BeDADitudes

BeDADitudes
Author: Gregory K. Popcak
Publisher: Ave Maria Press
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2017-03-03
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1594717192

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Internationally known marriage and family expert Greg Popcak draws on more than twenty years as a counselor as well as his own experience as a father to show how the Beatitudes can be viewed as a practical guide to understanding the love of God and applying that love to being a better father. In the first book to uniquely focus on the Beatitudes and fatherhood, Greg Popcak helps you stop focusing on yourself and instead focus on God, learning how to be the father God wants you to be by becoming a servant leader in your home. As a father of three children, Popcak realized that Jesus' call to be humble in the first Beatitude--Blessed are the poor in spirit--stands in direct opposition to what modern men learn growing up. Instead, they are taught they should live a life of unbroken success, defined by promotions at work and beautiful wives and honor students at home. The Catholic author, speaker, counselor, and radio host will show that when you practice meekness, you will connect with your family by asking them questions and listening closely to their responses. By practicing mercy, you come to know your own sins, the difficulties that lie on the path to sainthood, and how your family needs to hear about God's grace in their lives. In BeDADitudes, you discover the profound love of God found in the Beatitudes and understand how that love can transform you into being an awesome dad.

BeDADitudes

BeDADitudes
Author: Gregory K. Popcak
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781594717185

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Internationally known marriage and family expert Greg Popcak draws on more than twenty years as a counselor as well as his own experience as a father to show how the Beatitudes can be viewed as a practical guide to understanding the love of God and applying that love to being a better father. In the first book to uniquely focus on the Beatitudes and fatherhood, Greg Popcak helps you stop focusing on yourself and instead focus on God, learning how to be the father God wants you to be by becoming a servant leader in your home. As a father of three children, Popcak realized that Jesus' call to be humble in the first Beatitude--Blessed are the poor in spirit--stands in direct opposition to what modern men learn growing up. Instead, they are taught they should live a life of unbroken success, defined by promotions at work and beautiful wives and honor students at home. The Catholic author, speaker, counselor, and radio host will show that when you practice meekness, you will connect with your family by asking them questions and listening closely to their responses. By practicing mercy, you come to know your own sins, the difficulties that lie on the path to sainthood, and how your family needs to hear about God's grace in their lives. In BeDADitudes, you discover the profound love of God found in the Beatitudes and understand how that love can transform you into being an awesome dad.

Then Comes Baby

Then Comes Baby
Author: Gregory K. Popcak
Publisher: Ave Maria Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2014-11-03
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1594714126

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Greg and Lisa Popcak—popular Catholic authors, radio hosts, and marriage and family experts—present this unique guide to caring for one’s baby, self, marriage, and spiritual life in the first three years of parenthood. In Then Comes Baby: The Catholic Guide to Surviving and Thriving in the First Three Years of Parenthood, Greg and Lisa Popcak lend readers the benefit of their twenty-five years’ experience in parenting and marriage and family counseling to help them navigate the earliest years of parenthood. They recommend rituals, routines, and tips on how to manage feeding, fatigue, and finances and how also to prioritize marital bonding and faith life, suggesting that setting the pattern early will pay dividends later. The Popcaks coach Catholic couples as they become first-time parents as they adjust to their new identities and help them face the inevitable challenges of parenthood with ideas for bonding with babies and getting sufficient sleep and nutrition—all while seeing these everyday experiences through the lens of Catholic teaching on the purpose of family life.

The Father of the Family

The Father of the Family
Author: Clayton C. Barbeau
Publisher: Sophia Institute Press
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2013-10
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1622821920

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Previously published under title: Head of the family: Christian fatherhood in the modern world : Manchester, N.H.: Sophia Institute Press, 2002.

How I Stayed Catholic at Harvard

How I Stayed Catholic at Harvard
Author: Aurora Griffin
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2016-08-16
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1681497271

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A Harvard graduate, Rhodes Scholar, and devout Catholic tells you everything you need to know about keeping your faith at a modern university. Drawing on her recent experience, Aurora Griffin shares forty practical tips relating to academics, community, prayer, and service that helped her stay Catholic in college. She reminds us that keeping the faith is a conscious decision, reinforced by commitment to daily practices. Aurora’s story illustrates that when you decide your faith matters to you, no one can take it away, even in the most secular environments and under strong peer pressure. Throughout the book, she shows how being Catholic in college did not prevent her from having a full “college experience,” but actually enabled her to make the most of her time at Harvard. Aurora encourages students who are about to begin this formative journey, or those now in college, that the most valuable parts of college life -- lasting friendships, intellectual growth, and cherished memories -- are experienced in a more meaningful way when lived in and through the Catholic faith.

The Best is Yet to Come

The Best is Yet to Come
Author: Lorene Hanley Duquin
Publisher: The Word Among Us Press
Total Pages: 125
Release: 2020-02-03
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 159325380X

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Do you wish your later years came with a manual? While we all face fears about growing older, we can still approach our time and our relationships with faith, fun, and fulfillment. God gives us his grace to take risks and make decisions at this stage of our lives—with wisdom, peace, and joy. Find out how your second half of life can be the best years yet!

