John Trent

Finding Community and Wisdom in the Distances We Run

Running Toward Life

Rodney Cox

Eric Tooker

Descriptions of four animals--lions, otters, golden retrievers, and beavers--are unique ways to describe a person's God-given strengths and behavioral style. The key to building strong, close-knit ministry teams is to learn how to integrate the different personality types.

Building Close-knit Ministry Teams

Leading from Your Strengths

Gary Smalley

Offers advice based on the teachings of the Bible on how to develop a closer relationship with parents and children

The Blessing

Roy B. Zuck

Judith DuFour Love

A spider tells all the reasons that she loves her sister.

Spider Sisters

“If you’ve ever doubted your ability to be a vessel of grace and healing in the life of someone who’s hurting, you need to read A Place Called Blessing. It is the story of a wounded soul named Josh, but chances are there is a Josh living next door to you or even sitting near you in the pew at church.”—Jim Daly, president, Focus on the Family His whole life has been a story of hurt and rejection. Is one family’s love enough to turn it all around? Josh lost his parents in a drunk-driving accident and lost track of his two brothers after a tragic fire. By age eighteen, he is an angry young man who only wants a job, an apartment, and to be left alone. Instead, he meets Mike and Anna, an unusual son-and-mother team who draw him into their lives. For the first time, Josh receives unconditional love and something every human being craves, the gift of “the blessing.” But tragedy strikes again, and a shocking secret is revealed. Can Josh hang on to what he’s learned about blessings, curses, and family? The life-changing message of the relational classic, The Blessing—now in compelling story form. Complete with a reader’s guide to help you identify and apply the five elements of the biblical blessing to your own life and relationships. Visit www.TheBlessing.com for more information and an opportunity to join The Blessing Challenge, one million people choosing to change the life of one child—their child!

Where Hurting Ends and Love Begins

A Place Called Blessing

Association of Marriage and Family Ministries

Couple's Kit

No Greater Love Challenge

In possibly his most important work to date, a bestselling author and family counselor presents a revolutionary, biblically-based concept for breaking free of the past and charting a new course to a brighter future. This interactive approach is a powerful tool for anyone who has unsuccessfully tried to change. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

A Helpful, Hands-On Process for Overcoming Your Past, Taking Control of Your Present, and Charting Your Future

LifeMapping: Workbook Edition

Sharing principles that work, these wise counselors offer parents the chance to build solid, memory-filled family relationships today that will encourage their children tomorrow to return to where love is freely given -- home.

Build the Memories that Will Draw Your Kids Home

Leaving the Light On

Now available in mass-market paperback, this classic by bestselling authors and family experts Smalley and Trent explain how to balance love's hard and soft sides to help readers develop strong relationships with others.

The Two Sides of Love

Instead of making a dramatic adjustment, making one "two degree" change toward God or your loved one can begin moving you in a positive, freeing, fulfilling direction.

The 2 Degree Difference that Will Change Your Heart, Your Home, and Your Health

Heart Shift

Using the parable of a man who has tried every emotional resource available, the author of The Blessing shows individuals how to move from wanting to change to actually changing, two degrees at a time. 30,000 first printing.

How Little Things Can Change Everything

The 2 Degree Difference

Parenting From Your Strengths is a powerful new book from the authors of the Leading from Your Strengths™ book series that helps parents-and their children-get on the same page, build more harmony, and head off potential conflicts. It does this by introducing to those seeking to create an even more effective parenting “team” some of the same tools and insights that have helped hundreds of ministry teams become closer and more connected.The Global Parenting Plan (GPP) draws on the imagery of Global Positioning devices-by doing what Global Positioning devices do to help people track a successful course. What a GPS device does is “triangulate” a person's position, by getting a reading from three known positions: God's unchanging Word, their own unique parenting strengths, and the way each of their children is “fearfully and wonderfully made.” By drawing on these three factors parents can not only draw closer to each other, but can be even more effective in “training up a child” in their own unique bent.

