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Gods Strength For Hard Times
$17.99Add to cartTake hold of God’s strength to carry you through the hard seasons and storms of life.
“Life has its share of joys and laughter-but we also know life’s road is often very rough. Temptations assail us; people disappoint us; illness and age weaken us; tragedies and sorrows ambush us; evil and injustice overpower us. As long as we look only at circumstances, life will be very hard, but when we depend upon His strength and guidance, God will bring peace in the midst of the storms.” -Billy Graham
When you feel weak or discouraged, you don’t have to face your problems alone! There is infinite power and support awaiting you in Jesus. In this beautiful book filled with inspiring photography, God’s Strength for Hard Times draws on the words of Billy Graham and the Bible to offer you comfort and hope.
This book is perfect for you or someone you love who is:
*Going through a difficult season
*Dealing with grief, loneliness, or loss
*Looking for a stronger faith, a more-focused purpose, or contentment
*Needing encouragement as they face the unknownNo matter what challenges or uncertainties you’re experiencing, God’s strength is available to you. With these encouraging reminders from beloved evangelist and author Billy Graham, and with a foreword from his son, Franklin Graham, God’s Strength for Hard Times will comfort your spirit and lead you to a hopeful future.
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When The Hurt Wont Heal
$13.99Add to cartIn a society that emphasizes the importance of good health, those living with constant pain, unending fatigue, depression, or a host of other never-ending physical and mental symptoms struggle to accept the providence of God in their illness and the limitations that illness brings. It’s easy to become so consumed with the physical nature of your illness that you fail to see the most important impact is spiritual.
Svensson knows from personal experience how hard it is to navigate the spiritual, emotional, and relational challenges that arise when living with an ongoing ailment. He shares what he’s learned about God’s comfort and care through his struggles. If you are navigating life with chronic illness, When the Hurt Won’t Heal will help you find the path to growing in faith despite the pain, fear, or darkness you may be experiencing.
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When Parents Feel Like Failures
$13.99Add to cartParents often struggle with four deeply distressing emotions: fear, guilt, shame, and regret. Many parents feel resigned to the fact that these emotions will always just be a part of our experience. But Lauren Whitman, a counselor and mother, helps parents see Jesus’s compassion and receive the comfort he offers them in their distress.
While many resources help parents grow in how they parent, few help parents with addressing feelings about unrealistic expectations, perceived mistakes, and supposed failings. When Parents Feel Like Failures is an encouraging, grace-centered book that helps us see ourselves and the Lord more accurately.
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Struggling With Body Image
$13.99Add to cartEveryone has a body image, and whether from society’s influence or age-related changes, most people battle a negative one. In a world with confusing messages about the body and social media’s promotion of unattainable standards for thinness or muscularity, it’s difficult to think well about our bodies. Greer, a counselor and fitness trainer with a firsthand understanding of body image struggles, helps readers reject negative messages and embrace a biblical vision for thinking about our bodies.
Because our bodies matter to God, it’s important that his Word, not the world we live in, informs how we view our physical selves. Struggling with Body Image helps believers develop a biblical understanding of the body that is foundational for a God-honoring body image.
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I Prayed And Nothing Changed
$13.99Add to cartSte Casey addresses the disappointment that comes when life seems to go from bad to worse despite our fervent prayers for change.
When pain and disappointment shrink our world to the size of what’s troubling us, we can easily miss what’s right in front of us-our God and his daily grace. Pastor and counselor Ste Casey reminds readers that although our worries, fears, and suffering can fill our mind’s eye, the truth is that God is still watching, keeping, caring, hearing, and speaking to us.
I Prayed and Nothing Changed will challenge you to be honest as you talk to God about your struggles in our messed-up world. Casey points readers to see all that God is doing, even when he seems distant, and encourages readers with specific ways we can see God at work in the silence.
*Practical, accessible, spiritual guidance on disappointment with prayer written by a pastor and experienced counselor.
*Part of the Ask the Christian Counselor series, walking readers through their deepest and most profound questions.
*Gives readers the tools to understand their struggle with waiting on change and how the gospel brings hope and healing.
