Anxious for Nothing: Finding Calm in a Chaotic World
Anxious for Nothing: Finding Calm in a Chaotic World
When it comes to anxiety, depression, and stress-related illnesses, America is the frontrunner. Thankfully, there’s a practical prescription for dealing with these issues. Anxious for Nothing, from New York Times bestselling author, Max Lucado, provides a roadmap for battling with and healing from anxiety. Does the uncertainty and chaos of life keep you up at night?Is irrational worry your constant companion?Could you use some calm?If the answer is yes, you are not alone. According to one research program, anxiety-related issues are the number one mental health problem among women and are second only to alcohol and drug abuse among men. Stress-related ailments cost the nation $300 billion every year in medical bills and lost productivity. And use of sedative drugs like Xanax and Valium have skyrocketed in the last 15 years. Even students are feeling it. One psychologist reports that the average high school kid today has the same level of anxiety as the average psychiatric patient in the early 1950s. Chances are, you or someone you know seriously struggles with anxiety.Max writes, "The news about our anxiety is enough to make us anxious.” He knows what it feels like to be overcome by the worries and fear of life, which is why he is dedicated to helping millions of readers take back control of their minds and, as a result, their lives.Anxious for Nothing invites readers to delve into Philippians 4:6-7. After all, it is the most highlighted passage of any book on the planet, according to Amazon:Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.In the characteristic tone of his previous books like You’ll Get Through This and Fearless, Max guides readers through this Scripture passage and explains the key concepts of celebration, asking for help, leaving our concerns, and me... [Read More]
- ASIN: 0718096126
- ISBN: 0718096126
- Brand: HarperCollins Christian Pub.
- Manufacturer: Thomas Nelson
Anxious for Nothing Study Guide: Finding Calm in a Chaotic World
Anxious for Nothing Study Guide: Finding Calm in a Chaotic World
Do you feel weighted down with worry? Does the uncertainty and chaos of life keep you up at night? Are irrational fears your constant companion? Could you use some calm?In this five-session video Bible study, bestselling author Max Lucado explores God’s treatment plan for anxiety found in Philippians 4:4–8. As you follow this prescription – celebrating God’s goodness, asking for his help, leaving your concerns with him, and meditation on good things – you will experience God’s peace. This is a peace that “transcends all understanding” and will help you reframe the way you look at your fears.While anxiety is a part of life, it doesn’t have to dominate your life. With God as your helper and his promises at your side, you can sleep better tonight and smile more tomorrow. You can talk yourself off the ledge and view bad news through the lens of God’s sovereignty. You can discover a life of calm and develop tools for combating the onslaught of anxiety.The Anxious for Nothing Study Guide includes video discussion questions, Bible exploration, and personal study and reflection materials for in-between sessions.Sessions include:Rejoice in the Lord AlwaysLet Your Gentleness Be Evident to AllPresent Your Requests to GodThe Peace of God Will Guard Your HeartMeditate on These ThingsDesigned for use with the Anxious for Nothing Video Study (sold separately).
- UPC: 025986087319
- ASIN: 0310087317
- ISBN: 0310087317
- Brand: HarperCollins Christian Pub.
- Manufacturer: Thomas Nelson
Unshakable Hope: Building Our Lives on the Promises of God
Unshakable Hope: Building Our Lives on the Promises of God
*NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* What feels shaky in your world? Are you overwhelmed by the problems you’re facing or the pain you’re feeling? Maybe you feel hurt by the past. Disappointed by the present. Worried about the future. If so, you are not alone, but there is hope. You can live with security and purpose. In Unshakable Hope, Max Lucado unpacks 12 of the Bible’s most significant promises, equipping you to overcome difficult circumstances by keeping your focus on the hope found in the promises of Scripture rather than dwelling on the problems in front of you.For every problem in life, God has given you a promise.Hope is hard to come by these days. Whether it’s heart disease or cancer, job failure or addiction, natural disasters or family disasters, mass murders or mental illness, there are so many reasons to be overwhelmed.In a world full of instability, we do not need more opinions or hunches; we need the definitive declarations of our mighty and loving God.What is your life built on—the circumstances of life or the promises of God? The answer to that question changes everything. Join Max as he takes a closer look at Scripture’s unbreakable promises and shows you how to live with unshakable hope.
- ASIN: 0718096142
- ISBN: 0718096142
- Brand: HarperCollins Christian Pub.
