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Remaining You While Raising Them
$18.99Add to cartA guilt-free guide that strips away the myths you’ve believed about motherhood and offers you a new way to think–about your kids, yourself, and being the mom you’ve always wanted to be.
A recent Barna study stated that 80 percent of mothers are stressed out, 70 percent are tired, and 56 percent are overcommitted. This book is for them: every mom who feels overwhelmed, worried, stressed, overstimulated, tired, and strung out by all the demands of taking care of little–or not-so-little–humans.
Bestselling author, life and business coach, and mom of five boys Alli Worthington believes too many moms have neglected to take care of arguably the one person who matters most: themselves. In Remaining You While Raising Them, Alli shares guilt-free, often hilarious, empowering, and research-informed advice to help you:
*Intentionally care for yourself–spiritually, emotionally, and physically–amidst the demands of motherhood
*Drop the “good mom” myths that have been stealing your happiness
*Take back your own identity by discovering the unique type of mom you are
*Let go of social pressure, conquer mom guilt, and stop toxic comparison once and for all
*Discover easy tools for building your confidence and developing a healthy mom mindset
Raising children who are spiritually, emotionally, and physically healthy is essential, but to accomplish that heroic feat, mothers also need to be healthy in those areas. It’s time to rediscover the beauty, the joy, and the sacred and secret art of confident motherhood together.
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Winter Fire : Christmas With G.K. Chesterton
$24.99Add to cartIt may be because I am silly, but I rather think that, relatively to the rest of the year, I enjoy Christmas more than I did when I was a child. My faith demands that such be the case. The more mature I become the more I need to embrace the joys of the incarnation. The more mature I become, the more I need to be but a child. – G. K. Chesterton
Experience the warmth of Christmas through the winsome wit and wisdom of beloved writer G. K. Chesterton. This devotional–perfect for the Christmas season–includes selections of Chesterton’s writings, accompanied with commentary, Scripture readings, and reflections.
Be encouraged by Chesterton’s insight, charmed by the Victorian-inspired artwork, and delighted by the traditional English recipes. Make Chesterton’s poetry, short stories, and essays a part of your Christmas tradition!
A festive celebration of childlike wonder, the beautifully illustrated Winter Fire is a unique and meaningful gift.
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I Used To Be
$16.99Add to cartNavigate Through Grief with Biblical Mental Health Tools
When you suffer a loss, you enter the realm of “used to be.” You used to be married. You used to be employed. You used to be pregnant, secure, healthy, sober, thin. You used to be a son or daughter, a brother or sister, a mother or father. And in that used-to-be space there is deep emptiness, loneliness, and sorrow. It’s a place we all dwell for a while. But it’s not a place in which we are meant to remain.
The path forward includes exploring the unseen elements of grief. With this book, pastor Chuck Elliott and counselor Ashley Elliott light the way to a better future. Sharing biblical advice and proven mental health techniques, they help you learn how to fully feel and face your grief, hold onto your faith, and develop healthy ways to see yourself, your life, and your loved ones. They offer coping strategies for when moving forward seems impossible and guide you toward building new thinking patterns that will result in true healing and growth.
Maybe you “used to be” something–but there is a future waiting when you “will be” once more.
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Worry Free Parent
$29.99Add to cartWorry is contagious…
but you can stop its spreadAnxiety has an amazing ability to spread. Time and time again, when veteran counselor and parenting expert Sissy Goff has an anxious child or teen in her office, she’s found they have at least one very well-intentioned but anxious parent. Anxiety is contagious, and it’s likely affecting your kids, distracting you in the present, and making you feel like it will define your family’s future.
It doesn’t have to be this way. With over 30 years of experience helping both children and adults, Sissy offers you practical, well-researched tools that will make a difference in your life–and the lives of your children. Learn how to:
* uncover the roots of your own anxiety
* process anxiety in healthy ways rather than passing it on
* model bravery
* discover a place of deeper, freer connection to your kidsHere is the help you need to experience freedom from anxiety, raise confident, courageous kids, and become a worry-free family in an increasingly anxious world.
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I Choose Peace
$16.99Add to cartOur lives are fraught with anxiety. Conflict in our relationships, fears about the future, information overload, financial pressure, lack of contentment–all of them can steal our joy because they steal our peace. Through Christ we are promised peace, but how can we feel peace when we live in a world of chaos?
Because, says Chip Ingram, peace isn’t a feeling; it’s a choice.
In I Choose Peace, Chip unpacks Philippians 4 to show us how we can choose peace in:
– relational conflict
– anxious moments
– a broken world
– difficult circumstances
– a materialistic cultureIf you’re tired of feeling anxious over the state of the world, your relationships, or your own heart, this encouraging book will help you quiet your worries and experience real, lasting peace that doesn’t depend on what’s going on around you.
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3 Dimensional Leader
$22.99Add to cartA comprehensive manual for Christian leadership
Christian leaders need biblical character, spiritual power, and practical skills. Yet, often one of these aspects is overemphasized and the others are neglected. The Three-Dimensional Leader: A Biblical, Spiritual, and Practical Guide to Christian Leadership recognizes that these traits need to be unified in Christian leaders. Jesus exemplified these most effectively, so we must look to him for our vision of leadership.
