Bücher von Steven Cohen

From authors and speakers, Steven and Courtney Cohen, this companion Guide for Loved As You Are is designed for parents, teachers, counselors, family, and friends of children who have been adopted from hard places. This guide is designed to help give common language, empathy, compassion, and understanding for adopted or adoptive children, while equipping the reader with questions, background information of the illustrations, a scavenger hunt on every page, as well as ways to challenge the readers own precepts, beliefs, and understandings.Join Gif, the giraffe, on his perilous and providential journey to find his forever home - to discover what it means to be loved as you are.Family comes in all shapes, sizes, and colors. Adoption through foster care is one wonderful path a family can walk to come together. Even the storms and steep mountains of life your child has faced are part of the larger, colorful portrait God is painting of their life. Though God may not have brought the challenges their way, He can always make use of them for your child's good.Gif the giraffe, pronounced Jif, was first painted on our nursery room wall as we prepared for our first adopted daughter. He gained his name almost three years later when she would say goodnight to the animals and she called him peanut butter. Like that creamy substance on the roof of your mouth, the name just stuck.In Loved As You Are we are invited into Gif's journey of adoption through foster care. For kiddos who experience these unimaginable challenges and hardships it can become hard to see God's love for them or His bigger picture, sometimes making them feel hopeless or unloveable.But as we travel through this journey we find that not only is God with us in the most difficult of times, but He redeems them to be a part of His beautiful portrait and our testimony.Loved As You Are is also available on BookBaby.com

This companion guide is for parents, counselors, and those who read However Long Forever, regardless of age. It is designed to create a fun environment, develop common language, validate feelings and perspectives of our foster children, help grasp the depth and connections in the illustrations, and to give insight and discussion points. Join Omari, the orca, and discover God's love, healing, and hope - on the journey from place to place. Foster care is one beautiful way to blend God's children together in this wonderful thing called family. Even when we don't know how long it will last, fostering can create an atmosphere of rest, reunification, restoration, and rejuvenation. In short, it is possibly the single opportunity some of God's kiddos will have to experience His love for them. Foster parents play an active and crucial part in a foster child's life.With no promise of tomorrow, we want our kiddos to know we love themHowever Long Forever.

Are you overwhelmed by debt? In over your head? Don't know where to go or what to do? Feel like you have no plan for the future and that your creditors are attacking you left and right? Do you just look at finances and purchases with a blind eye hoping that the numbers will work themselves out? Then this is your guidebook. "Christian in Crisis" provides practical and Biblically based solutions to those drowning in debt with guidance from an expert on numerous issues and situations. It is also an excellent financial guide to those not yet in debt, with key insights into the workings of the debt market and how to avoid the pitfalls and snares which creditors so willingly allow us to fall into in our modern financial world. The text deals systematically and proactively with the most common financial situations facing Christians and non Christians alike today. Do you have what it takes to become debt savvy?!!! You do, but each and every purchase you make and each paycheck you receive is either one step closer toward financial freedom or financial crisis. "Christian in Crisis" provides a chapter by chapter guide to the most common problems and situations facing those in financial trouble today. The text explores how one gets into debt, how to budget your way out of debt and what to do when you are sued or feel the walls are collapsing in around you. Guidelines for buying a car and a home are just a few of the many topics delved into with numerous rules of thumb on how to make wise choices when facing the many common financial choices facing consumers today. We live in a world which looks at your credit score as it as if it were a modern Rock Star or Idol if you will. But our Idol should not be our credit score but the Lord. With a focus towards the wisdom of Solomon, the trials of Job and the teachings of our Lord Jesus, you too can escape debt's hold and be free, debt free!