- Manufacturer: Thomas Nelson
Before Amen: The Power of a Simple Prayer
Before Amen: The Power of a Simple Prayer
We all pray . . . some. We pray to stay sober, centered, or solvent. When the lump is deemed malignant. When the money runs out. When the marriage is falling apart. But wouldn’t we like to pray . . . more? Better? Stronger? With more fire, faith, and fervency?In this four-session video-based study (guide separately), bestselling author Max Lucado reveals his struggles with prayer and how he discovered that it is not a privilege for the pious or the art of a chosen few but a simple tool everyone has been given to have a conversation with God. He shows you how to let go of uncertainties about prayer, trust that God hears you, and embrace a prayer life that brings peace and rest.Join Max Lucado on a journey to the very heart of biblical prayer and the power unleashed with five simple sentences: “Father, you are good. I need help. They need help. Thank you. In Jesus’ name, amen.” Sessions include:Father, You Are Good (21:00)I Need Help (19:00)They Need Help (20:00)Thank You (20:00)Designed for use with Before Amen Study Guide 9780529123343 (sold separately).
- UPC: 023755060686
- ASIN: 0529123428
- ISBN: 0529123428
- Brand: HarperCollins Christian Pub.
- Manufacturer: Thomas Nelson Inc
Strong's Concise Concordance And Vine's Concise Dictionary Of The Bible Two Bible Reference Classics In One Handy Volume
Strong's Concise Concordance And Vine's Concise Dictionary Of The Bible Two Bible Reference Classics In One Handy Volume
A multi-purpose Bible study resource tool. All the essentials you need to study the biblical text without having to know Hebrew or Greek. Provides definition, explanation, and concordance entries. Dr. James Strong, formerly professor of exegetical theology at Drew Theological Seminary, spent more than thirty-five years preparing his landmark concordance. First published in 1890 with the help of more than one hundred colleagues, Strong's remains the definitive concordance compiled on the King James Version of the Bible. W. E. Vine, M.A. (1873-1949) was a classical scholar, skilled expositor, and a trustworthy theologian. Recognized internationally for his outstanding Greek scholarship, his Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words, first published in 1939, represents the fruit of his lifetime labors and is an unsurpassed classic in its field.
- UPC: 020049042557
- ASIN: 0785242554
- ISBN: 0785242554
- Brand: HarperCollins Christian Pub.
- Manufacturer: Thomas Nelson
You'll Get Through This: Hope and Help for Your Turbulent Times
You'll Get Through This: Hope and Help for Your Turbulent Times
You’ll get through this.It won’t be painless.It won’t be quick.But God will use this mess for good.Don’t be foolish or naïve.But don’t despair either.With God’s help, you’ll get through this. You fear you won't make it through. We all do. We fear that the depression will never lift, the yelling will never stop, the pain will never leave. In the pits, surrounded by steep walls and aching reminders, we wonder: Will this gray sky ever brighten? This load ever lighten?In You'll Get Through This, pastor and New York Times best-selling author, Max Lucado offers sweet assurance. "Deliverance is to the Bible what jazz music is to Mardi Gras: bold, brassy, and everywhere." Max reminds readers God doesn't promise that getting through trials will be quick or painless. It wasn't for Joseph--tossed in a pit by his brothers, sold into slavery, wrongfully imprisoned, forgotten and dismissed--but his Old Testament story is in the Bible for this reason: to teach us to trust God to trump evil.With the compassion of a pastor, the heart of a storyteller, and the joy of one who has seen what God can do, Max explores the story of Joseph and the truth of Genesis 50:20. What Satan intends for evil, God redeems for good.
- ASIN: 0718031512
- ISBN: 0718031512
- Brand: HarperCollins Christian Pub.
- Manufacturer: Thomas Nelson
God Will Use This for Good: Surviving the Mess of Life
God Will Use This for Good: Surviving the Mess of Life
Life is messy. Just look at Joseph. You probably remember the Old Testament story. He was tossed in a pit, wrongfully imprisoned, forgotten and dismissed. But Joseph’s story contains an audacious promise. Whatever mess you face, God will use it for good. He did for Joseph, and he will for you. In the mean time don’t become bitter or angry. Do what Joseph did. Trust in God.
- ASIN: 0849922402
- ISBN: 0849922402
- Brand: HarperCollins Christian Pub.
