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Saints Angels And Demons
$32.00Add to cartSaints, Angels, and Demons is an illustrated compendium of the fascinating lives and meaningful legacies of nearly 400 iconic figures who have influenced history, religion, literature, and art, throughout the centuries and across the world.
From St. Augustine, whose writings helped shape Western culture to St. Bernadette, whose visions of Mary led to decades of holy pilgrimages by the faithful, and from Archangel Michael, defender of good in the face of evil to Asmodeus, the three-headed demon of lust, temptation, and destruction, the history of the saints and spiritual creatures is, in many respects, the history of the world.
Award-winning author Gary Jansen weaves together the lives of the holy (and not-so-holy) beings who have graced and defiled our earthly realm from the first century BC to the present day. Organized alphabetically, the book provides lyrical capsule histories of nearly 400 figures describing their lives and the details of their most important contributions to the world. Each entry is accompanied by key information such as the associated signs and symbols, patronage, and feast days. A glossary and numerous appendices providing historical and religious context.
For the faithful and the intellectually curious alike, Saints, Angels, and Demons is an essential reference and a comprehensive overview of the history of humanity, as told through a unique perspective.
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Honest Prayers For Mama Bears Note Taking Edition
$24.99Add to cartFrom the bestselling team behind Mama Bear Apologetics(R) comes a one-of-a-kind book of prayers gathered from mamas just like you. Now with space on each page for personal reflection, this beautiful hardcover note-taking edition encourages you to pray what you really feel –and grow deeper in intimacy with God each day.
In the everyday battle of raising kids who love Jesus while living in a world that doesn’t, God invites you to come to Him. No cleaning up, no pretenses, no fancy words–all you need is to tell Him what’s truly on your heart and then ask for the wisdom, encouragement, and protection that only He can provide.
Drawing on the real prayers and needs of moms just like you, Honest Prayers for Mama Bears Note-Taking Edition speaks to the spectrum of seasons, concerns, and issues faced throughout Christian motherhood. You will become more vulnerable and intentional in your conversations with God as you pray in specific and timely ways for your family, your community, and even for yourself.
This book puts words to the cries of your heart as you seek clarity and truth in today’s confused culture. With ample journaling space on each page, this special keepsake edition will allow you to return to your praises, confessions, thanksgivings, and petitions throughout the years, helping you see how God has continually guided you and your family. Experience His comfort and hope as you entrust Him with your unedited thoughts.
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Becoming A Gospel Mom (Workbook)
Original price was: $19.99.$15.97Current price is: $15.97.Add to cartThis essential companion to the Gospel Mom book equips women to embark on their own journey of gospel motherhood and learn how to make biblical decisions for themselves and their family.
What does it mean to be a gospel mom? A gospel mom is a woman who is renewed by Christ’s righteousness, knows her mission and purpose, and lives free from guilt and unhealthy comparison.
This workbook, designed to be used in conjunction with the new Gospel Mom book by bestselling authors Emily A. Jensen and Laura Wifler, helps moms go deeper and apply everything from the book to their own lives. Each chapter of the workbook, corresponding with the same chapter from Gospel Mom, includes insightful and challenging questions with plenty of prayer and Bible study to tie it all together.
As friends, fellow moms, and expert guides, Emily and Laura walk women step-by-step through the practices and thinking of how to rest in the grace of Christ, gaining peace and assurance in their motherhood.
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Gospel Mom : How To Make Biblical Decisions And Discover The Mom God Create
Original price was: $22.99.$19.97Current price is: $19.97.Add to cartEmily A. Jensen and Laura Wifler, bestselling authors of Risen Motherhood [over 150,000 copies sold], show moms how to navigate their everyday decisions and current circumstances through a biblical lens, and experience the freedom and confidence in who God made them to be.
If there’s one thing moms love, it’s a formula. Give us the three-step process, the instruction manual, the straightforward solution for how to mother with excellence and we’ll give it our best shot.
But we all know motherhood isn’t that simple. Each decision seems to present a thousand overwhelming options, or our circumstances suddenly change and we can’t keep up with “the plan,” or we see another mom making different choices and begin to doubt our own.
All of this leaves us questioning our decision-making in motherhood.
So how can we find a secure identity in motherhood and know we’re “good” before the throne of God? By understanding the gospel story and how all of scripture applies to our lives. We need more than just to know what to do.
We need to know who to be.
Join Emily and Laura as together you explore what it truly means to be a gospel mom, a woman who is renewed by Christ’s righteousness, knows her mission and purpose, and lives free from guilt and unhealthy comparison.
As friends, fellow moms, and expert guides, Emily and Laura walk you step-by-step through the practices and thinking of how to rest in the grace of Christ, gaining peace and assurance in your motherhood.
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Even After Everything
$26.00Add to cartExquisitely told and urgently resonant, Even After Everything is a love letter to anyone who has opened their heart only to be hurt. Stephanie Duncan Smith proposes that it’s not through grit or forced resilience that you will find a way forward, but through receiving the full spectrum of our lives, just as we receive the empathy of God-with-us in every moment.
Duncan Smith’s disorientation began when she lost her first pregnancy on the winter solstice, just as the world readied to celebrate its most historic birth on Christmas. Then a new yet uncertain pregnancy unfolded parallel to the pandemic, until nearly one year to the day of her loss, she gave birth to her daughter at the peak of mortality in their city. These contradictions compelled Duncan Smith into a desperate search for steadiness, which she found in the liturgical year as a grounding force and the promise that we are seen by God in every season.
In Even After Everything, Duncan Smith traverses the church’s circle of time and reorients herself and us in the sacred story told through Advent, Epiphany, Lent, Holy Week, and Ordinary Time. She reveals the sacred year–through its endless interplay of love, loss, risk, and resurrection–as a mirror to the human experience, an anchor for turbulent times, and a womb strong enough to encompass every human care. At its heart lives the promise of God-with-us, inviting us into the spiritual practice of taking courage in the trust that we are accompanied in everything, and love will always have the last word.
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Confidence Is An Inside Job
$24.00Add to cartDiscover a deep, one-of-a-kind confidence that’s rooted in your relationship with Jesus through inspirational stories, insights, and strategies from podcaster and confidence coach Ashley Henriott.
“Conquer self-doubt and embrace God’s view of YOU.”-Rebecca George, author of Do the Thing and host of the podcast Radical Radiance
Has a voice in your head ever told you that you’re not enough? Maybe it’s said the opposite: that you’re too much. Or perhaps you’ve heard both messages at different times in your life. Either way, in those moments you probably felt like something was wrong with you.
And why wouldn’t you? Media and cultural messages constantly tell women that we must be different than we are to be considered valuable or even acceptable: more of this and less of that. But here’s great news: All of that is a lie, and you are not alone in your struggles.
