Do you want your home to be an environment of growth where each member finds forgiveness, love, acceptance, and honor? Renowned counselor Dr. Gary Smalley reveals ways to build a marriage and a family that honors each family member. Filled with personal stories that will make you laugh and cry, Smalley shares wisdom from his many years of experience as a husband, father, grandfather, and counselor. He offers both spiritual depth and practical insight,...

Provides guidance and perspective for married couples to help retain love and understanding in a partnership by choosing love over anger in daily married life, and to honor both God and each other in the relationship.

Devastated by the events of September 11, 2001, Luke Baxter has walked away from everything that mattered to him: his faith, his family, and Reagan, his only love. What Luke doesn't know is that he is about to become a father. Someone in his family discovers the truth, but she has a secret of her own -- one that will change the Baxter's lives forever

This touching story allows us to see into the lives of the Baxter family as Erin and Sam attempt to adopt a child. The idea of meeting with the birth mother gave Erin Hogan a bad feeling from the beginning. Their adoption attorney had warned them against it, but with four weeks until their baby daughter's birth, Erin couldn't tell the woman no. Sam agreed. Whatever the outcome, they would meet the birth mother, hear what she had to say, and pray that...

Kari Baxter Jacobs, having learned of her husband's infidelity and that he wants a divorce, decides she is going to stay in her marriage and try to make things work, but the arrival of an old flame confuses matters.

After 27 years of marriage, Marilyn Anderson is tired of playing the role of perfect wife. Her husband Jim is a successful businessman who gives her everything she needs - a beautiful home in an upscale neighborhood, the financial freedom to be a stay-at-home mom, an enviable collection of stuff. Everything, that is, except what really matters: love. After years of trying to connect with Jim, Marilyn has had enough. She longs to experience some measure...

On his own for the first time in his life, Doug Anderson drifts further and further from his faith, worrying his family and his friend Christina, a young woman with growing feelings for him.

Find the balance between tough love and tender love. Do you and your loved ones sometimes seem poles apart? Do you long for greater affection in your most important relationships? Do you wish you could communicate in a way that's both loving and effective? In The Two Sides of Love, best-selling authors Gary Smalley and John Trent explain how to find a healthy balance between the protective, consistent, 'hard side' love and the tender, understanding,...