Encouragement and Lay Counseling
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Waiting : Finding Hope When God Seems Silent
$24.00Add to cartAre you waiting? For a spouse, for a child, for a new career, for healing, for relief in an unhappy marriage? Patterson uncovers two virtues of waiting patiently: humility and hope. You’ll learn how humility teaches us that we exist for God’s sake, not our own; and how hope assures us that there is something worth waiting for.
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Intimacy With Christ
$11.95Add to cartWithin the pages of this book you will find spiritual insight and Christian counseling from church history’s best-known woman. These letters contain her advice as shared with common people, famous people and clergy who sought her guidance.
You will receive from her, help in such areas as discouragement, failure, self-conciousness, poor self-esteem, emotional ups and downs, sorrow, embarrassment, and persecution.
She will counsel you concerning decision making, your search for God’s will in your life, and following Him and uncertainties.
You will come away from this book with more understanding of accepting others, even your opposites and responding to Christians who are at odds with you. You will gain a new perspective on peoples’ faults, as well as the church’s short-comings.
Guyon lights up the precious and powerful value of Christian fellowship. She offers advice and encouragement for Christian workers. Guyon will meet you where you are in your walk with Christ.
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Colors Of The Spirit
$15.00Add to cartSeldom does a teacher come along with the ability to take the exuberance of spiritual joy and put it on a page in lessons of graceful simplicity and life-giving power. But in Colors of the Spirit, readers are introduced to just such a teacher in Dorothy Ederer. Here she shares her own prescription for a fulfilling life, and illustrates it with the stories of those who have enriched her own journey. You will see in these stories people who looked inside themselves and discovered the potential God gave them to touch others. These individuals were the colors that brightened Dorothy’s world, a world which was sometimes darkened by the hopelessness she encountered in her work as a counselor and teacher. Yet she found that just as white light is filtered through raindrops to create a rainbow, so too is God’s light filtered through all of creation and manifested in each being in a unique way. In Colors of the Spirit, Ederer goes through each color of the rainbow to share the special meanings they have for her, and how the qualities they represent can bring us peace and joy in our own lives.
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Lifes Problems Gods Solutions
$17.99Add to cart1. The Problem Of Guilt
2. The Problem Of Suffering
3. The Problem Of Disappointment
4. The Problem Of Worry
5. The Problem Of Doubt
6. The Problem Of Irritability
7. The Problem Of Discouragement
8. The Problem Of Monotony
9. The Problem Of Resentment
10. The Problem Of Pressure
11. The Problem Of Lonliness
12. The Problem Of Inferiority
13. The Problem Of Knowing The Will Of God
14. The Problem Of Living For Christ In The Business World
15. The Problem Of Materialism P. 181Additional Info
Depression, worry, and disappointment creep into every believer’s heart at one time or another. But we can be set free from these and other difficult emotions and situations that pull us out of fellowship with God.J. Dwight Pentecost draws from his years of teaching and counseling experience to find the answers to life’s problems in the Word of God by surveying fifteen Bible characters who struggle with issues such as guilt, doubt, and resentment. But this is much more than a survey of Bible characters! It’s a path to finding unwavering hope, unsurpassable peace, and unlimited love.
“These studies were prepared,” say Pentecost, “to enable God’s people to find God’s answers to the problems they face from day to day.”
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Walking With God
$15.99Add to cart1. Walking With God In My Intuition
2. Walking With God In A Good Conscience
3. Walking With God In Spirit Of Communion
1. Walking With God In My Mind
2. Walking With God In My Emotions
3. Walking With God In My Will
1. Walking With God In My Bodily Drives
2. Walking With God In My Bodily Desires
3. Walking With God In My Bodily BehaviorPage 160
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Best-selling author Phillip Keller explores the practical implications of living in daily communion with God. Many Christians believe that this kind of intimate fellowship is a special favor granted only to the loftiest of saints. But Phillip Keller reminds us that every believer can live in the daily joy of God’s presence.
Walking with God in the spirit, in the soul, and in the body – abiding wholly in the presence of Immanuel – will energize and illuminate every corner of one’s life with God’s guidance and comfort. Keller calls the reader to accept God’s invitation to walk humbly with Him. When we accept His invitation, He will reveal to us who we truly are, what life direction we are taking, and the ultimate destination of our individual walk of faith.
Walking with God is for “the weary and worn who have lost their way and are uncertain where to turn….It is intended especially for those seeking souls who long to walk with God in humble joy – who ache fiercely for the Master’s friendship.” -
3 Steps Forwards Two Steps Back
$19.99Add to cart224 Pages In 12 Chapters
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Three steps forward, two steps back-that’s how life feels most of the time, doesn’t it? Just about the time things are looking up, you get knocked down again. You can’t seem to get on top of all your struggles. Finances are out of whack. Teenagers seem uncontrollable? Your job is more frustrating than fulfilling. Murphy’s Law seems the rule. As Chuck Swindoll says, sometimes it feels more like one step forward, five steps back.Three Steps Forward, Two Steps Back is just that practical, proven ways to cope with fear, stress, misunderstanding, inferiority, personal loss, anger, and temptation. Chuck shows you how to take any problem and “walk into it, through it, and come out stronger in Christ on the other side.” You can persevere through pressure.
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Building Your Mates Self Esteem
$19.99Add to cart287 Pages In 18 Chapters
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This eloquent source of instruction for anyone seriously committed to a strong, meaningful marriage will teach you how to:Appreciate your role in building your partner’s self-esteem.
Learn practical and effective ways to love and support your mate.
Repair past hurts in your spouse’s life.
