Christian Living Resource: Praying Circles around Your Children by Mark Batterson

Become a praying parent! Based on his bestseller The Circle Maker, Mark Batterson shares five key lessons to help you become extraordinary influences in your children's lives. With biblical insights and practical advice, he illustrates how to create prayer lists unique to your family, claim God-inspired promises for your children, and discover their individual life themes.

Paperback: 112 pages
Publisher: Zondervan (July 28, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0310325501
ISBN-13: 978-0310325505

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Christian Living Resource: Culture Shock by Chip Ingram

Bring light---not heat---to divisive issues! Helping you talk openly and respectfully about today's challenging topics, Ingram reveals and calls into question presuppositions on both sides. He believes that basing our convictions on research, reason, and biblical truth, we'll be able to speak the truth in love on abortion, homosexuality, sex, politics, the environment, and more.

In Culture Shock, bestselling author, pastor, and radio personality Chip Ingram shows readers how they can bring understanding to the most controversial and divisive issues of our day. Covering topics such as right and wrong, sex, homosexuality, abortion, politics, and the environment, Culture Shock is every engaged believer's must-have guidebook to replacing reactionary hate with revolutionary love.

Publisher: Living on the Edge (2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1605932221
ISBN-13: 978-1605932224

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Christian Living Resource: The Best Yes by Lysa Terkeurst

Having trouble deciding which situations deserve a "yay" and which a "nay?" Are you living with the stress of an overwhelmed schedule and aching with the sadness of an underwhelmed soul? Let Lysa TerKeurst help you discern the option that shapes all your other choices - the best yes! Offering Scripture-laced insights on effective decision-making, she encourages you to be honest, imaginative, focused, trusting, and humble as you discover the role God most wants you to play.

In The Best Yes Lysa will help you:

• Cure the disease to please with a biblical understanding of the command to love.
• Escape the guilt of disappointing others by learning the secret of the small no.
• Overcome the agony of hard choices by embracing a wisdom based decision-making process.
• Rise above the rush of endless demands and discover your best yes today.

Paperback: 272 pages
Publisher: Thomas Nelson (August 12, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1400205859
ISBN-13: 978-1400205851

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Blogging at Christian Children's Authors

Today is my day to blog at Christian Children's Authors. I'm sharing some Advent resources. Check out my list at http://christianchildrensauthors.com/2014/11/07/advent-resources-for-children/

Christian Living Resource: Vanishing Grace by Philip Yancey

In his landmark book What's So Amazing about Grace?, Philip Yancey issued a call for Christians to be as grace-filled in their behavior as they are in declaring their beliefs. He now returns to this vital subject, asking why Christians continue to lose respect, influence, and reputation in modern culture.

Yet people everywhere still thirst for grace. How can Christians present truly Good News amid the changing landscapes of our time? Why do so many people dislike Christians? How can we communicate faith in an appealing way to future generations?

Using his trademark journalistic style--story-filled, compelling, accessible--Yancey explores how grace can bridge the gap between Christian faith and a world increasingly suspicious of it.

Paperback: 111 pages
Publisher: Zondervan; Pck Pap/Dv edition (November 4, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 031082558X
ISBN-13: 978-0310825586

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Christian Living Resource: One Thousand Gifts by Ann Voskamp

Discover a way of seeing that opens your eyes to everyday amazing grace, a way of living that is fully alive, and a way of experiencing the constant presence of God that will bring you deep and lasting joy. There is purity in simplicity and a breathtaking beauty that can be found even in life's slightest details and heartbreaking moments. Ann Voskamp welcomes you in to explore her grace-bathed life of farming, parenting, and writing, and encourages you to live a life filled with gratitude, no matter where you are.

Inviting you into her own moments of grace, she gently teaches you how to biblically lament loss, turning pain into poetry; intentionally embrace a lifestyle of radical gratitude; and slow down and catch God in the moment.

Not a book merely to read, One Thousand Gifts begs to be embraced as a dynamic, interactive primer inviting you to engage with truths that will serve up the depths of God's joy and transform your life forever.

Paperback: 238 pages
Publisher: Zondervan (2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0310620856
ISBN-13: 978-0310620853

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