Brain Health
The End of Alzheimer’s: The First Program to Prevent and Reverse Cognitive Decline By Dale Bredesen |
Emotional & Spiritual Health
How Happiness Happens: Finding Lasting Joy in a World of Comparison, Disappointment, and Unmet Expectations By Max LucadoIn a world searching for happiness, bestselling author Max Lucado provides a personal plan for a life filled with lasting and fulfilling joy, supported by Jesus’ teaching and modern research. |
Margin: Restoring Emotional, Physical, Financial, and Time Reserves to Overloaded Lives, Revised By Richard A. SwensonMargin will help you erect boundaries to protect your time and sanity at a time when you may desperately need both! Written for all whose standard line is, “I’m too busy,” this insightful resource focuses on four key areas-emotional energy, physical stamina, time and finances. Its freeing insights will help you set do-able limits and recover the peace that is rightfully yours. |
Contentment: The Secret to a Lasting Calm By Richard A. Swenson, M.D.Living in today’s culture, it’s easy to forget that contentment is one of the greatest privileges of the Christian faith! Approaching the subject from a historical and biblical perspective, Swenson takes you on a journey where you’ll discover that true contentment is the gateway to joy, freedom, godliness, rest, grace, simplicity, generosity, and more. 256 pages, softcover from NavPress. |
Making Sense Out of Suffering By Peter Kreeft For every person who has ever wept and wondered, “Why am I suffering?” Kreeft observes the endless, random, seemingly pointless pain which affects people and seeks to be our guide to understanding. Like Job, the author relates his wrestling match with God concerning suffering and brings us on his journey of understanding that the only way to win was to lose. Peter Kreeft, professor of philosophy at Boston College, is the author of such well-received books as Between Heaven and Hell, Making Choices, Socrates Meets Jesus. |
A Grace Disguised: How the Soul Grows Through Loss, Expanded Edition By Jerry Sittser Loss in life is inevitable, but it’s possible to harness the hardship of loss and turn it into a positive event in your life. Author Jerry Sittser explores painful events like divorce, death and illness and shows that it’s not the circumstances we find ourselves in at these points of loss, but how we respond to them that widens our spiritual capacity to experience blessing and growth in the midst of grief. |
Nutrition
The Daniel Fast Made Delicious: Healthy, Dairy-Free, Gluten Free & Vegan Recipes That Taste Great! Revised By John & Ann Marie Cavazos This revised and updated version of the popular book, The Daniel Fast, includes essential spiritual applications and perspectives on fasting, along with a full-color interior, easy instructions, simple steps, and spiritual inspirations. The Daniel Fast Made Delicious is filled with over 175 recipes, many of which are 100 percent gluten and dairy free, that will help satisfy your hunger and draw you closer to God. |
Relationships
The Marriage You’ve Always Wanted By Gary Chapman / Moody Publishers From the best-selling author of The Five Love Languages comes a relationship-boosting new edition of Toward a Growing Marriage. An ideal primer for engaged couples, handbook for newlyweds, or refresher for long-time marrieds, Chapman’s practical insights on communication, in-laws, finances, sex, and more provide a solid foundation for a lifetime of happiness. Includes discussion prompts. Happiness in marriage is not automatic. Take the first step today! |
Ten Lessons to Transform Your Marriage: America’s Love Lab Experts Share Their Strategies for Strengthening Your Relationship By John Gottman In 1994, Dr. John Gottman and his colleagues at the University of Washington made a startling announcement: Through scientific observation and mathematical analysis, they could predict-with more than 90 percent accuracy-whether a marriage would succeed or fail. The only thing they did not yet know was how to turn a failing marriage into a successful one, so Gottman teamed up with his clinical psychologist wife, Dr. Julie Schwartz Gottman, to develop intervention methods. Now the Gottmans, together with the Love Lab research facility, have put these ideas into practice. In Ten Lessons to Transform Your Marriage, the Gottmans share this vital information so that couples can develop the skills to turn their relationship problems around and create strong, lasting unions. |
The 5 Love Languages of Children: The Secret to Loving Children Effectively By Gary Chapman & Ross Campbell / Northfield Publishing Are you expressing your love in a way your children understand? Chapman and Campbell help you discover each one’s unique communication style, so you can better meet his or her deepest emotional needs. From quality time to physical touch, these five “love languages” hold the key to their development and success. |
Financial Health
Dave Ramsey’s Complete Guide to Money The Handook of Financial Peace University
Covering everything on how to budget, save, dump debt, and invest, Ramsey’s A-to-Z guide answers all your “How?” “What?” and “Why?” questions about money! A collection of what he teaches in his Financial Peace University program, this all-in-one resource also explores insurance options, mortgages, marketing, bargain hunting, and the most important topic of all – giving. |