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PaperbackThe Anxiety Field Guide
Healthy Habits for Long-Term Healing
by Jason Cusick
Anxiety is one of the most pressing mental health issues of our day.
Millions of people in our society suffer from anxiety, often unbeknownst to those around them. The pressures of modern life seem specially designed to cause anxiety, and anxiety is on the rise in recent years.
The good news is that anxiety is very treatable. Pastor Jason Cusick tells the story of his ...
PaperbackDoes God Really Like Me?
Discovering the God Who Wants to Be With Us
by Cyd Holsclaw and Geoff Holsclaw
"I guess I believe that God loves me. But does he like me?"
We all know what it's like to feel overlooked, disconnected, and ashamed. We might believe in God's love in the abstract, but we often live our lives without experiencing it in any deep or lasting way.
Pastors Cyd and Geoff Holsclaw understand this—indeed, they've felt it themselves. In this warm, engaging ...
PaperbackThe Hopeful Neighborhood Field Guide
Six Sessions on Pursuing the Common Good Right Where You Live
Lutheran Hour Ministries Resources
by Anthony Allan Cook and Don Everts
We all live somewhere. And we all want our neighborhoods to flourish. Many of us hope (and even pray) for our neighborhoods' well-being. But how do we actually pursue that?This field guide answers this question by walking you through a simple, powerful process for blessing your own neighborhood. Tony Cook and Don Everts offer six sessions for discovering the gifts of your community, ...
Number of Studies: 6
PaperbackUnderstanding Your Teen
Shaping Their Character, Facing Their Realities
by Jim Burns
Parenting teenagers is one of the biggest challenges parents face. New realities make becoming independent more difficult. Teens are traveling a different road and are moving at a different pace than those of previous generations. Today's culturalenvironment is more complicated and confusing than ever.
But fear not! Family expert Jim Burns provides a handy guide for parenting teens. For teens ...
PaperbackConsider Your Calling
Six Questions for Discerning Your Vocation
by Gordon T. Smith
What on earth is God doing?
Who are you?
What is your stage of life?
What are your circumstances?
What is the cross you will have to bear?
What are you afraid of?
We ask these six critical questions—and then weask them again—at points of transition in our lives. They all lead us to the one core question: What is the good work to which I am called?
Gordon ...
PaperbackMy Vertical Neighborhood
How Strangers Became a Community
by Lynda J MacGibbon
Foreword by Michael FrostTop World Guild Awards Best Nonfiction Book of the Year
What if our neighbors were our friends?
When Lynda MacGibbon moved from a small city in eastern Canada to a high-rise apartment in Toronto, she decided to follow Jesus' famous commandment to "love your neighbor" a bit more literally. In the past, she would have looked first for friends at her new ...
PaperbackProverbs
Learning to Live Wisely
LifeGuide Bible Studies
by William Mouser
Where do you turn when you need to replace a fuse, cook dinner, eradicate ants, or soothe your child's upset stomach? If you are like many others, you have a shelf full of "how-to" books to supplement your own knowledge and experience.
Now it's time to add Proverbs to that shelf! Proverbs is the Bible's own how-to manual. The wisdom contained in its practical and simple instructions will help ...
Number of Studies: 10
PaperbackSpecial Grace
Prayers and Reflections for Families with Special Needs
by Elrena Evans
Foreword by Joni Eareckson TadaThe world of special needs is filled with statistics: in the United States, about 17 percent of children have a diagnosed developmental disability, and 14 percent of public school students receive special education services.
But behind these statistics are stories—stories of children struggling to fit into a world that wasn't designed for them, and stories of parents giving ...
PaperbackHidden in Christ
Living as God's Beloved
Apprentice Resources
by James Bryan Smith
A Deeper Sort of DevotionalWords are powerful. They contain ideas and shape the way we see God, ourselves and all of reality. We're transformed, in particular, by God's Word, and by "the Word," the Logos—Jesus himself—as describedby John in the first chapter of his Gospel.Memorizing and studying a passage in depth can offer a deeper sense of the meaning of each word. In this unique ...
PaperbackPhilosophy Made Slightly Less Difficult
A Beginner's Guide to Life's Big Questions
by Garrett J. DeWeese and J. P. Moreland
Philosophy is for everyone. We think philosophically whenever we ask life's big questions:
- What is real?
- How do we know what we know?
- What is the right thing to do?
- What does it mean to be human?
- How should we view science and its claims?
- Why should we believe that God exists?
Philosophy is thinking critically about ...