Confidence coach Ashley Henriott knows what it’s like to be identified by the opinions of others and to live a life dictated by what they thought of her. However, her determination to break free from those shackles led her to a profound realization: True confidence is an inside job that begins with a woman embracing her own uniqueness and worthiness.
Through inspirational stories and her trademark humor, Ashley Henriott teaches about three confidence killers-fear, inaction, and comparison-that keep women from stepping into their true potential. Better still, she presents simple and practical strategies you can use to defeat these negative forces, embrace the beauty of who you are today, and live the fulfilling and confident life you desire.
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Rediscovering Christmas : Surprising Insights Into The Story You Thought Yo
$20.00Add to cartA profound exploration of the Bible’s Christmas story that delivers surprising insights to embrace the ancient wonder of the holiday season.
“If you want this Christmas to be the best ever, read this book. Rediscovering Christmas opened my eyes to a world of meaning I had never known.”-Steven Pressfield, bestselling author of Gates of Fire and The War of Art
Are you tired of feeling exhausted, overwhelmed, and empty during the holiday season? Instead of getting caught up in the hustle and bustle, are you ready to slow down, catch your breath, and rediscover the true beauty of Christmas?
This captivating collection of readings explores the intersection where the ancient context meets the present moment. Pastor AJ Sherrill invites you into an experience designed to renew your mind, reawaken your heart, rekindle your awe, and restore your body. Rediscovering Christmas is divided into two sections: Advent, which teaches the purpose of waiting, and Christmas, which reveals the joy of receiving. Through meaningful reflections, practices, and illustrations, you’ll see the diverse characters of the first Christmas in a new light-and comprehend just how their stories intertwine with your own.
Return to its pages year after year, and let it refresh your heart and mind about the wonder of Christmas. Rediscovering Christmas is a timeless companion that will become a cherished tradition in your holiday season.
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Weekly Rest Project
Original price was: $18.99.$11.97Current price is: $11.97.Add to cartStep into a place of rest to restore your weary soul and your anxious mind.
When was the last time you truly felt rested in your body and in your soul? Do you long to step away from your worries and overwhelm and let God restore your soul? Rest is one of God’s greatest gifts. The Weekly Rest Project is a guided journal that offers mindful reflections and inviting questions to guide you back into a rhythm of life-giving rest with God. With beautifully illustrated journaling pages, you can make space for rest and find God’s restorative peace all year long.
Each week includes:
*A biblical theme to focus on–including rhythms of rest, Sabbath, prayer, sleep, and joyful play
*A powerful Bible verse to help you reflect and meditate
*Journaling prompts and space to respond–to help you honestly take stock of the role rest plays in your life and allow you space to work through hurry, overwhelm, and chaos to find rest
This 12-month journal:
*Showcases beautiful photography and calming colors to help you enter a place of rest and reflection
*Has a ribbon marker so you never lose your place
*Is perfect for a self-purchase, quiet time, or Bible study groups
*Makes a wonderful gift for birthdays, holidays, or when you can sense a friend or family member is weary and in need of encouragement and rest.
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Living In Wonder
Original price was: $29.99.$17.99Current price is: $17.99.Add to cartThe West has become “disenchanted”–closed to the idea that the universe contains the supernatural, the metaphysical, or the non-material. Christianity is in crisis. People today are leaving the Church because faith has become dry and lifeless. But people aren’t leaving faith for atheism. They are still searching for the divine, and it might just be right under their noses.
In Living in Wonder, thought leader, cultural critic, and New York Times bestselling author Rod Dreher shows you how to encounter and embrace wonder in the world. In his trademark mixture of analysis, reporting, and personal story, Dreher brings together history, cultural anthropology, neuroscience, and the ancient Church to show you–no matter your religious affiliation–how to reconnect with the natural world and the Great Tradition of Christianity so you can relate to the world with more depth and connection.
He shares stories of miracles, rumors of angels, and outbreaks of awe to offer hope, as well as a guide for discerning and defending the truth in a confusing and spiritually dark culture, full of contemporary spiritual deceptions and tempting counterfeit spiritualities.
The world is not what we think it is. It is far more mysterious, exciting, connected, and adventurous. As you learn practical ways to regain a sense of wonder and awaken your sense of God’s presence–through prayer, attention, and living by spiritual disciplines–your eyes will be opened, and you will find the very thing every one of us searches for: our ultimate meaning.
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Celebrate Every Day
Original price was: $15.99.$9.59Current price is: $9.59.Add to cartLife is hard, and it can be easy to lose sight of what matters the most. We celebrate big wins and milestones, but what about the miracle of ordinary everyday life? What about the in-between that we take for granted and don’t think is worthy of a highlight reel? Even though each of us experiences life differently, our longings for love and connection is the same.
New York Times bestselling author Shauna Niequist reminds you in Celebrate Every Day the importance of slowing down and appreciating the ordinary things you’re taking for granted and missing as you’re planning for the milestone. Each daily entry includes two reflection prompts.
Celebrate Every Day:
*gives readers 60 days of celebration and insight on how ordinary life is worth relishing.
*focuses on overcoming busyness and insecurities, and building authenticity and friendships.
*offers 120 reflection prompts, so you can dig deep and discover what you’re missing.
If you’re exhausted with trying to be perfect, if you’re tired of being disappointed, if you’re done planning for the epic ending, this DayReader is for you.
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Becoming A Future Ready Church
$22.99Add to cartAre Church Leaders Missing the Generational Handoff? There’s Still Hope.
*Are we building institutions that will meaningfully serve the next generation of believers and their leaders?
*How does a church thrive in a culture where we have to earn credibility?
*How do we create a sense of belonging to the body of Christ and a strong sense of identity for the next generation?
Becoming a Future-Ready Church is a blueprint to guide you through eight critical shifts to help lead your church into the future with wisdom and hope. It describes several major converging trends that will greatly impact the church in America over the next few decades: the Great Resignation of Boomer leaders from churches, the shrinking percentage of Christians in America, and the change in felt needs among rising generations shaped heavily by anxiety, skepticism, and fragmentation.
Missiologist and pastor Daniel Yang, religion journalist Adelle Banks, and church researcher Warren Bird have come together in Becoming a Future-Ready Church to help church leaders evaluate whether their ministries are entrenched in strategies that worked well in the past but need to be adapted for the future. By helping us ask better questions about the issues and needs facing the church, they reveal practical ways in which the next generation of church leaders can gain a sturdier foothold as they navigate into the future.
