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Ultimate Middle School Survival Guide
$16.99Add to cartBy the time you leave your elementary school, you know what to expect. You are the oldest, the smartest, the top dog. But the minute you enter middle school, everything changes. Your classes are getting harder. Your friendships are tested. Your body is changing. How do you know what’s expected of you now? And how do you keep from embarrassing yourself as you figure it all out?
The Ultimate Middle School Survival Guide is your “Do this, not that” guide to nearly everything middle school can throw your way, including:
– the first day
– bullies
– cell phone use
– homework
– gossip
– leadership
– respect
– sports
– and moreWith real-life hacks, humorous illustrations, and tons of true survival stories, Jonathan and Erica Catherman will get you through middle school like a pro.
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Intimate Good : A Skeptical Christian Mystic In Conversation With Teresa Of
$19.99Add to cartAt age twenty-one, the pain of losing her mother to cancer sent Laurel Mathewson–with a naturally skeptical and questioning outlook–on a years-long existential journey. After an unexpected, overwhelming experience of God’s love, Laurel felt God say to her, “Turn to Teresa. She will guide you.” She understood that “Teresa” was the sixteenth-century saint Teresa of Avila, but she knew very little about her. Even after becoming an Episcopal priest, she had never read more than a few pages of Teresa’s writings.
Laurel began to read The Interior Castle, Teresa’s book about the “dwellings” within our souls that we move through to develop an ever-deepening relationship with God through prayer. She truly marveled at discovering a text that illuminated her own spiritual path with such insight, candor, and clarity. And she continued to experience the intimate presence of a God who kept defying and transforming her cynical nature–and offered her the gift of healing.
This beautifully written and moving memoir illustrates an ancient reality still very much alive today: the love and closeness of a good God, as known through Jesus Christ, who seeks to move out into the world, into our very bodies and lives. Not by nature or training inclined to believe such a wild claim, Laurel discovered that God is full of surprises.
In every age, but perhaps particularly in our own, people hunger for personal narratives that help bring to life complex frameworks and ideas. An Intimate Good brings into focus not just Teresa’s Interior Castle but also the living God who is at the heart of it, especially for modern readers who take the life of the mind seriously and yearn for confirmation of meaning and belovedness. Laurel’s journey will lead you to a clearer understanding of the varied avenues God works in our lives over time, through prayer and other people, leading us in ways only possible by One who knows us intimately and loves us deeply.
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Loving People Who Are Hard To Love
$18.99Add to cartRenowned Bible teacher and #1 New York Times bestselling author Joyce Meyer teaches readers to love the people in their life who are hard to love.
We’re never going to be able to prevent people from saying or doing things that hurt our feelings. We will always have opportunities to get offended. But if we do things God’s way, we can choose to save ourselves a lot of misery and hardship. This doesn’t mean we allow people to abuse us. No, there is a time for confronting people and dealing with situations. However, the Bible commands us to love our enemies and forgive those who have wronged us, even when it feels impossible.
Everything the Lord asks us to do in the Bible is ultimately for our good. In fact, when we choose to love our enemies and forgive those who have hurt us, we are actually helping ourselves more than anyone else. Because whatever the Lord commands us to do, He is going to give us the power of the Holy Spirit to accomplish it–and that includes loving and being good to difficult people! God’s love flowing through us is strong enough to melt even the hardest hearts, so use kindness as a weapon to overcome the meanness in people.
A Study Guide is also available for purchase.
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7 Lies That Will Ruin Your Life
$27.00Add to cartJoshua Broome knows this firsthand. He had a successful career in the adult film industry, making lots of money and achieving notoriety and all the markers of success. And yet he felt empty inside. After hitting rock bottom, he cried out to Jesus … and it was only then that he was fully redeemed.
In 7 Lies That Will Ruin Your Life, Joshua examines seven things we are told will make us happy and shows how each of them points us back to our need for God.Using his own journey as a point of reference, 7 Lies That Will Ruin Your Life pairs his personal experiences with Biblical truths, demonstrating both how we can be deceived and the healing truth that comes when we realize that Jesus really is enough.
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Life And Words Of Christ (Large Type)
$12.99Add to cartDiscover the life and words of Christ in the New Testament in over 150 easy-to-read, large print word searches! The Life and Words of Christ Large Print Word Search is a wonderful source of inspiration, reflection and encouragement on the impact of Jesus.
Each edition in the Seekers of the Word series of puzzles from Whitaker House is a fun, relaxing way to pass the time, whether you are waiting for a friend or just need some stress relief. Searching for words relating to the life and words of Christ can help to grow your faith in Him and His promises. Word searches can also improve your vocabulary and spelling, develop pattern recognition skills, and keep your memory sharp.
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Mornings And Evenings Of Grace
$12.99Add to cartEnjoy 100 easy-to-read, large print word searches from “the Prince of Preachers,” Charles H. Spurgeon in the Mornings & Evenings of Grace Large Print Word Search featuring inspirational words from his classic devotional. In the 1800s, Spurgeon’s compelling sermons and lively preaching style drew multitudes of people, resulting in many coming to Christ. He preached to an estimated ten million people throughout his life and at one point, his sermons sold 25,000 copies every week! Morning & Evening remains one of his most popular works today. These selections from Spurgeon’s classic devotional are sure to bring a calming balm to your heart as you discover more about God and His promises.
