Hope No Matter What: Helping Your Children Heal After Divorce
Divorced parents desperate to help ease their childrens’ pain after divorce will welcome Hope No Matter What. This interactive devotional will help single parents guide their child/children through the fallout of divorce by offering hope through faith in God with assurance of His steadfast mercy. Birthed out of Kim Hill’s personal story, this book blazes a trail for parents and children to process their feelings, express their fears and focus on God’s faithfulness in spite of their sadness and disappointment. Parents concerned about their children’s emotional and spiritual wellbeing will find this book opens the door to meaningful conversations so as to calm fears and dispel emotional confusion. Each part of the 31-day devotional includes a lyric from one...
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Closer: Musings on Intimacy, Marriage, and God
In this delightful and heartfelt appreciation of intimacy in marriage, award-winning essayist, wife, and mother Valerie Schultz explores how the bonds between husband and wife, and parent and child draw us ever closer to God and one another. In a series of frank and personal reflections on her own experiences, Schultz provides vignettes of marital intimacy that are sometimes ordinary, sometimes contentious, sometimes ecstatic, but always permeated by the incarnate presence of Christ. With a fresh vigor that is as engaging for newlyweds as it is entertaining for seasoned couples, Schultz reminds readers that intimacy is not only an essential ingredient in every marriage, but also part of their spiritual...
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Love-abouts
‘Mommy, one thing I love about you is…you take us to the beach.’ ‘Michael, one thing I love about you is…you hold my hand in the grocery store’ ‘One thing I love about myself is…I have a really good sense of humor.’ What’s a Love-about, you ask? It’s an opportunity to share with your family, friends, houseguests, and co-workers those special things that cause you to love them for who they are. A longstanding ritual in her own family, author Mary Beth Egeling gives, from her family to yours, Love-abouts, a simple and dependable tool for enriching lives and deepening relationships. You know one thing I love about you is… Mary Beth Egeling is a proud sponsor of the...
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God’s Prescription for a Healthy Marriage and Family
The family is under threat. Contemporary culture and changes in legislation are seeking to redefine its structure, parents are increasingly giving over to the state the responsibility of disciplining their children, and homes are constantly bombarded by immoral images of the family through TV. The great need today is to return to biblical principles for family life. The Bible is Gods manual for the people he created in his image, and therefore it has much to say on this crucial issue. Here, Andy Oliver guides us helpfully through the biblical teaching on marriage and family life, and emphasizes the need to follow Gods Word if we are to build solid foundations for a healthy family. About Andrew Oliver Andy...
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Ten Lessons to Transform Your Marriage: America’s Love Lab Experts Share Their Strategies for Strengthening Your Relationship
In 1994, Dr. John Gottman and his colleagues at the University of Washingto— made a startling announcement: Through scientific observation and mathematical analysis, they could predict—with more than 90 percent accuracy—whether a marriage would succeed or fail. The only thing they did not yet know was how to turn a failing marriage into a successful one, so Gottman teamed up with his clinical psychologist wife, Dr. Julie Schwartz Gottman, to develop intervention methods. Now the Gottmans, together with the Love Lab research facility, have put these ideas into practice. In Ten Lessons to Transform Your Marriage, the Gottmans share this vital information so that couples can develop the skills to turn their relationship problems around and create strong, lasting...
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Love Never Ends: Growing Together in Marriage and Faith
Many of today’s families struggle in nurturing their children in the Christian faith beyond attending church services. Finding time at home to talk together about faith can be challenging when so much else demands attention. At Home with God gives families with school-age children (ages 6 to 11) solid spiritual help. Designed to bring a family together in worship at home for 10 to 15 minutes each day, the devotions require little to no advance preparation and speak to families large and small. You’ll find in this book’s pages for the days from September through May: daily devotions based on specific scriptures prayers and litanies to say and learn together stories and activities to share songs to sing with...
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