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Friendship

  • Friends Are Family We Choose

    $16.99

    Make any day Friendsgiving with this collection of heartfelt sentiments celebrating the priceless gift of friendship. Let your friends know that you love and appreciate them with this thoughtful token of your esteem.

    Would you like to shower a friend with love and gratitude but you struggle to find the right words?

    Do you want to say, “thank you” to a loved one who has supported you through both delightful and difficult seasons?

    Is there someone you would like to bless as surely as they have blessed you?

    Now you can with this book!

    Beautifully written and illustrated, Friends Are Family We Choose features sweet and uplifting affirmations about friendship, perfect for sharing with those who have loved and supported you through the years. Let the special ones in your life know how much you value their friendship by saying, “I choose you.”

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  • Enduring Friendship : Sticking Together In An Age Of Unfriending

    $20.00

    Friendships are difficult.

    Sometimes it can seem as if friends are more work and pain than they’re worth, with friendship challenges that we have to endure and struggle through. Life gets in the way of our well-intentioned efforts to connect. Conflicts and differences over serious issues divide us and make us think that we could never be close to a person ever again. In today’s cancel culture, it’s easy to give up on people and just walk away, leaving us all more isolated than before. How can we build real relationships that are life giving and pass the test of time?

    Bryan Loritts mines one of the Bible’s least-known books for insights into how friendships can flourish even in the midst of sin and brokenness. With careful exposition and insight, he unpacks how the apostle Paul helped Philemon and Onesimus reconcile a most unlikely relationship with truth, repentance, and grace. With God’s work and steadfast love, even the most painful relationships that have ruptured are not beyond the reach of forgiveness and reconciliation. Discover how friendships that are hard can be transformed into friendships that endure.

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  • When A Friendship Falls Apart

    $17.99

    We all long for “friends forever”–but what happens when forever ends?

    They say friends are the family we choose. And that choosing–the joy of loving and being loved by someone who isn’t genetically obligated to share life with us–adds priceless worth to our days, but also great risk. Because hurt can happen even in the closest friendships, and sometimes friendships fall apart. The loss can be staggering. As we struggle to digest the pain and confusion, we wonder, How could this happen? And what do I do now?

    In When a Friendship Falls Apart, beloved author Elizabeth Laing Thompson comes alongside readers as they process their struggling friendships–the faltering, the fractured, and the failed. Blending personal story, biblical examples, and faith-filled wisdom, each page explores questions like the following:

    *How do we guard against the poison of bitterness so we can process the hurt and move forward?

    *When and how do we seek reconciliation? What does forgiveness look like?

    *How do we know when it’s time to leave a friendship behind?

    *How do we open up again and entrust our wounded hearts to new friendships?

    If you find yourself in the midst of a friendship that’s falling apart, or you’re grappling with past hurts and regrets, this book is for you. May it be a comfort and help, leading you closer to the Friend who will never leave.

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  • Lets Be Friends

    $12.99

    Written by a mother and daughter for mothers and daughters, this uplifting devotional offers girls aged eight to twelve helpful advice on how to find and maintain mutually beneficial friendships that affirm their faith and build their self-esteem.

    Making and keeping good friends are lifelong skills that will help tween girls grow up to be emotionally and spiritually healthy and enable them to use their God-given gifts to bless the lives of others. Girls will learn how to recognize the differences between a good and a bad friend, what to do when others hurt them, staying true to themselves, and many other important aspects of friendship.

    Each devotion includes engaging insights on friendship from Blythe Daniel and her twelve-year-old daughter, Calyn, written directly to tweens, thoughtfully selected Scripture verses, words of encouragement, and questions for further reflection with ample space to write down answers. Fun and engaging, this book will help girls confidently say, “Let’s be friends.”

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  • No Greater Love

    $15.99

    Greater love has no one than this: that he lay down his life for his friends. -John 15:13

    Our culture idolizes romance and the love of parents for their children. But Jesus said there was no greater love than sacrificial friendship love. What’s more, He issued a command to His disciples that they live into this kind of love. Christian friendship isn’t just a nice-to-have. It’s vital. But it’s also dangerous.

    Friends can pull us up when we’re knocked down, embrace us with their love, and spur us on to follow Jesus better. But friends can also grind us to the ground, exploit, or invite us into sin.

    In No Greater Love, Rebecca McLaughlin walks us through the highs and lows of friendship love–a love that’s been neglected and malnourished in our modern world. She draws especially on Jesus in the Gospels and on Paul to show how powerful and precious Christian friendship is and how we can walk through the hurt, loss, and disillusionment that comes from broken friendship trust. Beginning with the words of Jesus on the night he was betrayed and abandoned, she points us to His battle-tested love as the unending source of our best love for one another.

    Male or female, single or married, joyful or lamenting, lonely or embraced, we all need friendship love. This book will help us give and receive it in a way that calls us back to Jesus’s commandment: that we love each other just like He loves us.

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  • He Calls Me Friend

    $14.99

    How do you change the world? Dr. John M. Perkins says the answer is friendship. Find out why in He Calls Me Friend.

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  • Amistades Que Sanan – (Spanish)

    $15.99

    Muy pocas personas disfrutan durante su vida el calor y la solidaridad de la amistad. Algunos llegan a la adultez sin haber tenido la experiencia enriquecedora de tener amigos; esas personas que nos sanan el alma porque son nuestros hombros para llorar y compaeros para celebrar.

