What would you give to have a carefree life... Lighthearted and worry free?... To wake every morning with a song in your heart and a feeling of pure joy?A Great Life: Rediscovering Our True Nature is a wonderful little book offering easy to follow recommendations and guidelines for enriching our lives through healthier nutrition, meditation techniques, yoga, nature walks, and long forgotten secrets for rejuvenating and maintaining a purely enjoyable human experience. Life was never ...

Healing Ourselves Naturally is a simple, easy to follow book with recommendations and guidelines including long forgotten secrets for creating a healthy and abundant life. Learn how to effortlessly adopt healthier nutrition, a daily spiritual practice, and a rejuvenating exercise program. Based on a lifetime of experience from the authors, this little book is sure to inspire you to change non-sustaining habits into nourishing ones and begin to enjoy a vibrant, adventure-filled life... A ca...

Does your life ever feel like one series of rushed moments after another?Do you want to feel more present and connected to those you love? Do you want to be able to listen without thinking the whole time of what you’re going to say next? Do you want to feel less distracted, less busy, and more whole? Most of us spend our distracted lives longing to get to the next, better moment and fail to notice the present one. We lack space between one task and the next, one thought an...

We’re living in a stressed-out world.According to a poll from the American Psychological Association more than a quarter of U.S. adults say they’re so stressed they can’t function. But it’s not just adults. Teenagers and children are also experiencing the negative effects of stress. Blending brain science, biblical truth, and best practices, Stress Less provides hope and healing. From his PhD research, pastor Charles Stone presents nine actionable insights...

Fifteen psychologists, twelve secondary schools, four expulsions, four rehabs, two house-arrests and innumerable arguments... the cast and plot line for a season's worth of Law and Order? No. This was the real-life drama of Heather Stone's adolescence. Now in college, Heather, the once rebellious teen, has sat down with her father to pen an insider's guide for parents and teens alike.Charles and Heather don't offer Cleaver family ideals or promise Brady Bunch thir...

12th Annual Outreach Resource of the Year Recommendation (Leadership)Pastors and church leaders often fall into the trap of people-pleasing. Charles Stone?s research on thousands of pastors and ministryleaders demonstrates the dangers of approval-motivated leadership. Bringing together biblical insights and neuroscience findings, Stone shows why we fall into people-pleasing patterns and what we can do to overcome these tendencies. With practical tools for indi...

Leadershipdemands constant reframing and reappraisal of the situation at hand. Itrequires focus, objectivity, honest appraisal of self and others, andevaluation of available resources. An effective Christian church leadermust also align the congregation’s vision and practices with God’svision and the teachings of Christ. Perhaps most importantly, the churchleader must love others.AuthorCharles Stone uses recent neuroscience r...

Before pastors reach burnout and leave the ministry, they experience frustration and disappointment in ministry. Charles Stone, a veteran pastor, helps his fellow pastors understand and meet the challenges, regaining hope and energy to continue in their calling. Based on new information from The Barna Group and additional research, Stone shows readers what pastors are saying about ministry and how to overcome the obstacles, rebuild community within the congregation, and persevere with joy....

This edited collection provides an inter- and intra-disciplinary discussion of the critical role context plays in how and when individuals and groups remember the past. International contributors integrate key research from a range of disciplines, including social and cognitive psychology, discursive psychology, philosophy/philosophical psychology and cognitive linguistics, to increase awareness of the central role that cultural, social and technological contexts play in determining indivi...

180 days—that’s the critical time every pastor has to establish their role in a new church position. That first six months can make an enormous difference and give them a powerful foundation to impact the Kingdom of God in a positive way, or it can present them with growing challenges that linger for years to come.Pastor Charles Stone draws on 40 years of ministry service to present an easy-to-read guide for new and seasoned pastors alike who want to make the most of those first 18...

«In this readable and closely argued study, Charles Stone sheds light on a phenomenon that has baffled generations of scholars: why did plays about Christian martyrs grip seventeenth-century French audiences? After all, these tragedies are not very tragic. Stone unravels this mystery of the plays’ success, showing how martyr-themed plays tackled wider questions of theology, language and performance. In this thought-provoking book, Stone relates not only why these plays mattered to their fi...

She is my sun.Treasure, an orphan enslaved on a prison moon, longs for freedom. She seizes her chance during the Aresian Civil War. Unbeknownst to her, her former fiancé’s spacecraft draws near. Treasure finds herself under the command of pirate king Scorpio Darkstar after a decade spent apart due to betrayal.Will love, lust, or revenge rule the day as two long-lost sweethearts collide in the darkness of deep space?ROGUE TREASUR...