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Audiobook narrated by Gary Thomas. Sacred Pathways reveals nine distinct spiritual temperaments--and their strengths, weaknesses, and tendencies--to help you improve your spiritual life and deepen your personal walk with God. It's time to strip away the frustration of a one-size-fits-all...

As followers of Jesus, we know that the good news is deeply attractive. But we often fear that to those on the outside, it comes across as irrelevant or even repellent. Sometimes, the Christian worldview feels so out of step with everything else going on, that we don't know how to share our faith. However, author Daniel Strange wants to show you that the connections are there - in fact, the longings that our culture cannot help but express are the very ones that Jesus fulfils.

A powerful approach to bringing God's grace to kids. Did you know that the way we deal (or don't deal) with our kids' misbehavior shapes their beliefs about themselves, the world, and God? Therefore it's vital to connect with their hearts—not just their minds—amid the daily behavior battles. With warmth and grace, Jim and Lynne Jackson, founders of Connected Families, offer four tried-and-true keys to handling any behavioral issues with love, truth, and authority.

Award-winning journalist Rob Moll chronicles the fascinating ways in which our brains and bodies interact with God and spiritual realities. He reports on neuroscience findings that show how our brains actually change and adapt when engaged in spiritual practices. We live longer, healthier, happier, and more fulfilling lives when we cultivate the biological spiritual capacity that puts us in touch with God. God has created our bodies to fulfill the Great Commandment.

In this practical guidebook for Christian artists, Matt Tommey shares clear, actionable steps that will help you learn how to start thinking about your life and art the way God intended and walk in both anointing and excellence as you create and authentically connect with people who want to buy your art for top dollar. You'll learn how to start renewing your mind, growing in your artistic gifting, and selling your work without feeling like you're selling out.

When your child has reached (or long since passed) the point of independence, it's difficult to know what your "help" as a parent should look like. Following her best-selling book Setting Boundaries®with Your Adult Children, Allison Bottke offers an in-depth guide to help you connect with your adult child and to build your confidence, knowledge, and hope, as your child walks through challenging situations. Learn how to develop effective strategies to truly help your adult child - without sacrificing your sanity.

Brought to you by Penguin. Deepen your faith this Advent. In the busyness of the holiday season, it’s easy to neglect what really matters: reflecting on the glory of Jesus. We want to pray more – to spend time with God – but the tyranny of the urgent leaves us distracted and depleted. In...

Do you sometimes feel as though your body is a problem to solve? Discover how to make it part of the solution instead. It’s now known that the emotional and relational pain we’ve lived through has a profound negative physical effect on our bodies. Alisa Keeton, popular fitness professional, proposes that the reverse is also true: What we do with our bodies can have a dramatic positive effect on our emotions, relationships, and our connection with God.

In 52 Ways to Connect with Your Smartphone Obsessed Kid, author Jonathan McKee offers just the help you need to have meaningful interaction with your kids instead of always overreacting to their unhealthy consumption of technology and media. In a world where over 80 percent of 12- to 17-year-olds now own a smartphone, parents are searching for ways to pry their kids’ eyes from their devices and engage them in real, face-to-face conversation.

Discover new ways of connecting with God by understanding how he uniquely created you to worship him. The Sacred Pathways video study will help you learn: How you naturally express yourself in your relationship with God How to develop new ways of drawing near to him Key biblical figures who...

This new take on relationships changes everything! By examining the seven desires we all share, Mark and Debra Laaser illustrate how men and women are actually more alike than different. Do you long for ways to: Tune in more closely to your children? Connect on a deeper level with your spouse?...

We charge our cell phone. We plug in the toaster and the hair dryer. Let us also plug our life in first. Step one in the process of truly deciding to make changes in our life and begin living by design starts with the understanding that we are connected to the greatest power source there is - God. Let us consciously connect first and harness this power. Once we are connected, our life starts to flow. Connect to the Light provides ways to maintain our connection to light energy and to live by conscious design. Let us be heavenly minded, yet of earthly use.

Growing up in a family where everyone was just fine, Don Follis learned early on to keep his arms crossed and his emotions at bay. While his spiritual life groaned for development, the land of numb held him back. He didn’t think about the connection between his emotional and spiritual lives.

Why do Church leaders and Christian organizations struggle to connect with modern audiences? Where once the church was a cornerstone of local communities, today many people believe it is irrelevant or out of touch. And so, church leaders are now stuck between a warped public perception and the true message of the Gospel. If you care about the Christian message today, it is hard not to feel discouraged.

So you have a Tween! What now? Dr. Amanda Craig knows what it’s like to watch your child go from sweet elementary student to moody tween in the span of just a few years and she’s here to help navigate you through it! How do we keep our kids close while cultivating the confidence they’ll...

The Relationally Intelligent Child teaches parents the crucial insights of a must-grasp concept: relational intelligence. This tool for growth and connection will not only change a child’s life, but also a parent’s own relationships. You’ll discover five key elements that can engage and equip your child with skills for being relationally intelligent with family, friends, and others. This book also includes a special online version of the Connect Assessment® to help parents understand their children’s relational strengths.

We all have a desperate need for God--not just for following him or being committed to him, but to be intimately connected to him. We long for purpose, for affirmation, for attention, for nurture. But Gari Meacham writes that we fall short of being desperate for God, or we miss the longed-for...

Connect with the life-changing ministry of the Holy Spirit. Disciples of the Holy Spirit shows how a dynamic, close walk with God can be yours each day through the ministry of the Holy Spirit. As the energizer of your faith, the Spirit wants to bring you into a transforming communion with Christ...

The Art of Everything is an autobiographical collection of 12 life experiences over 12 years paired with 12 eerily similar scriptural accounts from thousands of years ago. Each story takes place in ordinary circumstances, but yields extraordinary results. The ultimate guide for discovering life's true purpose, The Art of Everything teaches you how to connect your story to the extraordinary story God has been writing through ordinary people for centuries. Begin to see an ancient Bible through a modern-day lens.

There are some parts of the journey that we keep close. We don't share those parts with others, either because they are hard to articulate, or we may think no one will understand. But when we meet someone who speaks what we have held so near, our soul recognizes they too have been walking. The intricate parts of the walk must be shared and talked about so that we encourage the journey to be taken.