- Manufacturer: Thomas Nelson Inc
Beehaving Is B-E-S-T
Beehaving Is B-E-S-T
Join Hermie in this double-dose of fun as the garden bugs learn that the rules weren't just made to be broken! In Buzby, the Misbehaving Bee, the garden is all abuzz thanks to its newest resident: Buzby, the self-proclaimed "king of bees," who refuses to follow any of the Garden Golden Rules. Soon Buzby has managed to bug every citizen of the garden--and Hermie and his pals don't know what to do. But through an unexpected act of kindness (not to mention some intervention from the real King of the garden), Buzby finally learns that nobody is too cool for the rules--and that rules are actually pretty helpful! In Buzby and the Grumblebees, newly reformed rule-follower Buzby receives a visit from his niece Beebee and his nephew Buddy. But the two little bees are full of bad behavior, and Buzby enlists the help of Hermie and his friends to show the kids all kinds of bugs behaving badly. And the two quickly see how uncomfortable things become for everyone when bugs don't get enough sleep or clean up after themselves. Soon Beebee and Buddy decide that behaving in the hive is the only way to fly! Featuring the voice talents of Tim Conway, Don Knotts, Vickie Lawrence, and Melissa Disney, these stories will keep kids and parents rolling with laughter and learning in love.
- ASIN: 1400319927
- ISBN: 1400319927
- Brand: HarperCollins Christian Pub.
- Manufacturer: Thomas Nelson
Unoffendable: How Just One Change Can Make All of Life Better
Unoffendable: How Just One Change Can Make All of Life Better
Not entitled to get angry? Really?It’s a radical, provocative idea: We’re not entitled to get offended or stay angry. The idea of our own “righteous anger” is a myth. It is the number one problem in our societies today and, as Dallas Willard says, Christians have not been taught out of it.As it turns out, giving up our “right” to be offended can be one of the most freeing, healthy, simplifying, relaxing, refreshing, stress-relieving, encouraging things we can do.In Unoffendable readers will find something of immeasurable value—a concrete, practical way to live life with less stress. They’ll adjust their expectations to fit human nature and replace perpetual anger with refreshing humility and gratitude.The book offers a unique viewpoint, challenging the idea that Christians can ever harbor “righteous anger” or that there evenis such a thing for believers.Few other books exist with such a radical, provocative proposal to consider. We have no right to anger. We are to get rid of it, period. Completely. And it is possible to choose to be “unoffendable.”Through the author’s winsome, humorous, and conversational style, this book doesn’t add another thing to do on a stressed-out person’s ever-growing list. Better, it actually seeks to lift religious burdens from readers’ backs and allow them to experience the joy of gratitude, perhaps for the first time, every single day of their lives.
- UPC: 884627721223
- ASIN: 0529123851
- ISBN: 0529123851
- Brand: HarperCollins Christian Pub.
- Manufacturer: Thomas Nelson
Less Fret, More Faith: An 11-Week Action Plan to Overcome Anxiety
Less Fret, More Faith: An 11-Week Action Plan to Overcome Anxiety
A pass-along companion to Anxious for Nothing that features an 11-week plan to overcome anxiety.According to one research program, anxiety-related issues are the number one mental health problem among women and are second only to alcohol and drug abuse among men. Stress-related ailments cost the nation $300 billion every year in medical bills and lost productivity. And use of sedative drugs like Xanax and Valium have skyrocketed in the last 15 years. Even students are feeling it. One psychologist reports that the average high school kid today has the same level of anxiety as the average psychiatric patient in the early 1950s. Chances are, you or someone you know seriously struggles with anxiety.Max writes, "The news about our anxiety is enough to make us anxious.” He knows what it feels like to be overcome by the worries and fear of life, which is why he is dedicated to helping millions of readers take back control of their minds and, as a result, their lives.This 64-page booklet features practical steps from Max Lucado to help readers overcome anxiety. Eleven weekly reminders in all, each segment includes a Scripture verse for meditation, and a prayer to reframe anxious thoughts.This booklet includes a passage from the book, Anxious for Nothing, by New York Times bestselling author Max Lucado. The small trim and low price point make this booklet easy to share with friends and family who are struggling with anxiety and need a fresh perspective on how to face it.Stop letting anxiety rule the day. Join Max on the journey to true freedom and experience more joy, clarity, physical renewal, and contentment by the power of the Holy Spirit. Anxiety comes with life. But it doesn't have to dominate your life.
- ASIN: 1400207495
- ISBN: 1400207495
- Brand: HarperCollins Christian Pub.
- Manufacturer: Thomas Nelson