*Compact format goes deeper than New Growth Press’s popular minibooks without overwhelming the reader.
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Grieving With Hope
$6.25Add to cartAre you facing a great loss? Perhaps a loved one or close friend has died. Great love brings great sorrow, and healthy sorrow recognizes the immensity of loss. But when death and loss come close, the temptation toward despair and hopelessness is often not far behind.
Author Randy Alcorn encourages you to go to God with all your sorrows and to remember that Jesus, your Good Shepherd, walks with you-a suffering Savior who is well acquainted with sorrow. No one can bypass grief, but you don’t walk this dark valley alone. Jesus will lead you, and he guarantees that death is not the end and Heaven awaits. In Grieving with Hope, Randy gives perspective and practical advice to help readers on the grieving journey, so that in time, your grief will be accompanied by joy and hope.
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Filled With Dread
$6.25Add to cartDo you ever get a sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach in anticipation of something you don’t want to face? This sense of foreboding and apprehension is called dread. It could be about an upcoming life change, a conflict to resolve, a difficult task, or a looming diagnosis, but whatever the situation is, you wish you could avoid it at all costs.
Experienced counselor Jayne V. Clark explains that instead of being filled with alarm or trying to run away from hardship, we can face dread by faith. Jesus, who experienced the ultimate dread of the cross, shows us how to turn to our Father in heaven and trust his good purposes for us. We can walk securely in his peace because he is fighting for us and walks with us every step of the way.
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Postpartum Depression : Hope For A Hard Season
$6.25Add to cartMany new mothers experience what some call postpartum “baby blues”-a short period of feeling sad, irritable, anxious, and overwhelmed. But what happens when those feelings worsen as the newborn weeks go by? What help is there for you when sleepless nights, harassing thoughts, and unpredictable moods disrupt your life and drain your joy? Is there any hope to be had in such a hard season?
Biblical counselor and mom Christine Chappell knows the difficulty of suffering through postpartum depression. With empathetic care, she offers you biblical encouragement and practical counsel that addresses the many facets of this affliction-including your exhausted body, your overwhelming emotions, your troubled mind, and your burdened spirit. As you read, you’ll be guided through prayers that help you to engage your fears and doubts with the Good Shepherd. Even in this unwelcome darkness, God in his steadfast love will meet and sustain you.
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Persevering Power : Encouragement For When You’re Oppressed By Life
$18.99Add to cartLife is filled with challenges. We might be weary and overwhelmed by the world around us. Whether we are facing personal struggles or working against unjust circumstances, it can feel like the odds are against us. Does God care? How can we carry on?
There is hope for us because God is a God of justice who cares for people in distress. Bruce Strom shows how those facing difficulties can receive God’s power to persevere. By looking to God’s perspective and purpose, we can find direction for what God has in store for us. He transforms our understanding of the past and gives us resources to renew our souls and find fresh strength to continue on. Strom shares how God has been active in his life and in others’, encouraging us with examples of how lives can change and things can be different.
If you’re running on empty and are tired from the fight, discover the persevering power God has for you.
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When Religion Hurts You
$19.99Add to cartReligious trauma is something that happens far more often than most people realize.
In When Religion Hurts You, Dr. Laura Anderson takes an honest look at a side of religion that few like to talk about. Drawing from her own life and therapy practice, she helps readers understand what religious trauma is and isn’t, and how high-control churches can be harmful and abusive, often resulting in trauma. She shows how elements of fundamentalist church life–such as fear of hell, purity culture, corporal punishment, and authoritarian leaders–can cause psychological, relational, physical, and spiritual damage.
As she explores the growing phenomenon of religious trauma, Dr. Anderson helps readers embark on a journey of living as healing individuals and finding a new foundation to stand on. Recognizing that healing is a lifelong rather than a linear process, she offers markers of healing for those coming out of painful religious experiences and hope for finding wholeness after religious trauma.