Authors Rod Dempsey, Dave Earley, and Adam McClendon bring together their decades of experience developing disciples into leaders for the work of the kingdom. The Three-Dimensional Leader provides a biblical basis, practical examples, and a helpful assessment tool that directs the Christian leader toward growth.
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Deep Waters Of The Disciple
$12.99Add to cartDo you feel as if you’re drowning? As if between waves of doubt, despair, and grief, you’re struggling to stay afloat? Perhaps it’s a crisis in your marriage, the loss of a loved one, or financial problems that threaten to sink you. Maybe you’re facing shame or a scary illness. You’re clinging to life in desperation and tempted to ask: where is God in this?
You’re not alone. When Peter started to sink in deep waters, he called out to Jesus. Jesus’s strong hand held him fast. He was in control of the storm all along.
With pastoral compassion, Michael Cassidy comforts people facing deep waters of many kinds. He has lived through over 85 years of life’s ups and downs, including battling Leukemia. He shares stories of colleagues and people he has counselled who testify to God walking them through unimaginable trials.
Michael provides insight into specific types of suffering, including:
*Disease and Illness
*Doubt
*Despair and Depression
*Marriage Troubles
*BereavementWhen everything is shaken, you can ground yourself in the biblical wisdom of Deep Waters of the Disciple. Not only will this volume help you with your own challenges, but it will equip you to understand and help others with theirs.
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Ballot And The Bible
$19.99Add to cartHow do Bible passages written thousands of years ago apply to politics today? What can we learn from America’s history of using the Bible in politics? How can we converse with people whose views differ from our own?
In The Ballot and the Bible, Kaitlyn Schiess explores these questions and more. She unpacks examples of how Americans have connected the Bible to politics in the past, highlighting times it was applied well and times it was egregiously misused.
Schiess combines American political history and biblical interpretation to help readers faithfully read Scripture, talk with others about it, and apply it to contemporary political issues–and to their lives. Rather than prescribing what readers should think about specific hot-button issues, Schiess outlines core biblical themes around power, allegiance, national identity, and more.
Readers will be encouraged to pursue a biblical basis for their political engagement with compassion and confidence.
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What Did The Cross Achieve
$9.99Add to cartA Classic Essay on Penal Substitutionary Atonement from Theologian J. I. Packer
Penal substitutionary atonement-the belief that Jesus’s death on the cross satisfied God’s wrath against sin-is central to the Christian faith, but frequently debated. Is it just to punish an innocent person in place of the guilty? How can the temporary death of one substitute for the eternal death of many? Why doesn’t the cross grant Christians unlimited permission to sin?
In this famous essay, late theologian J. I. Packer analyzes Scripture and the works of early Reformers to defend the truth of Christ’s substitutionary suffering and death, the heart of the Christian gospel. Considered one of the most significant short works on penal substitutionary atonement from the 20th century, this careful, concise essay has influenced prominent theologians and is essential reading for students, pastors, and laypeople.
*From Renowned Theologian J. I. Packer: This work was originally delivered as a Tyndale Biblical Theology Lecture
*Part of the Crossway Short Classics Series: Other titles include The Lord’s Work in the Lord’s Way and No Little People; The Life of God in the Soul of Man; and Fighting for Holiness
*Includes a Foreword by Mark Dever
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Refocus : Living A Life That Reflects Gods Heart
$19.99Add to cartWritten by Jim Daly, the compassionate leader of Focus on the Family, ReFocus inspires and motivates Christians to transcend political agendas and partisan battles and instead interact with others in a way that will consistently reveal the heart of God to a desperately hurting world.
Our culture has become painfully polarized, often hindering relationships with neighbors, colleagues, and the very people who need to discover the love of Jesus Christ. Remembering that we are foremost citizens of heaven serving a loving Father, we who call ourselves followers of Christ can once again be known by our love.
But how? In what context and through what means? How can we tear down the walls that divide our culture, our neighborhoods and workplaces and families, in this increasingly contentious world?
Drawing on a rich variety of true stories and sources both historical and contemporary–from behind the scenes in today’s halls of power, to moving accounts from church history, to powerful breakthroughs in Daly’s own life and ministry–Daly challenges us to reclaim our responsibility, and our privilege, as God’s sons and daughters.
As followers of Jesus with His humility and compassion as our model, ReFocus: Living a Life that Reflects God’s Heart demonstrates how Christians can show the world an inexplicable taste of grace with no agenda other than to reveal the heart of God as the loving Abba Father He is.
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Just Discipleship : Biblical Justice In An Unjust World
$32.99Add to cartMany Christians and churches are rediscovering that God cares deeply about justice, but opinions abound as to what an approach to biblical justice might look like in contemporary society.
What exactly does the Bible mean by justice, and what does it have to do with poverty, racism, and other issues in our world? More importantly, how do we become the kind of people who practice justice?
Biblical scholar Michael Rhodes argues that the Bible offers a vision of justice-oriented discipleship that is critical for the formation of God’s people. Grounded in biblical theology, virtue ethics, and his own experiences, he shows that justice is central to the Bible, central to Jesus, and central to authentic Christian discipleship. Justice stands at the heart of Scripture. Following Jesus demands that we become just disciples in an unjust world.
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Preparing To Meet Jesus
$18.00Add to cartExperience the joy of knowing you are prepared for your first look into the eyes of Jesus.
