Carol Kent

Making a Lasting Impact on Others

Becoming a Woman of Influence

Unshakable Faith in Unthinkable Circumstances

When I Lay My Isaac Down

From bestselling author Carol Kent comes a riveting journey of facing the impassible obstacles of life and discovering the last thing ever expected---the sweet spot of grace.

Divine Surprises in the Tight Spots of Life

Between a Rock and a Grace Place

David Lambert

Cindy Lambert

Gene Kent

Too often, when a life crisis hits, a marriage suffers--even a healthy one--and all the personality profiles and couples' therapy in the world won't keep your marriage from experiencing the tough stuff. So how do you and your spouse face the stresses put on your marriage and not only stay together but come out on the other side even more loving and committed? In Staying Power, two longtime couples offer insights, skills, and clear direction so that you can respond to trials in a way that strengthens rather than weakens your marriage. They show you how to - handle anger creatively, forgive freely, and persevere together - nurture one another in powerful ways - learn new techniques for connecting both verbally and nonverbally in the midst of crisis - and much more Don't let financial trouble, infertility, health challenges, parenting cares, addiction of a loved one, or heartbreaking loss destroy your marriage. Instead, learn how through your strong relationship you can overcome all of life's curveballs--together.

Building a Stronger Marriage When Life Sends Its Worst

Staying Power

Tame Your Fears and Secret Longings of the Heart

2018 Christian Book Award finalist (Devotion and Gift category) He Holds My Hand is a page-per-day 365-day devotional. Based on Scripture, this devotional is written as if God the Father is speaking His words of comfort and protection directly over you. When Carol Kent’s son was sentenced to life in prison without parole, Carol was consumed with grief, sadness, and despair. She was distraught wondering why God permitted this to happen. She had prayed for her son since he was a small child. He had been raised with biblical principles and daily prayer. As Carol tried to make sense of everything, she couldn’t help asking, Where’s God when it hurts so much? In the middle of her sorrow, Carol turned to the place where she had always gone for comfort—the Bible. She was desperate to hear God’s voice. She soon discovered that the best way for her to “listen” to His voice was to meditate on Scripture and then write out what she believed He was saying. She wrote it as if it was His prayer over her life, and it comforted her. It was as if He took her by the hand, as a father would guide a child, and He gently led her in the direction of unconditional love, renewed hope, and fresh faith. Know without a doubt that God is with you and stands ready to protect and guide you. He holds your hand, and He won’t let go. Listen to God’s voice and put your hand in His. He is your Comforter, your Healer, your Teacher, and your Joy. Remember He holds your hand, and He won’t let go.

Experiencing God's Presence and Protection

He Holds My Hand

You’re never ready for calamity to strike. Carol Kent and her husband Gene were devastated by the news that their son killed his wife’s ex-husband. Gene and Carol were buoyed in their faith by eight principles, gleaned from the story of Abraham and Isaac: Over the course of eight chapters Carol explores the power of unthinkable circumstances, relinquishment, heartache, community, hope, faith, joy, and speaking up.

2018 Christian Book Award finalist (Devotion and Gift category) He Holds My Hand is a page-per-day 365-day devotional. Based on Scripture, this devotional is written as if God the Father is speaking His words of comfort and protection directly over you. When Carol Kent's son was sentenced to life in prison without parole, Carol was consumed with grief, sadness, and despair. She was distraught wondering why God permitted this to happen. She had prayed for her son since he was a small child. He had been raised with biblical principles and daily prayer. As Carol tried to make sense of everything, she couldn't help asking, Where's God when it hurts so much? In the middle of her sorrow, Carol turned to the place where she had always gone for comfort--the Bible. She was desperate to hear God's voice. She soon discovered that the best way for her to "listen" to His voice was to meditate on Scripture and then write out what she believed He was saying. She wrote it as if it was His prayer over her life, and it comforted her. It was as if He took her by the hand, as a father would guide a child, and He gently led her in the direction of unconditional love, renewed hope, and fresh faith. Know without a doubt that God is with you and stands ready to protect and guide you. He holds your hand, and He won't let go. Listen to God's voice and put your hand in His. He is your Comforter, your Healer, your Teacher, and your Joy. Remember He holds your hand, and He won't let go.

Where is your faith today—first sparks of faith, bright blue flames, radiating heat, raging bonfire, red-hot coals, cooling embers, cold grey ashes? Is your love for God burning so brightly that you are consumed by its passion? Are those who surround you drawn to its radiance and warmed by its heat? Are sparks flying from you, spreading a wildfire faith that ignites passion in others? Or has your passion cooled, your light dimmed, or your fire been quenched? Throughout history God has chosen fire to represent his awesome power, his judgment and wrath, his protection, and his Shekinah glory: the flaming sword guarding Eden, the burning bush, the pillar of fire, the fiery furnace, the chariot of fire, the burning coal, the flame upon the altar, the lake of fire, and the flaming eyes of the Son of Man upon the throne—these are only a few of the images he has seared into our minds that we might know him more fully. God is the source of that first flicker that sparked your faith and one day you will stand in his holy presence, look into the flaming eyes of Jesus, and see his burning love for you face to face. But between that first flicker and that heavenly meeting, there is life to be lived on this earth. The challenge we all face is that life can dim our fire or even quench it, whether by the soggy mist of the mundane, or the quenching downpour of crisis. Carol Kent has discovered that God’s Word is filled with the secrets of nurturing his fire in our lives, sometimes painfully so, other times even undetected, refining, purifying, cauterizing, healing, and ultimately reshaping us into the image of his Son. Author and speaker Carol Kent will take you into God’s word, and into your own story, to reveal the true power of the fire God has placed in you, to fan the flames of your faith, stir your passion, and embolden you to spark wildfires that will spread to forever change the landscape of this world beyond your wildest imagination. God’s fire is in your life. Fan the flames. Burn brightly. Start a wildfire!