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Here Today Ghosted Tomorrow
$6.99Add to cartGet the practical tools, psychology, and hope to deal with ghosting and the tumultuous emotions that follow in this easy-to-read handbook by Dr. Gregory Jantz! With Here Today, Ghosted Tomorrow, you will learn:
*What ghosting is and why it matters
*Why people “ghost” (and why it hurts so much)
*The 7 damaging effects of ghosting (betrayal, rejection, mental health issues, and more)
*How to regain hope and heal any pain and abandonmentWas it something I said? What did I do wrong? How can I fix this? If a friend or loved one has ever ghosted you, the pain can sting like deep wound. But you can overcome this grief, even without the closure you might think you need. Enjoy having:
*Real, relatable stories
*Definitions, statistics, and easy-to-understand summaries
*Tried and tested psychological and spiritual advice
*Encouraging scriptures to healHas someone in your life cut off all communication with you, abruptly and without explanation, leaving you feeling hurt, abandoned, and perplexed? Without a word, they just stopped responding to your phone calls or texts? Maybe you’ve been blocked on social media or no longer see them at church or the office? Ghosting hurts, and it casts a showdown of doubt and uncertainty upon your sense of self-worth. But there’s hope in resilience and healing.
Get Practical Advice on What To Do If You’ve Been Ghosted
Featuring helpful checklists and research in an easy-to-read format, Jantz’s Here Today, Ghosted Tomorrow doesn’t just give you basic, one-size-fits-all explanations. This handy resource gives you detailed, step-by-step tools and encouragement to grow stronger and more resilient in your current and future relationships. Gain practical tips like:
*10 ways to deal with rejection
*What to do if a ghoster reappears in your life (what to say, and how to protect yourself)
*How to evaluate whether or not you should reconnect
*Know if there are ever healthy reasons to ghost someone
*And more!Enjoy Having the Tools to Grow and Become More Resilient
You don’t have to just move from one toxic relationship to another! You can gain the skills and tools to find friendships that are healthy, nurturing, and positive. When you leave the negativity behind, you will also be equipped with simple tools to build safe and trusted relationships built on mutual support. Some of these tools include:
*5 steps to recover from a toxic relationship
*10 signs someone has a good heart
*7 ways to invest in h -
Someone I Know Is Grieving
$13.99Add to cartBestselling author and counselor Edward T. Welch walks readers through the difficult task of coming alongside grieving people with genuine compassion and humility.
When someone is grieving, it can be hard to know what to say or do. We want to be helpful, not hurtful, but it’s easy to go wrong. The good news is that we can learn to approach those who are grieving with the same compassion that Jesus shows us when we are grieving. It starts with humility and listening well and expands into practical support as the Spirit leads us.
In Someone I Know Is Grieving, Edward T. Welch leans on his many years of counseling grieving people to help readers learn from their compassionate Savior how to respond to people’s sadness and hard times without advice or trying to “fix it,” but to instead hear their story, learn from others’ experiences, and depend on the Spirit for wisdom for what to say and do.
*Practical, accessible, spiritual guidance on responding with compassion to another person’s troubles written by an experienced counselor
*Part of the Ask the Christian Counselor series, walking readers through their deepest and most profound questions
*Gives readers the tools to avoid common mistakes made in responding to grieving people and a wise and kind way forward that expresses the love of God. Compact format goes deeper than New Growth Press’s popular minibooks without overwhelming the reader
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Hem Of His Garment
$17.99Add to cartHope for When the Pain Won’t Quit
Everyone experiences pain at times. It can manifest physically, emotionally, relationally, or spiritually. It can follow tragic accidents, great loss, sudden betrayal, or unexpected and unwanted change. Often it is temporary. But what do you do when it isn’t? When the pain just won’t go away, when healing does not come, when the grief and hurt settle in?
Drawing on her own experience of chronic pain and her years as a board-certified clinical neuropsychologist, Dr. Michelle Bengtson provides a countercultural perspective on pain. Offering hope without any false promises or empty platitudes, Dr. Bengtson unwraps the complex emotional aspects of dealing with pain. She gives you permission to question God, helps you identify the lies you’ve believed about your pain, and reorients your perception based on the truth of God’s Word. Each chapter ends with a recommended playlist, reflection questions, and a prayer.