Understanding Strengths and Valuing Differences in Your Home

Parenting from Your Strengths

Tools and insights on building harmony and heading off potential conflicts are offered in this guide that helps parents and their children become closer and more connected. 20,000 first printing.

Do you know the four inescapable “transitions” that every ministry team must face?The answer to that question lies at the heart of successful ministry teams and is found in the powerful book, Leading from Your Strengths: Building Close-Knit Ministry Teams. Whether you’re a pastor or in para-church ministry, a lay leader or a team member, the principles you learn here can make a tremendous difference in how effective and intimate your ministry team becomes.From eye-opening stories, to understanding the four inescapable “transitions,” to taking an online strengths assessment, you’ll discover your unique God-given strengths, learn to understand and appreciate the strengths of others, and learn to blend the differences.Building strong, effective ministry teams is like taking a whitewater-rafting trip, with many unexpected rapids along the way. Join Dr. John Trent, Rodney Cox, and Eric Tooker, your guides on the journey to Leading From Your Strengths™.

Leading From Your Strengths: Ministry Teams

Being part of a small group can be a bit like climbing a mountain - it has risks but the payoff is immense. That is why Trent, Cox, and Tooker have styled this second book in the Leading From Your Strengths series like a mountain climbing expedition. Just like climbing Mount Everest, climbing the mountain to intimacy in your small group involves five stages, or camps. You begin at your "base camp" commitment, and then move through the various stages of honesty, acceptance, closeness, and finally the mountain's peak of intimacy. Once again, the Ministry Insights team will be your expedition guide on your climb as you learn to leverage your strengths for effective and successful small group experiences.

Building Intimacy In Your Small Group

Leading From Your Strengths 2

Easily give your kids the affirmation and relationship that your kids need and desire in 30 easy, affordable, and practical ways. Based on biblical elements, "The Blessing" isn't just another parenting tip or formulait's a powerful, yet simple, biblical concept that will strengthen all your relationships. Perfect for parents with children of any age.

30 Ways a Father Can Bless His Children

Based on biblical elements, "The Blessing" isn't just another parenting tip or formulait's a powerful, yet simple, biblical concept that will strengthen all your relationships. Perfect for parents with children of any age. Easily give your kids the affirmation and relationship that your kids need and desire in 30 easy, affordable, and practical ways.

30 Ways a Mother Can Bless Her Children

This book offers a time-tested method (over 500,000 copies sold) of bridging communication gaps . . . opening the door to greater intimacy and delivering lasting change. Struggling to Be Understood? Words have incredible power, especially when they say what you mean (and mean what you say). But that same power can be self-defeating, even destructive, when the message heard doesn’t match the message intended. Make the most of your communications by learning The Language of Love. Written by best-selling authors Gary Smalley and John Trent, it builds on communication basics introduced in The Two Sides of Love and shows how “emotional word pictures” can infuse understanding and intimacy into all of your relationships. This revised, updated edition of a classic resource is a wonderful tool for personal growth, small group studies, or couples’ classes.

The Secret to Being Instantly Understood

The Language of Love

Kari Trent Stageberg

A classic work, revised and updated for today's online generation, explaining the essential nature of giving children and others the gift of The Blessing.

Giving the Gift of Unconditional Love and Acceptance

A national epidemic of exhaustion is raging across all cultures and social statuses with a huge price being paid in our lives and relationships. Chasing Skinny Rabbits gets at the root of why we're so prone to exhaustion. As award-winning author John Trent advises, if you don't understand and deal with life's Skinny Rabbits-those things that distract you and lead you to a negative place-more can't-miss strategies for gaining time and energy will simply lead to more exhaustion. In this book Trent discusses why we're so prone to chase Skinny Rabbits and offers the five most common Rabbit Trails- All take and no give Triple your possessions Perfectionism When I get that . . . Small thinking and the five most common Rabbit Traps- Pride Busyness Fantasy Isolation White lies He then helps readers shift focus to what can lead to true life, true energy, and true fulfillment, as well as a place of real emotional and spiritual rest.

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