One day, every believer will experience the wonder of coming face-to-face with Jesus. Can you imagine how thrilling that encounter will be? This unique devotional from Anne Graham Lotz and her daughter Rachel-Ruth leads you on a transformational journey so that you can live fully prepared for the awesome moment of the “first look.”
Drawing on the biblical story in which Abraham seeks a woman of character to marry his son Isaac, Preparing to Meet Jesus explores the characteristics God the Father looks for in a bride for His Son, Jesus. Each of these 21 daily reflections, challenges, and prayers reveals how you can pursue a life fully devoted to the One who loves you and gave Himself for you.
Preparing ourselves for Jesus’s imminent return is the greatest privilege and responsibility of our lives. Jesus is coming! Are you ready?
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Created For Compassion
$19.99Add to cartYour smile can lift someone’s spirits. Your words can bring hope to someone’s heart. You can change the trajectory of someone’s day… or even their entire life. As followers of Christ, we’re designed for compassion. While compassion doesn’t always come easily to us, it does to God. He provides us with the spirit of compassion we need to change minds, hearts, lives, and the world-one act of kindness at a time!
In this devotional guide, you’ll join Dr. Tony Evans on a journey to cultivate the godly compassion that can radically change communities and culture. For thirty days, you’ll dive into a selection from Scripture, a devotional reading from Dr. Evans, answer personal application questions, and apply what you’re learning with a daily kindness challenge to inspire the world around you. Before you know it, you’ll be a compassionate agent of transformative change…an ambassador of Kingdom kindness in a hurting world!
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Ballot And The Bible
$39.99Add to cartHow do Bible passages written thousands of years ago apply to politics today? What can we learn from America’s history of using the Bible in politics? How can we converse with people whose views differ from our own?
In The Ballot and the Bible, Kaitlyn Schiess explores these questions and more. She unpacks examples of how Americans have connected the Bible to politics in the past, highlighting times it was applied well and times it was egregiously misused.
Schiess combines American political history and biblical interpretation to help readers faithfully read Scripture, talk with others about it, and apply it to contemporary political issues–and to their lives. Rather than prescribing what readers should think about specific hot-button issues, Schiess outlines core biblical themes around power, allegiance, national identity, and more.
Readers will be encouraged to pursue a biblical basis for their political engagement with compassion and confidence.
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Set Adrift : Deconstructing What You Believe Without Sinking Your Faith
$19.99Add to cartHow to analyze and reevaluate your Christian beliefs and experiences in the church while keeping the core of your faith intact.
The number of Christians leaving the church today is significant. Many feel there is no place for them within the faith–they no longer feel at home in their church community or tradition. For various reasons, they are unsettled by the version of Christianity they’ve inherited.
Stripping away the nonessential aspects of Christianity, Sean McDowell and John Marriott will help you navigate the jarring questions and cultural challenges that lead many to walk away from the faith. You’ll come to recognize that there are other ways Christians throughout history have understood what faithfulness to Jesus looks like.
Each chapter provides practical advice on how to disassemble, rethink, and reassemble beliefs that are truly Christian and culturally and personally relevant. You’ll learn how you can continue to seek an authentic faith by:
*Establishing Jesus and his teachings as the foundation.
*Utilizing the creeds as boundary markers of what is essential.
*Seeing the entire Bible as a truthful revelation from God.
*Seeing Christianity as a historic and global tradition that encompasses diverse communities and viewpoints.The authors of this book can personally identify with the process of disillusionment that many young believers go through. They wrote Set Adrift as people who had to navigate their own way back through the fog of deconstruction. They wrote it to offer their own personal suggestions for what to do when you’re not sure what to believe anymore.
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When Loss Comes Close To Home
$19.99Add to cartFinding Your Footing in Devastating Loss
In 2009, Charlie and Jill LeBlanc experienced the unthinkable — the death of their 23-year-old son. Their loss was crushing! It’s devastating to anyone who has walked through the valley of the shadow of death, and it feels like recovery is beyond hope. Maybe you-or someone you love -has also experienced the heartbreak of losing someone close to you. If so, the LeBlanc’s have words of healing for you.
In When Loss Comes Close to Home, the LeBlancs, international music ministers, share their journey of moving forward with wisdom to heal after life-shattering sorrow. You can begin to find God’s grace and hope for yourself and others who need healing from grief by…
*Embracing the time it takes to heal
*Allowing for each person’s unique grieving process
*Valuing the biblical importance of grieving
*Practical help to overcome deep sorrow and bewildering numbness
*Powerful tools to help loved ones through lossGod “comforts and encourages us in every trouble…” so we’re able to do the same for others (2 Cor. 1:4 Amp). You can begin to regain your peace and find purpose in moving forward as God lovingly leads you into a better tomorrow.
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Traveling Light : Galatians And The Free Life In Christ (Expanded)
$25.99Add to cartWe aspire to freedom but often resign ourselves to an existence trapped in uneasiness and dread. Is there any way to shed such heaviness and reignite hope for deliverance?
In Traveling Light, Eugene H. Peterson urges us to listen to an expert on freedom, Paul, whose letter to the Galatians reminds us of the realities of life in Christ, freely given to all. Peterson says, “If there is a story of freedom to be told, the story must begin with God. . . . The Bible is not a script for a funeral service, but the record of the proclaimed and witnessed God bringing new life to the dead. Everywhere it is a story of resurrection–life where we expect death.”
