Sometimes Everybody Needs Recovery Lucy finds a warm Thanksgiving welcome, in her childhood home with her father’s new family. Sharing traditions strange and familiar. Creating something new, together. But she worries about her brother Jacob facing changes while he repairs his own life. Can Jacob help Lucy take the next step in her own recovery? An excerpt from Traditions Worth Keeping: Learning to Trust Again, Especially Herself Lucy fought back a wave of guilt about not picking him up at the airport instead of listening to his calm insistence that he’d get himself there. The next breaker rolling in on the rising guilt tide was how many huge liquor stores were between the airport and their father’s house. All of them probably still open, and perfectly willing to take her little brother’s money. And his fragile new sobriety right along with it. “Get a grip, Lucy,” she said quietly. “He keeps telling you, Jana keeps telling you, your therapist keeps telling you, mom and dad keep telling you.” She took a deep breath and told it to herself. “I’m not my brother’s keeper.” She almost dropped the mustard at a deep voice from right behind her. “Never thought I hear you say that out loud.” Jacob stood there, backpack in hand, grinning like the goofy, exasperating kid he’d been before so many things went wrong.

Offers instructions or "recipes" for creating new family rituals or traditions, in categories such as "holidays," "family festivities and ceremonies," and "rites of passage."

Moral character is the DNA of success and happiness.Follow Your Conscience is jam-packed with actionable advice on improving your relationships, strengthening your career, and finding your purpose in life. Follow Your Conscience answers questions such as: How do you build a solid reputation? How do you achieve better balance in life? What makes relationships last? How can you spot a counterfeit leader? What steps should you take during tough times? What separates the haves from the have-nots? How do you build a solid foundation for your kids? What are proven ways to build trust and credibility? And what's the most important lesson in life?Follow Your Conscience is exhilarating and inspiring. It provides:* 11 ways to gain someone's respect.* 50 opportunities to build trust and credibility.* 25 things that kids can learn about life through sports.* 6 strategies to reduce stress and anxiety.* 20 ground rules for building win-win relationships.* 55 ways to show someone that you care.* 7 steps to enhance your reputation.* 10 values that form the basis of a strong marriage.* 6 common risks people take that could turn into a nightmare.* 24 character traits of an effective leader. And more!You'll feel enlightened, motivated, and rejuvenated.Frank Sonnenberg is an award-winning author. He has written five books and over 300 articles. Frank was recently named one of "America's Top 100 Thought Leaders" and nominated as one of "America's Most Influential Small Business Experts." Additionally, FrankSonnenbergOnline was named among the "Best 21st Century Leadership Blogs."Follow Your Conscience will help make a difference in your life and in the lives of others.

flu·en·cy / noun :the ability to speak a language easily and effectively Even if they want to, many Christians find it hard to talk to others about Jesus. Is it possible this difficulty is because we're trying to speak a language we haven't actually spent time practicing? To become fluent in a new language, you must immerse yourself in it until you actually start to think about life through it. Becoming fluent in the gospel happens the same way—after believing it, we have to intentionally rehearse it (to ourselves and to others) and immerse ourselves in its truths. Only then will we start to see how everything in our lives, from the mundane to the magnificent, is transformed by the hope of the gospel.

God is the treasure of our lives. He is part of everything we do, think, act, and say-literally, he is a part of us. This precious heirloom of Christ himself must be passed on to future generations. But how? Treasuring God in Our Traditions presents the importance of passing along Christ-centered traditions and a Bible-saturated legacy in Christ to future generations. Noël Piper helps her readers recognize how the "everyday" routines of life and the "especially" celebrations of holidays and dates can be practically passed down to future generations. When parents and grandparents seek to pass along the treasure of God to their children and grandchildren, they will develop and deepen their love for him. When family traditions are rooted in the Bible, the next generations will see that the greatest treasure that anyone can have is the treasure of God.

From the creation and the tree of knowledge through the Exodus from Egypt and the journey to the promised land; James Kugel shows us how the earliest interpreters of the scriptures radically transformed the Bible.