Each edition in the Seekers of the Word series of puzzles from Whitaker House is a fun, relaxing way to pass the time, whether you are waiting for a friend or just need some stress relief. Word searches can also improve your vocabulary and spelling, develop pattern recognition skills, and keep your memory sharp.
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Read It Pray It Write It Draw It Do It For PreTeen Boys
$14.99Add to cartInteractive Journal Challenges Boys to Live Out Their Faith in Real Life!
This fun, interactive journal will help boys grow in their faith. With Bible-related reading, praying, writing, drawing, and doing activities, the pre-teen boys in your life will enjoy the varied prompts. Touching on topics that will enhance a boy’s faith, like Praying, Choices, Patience, Courage, Kindness, Character, Friends, Family, Loving Who You Are, Knowing Who God Created You to Be, and more, boys ages 8 to 12 will be encouraged to read a scripture passage (a key Bible passage is included), pray about it (a prayer starter is included), journal their own thoughts (a journal prompt is included), and draw a related picture (a drawing prompt is included). Each topically arranged section wraps up with a related “doing” activity as well–challenging kids to live out their faith in real life!
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Read It Pray It Write It Draw It Do It For PreTeen Girls
$14.99Add to cartInteractive Journal Encourages Girls to Live Out Their Faith in Real Life!
This fun, interactive journal will help girls grow in their faith. With Bible-related reading, praying, writing, drawing, and doing activities, the pre-teen girls in your life will enjoy the varied prompts. Touching on topics that will enhance a girl’s faith, like Praying, Choices, Patience, Fitting In, Kindness, Emotions, Friends, Family, Loving Who You Are, Knowing Who God Created You to Be, and more, girls ages 8 to 12 will be encouraged to read a scripture passage (a key Bible passage is included), pray about it (a prayer starter is included), journal their own thoughts and feelings (a journal prompt is included), and draw a related picture (a drawing prompt is included). Each topically arranged section wraps up with a related “doing” activity as well–encouraging kids to live out their faith in real life!
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Seedtime And Harvest
$30.00Add to cartSeedtime and Harvest is a series of lyrical essays exploring the myriad ways that gardening deepens our understanding of the natural world and grows our capacity for care and connection.
“While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease” (Genesis 8:22).
All the earth is a garden-full of beauty and decay, untimely ends and new beginnings, promises and possibilities. You are invited to treasure these beautiful reflections on the soul-healing gifts the garden graciously yields, revealing that gardening can be more than a hobby-it can be embraced as a way of life. As you explore how the garden grows roots, connection, wholeness, and hope, you’ll gain greater perspective on what matters most in life.
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Cultivating A Year Of Kindness DayBrightener
$11.99Add to cartOne of the strongest forces for changing lives is simple, free, and fulfilling: kindness.
Through these pages, Dr. Tony Evans shares compelling insights about being contagiously kind. Not only do we have the help of the Holy Spirit and the example of our Savior, but we have every reason to engage others with kindness based on the results that it provides. Come discover the power and passion to be relentlessly kind-and see what happens next.
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Go For It DayBrightener
$11.99Add to cartWhat if you could make decisions with courage and embrace whatever tomorrow brings, having no fear of bad news because your heart is steadfast, trusting in the Lord (Psalm 112)? As you turn each page of this daily devotional, you’ll discover exactly how to boldly live the life God carved out just for you! God will fulfill His purpose for you (Psalm 138). Come discover how to leave fear behind and live confidently as you follow Him into the future.
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Mostly What God Does
$29.99Add to cartMostly what God does is love you.
If we could believe this, really believe this, how different would we be? How different would our lives be? How different would our world be?
If you ever struggle with your connection to God (or whether you even feel connected to a faith at all!), you’re not alone. Especially in our modern world, with its relentless, never-ending news cycle, we can all grapple with such questions. Do we do that alone, with despair and resignation? Or do we make sense of it with God, and with hope? In these uncertain times, could believing in the power of divine love make the most sense?
In this collection of essays, Savannah Guthrie shares why she believes it does. Unspooling personal stories from her own joys and sorrows as a daughter, mother, wife, friend, and professional journalist, the award-winning TODAY show coanchor and New York Times bestselling author explores the place of faith in everyday life.
Sharing hard-won wisdom forged from mountaintop triumphs, crushing failures, and even the mundane moments of day-to-day living, Mostly What God Does reveals the transformative ways that belief in God helps us discover real hope for this life and beyond.
A perfect companion to your morning cup of coffee, this incisive volume–not a memoir but a beautiful tapestry of reflections crafted as a spiritual manual–includes:
*a fresh, biblically rooted look at six essentials of faith: love, presence, grace, hope, gratitude, and purpose;
*an honest exploration of questions, doubts, and fears about the love of God;
*a dose of encouragement for the faith-full, the faith-curious, and the faith-less; and
*…and much more.
This deeply personal collection is designed to engage the practical ways that God loves you–not just the world, but you–and to inspire you to venture down a path of faith that is authentic, hopeful, destiny-shaping, and ultimately life-changing.