Timely advice, unfortunately.
What Grieving People Wish You Knew about What Really Helps (and What Really Hurts)
By Nancy Guthrie
Crossway
September 2016
I read this book a couple months after my father died and about the time that my wife's grandmother died. I wasn't sure how to respond and whether … Continue Reading ››
We all know how to be great parents, right? That's why our kids are coming out perfectly and they never have any trouble. Oh, wait...
8 Simple Tools for Raising Great Kids
by Dr. Todd Cartmell
Moody Publishers
January 2015
The title says 8 tools, but in reality the author includes … Continue Reading ››
Clear. Basic. Works.
7 Secrets to an Awesome Marriage
Strengthen Your Most Intimate Relationship Paperback –
by Kim Kimberling, PhD
Abingdon
July 2015
How many relationship books are truly revolutionary? Not many. Love languages, the sexes are from different planets, love verses respect and so on are the ones … Continue Reading ››
When you say something is guaranteed it really only promotes the sale if there is a chance that the thing for sale may not actually be - on its face - obviously going to work. But this book promotes as "Groundbreaking" common sense ways of dealing … Continue Reading ››
The problem with marriage today isn't any kind of external pressure. Instead it's internal expectations. "Happily every after," marriages of "my" dreams, and so on. We think the other person is automatically going to make us happy and meet our needs. We think that marriage is … Continue Reading ››
The newest books in the popular 'Love Languages' series by Dr. Chapman are out and they focus on their target audience: men or women. The question is, what makes this book worthy of your purchase rather than the original?
The 5 Love Languages for Men
by Dr. Gary … Continue Reading ››
Teens have it tough these days. I'm sure every generation says that, but how many generations have almost no privacy, the ability to be bullied from anywhere in the world at any time, and live in a world that is so overwhelmingly visual that almost all … Continue Reading ››
Marriages either get better or worse. They never stand still." -Dr. Gary Chapman
The Marriage You've Always Wantedby Dr. Gary Chapman Moody Publishers 2014
When my husband and I married 13 years ago, we were given a copy of Dr. Chapman's "The 5 Love Languages." While I've never really been a fan of self-help, psychology books, something … Continue Reading ››
Parents of teens can use all the help they can get. That's where this new series of topical help guides aims to fill those needs.
Hot Buttons Series
(Bullying and Image Editions)
Nicole O'Dell
Kregel
September 2013
Kregel sent two of the series to me for review: Bullying and Image Editions. (They … Continue Reading ››
When my husband first saw me reading this book, he told me he thought it would be full of lies and only makes men look horrible. I told him that wasn’t the case and throughout the story, would read specific facts in there and he … Continue Reading ››
Timely advice, unfortunately.
What Grieving People Wish You Knew about What Really Helps (and What Really Hurts)
By Nancy Guthrie
Crossway
September 2016
I read this book a couple months after my father died and about the time that my wife's grandmother died. I wasn't sure how to respond and whether … Continue Reading ›› 
