Based on the seminal work of CWR founder Selwyn Hughes, presented in his book Christ Empowered Living, Mick Brooks now offers a fresh approach to how we can deepen our dependence on God to meet our need for security, self-worth and significance. This new resource, designed for individuals, small groups and whole churches, takes an accessible approach to understanding the key elements of our personalities. It examines the strategies we follow, thinking we know how best to make life work, and ways in which we can learn to rethink how to have our needs met and function well - even when life becomes a struggle. The book: 42 days to help you lean into God every day and discover how to find your security, self-worth and significance in God The group resource: Free online videos and discussion starters to help you fully unpack this vital, life-transforming teaching The church programme: Sermon outlines and PowerPoint templates to help your whole church benefit in journeying through These Three Things together.

It's 1943, and Clair Wagner and her mother, Ann, are hanging onto the windswept farm in South Central Nebraska that her German grandparents homesteaded fifty years earlier. They've survived almost every plague in God's handbook, including grasshopper invasions, famine, floods. The flu epidemic of 1918 took Clair's father, and the "Great War" took her husband. Now, Hitler is after her only son, and a new war has strained old friendships. Clair blames the Germans and God for her perils and is angry when she learns a German prisoner of war camp is opening just down the road. When one of the prisoners shows up to work on the farm, Clair is forced to face her prejudices. Sheryl Schmeckpeper is a Nebraskan, a journalist and a historian, who has researched and published numerous articles on World War II and the prisoner of war camps in Nebraska.

Grace is in her late twenties and living with her single mother in Estill, South Carolina. After her brother dies in what the police call a drug-related incident, Grace is sent on a mission to find out the truth. She finds this, a relative she never knew, and a Marine whose friendship quickly blossoms into much more. Her journey leads her through many trials and choices in which she has to decide how to live out her faith. Though she makes mistakes and experiences loss, she discovers family is not always blood, and God is always good.

Sixteen-year old Jessie, still grieving over her mother's death, must move from Chicago to "The Valley," with a new stepfamily but no new friends until an anonymous fellow student emails and offers to help her navigate the school's treacherous social waters.

Fans of Jandy Nelson and Marieke Nijkamp will love this deeply moving novel in verse about the aftermath of a gun accident. Life changes forever for Liv when her older brother, Jonah, accidentally shoots himself with his best friend Clay’s father’s gun. Now Jonah needs round-the-clock care just to stay alive, and Liv feels like she’s the only person who can see that her brother is still there inside his broken body. With Liv’s mom suing Clay’s family, there are divisions in the community that Liv knows she’s not supposed to cross. But Clay is her friend, too, and she refuses to turn away from him—just like she refuses to give up on Jonah. This powerful novel is a stunning exploration of tragedy, grief, compassion, and forgiveness.

The bestselling author of The Trouble with Goats and Sheep delivers a suspenseful and emotionally satisfying novel “infused with warmth and humor” (People) about a lifelong friendship, a devastating secret, and the small acts of kindness that bring people together. There are three things you should know about Elsie. The first thing is that she’s my best friend. The second is that she always knows what to say to make me feel better. And the third thing…might take a bit more explaining. Eighty-four-year-old Florence has fallen in her flat at Cherry Tree Home for the Elderly. As she waits to be rescued, she thinks about her friend Elsie and wonders if a terrible secret from their past is about to come to light. If the charming new resident is who he claims to be, why does he look exactly like a man who died sixty years ago? From the acclaimed, bestselling author of The Trouble with Goats and Sheep, Three Things About Elsie “breathes with suspense, providing along the way piercing, poetic descriptions, countless tiny mysteries, and breathtaking little reveals…a rich portrait of old age and friendship stretched over a fascinating frame” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). This is an “amusing and heartbreaking” (Publishers Weekly) story about forever friends on the twisting path of life who come to understand how the fine threads of humanity connect us all.

The benefits of working towards success do not have to be at the expense of our peace of mind or complete exhaustion. The good news is that achieving just three things in life can be enough to attain a clear and purposeful direction. Glen Cossar, a business planner and life coach, shares real-life stories combined with practical tools that encourage happiness seekers to simplify choices and follow specific steps that allow attainment of goals and joy. While demonstrating how to become strategic instead of fearful, Glenn motivates others to focus decisions and actions, create a clear plan of action, and apply a values-based review of the plan to ensure its effectiveness. Included is valuable insight on the magic of three things, why speed bumps slow us down, whether emotions are useful or important, how to set boundaries, and why now is a great time for everything. In this intuitive guidebook, a business planner and life coach offers stories and tools that inspire a transformation in thinking that ultimately allows attainment of a life filled with unimaginational successes and joys.

Whether you're a new CEO trying to navigate chaotic workdays or a veteran of the C-Suite trying to reignite your passion, focus is your most important asset. Many owners and CEOs think they have to be involved in every aspect of their business. They spend valuable brainpower on low-priority decisions. Before long, they're overworked and burned out. Instead of doing everything, it's time to focus on the right things. A CEO Only Does Three Things zeroes in on the three pillars of business: culture, people, and numbers. Steeped in twenty-plus years of practical knowledge, training, and consulting with some of the world's largest companies, this indispensable guide shows how to articulate the right culture for your business, hire people with the right mindsets, and inspire your teams to produce optimal results. Hundreds of CEOs have used Taylor's methods to create fulfilled, efficient, professional lives, and you can join them. Learn how to focus on the work you love-and avoid CEO burnout.

Refutes belief systems that minimize the significance of dreams, coincidence, and the workings of imagination, drawing on the author's workshops and consultations to reveal how to create a more fulfilling life by tapping the power of the subconscious mind. Reprint.