Alive Community Church Library

Authors: Shannon Ethridge & Stephen Arterburn

An 8-week Workbook for Withstanding the Greatest Pressure Young Women have ever faced.

Maybe you’ve seen images of women on TV, in movies, or in magazines and thought, I’ll never look like that… even while suspecting that women with self-respect and integrity shouldn’t even try to look that way. Perhaps you’ve felt the discomfort that comes when a guy wants you to go farther than you know is right. Possibly you feel that you’ve been robbed of your purity.

In today’s sexually charged world, it’s easy to compromise in lots of little ways - only to discover that you’ve given away something you don’t know how to get back. In the Every Young Woman’s Battle Workbook - easy to use on your own or in a group setting - you’ll find 8 practical, biblical lessons to help you guard your body, mind and heart. You’ll …

1. learn how the sexual battle begins in your heart and mind.
2. understand your hunger for attention from guys.
3. explore what God has to say about sexuality and sex.
4. recognize and avoid the potential pitfalls awaiting on your journey toward adulthood and possible marriage.
5. find out how the media, novels, fashion, Internet chat rooms, and body and beauty obsessions infulence your sexual choices - and what you can do about it.
6. develop a deeper, more satisfying level of intimacy with God.

Author: Lisa Bevere

Are you tired of reading trendy diet books, taking faddish pills, and ordering the latest in television infomercial exercise equipment? If you’re like most women, what you’re really tired of is the tyranny of dieting.

The goal of a fallen culture is to be sexually attractive, but the truth is you are not what you weigh.

With candor and a gentle spirit, author Lisa Bevere shares powerful insights and liberating principles she won through her own personal battle with weight.

Learn how to realise and maintain a your ideal weight. Discover riveting truths from God’s Word with the power to set you free. Trade your self consciousness for a deeper consciousness of God.

Break free from the destructive cycle of dieting and apprehend true freedom.

This is not another “how-to-lose-weight” book. Dare to believe, and this will be the last book you’ll need to finally end your war with food and break free from the bondage of weightwatching.

Author: Anne Paulk

“Restoring Sexual Identity” offers answers to the difficult and often wrenching questons asked both by women desiring change and by friends and relatives of women struggling with same-sex attraction.

• Is lesbianism a genetic predisposition or is it developed during childhood?
• Does becoming a Christian immediately eliminate all desire for members of the same sex?
• Can a woman be a lesbian and a Christian at the same time?
• How does childhood sexual abuse relate to the development of lesbianism?
• What support is available for women who struggle with lesbianism?