Titles by: Faye Burdick

Author: Faye Burdick

Faye Burdick is an elder in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and a retired editor. She edited The Roots of Youth Ministry series and God's Plan for Growing Up resources.

An Overview of the Bible and How It's Organized

By Faye Burdick

This one-session youth study gives high school youth an overview of the holy Bible. The study is designed to help youth from all backgrounds further understand the sacred book and to hopefully inspire them to become lifelong learners of the Bible. Pr...

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$7.50

Bible Study Tools for Older Youth

By Faye Burdick

What tools can youth use to better understand the Bible? This one- session youth study, "Bible Study Tools for Older Youth," introduces youth to some basic resources they can use when studying the Bible.

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$7.50

Whether your teen has high self-esteem or low self-esteem, this study can help ■you to build and maintain a healthy identity in your teen.

Building Self-Esteem in Your Teen

By Faye Burdick

How can parents help their teen develop a healthy self-esteem? When previously high achieving and happy kids begin receiving bad grades and don't care, issues of self-esteem are likely involved.This study defines self-esteem and shares new research a...

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$7.50

Genesis

By Faye Burdick, W. Eugene March

The book of Genesis is the first in a collection of books we now call the Bible. It is also the first of five books called the Torah. This collection of books was compiled somewhere around four hundred years before the time of Jesus. It is a book abo...

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$15.00

The Bible is a wonderful source of guidance for Christian parents and their teens, ■but what about when a parent just feels physically, emotionally, and spiritually ■spent?

Help for the Exhausted Parent

By Faye Burdick

The bookstores are FULL of books about the exhausted parent, but most are directed toward the parents of newborns, young children, and children with special needs. But what about the parents of teens who suffer from fatigue, weariness, and loss of en...

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$7.50

Christian parenting in tough financial times can be an opportunity to evaluate ■priorities with your teen.

Helping Your Family through Financial Stress

By Faye Burdick

Guilt. Sadness. Regret. Blame. Transitioning to a lower income is stressful for individuals and families. For middle and upper-class families, the security and comfort that was once there has now disappeared. This study for parents of teens explore t...

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$7.50

Helping our teens choose healthy relationships calls for our child to know what ■fuels the relationship. This study helps parents prepare their children for situations ■when an instant response is needed.

Helping Your Teen Choose Healthy Friendships

By Faye Burdick

How do parents help their teens identify healthy and unhealthy types of relationships? As teens face more pressures from outside the home and choose their own friends, what do parents need to do to support their teen in making healthy decisions?This ...

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$7.50

The Bible is replete with tales of parental authority. And through the Ten ■Commandments, Christians are taught from an early age to honor thy father and ■thy mother, but the day will come when the tables turn. Keep in mind, parenting ■is a two-way street.

Learning from Our Teens

By Faye Burdick

There's a famous quote, often attributed to Mark Twain, that accurately reflects the parent-child relationship: "When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one,...

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$7.50

Reflections for Christian parents on modeling your commitment to social justice for ■your teenager.

Modeling Love for the "Least of These"

By Faye Burdick

Teaching your children the Golden Rule to do for others what you would wish to have done to you is a common and positive practice for Christian parents. To children it means sharing, being gracious, and having compassion for others. But sometimes "do...

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$7.50

The Bible presents many cases of multi-generational family living arrangements ■that benefited each generation in different ways. But in our contemporary world, ■Christian families face many challenges when sandwiched between their parents ■and their children.

The Sandwich Generation

By Faye Burdick

The month of July is "Sandwich Generation Month," but not everyone in the middle feels like celebrating.The Pew Research Center reports that one of eight Americans ages forty to sixty is raising a child while caring for a parent. Over seven million a...

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$7.50

Gee, it must have been so easy raising Christian children in biblical times! No TV, ■no internet, so sexting, no constant barrage of sexual imagery to tempt and ■confuse our kids--NOT! Since the dawn of man, teens and tweens have found ■ways to satisfy their curiosity about sexuality but some ways are healthier than ■others.

Talking to Your Kids about Porn

By Faye Burdick

In 1964, Justice Potter Stewart famously stated "I shall not today attempt further to define [obscene or pornographic content] . . . but I know it when I see it."Many parents today feel the same way. With the broadcast media full of sexual images and...

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$7.50

This study offers advice and support for grieving the loss of a child or for helping a ■friend grieve the loss of a child.

When a Child Dies

By Faye Burdick

What goes through a parent's mind and soul when a son or daughter dies? Author Faye Burdick's son died in early 2008. In this study she shares glimpses of her journey and what friends and loved ones did that was helpful and not so helpful. Suggestion...

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$7.50