That lightness of spirit we’re shown in Scripture is a gift and challenge. With an open path forward, Peterson calls us to embrace change, exploration, trust, love, and much more. Now with a new study guide, share the work of pursuing real rescue and relief through the abiding wisdom of Peterson.
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Detox For The Soul
$17.99Add to cartIt is all too easy to dwell on the negative aspects of life. We can talk for hours about conflict, worries, and disappointment, creating feelings of hopelessness, discouragement, and a lack of trust in our heavenly Father who is faithful, good, and just. Jesus said out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks. What we focus on affects how we live.
This daily devotional will help you battle against toxic thinking. Renew your mind as you reflect on the Scriptures, devotional entries, and prayers written in this book. Identify your negative thoughts and compare them with truth. What does the Bible say? Are your thoughts honoring of yourself and others? Are they holy, excellent, or worthy of praise? Stop the downward spiral of doubt, comparison, and criticism, and choose instead to dwell on true, pure, noble, and lovely things. Enhance your mental, emotional, and physical wellbeing as you spend time in God’s presence.
Detox your soul and experience the refreshing nature of a positive outlook.
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Worry Free Parent Workbook (Workbook)
$17.99Add to cartThe Tools You Need to Stop the Spread of Worry
Anxiety has an amazing ability to spread. But there are practical things you can do to fight back. In this encouraging, well-designed companion workbook to The Worry-Free Parent, veteran counselor and parenting expert Sissy Goff helps you dig deeper into the roots of your anxiety and identify targeted ways to overcome it.
Through clinically tested questions and exercises, learn how to:
* uncover more of what keeps you stuck in worry
* reframe your concerns with worry-fighting truths and Scripture
* implement joy-filled practices to foster deeper connection in your family
* find practical ways to experience freedom in your daily lifeHere are the space and tools you need to grab hold of peace, embrace grace, and become the person, parent, and family you want to be.
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Life After God
$20.00Add to cartThe understanding of God that many Christians insist is so clear in the Bible makes faith seem like an all-or-nothing proposition. When much of that rigid projection seems in doubt, it’s not surprising that many people leave behind this take-it-or-leave-it religion. Pastor Mark Feldmeir offers an introduction to a God that many people weren’t aware existed–a mysterious, uncontainable, still-active God who loves and cares for real people with real problems. Life after God offers glimpses of the ineffable God, who can emerge when we forget what we think we’re supposed to believe about God and open us up to the mystery, wonder, and compelling love we crave.
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Pray : Daily Moments To Quiet Your Mind And Center Your Soul
$16.99Add to cartMake prayer a priority with this prayer devotional from pray.com. Pray: Daily Moments to Quiet Your Mind and Center Your Soul is designed to help you step into a serene, focused space in today’s busy world. Opening up in prayer isn’t always easy. It can take time just to settle your mind and shed the worries of the day. Building a habit of prayer can help calm your anxiety, silence your fears, bring you peace regardless of your circumstances, and help you focus your attention on God’s glorious plan for your life.
With 100 daly readings that include a Scripture passage, a devotion, and a written prayer, this companion for daily moments with God will inspire you and allow you to speak to God from your heart. As you reflect on His Word, you’ll find the words you’ve been looking for?and enjoy a time of conversation and meditation with the One who always hears you. He is with you. May you find peace, rest and renewed hope!
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When God Is Silent
$19.99Add to cartFor Christians, one of our earliest lessons–and greatest gifts–is learning how to pray. And yet many of us believe our prayer lives fall short. In When God Is Silent, John Koessler reassures us that this has nothing to do with motivation or method. Our problems are relational, and recognizing this is the first step to having a better prayer life.
Prayer is a conversation that moves primarily in one direction: from the believer who prays to the God who hears. If God appears silent, that does not mean that he is unresponsive. We always have God’s attention. This book does more than answer questions like how and why we should pray–it also invites us to gain a sense of God, of his goodness, and the rich welcome that is waiting for us every time we approach him in the name of Jesus Christ.
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David And Me Devotions For Boys
$6.99Add to cartYou can learn a lot from David–
shepherd boy, giant killer,
psalm writer, and king.And this kids’ devotional makes the learning fun!
This book introduces you to a very important Bible character. You’ll see how David’s life and yours are often alike–and be encouraged to follow the good examples he set.
Learn about David’s:
*early days as a shepherd
*battle with Goliath
*struggles with King Saul
*close, loving connection with GodEasy to read but hard to forget, David & Me Devotions for Kids will start a personal devotional journey that could change your life!
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Worry Free Parent
$17.99Add to cartWorry is contagious…
but you can stop its spreadAnxiety has an amazing ability to spread. Time and time again, when veteran counselor and parenting expert Sissy Goff has an anxious child or teen in her office, she’s found they have at least one very well-intentioned but anxious parent. Anxiety is contagious, and it’s likely affecting your kids, distracting you in the present, and making you feel like it will define your family’s future.
It doesn’t have to be this way. With over 30 years of experience helping both children and adults, Sissy offers you practical, well-researched tools that will make a difference in your life–and the lives of your children. Learn how to:
* uncover the roots of your own anxiety
* process anxiety in healthy ways rather than passing it on
* model bravery
* discover a place of deeper, freer connection to your kidsHere is the help you need to experience freedom from anxiety, raise confident, courageous kids, and become a worry-free family in an increasingly anxious world.