Grow a Wildfire Faith that Will Endure Anything

Unquenchable

Coping with her son's conviction for first-degree murder, Carol Kent opens her heart to share priceless lessons on choosing hope over despair.

YOU CAN SPEAK TO GROUPS OF PEOPLE. Whether you speak to a crowd of thousands or a classroom of ten, you want your audience to take notice and pay attention to your message. Speak up with Confidence is a step-by-step guide that will walk you through preparing and delivering any kind of message-from sharing your testimony or a devotional to leading a meeting or workshop. If you want to be a leader in your church or simply want to be more comfortable talking in front of others, Speak up with Confidence will give you the organizational skills and tips you need to make your talk a success.

A Step-by-step Guide for Speakers and Leaders

Speak Up with Confidence

Durchatmen. Kraft schöpfen. Und Gott begegnen. Genau dazu lädt dieses Andachtsbuch für jeden Tag des Jahres ein. Gott selbst hat in der Bibel versprochen, dass er uns immer wieder erfrischen und stärken will, wenn der Alltag mit seinen kleinen und großen Sorgen auf uns lastet. Dass er bei uns ist und uns schützt, wenn die Stürme des Lebens toben. Dass er uns leiten will, wenn wir den Weg aus den Augen verloren haben. Lassen Sie sich von den 365 Andachten aus der Perspektive Jesu erfrischen und dazu inspirieren und ermutigen, die Beziehung zu ihm zu vertiefen!

365 Liebesbriefe von Gott.

Ich halte dich

This step-by-step guide to public speaking will walk you through preparing and delivering any kind of message—from sharing your testimony or a devotional to leading a meeting or workshop.

A Step-by-Step Guide for Speakers and Leaders

Allison Bottke

Finally…Hope for Parents in Pain What parent doesn’t want their children to grow up to be happy, responsible adults? Yet despite parents’ best efforts, most heartfelt prayers, and most loving environments, some kids never successfully make the transition to independently functioning adulthood. Following her own journey, Allison Bottke developed a tough-love approach to parenting adult children that helps both you and your child by focusing on setting you free from the repeated pain of your adult child’s broken promises, lies, and deception. Setting Boundaries® with Your Adult Children offers practical hope and healing through S.A.N.I.T.Y.—a six–step program to help parents regain control in their homes and their lives. S = STOP Enabling, STOP Blaming Yourself, and STOP the Flow of Money A = Assemble a Support Group N = Nip Excuses in the Bud I = Implement Rules/Boundaries T = Trust Your Instincts Y = Yield Everything to God As you love your child with arms and heart wide open, know that no matter what happens you are never alone. God is in control and will be with you.

Six Steps to Hope and Healing for Struggling Parents

Setting Boundaries® with Your Adult Children

While the Lord knows your deepest longings and passions, you are not always aware of them yourself. Daringly honest, powerfully encouraging, and thoroughly biblical, Secret Longings of the Heart helps women explore their desire for victory over 10 areas of life. This Bible study examines which attitudes, lifestyles, and behaviors can lead to fulfillment in Christ. Includes discussion questions.

Overcoming Deep Disappointment and Unfulfilled Expectations Now Includes a 12-Week Bible Study

Secret Longings of the Heart

Brigid Hartman had been mired in convention and appearances all of her life. At 30 she was still single and living with her controlling and overbearing mother. But there was always a burning opposition to the ordinary, a molten pit in a crater of reserve, which smoked ominously now and then. To her mother and meddling relatives, she was peculiar, dreamy, sickly and unwitting. Upon receiving a grim diagnosis, Brigid resolves to make drastic changes to her life. Knocking at death's door, she sets out to live her life, leaving behind her mother, job and convention, and in the process finds love and romance

The Golden Castle

Carol Kent has lived every parent's nightmare. After her only son was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, Carol's life took a permanent detour. She and her husband, Gene, have been adjusting ever since, moving to Florida to be near the prison, starting a new ministry for prison inmates and their families, and sharing the faithfulness of God with anyone who will listen. A New Kind of Normal begins with the story of that horrible night when Carol and Gene learned their son had been arrested, but it doesn't end there. In fact, Carol knows what it means to live with an unthinkable circumstance that will never change-and to still make hope-filled choices. Through the eight chapters in this book, Carol will use their own story, the story of Mary mother of Jesus, and stories of women who have experienced their own "new normal" to share how God has led them to choose life, gratitude, vulnerability, involvement, forgiveness, trust, and action.

Hope-Filled Choices When Life Turns Upside Down

A New Kind of Normal

An Adaptation of Lucy Maud Montgomery's "The Blue Castle"

Carol Kent imparts several principles from the life of Jesus for the making of an effective mentor.

This Bible study examines 10 fears common to most women and suggests ways to overcome such fears by using them as stepping stones to deeper faith, renewed confidence, and sincere reverence for a powerful and loving God.

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