Your pain may not change, but your experience of it can.
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Deep Waters Of The Disciple
$12.99Add to cartDo you feel as if you’re drowning? As if between waves of doubt, despair, and grief, you’re struggling to stay afloat? Perhaps it’s a crisis in your marriage, the loss of a loved one, or financial problems that threaten to sink you. Maybe you’re facing shame or a scary illness. You’re clinging to life in desperation and tempted to ask: where is God in this?
You’re not alone. When Peter started to sink in deep waters, he called out to Jesus. Jesus’s strong hand held him fast. He was in control of the storm all along.
With pastoral compassion, Michael Cassidy comforts people facing deep waters of many kinds. He has lived through over 85 years of life’s ups and downs, including battling Leukemia. He shares stories of colleagues and people he has counselled who testify to God walking them through unimaginable trials.
Michael provides insight into specific types of suffering, including:
*Disease and Illness
*Doubt
*Despair and Depression
*Marriage Troubles
*BereavementWhen everything is shaken, you can ground yourself in the biblical wisdom of Deep Waters of the Disciple. Not only will this volume help you with your own challenges, but it will equip you to understand and help others with theirs.
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Como Enfrentar Momentos Difici – (Spanish)
$8.99Add to cartTodos enfrentamos y enfrentaremos momentos dificiles. La adversidad, muchas veces, se presenta de manera inesperada, y puede ser temporal, o nos acompaa por largos periodos de tiempo. La adversidad podria alterar el proyecto de vida que teniamos planeado o producir cambios inmediatos en nuestro estilo de vivir. Sin embargo, siempre deja lecciones maravillosas y conocemos a Dios de una forma diferente, profunda y personal. Toda adversidad tiene solo una ruta: la de ser superada.
Como enfrentar momentos dificiles le ayudara a convertir la adversidad en oportunidades. Sus recomendaciones son claras y sencillas, entre otras: enfrente los pensamientos negativos; piense bien la situacion y sus posibilidades; no se detenga, avance; rodeese de personas que lo animen; admita sus limitaciones; desarrolle estrategias; y descubra las oportunidades de la vida.
We all face and will face difficult times. Adversity often occurs unexpectedly. It can be temporary, or accompany us for long periods of time. Adversity could alter the life project we had planned or produce immediate changes in our lifestyle. However, it always leaves wonderful lessons, and we know God in a different, deep, and personal way. All adversity has only one route: we are to overcome it.
How to Face Difficult Moments will help you turn adversity into opportunities. Sixto Porras’s recommendations are clear and simple; among others, he suggests: face negative thoughts; think well about the situation and its possibilities; don’t stop, move forward; surround yourself with people who encourage you; admit your limitations; develop strategies; and discover life’s opportunities.
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Finding Hope In A Dark Place
$16.99Add to cart“When you’re in a dark place, it is also a sacred place because God is there with you.”
In this refreshingly candid book, author, life coach, and conference speaker Clarence Shuler shares his own story of depression and how, by God’s grace, he learned how to effectively manage it. Shuler’s story will help you receive grace in your own struggles.
Joining Clarence is Monique Gadson (affectionately known as “Dr. Mo”), a licensed counselor who helped Clarence escape a very dark place in his life. Learn from Dr. Mo as she offers counseling insights and expertise woven throughout Clarence’s story, bringing clarity and wisdom to anyone desperate for hope. In the “Your Journey” section at the end of each chapter, you will be guided to reflect on your own walk in darkness and find ways back to joy.
Finding Hope in a Dark Place part memoir, part mentorship, part workbook will help you recognize your own story in Clarence’s and remind you that hope is possible and worth pursuing. Even in the darkness, God is with you in that sacred space.
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Anxious About Decisions
$13.99Add to cartDo you get anxious when you have to make a decision? Do you overthink, overtalk, and overanalyze? When anxiety surrounds every decision, the result can be decision-making paralysis. Counselor Michael Gembola explores this common struggle and then points to the peace that comes from knowing God as your refuge and ever present help in trouble. Learning to trust God, even when the path is not clear, will give you courage to move forward one step at a time.