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Cup Overflowing : Wine’s Place In Faith, Feasting, And Fellowship
$22.99Add to cartHave you ever wondered what Jesus would drink? Was his family perhaps involved in growing vines and making wine? What would their family celebrations have been like? And what might this tell us about God and how he wants us to live today? Food and wine have become such hot topics in our culture, and yet there is so much confusion and ambivalence around it as well. We are so far removed from the world of the Bible and the agrarian life that it represents. It is hard to envision the farms and fruit orchards, the village wells and sheep herds, the olive groves and vineyards that Jesus would have walked by every day.
Wine is the most talked-about food in the Bible, and yet so much of the evangelical world has neglected this important biblical theme and fragrant gift of God. Drawing on her upbringing in a long-standing family tradition of winemakers and her degrees in biblical studies and spiritual theology, Gisela Kreglinger introduces readers in a light-hearted way to the theme of wine in the Bible, throughout the history of the church, and in the church’s feasting and fellowship today. She also addresses how many Christians are fearful or concerned about wine because of the challenges of alcohol abuse, how to nurture a culture of healing from such disorders, and how we are called to celebrate God’s gift of wine to grow into a fuller understanding of the gospel as we await the return of the Bridegroom, Jesus Christ. In this book, Gisela shows Christians that wine is a gift from God that we are to receive with gratitude and enjoy in wholesome, communal, and redemptive ways.
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What To Do Until Love Finds You (Expanded)
$16.99Add to cart“The book that started it all” is back with fresh insights to empower new generations in this revised and expanded edition of a longstanding hit.
Relationships have always been complicated and the mating game has never been easy. In the years since this classic was first released, the hazards and hopes that women handle have only become more challenging. No matter where you are in life, just starting to date, recovering from losing your mate, or anywhere in-between from carrying heartache to carrying dreams, Michelle McKinney Hammond has the answers you need on how to live joyfully, actively, and productively in a life that invites the love you want.
In What to Do Until Love Finds You, Michelle explains:
*How loving Jesus first can help women realize their worth in God’s eyes
*The main reason why women may reject advice from others and even Scripture
*God’s original design for how women should be treated
*What women can do to handle sexual temptations regardless of past experience
*Why women should let men do the pursuing
*Tips for releasing expectations and embracing life now
*The importance of being equally yoked with another believer
*Why beauty is more than the outer appearance“Don’t sit there waiting for life and love to happen,” Michelle says. “When you get busy doing life, you’ll be amazed at how happy and fulfilled you are, which then leaves room to attract the right person. Embrace life for all its worth. Drink in God’s wisdom and savor all the experiences He offers you.”
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Everyday Blessings For Women
$9.99Add to cartBegin each and every day with a promise from God.
Find peace, hope, and encouragement anywhere, anytime with Everyday Blessings for Women. Small enough to slip into your purse yet beautiful enough to give as a gift or keep next to your favorite reading chair, the daily devotional readings in Everyday Blessings will help you begin each day with inspiration from God’s Word and serves as a joyful reminder that every day is indeed a blessing.
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Fritz And The Midnight Meetup
$14.99Add to cartOne by one, the children tiptoe down the stairs . . .
It’s midnight at the orphanage, and a group of children are sneaking to the kitchen to pray together. Would anyone else come too? they wonder. Night after night, more children join the fireside prayer meeting. But a bully named Fritz threatens to disrupt the group. When he sneaks down to scare the other children, will Fritz be the one who is surprised?
In this heartwarming story, readers will share the excitement as the boys and girls creep down the dark stairs, and they will feel the tension of the bully’s threats. But most of all they will discover the difference children can make when they pray together. Based on a true story from a German orphanage in 1860, Fritz and the Midnight Meetup celebrates the blessing of corporate prayer–and how children play a valuable part.
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Church : A Guide To The People Of God
$18.99Add to cartYou belong to God’s family. But do you understand what that means?
The Bible tells the story of God and his people. But it is not merely history. It is our story. Abraham is our father. And Israel’s freedom from slavery is ours.
Brad East traces the story of God’s people, from father Abraham to the coming of Christ. He shows how we need the scope of the entire Bible to fully grasp the mystery of the church. The church is not a building but a body. It is not peripheral or optional in the life of faith. Rather, it is the very beating heart of God’s story, where our needs and hopes are found.
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Hedges : 7 Ways To Love Your Wife And Protect Your Marriage
$17.99Add to cartHow Do You Protect Your Marriage from the Temptations Surrounding You?
You set boundaries, or as long-married, bestselling author Jerry Jenkins says, “I plant hedges.” Jenkins shares a list he created and adheres to as a gift of love for his wife. These rules are intended to protect his marriage by guarding his eyes, his heart, and his hands.
But if you truly love your wife, why do you need hedges? Current statistics show the sad reality. Divorce rates continue to climb-even for Christian marriages. Jenkins candidly shares, “I have planted hedges around myself to protect me, my wife, my family, my employer, my church, and supremely, the reputation of Christ. I share them not to boast, but to admit that I’m fleeing and in the hope that they might be of some benefit to you.”
Find out:
*Why hedges are needed
*Seven ways that Jerry Jenkins protects his marriage
*How hedges help your family thrive
*How to craft your own hedges of protection using a helpful study guideHedges, originally released thirty-five years ago, and now updated to address current cultural and marital issues, it’s needed more than ever today.
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Perfect Gift : Unwrapping True Joy For Christmas – Morning And Evening Devo
$9.99Add to cartWith all the pressures that come with Christmas, it’s a wonder there’s any joy at all. The Perfect Gift helps you calmly start and end your day with an uplifting five-minute devotion centered on the real celebration of the season: Christ himself. With two entries a day from December 1 to December 25, remember why it truly is the most wonderful time of the year. Amid the Christmas chaos, keep your heart fixed on what truly matters.
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Centering Prayers Volume 2
$19.99Add to cartLooking for peace in these turbulent times? Centering Prayers Volume 2 offers a contemplative sanctuary from the challenges of daily life.
Take refuge from the storms of life with this beautiful offering of meditative prayers, an accompanying resource to the first volume of Peter’s prayers in Centering Prayers: A One-Year Daily Companion for Going Deeper into the Love of God. In this new volume, Peter Traben Haas invites you to recenter yourself every day in God’s presence and explore the loving connection he has with each of us. With a new poetic focus on themes of earth, water, and sky, these prayers will draw you closer to the heart of God and into the stillness of his perfect peace.
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Leaders Devotional : 90 Days Of Biblical Wisdom For Honoring God In All You
Original price was: $21.99.$17.97Current price is: $17.97.Add to cartIf we desire to honor God in all we do, we need to be in his Book every day. Through the Bible, God offers us so much more wisdom for living and leading–and for every domain of life–than anything this world can ever give us.
That’s why Hobby Lobby founder and CEO David Green wrote The Leader’s Devotional. By sharing the biblical principles that are the foundation of his life and leadership, he challenges and encourages each of us to seek God’s guidance for our lives, for our families, and for our organizations.
