This board book for infants and toddlers explores the gifts of water, baptism and belonging. The illustrations help children connect to their baptism and reinforce the baptismal connections that surround us everyday.

Relates, through illustrations and easy-to-read text, events of the joyous day when an infant was baptised, splashed with water and immersed in the love of family, friends, and God.

Mary Simpson is shocked to see a message posted on an Internet adoption site from Joan Fosterthe baby she gave up thirty-five years ago. While she is thrilled to hear from her daughter, the message jolts Mary back in time to the confusing days that began sweetly with innocent navet and sadly ended with harsh reality. As a teenager growing up in the late sixties, Mary is a gentle girl with eyes the shade of a clear summer sky. But when Marys hippie neighbour introduces her to members of a religious cult, her life suddenly changes forever. Lured into the sect by Christopher, the handsome and sly leader of a Gods Children tribe, Mary experiences a horrendous year that culminates in the creation of a new life and subsequently an unbearable decision. Now many years later, her daughter, Joan, is desperate to find herfor now it is a matter of life and death. Both mother and daughter go through a tremendous transformation as their lives intertwine during a time of shared crisis. As they frantically search for hope, they discover their souls and now understand the true meaning of love.

What is Christianity? What does it mean to be a Christian? Why do we see so many bad things taking place in the world, and what is God doing about it? With over nine hundred Scripture references, poems, personal accounts, and examples, this book will help you understand who Jesus Christ is and what he wants to do in your life. It will take you from humanity’s break with God to God’s sacrifice to save humanity. It shares the challenges and struggles all Christians must face as it addresses many of the difficult issues facing the family of God openly and honestly from Scripture. Finally, it shows how God will bring his children through it all as he helps us fulfill the supreme goal for our lives, to serve and love God most and to love our neighbor as ourselves. God made the ultimate sacrifice so that you can become a part of his family and share the future that awaits the children of God in glory. This book will show you how.

"God’s Welcome" is a different kind of how-to book on hospitality, one that studies the stories of God’s welcome and takes seriously the culture of hostility that sometimes masquerades as Christianity. Gather your small group or leadership group (discussion guide included in the book) and dig into the important work of gospel hospitality.

Children of divorce carry wounds into adulthood. Divorce affects our relationships to other people, our fears and longings, our faith, and our spirituality. We may have difficulties with anger, guilt, commitment or forgiveness. But our identity need not be marked only by our parents' divorce. God can enter into our woundedness and bring transformation and hope. Kristine Steakley chronicles the emotional and spiritual challenges facing adult children of divorce. She tells her own story of abandonment and estrangement with all the attendant questions of trust, self-worth and identity. But she has found that God can repair and reparent us in ways that heal and restore our relationships with ourselves, our parents and God.

aEURoeDonaEUR(tm)t let anyone put you down because you are young, but set an example for believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith and in purity.aEUR (Timothy 4:12)