New Releases by Leslie Parrott

Choose the parent you''ll be--and you choose the child you''ll raise. When it comes to parenting, who you are is more important than what you do. After all, your child internalizes your traits more than anyone else''s on the planet. And that''s why Les and Leslie Parrott--in a parenting book like no other--give you a proven plan for cultivating the traits you most want your child to have. Discover: the most important question you''ll ever ask as a parent the three-step method to avoid being the parent you don''t want to be the secret to making your "intentional traits" stick on even your worst days . . . and much more. A husband and wife team made up of two of today''s leading relationship experts, Les and Leslie Parrott reveal their personal experiences as parents to help you fulfill the most important calling you will ever have. The Parent You Want to Be is inspiring, warm, and filled with a transformational power for your entire family.

A comprehensive resource to help churches build a thriving marriage mentoring program. Les and Leslie Parrott are passionate about how marriage mentoring can transform couples, families, and entire congregations. The Complete Guide to Marriage Mentoring includes life-changing insights and essential skills for: Preparing engaged and newlywed couples. Maximizing marriages from good to great. Repairing marriages in distress. Practical guidelines help mentors and couples work together as a team, agree on outcomes, and develop skills for the marriage mentoring process. Appendixes offer a wealth of additional resources and tools. An exhaustive resource for marriage mentorship in any church setting, this guide also includes insights from interviews with church leaders and marriage mentors from around the country. “The time is ripe for marriage mentoring, and this book is exactly what we need.” ? Gary Smalley, author of The DNA of Relationships

Have you ever felt plucked out and suddenly dropped by the hand of God into the wasteland? Have you felt desolate, dry, and fragile? No sign of God, no sound of water? Here is the personal and passionate, "Me too!" that fans of Leslie Parrott have been waiting for. For "Seattlite" Parrott, rain isn''t a date-canceling, mood-altering nuisance. Rather, that first drop of rain and the following drizzle or downpour is a persistent, positive, mystical fact of life that both confirms the presence of God and underscores his (seeming) absences. Through original poetry, vividly-drawn vignettes, and honest reflection, Parrott mixes images of rain and "wasteland" to explore the daily juxtaposition of deluge and desert we all encounter. A conversation about grief and death takes place in lush gardens teeming with life. A prayer, delivered and answered at a dying friend''s bedside, leads to bittersweet understanding. And personal confidences ("My flaws and fears are so real, they demand my full attention.") strike a chord in all of us who struggle earnestly, if sometimes defiantly, to see God''s purpose in everything.

This guide zeroes in on personal qualities and reveals how the unique combination of a husband and wife''s two personalities creates a "Love Style" that is unlike any other. Crack the code and enjoy the deepest love possible.

Drs. Les and Leslie Parrott help couples uncover and understand the dynamics each person brings into their second marriage, both as a man or woman and as an individual. For use with the Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts DVD (includes seven pre-marriage sessions plus two additional sessions specifically designed to help prepare couples for remarriage), the expanded and updated men''s and women''s workbooks include twenty-eight self tests and a group discussion guide.

This revised workbook is designed to help the woman explore the issues and practice the skills presented in Saving Your Marriage Before it Starts. Full of lively exercises and enlightening self-tests that will help you and your partner apply what you are learning directly to your relationship, this version of the workbook approaches the issues from a woman''s perspective. Each exercise includes an estimate of how long it will take, so you can easily fit the program into a busy schedule. Call-outs

You''ve spent years learning how to make your marriage work. Now it''s time to share your knowledge and experience. These marriage mentoring training manuals for husbands and wives equip the two of you to help a less experienced couple arrive at the stability, comfort, and richness you''ve achieved in your own relationship.

SPANISH ORIGINAL.This is a survival manual for the postmodern world.We will connect 100 Bible characters with today''s world in order to see the relevance of God''s Word in the circumstances we face in the new millennium.

How can you make the thorns of your marriage into roses? The conflicts and setbacks in your marriage can become opportunities to love each other more. Les and Leslie Parrott, well-known authors with vast experience in the area of personal relationships, believe that idiosyncrasies and individual differences---how you squeeze the toothpaste tube, how to manage money---can serve to unite marriage partners, as long as they learn constructive confrontation. Change the thorny aspects of your marriage into opportunities to love one another more, while learning how to: Build intimacy while respecting personal space; Use the power of a positive attitude in marriage; Trade boredom for entertainment, impatience for patience, business for time together, debt for a team approach to finances, and much more. Have the courage about deepening your marriage and you will discover how your relationship with God can unite marriage partners in unimaginable intimacy.

Oftentimes understanding the Third Person in the trinity can be difficult. There are numerous scholarly books devoted to this purpose, but for the everyday Christian language and scriptural foundation, Les Parrott explains who the Holy Spirit is and what His purposes are here on earth.Who Is the Holy Spirit? is a book for everyday people with everyday encouragement and insight into the Holy Spirit and the blessings He affords.

