Diving Deep: Experiencing Jesus Through Spiritual Disciplines

Religion & Spirituality

Simpson, Amy

Christian Books & Bibles

Group Pub Inc

Teach spiritual habits to students--no matter what their spiritual level. Spiritual habits that will help them go deeper with God. Deeper into a spiritually disciplined life through traditional spiritual disciplines like worship, solitude, prayer, fasting, service, study and others. This flexible, interactive course contains 13 lessons, a complete retreat plan and 6 student journals for students to chronicle their spiritual journey as they train. Challenge students. Dive deeper in faith. Draw closer to God. Perfect for Sunday school, youth services or small groups or home school use.

Diving Deep Student Journal: Experiencing Jesus Through Spiritual Disciplines

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<li>The 2014 Christianity Today Book Award Winner (Her.meneutics)</li>
<li>Winner of a 2013 Leadership Journal Book Award ("Our Very Short List" in "The Leader's Outer Life" category)</li>
</ul> Mental illness is the sort of thing we don't like to talk about. It doesn't reduce nicely to simple solutions and happy outcomes. So instead, too often we reduce people who are mentally ill to caricatures and ghosts, and simply pretend they don't exist. They do exist, however―statistics suggest that one in four people suffer from some kind of mental illness. And then there's their friends and family members, who bear their own scars and anxious thoughts, and who see no safe place to talk about the impact of mental illness on their lives and their loved ones. Many of these people are sitting in churches week after week, suffering in stigmatized silence. In Troubled Minds Amy Simpson, whose family knows the trauma and bewilderment of mental illness, reminds us that people with mental illness are our neighbors and our brothers and sisters in Christ, and she shows us the path to loving them well and becoming a church that loves God with whole hearts and whole souls, with the strength we have and with minds that are whole as well as minds that are troubled.

Troubled Minds: Mental Illness and the Church's Mission

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Shelley, Marshall

Mental Health

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<li>Advanced Writers and Speakers Association's 2015 Golden Scroll Merit Award (Nonfiction)</li>
<li>12th Annual Outreach Resource of the Year Recommendation (Counseling)</li>
</ul> Our culture is frantic with worry. We stress over circumstances we can't control, we talk about what's keeping us up at night and we wring our hands over the fate of disadvantaged people all over the world, almost as if to show we care and that we have big things to care about. Worry is part of our culture, an expectation of responsible people. And sadly, Christians are no different. But we are called to live and think differently from the worried world around us. The fact is, worry is sin, but we don?t seem to take it seriously. It is a spiritual problem, which ultimately cannot be overcome with sheer willpower―its solution is rooted entirely in who God is. How can we live life abundantly, with joy, as God has called us to do, when we?re consumed by anxiety? We are commanded not to worry, not only in the well-known words of Jesus recorded in Matthew 6, but also throughout the Old Testament and the epistles to the church. The Bible makes it clear that the future belongs only to God, who rules and is not subject to the limitations of time. To live with joy and contentment, trusting God with the present and the future, is a countercultural feat that can be accomplished only through him. Challenging the idolatrous underpinnings of worry, former Christianity Today executive Amy Simpson encourages us to root our faith in who God is, not in our own will power. We don?t often give much thought to why worry offends God, but indulging anxiety binds us to mere possibilities and blinds us to the truth. Correctly understanding the theology of worry is critical to true transformation. This is a book not just for people who worry; this is a call to the church to turn its eyes from the things of earth and fix its eyes on the author and completer of our faith.

Anxious: Choosing Faith in a World of Worry

Christians often hear the idea that following Jesus means that we should be living a life of full satisfaction. How many of us actually experience that kind of life? Amy Simpson wants to debunk this satisfaction myth in the church. After forty years of walking with Jesus, she writes, "I am deeply unsatisfied not only with my ability to reflect Jesus, but also with the very quality of my intimacy with him. I strongly suspect that the abyss of my nature has not been entirely satisfied by Jesus." Hers is a freeing confession for us all. Simpson explains that our very unsatisfaction indicates a longing for God, and understanding those longings can bring us closer to relationship with him. And that is where true spiritual health and vitality reside. Read on to discover anew what it truly means to be satisfied in Christ.

Blessed Are the Unsatisfied: Finding Spiritual Freedom in an Imperfect World

Self-Help

Happiness

Author Amy Simpson shows teens how to understand the Bible with fun and interactive tools. Experience the adventure of a lifetime in the Bible's wisdom and get away from the guilt trip.

Into the Word: How to Get the Most from Your Bible

Think

Professionals who work with them know that families in crisis usually are dealing with far more than just parenting issues. Not only are parents having trouble with child behavior and discipline at home, but they may face problems such as substandard housing, loss of a job, a high-crime neighborhood, or a chronic health concern. Abuse, domestic violence, substance use, or mental illness may impact these families. Even accomplishing routine tasks such as keeping a clean and safe home, preparing nutritious meals, paying bills, and getting children to school may be a struggle for parents. To make such homes safe and healthy for children, parents may need to learn many new skills in order to solve their daily living problems. This revised and expanded edition of Skills for Families, Skills for Life can help family practitioners and other professionals incorporate the teaching of life skills into the assessment of and treatment planning for the families they work with. More than one hundred thirty basic to complex skills in thirteen caregiving areas are outlined in step-by-step detail. Skills areas have expanded to include Relationships, Mental Health Needs, Preventing Abuse, and Community Safety, and more skills have been added to chapters on Housing, Money Management, Informal and Formal Supports, and Education. An enclosed CD-ROM allows you to print skill sheets to use as checklists, make notes, and list resources as you counsel individual families. A new chapter also helps you locate public and private, local and national sources of assistance for families.

Skills for Families, Skills for Life: How to Help Parents and Caregivers Meet the Challenges of Everyday Living [with Cdrom] (Revised, Expanded)

Peterson, Jane L.

Kohrt, Paula E.

Shadoin, Linda M

Cook-Griffin, Joni

Relationships

Boys Town Press

Audition Monologues For Teens: Playing range 13 - 20 years.

Arts & Photography

Performing Arts

Independently published

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