Upside-Down Prayers for Parents

Upside-Down Prayers for Parents
Author: Lisa Tawn Bergren
Publisher: WaterBrook
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2013-02-19
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0307955834

Because God Loves Them Even More Than You Do It’s our instinct as parents to shield our children from harm. But our true responsibility is to raise children equipped to live well for God even in the midst of struggle. Upside-Down Prayers for Parents encourages us to pray for our children in ways we may never have before: • I pray you’ll get caught doing things wrong—and experience the power of confession. • I pray your prayers will go unanswered—and you’ll find a deeper trust in Him. • I pray you’ll fail in things that don’t matter—and learn what matters to God. • I pray you’ll encounter battles—and discover that God is your greatest ally. By turning our prayers “upside down,” we not only learn to release our children to the care of God alone, we also uncover how our own desires need to be submitted to God’s will. Each entry in this thirty-one-day devotional includes a short reflection, a Scripture verse, and ideas to jump-start conversations between you and your child or teenager. Together you’ll discover a deeper trust in God that will help you make it through the upside-down times with a right-side-up perspective.

To Light Their Way

To Light Their Way
Author: Kayla Craig
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2021-10
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1496454006

Prayers to guide your journey of raising kids in a complicated world. In an age of distraction and overwhelm, finding the words to meaningfully pray for our children--and for our journey as parents--can feel impossible. Written with warmth and welcome, To Light Their Way gives voice to your prayers when words won't come. Filled with more than 100 modern liturgies, this book guides you into an intentional conversation with God for your children and the world they live in. From everyday struggles like helping your child find friends or thrive in school to larger issues like praying for a brighter world rooted in peace and truth, these pleas and petitions act as a gentle guide, reminding us that while our words may fail, God never does. At the core of To Light Their Way is the deepest of prayers: that our children will experience the love of God so deeply that their lives will be an outpouring of love that lights up the world.

Praying Upside Down

Praying Upside Down
Author: Kelly O'Dell Stanley
Publisher: NavPress
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2015-04-16
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1496406729

When you talk to God, do you ever wonder if He really hears? Do your prayers start to feel rote or routine? Do you sometimes feel you don’t even know how to pray? Jesus is known for turning situations upside down . . . and He can do the same in your prayer life. Your perspective on prayer and faith may never be the same again when you read artist and designer Kelly O’Dell Stanley’s delightfully accessible, innovative new book Praying Upside Down. Stanley uses imagery, simple techniques, and artwork to help you see God like never before and move your prayer life away from the preconceived and expected to a new level of intimacy. Praying Upside Down offers a fresh chance to learn something new, hear an answer you didn’t anticipate, and experience God in a more real, tangible way.

936 Pennies

936 Pennies
Author: Eryn Lynum
Publisher: Baker Books
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2018-02-06
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1493413449

Make the Most of Your Time with Your Children On the day of their baby dedication, Eryn and her husband were given a jar of 936 pennies. The jar contained a penny for every week they would raise their child until graduation, and they were instructed to remove one penny each Sunday as a reminder, placing it into another jar as an investment. At some point every parent realizes time is moving swiftly, and they ask themselves, How am I investing in my child? Through personal stories and biblical examples, 936 Pennies will help you discover how to capture time and use it to its fullest potential, replacing guilt and regrets with freedom. Meanwhile, your kids will see how simple choices, like putting the cell phone down and going on a family hike, will make all the difference. Together you will stretch time and make it richer. Craft a family legacy in tune with God's heartbeat as you capture a new vision for your children and learn the best ways to spend your pennies.

Praying Upside Down

Praying Upside Down
Author: Kelly O'Dell Stanley
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2015
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1414389833

When you talk to God, do you ever wonder if He really hears? Do your prayers start to feel rote or routine? Do you sometimes feel you don't even know how to pray? Jesus is known for turning situations upside down . . . and He can do the same in your prayer life. Your perspective on prayer and faith may never be the same again when you read artist and designer Kelly O'Dell Stanley's delightfully accessible, innovative new book Praying Upside Down. Stanley uses imagery, simple techniques, and artwork to help you see God like never before and move your prayer life away from the preconceived and expected to a new level of intimacy. Praying Upside Down offers a fresh chance to learn something new, hear an answer you didn't anticipate, and experience God in a more real, tangible way.

