Relationship Growth

We are all weird about money. Whether you have a lot or a little, your feelings and beliefs about money have been shaped by a combination of silence (or even shame) around talking about money, personal experiences, family and societal expectations, and a whole big complex system rigged against many of us from the start. Begin with that baseline premise and it’s no surprise so many of us find it so difficult to save enough money, emotionally draining to deal with student loans, and nearly impossible to understand the esoteric world of investing.

In their landmark book, The Divinity Code, Adam Thompson and Adrian Beale helped encourage the church to rediscover the neglected art of dream interpretation. Now, in A Practical Guide to Decoding Your Dreams, they show you how to apply revelatory tools and Bible-based techniques to actually understand what your dreams mean and how to respond to them. Learn the practice of dream interpretation so you can increase your ability to hear God’s voice while you sleep and pray his prophetic strategies over your life, your family, and your nation!

Jim Daly, president and CEO of Focus on the Family, is an expert in fatherhood - in part because his own 'fathers' failed him so badly. His biological dad was an alcoholic. His stepfather deserted him. His foster father accused Jim of trying to kill him. All were out of Jim's life by the time he turned 13. Isn't it odd - and reminiscent of the hand of God - that the director of the leading organization on family turned out to be a guy whose own background as a kid and son were pretty messed up?

Only when you and your mate know and respect each other's needs, choices, and freedom can you give yourselves freely and lovingly to one another. Boundaries are the "property lines" that define and protect husbands and wives as individuals. Once they are in place, a good marriage can become better, and a less-than-satisfying one can even be saved. Drs. Henry Cloud and John Townsend, counselors and authors of the award-winning best seller Boundaries, show couples how to apply the 10 laws of boundaries that can make a real difference in relationships.

Discover how expanding and improving your mental agility—your ability to flex your thoughts, feelings, and actions—can transform your life, bolster your resilience, and foster your zest for living. Endless self-help approaches claim to have the answer. It's important to be mindful, we are told, and to stay in the moment. Sometimes, we are advised to keep going no matter what, to be 'gritty'. Others tell us that adopting a 'growth mindset' is key.

"Every attempt to help people must first begin with an effort to understand people," says Dr. Larry Crabb. "And the only fully reliable source of information on that topic is the Bible." In this Gold Medallion Award-winning classic, Dr. Crabb affirms the power of the Scriptures to address the intricacies and deep needs of the human heart. Exploring the inseparable link between spiritual and psychological realities, Understanding People offers a vital lens on how we're put together - who we really are and what makes us tick in our relationships.

Step into your unique calling in life by embracing your God-given identity. In Your Purpose Is Calling, Dr. Dharius Daniels shows you how God created you to make your specific difference in this world and how the simple key to unlocking your fullest potential lives within you already—your identity in Christ.

As teens, it can feel difficult to find a way out of our bad habits and unhealthy thought patterns, too often feeling like our thoughts are running out of control and finding ourselves off-track from where we want to be. Pastor and bestselling author Craig Groeschel deeply understands this daily battle against self-doubt and negative thinking, and in this book adapted from his bestselling Winning the War in Your Mind, Groeschel explains how you too can challenge your thinking and change the course of your life for the better, revealing the strategies he’s found that help.

Life isn’t linear, and yet we try to mold it around linear goals: four-year college degrees, ten-year career plans, thirty-year mortgages. What if instead we approached life as a giant playground for experimentation? Based on ancestral philosophy and the latest scientific research, Tiny Experiments provides a desperately needed reframing: Uncertainty can be a state of expanded possibility and a space for metamorphosis. Neuroscientist and entrepreneur Anne-Laure Le Cunff reveals that all you need is an experimental mindset to turn challenges into self-discovery and doubt into opportunity.

Are you a parent, counselor or educator looking to equip your teens with the resilience and grit necessary to conquer life's inevitable challenges? Or perhaps you're a young adult, wrestling with self-doubts and hurdles, craving to unlock your full potential? Here's a harsh reality - The lack of a growth mindset can breed a fear of failure, damage self-esteem, and even limit problem-solving capabilities. Simply put, without a growth mindset, teens are holding themselves back from reaching their true potential.

Your relationship with yourself is doubtlessly the most important relationship in your life. Our relationship with other people, on the other hand, can be very volatile, erratic, fulfilling, pleasurable, and quite baffling at times. We all have our own unique ways of interpreting the world around us and certain ways in which we act upon what we perceive to give us a greater understanding on how to deal with our emotions and stressful situations.

Explore the spiritual dynamics of parenting, and why caring for children is such an effective discipline in shaping our souls and forming the character of Christ within us.

The Enneagram of Personality is a model dealing with collections of human traits, presented as nine different character types. This audiobook will help you determine who you are as a person and show you what others like about you, as well as how you should act around others to be more enjoyable to be with. The audiobook will show you how you more easily can understand others and can therefore help build stronger relationships with friends, family, or your partner.

Would you like help from God, your creator, to build deep and meaningful relationships and become a more loving person? This affirmation handbook is filled with many great affirmations that will encourage and remind you to reach out to God to help you be more loving and caring. Be inspired to reach out to God to listen wholeheartedly to people and want to know and understand them. Be encouraged to reach out to God to work through feelings of pain, anger, and hurt to develop a loving and caring heart.

In the age of fingertip access to answers and a limitless supply of ambitions, where do we find the God who was birthed in dirt and straw? Sara Hagerty found him when life stopped working for her. She found him when she was a young adult mired in spiritual busyness and when she was a new bride with doubts about whether her fledgling marriage would survive. She found him alone in the night as she cradled her longing for babies who did not come. She found him as she kissed the faces of children on another continent who had lived years without a mommy’s touch. In Every Bitter Thing Is Sweet, Hagerty masterfully draws from the narrative of her life to craft a mosaic of a God who leans into broken stories. Here readers see a God who is present in every changing circumstance. Most significantly, they see a God who is present in every unchanging circumstance as well.

Sadhu Sundar Singh, also known as “The Apostle of the Bleeding Feet”, was a famous Christian monk and itinerant preacher. He travelled barefoot around India, Nepal and Tibet, preaching the Gospel in villages and towns as he went along. After he encountered Christ in a vision as a teenager, he decided to serve as a monk owning nothing more than a set of clothes, a thin blanket, and a New Testament. He endured much suffering and was often persecuted for sharing the Gospel.

Nearly every marriage starts out happy, and if we're honest, nearly every marriage at some point becomes unhappy. Is there a solution? Kevin and Marcia Myers, married for 37 years through nearly every challenge a couple can face, emphatically say yes. Rooted in Scripture and contemporary insights from the Myers' marriage, as well as real stories from other couples, this revelatory book shows how any marriage can regain depth, meaning and, yes, happiness.

Godly Dating 101 will empower believers to rise out of confusion, toxic environments, or sin and to follow Jesus passionately to build God-honoring relationships and experience a more abundant life. Tovares and Safa Grey will help listeners focus on and live by biblical standards, not society’s expectations.

Life is chaotic. But we can choose to live it differently. It doesn’t always feel like it, but we do have the freedom to creatively change the everyday little things in our lives so that our path better aligns with our values and passions. The popular blogger and founder of the internationally recognized Simple Mom online community tells the story of her family’s ongoing quest to live more simply, fully, and intentionally. It’s a risky ride, but it’s worth it - living your life according to who you really are simply takes a little intention. It’s never too late.

When his father was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, Richard Lui made a tough decision. The award-winning news anchor decided to set aside his growing career to care for his family. At first, this new caregiving lifestyle did not come easily for Lui, and what followed was a seven-year exercise in what it really means to be selfless.