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Translating Jesus : How To Share Your Faith In Language Today’s Culture Can
$18.99Add to cartWe in the church do not speak the same language as the culture. We use many of the same words, but they rarely mean the same thing. And speaking louder isn’t the answer. If we are to faithfully and effectively share the Good News, we have to translate Jesus.
Embracing and unpacking the bilingual nature of spreading the gospel, pastor and teacher Shauna Pilgreen shows you how to learn the language of the culture so that you can clearly communicate the love of God in the three places Christ and culture meet: the gate, the cross, and the table. By learning how to share your story in the language of the culture, you’ll not only find spiritual conversations more fruitful but also build a supportive and loving community of bilingual believers excited about inviting others to enter the kingdom of God.
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Break Up With What Broke You
$18.99Add to cartIt’s time to stop letting your past define your future
Breakups are typically synonymous with rocky road ice cream, rom-com reruns, and rough crying sessions. But not this one! This is an invitation to liberation, a chance to release who you’ve been and discover who you truly are. Often, our former mistakes and regrets hold us back from where we’re called to be. How can one heal and move on? To find your breakthrough, you must break up with what broke you.
You can leave your less for more.
You can silence shame’s lies.
You can restore your original design.With great compassion, Christian Bevere shows how to leave behind what’s held you back. She offers practical ways to overcome regret, insecurity, and shame so that you can develop a positive, godly self-image and move into your future with confident expectation. With Christian’s help, you can make a clean break today. No matter what left you feeling broken, God wants to redeem and rewrite your story.
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Like A River
Original price was: $29.99.$22.97Current price is: $22.97.Add to cartLike a River, a triumphant story of new life birthed out of tragedy, will teach readers how to face their failures, confront their pain, and connect with God–the true source of life.
On June 4th, 2019, country music singer Granger Smith was enjoying a final evening with his kids before heading to Nashville for the CMT Music Awards and his next tour. While helping his daughter London with her gymnastics, his youngest son fell into their pool. Granger did everything he could to get to him, but he was too late. River drowned, and Granger’s world shattered.
The days, weeks, and months that followed River’s death sent Granger on a dark and painful journey. Every time he closed his eyes, he replayed the horrific event in his mind, and every time he opened his computer, he was bombarded by the critique and criticism of people who blamed him for the accident.
Despite his best effort to get back on stage with a smile and song, it was all a faade. On the inside he was dying. Fortunately, that’s not how his story ended. And now he is compelled to help people all around the world find strength, peace, and hope on the other side of tragedy.
*Like a River, life is full of twists and turns.
*Like a River, people pollute our world with their critique and criticism.
*Like a River, tragic events keep us dammed up.
*But like a river, we can find the courage to keep moving downstream.Rivers don’t run on their own strength; they flow from their source. When we try to keep going on our own, we won’t make it, but when we connect to the greater source, we will find the strength and the faith to keep living after loss. This triumphant story of new life birthed out of death will inspire every reader to live Like a River.
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Closer Than Your Next Breath
$18.99Add to cartGod is omnipresent–meaning He’s here, there, everywhere all at the same time–so no matter what you’re going through today or worried about facing tomorrow, He is closer than you can imagine, and His presence changes everything.
The God of creation cares deeply about every detail of our personal lives. He’s in charge of every galaxy and has named every star. He also knows about the hurts in our hearts and the hairs on our heads. He’s near and far. His glory fills the universe, and yet He’s up close and involved.
Though we believe in our minds that God is all-powerful, all-knowing, and all-present, sometimes we don’t feel his closeness. How can we walk boldly in our faith, expecting Him to draw near to us as we draw near to Him, as promised in the book of James? In Closer Than Your Next Breath, bestselling author, speaker, and radio host Susie Larson helps readers experience God’s trustworthiness and love–even when they feel far from Him. In this book, readers will explore these questions and more:
*How do I know if I’m hearing the voice of God?
*Is feeling good the same as feeling God?
*Is there anything I can do when God seems silent?
*How should God’s presence impact me?There’s nothing like God’s presence in our lives, but sometimes we chase the sensational and miss the supernatural. Worship services, retreats or conferences, and mountaintop experiences are great, but too often we rush right by the nuanced, miraculous ways God shows up in our story every day. When we pursue the heart of God through the Word of God, that’s when we experience the presence of God–and it makes all the difference in our lives.
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When Faith Meets Therapy
$19.99Add to cartNow available in trade paper!
The power of faith intersects with the practicality of counseling in this unique partnership of a faith/worship leader and a therapist as they offer a pathway for readers to find help, hope, healing, and freedom while navigating life’s struggles.
No one is immune from life’s difficulties, yet many people are reluctant to talk about mental health or seek professional help when they are struggling. People of faith who are battling issues such as anxiety, depression, life changes, stress, or relationship problems may suffer in silence, believing things would get better if only their faith was stronger, they prayed more, or if they had more self-discipline. The stigma about needing to seek help is all too real.
But seeking professional help isn’t a sign of weakness; it’s a sign that someone is serious about moving forward emotionally, relationally, and spiritually. Written by producer, artist, and author Anthony Evans, along with licensed psychotherapist Stacy Kaiser, When Faith Meets Therapy:
*Dispels the cultural myths and stigmas that surround professional therapy
*Shares stories from the authors’ personal experiences and others who are facing life’s challenges
*Provides practical steps that readers can take in the pursuit of emotional, relational, and spiritual progress
Anthony and Stacy met five years ago when Anthony was seeking emotional and relational healing of his own. Stacy led Anthony through his own process of internal renovation and remains his personal therapist to this day.