With Scripture, reflection questions, and a short prayer, each devotional hits on a topic that is close to the heart. Do you want to live and work according to God’s plans, hear what he’s saying to you, and put it into practice? Then this is the devotional for you.
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Light In My Bunny
$18.99Add to cartConejo glowed like a whole universe of stars–until one day he didn’t seem as bright as before.
In Conejo the bunny, Selena’s found her best friend: he’s cuddly, curious, and magical. He glows! But one day, Conejo’s light begins to dim. Selena tries everything to bring back his glow, from covering Conejo with lights to giving him many, many pets . . . but nothing works. As Conejo’s lights continue to flicker, Selena must prepare for when his light goes out entirely.
Through luminous illustrations, The Light in My Bunny offers a gentle look into the experience of pet loss, and comforts readers with the reminder that through love and memory, the light of our loved ones never goes out. Sensitive and humane, Selena and Conejo’s story helps readers understand and process the grief of losing someone slowly–a much-needed angle in the grief resource space. The Light in My Bunny softly reminds young readers: You are not alone.
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Huck And Loona
$18.99Add to cartA story about friendship, conflict, and finding a path forward after disagreement.
Huck and Loona love spending time together in the Great Northwoods. From cloud-watching to fishing, the two want to do everything together. When they realize they sometimes want to do different things or that there are some activities the other simply cannot do, they worry that their friendship is over.
With themes of friendship, individuality, compromise, and grace, Huck and Loona equips children to embrace their uniqueness and communicate with others for healthy relationships that help them grow and thrive.
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Living Out Loud
$17.99Add to cartIf you cringe at the thought of pulling out a napkin and drawing a chasm that only the cross can span, you’re in good company.
While most of us have the desire to share the gospel, we don’t know how to bring it up. Let’s face it… it’s not easy to go from “How is the weather” to “Jesus died for you,” and no one is walking up to us on the street asking, “What must I do to be saved?” So what’s a well-intentioned Christian to do?
Enter Living Out Loud.
Living out loud is not a strategy for sharing the gospel, but a way of living that begets the gospel. It’s about developing an active, natural posture of loving God and talking about Him as we go about our daily lives and rhythms in ways that are obvious to those around us.
It’s about making God such an integral part of our daily lives that we can’t help but talk about Him–at home, at work, with family and with friends–not as a sales pitch, but as a natural part of our regular conversations.
Living out loud isn’t about “sharing” the gospel; it’s about “living” it. When who we are as new creatures becomes obvious to those around us in the way we speak and live, and love, evangelism stops becoming a duty, and simply becomes inevitable.
In Living Out Loud, you’ll discover:
*How to bring a refreshing countercultural presence in one relationship and one conversation at a time
*How to demonstrate our beliefs to unbelievers in our daily lives and habits
*How to spiritually engage others in a way that feels natural
It’s time for a new approach to evangelism. Let Living Out Loud show you the way to communicate and truly embody the message of the gospel.
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All We Thought We Knew
Original price was: $17.99.$12.97Current price is: $12.97.Add to cartShe was so sure she knew her family’s story . . . Now she wonders if she was wrong about all of it.
1969. When Mattie Taylor’s twin brother was killed in Vietnam, she lost her best friend and the only person who really understood her. Now, news that her mother is dying sends Mattie back home, despite blaming her father for Mark’s death. Mama’s last wish is that Mattie would read some old letters stored in a trunk, from people Mattie doesn’t even know. Mama insists they hold the answers Mattie is looking for.
1942. Ava Delaney is picking up the pieces of her life following her husband’s death at Pearl Harbor. Living with her mother-in-law on a secluded farm in Tennessee is far different than the life Ava imagined when she married only a few short months ago. Desperate to get out of the house, Ava seeks work at a nearby military base, where she soon discovers the American government is housing Germans who they have classified as enemy aliens. As Ava works to process legal documents for the military, she crosses paths with Gunther Schneider, a German who is helping care for wounded soldiers. Ava questions why a man as gentle and kind as Gunther should be forced to live in the internment camp, and as they become friends, her sense of the injustice grows . . . as do her feelings for him. Faced with the possibility of losing Gunther, Ava must choose whether loving someone deemed the enemy is a risk worth taking, even if it means being ostracized by all those around her.
In the midst of pain and loss two women must come face-to-face with their own assumptions about what they thought they knew about themselves and others. What they discover will lead to a far greater appreciation of their own legacies and the love of those dearest to them.
*Includes discussion guide for book groups
*Standalone Southern, historical family drama about enduring hope amid personal tragedy
*Clean, suspenseful historical fiction, perfect for fans of Susan Meissner or Lisa Wingate
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Bake And Pray
$22.99Add to cartFrom God’s provision of manna in the wilderness to Jesus’ miraculous multiplication of loaves, bread functions throughout Scripture as a sign of God’s presence and provision.
Professional baker and practical theologian Kendall Vanderslice has spent a lot of time reflecting on the connection between the dough that clung to her hands at work and the bread blessed and pressed into her palm at church, ultimately seeing that they both were tangible reminders that God was with her and that God cared.
Weaving baking science and technique together with theological reflections drawn from a wide range of Christian traditions, Kendall will:
*teach you how to incorporate bread making into the rhythms of your busy life
*reveal the ins-and-outs of bread baking while unlocking the spiritual parallels woven into each loaf
*provide breadmaking liturgies and historical recipes to bake through a variety of liturgical
*holidays and seasons*show how to incorporate baking as a form of prayer in our lives.
As you follow the steps to bake bread-whether you are a lifelong baker or intimidated by the thought of yeast-you will learn something about the character of God and the life of faith. In Bake & Pray, you will get not only a practical understanding of how to bake bread, but also receive a deeper appreciation for the ways God can shape you in the process.
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Daily Liturgy Devotional
$19.99Add to cart40-Day Liturgical Devotional for Daily Worship and Prayer
Regular quiet time with the Lord is essential for the spiritual growth and faith of believers. But forming this habit can be difficult without the proper resources or discipline. The Daily Liturgy Devotional offers 40 readings filled with content for prayer, worship, and Scripture reading, helping believers consistently and meditatively meet with God.
Unique to this devotional, the Daily Liturgy Devotional is organized thematically, covering 8 topics of the Christian faith, including love, hope, wisdom, holiness, perseverance, and more. Each daily reading includes a set of prayers, a Scripture reading, concise comments, prayer prompts, a memory verse, and an applicable hymn. Space for note-taking allows readers to further interact with the reflective tone of liturgy and the richness of Scripture.