When you’re faced with decisions both big and small, God offers you something better than certainty and the absence of risk. He promises to be with you. And when you allow the Good Shepherd to lead, you will find that he uses times of decision-making to make you more peaceful and become a better steward of the opportunities in front of you.
Anxious About Decisions will help you learn to approach decisions more confidently with a conscience shaped by God’s Word and values shaped by God’s heart. Learn to undertake decisions in the context of the community of believers and your identity as God’s child.
Anxious About Decisions is part of the Ask the Christian Counselor series. This series walks readers through their deepest and most profound questions. Each question is unpacked by an experienced counselor that gives readers the tools to understand their struggle and how the gospel brings hope and healing to the problem they are facing.
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Cuando La Soledad Duele – (Spanish)
$14.99Add to cartLa soledad que duele es un enemigo silencioso, y destructor. Se oculta y ataca desde las sombras en el momento mas impensado. Es melancolia, es tristeza en el alma que sale por los poros, deforma la cara, y entristece los ojos. La soledad que duele, una vez que se afinco en una persona no se ahuyenta rodeandose intencionalmente de gente, o sumergiendose en una voragine de actividades, y mucho menos con el alcohol, las drogas, o compaias eventuales. La soledad que duele puede ser fisica, emocional, espiritual y hasta virtual. Hay soledad en la vejez, pero la hay tambien en la juventud. Duele en la falta de pareja, en el abandono, en la viudez y en la solteria. Duele por las noches, y los domingos por la tarde. Duele, aunque se oculte detras de exitos eventuales. Duele y dolera hasta encontrar la conexion por donde fluye la compaia perfecta, la “pieza faltante” en la vida que cambia el entorno, pero lo hace desde el individuo. La pieza faltante que completa el alma, cubre el dolor y lo deshace.
En este libro revelaremos cada area de la soledad que duele, y la aislaremos tratandola desde la perspectiva biblica con el auxilio del Espiritu Santo, hasta que desaparezca.
The loneliness that hurts is a silent and destructive enemy. It hides and attacks from the shadows at the most unexpected moment. It is melancholy, it is sadness in the soul that comes out through the pores, deforms the face, and saddens the eyes. The loneliness that hurts, once it has settled in a person, cannot be warded off by intentionally surrounding yourself with people, or immersing yourself in a maelstrom of activities, much less with alcohol, drugs, or occasional company. Loneliness that hurts can be physical, emotional, spiritual and even virtual. There is loneliness in old age, but there is also loneliness in youth. It hurts in the lack of a partner, in abandonment, in widowhood and in singleness. It hurts at night, and on Sunday afternoons. It hurts even if it hides behind eventual successes. It hurts and will hurt until you find the connection through which the perfect company flows, the “missing piece” in life that changes the environment but does so from the individual. The missing piece that completes the soul, covers the pain and undoes it.In this book we will reveal each area of loneliness that hurts, and we will isolate it, treating it from the biblical perspective with the help of the Holy Spirit, until it disappears.
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Dont Give Up
$4.99Add to cartThe idea of quitting and giving up may be just a passing thought or it may have festered to the point that you feel like you’re at the end of your rope and have lost all hope. You may have experienced a life-altering event or betrayal of a close friend or alienation from family and friends. You may have an addiction you cannot kick or repeated failures that destroyed your self-confidence. Regardless of what brought you to the brink of hopelessness, there is still hope – if you will grab hold of it. Don’t Give Up was written to help heal the hurt, restore your heart and strengthen your resolve with Scriptures, prayers, and insights. Don’t give up! God is not a million miles away and He has not given up on you!
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Anxiety Algorithm : Turning Your Pattern Of Worry And Stress Into A Pattern
$16.99Add to cartImagine a Life Where Anxiety and Stress No Longer Control You
Experiencing a recurring pattern of anxious thoughts or becoming gripped by worry over a sudden difficult situation can feel overwhelming. But you don’t have to stay under the control of your anxiety. You can create a specific plan to relieve your anxiety and stress–one that is just right for you. It’s what father-and-son authors Ronnie Kent (a medical doctor and behavioral specialist) and James Kent (a therapist) call The Anxiety Algorithm. It is based on Philippians 4:8 in the Bible and is supported by other passages of Scripture and trusted counseling techniques.