When Faith Meets Therapy contains priceless, practical knowledge to break stereotypes that surround therapy, all while offering immeasurable hope and encouragement.
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Centering Jesus : How The Lamb Of God Transforms Our Communities, Ethics, A
$17.99Add to cartWhat happens when Jesus becomes obscured from our point of view?
With all the hostility boiling just under the surface of our world, we need a renewed vision of Jesus as the Lamb of God who can lead us in the peaceable ways of the Kingdom. When we fail to keep Jesus at the center of our lives, we lean into the desires of our hearts more than the desires God has for us. As a result, our entire spirituality becomes driven by the self and for the self. We need renewed practices of centering Jesus in our hearts and minds.
In Centering Jesus, Derek Vreeland invites you to imagine what it looks like to keep Jesus as the Lamb of God at the center of three key areas of our lives-our spiritual formation, our moral lives, and our common life together. With the deep divide in American culture and the polarization that continues to grow, we need a renewed focus on the Lamb so that we might blaze a path forward into civility and kindness.
Learn how to
*identify the problems that occur when Jesus is obscured from our view;
*walk through some of the key biblical descriptions of the Lamb;
*describe a Lamb-shaped and Jesus-centered approach to the Christian virtues of faith, hope, and love, the foundation of our moral lives; and
*experience the Lamb at the center of common life together, specifically worship life, participation in acts of justice, and political life.
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Unfair Advantage : 7 Keys From The Life Of Joseph For Transforming Any Obst
$19.99Add to cart“Life’s not fair!” You’ve heard it a million times–and probably said it yourself. But what if your greatest difficulties were steppingstones to a greater destiny? What if seasons of unbearable pain turned out to be pathways to unbelievable purpose?
In The Unfair Advantage, pastor Aaron Burke takes a closer look at the seven unfair seasons Joseph endures in the book of Genesis and reveals how Joseph’s struggles are not unlike the battles readers face today.
Combining biblical truths with Pastor Aaron’s insights from his years of walking with people through their biggest challenges, this book offers a message of hope and renewed strength for anyone who has battled seasons of feeling discouraged, rejected, undervalued, tempted, unfairly punished, deprived, or forgotten. The surprising reality revealed by the story of Joseph is that unfair moments and seasons of difficulty–if handled wisely–can actually be used by God for our advantage.
Readers will be comforted and inspired as they encounter in a new way the dramatic story of Joseph’s trials and ultimate triumph. Along the way, they’ll learn how to
*transform adversity into advantage,
*endure even the most challenging moments through courage and hope rooted in faith,
*become aware of God’s presence, peace, and promise in the midst of hardship.In The Unfair Advantage, readers who are walking through a season that seems unfair will be reminded of God’s ultimate gift of favor. While their situation may seem hopeless now, they can trust that God is forging something beautiful out of the brokenness, putting purpose to their pain, righting every wrong, and building a destiny better than their greatest dreams.
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Fire Of Perfect Love
$17.99Add to cartYou Can Take Comfort in the Intensity of His Love
As the world grows more hostile to the love and truth of Jesus, we need hearts that burn hotter than the fury of fear and persecution. And the secret to that kind of passion lies in a heart yielded to the fire of God’s perfect love.
With warmth and piercing insight, global apostolic ministers Steven and Rene Springer help you embrace God’s purifying fire that will:
* captivate your heart
* ignite power and purpose
* reveal your true identity
* bring forth boldness and cast out fear
* fuel you for greater transformation and impactWhen you make fiery love the goal of your life, you won’t burn up and you won’t burn out. You will bring the transforming love of Jesus to your city, nation, and world with confidence and power.
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Hem Of His Garment
$17.99Add to cartHope for When the Pain Won’t Quit
Everyone experiences pain at times. It can manifest physically, emotionally, relationally, or spiritually. It can follow tragic accidents, great loss, sudden betrayal, or unexpected and unwanted change. Often it is temporary. But what do you do when it isn’t? When the pain just won’t go away, when healing does not come, when the grief and hurt settle in?
Drawing on her own experience of chronic pain and her years as a board-certified clinical neuropsychologist, Dr. Michelle Bengtson provides a countercultural perspective on pain. Offering hope without any false promises or empty platitudes, Dr. Bengtson unwraps the complex emotional aspects of dealing with pain. She gives you permission to question God, helps you identify the lies you’ve believed about your pain, and reorients your perception based on the truth of God’s Word. Each chapter ends with a recommended playlist, reflection questions, and a prayer.
Your pain may not change, but your experience of it can.
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1st Light And Eventide
$22.99Add to cartThis easy-to-use journal encourages readers to bookend each day with short, personal reflections that bring insight and intentionality to their busy and unpredictable lives.
How can six simple questions help you better navigate life’s uncertainty?
Bestselling author Tsh Oxenreider invites you to lean into the rhythms that each morning and evening offers with a twice-daily thought exercise focusing on gratitude, greater truth, grace, and more.