*Reflective: Liturgical format spurs meditation on Scripture and important topics of the Christian faith
*40 Daily Readings: Each reading includes prayers, a Scripture reading, comments, prompts, a memory verse, and a hymn
*Topical: Organized thematically, every 5-day segment focuses on a different topic of the Christian faith, such as love, hope, wisdom, holiness, perseverance, and more
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Recapturing The Glory Of Christmas
$14.99Add to cartChristmas should spark worship and adoration, and R. Albert Mohler offers a book that mines the depths of the advent season, and all the theological riches God has gifted to His people. Recapturing the Glory of Christmas is a call to worship and praise. Indeed, Christmas beckons the world to come and adore the Savior King-the King exulted by the angels; the King who took on flesh; the King who deserves all glory, all honor, and all praise. O come! Come and adore Jesus Christ the Lord.
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God Is Great God Is Good
Original price was: $12.99.$9.97Current price is: $9.97.Add to cartA simple prayer reminds us that God is always GREAT and always GOOD.
It’s dinnertime, and Hunter is ready to pray and thank God for his meal. But he wonders, What do all these words in my prayer mean? “God is good,” but so is ice cream. “God is great,” but so is our soccer team. And is God great even when sad things happen?Thankfully, Hunter’s parents wisely answer all his curious questions. Readers can learn along with him, discovering:
*A model prayer for mealtimes
*A simple explanation of God’s power and goodness
*The encouragement to pray with a grateful heartAfter meeting Hunter, readers will pray with confidence and gratitude, knowing that God is greater than anything and always sharing His goodness.
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Made Worthy Teen Girls Bible Study Book (Student/Study Guide)
$15.99Add to cartYou Are Worthy
To truly know our worth, we must first understand that Jesus is the only One who can make us worthy. Nothing we can do on our own will ever measure up. We don’t have to earn Jesus’s love to know that He loves us. In fact, because He is the One who has made us worthy, we can live boldly as an example of what true worth looks like. We can quit trying to check every box and rest in the One who made us and sees us.
In this five-session Bible study, Mary Margaret West teaches teen girls what it means to be made worthy of Christ as she examines the lives of people in the Bible whom God called worthy because of their faith.
Features:
*Five small group sessions?
*Leader Guide in the back of the Bible study book to guide questions and discussion with small groups?
*Biblically rooted and gospel-centered?
*Personal study opportunities for ongoing spiritual growth?
*Free leader resources, including promotional video and social media assets available for download at lifeway.com/madeworthy.?
This book will lead girls to…?
*identify who God is and how He made them??
*understanding they cannot earn love from God??
*know what it means to find their worth in God alone??
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Field Guide To 1st And 2nd Peter Teen Bible Study Book (Student/Study Guide)
$15.99Add to cartRead and Understand
Diving into God’s Word can be intimidating. Where do I begin and how can I understand what He is telling me through it? Wouldn’t it be nice to have a guide? Someone to walk with you through the Bible and help you along the way? That is the purpose of this book. It is a deep look at two letters straight from the heart of the apostle Peter to Christians desperate to know Jesus and live for Him.
This 8-session study will help you read and understand 1 and 2 Peter like you never have before and take your time in Scripture to a new level.
Features:
*Eight small-group sessions?
*Leader Guide in the back of the Bible study book to guide questions and discussion with small groups?
*Biblically rooted and gospel-centered?
*Personal study opportunities for ongoing spiritual growth?
*Free leader resources, including promotional video and social media assets, available for download at lifeway.com/fieldguide
Benefits:
This book will…?
*Provide an in-depth study of 1 and 2 Peter.?
*Help students learn to study Scripture for themselves.?
*Combat biblical illiteracy among teenagers.??
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Left Out : Believing My Story Is For God’s Glory
Original price was: $17.99.$13.97Current price is: $13.97.Add to cartHave you ever wondered if, when God was creating you, He left something out?
As kids grow up and start comparing themselves to one another, feelings of inadequacy creep into their hearts.
Did God forget to make me as tall as everyone else?
Why didn’t God make me able to eat the food those kids can eat?
I wonder if God left out my ability to sing like the rest of my family.
Why didn’t God give me straight hair? Pretty skin? Name-brand clothes?
Left Out is a rhyming reminder that while God didn’t give everyone the same bodies or abilities, everything God left out is something He can use to write our stories for His glory. First-time author Jill Atogwe compels kids to believe that God uses what we see as our weaknesses to make us strong. By leaving some things out, we can learn to trust Him instead of ourselves. After all, God sets boundaries for his children in pleasant places (Psalm 16:5-8).
The cute and quirky illustrations show an array of kids of diverse races, varying cultures, different abilities and disabilities, distinct talents, and various socioeconomic statuses.
As kids read and look through the pictures, they’ll see that every child wonders if God accidentally left something out of them. But God doesn’t accidentally do anything; He intentionally created each person differently for His special purpose. By the end of the book, kids will be repeating the book’s chorus,
“What God left out is part of my story;
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Dwell On These Things Bible Study Book With Video Access (Student/Study Guide)
$20.99Add to cartHow would your life change if you could call Scripture to mind at a moment’s notice to bring comfort, peace, and assurance? The good news is that God’s Word can be accessible 24/7 as you hide it in your heart.
In this 8-session Bible study, sisters Natalie Abbott and Vera Schmitz lead you through a study of Philippians 4:4-9 to teach you a simple method of memorizing God’s Word. As you fix these beloved verses in your mind through beautiful and powerful images, you’ll discover how to combat anxiety, experience the peace of God, and dwell on godly things. As you store up the deep truths and precious promises of this passage, you’ll come to understand them in light of the greater context of the book of Philippians, and you’ll be equipped for a lifetime of inscribing the transforming truth of Scripture in your heart and mind.
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*Techniques and tips that equip you to memorize Scripture
*8 video teaching sessions, approximately 15 minutes each, encouraging you in your study?and memorization, available via redemption code printed in the Bible study book
*7 weeks of personal study to be completed between the 8 group sessions?
*Extras such as interactive prayer opportunities, introductory videos, and temporary tattoos provided to help with Scripture memory
*Leader helps to guide discussions within small groups
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*Discover how dwelling on Scripture transforms how we think, see, and interact with the world.
*Learn a simple method of memorizing Scripture that will equip you to make it a lifelong practice.?
*With the book of Philippians as the backdrop, take a slow walk through Philippians 4:4-9 to fix the truths of this passage in your heart and mind.
*Experience the peace and presence of God as you practice Scripture memorization.?
Video Sessions:
*Session One: Introduction (12:33)-Natalie and Vera introduce themselves and tell their personal stories of coming to faith in Christ. They also share why they are so passionate about memorizing Scripture.
Introduction: Scripture Memory Method (1:51)-Vera shares an example of how their Scripture memory system works and Natalie introduces the Session Two personal study.
