Media Library
Self-Help | Personal Development
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The Our City Blessed media library items are available to borrow for personal use at no cost using the honor system. In order that others may utilize the library resources, we ask that you only borrow up to three media item at a time and return them within a month.

Media library requests from our ministry cities will be delivered and picked up by one of our team members or volunteers.

While our focus is the cities in which we have ministries, we accept media library requests for those who live elsewhere. Our City Blessed will ship these media requests. For shipped media, we ask that if you are able to please pay for the return shipping. If unable to pay, please check the box when submitting the Media Request Form and we will include a postage paid return envelope.

Library media is listed alphabetically by title.

Hands Free Life: Nine Habits for Overcoming Distraction, Living Better, and Loving More

by Rachel Macy Stafford

Item Number: 1429

Book -- In Hands Free Life, author and popular blogger Rachel Macy Stafford (the Hands Free Mama) reveals the daily habits and practices that can help us all to live more fulfilled lives and protect our relationships with those we love. Parents, singles, women, and men-everyone needs the sanity and peace of a hands-free life.


Healing Wounds of Sexual Addiction

by Dr. Mark R. Laaser

Item Number: 1210

Book -- This book is a complete revision of Dr. Mark Laaser's best-selling book, Faithful and True. Things have changed a lot in ten years, when the original edition was published, including in the area of sexual addition. Since then, internet pornography has become the number one form of sexual addiction. With pornography so readily available, maintaining a wholesome, biblical sexuality seems hopelessly beyond reach. Deeply ingrained patterns of thought and behavior keep people stuck on a treadmill of sin, even as they long for a walk of purity. This book offers a path that leads beyond compulsive thoughts and behaviors toward sexual integrity, and self-control. Sensitive to the shame of sexual addiction without minimizing its sinfulness, Dr. Laaser traces the roots of sexual addiction in families and in culture, shows how sexual sin poisons the lives of pastors and laypeople alike. He provides a complete program for treatment and recovery from sexual addiction, including the all-pervasive internet pornography.


How to Develop Self-Confidence And Influence People By Public Speaking

by Dale Carnegie

Item Number: 1058

Book -- Discover how to become the best public speaker you can be with this valuable and accessible guide from the world famous Dale Carnegie Drawing on Dale Carnegie's years of experience as a business trainer, this book will show you how to overcome the natural fear of public speaking, to become a successful speaker, and even learn to enjoy it. His invaluable advice includes ways to: -Develop poise -Gain self-confidence -Improve your memory -Make your meaning clear -Begin and end a presentation effectively -Interest and charm your audience -Improve your diction -Win an argument without making enemies.


How Successful People Think: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

by John C. Maxwell

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Book -- Revolutionize your work and life by changing the way you think through 11 simple keys to develop better clarity, creativity, and effectiveness by #1 New York Times bestselling author John C. Maxwell. A Wall Street Journal bestseller, How Successful People Think is the perfect, compact read for today's fast-paced world. America's leadership expert John C. Maxwell will teach you how to be more creative and when to question popular thinking. You'll learn how to capture the big picture while focusing your thinking. You'll find out how to tap into your creative potential, develop shared ideas, and derive lessons from the past to better understand the future. With these eleven keys to more effective thinking, you'll clearly see the path to personal success. The 11 keys to successful thinking include: Big-Picture Thinking - seeing the world beyond your own needs and how that leads to great ideas Focused Thinking - removing mental clutter and distractions to realize your full potential Creative Thinking - thinking in unique ways and making breakthroughs Shared Thinking - working with others to compound results Reflective Thinking - looking at the past to gain a better understanding of the future. Successful thinking is an acquired skill set that the most influential leaders have in common. Great leadership starts with your thinking and can change not only your life--but those around you.


How to Lead in a World of Distraction: Maximizing Your Influence by Turning Down the Noise

by Clay Scroggins

Item Number: 1268

Book -- Packed schedules, preoccupation with social media, and the urgency of ministry can cause emotional distraction. How can stressed-out leaders turn down the noise? Offering proven strategies to create space for personal evaluation and exploration, Scroggins encourages you to practice fasting, meditation, Sabbath keeping, prayer, and hospitality so you can be freer to pursue your God-given calling.


How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

by Dale Carnegie

Item Number: 1059

Book -- This book can change your life! Through Dale Carnegie's six-million-copy bestseller recently revised, millions of people have been helped to overcome the worry hobbit. Dale Carnegie offers a set of practical formulas you can put to work today. In the fast-paced world of the 1990's -- formulas that will last a lifetime! Discover how to: Eliminate fifty percent of business worries immediately Reduce financial worries Avoid fatigue -- and keep looking you Add one hour a day to your waking life Find yourself and be yourself -- remember there is no one else on earth like you! How to Stop Worrying and Start Living deals with fundamental emotions and ideas. It is fascinating to read and easy to apply. Let it change and improve you. There's no need to live with worry and anxiety that keep you from enjoying a full, active and happy life!


How to Win Friends & Influence People

by Dale Carnegie

Item Number: 1060

Book -- Dale Carnegie's timeless bestseller How to Win Friends and Influence People is a classic that has improved and transformed the professional and personal and lives of millions. One of the best-known motivational guides in history, Dale Carnegie's groundbreaking book has sold tens of millions of copies, been translated into almost every known language, and has helped countless people succeed. Originally published during the depths of the Great Depression--and equally valuable during booming economies or hard times--Carnegie's rock-solid, time-tested advice has carried countless people up the ladder of success in their professional and personal lives. How to Win Friends and Influence People teaches you: -How to communicate effectively -How to make people like you -How to increase your ability to get things done -How to get others to see your side -How to become a more effective leader -How to successfully navigate almost any social situation -And so much more Achieve your maximum potential with this updated version of a classic--a must-read for the 21st century.