In this book, the author reveals her own experience in suffering, how looking to the Cross puts all trials into perspective, how pain can be used to taste the deep mercy of Christ, and how that mercy can be extended to those around you who are also suffering.

Comforting One Another: In Life's Sorrows

Christian Books & Bibles

Mains, Karen

Christian Living

Regency Publishing House

El Buscador de Dios/The God Hunt (English and Spanish Edition)

Religion & Spirituality

Worship & Devotion

Editorial Unilit

From the author of Open Heart, Open Home--the classic book on Christian hospitality--comes this one-of-a-kind bible study guide that will inspire your small groups to be truly hospitable. Opening Our Hearts and Homes by Karen Mains, with collaboration by Adele Calhoun, invites you to discover the heart of our hospitable God through enriching Scriptural verses, brainstorming, role playing, situational problem-solving, and more! This small-group exploration offers hope for those less inclined to hospitality, as well as encouragement for more experienced hosts and hostesses to share their secrets and stories. With space for weekly personal reflection, reading assignments, and individual activities, this study guide will prove to be an invaluable tool for each group member. A must read for men's and women's Bible studies, home fellowship groups, and adult Sunday school classes, or anyone wanting to sustain a lighthouse ministry in their neighborhood.

Opening Our Hearts & Homes: A Group Exploration of Scriptural Hospitality

Calhoun, Adede

Intervarsity Pr

An exciting series from authors David and Karen Mains, the Gold Medallion, award winning Tales of the Restoration Classic Edition offers readers fast paced action and exciting storytelling that cover Christian themes like restoration, obedience, loving one another, seeking and finding, and more. You will enjoy the beautiful, full color fairytale style illustrations as well. In Tales of the Restoration, the long awaited conclusion in the Kingdom Tales trilogy, the one True King has broken the reign of the evil Enchanter and the restoration has begun. You will meet Grandma Vigilantes, the Girl with the Very Loud Outside Voice, along with beloved friends Little Child, the Princess Amanda, Hero, and others. Each character is learning how to find a special place in Bright City, to do a job no one else can do. This is the third book in the Kingdom Tales Trilogy, an exceptional set to give to your family and friends. It contains 114 pages covering twelve stories, including a dozen full color, fairytale style illustrations by exceptional American artist Diana Magnuson. Published in an attractive matte finish hardcover using durable, long lasting Smyth sewn binding, with end caps and end sheets, this book is built of library quality materials, and designed to stand up to years of use and wear. This book was originally published by Charger Productions in 1996, and we are now selling the 2019 print run editions published by Mainstay Ministries, which come autographed by both authors, so your book will be a rare keepsake copy. Enjoy reading these wonderful allegories with your kids or grandkids today. The classic edition of Tales of the Restoration can only be purchased from a few sources below, so be sure to get your copy today, and enjoy these Gold Medallion Award Winning short stories with your entire family.

Tales of the Restoration

Mains, David R.

Children's Books

Charger Productions

The physical and mental pain of abuse-many children and adults in our churches regularly suffer that pain in their own homes! Now, Abuse in the Family, part of the Helping Others in Crisis series, shows you how to identify victims and help them toward healing. Abuse in the Family carefully deals with the problem of child abuse and neglect, incest, and wife beating. Abuse in the Family will equip you to help victims overcome the painful scars of past or present abuse. You'll learn how to guide victims toward emotional and spiritual wholeness and how to increase sensitivity in your church to the problem of abuse. In Abuse in the Family, author Karen Burton Mains: 
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<li>Acquaints you with the facts of abuse in the family. </li>
<li>Prepares you for situations you may encounter. </li>
<li>Investigates questions victims often ask.</li> <li>Advises you of effective counseling patterns to follow. </li>
<li>Enables you to address the problem of family abuse in your church.</li> <li>Explores Scriptural teaching and its application. </li>
<li>Informs you of significant laws.</li> <li>Guides you to resources for further reading.</li> </ul>Karen Burton Mains co-hosts a nationwide radio ministry with her husband, David Mains-Director of the Chapel of the Air. Karen is also the chairperson of Women for Christ, a Chicago-area retreat ministry. She and Maxine Hancock coauthored another book on abuse, Child Sexual Abuse: A Hope for Healing.

Abuse in the Family

David C. Cook

Advent Calendar designed to lead you and your family through the Christmas season. Each day you'll focus on the true meaning of Christmas through carefully selected scripture readings, prayers, and reflections.

The Christmas You'Ve Always Longed for

Timberlake, Melissa

Timberlake, Doug

Gruben, Nancy

Calendars

Mainstay Church Resources

Opening Our Hearts & Homes

Calhoun, Adele

A Season of Wonder

Mains, David

Seasoning the Season

Asimakoupoulos, Greg

Allen, Juliet

In the Tales of the Kingdom Classic Edition, action, intrigue, and danger follow Scarboy wherever he goes, especially in the Enchanted City, where the imperfect are cast away and orphans are enslaved. Scarboy manages to escape the evil Enchanter to safety in Great Park, but has yet to confront his greatest fear, and he will need enormous courage to conquer it. An exciting series of inspirational stories for kids from authors David and Karen Mains, the gold medallion award winning Tales of the Kingdom contains fast paced action and exciting storytelling with a enduring Christian message. This version is the fully illustrated Classic Edition, originally published in 1983 by Chariot Books, now republished in 2019 by Mainstay Ministries. Enjoy reading these moral stories for children after dinner together or as bedtime stories with your kids. You will revel in these modern fairy tales, each chapter an allegory for your children to decipher, with short moral stories and lessons for living that convey values and virtues like honesty, compassion, loyalty, friendship, perseverance, positive self esteem, courage, and more. You will embrace these fiction fables within your family, as they are children books with inspirational moral values and christian themes, to encourage you all to better living in this challenging world in which we live everyday. Written as a trilogy of children fiction for kids to enjoy reading with their parents, this is the first of three books in the series, with 12 color illustrations, for ages 6 and up, including preteen, teen, and adults. This children chapter book contains 96 pages of inspiring stories published in high quality Smyth binding for long lasting appeal, enhanced by 12 full color, full page illustrations from exceptional America artist and illustrator Jack Stockman. There are colorful end sheets and end caps, along with various black and white character sketches as well.

Tales of the Kingdom

Literature & Fiction

Lamplighter Publishing

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