An algorithm is “a step by step procedure for solving a problem or accomplishing some end.” Once you understand the foundational principles of The Anxiety Algorithm, you can tailor it to fit your special needs and your particular worry triggers. This book will help you to:
– Use simple exercises to immediately begin to alleviate anxiety
– Discover the “Two Steps Back” method to reorient your focus
– Reshape the way you see and interact with the world
– Make constructive thoughts your go-to way of thinking
– Invite the God of peace into your lifeThe Anxiety Algorithm provides a clear, effective plan you can turn to whenever you need a mindset of peace or as you seek to address long-standing anxiety and worry. Even in the midst of life’s hurts, setbacks, and challenges, you can experience true fulfillment and joy.
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Memory Loss : Quick Reference Guide What To Day And Do How To Help
$4.99Add to cartIts difficult for many people to know what to say or do when someone is suffering from a memory-related illness. This easy-to-read pamphlet equips readers to care for and comfort those who are experiencing memory loss. The Help a Friend pamphlet on Memory Loss includes a simple overview on how to care for those suffering from this type of illness and the struggles those going through this difficulty will likely face. A Quick Tips section covers things to avoid saying and suggested further resources, and this 20-panel resource equips readers with biblical wisdom and practical, time-tested advice from Joni Eareckson Tada. The Help a Friend pamphlet series focuses on the first response by a caring friend to bad news about a loved one. Friends gain the confidence to reach out rather than avoid, equipped with biblical wisdom and practical, time-tested advice from Joni Eareckson Tada.
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Emotionally Destructive Relationship
$15.99Add to cartLeslie Vernick, counselor and social worker, has witnessed the devastating effects of emotional abuse. Many, including many in the church, have not addressed this form of destruction in families and relationships because it is difficult to talk about. With godly guidance and practical experience, Vernick offers an empathetic approach to recognizing an emotionally destructive relationship and addresses the symptoms and the damage with biblical tools. Readers will understand how to: Reveal behaviors that are meant to control, punish, and hurt Confront and speak truth when the timing is right Determine when to keep trying, when to get out Get safe and stay safe Build an identity in Christ This practical and thorough resource will help countless individuals, families, and churches view abuse from God’s perspective and understand how vital it is for victims to embrace His freedom from the physical, emotional, spiritual, and generational effects of emotionally destructive relationships.
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Margin : Restoring Emotional, Physical, Financial, And Time Reserves To Ove (Rev
$16.99Add to cartProgress. It has us hooked. We’re addicted to twenty-first century high-velocity living. Our brains and bodies are in a perpetual state of alert to the constant change. All of the technology designed to save time and improve productivity only contribute to the flood of daily events that seem beyond our control. Newly revised and updated, this book is Dr. Richard Swenson’s groundbreaking prescription against the dangers of overlooked living. This best-selling book offers guidelines for healthy living in four areas–emotional energy, physical energy, time, and finances–so we can live a balanced life.
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10 Secrets Of A Successful Achiever
$12.99Add to cartIn 10 Secrets of a Successful Achiever, Frank Damazio shows you how to go beyond your limita-tions. Don’t let your past, your circumstances, your problems, or the opinions and criticism of others defeat you. Allow God to give you the courage and the determination to overcome every obstacle and become all that He wants you to be.
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Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled
$3.49Add to cartThe joy that God gives is not based on what is happening around you – it is much more consistent, much more powerful than your day to day circumstances. In His Word, God has instructed you not to worry about anything – He told you He’s taking care of you and He’s asking you to trust Him. But your response may be, “That’s easier said than done.” This should not be so!
In the pocket size book “Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled,” Norvel Hayes will teach you how to live in accordance with the Word of God. Learn how to obey God by taking Him at His word. Learn how to resist the devil and how stay free from all worry, fear, condemnation, weakness, and mental confusion. By practicing the principles contained in this little book you can live the life God intends for you – a life of freedom, joy and perfect peace.
