This best-selling allegory dramatizes the yearning to reach new heights of love and joy. Includes the story behind the book.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!Bestselling authors Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen present another joyful collection of stories for your reading pleasure. Within the pages of A 3rd Serving of Chicken Soup for the Soul you will find shining examples of the best qualities we all share as human...  more

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!Bestselling authors Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen present another joyful collection of stories for your reading pleasure. Within the pages of A 3rd Serving of Chicken Soup for the Soul you will find shining examples of the best qualities we all share as human beings: compassion, grace, forgiveness, hope, courage, dedication, generosity and faith.Stories may be the most powerful teaching tool available to us, especially when the lessons being taught are love, necessary losses, respect and values. In this volume of Chicken Soup for the Soul, the authors share more collected wisdom on love, parenting, teaching, learning, death, attitude and overcoming obstacles. This book will warm your heart, brighten your darkest day and put a smile on your face that will last a lifetime.

These stories will deepen your Christian faith by helping you practice Christian values in your daily life: at home, at work and in the community. This collection will open your heart to the experience and expression of more love in your life and will remind you that you are never alone or...  more

These stories will deepen your Christian faith by helping you practice Christian values in your daily life: at home, at work and in the community. This collection will open your heart to the experience and expression of more love in your life and will remind you that you are never alone or without hope, no matter how challenging and painful your circumstances may be.

Daily meditations to help women break the cycle of doing too much--for workaholics, busyaholics, rushaholics, and careaholics. Many of today's women are overextended -- addiction to working, rushing, taking care of other people's needs. With wisdom, insight, and humor, these 365...  more

Daily meditations to help women break the cycle of doing too much--for workaholics, busyaholics, rushaholics, and careaholics. Many of today's women are overextended -- addiction to working, rushing, taking care of other people's needs. With wisdom, insight, and humor, these 365 meditations -- combined with quotations from women of different ages, cultures, and perspectives -- will help women recognize that cycle. A welcome antidote to the mad rush of modern living. Schaef's concise meditations will open new doors to new ways of living. For all women who do too much -- regardless of where they do it or how -- these meditations will provide sustenance and inspiration and create possibilities for positive change in their lives.

Have your cake and eat it too. A foot in church and a foot in the world. Find a way to have it all. These are just a few of the countless strong messages flashed before Christians daily. We want to live effective Christian lives?yet the lure of life on the edge is still there. Temptation....  more

Have your cake and eat it too. A foot in church and a foot in the world. Find a way to have it all. These are just a few of the countless strong messages flashed before Christians daily. We want to live effective Christian lives?yet the lure of life on the edge is still there. Temptation. Idolatry. Immorality. Adultery. Our minds are repeatedly assaulted with hundreds of ways to take a little off here, a little off there?until biblical truth and values are completely eroded. With each small step, each subtle compromise, we?re drawn further from Christ and closer to the abyss of spiritual failure. There is that last little push?that one last compromise?The Great Compromise?the one we can?t pull out of. Is there hope? Is there help? Greg Laurie says, "Yes!" In The Great Compromise, he exposes Satan?s favorite ploys to pull Christians away from their faith and explains how each of us can take measures to avoid common pitfalls. This encouraging message for today also offers a way back for those who have found themselves ensnared. "Once you understand how compromise works," says the author, "it will change your spiritual life!"

Growing in godliness, speaking in a wholesome manner, cultivating personal discipline, building up others. loving her husband, caring for family, deepening in wisdom, living in purity, managing her home , exhibiting goodness to others, living with dignity and abiding in faithfulness are the...  more

Growing in godliness, speaking in a wholesome manner, cultivating personal discipline, building up others. loving her husband, caring for family, deepening in wisdom, living in purity, managing her home , exhibiting goodness to others, living with dignity and abiding in faithfulness are the essentials a woman needs to bring fulfillment to her life.

What lists and systems and self-help books have failed to do for young moms in the trenches, Jesus can accomplish blindfolded. Yes, moms are busy, they need a break, and they'd just like a shower. But they are also strong and brilliant and have the power to move mountains. Author and speaker Jen...  more

What lists and systems and self-help books have failed to do for young moms in the trenches, Jesus can accomplish blindfolded. Yes, moms are busy, they need a break, and they'd just like a shower. But they are also strong and brilliant and have the power to move mountains. Author and speaker Jen Hatmaker takes the words and deeds of Jesus, adds the humor of a young mom's life, and offers messages of grace and encouragement. She shows overburdened moms forty things Jesus doesn't expect them to do on their own. Covering areas such as worry, marriage, priorities, money, and the trap of comparison, this lively Bible teacher brings Jesus's message alive in a format geared to the short moments moms have that can be allotted to reflection. This is a devotional for the woman inside the mom--the Bible student, the learner, the world-changer.