*Session Two: Why We’re Here (16:11)-Natalie and Vera share some of the most impactful verses they’ve memorized and highlight what was significant to them from the Session Two personal study.
Memory Verse: Philippians 4:4 (1:11)-Vera highlights the design for the first verse to be memori
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God Has A Name
$25.99Add to cartWhat you believe about God sets the foundation of the person you will become.
In God Has a Name, pastor and New York Times bestselling author John Mark Comer invites you to rethink many of the prevalent myths and misconceptions about God and weigh them against what God actually tells us about himself. After all, what you believe about God will ultimately shape the type of person you become.
We all live at the mercy of our ideas, and nowhere is this more true than our ideas about God. The problem is many of our ideas about God are wrong. Not all wrong, but wrong enough to form our souls in detrimental and disheartening ways.
God Has a Name is a simple yet profound guide to understanding God in a new light–focusing on what God says about himself in the Bible. This one shift has the potential to radically alter how you relate to God, not as a doctrine, but as a relational being who responds to you in an elastic, back-and-forth way.
John Mark Comer takes you line by line through Exodus 34:6-8–Yahweh’s self-revelation on Mount Sinai, one of the most quoted passages in the Bible. Along the way, Comer addresses some of the most profound questions he came across as he studied these noted lines in Exodus, including:
*Why do we feel this gap between us and God?
*Could it be that a lot of what we think about God is wrong? Not all wrong, but wrong enough to mess up how we relate to him?
*What if our “God” is really a projection of our own identity, ideas, and desires?
*What if the real God is different, but far better than we could ever imagine?
No matter where you are in your spiritual journey, God Has a Name invites you to step into a fresh and biblically rooted vision of who God is that has the potential to alter your life with God and shape who you become.
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Facing Fear Teen Devotional
Original price was: $5.99.$4.97Current price is: $4.97.Add to cartFear Not
Of all the commands in the Bible, the one that appears the most is “fear not.” The truth is, it’s not really a command. It’s an invitation-an invitation to trust, respect, and to follow our God wherever He leads. It’s an invitation to believe wholeheartedly that He will be with you as you follow Him. God’s Word shows us again and again that Jesus offers us peace and refuge from the things that threaten to paralyze us and make us afraid. We can be courageous and face our fears when we know that our God has us in His hands and nothing can ever take us out.
In this 12-volume series, each 30-day devotional will point to the unchanging truth of God’s love and anchor students in His Word as they walk through?the?seasons of change and milestones that come with each passing year. Students will learn to Discover God’s Word, Delight in the Lord, and Display God’s work in their lives.
Discover (Identity + Theology): Who is God? Who am I in light of who God is? These are two of the most important questions students can grapple with because in discovering who God is, they learn who He has meant for them to be. Studies within the Discover category will help students align their lives under God’s rule which will give them confidence in who they were created to be.
Delight (Spiritual Disciplines): What does it mean to delight in God? What leads to delight in God? Helping students see God in every detail teaches them to delight in Him. When students find their delight in God, they will learn what it means and how to be in relationship with Him.
Display (Leadership, Mission, + Disciple Making): How do students display the glory of God? How do they help others grow in their relationship with Him? How can they lead others to display the truth of God? Through students learning to lead, live on mission, and make disciples, God’s glory is on display and His kingdom is expanded.
Each book includes 30 daily devotions, applicable Scripture, prayer prompts, and practical application.
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Everyday Evangelism Bible Study Book With Video Access (Student/Study Guide)
$19.99Add to cartSharing your faith is not about winning arguments; it’s about winning hearts. And the way to do that is by engaging others with love, respect, and truth.
In this six-session study, you’ll be equipped with practical, effective ways to share the truth of the gospel with your friends, neighbors, and coworkers. You’ll be inspired by the author’s own story of how he came to know Jesus through a friend who reached out to him in love, invited him into his life, and showed him what it truly means to be a Christian. You’ll also be challenged to respond to God’s call to be bold–because eternity is at stake.
Everyday Evangelism Bible Study Book with Video Access includes printed content for six weeks of study, including group sessions with helpful discussion questions, personal study between group sessions, applicable Scripture, “How to Use This Study,” and tips for leading a group. Also, each Book contains unique codes that enable you to access free teaching videos for each session.
Session topics:
1. Everyday Evangelist
2. Love People Well
3. Show How You Live
4. Win Hearts
5. Know the Truth
6. Be BoldFeatures:
*Six 10- to 15-minute video teaching sessions with Preston Perry
*Six small group sessions
*Helpful guide to lead others towards gospel conversations
*Personal study opportunities for ongoing spiritual growthBenefits:
*Understand the task of the evangelist and help believers see their call to evangelism.
*Move away from specific methods and into a heart that beats for evangelism.
*Trust God to use you in the unique way He’s called you.
*Change the way you think of evangelism by focusing on love.
*Root yourself in a clear understanding of why the gospel should be shared.
*Learn to love people and their stories, over arguments and debates.
*Give away the gospel with gentleness and respect.
*Love people wholistically in order to open the door for evangelism.
*Learn to make a defense for the hope that you have within you.
*Become equipped to see the cultural context around you and how the gospel uniquely ministers to it.
*Share the gospel in a way that it can be embraced and received.
*Allow God to take your story and your conversations and use them for His glory.
*Find the boldness needed to do what God has called you to do.
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Entrusted To Lead
$18.99Add to cartA practical tool for women who are called to leadership roles in any area of life, Entrusted to Lead offers biblical insight and real-life encouragement for how to navigate their leadership journey.
In Entrusted to Lead, Pastor Donna Pisani draws on over four decades of experience to offer a biblical perspective of women in leadership that considers their role an entrusted assignment rather than just an entitled position. Women who wrestle with God’s call to lead, or who don’t have anyone supporting their call, will discover how to:
*Embrace their God-given, unique leadership gifts
*Become alert to the internal lies that make them hesitant to pursue their calling
*Answer Jesus’ mandate to women to “go tell”-even when no one seems to be listening
*Understand how Paul empowered both genders to lead and serve together
*Lean into Jesus’ strength when facing leadership challengesGenerations of confusion keep women from answering God’s call to lead, depriving God’s kingdom of crucial gifts and abilities. Entrusted to Lead shows women what it looks like to lead with confidence in the workplace and in ministry-and why Jesus always wanted women to have a seat at the table.
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Your New Life With Adult Children
Original price was: $16.99.$13.97Current price is: $13.97.Add to cartLoving Your Adult Children Without Losing Your Mind (Or Your Heart, Or All Your Money, Or Your Soul)
Your kids will always be your kids. The trick is figuring out how to adapt to the new phases in that parent-child relationship. No question, it can be tricky. And if you fail to navigate that transition well, the result will be stress, alienation, and maybe a broken relationship.
