Personal Spiritual Growth

With an understanding voice that will speak into your own circumstances, Kristen Strong walks beside you along the less traveled but more satisfying third way - the back road way - to belonging: remaining in Christ and relaxing into the unique role God has for you. Along the way, you will learn simple, doable actions that not only will help you feel and know that you belong but will welcome others in as well.

With deep compassion, Maria Furlough delves into the root causes of our insecurity, offers biblical guidance for seeing ourselves as God sees us, and shows how to model our newfound confidence to our impressionable daughters. Speaking as a daughter, a youth leader, and a mother, Furlough shares her own struggles and triumphs, as well as expert advice from a pediatrician, a nutritionist, a Christian counselor, and more.

Our culture is obsessed with love and romance--so why are so few women experiencing satisfying, long-term love? In this insightful and encouraging book, sisters Kristen Clark and Bethany Baird help single women of all ages discover a radically better approach to navigating their love lives. Covering topics such as true love, romance, purposeful relationships, purity, boundaries, singleness, and glorifying God in our relationships, Love Defined unpacks God's original design for romance, showing modern women how to experience God's best for them in their relationships.

You may feel lonely, abandoned, overwhelmed, and ill-equipped in your life as a single mother, but you are not alone on this journey. God is with you, and if you are willing, he will help you build a strong home and legacy for your family. As a former single mother, Michelle Lynn Senters understands you could use a little soul nourishment. In The Unseen Companion, she explores the 10 needs every single mother has and asks, "God, where are you in this?"

Parenting isn’t for wimps. It's not just the routines, schedules, discipline, and heartaches - it's the hard conversations. One of the greatest challenges of parenting is navigating the crucial conversations that we must have with our kids. Using the Three Circles gospel tool (God’s design; brokenness; gospel), Jimmy and Kristin will give you a “conversation map” to work through any tough conversations you have with your children.

People are changed and inspired through everyday interactions, so you don’t need to be big or bold to impact those around you. By recognizing your ability to be a positive influence, you unlock your power to change lives for the better. With over three million copies of his books in print, best-selling author Stan Toler is a trusted voice on leadership and making a difference. In The Power of Your Personal Impact, Stan examines how you can profoundly change both your own life and the world you live in.

A fresh look at stages of spiritual growth shows where you've become stuck and how to get unstuck to experience lasting, fulfilling transformation.

Are you searching for inspiration, hope, and encouragement in your daily life? Look no further than "Good News You Can Use" Written and Narrated by Jerry King. This uplifting audiobook is packed with 40 powerful life lessons and heartwarming stories that will reignite your faith and fill your heart with joy.

Most people know Leonard Sweet, one of the world's most influential evangelicals, as a sharp cultural critic who helps us see how to get in front of the future rather than be bowled over by it. One of his greatest influences was his mother, a groundbreaking (and sometimes controversial) minister who defied convention while honoring tradition. In this exceptionally personal work, Len Sweet opens his mother's memory box, and in the process he helps us all embrace the future with confidence while tethering us to a faith that transcends time.

Life is made of moments. What are you doing to make the most of them? In Moment Maker, Carlos Whittaker shows you how to make each moment count, so those moments add up to a life rich with meaning, deeply satisfying, and full of purpose. Every day we have an opportunity to make our lives meaningful, to make them matter. Yet, for so many of us, we let too much of life happen without taking notice. For author, speaker, and podcaster Carlos Whittaker, living deliberately has become a way of life.

Every believer begins the journey toward faith with questions. Those questions may differ, but they all ultimately lead to the same place, "Is there a God?" Until we answer that question with certainty, we will weave in and out of faith, unsure of what we really believe, and just who we believe in. Am I: Building a Life of Personal Faith helps take the growing believer through the fundamental questions of faith, not to preach what they should believe, but rather to uncover what they already believe.

In November 2004, Lora Jones was a happy wife and proud mother of two beautiful children. Lora and her family left for a family vacation, excited to celebrate the holidays, but sounds of music and laughter in their van were shattered by a head-on collision. Lora watched helplessly as, one-by-one, her beloved family slipped into eternity. Awake in a nightmare, all traces of laughter were replaced by the mournful cries of a wounded heart. How in the world could Lora go on alone? Song of a Wounded Heart tells the true story of Lora’s journey from death to hope.

"S-U-C-S-E-E-D" is how a high school graduate like me with ADHD would spell it. As a poor boy from Maryland's Eastern Shore, I saw the "seed" but I thought about success. The two are synonymous. Success requires seeds of hard work to develop fertile soil and a harvest in the fields of life. Blood, sweat, tears, and prayers are the watering. God's

Life be Life-ing! While adversity, losses and setbacks are unavoidable in this human experience, Take This L is a profoundly brilliant reminder to anyone at any stage of life experiencing an L that it's just a season, and this, too, shall pass. Through vivid testimonial storytelling, the author helps the listener understand how a new generation is able to find balance between the fragility naturally brought on by L's and the resilience eventually gained in coping with adversity and loss.

Perhaps you've had an encounter with God that powerfully impacted your life - where sin, addiction, spiritual dryness, or other struggles simply faded away. If such experiences are commonplace when revival is happening, then.... How can I experience revival every single day of my life? With guidance from the leaders of the Brownsville Revival and the Bay of the Holy Spirit Revival, you will ignite and sustain your passion for Jesus....

This book is a complete guide helping you unraveling the map of your personality and obtaining the ability of reading people, so that you can increase your impact in your family, in your workplace, in the society, and in your relationships. If you want to increase your self-awareness, discover your core identity, start a journey of personal and spiritual growth, build healthy relationships, and empower your skills, then this book is for you.

We’re not good at living with tension. It’s uncomfortable. It feels unsafe. The moment a friend, spouse, business, or political movement disagrees with us, we flee to the safety of like-minded thinkers, and dehumanize and attack anyone who thinks differently. No one wins. And if someone dares question our particular stance, we demonize them. This is killing us - families, friendships, civility, and discourse. It kills our chance to hear and be heard. We must step out of our bunkers and step into no-man’s-land....

Sometimes you just get stuck. You can't move forward in life. No amount of education, money, love, or discipline has changed the fact that you have plateaued. What else could be holding you back? Becoming Unstuck explores how the first four relationships in our lives affect our ability to make choices in adulthood. Often, our automatic responses—shaped by these past relationships—hamper our decision-making ability. Our emotions get stuck in time. The tools we use to handle life don't seem to work any more. Our relationships, workplace, and sense of self all suffer.

After her brother died unexpectedly and her mother moved into a dementia-care facility, spiritual travel writer and Episcopal deacon Lori Erickson felt called to a new quest: to face death head-on, with the eye of a tourist and the heart of a pastor. Blending memoir, spirituality, and travel, Near the Exit examines how cultures confront and have confronted death by investigating Egypt's Valley of the Kings, Mayan temples, Colorado cremation pyres, Day of the Dead celebrations, Maori settlements, and tourist-destination graveyards.

Authentic Beauty is a personal and practical book about becoming a set-apart young woman in today’s perverse generation. It explores the boundless opportunities God has for the life of a young woman who makes Christ the first love of her heart and allows him to shape every aspect of her existence.