Build mutual intimacy through unconditional acceptance.
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You Set My Spirit Free
$17.00Add to cart40 Chapters
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John of the Cross (1542-1591) was one of the brightest spiritual lights of the dark and tumultuous 1500s. His teaching led thousands to inner freedom from “the dark night of the soul”-the state of spiritual blindness in which most of us live our days, unaware that God is right beside us, in love, in freeing power. Through great opposition and danger, John taught countless men and women how to find freedom in the Spirit.John’s words and deep understanding of spiritual truth will also help you find a richer experience of God, leading you to:
*a fresh infilling of the love of the Father.
*renewed wonder at the beauty and holiness of Jesus, our Lord and brother.
*the discovery of the Holy Spirit’s presence, helping you daily, with new strength and freedom from within.Treasured and classic writings that have had a profound impact on the church down through the ages.
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Encourage Me : Caring Words For Heavy Hearts
$14.99Add to cartPart One:
ENCOURAGE ME, LORDPsalm 61:1-2
Searching for Shelter
You Are Important
You Are Not a Nobody
Call for Help!
The Hammer, the File, and the Furnace
An Antidote for Weariness
“Final Descent … Commence Prayer”Part Two:
ENCOURAGE … ME LORD?Philippians 2:1 – 5
Take Time to Be Tender
A Bridge Called Credibility
Stay in Circulation
The Fine Art of Blowing It
The Heart of Encouragement
Dress Your Dreams in Denim
“The Opra ain’t Over’
Be an Encourager!
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Are you discouraged? Do your shoulders ache with the weight of carrying your problems alone? Do you wish you could find someone who understands, someone who won’t condemn you for your failures or ridicule you for your mistakes? Let Chuck Swindoll put a friendly arm around your shoulders and show you how the burdens can be lifted from your heart. Encourage Me offers tender insight into the needs of the human heart and how God wants to meet those needs through the gift of encouragement. Swindoll says, “Encouragement is awesome. Think about it: It has the capacity to lift a man’s or a woman’s shoulders. To breathe fresh air into the fading embers of a smoldering dream. To actually change the course of another human being’s day . . . or week . . . or life.” This classic devotional is a treasury of thoughts on finding the encouragement you need — and learning to share that encouragement with others. -
Seasons Of Your Heart (Revised)
$13.99Add to cart1. Taking Off Your Shoes: The Season Of Wonder
2. Standing On Tiptoe: The Season Of Hope
3. Washing Feet: The Season Of Love
4. Racing To The Tomb: The Season Of Mystery
5. Walking With Strangers: The Season Of FaithAdditional Info
In this masterpiece of simplicity, Macrina Wiederkehr offers a series of meditations to bring us closer to a “God for all seasons,” revised and expanded into this new edition.Designed for daily use as well as for retreats, Seasons of Your Heart is an eloquent and lyrical invitation to journey through the spiritual seasons of wonder, hope love, mystery, and faith.
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Ministry Of Nurture
$24.99Add to cartDiscipling teenagers means building a real-life faith into them. Which is exactly what youth ministry veteran Duffy Robbins explains how to do — definitively — in this sensitive, in-depth, and practical look at leading your kids into discipleship. No stranger to the challenge of discipling young people, Duffy draws from his decades of youth ministry experience as he describes a thorough, flexible discipleship program you can use with your students. In The Ministry of Nurture you’ll find– How to make faith practical in everyday life – How to help your kids develop their own faith – Seven keys to effective discipleship – How to help your kids build a faith that lasts – How you can help your kids apply their real-life faith in three key areas of the Christian life: outreach, nurture, and service – An important look at the two sides of peer pressure in the lives of young people — Whether you’re new to youth work or a veteran, The Ministry of Nurture is an indispensable addition to your youth ministry library.
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Gentle Persuasion : Creative Ways To Introduce Your Friends To Christ
$14.99Add to cart1. Can You Bake A Cherry Pie?
2. Seeing Is Believing
3. Scouting The Other Team
4. Packing Your Bag
5. Finding The Lost Sheep
6. Cashing In On Your Networks
7. Cultivating Your Cul-de-sac
8. Growing Crops, Not Weeds
9. Culture Vultures
10. Sow And Tell239 Pages
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Gentle persuasion is an encouraging appeal for Christians of all ages and abilities to become part of God’s strategy for bringing needy men and women to Christ. Join Joe as he explains how cherry pies, hammers and saws, lawn mowers, broken-down cars, chariots of fire, babysitters, duck hunters, llama farmers-and even attack lambs with steel wool-can draw your friends to the Savior. -
Bible Readings For Caregivers
$8.99Add to cartWe all have opportunities to show caring to others in our daily lives. Caregiving is not limited to the professionals. Whenever we reach out in empathy to someone in need we are caregivers. We may stand beside cheer to a lonely person. We may allow a person to express feelings about a job loss or the agony of a divorce. As a member of the body of Christ, “if one part suffers, every part suffers with it” (1 Cor. 12:26). If we listen through the pain, walk with the person through troubled times, and present a word of hope in Christ, we offer Christian caring.
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Paster As Person
$24.00Add to cartPastors are persons. Most of the problems pastors experience in the parish are not caused by the pastor forgetting he or she is a pastor. Most difficulties pastors face in the parish arise when the pastor forgets that he or she is a person. This book is about the pastor as a person. It is a book about the experience of people who are pastors – their thoughts and feelings and behaviors. But this is also a reflective book, bringing to bear upon the pastors and their situations the perspectives of anthropology, the behavioral sciences, and philosophy, as well as theology.
