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Best-selling author, hospice chaplain, and grief specialist Gary Roe uses his three decades of experience interacting with grieving parents to give us this heartfelt and intensely practical book. In Shattered, Roe walks the listener through the powerful impact a child's death can have - emotionally, mentally, physically, relationally, and spiritually.

READ BY THE AUTHOR | Also includes an exclusive interview with Lysa! NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Find hope and assurance in God's faithfulness when it feels like your world is crumbling. New York Times bestselling author Lysa TerKeurst invites you into her own journey, amid heart-shattering...

For any woman dealing with the fallout of infidelity, this sensitive and practical guide offers proven tools to help you make wise and empowering decisions as you deal with your husband’s sexual betrayal. If you have been devastated by your husband's sexual betrayal--whether an isolated...

Read by the author. Faced with an unimaginable loss, Courtney Pray Duke invites you to discover that when life knocks you down, Jesus is nearer than ever, reaching out to help you get back up and stand strong. Have you found yourself wondering, Will I ever be able to make sense of the...

Understanding spiritual abuse and trauma is one thing―knowing how to move forward is another. Survivors are often left unsure how to reconnect with God, their soul, or to community. Anything associated with their prior spiritual practice―attending worship, prayer, reading Scripture, participating in Christian community―becomes a trigger for reliving their abuse. How do we restore health and wholeness and rebuild our faith when our spiritual life feels painful?

Young people worldwide face a grave crisis: the relentless assault on their innocence through normalized pedophilia, sex trafficking, forced prostitution, and ruthless violence. Countless children vanish into a vast, malevolent system, while many remain unaware or indifferent. Innocence Shattered exposes these dark realities, challenges the church to awaken from passivity, and calls readers to action.

In this book we look at what makes a pre-teen, or teen, become so broken they shatter into pieces and fall apart. Society has a knack for pretending they are someone else’s problem because they are too wild to handle. These shattered youth typically have gone through some form of abuse, have had ties to gang affiliations, or both! Maybe you’re one of the rare individuals that still see these young men and women as people and want to help them, but you don’t know how. The objective of this book is to help you with that.

Best-selling author Frank Viola writes a time-tested field guide to weathering the storms of life. Whether it's the loss of a job, a child who has gotten into serious trouble, a relationship that's in peril, or a loved one with a debilitating illness, at some point, something in our lives will strip us of all control. Life comes apart at the seams, and hope begins to evaporate. Hang On, Let Go was written from the pit of numerous soul-piercing adversities in Frank's own life.

Read by the author. “There’s someone else.” “We found something on the X-ray we didn’t expect.” “We’ve eliminated your position.” When our circumstances unravel, how do we hold on to truth, to hope, to who we’re meant to be? After Carole Holiday experienced a series of...

In this stunningly transparent memoir, Nanette Larson shares her journey from a life of constant hopelessness and despair, deep depression, crippling anxiety, and suicidality to one full of victorious hope and purpose. Realizing that she had allowed the labels that had been pasted upon her by medical professionals and society alike to define who she was, Nanette changed her perspective by seeing herself through the eyes of her Maker. Taking control of her thoughts was only the first step of a winding road to wellness, however.

Kimberly Wyse is a blogger, speaker, and Down syndrome advocate, who tells the story of the traumatic birth of her much-anticipated third child, who was diagnosed at birth with trisomy 21 (Down syndrome) and had major medical complications that almost took his life several times. Through the gift of extreme medical intervention and God’s miraculous answers to prayer, this precious boy has exceeded everyone’s expectations and is a joy to his family today.

We all carry wounds―some we caused, others that were done to us. Anxiety, depression, other forms of mental illness, trauma, burnout, and disconnection plague us. Too often, we try to ignore the pain, pretend we’re fine, and go on with our lives...and it doesn’t go well. But what if God doesn’t want to erase your pain? What if he wants to redeem it? In It’s Time to Heal, bestselling author and pastor Dr. Derwin L. Gray invites readers into a sacred journey of acceptance, trust, and restoration.

Nearing the final edit of my book, I broke down and cried. It was another moment reflecting on how difficult my journey toward restoration has been. It was not easy to overcome the destructive wounds of my childhood years. I understand why many never recover - it's too painful to face, process, or believe. It’s easier to run, avoid, and deny. Sadly, most never escape their false beliefs and inappropriate behavior which continue to undermine their life and relationships.

As a young college student, Polly Wright found herself taking off her clothes for men and money. But she didn't find herself there by accident. Nothing happens in a vacuum. When you follow Polly's story, you will have the opportunity to write the foundations of your own cherished story and discover who God truly created you to be. Whether your story is similar to her's, or very different, this audiobook will challenge and encourage you to become free and know your true identity and value.

What if the pen you hold in your hand could rewrite your destiny? Or the abuse stamped on your soul could be washed away? What if you had faith that could hold you, no matter what? The book you are about to listen to is the heart of a child that found her voice - a voice that became the courage of a lion.

Having survived stage 4 cancer, Jenny Leavitt thinks she’s endured the greatest test of her life. Little does she know that her worst nightmare is still to come. In a single moment, a collision with a drunk driver takes the life of her 17-year-old son and leaves her remaining son clinging to life with catastrophic injuries. Jenny and her husband, Myron, never intended to walk this road through the valley of the shadow of death, but life often doesn’t work out the way we plan.

A perfectly normal pregnancy turns into an emergency C-section and nightmarish news that little Paige probably wouldn't survive. Rather than believe the doctors, new mom Sharon Richardson chooses to let God have the final say about her daughter. Against all odds and expectations, Paige does survive - and comes home to live with her parents. But while there is breath in Paige's little body, there is no spark of life.

Emily Scott never planned on becoming a pastor. But when she started a church for misfits that met over dinner in Brooklyn, she discovered an unlikely calling—and an antidote to modern loneliness. “I absolutely devoured this exquisitely written memoir.”—Nadia Bolz-Weber, New...

La vida a menudo se presenta muy diferente a lo que habíamos esperado o soñado. Algunos acontecimientos nos toman con la guardia baja por solo un momento, pero otros nos sacuden por completo. Nos sentimos desilusionadas o decepcionadas y, en silencio, comenzamos a preguntarnos acerca de la veracidad de la bondad de Dios.

In this six-session audio Bible study, New York Times bestselling author Lysa TerKeurst offers a safe place to share your disappointments, fresh biblical insight to get you through painful situations, and life-giving perspectives for living between Eden and eternity. Life often looks very...