Stepparenting Is Hard...but It Can Also Be Richly Rewarding Stepparenting can sometimes feel like an overwhelming and thankless challenge. Loving and caring for children who aren't biologically yours means having to earn trust, establish authority, and often put your own needs aside in favor of your stepchild's well-being or a birth parent's wishes. But here's the good news: With some expert guidance and God's help, you can have tremendous influence in your stepchild's life and grow in your faith along the way. Seasoned stepmom Laurie Polich Short understands and empathizes with the difficult job you face. Drawing on extensive research, biblical teaching, and her own real-life experience (including an insightful chapter cowritten with her stepson, Jordan), Laurie provides practical and spiritual advice to help you fully embrace and succeed in your role as stepparent. Whether you are about to become a stepparent or are further along on your journey, this compassionate and insightful resource offers the hope, help, and encouragement you've been looking for.

Control Your Tongue, Transform Your Relationships

Certified behavioral consultant Deborah Smith Pegues knows how easily a slip of the tongue can cause problems in personal and business relationships. In 30 Days to Taming Your Tongue: What You Say (and Don't Say) Will Improve Your Relationships, you will learn how to transform those destructive slips into intentional, constructive, and uplifting speech that is honoring to God and others.

With humor and a bit of refreshing sass, Deborah devotes chapters to learning how to overcome the

• Retaliating Tongue
• Complaining Tongue
• Belittling Tongue
• Hasty Tongue
• Gossiping Tongue

Short stories, soul-searching questions, and scripturally based affirmations combine to make each chapter engaging to read and easy to apply at work, at home, and beyond. With professional insights and biblical wisdom, Deborah helps you take control of the power of your tongue—and transform your life and relationships!

Not every Christian needs to go to seminary, but there are certain teachings of the Bible that every Christian should know. Whether you're a relatively new believer in Jesus or a mature Christian looking for a better understanding of basics of the faith, Christian Beliefs is for you.

This readable guide to twenty basic Christian beliefs condenses Wayne Grudem's award-winning book Systematic Theology, prized by pastors and teachers everywhere. He and his son, pastor Elliot Grudem, have boiled down the essentials of theology for everyday Christians and made them both clear and applicable to life. Each brief chapter concludes with questions for personal review or group discussion.

In this revised and updated edition of Christian Beliefs, you will learn about:

• The Bible and its authority for our lives
• The characteristics of God
• The importance of prayer
• Angels and the reality of spiritual warfare
• What it means that we are created in the image of God
• What God has done for us in Christ
• The purpose of the church
• What will happen when Christ returns
• The biblical understanding of heaven
• And much more

Christian Beliefs is the ideal book for every Christian who wants a solid foundation for understanding the most basic and essential teachings of the Bible.

Wanneer die lewe se probleme swaar op jou skouers druk, is dit tyd om stil te staan en op Jesus te fokus. Onthou dat geen probleem wat vandag oor jou pad kom groter is as sy krag om jou te help nie.

Gedurende Jesus se tyd op aarde het Hy vir sy volgelinge verskeie lewensveranderende beloftes gegee en hulle geleer hoe om in pas met God se opdragte te leef. Hierdie 366 dagstukke kyk na hierdie woorde van Jesus en help jou nadink hoe jy Jesus se waarhede op jou daaglikse lewe kan toepas.

Hoe beter jy die liefdevolle Verlosser leer ken, hoe meer sal jy Hom liefhê en vrede vind in sy Teenwoordigheid. Verdiep jou in Jesus se woorde in hierdie dagboek sodat jy werklik kan hoor wat Hy vir jou wil sê.

This small booklet tries to set out some of the basic teaching of the Bible about itself. If the Bible is the source book of our Christian Faith then we must have confidence in it. Our spirituality depends upon it. I define Spirituality as simply our relationship with God. In the Bible we understand what God is like. How we can have a relationship with Him. How we can converse with Him in prayer. How we can lead lives that are pleasing to Him. Many today, even within the Church, have lost confidence in God. They are not sure if they can trust His Word, rely on His promises, or whether it is possible to have a personal relationship with Him.

Es hora de abordar las cosas que intentan invadir tu vida. ¿Te sientes atrapado en un lío? ¿Te preguntas cómo llegaste a este lugar y tratas de darle sentido a todo? ¡No te rindas! Cómo superar el sentirte abrumado, el pastor y autor más vendido del New York Times, Jentezen Franklin, ofrece cinco pasos vitales para ayudarte a levantarse, salir y liberarse, y caminar hacia el destino que Dios ha preparado para usted.

Jentezen abre el telón sobre las tácticas del enemigo para obstaculizar su crecimiento espiritual, distraer su atención y evitar que viva a su máximo potencial durante esta temporada crítica de la historia profética. Si descubre que cada batalla que está peleando se ha vuelto más difícil de conquistar, si está paralizado y no sabe qué camino tomar, recuerde que Dios no lo llama simplemente un sobreviviente. Él le llama un vencedor.