But it doesn’t have to be that way. In Your New Life with Adult Children, Dr. Gary Chapman–author of the worldwide bestseller The 5 Love Languages(R)–teams up with clinical psychiatrist Dr. Ross Campbell to provide the insights you need when your child moves into adulthood. You’ll find help for those moments when:
*Your adult child isn’t succeeding
*Your nest isn’t emptying
*Your child moves back home
*You have conflict over lifestyle issues
*You become an in-law or grandparent
*And much more . . .The book includes brief sidebars from parents of adult children, as well as stories from adult children who relate what works best for them. An online study guide is also available.
Stop wondering how to connect with your adult child. Instead, learn to love them in the ways they so desperately want.
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Who Owns The Land
Original price was: $17.99.$14.97Current price is: $14.97.Add to cartWho Owns the Land? That’s the question being asked in homes and on college campuses all over the world. The conversations can be heated and fraught with tension. There are accusations. Anger. And pain. Who is at fault? Are the Israelis occupiers and oppressors? We are seeing a rising tide of antisemitism across the globe. What is the history of this conflict? You may have looked to Google for some clarity, but a mere Google search is not able to provide sufficient understanding or answers to your questions.
Who Owns the Land? provides insight and knowledge behind the Arab-Israeli conflict. In addition to offering perspective on recent events, Who Owns the Land? traces the journey of the Jewish people through history and explains the events that have led to the current situation in the Middle East today. This revised and updated version of Dr. Stanley Ellisen’s bestselling book examines the numerous Jewish migrations and expulsions, the emergence of Zionism, World War II and the Holocaust, and a view of the Jews’ promised restoration.
Who Owns the Land? helps readers place the current Middle East conflict in its proper historical context and enables us to interpret current events in light of the Bible.
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Does The Jewish Bible Point To Jesus
Original price was: $15.99.$12.97Current price is: $12.97.Add to cartHow will we be able to recognize the Messiah?
Christians claim that Jesus is the Messiah, but how can we know if that is true? Jesus revealed the truth about himself through passages in the Torah, the Prophets, and the Writings–which together comprise the Tanakh (the Old Testament).
In Does the Jewish Bible Point to Jesus?, Messianic Jewish author David Brickner likewise guides us through twelve prophecies from all three sections of the Tanakh to show:
*why God promised a Messiah.
*how God planned to bless the whole world through the Jewish people.
*the location and strange circumstances of the Messiah’s birth.
*how and why the Messiah would suffer and die.
*how the Messiah would exceed human limitations . . . and more.You’ll also find stories of contemporary Jewish people who discovered compelling connections to Jesus in their own Bibles.
Whether you’re curious, skeptical, or a committed believer–if you are in search of truth, this book is for you. Come and see how God’s timeless plan to redeem and renew the world still shines as a beacon of hope today.
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Revive My Heart
Original price was: $17.99.$12.97Current price is: $12.97.Add to cartReceive a fresh infusion of grace and perspective each day.
In this 366-day devotional, beloved Bible teacher Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth invites you to linger for a few meaningful moments in the presence of God. Curated from Nancy’s best-selling books, Revive My Heart provides fresh opportunities to savor the Scripture and soak in the beauty and life-giving truth of Christ. As you seek Him, you’ll be able to face whatever your day may bring, with a revived heart.
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Beastie Of Brambly Bald
Original price was: $8.99.$6.97Current price is: $6.97.Add to cartBook Five in the Tree Street Kids Series
Jack Finch’s plan to gobble up tons of turkey over Thanksgiving Break and work on the Tree Street Kids’ fort has been foiled. Instead, the Finches are traveling to the mountains of North Carolina to visit grandparents Jack barely knows. Thank goodness his best friends Ellison and Roger are coming with him to the cabin on Brambly Bald mountain. But something is lurking in the forest, and soon Jack uncovers a secret bigger than Bigfoot. When the kids come face to face with a real threat, will Jack find a way to protect his friends? Jack braves danger, finds new branches on his family tree, and discovers what it means to be rooted in God’s great family.
Book 5 in the Tree Street Kids Series explores themes of belonging, family dynamics, foster care, and what it means to be part of God’s family.
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Love Has A Story
$19.99Add to cartLove has a story. It’s bigger than you. It’s bigger than me. It comes from old, an overflow of the beautiful love shared between the Father whose heart bursts for the Son, the Son who adores His Father, all wrapped in the glorious, life-giving love of the Spirit. And this great Love knows and cherishes every secret and intimate detail of your story. In fact, this story is for you.
So where and how do we fit in this grand story of love? In Love Has a Story, author and poet Quina Aragon shares how, before the foundations of the earth, the great storyteller was penning a story that included you. Love was thinking about you, imagining ways to showcase His love for you, and planning to rescue you. This was not one of those sentimental loves, but a love that would traverse the wilderness in search of and for His beloved . . . and give everything–His life, blood, wounds, hope, and an invitation to be family.
Join Quina in entering the greatest love story ever told. Through the prose and poetry of these meditations, you will come to know the great love of God for the world and for you. When you reach the end of this book, you will want to begin all over again. And you will want to share this great love story with your friends and family.
Before you danced in your mother’s womb, before Adam and Eve, your greatest-grandparents ever walked the earth, before stars lit up the night sky, there was God–handpicking you to inherit a bottomless ocean: His love. –Quina Aragon
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Hearts Of Compassion Backbones Of Steel
Original price was: $18.99.$15.97Current price is: $15.97.Add to cartThe culture wars are intensifying every day–and our kids and grandkids are caught in the crosshairs. We know we should speak and act–but how? How do we love our neighbor while refusing to compromise the gospel? How do we take a firm stance and keep a tender heart?
Tackling some of the hardest and most controversial topics in society today, front-line apologist and popular radio host Michael L. Brown shows how you can engage culture wars with grace and compassion–and uncompromising truth. Through clear answers, biblical truth, real-life examples, and simple, straightforward talking points, Dr. Brown equips you to:
*discuss hard issues with intelligence, grace, kindness, and courage
*share the truth effectively with love–and without compromise
*reach hurting people while resisting a harmful agendaYou are called to be a light in this crooked generation. It’s time to shine like Jesus–with a heart of compassion and backbone of steel.
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Give Them Grace
$18.99Add to cartWhat is our purpose in parenting? Is it to keep our kids alive and healthy? To raise responsible adults who will be kind people, loving friends, and good citizens? Or maybe we’d just be happy if our kids would clean up their rooms and stop antagonizing each other. While all of these are honorable goals, when we focus entirely on fixing our kids’ behavior we can miss the most important role a parent has: to show them the love and grace of Christ.
Give Them Grace gives you the gospel foundation to parent from a place of joy, freedom, and peace. This newly revised edition reflects what Elyse and Jessica have learned in their own parenting journeys in the last decade and includes two new chapters on parenting with grace in regard to your children’s mental health and gender.
