Helps women experience growth and become safe, wise, compassionate, and grace-giving friends, mentors, and encouragers. Excellent 14-week Study Guide also available.

In today's broken world, women are longing for warm relationships Has a woman ever told you she was seeking help outside the church because: "They accept me. They don't judge or shame me when I struggle. I feel safe there"? At times we've all reached out for understanding only to be disappointed. Verna Birkey's passion is to equip Christian women to become friends, mentors, and encouragers. And to help those who are struggling to find safety, wisdom, and the care they need. Linx, Women Connecting with Women is designed to help us avoid being miserable comforters--like Job's friends--and, instead, become "God with skin on" to others. Paul told Titus to train women so that they, in turn, could train others. Preparing women before they connect with one another leads to more supportive, grace-giving relationships. Verna equips women to minister to others by first helping us to: Recognize it's right to take care of ourselves Identify and correct twisted thinking Learn how to draw appropriate boundaries Take steps to resolve conflicts Know how to listen and ask helpful questions Learn to communicate understanding Personal or group study will be enhanced by using the companion Study Guide which inludes leader's notes. With grace-filled wisdom and gentle humor, Verna Birkey relates the truth of life in Christ to our everyday lives. For over 30 years she has ministered worldwide to over 400,000 women through the Enriched Living Workshops. A graduate of Goshen College, Indiana, and Columbia International University Graduate School, South Carolina, Verna is the author and/or editor of 13 books. including the bestselling You Are Very Special . She makes her home near Seattle, Washington.

When Max Hallyday, a rising New York adman, joins a glitzy midtown agency, he knows the game is winner-takes-all. But after Max's best friend, Roger, a serial womanizer, seduces his billionaire client and puts his career in jeopardy, Max strikes back, penning "The Guys' Guy's Guide to Love," a column exposing the many Rogers prowling the city. Championed by magazine publisher and former flame, Cassidy Goodson, Max becomes famous . . . or is it notorious? With the women of New York clamoring for more, sparks begin to fly with Cassidy. Can Max survive his instant celebrity and cutthroat rivals to discover where his heart really belongs? The Guys' Guy's Guide to Love is a fast-paced tale of flawed men and smart women competing for love, sex, power, and money in the city where they play for keeps.

Equipping Women for Friend-to-Friend Support and Mentoring This companion Study Guide is designed to enhance personal or group study of the book Linx: Women Connecting with Women. Each chapter asks thoughtful, relevant questions to guide you through an effective and meaningful study of the life-changing concepts discussed in Linx. The leader's notes are included, and they provide excellent guidance for group interaction. This Study Guide will help you absorb the following fundamentals: Recognize it's right to take care of ourselves Identify and correct twisted thinking Learn how to draw appropriate boundaries Take steps to resolve conflicts Know how to listen and ask helpful questions Learn to communicate understanding In Linx: Women Connecting with Women, Verna communicated her passion to help Christian women grow in Christ and her desire to equip them to become safe, wise and caring friends, mentors, and encouragers. For over 30 years, Verna Birkey has related the truth of life in Christ to everyday lives with grace-filled wisdom and gentle humor. She has ministered worldwide to over 400,000 women through the Enriched Living Workshops. Verna is the author and/or editor of 13 books, including the bestselling You Are Very Special. She makes her home near Seattle, Washington.

Results from world-renowned relationship expert John Gottman’s famous Love Lab have proven an incredible truth: Men make or break relationships. Based on 40 years of research, The Man’s Guide to Women unlocks the mystery of how to attract, satisfy, and succeed with a woman for a lifetime. For the first time ever, there is a science-based answer to the age-old question: What do women really want in a man? Dr. Gottman, author of the New York Times bestseller The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work, and his wife and collaborator, clinical psychologist Julie Schwartz Gottman, PhD, have pored over the research along with bestselling coauthors Douglas Abrams and Rachel Carlton Abrams, MD. Together, they have written this definitive guide for men, providing answers on everything from how to approach a woman and build a connection with her to how to truly satisfy her in bed and know when the relationship is on the right track. The Man’s Guide to Women is a must-have playbook for how to play—and win—the game of love.

Delve deeper with a Purpose Partner into God’s unique purposes for your life. Conversations on Purpose for Women helps you connect the dots between living amidst the details of your life and living God’s purposes for your life. Filled with ten life-changing appointments, this companion workbook to the Pathways series helps you and a Purpose Partner coach each other along God’s pathway to purpose. A powerful and encouraging tool for personal growth, this guide will help you along your journey toward purpose-filled living. IDEAL FOR USE WITH PATHWAY FOR PURPOSE FOR WOMEN AND PRAYING FOR PURPOSE FOR WOMEN

After rising from poverty to earn two Ivy League degrees, an Appalachian lawyer pays tribute to the strong “hill women” who raised and inspired her, and whose values have the potential to rejuvenate a struggling region. “Destined to be compared to Hillbilly Elegy and Educated.”—BookPage (starred review) “A gritty, warm love letter to Appalachian communities and the resourceful women who lead them.”—Slate Nestled in the Appalachian mountains, Owsley County, Kentucky, is one of the poorest places in the country. Buildings are crumbling as tobacco farming and coal mining decline. But strong women find creative ways to subsist in the hills. Through the women who raised her, Cassie Chambers traces her path out of and back into the Kentucky mountains. Chambers’s Granny was a child bride who rose before dawn every morning to raise seven children. Granny’s daughter, Ruth—the hardest-working tobacco farmer in the county—stayed on the family farm, while Wilma—the sixth child—became the first in the family to graduate from high school. Married at nineteen and pregnant with Cassie a few months later, Wilma beat the odds to finish college. She raised her daughter to think she could move mountains, like the ones that kept her safe but also isolated from the larger world. Cassie would spend much of her childhood with Granny and Ruth in the hills of Owsley County. With her “hill women” values guiding her, she went on to graduate from Harvard Law. But while the Ivy League gave her opportunities, its privileged world felt far from her reality, and she moved home to help rural Kentucky women by providing free legal services. Appalachian women face issues from domestic violence to the opioid crisis, but they are also keeping their towns together in the face of a system that continually fails them. With nuance and heart, Chambers breaks down the myth of the hillbilly and illuminates a region whose poor communities, especially women, can lead it into the future.