    Durante una entrevista, le preguntaron a Otoniel Font que haria diferente en su juventud si pudiera volver atras. El respondio que hubiera cultivado mas la amistad, y comento la importancia de tener amigos. Unos meses despues, en el cumpleaos de su esposa, un amigo suyo hablo emotivamente a los invitados acerca del valor de la amistad. Eso calo hondo en el. Fue el momento en que decidio escribir y compartir los grandes beneficios que nos dan las relaciones de amistad, entre otras: mayor longevidad, mejor salud, resiliencia, sentido de pertenencia y proposito, y la sanidad del corazon ante las adversidades y desilusiones de la vida. Aprende a escoger y a apreciar a tus amigos, y aprovecha las lecciones en este novedoso libro que marca una primicia en el estilo literario de Otoniel Font.

    Very few people enjoy the warmth and solidarity of friendship during their lives. Some reach adulthood without having the enriching experience of having friends; those people who heal our souls because they are our shoulders to cry and comrades to celebrate.

    During an interview, Otoniel Font was asked what he would do differently in his youth if he could go back. He replied that he would have cultivated friendship more, and commented on the importance of having friends. A few months later, on his wife’s birthday, a friend of his spoke emotionally to the guests about the value of friendship. That settled deep in him. It was the moment when he decided to write and share the great benefits that friendship gives us, among others: greater longevity, better health, resilience, sense of belonging and purpose, and the healing of the heart in the face of adversities and disappointments of life. Learn to choose and to appreciate your friends, and take advantage of the lessons in this new book that marks a scoop in the literary style of Otoniel Font.

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  • Made For Friendship

    $19.99

    While most people have companions, acquaintances, or spouses, do they know what it means to have true friends? With studies showing increasing rates of loneliness and isolation in our society, it is clear there is a need for many to rediscover the true meaning and value of friendship. Filled with biblical insights and real-world examples, this book explores the universal need for friendship, what true friendship really looks like, and how to cultivate relationships that go deeper than enjoying similar tastes or shared interests. As readers discover the biblical vision of true friendship, they will be encouraged to pursue it with enthusiasm and joy.

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  • Thank You For Being A Friend DayBrightener

    $11.99

    Our ‘Thank You for Being a Friend’ 365 day perpetual calendar is a perfect gift for a friend-no special occasion necessary-thanks to its heartwarming words, insights, and beautiful verses.

    Cover:
    Thank You For Being A Friend

    Sample copy:
    September 4
    Nothing enters your life accidentally-remember that. Behind our
    every experience is our loving, sovereign God. -Charles Swindoll

    Scripture:
    You both precede and follow me and place Your hand of blessing on my head. Psalm 139:5 TLB

    May 17
    Scripture:
    See to it that you really do love each other warmly, with all your hearts. I Peter 1:22 TLB

    Product Details:

    Size: 5 1/4″ x 4 3/4″ x 1 1/4″
    366 inspirational messages
    Assorted Scripture text
    Padded cover
    Spiral binding
    Easel stand

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  • Company We Keep

    $9.99

    Friendship: it’s one of the simplest of human relationships in comparison to marriage or family relationships, yet it’s one of the least understood and practiced. For all of our progress in making connections through Facebook, Twitter, and other social media, people are consistently experiencing loneliness and growing disenchanted with the whole notion of friendship.

    Could it be that our understanding of friendship has been more informed by pop culture and social media, and less informed by the vision of friendship offered in Scripture? Is it possible that friendship exists for a greater purpose than merely our enjoyment and comfort? Does real friendship involve more than just hanging out on a weekend, participating in a book club, or hitting the golf course together? These questions and more are answered in this book.

    Broader and deeper than simple fellowship, biblical friendship is first and foremost about a relationship with Jesus Christ. As you are brought into friendship and relationship with the Father, Jesus Christ calls you a friend! It is out of this friendship that our human friendships find their beginning and their purpose.

    Aelred, a Cistercian monk who wrote a profound treatise on friendship, said, “And so in friendship are joined honor and charm, truth and joy, sweetness and good-will, affection and action. And all these take their beginning from Christ, advance through Christ, and are perfected in Christ.” This is the core of biblical friendship, and what sets it apart from what the world is offering: it all flows from Jesus Christ. Friendship finds its origin, purpose, and power in Jesus. Our human friendships then must be shaped by this life-changing truth.

    Biblical friendship is deep, honest, pure, transparent, and liberating. It is also attainable. Dig into this book, and learn how your friendships can embody this amazing and wonderful reality.

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  • Friend Me : Turning Faces Into Lasting Relationships

    $14.99

    From Virtual Friends to Authentic Relationships

    With the rise of social media, more of us are managing our relationships online instead of in person. Technology that was meant to make communication easier and faster for busy people may have met its goal, but often at the expense of intimacy and meaningful conversation. In many cases, friendship has become a status decided by the click of a mouse. Kindling a relationship-or cutting one off-is as simple as “friending” someone or removing that person from your list. And someone with a thousand-plus online pals may be the loneliest person on the planet.

    If you can identify, you’re not alone. That’s because each of us is wired to thrive in the context of real relationships-live interaction with real individuals, such as is shared by Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. It’s how we give and receive emotional sustenance and support. Yet this type of intimacy can’t be achieved online.

    Join Donna Carter on a journey to stronger, more satisfying relationships as you explore:
    *The risks of being vulnerable and why they’re worth it
    *Qualities to seek out in a friend, as well as to cultivate in your own life
    *Toxic relationships and how to avoid them
    *Steps toward reconciliation, including forgiveness
    *The purpose of solitude in refreshing the soul
    *And more!

    Experience a richness in your human relationships that you’ve never experienced before. And, as you do, draw closer to the One who designed you to love and be loved, by other people and by Him.

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  • Girlfriendship

    $12.99

    Girlfriendship has been written by two best friends and features real-life stories, stunning photography, advice columns, insightful wisdom, and fun tips. This book will help you recognize the common pitfalls that threaten to hijack close friendships between girls and, most importantly, how to avoid them. Ultimately it is about navigating, enjoying, and celebrating with style this unique ride of life called girlfriendship.

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