As you reflect on and record your answers to three key questions near the beginning and end of your day, you will be more poised and prepared for whatever God has for you in the hours between. Quotable wisdom from famous authors, thinkers, and leaders will inspire you throughout.
Embrace the gift of First Light and Eventide and bookend your days with mindfulness and clarity.
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Attitude Is A Choice So Pick A Good One
$14.99Add to cartA Positive Attitude Changes Everything
Author and leadership coach Bob Phillips has witnessed firsthand how choosing to face every day with a hopeful outlook is not only Christlike, but lifechanging! Though it’s easy to fall into a pattern of negative thinking, you can make small decisions every day to make a habit of looking on the bright side.
Inside Attitude Is a Choice–So Pick a Good One, you’ll find helpful tips, biblical truths, and inspiring quotes that reveal how a positive mentality toward life blesses you with perspective, motivation, and happiness. Inside, you’ll discover:
*exercises and actions that help you make optimism your default setting
*principles from Scripture that illuminate the hopeful mindset God wants you to have
*check points for evaluating your attitude and noting your progress towards positivityAttitude is a Choice–So Pick a Good One will move you towards growth in all areas of your life. Full of bite-sized wisdom and uplifting insights, this book will help you make lasting positive changes to how you approach each day.
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Recipes For A Sweet Child
$19.99Add to cartPractical Help for the Overwhelmed Mom
Searching for answers to your toughest parenting problems, like how to turn your children’s grumbling into gratitude? Are you trying to navigate ongoing issues like sibling rivalry, tattling, unforgiveness, peer pressure, or bullying?
Author Katie J. Trent combines her counseling and ministry expertise with her own parenting experiences to provide you with a creative guide to work past challenging childhood issues in a winsome way.
Recipes for a Sweet Child will help you:
*Teach your kids, from toddlers to teens, how to apply biblical wisdom in any situation.
*Gain invaluable insights to help your kids overcome thirty-six of the most pressing emotional, behavioral, and relational battles that they face.
*Discover simple tools to bring peace and joy into your home with easy, interactive activities and Bible lessons.
*Engage the whole family in fun games and in-depth conversations.
*Build kindness and character in your children so that they become the young ladies and gentlemen God wants them to be.
*Enjoy making delicious recipes with your kids. Full-color photos are included.
Katie J. Trent, a licensed clinical social worker, has over a decade of experience equipping and encouraging families through counseling and ministry. The author of Dishing Up Devotions: 36 Faith-Building Activities for Homeschooling Families, a popular blogger, and speaker, Katie loves to create resources to simplify life for busy moms by infusing faith and fun to build strong families. Katie puts the fun back into the fundamentals of family discipleship.
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How Can I Be Sure Whats Right And Wrong
$12.99Add to cartHow can I be sure what’s right and wrong? Is it all just a matter of opinion? Do we really need God to tell us how to be good people, or can we just figure it out for ourselves? What about situations where there is no one right answer, or when we disagree with others about what the best thing to do is?
In this fun and fast-paced book, Christian Studies teacher and school chaplain Chris Morphew walks 9-13-year-olds through various questions about morality. He makes the case that there is such a thing as right and wrong, and that we need to go to God for solid and satisfying answers.
Features:
– An apologetic case for objective morality which connects with the culture today’s children are growing up in– Points children to the grace and truth of the gospel message
– Includes chapters on disagreeing well with others
– Written for kids who don’t yet identify as Christians as well as those who do
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Any Time Any Place Any Prayer Family Bible Devotional
$9.99Add to cartThis devotional is a chance to take your family on a journey through the story of prayer in the Bible. It is based on the popular storybook by Laura Wifler, co-founder of Risen Motherhood, which explores prayer: from the Garden of Eden, where Adam and Eve talked with God face to face, through Old Testament examples and the teaching of Jesus, all the way to the promise of the new creation, where we’ll dwell with God .
These 10-minute devotions are designed to be easy to lead and fun to do. They will help your family to learn to pray with confidence, . They are ideal for kids aged 5-11.
Each one of the 15 devotions includes:
– a short opening prayer
– a starter question
– a short Bible passage, printed in full
– two questions about the passage
– a short explanation that can be read aloud
– two reflection questions (Usually one is simpler and the other requires more thought. Feel free to just pick one!)
– a prayer idea
– an optional extra section that goes deeper, aimed at older or more confident children
In addition, there are simple, creative reflection ideas as well as bonus puzzles and activities.
Explore, reflect and grow together as you and your family are encouraged to pray more often, more joyfully and with more confidence in Jesus.
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7 Indispensable Words For Effective Prayer
$19.99Add to cart7 Indispensable Words for Effective Prayer
Prolific author, college and seminary professor, and co-founder of Liberty University, Elmer Towns has written a second Teaching Series consisting of six profound books designed to stir your spirit and increase your biblical knowledge: Grandparents in the Bible; The Ten Commandments According to Jesus; 7 Indispensable Words for Effective Prayer; Habits of the Heart; When God Is Silent; What Is Right? Intriguing titles with even more intriguing content.
7 Indispensable Words for Effective Prayer has been specially designed for maximum reading pleasure as well as study enjoyment. Supported with numerous relevant Scriptures throughout, this exploration on prayer and praying will undoubtedly make a significant impact on your daily interaction with your heavenly Father.