"Pillow Talk" is a devotional gift book with a twist. It offers one month of devotionals for couples to share together at bedtime. Each reading has a short story, a question to talk about, a verse to sleep on and an evening prayer. It''s an interesting, funny, positive, interactive book designed to improve communications in couples.

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Greeters are the welcoming arms that people long to find in a church. This guidebook will help you reach out to people who need to experience the warmth of belonging to a church family. Includes discussion questions and tips for remembering names.

This workbook accompanies the Parrotts'' hardcover book ''When Bad Things Happen to Good Marriage''s. Twenty exercises help wives work through the book.

Well-known authors and psychologists Les Parott III and Les Parrott, Sr. provide useful insights for raising emotionally healthy children.

"After Nevada, Oklahoma has the highest divorce rate in the nation. Right here in what some describe as the "buckle of the Bible-Belt", marriages are crumbling at an alarming rate. Surprised? You''re not the only one. In fact, you are in the same company as your governor, who is setting about to reduce the number of divorces in Oklahoma by a full one-third in the next ten years!So in an effort to get Oklahomans thinking more seriously about marriage we have compiled this little book of quotes and quips. As you thumb through it, you''ll find all sorts of information--from the lighter side of "where to kiss in Oklahoma" to the more insightful "best marriage advice you''ve ever heard".This may not be the most exhaustive or profound marriage book you''ve ever read, but it just might get you thinking about how you can play a part in helping the Governor and fellow Oklahomans build better marriages in Oklahoma."

This inspirational book of 40 meditations for couples applies God''s principles for living from the book of Proverbs to the contemporary issues of marriage.

Written by relationship expert Leslie Parrott, this book meets the strong-felt need of new mommies to find and grow friendships during this child-focused season of their lives. She helps readers understand the feelings of frustration behind giving all one''s attention to young children. She details how to find friends who know "mommy speak", how to cultivate mentor moms, and how to balance being a good friend and a good mom.

This is the participant''s guide to accompany a contemporary curriculum for teaching the basics of healthy relationships, including friendship, dating, families, and relating to God. The manual is designed for anyone seeking to improve their relationships.

Drawing from the book of Proberbs, marriage experts Les and Leslie Parrott share ancient wisdom for modern couple--and honest answers for building a strong, richly rewarding marriage.

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Parrott’s insights into key issues for board members make this book required reading for both new and ’seasoned’ board members and pastors. Use these resources to transform meetings into ministry!

Now there''s a practical guidebook for seasoned couples who''d like to apply their experience to assist newlyweds through the ups and downs of the first year of marriage. In this book, Drs. Parrot draw from their expertise and personal insights from marriage to address issues such as establishing good mentoring relationships, helping couples become soul mates, and helping newlyweds manage conflict.

How to work through the reluctance and apathy that some church attenders feel to create a setting where members are willing and able to serve God and the church. Paper.

To thousands of people, the beautiful hymn Softly and Tenderly will always be associated with an altar, a place where an encounter with God marked a turning point in their lives. Where did the idea for an altar originate? Has it played a significant part in Christian experience over the centuries? Is its use valid today?Questions such as these sent the author on a search for answers. The result is this book, which was not written with final answers in mind. The ultimate value and meaning of the kneeling altar as a means of grace rests in the heart of the beholder.The first nine chapters are devoted to the history of the altar starting with the initial altar built by Noah. Abraham, Moses, Gideon, Samuel, and David all used altars and in different ways. But for the Hebrew leaders the altar symbolized man''s encounter with God.In New Testament times the use of the Hebrew altar with its animal sacrifices was no longer needed for the followers of Christ. The symbolic altar, however, was there and was linked with the persuasive preaching of the apostles and Paul, laying a foundation for later use of the altar in the church. The historic portion continues through the centuries noting the contributions of Luther, Calvin, Arminius, Wesley, Edwards, and Whitefield. Their contributions were not to the use of a public altar, but they were to the spirit of the altar and altar call. It remained for Francis Asbury, Charles Finney, and Phineas Bresee in the 18th to 20th centuries to develop the public invitation and a public altar in conjunction with their evangelistic ministries. Cloth.

Understanding God’s purpose for the Church in its beginning is essential to avoid missing His plan for its future. From this premise, the author projects five concepts to challenge and remind the Church of today that it is laying the groundwork now for the vitality of the future church.To be effective in serving its community, the future church will need toBe more concerned with direction than statisticsCome to peace with itself as a source of its people’s greatest joy as well as greatest frustrationSee evangelization as a process and not an eventLearn to cope with the pace of change in the culture termed ’future shock’Be alert to global issues including hunger, human rights, and war.Kivar.

The author gives insightful and practical exposition based on the Book of Acts. While reading this book you will examine the meaning of Pentecost and other apostolic events for today''s church. A leader''s guide is available for assistance in group study. Paper.