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It is time to tackle the things trying to overrun your life. Do you feel stuck in a mess? Are you wondering how you got to this place and trying to make sense of it all? Don't give up! In Overcoming When You Feel Overwhelmed, pastor and New York Times bestselling author Jentezen Franklin offers five life-giving steps to help you get up, get out and get free, and walk into the destiny God has prepared for you.

Jentezen pulls back the curtain on the enemy's tactics to hinder your spiritual growth, distract your attention and keep you from living to your fullest potential during this critical season of prophetic history. If you find that every battle you're fighting has gotten more difficult to conquer--if you are paralyzed and don't know which way to go--remember God doesn't call you just a survivor. He calls you an overcomer.

Die wêreld het meer sonneblommense nodig mense wat hulle koppe na die Son toe draai, mense wat meer en meer soos die Son wil wees eerder as giftige ivies, stink Afrikaners, stekelrige kaktusse, knieserige rosies of klaende hangkop wilgers.

Transformasie begin as ons ons deel begin doen en verantwoordelikheid aanvaar om ons negatiewe gedagtes elke dag bewustelik by die alomteenwoordige Son te vernuwe. Ons moet onsself daagliks toewy in die bestudering van die Meester Sonneblom se lieflike kwaliteite en meer van die vrug van sy liefdevolle genadige gees te kweek deur ons gedagtes by hom te vernuwe. Om ou negatiewe gewoontes en denke af te breek vra baie herhaling en volharding.

Kom ons maak dit ons doel om elke dag 'n rapsie meer na Jesus se voorbeeld van christenskap en menswees te lyk. Met hierdie 260 sonneblom dagstukkies nooi Susan jou uit na 'n avontuur van sonsoek al agter die Son aan.

Geniet die sonneblomreis.

Die lewe laat jou dikwels uitgebrand en afgemat. Leef jou nuwe lied is ’n uitnodiging van die bekende skrywer Elsa Winckler en haar pastoor-sussie Sonja Goldberg om saam deur die jaar te stap met jou hand stewig in jou Vader s’n. Ontdek ’n nuwe lied in jou hart deur hierdie 200 dagstukkies en weet Hy is daar vir jou. Hy sal jou in staat stel om vreesloos in liefde te leef.

This red and white flexcover journal features a lovely design on the cover making love the theme of the journal. It is made up lined pages.

Vriendelikheid is om jou krag te gebruik om saggies heel te maak, sonder om iets terug te verwag. 

Die bekende skrywer en Andrew Murray-pryswenner Andries Cilliers begelei lesers op ’n  kragtige, maar deernisvolle 100-dae reis. Hy inspireer ons om vriendeliker te leef en te wees: met die mense rondom ons, en met onsself. Só leer ken ons ook ons Vriend.

The secretary of state is headed to the region to seal the deal.

And Special Agent Marcus Ryker is leading an advance trip along the Israeli-Lebanon border, ahead of the secretary’s arrival.

But when Ryker and his team are ambushed by Hezbollah forces, a nightmare scenario begins to unfold. The last thing the White House can afford is a new war in the Mideast that could derail the treaty and set the region ablaze. U.S. and Israeli forces are mobilizing to find the hostages and get them home, but Ryker knows the clock is ticking.

When Hezbollah realizes who they’ve captured, no amount of ransom will save them—they’ll be transferred to Beirut and then to Tehran to be executed on live television.

In the fourth installment of Rosenberg’s gripping new series, Marcus Ryker finds himself in the most dangerous situation he has ever faced—captured, brutalized, and dragged deep behind enemy lines.

Should he wait to be rescued? Or try to escape? How? And what if his colleagues are too wounded to run?

This is the CIA’s most valuable operative as you have never seen him before.

Stuff. We have too much of it. Clothing, kitchen gadgets, electronics, home decor. And more of it arrives on our doorstep all the time. Our stuff takes up an incredible amount of our space, time, energy, and money. But do all these possessions truly make us happier? Certified professional organizer and bestselling author Jennifer Ford Berry says no. Rather than living for our stuff, what actually gives us joy is knowing and living out our purpose in life. In Make Room, Berry shows you how to live a more meaningful and intentional life by revealing how to - define your purpose - plan your time - declutter your home - prepare for the future - and much more If you long to get rid of what distracts you from living out your God-given calling in life, this book is your roadmap to success, offering principles to recognize and eliminate anything that is cluttering up your life.

Inspire the graduate to pen his thoughts, reflections, prayers and devotions in the Journal: For I Know The Plans In Navy – Jeremiah 29:11. This LuxLeather journal, with its encouraging message, “‘For I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future’” found in Jeremiah 29:11, will fill him with faith and confidence each day he writes an entry to his almighty Savior.

The navy design of the Jeremiah 29:11 Journal makes turning to another page easy, as the writer embarks on a new letter or prayer to God. The cover of the For I Know The Plans Journal features a solid navy cover with the Jeremiah 29:11 verse displayed in white and gold debossed foil. A gold tassel is also included for the graduate to conveniently find or mark their place in the Christian journal.