The Corporal Works of Mommy (and Daddy Too)

The Corporal Works of Mommy (and Daddy Too)
Author: Dr. Greg
Publisher: Our Sunday Visitor
Total Pages: 57
Release: 2016-04-18
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1681920344

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How do you turn your home into a place where saints are made? By practicing the “little way” of family life at home, every day. St. Therese of Lisieux’s “little way” shows us that we can achieve holiness by performing even the smallest acts with great love. For the family, every day is made up of many, many small acts – feeding hungry tummies, comforting a feverish child, getting a squirmy toddler dressed for mass – and in each one we have the opportunity to practice mercy and be a living example of how to love and follow God. The Corporal Works of Mommy (And Daddy Too) gives parents practical suggestions, tips, and ideas for ways to practice the corporal works of mercy in the home, and reflection questions for delving deeper into the topics. Each chapter also includes a prayer for God’s guidance in our pursuit of the “little way” of the family. Let God set your family ablaze with his love when you practice The Corporal Works of Mommy (And Daddy Too).

Discovering God Together

Discovering God Together
Author: Lisa Popcak
Publisher: Sophia Institute Press
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2015-08-03
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1622822463

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Research shows again and again that when families openly live and share their faith together, their marriages are stronger, children and parents get along better, and children are less likely to succumb to drugs, alcohol, promiscuity, or negative peer pressure. In this book, experienced psychotherapists Greg and Lisa Popcak show how you can transform your family into a joyful place where each member experiences life as a gift from God. From tapping into the rich beauty of Catholic traditions to mustering the motivation needed to deepen your spiritual life, you discover the practical, positive, and tangible difference our faith can make in your family life. You’ll also learn . . . The five marks of a Catholic family. Are you missing the most important? How to keep rituals fresh and alive rather than boring and routine. The four characteristics of teaching your children to have the heart of a disciple. The one thing children need to catch their faith on fire. How to shepherd your kids through the seven stages of faith. Six steps to helping kids develop individual prayer time How to discern your family’s charism – and what to do with it. How to foster your children’s sense of mission.

Joseph, the Man Who Raised Jesus

Joseph, the Man Who Raised Jesus
Author: Gary Caster
Publisher: Servant Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781616365530

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Who was St. Joseph? Was he just a passive, incidental figure in the drama of salvation? On the contrary, in every way that Jesus needed a father, St. Joseph was that for him. And how overwhelming it must have been for Joseph to be asked to stand in the Father's place! No man has ever been asked to do so in such an unthinkable way. Every priest, and certainly every man who is a father (biologically or otherwise), should take this to heart. Caster's book provides a unique, in-depth presentation of Joseph from the perspective of the evangelical counsels and the theological and cardinal virtues. Each section begins with an explanation of what each counsel or virtue means and then shows how Joseph models it for us. The descriptions of St. Joseph's life and character found in this book, while rooted in the Scripture passages that mention him, are chiefly inspired by Jesus, who spent the majority of his life at home with Joseph and Mary. For years, the three of them lived, prayed, celebrated, studied, and shared, all the while uniting their lives more intimately with God's own. Those years in Nazareth were a real preparation for the foundation upon which Jesus would build his saving ministry. And as much as Joseph and Mary offered Jesus, he offered them an ever-expanding awareness of the God that had changed both their lives. The reciprocity of love that perfectly defines the home in Nazareth is the very pattern for all family life--and therefore of the Church itself. Let Fr. Gary Caster introduce you to the man who risked everything to care for Mary and her Son, safeguarding them from harm and cherishing them with a pure and true love. Joseph was a flesh-and-blood testimony of what it means to live according to the Father's will with one's mind and heart centered on Christ.

Help! I'm Holy, But I'm Horny

Help! I'm Holy, But I'm Horny
Author: Dr Michael Scruggs
Publisher:
Total Pages: 154
Release: 2015-07-27
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9781498442978

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There is something about the word "horny" that makes people blush instantly, especially church people. But let's face it, we live in a world where sex is more accessible than education-where internet porn, sexting, strip clubs and dating apps allow spouses to secretly cheat on one other. How are we supposed to survive until Christ's return unscathed by all of these entanglements? This book is for every highschooler that has to sit through sex-ed and hear about the physical ramifications of having unprotected sex, but is never made aware of the spiritual ramifications. This book is for every single that loves Jesus, but yearns for the company of the opposite sex and is finding it hard (literally and figuratively) to keep sane in a world that promotes sexuality at every turn. This book is for every married couple that experienced sex prior to their wedding day and occasionally have thoughts, make comparisons, and/or has fantasies about someone other than their spouse. This book is for every divorcee whose body was used to being intimate with their ex on a regular basis and is now frustrated as to what to do now that that person is no longer in the picture. This book is for every woman that doesn't understand why sex is so high on the list of needs for men. This book is for every man that doesn't understand why sex isn't ranked higher on the list of needs for women. Help! was written to give you just that-help. With biblical principles and personal examples, Dr. Scruggs outlines ways in which we can navigate through the ups and downs of sex, love and relation-slips. Dr. Mike Scruggs (D. Min., United Theological Seminary) is the Founder and Senior Pastor of Light of the World Ministries (affectionately known as the "Light" House) in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is a respected spiritual leader, social reformer, and lover of his city. He is honored to be married to his wife Kisha and father to their two children."