Mini Books

  • Help For Stepfamilies

    Original price was: $4.99.Current price is: $3.99.

    How do you blend two separate families into one household? Family traditions, values, interests, and parenting styles are often so far apart that simple questions like, Who takes out the trash? or Where shall we go for Christmas? can quickly become flashpoints of conflict.

    Winston T. Smith provides a road map to the unique challenges that each member of a stepfamily faces. Drawing on his experience as a marriage and family counselor, Winston Smith shows how understanding each other’s struggles, honest sharing, and sacrificial love can transform and unify your stepfamily. As you learn to practically apply these biblical principles, you will find that there are also unique blessings to be found in your new, blended family.

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  • How To Love Difficult People

    Original price was: $6.25.Current price is: $4.99.

    Prickly, defensive, nasty, volatile, withdrawn, miserable…aren’t there days when you feel surrounded by difficult people? How do you cope? You can try avoiding them, gossiping about them, or giving them a piece of your mind. But wait! Don’t your reactions make you hard to love too?

    William P. Smith explains that learning how to deal with difficult people starts with understanding that God’s pursuing love is not just for them; it’s for you too. You need God’s love and forgiveness just as much as they do. Knowing the love of God will change your attitude, your goals, and your actions toward the difficult people in your life. And that just might encourage them to change too!

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  • Renewing Marital Intimacy

    Original price was: $4.99.Current price is: $3.99.

    You started out telling each other everything. Time flew by when you were together. It all seemed so easy then. But now it seems like there’s nothing to say. The intimacy and trust you once enjoyed are gone-replaced by bickering, long silences, and hurried conversations about your schedule. But it isn’t too late to renew intimacy in your marriage.

    David Powlison takes a close look at those things that destroy intimacy in marriage and shows how renewing your marriage begins with a renewed relationship with God. Then he offers practical steps to achieving closeness in your marriage, including three questions to ask each other every day.

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  • Should We Get Married

    Original price was: $6.25.Current price is: $5.99.

    You know you’re in love -you always want to be together, and you think about each other all the time-but does that mean you’re ready to get married? How do you decide if your relationship is strong enough for marriage?

    William P. Smith gives you a series of questions based on biblical principles that you can use to assess your relationship’s strengths and weaknesses. Answering these questions about your vision, goals, and potential conflicts will help you decide together whether you should slow your relationship down or move forward toward marriage. This booklet is a great resource for pastors and others to use during premarital counseling or classes.

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  • Peer Pressure : Recognizing The Warning Signs And Giving New Direction

    Original price was: $4.49.Current price is: $3.99.

    Does your child do and say things just to be liked and accepted? Constantly talk about what others think and say? Go from one relational drama to the next? These are all warning signs that your child is feeling the weight of peer pressure.

    Paul David Tripp explains the fears that underlie your teenager’s struggle with peer pressure, and then he offers specific things to do and not do that will encourage your child to live for God’s approval, instead of the acceptance of friends.

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  • How Do I Stop Losing It With My Kids

    Original price was: $6.25.Current price is: $4.99.

    The kids are hungry, dinner is late, everyone’s tired and on edge, and then it happens-you lose control and blow up at them again. Is losing control with our children inevitable in our busy world? Or is there a better way?

    Learn from William P. Smith a better way to relate to your children than with irritation, anger, and harsh words. Drawng on his counseling and parenting experiences, he explains why you lose control with your children, and then offers strategies that will help you change the way you relate to your children when you are under pressure.

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  • Single Parents : Daily Grace For The Hardest Job

    Original price was: $4.99.Current price is: $3.99.

    If you are a single parent, you already know you have one of the hardest jobs in the world. Trying to be both dad and mom-breadwinner, cook, chauffeur, comforter, dishwasher, homework helper, disciplinarian, nurse, and role model-can wear down the hardiest man or woman. But do you know that God, in the Bible, offers words of grace, power, and hope especially for you?

    Robert D. Jones addresses the many different issues that single parents struggle with-guilt, bad memories, anger, bitterness, resentment, loss, grief, and fear. Then he shares biblical truths and practical parenting strategies that will give you hope and direction for each day.

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