Practical Religion

If you are currently providing care for your aging parents or facing the prospect of doing so in the near future, you are definitely not alone. Dr. Grant Ethridge and his wife, Tammy, have been there, having given care during their dads' last days. They know the stress and uncertainty you face. Through their story and those of other caregivers, Grant and Tammy share research and practical tips to aid you in dealing with everyday caregiving struggles and situations. You will learn how to decide which care is best, prepare legal documents, handle family disputes, and much more.

Would you like to lead a grace-based parenting style that mirrors God's love and reflects his forgiveness to your teenager without being legalistic, judgmental, and overbearing? Unlike many Christian and circular books out there that place a strong emphasis on setting tight boundaries and applying rigid rules, this guide will equip you with grace-centered teachings in parenting your teenager through our heavenly father’s perennial love and relentless grace to bring them up the way he ordained them to be, honing them to be secure, confident, and accepted for who they truly are.

This audiobook is your guide to learning from the powerful stories of women in the Bible, showing you how they found courage, faith, and purpose even in the hardest times. Their stories can help you grow your own faith and feel stronger in your spiritual life.

This audiobook, packed with biblical wisdom and practical guidance from the pastoral trenches, will equip and encourage you in the midst of ministry. Bob Yandian, a veteran pastor of more than 30 years, provides answers to common questions relating to your everyday pastoral duties and personal life.

Your church has the opportunity of a lifetime. The world has shifted, and a new, brighter tomorrow awaits. The Church Revitalization Checklist is a tool to help you start fresh, leverage your strengths, and discover hidden opportunities for church growth.

If you want to really live the life you know God created for you as an artist in his kingdom, then this book is for you. Unlocking the Heart of the Artist is an invitation to begin a journey of healing and wholeness that will yield deeper spirit-led creativity and personal fulfillment. Through learning practical ways to renew your mind, understand God's plan for your life and art, and engage the holy spirit in their creative process, you will learn how to collaborate with God not only in your chosen artistic medium, but in life.

In this new audiobook, How to Use Your Power: 20 Practical Lessons for Creating a Balanced Life, spiritual philosopher Ernest Holmes offers 20 "how to" lessons addressing such pertinent issues as how to have a happy family life, how to pray, how to deal with an addiction, how to have successful relationships and greater prosperity, and more. This powerful manual can be picked up and used when faced with a specific challenge, or when you simply want to understand "how to" deal with your life in a new way.

Depression - whether circumstantial and fleeting or persistent and long term - impacts most people at some point in their lives. Puritan Pastor Richard Baxter spent most of his ministry caring for depressed and discouraged souls, and his timeless counsel still speaks to us today. In this book, psychiatrist Michael S. Lundy and theologian J. I. Packer present Baxter’s writings in order to comfort, instruct, and strengthen all who struggle with depression.

A third eye awakening can do that for you. The third eye holds the key to many natural spiritual gifts. Everybody has intuitive powers that are dormant, but a third eye awakening can make these powers come alive. This book will walk you through the process of opening your third eye, so that you can access all it has to offer.

In Finding The One, Rachel Blacker guides you on a process that will help you fall in love with life, fall in love with yourself, find completeness within, and magnetize the romance of a lifetime. Using inspirational stories as examples, Rachel breaks down the barriers of cultural conditioning and applies compelling spiritual teachings that will lead you on a path to joyful living and powerful manifestation. Not only can these teachings manifest your beloved, through positive suggestion and reshaping your subconscious beliefs, they can improve your life in all areas.

The Bible is rich with leadership gold. But we haven't mined it for all it's worth. Leaders know a lot about the Bible and a lot about leadership — separately. We haven't yet explored the depths of the Bible as a primary source for leadership insight. This book aims to change that.

Inner Alchemy of Life is a guide to the life within your body and teaches you how to spiritually connect and work with that life. Taylor Ellwood shares the practical magic techniques he developed for bio-hacking your body and working with neurotransmitters and microbial life of the body as spiritual allies that can help you enhance your health and overall quality of life.

The conversation about the relationship between women and men and their roles in the Christian life and the church has evolved, but the topic continues to inspire debate and disagreement. The third edition of this groundbreaking work brings together scholars firmly committed to the authority of Scripture to explore historical, biblical, theological, cultural, and practical aspects of this discussion.

The Children’s Fire forges a trail into Britain’s wild and ancient Celtic past. In the winter of 2009 Mac Macartney walked from his birthplace in England across Wales to the island of Anglesey, once the spiritual epicenter of Late Iron Age Britain, navigating by the sun and the stars, with no map, compass, stove, or tent, and in the coldest winter for many years. The Children’s Fire records that journey, and seeks to lay bare the aching loss of knowing and understanding sacredness as it applies to everything ordinary that brings joy to the human heart.

Based on a careful study of Scripture and hundreds of interviews with Christian givers on every populated continent, Cameron Doolittle offers global listeners fresh insight about how to put generosity into practice. Joy Giving compiles the wisdom of the early church and best practices from around the modern world, revealing practical, biblical principles that help us all give more wisely…and with more joy.

The Hybrid Congregation explores how technology has become an integral part of our daily lives and how it is impacting religious practices in unexpected ways. With the rise of online platforms, including social media and video conferencing tools, the concept of a physical church space is being redefined. The virtual world is now an extension of our physical reality, blurring the lines between what is considered "real" and what is not.

"It's a moral jungle out there," writes Peter Kreeft. In Making Choices, he describes why we find decision-making so difficult and living with our choices even harder. With penetrating wisdom, good humor, and common sense, Peter Kreeft draws a map through the everyday jungle of moral choices, one simple enough for the believer and convincing enough for the skeptic.

Most of us are trying to put together the jigsaw puzzle we call life without a very important piece. Over time this becomes incredibly frustrating. In this extraordinary book, Matthew Kelly powerfully demonstrates that we cannot live the life we have imagined or experience the joy we yearn for unless we learn to tend the soul. From there, with his classic style of practical wisdom, he teaches us how to remedy this problem.

In this two-book natural witchcraft therapy bundle from Sheila Paltrow, get both the guidebooks for green witchcraft and transforming yourself into a nature-based healer and a newbies' guide to picking candles, setting mindset, prepping, and spells, plus candle recipes. Learn to commune with your environment through the use of natural elements and objects such as gems and stones. The book teaches you ways to use the greens of the earth, such as herbs, flowers, and plants, to heal as well as seek the energy of nature for proper guidance.

Demonstrating the spiritual principle of life is a process of convincing the mentality of an inner and ever-present good, reality is already perfect. God is always God and good is never evil. It is only as we turn, with our whole consciousness to the light that we receive light. It is impossible, while we keep ourselves covered with darkness, for the light to shine on us.