This isn’t a “how-to” manual; it’s a call to remember, speak, and rest in the gospel as you model Jesus to your children. Because this is the good news of parenting: it’s not about getting things right all the time–it’s about grace.
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1 Last Stand
$16.99Add to cartAs a member of the Air One Rescue team, pilot London Brooks has built a new life–one far away from her clandestine past as an operative tasked to take down a branch of Russian terrorists. She has no desire to reenter that world or endure the grief of losing everyone she loved, including her fiance. But the past won’t stay past. When she finds herself falsely accused, her reputation tarnished, and her life in danger, she has no choice but to plunge back into the treacherous world she left behind. Even if she must surrender everything–and everyone–she loves in her new life.
Shep Watson will never forget the day he saved London Brooks from the avalanche that nearly killed her. He knows there is more to her story, but he’s intent on keeping her secrets. Just when it seems she’s finally ready to let him into her heart, her past comes knocking. But he can’t bear to lose her again, which means, somehow, he’ll have to enter her world, keep up with her, and figure out a way to bring her home. But when the danger comes home to Alaska, what will it cost the Air One Rescue team?
Join bestselling author Susan May Warren in the final, thrilling journey through the majestic Alaskan wilderness and beyond, where love defies danger and second chances are won with courage and determination.
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Everything I Wish I Could Tell You About Midlife
$18.99Add to cartAs you’ve approached midlife, have you wondered: Is this . . . it? I thought it would get easier. I thought I’d have more figured out by now. Something is wrong, and I just can’t put my finger on it. Maybe it’s my thyroid?
Drawing from eighteen years of medical practice and personal experience, Dr. Mikala Albertson addresses the universal struggles that women face while navigating health and healing in this new stage of life, exploring topics such as:
*current medical best practices for wellness and well-being
*understanding perimenopause, hormones, mood disorders, body image, and more
*balancing co-occurring stressors such as relationship troubles, caregiver expectations, and shifting motherhood roles
*finding support, purpose, and healing in this difficult part of life
You may be weary, but there are steps you can take toward health and healing while discovering along the way that there is beauty here too.
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Closer To God
Original price was: $18.99.$15.97Current price is: $15.97.Add to cartTo experience profound intimacy with God, intentionality is required. The Holy Spirit sanctifies us–shaping us into the likeness of Jesus–but we play a role in enjoying a deeper and more vibrant life in Christ by staying in step with the Spirit.
Perhaps one of the most compelling attributes of this book is the way Cunnion helps you see how repentance and obedience, two words that often get a bad rap, are utterly life-giving and freedom-bringing. Rooted in the gospel, she leads you on a journey of
* practicing repentance that leads to refreshment of your soul
* pursuing holiness that leads to a freedom you never imagined possible
* cultivating intimacy with the Holy Spirit and enjoying the beauty of His presenceWith personal, and often humorous, anecdotes and biblical insights, Closer to God offers a guide to embracing intimacy with God from a place where the hunger for more of God is met through the beauty of obedience, holiness, and unity. You will be ignited with a desire to live a life worthy of the call as you pursue a deeper, transformative relationship with Him.
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Hope Of Glory
$40.00Add to cartThe Hope of Glory affirms a Christian hope for life in glory to be conceived as the renewal of this world as opposed to leaving this world behind: it is the same creation that God made “in the beginning” that God glorifies and redeems at the end.
When speaking of the redemption of all things, theology finds itself confronted by various pitfalls. On the one hand, this-worldly eschatologies that define Christian hope in terms of transforming the conditions of human existence in the present pay insufficient attention to the possibility of a wholly new creation. On the other hand, eschatologies that focus solely on the world to come fail to attend how Christian hope is a promise for the present as much as it is for the future.
To avoid these pitfalls, says Ian McFarland, we need to seek the balance struck by Paul in the phrase “the hope of glory” (Col. 1:27). Hope is always grounded in present reality; we hope for that which is not yet, but if that hope has no connection to our current experience, it is not hope at all, just wishful thinking. Yet glory is different; it refers to the displacement of the suffering and mortality of present experience with incorruption and immortality-a displacement that transcends every possibility of present existence because it is the utterly gracious gift of eschatological consummation.
Drawing on his previous work on creation (From Nothing) and incarnation (The Word Made Flesh), McFarland demonstrates how, in the resurrection, we see the promise of a final redemption grounded in this-worldly hope yet realized in the glory of a new heaven and new earth.
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Is It A Sermon
$28.00Add to cartIs It a Sermon? is an informative and daring call to blur the boundaries of the sermon genre, exploring the “shoreline” of homiletics, or the place where preaching laps up against other modes of discourse.
In this book, Donyelle McCray explores how preaching merges with prayer, song, performance, and activism-the gospel dancing in and out of the forms we create for it. Consider the sermonic performance of Isaiah walking naked and barefoot for three years, the deaconess whose morning prayer rhythmically flows into sermon, or the gospel soloist who pauses in her song to tell a story or break into a sermonette. McCray is interested in the possibilities that emerge when we play at the shoreline, and she questions what modes of preaching get overlooked due to genre classifications. She seeks to discover what we might learn from these shoreline preachers about bearing witness, enacting Scripture, and listening to life.
While these questions could be explored generally, McCray focuses on African American preachers who play at the boundaries of the sermon genre, with attention to how genre fluidity provides a means of drawing on ancestral wisdom. Key figures like Mahalia Jackson, Harriet Powers, Rosie Lee Tomkins, Thea Bowman, Howard Thurman, and Toni Morrison are examined as artists, activists, and proclaimers. She shines a new light on their work and points out how they reform preacherly identities and refuse traditional patterns of holding authority. Ultimately, in blurring the boundaries of sermon genre, this book offers readers strategies for embracing their voices more fully within and beyond the pulpit.
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Spread Love : Words Of Compassion, Peace, And Joy
$19.99Add to cartMother Teresa’s heartfelt wisdom–collected here into an inspirational 365-day devotional–offers you comfort, peace, and love amid the noise, busyness, and confusion around you.
Spread Love includes:
*365 daily inspirational readings
*short and powerful meditations
*simple everyday prayersWith so much happening in the world, are you looking for goodness and guidance? This year-long devotional contains a collection of encouraging quotes, stories, prayers, and teachings from the beloved Mother Teresa. Her daily guidance continues to reach the needs and circumstances of those who are thirsty for inspiration and spiritual nourishment in entries that are easy to understand and absorb.
Let Mother Teresa’s words of wisdom help you live a fuller and happier life, closer to the Lord and able to serve your community more effectively. Each of the 365 entries offers you the opportunity to begin any time of the year and find nourishment for a whole year.