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Night-themed Bible stories for families to share together Sleep, dreams and the night can be mysterious and sometimes troubling. Children can be afraid of the dark, have nightmares and night terrors, sleepwalk, or have insomnia. How do we address their concerns and fears and help them to draw close to God at night? This collection of Bible story retellings exploring God’s character and promises will enable parents to help children grow in peace, confidence and understanding of who God is. Includes: - Bible story retellings, each including a prayer, direct Bible quotations, and one or two questions to discuss as wished - Guidance for parents, including tips on how to encourage children’s connection to God at night, and how to troubleshoot specific spiritual and emotional issues that arise around sleep, night and dreams

How can churches become centres for empowering parents to raise God-connected children? How can we transform the lives of parents, carers, grandparents and church communities, and the way generations of children are raised?While it is parents who are on the front line of discipling their children, God has placed us as the church to journey alongside them, nurturing and equipping them and cheering them on.This book will help church leaders and volunteers to grow in the skills needed to make our churches places that empower families. It explores how to help parents over the major obstacles that hinder them from proactively discipling their children, and looks at practical ways to lay the foundations of a church culture where parenting for faith can flourish.

Uncertainty and change can be hard, and even more so for a child. Feelings of confusion, powerlessness and insecurity may be overwhelming. Scripture is full of people just like our children who had to cope with uncertainty and transition and flourished as they saw God’s hand and presence within it all. Designed as a series of stories and discussions for families, this book lays a biblical foundation for who God is in uncertain times and how to stay connected to him.Praise for Comfort in the Darkness:'What is not to love about this book? 16 stories from the Bible are skilfully retold with just the right amount of drama, suspense and awe - perfect for a shared story!' Ali Campbell, The Resource'It's simple, it's clever and it's profound. I found my own perspective on night-time changing along with my children's.' Victoria Beech, godventure

Nurturingchildren in the Christian faith is a privilege given to all of us whoseresponsibility it is to raise children. God’s desire is that our parenting guides each child to meet and know him, and to live with him every daythrough to eternity.In this fullyupdated compilation of her Parenting Children for a Life of… series,Rachel Turner explores how the home can become the primary place in whichchildren are nurtured into the reality of God’s loving presence and encouragedto grow in a two-way relationship with him that will last a lifetime.This book examines how we can enable our children to know what it means to be in a relationship with God, rather than just know about him – helping our children to be God-connected rather than merely God-smart. Each chapter includes true stories and questions to help us reflect on our own experience as we journey together with our children.

When spiritual leadership is the day job, how does it affect family dynamics?How do we spiritually parent our children while also needing to lead the church? How do we balance the many hats we wear? How do we live in a goldfish bowl and yet enable our children to flourish? How do we parent for faith without giving in to the pressure to perform for our congregations? Drawing on extensive research, this book explores the issues and builds a set of simple tools and approaches to help leaders and their families to flourish together.

"COVID-19 has transformed our everyday lives. It’s as if another world has arrived in the blink of an eye. Yet life is not on pause. We still need to live. The pandemic, like any other time, is a moment both of opportunity as well as challenge.Healthy Faith in the Coronavirus Crisis is a briefing on how to thrive in a world of restrictions. Twenty leading Christian thinkers have come together to help you begin to navigate this strange reality.Each contributor writes on their area of expertise, and topics covered include prayer, loneliness, work, singleness, marriage, parenting, grief, death, imagination, conversations, humour, and much more. They offer practical advice as well as helpful perspective from Scripture.This is an essential resource for anyone looking to cultivate a healthy faith which infuses all areas of life during this disorienting time.

Our children's early years are incredibly significant in shaping their mental, emotional and spiritual lives for the future, but how do we sow seeds of faith when they are so tiny?In this book Rachel Turner suggests simple, everyday approaches to help our children connect with the God who knows them. Wherever you are on your faith journey, you can help your child meet and know God, and however young your child is, God loves them and has promises for them.

How do I talk about my life, God and my faith in a way that seems as normal as talking about anything else? This book seeks to demystify and normalise how each one of us can be comfortable talking about faith without feeling weird, and how to help others on their faith journey without feeling pushy. Using key tools and skills developed within the Parenting for Faith initiative, Rachel Turner shows how these core principles can be applied by any Christian, anywhere. Each chapter is accompanied by a session outline for study groups.

Parenting teens has its challenges. The once-small children we had are pulling away from us, growing in independence and making decisions with bigger consequences. It can be easy to think we are less influential in their lives, particularly when it comes to faith. But that is not true. Parents remain the significant spiritual influencer in a teen’s life, and they need us to help them navigate the world and faith together. This book will help all parents, carers, grandparents and others involved in teens’ everyday lives to understand the teenage faith journey more and find their place within it.

A visionary woman. A hidden voice. A life that changed the spiritual imagination of the West.The Woman Who Heard God Sing tells the extraordinary true story of Hildegard of Bingen, the twelfth century abbess, composer, healer, preacher, theologian, and mystic whose voice still echoes across nearly nine hundred years.Born in the German Rhineland in 1098, Hildegard claimed from childhood that she saw a living light no one else could see. For decades she kept her visions almost entirely hidden, enclosed within the strict world of Benedictine religious life. Then, in middle age, she began to write.What followed was one of the most remarkable careers in medieval history.Hildegard wrote vast works of theology and cosmology. She composed music of haunting originality. She studied plants, stones, illness, the body, and the healing power of the natural world. She founded monasteries, advised rulers, challenged churchmen, and preached publicly at a time when women were expected to remain silent.This book follows Hildegard from her childhood at Bermersheim to the enclosed life of Disibodenberg, from the blazing visions of the Scivias to the battle for Rupertsberg, from her music and medicine to her final struggle with ecclesiastical authority.Inside you will discover:The hidden childhood visions that shaped Hildegard's entire lifeThe spiritual and political world of twelfth century EuropeThe creation of the Scivias and Hildegard's visionary theologyHer music, medicine, natural philosophy, and concept of viriditasHer relationships with popes, emperors, abbots, nuns, and patronsHer courage in founding religious communities under male oppositionThe reason her legacy still matters to theology, women's history, music, and mysticismBoth intimate and sweeping, The Woman Who Heard God Sing restores Hildegard as more than a saintly symbol. She was a strategist, builder, artist, healer, thinker, and one of the most astonishing women of the Middle Ages.This is the story of a woman who was told to be silent, and sang anyway.