Making Sunday Special by Karen Mains

Making Sunday Special by Karen Mains is an insightful, encouraging, and delightful book.  The author challenges Christians to celebrate Sunday with a Sabbath heart—to make the Lord’s Day so special that its impact launches a weekly cycle of reflection and growing anticipation. Making Sunday Special will help you and your people restore the biblical “rhythm of the sacred” and then fall in love again and again with Jesus Christ, the Lord of the Sabbath.

Parenting Us by Karen Mains

Parenting Us by Karen Mains is more than just a guide.  This book is a dynamic learning resource that stands apart from other Bible studies because the exercises are creatively designed to involve the imagination and emotions as well as the intellect. You'll explore God's parenting methods in Scripture and learn about the enormous, healing strength that is available to the Christian who not only understands God as their Heavenly Parent but also lives and acts in the center of that truth.

Lonely No More by Karen Mains

Lonely No More by Karen Mains was extremely controversial in certain sections of ultra-conservative Christianity so I warn you, read it carefully.  I stand behind every word, despite the controversy.  It may even shake the ground beneath your feet.  I will probably never write anything this well again.  But I have certainly paid for the effort to be excellent, to be lovingly truthful, to want God. Covers age 45-52.

Living, Loving, Leading by Karen Mains

 Living, Loving, Leading by Karen Mains  offers a tangible, "seeable" model for encouraging your family's spiritual development. Join David and Karen as they suggest some helpful, biblical ideas for raising the spiritual temperature of your home. Walk with them as they describe their own struggles and triumphs, and as they search for workable solutions to the crucial question, "How can we become the spiritual leaders of our family that God wants us to be?" Can you afford to wait any longer?

Comforting One Another by Karen Mains

Comforting One Another by Karen Mains continues the autobiographical series and uses Michelangelo's Pieta as a metaphor.  I reference the personal pain caused by writing Lonely No More in order to construct a theology around the meaning of mercy, with pietas from art, literature, film, news photography, poetry and real life building pictures of how God's love shows itself forth in the world.  This is a book for those who are suffering and for those who want to hold them. I define a pieta as any person or group of people holding a broken body facing any death-like scenario. I think this book has helped others; it certainly allowed me to make sense of my own pain.  This covers the age from 52-56.

The God Hunt by Karen Mains

The God Hunt by Karen Mains is an eye-opening book that offers deep insight into those seemingly ordinary moments when God intervenes in our lives with guidance, care and help.

Once you start the adventure you quickly realize that such moments happen more often than you think. You'll be drawn into deeper communion with God as you tune in to the many ways he answers prayer, shows evidence of His love, helps you do His work in the world and "works all things together for good."

Open Heart, Open Home by Karen Mains

Open Heart, Open Home by Karen Mains steps far beyond how-to-entertain you hints to explore the deeper concepts of Christian hospitality-the Biblical way to use your home and an open heart to care for others like God wants us to. Countless pastors have recommended this classic resource as the meaningful example of how the Holy Spirit ministers to and through us to make other people feel truly welcome and deeply wanted.