and Bible teacher Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth on a fifty-day journey to explore His one-of-a-kind story. From heaven to earth. From birth to death. From resurrection to right this minute. From before time to all time.Find in Jesus--fully God and fully Man--everything you will ever need. He alone is able to save you to the end and understands you to the core. Able to forgive and befriend you, challenge and change you.This book can be used at any time of the year but serves as an ideal devotional companion for the season leading up to and immediately following Easter.As you walk through these days, you will be reminded that there is no one else like Jesus. He is quite simply . . . Incomparable.

Dearly Beloved, we are gathered here to witness, celebrate, and take part in something holy.We are caught in a love story. The Bible describes our relationship with God as a marriage. But what exactly does that mean? Pierre ushers us into an understanding of that beautiful, life-giving relationship. Tracing this love story throughout the Bible, Pierre invites us into the marriage love story and helps us experience: how to love with wordshow to love with delighthow to love with presencehow to love through difficultyWe are living in a time of greater isolation, disunity, and loneliness. As we learn what it means to be Dearly Beloved, that all changes. Through the metaphor of marriage, we learn how we are loved, how to love God, and how to love one another.