How you speak to your kids today will impact your relationship with them tomorrow.As a parent, your words are powerful. What you say and how you say it has the potential to either invite your children into deeper relationship with you or push them away. What's more, in a very real sense, your words represent—or misrepresent—God's words to his children— meaning they have the power to shape how your children view their hea...

This new edition of Grace Through the Ages™ combines the daily devotionals found in the first edition with the corresponding daily Bible readings from Old or New Testament, or the Psalms or the Proverbs. Each devotional is designed to illuminate one portion of each day’s Bible study, whether from the Old or New Testament, or the Psalms or Proverbs. The goal is to see God’s kindness and grace in a multitude of places and to provoke thought and meditative reflection on that day’s Bible passa...

Everyone is afraid of something. Fear is part of the human experience of living in a broken, fallen world. We try to manage our fears, but our coping mechanisms impact our faith. We hoard and stop praying for provision. We stockpile information and forget to seek godly wisdom. Yet we continue to live anxious lives.William P. Smith explains that our faith should, instead, change our strategies for dealing with fear. He offers practical guidance on how to exchange fear for faith by l...

Feeling isolated? Spending a lot of time alone? Our connection with God and others has been broken—but Christ entered our aloneness to restore true, lasting relationship with himself.

Is a personal God really involved in our suffering? And if he is, what in the world is he up to? Why would a good God allow suffering in his world?William P. Smith addresses these and other hard questions by reflecting on what the Bible teaches about suffering. Instead of pat answers, he shares the different ways God uses suffering to bring us into a deeper, more intimate relationship with him. You can learn to see the good that God brings out of suffering and be thankful—not for t...

You know you're in love – you always want to be together, and you think about each other all the time – but does that mean you're ready to get married? How do you decide if your relationship is strong enough for marriage?William P. Smith gives you a series of questions based on biblical principles that you can use to assess your relationship's strengths and weaknesses. Answering these questions about your vision, goals, and potential conflicts will help you decide together whether ...

The kids are hungry, dinner is late, everyone's tired and on edge, and then it happens—you lose control and blow up at them again. Is losing control with our children inevitable in our busy world? Or is there a better way?Learn from William P. Smith a better way to relate to your children than with irritation, anger, and harsh words. Drawing on his counseling and parenting experiences, he explains why you lose control with your children, and then offers strategies that will help yo...

Prickly, defensive, nasty, volatile, withdrawn, miserable . . . aren't there days when you feel surrounded by difficult people? How do you cope? You can try avoiding them, gossiping about them, or giving them a piece of your mind. But wait! Don't your reactions make you hard to love too?William P. Smith explains that learning how to deal with difficult people starts with understanding that God's pursuing love is not just for them; it's for you too. You need God's love and forgivene...

Your last relationship didn't work out, and you got hurt—and maybe you also hurt someone else. Now what? Perhaps you are thinking about starting over with someone new, but you're nervous and wondering if you are really ready for another relationship.William P. Smith tackles head on the issues you need to face as you think about starting a new relationship—past hurts, learning to trust someone new, and understanding your own failings and mistakes. You will be reassured that God is a...

How you speak to your kids today will impact your relationship with them tomorrow**.**As a parent, your words are powerful. What you say and how you say it has the potential to either invite your children into deeper relationship with you or push them away. What’s more, in a very real sense, your words represent―or misrepresent―God’s words to his children― meaning they h...

If you were looking for the definitive Christmas anthology, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! This book is everything you want Christmas to be — loving, warm and celebratory. Timeless and adorable, beautifully designed, "The Big Book of Christmas" is a great big stocky book — stuffed with novels, novellas, short stories, poems, carols and songs. Inside you'll find: · Novels, novellas and short stories from Charles Dickens, Louisa May Alcott, Hans Christian Andersen, O. He...