Upside-Down Results

Upside-Down Results
Author: Susan Field
Publisher: New Hope Publishers
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2014-05-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1596699027

We are a kaleidoscope. Tiny pieces of glass. Combined, a beautiful pattern. Upside-Down Results shares the pattern God is making through the struggles believers have with family, freedom, function, and faith. Containing first-person accounts ̧ Upside-Down Results reveals that these struggles, when surrendered to Christ, become amazing and incredibly powerful stories of God’s love, redemption, and hope. With an upside-down view of family, you’ll find each person has his or her unique story and a place to belong, thrive, serve, love, and be loved.

Letters to Our Sons

Letters to Our Sons
Author: Yolanda Conley Shields
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2013-09-17
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1491702702

Raising boys can be both challenging and incredibly rewarding. Whats more, being a boy in todays society can be equally challenging. In Letters to Our Sons, author Yolanda Conley Shields presents no-nonsense insight and humor along with impactful faith-based, take-away tools to help mothers shape their young boys into successful men of godly character. Entertaining and motivational, Letters to Our Sons offers scriptural support as well as practical steps to encourage mothers facing lifes challenges. Through a selection of diverse stories, Shields captures the struggles and victories mothers face raising their sons, and she offers helpful and relatable words of wisdom and inspiration. Letters to Our Sons encourages all mothers with sons to write a letter to their sons communicating their love and support in order to create, grow, and mold the unique mother/son bond. Shields believes mothers should partner with God to shape and move our sons to live out the purposes God has designed for their life.

Tallgrass

Tallgrass
Author: Sandra Dallas
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2007-04-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1429917172

An essential American novel from Sandra Dallas, an unparalleled writer of our history, and our deepest emotions... During World War II, a family finds life turned upside down when the government opens a Japanese internment camp in their small Colorado town. After a young girl is murdered, all eyes (and suspicions) turn to the newcomers, the interlopers, the strangers. This is Tallgrass as Rennie Stroud has never seen it before. She has just turned thirteen and, until this time, life has pretty much been what her father told her it should be: predictable and fair. But now the winds of change are coming and, with them, a shift in her perspective. And Rennie will discover secrets that can destroy even the most sacred things. Part thriller, part historical novel, Tallgrass is a riveting exploration of the darkest--and best--parts of the human heart.

The Busy Mom's Devotional

The Busy Mom's Devotional
Author: Lisa Tawn Bergren
Publisher: WaterBrook
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2007-07-17
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1400072468

From this best-selling author comes a 52-week devotional guide designed to help busy but spiritually-hungry women carve out time each week for God. The Busy Mom’s Devotional makes a vibrant, growing relationship with God seem do-able, and shows that the life-lessons Christ taught to a handful of fishermen are just as applicable to moms driving minivans and making corporate decisions. In the time it takes to empty an e-mail inbox or drive a child to soccer practice, Lisa T. Bergren draws harried women God-ward with 10-minute devotions including Scripture, real life illustrations, and reflective questions to think on through the day and week. Using this heartfelt, insightful guide, readers can begin the lifetime habit of devotion, even when time is at a premium.

Believe Boldly

Believe Boldly
Author: Erica Willis
Publisher: Chosen Books
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2018-02-20
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1493413538

Learn to Unleash the Supernatural through Simple, Confident Praying We long to see firsthand the power of God as displayed in the Bible. Miracles, prophecy, dreams, healing--most of these tend to be missing from our normal, safe, predictable faith. Yet we tend to view any movement of God outside our own experience with mistrust and confusion. But what if we've got "normal" all wrong? In these pages is an invitation to a new way of living: embracing God's power through simple yet bold prayer. It's for the night owl, the caffeine-addicted, even the skeptic, beckoning all of us out of our comfort zones with stories of spiritual breakthrough, mind-blowing miracles, and physical healing. Here are the tools you need to work through your doubts, open up to the miracles of God, and walk in the power of the Holy Spirit. You will learn to hear God's voice, trust his leading, and walk empowered by limitless prayer. It is time to see God transform your faith into a thrill-seeking adventure.