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Create a Loving and Safe Environment for Your Blended Family. Blended families face unique challenges, and sadly, good intentions are not always enough. With so many complex relationships involved, all the normal rules for family life change, even how you apply something as simple as the five love languages. This is a practical and empowering book for parents and children alike.

Husbands are commanded to love their wives. But do you know what really makes your wife feel loved? Are you tired of missed cues and confusing signals? Everyone has a primary love language-quality time, words of affirmation, gifts, acts of service, or physical touch.

From best-selling and beloved author Christne Harder Tangvald comes an updated and revised edition of her classic book of comfort for grieving children, filled with heart-healing words, fresh watercolor illustrations, and practical resources that help adults guide children through loss.

In this book, Jim McManus and Stephanie Thornton take an honest look at every aspect of old age. They show how, far from being a time of loss of health, the vigour of youth, the occupations which have been the basis of our identity, of those we love, and possibly even our mental faculties, it is instead one of God¹s most wonderful gifts.

'I lost my husband and two of my four children on the same day. They left in the morning as usual, the girls happily following their Dad out of the door, and they didn't come back.'

The background to this book is that the secular world is letting people down. There is no cure on the horizon, and the pharmaceutical companies are reducing their investment. Too little advice is available, yet at least two-thirds of dementia sufferers are cared for in their own homes. This book offers practical help based on Christian values of compassion, loving and serving, developed from the i

If you think that being old is about having a rocking chair and an easy life style, think again. You’re looking through the binoculars backwards. What’s Age Got To Do With It? turns the lenses the right way around and gives a clear, Scriptural view of God’s purpose for old age.

In this intensely personal journal, Duncan guides the reader through grief and loss, examining how it changes us, and affirms that God is with us every step of the way.

An octogenarian takes a wryly look at what it's like to be old in an era of the relentlessly new. The book is structured around a series of fascinating biblical pictures, from the legendary Methuselah to the feisty Sarah and the great leader Moses, from the picture of inevitable decline as the Preacher saw it in Ecclesiastes to the glorious Nunc Dimittis of old Simeon in the Temple.

'Too long we have stood apart as a church and looked at children and teens and said, 'We love you, we value you, but we don't need you.'

The world has a formula for confidence. It goes like this: 'You are amazing and perfect, just the way you are. People should love and accept you, and, if they don't, well, that's their problem.'

It's time to get messy again with Lucy Moore's new book, Messy Hospitality. If you haven't heard of Messy Church before, then listen up. Messy Church is 'a way of being church for families and others based around welcome, crafts and art, celebration and eating together'.

The Bible - especially the New Testament - has plenty to say about resurrection and heaven, but many Christians struggle to make sense of what it actually means in practice. David Winter's accessible book explores the biblical teaching on what happens after death and considers what difference this can make to our lives day by day.

Pregnancy and new parenthood are some of the most exciting and challenging times of life, and this book forms a gentle devotional guide for that journey. Providing undated Bible reflections and prayers, plus space for personal journaling, it makes an attractive gift for an expectant mother and also an easy-to-use resource for couples to use together as they prepare for parenthood.

An invaluable resource for anyone seeking to look after those suffering with dementia. Whether as a carer, church leader, friend or family member, this meaningful book will give you the world to bless and care in a spiritually uplifting way. It also serves as a practical guide for the trickier, or more day-to-day, aspects of dementia.

This positive, affirming book explores and reviews the meaning and purpose of our lives. As Christians, ageing gives us the opportunity to deepen and even transform our spiritual lives.

Why are boys so under-represented in churches? Why do churches find it so difficult to cater for boys? What would help boys in church grow into mature men of faith?

In this unique book, Wanda Nash, a well-established writer on spirituality in her late seventies, reflects on growing old with faith and a positive spirit.

This collection of 18 undated reflections draw encouragement and comfort from the Bible and from the author's own experience for those going through life-limiting illness and for their family and carers.

What does fatherhood look like in our complex world? How clued in is the church to fathers today? As Father's Day turns 80 in 2018, it's a good time for fathers to ask these questions; to reflect on their beliefs and values; to reconsider their understanding of this important role; and for the church to revisit its missional dialogue with men.