Effective prayers have multiple aspects that are explored in great detail, including:
*Forgiveness Praying
*Praise Praying
*Worship Praying
*Faith Praying
*Surrender PrayingSeven chapters delve directly into various types of praying. Fifty Daily Devotions focus on Scriptures and your personal reflections. Seven lessons illuminate specific topics and can be used individually and/or in a small group or Sunday School class setting. A comprehensive PowerPoint Guide and additional online resources are also available.
“…The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and produces wonderful results” (James 5:15 NLT).
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Night Is Normal
$17.99Add to cartIt’s unnerving, isn’t it? When our faith feels ungrounded, untethered . . . unreal. When our certainty is adrift, as though an undercurrent has pulled us away from shore into the deep, into the darkness.
This is disillusionment.
This is spiritual pain.This is losing hope.
And if this is you-if you’re in a dark night of the soul-please know that you are not alone.
(And you are not as far away from safety as you may feel or fear.) Though faith shines best in full sun, it grows depth in the dark.The night is not your enemy.
In fact, the night is necessary.In The Night Is Normal, revered author, speaker, and mentor Dr. Alicia Britt Chole offers a groundbreaking perspective that reveals spiritual disillusionment as an unexpected friend.
Within these sacred pages, you’ll explore how:*The roots-and fruits-of spiritual pain are actually an invitation to deep love
*Mistaking emotions for devotion and viewing abundance as proof of obedience create an unsustainable model for Christianity
*A strong night-faith can lead you into something far more satisfying than understanding and far more powerful than peace
Our reality is broken, but God has not changed. Whether you’re disillusioned with God, yourself, or others, Alicia offers practical and soul-full tools to help you navigate the night and find your way to a livable and love-saturated hope.
Your night will not last forever.
Within it, there is priceless treasure that’s simply too weighty to be sourced in sunshine. -
Defying Fear : Finding The Courage To Embrace Your True Value
$16.99Add to cartThis fictional story, inspired by a compilation of true events, will inspire people to defy fear in their own lives by embracing their true value through a focus on spiritual, emotional, and physical practices.
From the outside, Lila Frost seems to have it all together: she is smart, educated, and accomplished. But behind closed doors, she endures consistent abuse from her husband, although she doesn’t fully recognize that abuse is part of her story. Anxiety and fear are unwelcome familiars in Lila’s daily life. For years, she believes the lies as well as the blatant and veiled threats her husband continually throws at her.
But as Lila rekindles her faith, with the support of friends, she learns to defy her fear, take courageous steps, and embrace her own value. The question is, can she sustain her newfound transformation, or will old patterns once again drive her into a pit of depression and despair? Lila’s future depends on one thing: choosing courage and acting in faith, again and again.
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Imagination Manifesto : A Call To Plant Oases Of Imagination
$14.99Add to cartTed Turnau introduces readers to the major themes of his in-depth Oasis of Imagination by collaborating with Ruth Naomi Floyd. Floyd brings her distinctive experience as a Christian artist to make this a practical guide that distils the “why” and “how” of embracing Christian creative cultural engagement.
Why does the church need to pay more attention to the imagination? How can we, in this day and age, best enter our cultural conversations for the common good? How can the local church better support its creatives, enriching its own imaginative life and building bridges to their neighbours and the wider culture?
Whether you are a Christian artist or creative yourself, or an everyday Christian searching for a path beyond the culture wars and Christian bubble, Imagination Manifesto will give you biblical foundations, practical pointers, discussion starters, and inspiration for “planting oases” in today’s culture.
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In Jesus Name
$29.99Add to cartWhoever Controls the Altar Controls the Outcome
Throughout Scripture, God’s leaders built altars where He met them in powerful, miraculous ways. God still longs to pour out His power at those altars. But we’ve been seduced away by worldly wisdom and man-made distractions and plans, leaving us ineffective against the evil sweeping across our land.
With insight and humility, international leader and pastor Rick DuBose shows the path back to five forgotten altars–and ultimately, the path to your place in heaven’s throne room. Full of real-world application and encouraging inspiration, this book will help you:
* ignite a fire for effective prayer
* stand your ground in five key areas
* create a culture of prevailing prayer in your church
* build spaces to repent, receive, and encounter GodIt’s time to storm the altars and pray with humble authority that moves heaven–and unleashes victory here on earth.
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3 Minutes With Jesus 180 Devotions For Girls
$5.99Add to cartWhat’s the best way to spend 3 minutes? With Jesus!
This devotional packs a powerful dose of wisdom, encouragement, and inspiration into just-right-sized readings for your busy schedule. Minute 1: A scripture from the teachings of Jesus to meditate on; Minute 2: a short devotional reading; Minute 3: a prayer to jump-start a conversation with God. Each day’s reading is the ideal way for you to begin or end your day. Perfect for personal use or a thoughtful gift, this accessible book is great for girls ages 8 to 12.
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3 Minutes With Jesus 180 Devotions For Boys
$5.99Add to cartWhat’s the best way to spend 3 minutes? With Jesus!
This devotional packs a powerful dose of wisdom, encouragement, and inspiration into just-right-sized readings for your busy schedule. Minute 1: A scripture from the teachings of Jesus to meditate on; Minute 2: a short devotional reading; Minute 3: a prayer to jump-start a conversation with God. Each day’s reading is the ideal way for you to begin or end your day. Perfect for personal use or a thoughtful gift, this accessible book is great for boys ages 8 to 12.
