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The time-honored traditions of the liturgical calendar guide Christians through a year-long meditation on the life of Christ. Beyond just Christmas and Easter, each season of the church year offers special opportunities to remember and celebrate the work of God. In Sacred Seasons, Danielle Hitchen helps you incorporate the rhythms and rituals of this ancient Christian discipline into your everyday family life. 

A gift of hope and encouragement to all parents and their children, on the 5th Anniversary of the Sandy Hook tragedy.

What is a monastery? A monastery is a place set apart—a place to learn the blessings of powerlessness, and that time is not ours but God's. Our home and our duties can, just like a monastery, teach us those things. The vocation of monastic men and women is to physically withdraw from the world. But the principle is equally valid for those of us who cannot go off to monasteries. Certain vocations offer the same kind of opportunity for contemplation, and provide a desert for reflection.

You were made to dream big! No matter what shut you down–discouraging parents or distressing circumstances–the vision you were made for is still alive in God’s mind, and God wants to help you bring those promises back to life. Part memoir, part practical guide, this inspirational book shares spirit-filled lessons from a Christian wife and mother of eight who rediscovered hope in Jesus after nearly destroying her marriage and family. Today, she and her husband are church leaders whose children, grandchildren and greatgrandchildren join them in their life of faith.

On the lovely spring afternoon of April 20, 2018, a backyard tree cracked, and a heavy limb fell. 12-year-old Evelyn suffered a devastating blow to her head as she shielded her puppy. A significant, compressed skull fracture required emergency neurosurgery. This freak, life-threatening event shook the Overlease family to the core, and an unbelievable experience was instantly set in motion that may take a lifetime to fully understand.

Messy Journey is for parents walking the difficult road with a wayward child. Be inspired to drink the deep waters of peace as you draw closer to the Father of all prodigals. Author and licensed parent and family educator Lori Wildenberg offers practical grace- and truth-filled ways of navigating your relationship with a detoured child—whether they are rejecting faith, dabbling in sin, or wholeheartedly embracing sinful behavior. There is hope. After all, their struggle isn’t really with you—it’s with God.

Read by the authors. Is she really fine or is she just saying that to avoid talking to me? How can our bond grow when she acts as if she doesn't want me around? How do I share my faith without her thinking it's a sermon? As your daughter heads into the teenage years, you wonder how to handle the...

A faith-based instruction manual to help you discover the fulfilling life you were meant to live. In Becoming an Adult, Dr. Henry Cloud—co-author of the bestselling classic Boundaries—focuses on the growth, connections, separations, and choices that everyone must experience to achieve...

Discover a new and hopeful path forward as you consider your family's approach to social media, screen time, and technology. We've all heard the mind-boggling statistics about technology and social media use. The numbers don't lie; our obsession with smartphones and social media is slowly...

Beth McCord, widely known as Your Enneagram Coach, takes women on a transformative journey through motherhood and parenting, blending Enneagram wisdom with practical insights to foster authentic and healthy family dynamics. This book helps moms not only paint a portrait of their family but...

Most parents misguidedly prioritize behavior. The why and how to instill character. Behavior modification does not guarantee good character qualities. Character influences decisions. It’s evidenced in our speech, actions, and attitudes. It’s about who we are and what we do. The world competes for the hearts of our kids—and we see its negative impact in their pride, laziness, and entitlement. As Christians, however, we want to see the character of Jesus Christ in our children.

Do you want your kids to grow up to be emotionally, mentally, relationally, and spiritually healthy? We do too! More and more kids today are struggling to live out this dream. As they go through life, they encounter people and situations that lead them to pack and carry some enormous emotional baggage that holds them back from living in the grace and freedom that Christ provides. Parents are in a unique position to help their kids "lighten the load" along the way.

When a mass shooter killed five people in an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs, grieving people graffitied James Dobson's Focus on the Family headquarters with the words "Their blood is on your hands." Such an accusation comes as no surprise to Amber Cantorna-Wylde, whose father is a Focus on the Family executive and cast Amber out of her family when she came out in 2012.

Why do Christians get so whizzed up by Christmas? Shouldn't they be more dour and fussy rather than sucked into the "materialism" of the holiday season? What is so important about Jesus of Nazareth being born? Here is a collection of daily meditations that answer these common Christmas questions. Get the gang together, grab the sweets, and listen to all the glories that are found in Christmas.

Sharing experiences, scripture, and revelation from the word of God, the author strives to encourage men to be all that God has purposed for them to be. Men...be. It’s time to rise up and become all that God has purposed for you. Our families, communities, nations, and countries depend on it.

Drawing on the author's experience as a mother walking with and learning from her own transgender child, as well as working with hundreds of families across the country doing the same, this book helps parents navigate the emotional, spiritual, and logistical landscape of raising a gender-diverse child.

Our spiritual enemy is coming after our children, and he doesn’t care who knows it. He wants their minds. He wants their hearts. He wants their beliefs. He wants their lives. Most of all, he wants to stake a claim on their identity. He wants to destroy the foundation of who our children are by letting culture, or even themselves, determine “their truth.” But there is no truth but God’s Word. It is absolute truth that transcends time and cultural advancement.

Waves of Faith depicts the author’s personal journey shared through hardships of faith, struggles, and victory obtained; because for better or worse, every human being is born into a family that shapes who and what we become. The Lord has seen Dorothea through joblessness, poverty, homelessness, and separations. Through her story, she hopes future listeners will see that new love can be developed and experienced through nurturing a Christian family.

Ashley R Wood and her father, Lewis E Wood, embark on the difficult conversation of healing after divorce. Both share insights into their upbringing, which ultimately impacted their response to the family splitting up.

The image of heartbreak and describing the devastating emotional pain of a broken relationship transcends culture and is expressed in the same way in almost every language. You will experience the true meaning of the strength of a mother.