Comfort & Joy

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Read this book BEFORE you start to date!

Ron's book will not only give you important considerations for dating again, but will help prepare your family for the complexity of dating with children.

This book's wisdom and practical advice will protect and prepare your heart and the hearts of  your children!

This is my newest favorite parenting guide!  It teaches parents how to give their young adults they the freedom they desire.  Funny, insightful, and full of illustrations to apply to your family.

Parenting is a sacred calling and has little to do with your singleness.  Our calling is to love God first and then others.  Our children are our primary others.  

Gary's book is not the typical "how-to" book.  Sacred Parenting will inspire you to seek God first and allow His work to change you through the challenges and difficulties of parenting.

Not written to single parents, but the principles are gold!  

Another Ron Deal book to read BEFORE you start to date and fall in love! Become smart about blending a family as you approach dating.

This book has successfully educated parents to prepare themselves for marriage - not a person but a family!

Understanding Your Teen's Brain Can Make You a Better Parent

As God allows us to understand the mystery and marvel of brain  science, we have the exciting opportunity to reexamine our assumptions  about human behavior. Perhaps nowhere does this impact our lives more  profoundly than when we think about raising children--especially  teenagers.   

 Here's a book covering the time-honored basics of parenting a teen  while also addressing today's hot topics. You'll learn what's going on  in a teen's head, and why they do the things they do. You'll learn how  to open up lines of communication, encourage cooperation and  responsibility, solve problems and discipline effectively. This book  also presents 10 strategies for preventing problems relating to drugs,  alcohol, violence and sex. 

Praise.  It leads you into God's awesome presence, into the delight of His Word, into the sure knowledge of His great love for you.  If you long to experience God in a fresh, deep way, you'll treasure this personal praise guide.

It  is mine and my husband's (Tom) favorite devotional!  

One of my favorite books that continues to teach me about the life of the Christian walk. 

Deepen your relationship with the true Lover of your soul.

No matter how many times you read this book, God will continue to draw you into a greater intimacy.

From childhood on, something or Someone has called us on a journey  of the heart. It is a journey full of intimacy, adventure, and beauty,  but like any fairy tale it is also fraught with more than a little  danger. To ignore this whispered call is to become one of the living  dead who carry on their lives divorced from their most intimate selves,  their heart. The Sacred Romance calls to us in our fondest  memories, our greatest loves, our noblest achievements, even our deepest  hurts. The reward is worth the risk. 

By contesting long-held cultural paradigms, this book equips you to see  how sexuality is rooted in the broader context of God's heart and His  work for us on earth. It provides a framework from which to understand  the big picture of sexual challenges and wholeness, and helps you  recognize that every sexual question is ultimately a spiritual one. It  shifts the paradigm from combating sexual problems to confidently  proclaiming and modeling the road to sacred sexuality. 

Are you interested in a small group study of this book?  Email me!

The pain of divorce not only affects the family but the church of God.  Is there grace for those who have divorced?

With the high rate of divorce even among the church, this is a provocative topic.  Rubel's graceful and truthful dialogue will provide wisdom to move forward from your divorce.

If you are considering, going through, or considering remarriage, this is a please read request.  Get wisdom before you move forward.

When "How far is too far?" doesn't go fora enough.

Most books on single adult sexuality limit the discussion to the physical.  But there's more to your sexuality than you body.  It's time to look at the big picture and talk about sex in terms of body, soul. and spirit - that's soul virginity.  Soul virgins are single people who seek to celebrate God's design for sexuality in themselves and others.  With solid biblical principles, practical tips, and candid discussions, Soul Virgins can help you create a foundation for sexual wholeness you'll be happy to embrace at any stage of life!

Practical and candid are indeed the best words to describe Doug Rosenau's book to singles.  Although there is still room for discussion, this is a great start to the conversation!

This book has made a major difference in my understanding of walking in the Spirit and dying to the flesh.

As the first book in a series of five on the Christian life, The Green Letters emphasizes both the doctrinal and experiential aspects of maturing in Christian living.

The  book is grounded in Scripture and enlivened by quotations from noted  authors. "Not I, but Christ" is its theme. The author makes this  arresting statement regarding the dynamics of the Christian life: "God .  . . doesn't intend to help us live the Christian life. Immaturity  considers the Lord Jesus a Helper. Maturity knows Him to be life  itself."

Perhaps the greatest drama in the world is  the slow and subtle growth of character in the Christian. Beauty of  character can be developed only through years of reflection and  experience in the Word of God as the life of Christ is increasingly  lived by faith. The Christian life is a healthy, robust kind of life. It  advances also through trials, for in one who has faith even suffering  is not wasted, but becomes a means for increasing spiritual vigor and  strength.

By contesting long-held cultural paradigms, this book equips you to see  how sexuality is rooted in the broader context of God's heart and His  work for us on earth. It provides a framework from which to understand  the big picture of sexual challenges and wholeness, and helps you  recognize that every sexual question is ultimately a spiritual one. It  shifts the paradigm from combating sexual problems to confidently  proclaiming and modeling the road to sacred sexuality. 

In response to a world awash in sexual chaos and gender confusion, this  book offers a bold and thoroughly biblical look at the meaning of the  body, sex, gender, and marriage.

Bestselling author and popular theologian Christopher West is one of the  world's most recognized teachers of John Paul II's Theology of the Body.  He specializes in making this teaching accessible to all Christians,  with particular attention to evangelicals.

In our  post-sexual-revolution world, we need to remember that our bodies tell a  divine story and proclaim the gospel itself. As male and female and in  the call to become "one flesh," our bodies reveal a "great mystery" that  mirrors Christ's love for the church (Eph. 5:31-32). This book provides  a redemptive rather than repressive approach to sexual purity, explores  the true meaning of sex and marriage, and offers a compelling vision of  what it means to be created male and female. Foreword by Eric Metaxas. 

Read this book BEFORE you start to date!

Ron's book will not only give you important considerations for dating again, but will help prepare your family for the complexity of dating with children.

This book's wisdom and practical advice will protect and prepare your heart and the hearts of  your children!

Sacred Search will take you on a journey of the "why" of marriage.  

Growing in our faith and personal values after becoming single again is spiritual adventure leading deeper into the love and ways of God - the One who knows you and will never leave you.

Let God lead you on the sacred search for a "sole mate".

When "How far is too far?" doesn't go fora enough.

Most books on single adult sexuality limit the discussion to the physical.  But there's more to your sexuality than you body.  It's time to look at the big picture and talk about sex in terms of body, soul. and spirit - that's soul virginity.  Soul virgins are single people who seek to celebrate God's design for sexuality in themselves and others.  With solid biblical principles, practical tips, and candid discussions, Soul Virgins can help you create a foundation for sexual wholeness you'll be happy to embrace at any stage of life!