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Moments Of Hope
$7.99Add to cartConnect with God in a new way and find the hope in every moment.
As women, we deeply desire wisdom, encouragement, and hope amid the busyness and distractions of our everyday lives.
In Moments of Hope we are encouraged to redirect our thinking to understand ourselves, our world, and our God accurately. Complete with Bible verses, helpful stories, and practical application, these short daily devotions are designed to move us further along that path of having our hearts refreshed, our lives transformed, and our hope restored.
Moments of Hope will encourage women to discover biblical wisdom and purpose so they can see how God’s love, kindness, and compassion for them is where true hope can be found.
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Wombat And The Family Tree
$17.99Add to cartSpark curiosity in children about family history, genealogy, and their place within that legacy as Wombat’s family tree project grows into an exploration of his relatives’ wisdom as well as what talent he can add to his community.
Wombat’s family tree assignment turns sour when he realizes that every ancestor has a special something they are good at–everyone except him. He tries all the talents he’s learned about from his family members, from music to carving to cooking, but nothing fits. Then, with a nudge to try again, the family tree branches out to grow into Wombat’s very own something.
Wombat and the Family Tree by Marietta Apollonio is for children aged 4 to 8 and features
*a heartfelt and fun exploration of what a family tree is while finding a sense of self within your heritage,
*a sweet and energetic main character who wants to do his best,
*a supportive family who encourages Wombat to keep trying despite disappointment,
*whimsical and nostalgic illustrations that enrich the story with delightful details,
*a note from the author about her own adventures in genealogy, and
*a blank family tree for children to fill in that allows room for a variety of family structures and caregiving situations.
Join Wombat for an adventure in self-discovery as he answers these questions: Where do I come from? What can I learn from people who have come before me? What are my special skills that I can contribute to my family and community?
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If I Dont Laugh Ill Cry
Original price was: $19.99.$11.97Current price is: $11.97.Add to cartIn this laugh-out-loud and heartfelt memoir, writer, speaker, and podcaster Molly Stillman shares her unforgettable story of losing her mother, squandering an unexpected quarter-of-a-million-dollar inheritance in less than two years, attempting to launch a career in comedy but ending up on a farm instead, and finding faith, hope, and joy in the middle of it all.
Molly Stillman has lived the type of life that when shared, people stop in their tracks and ask, “Wait, what happened?” Molly’s mother, Lynda Van Devanter Buckley served as an Army nurse during the Vietnam War and wrote the bestselling memoir, Home Before Morning. When Molly was seventeen, Lynda passed away after an eight-year battle with an autoimmune disorder due to her exposure to Agent Orange. Four years later, Molly turned twenty-one and unexpectedly inherited a quarter of a million dollars from her mother’s estranged family’s estate. Through “retail therapy” and a long series of grossly irresponsible financial decisions, Molly found herself broke with over $36,000 in credit card debt less than two years later. Shame, guilt, and embarrassment set in.
With aspirations of a career in comedy, Molly used humor to mask the pain and brokenness she felt, believing that if she looked joyful and put together on the outside, it would eventually be true on the inside. Instead, she spent the next few years depressed, lonely, and feeling alienated from those closest to her. But an unlikely call with a compassionate credit counselor, meeting the spreadsheet-loving man who eventually became her husband, and a surprising visit to a church started her on a path that changed everything.
If I Don’t Laugh, I’ll Cry will bring readers into the tension of feeling both joy and grief and show them that every broken, messed up story has a purpose, and it’s possible to gain everything if they’re willing to surrender it all to Jesus.
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Gospel Of John Bible Study Book With Video Access (Student/Study Guide)
$21.99Add to cartLife. It seems to move at a break-neck pace. Days are filled with noise, screens, and appointments. Sometimes worry and fear are constant companions. The chaos can leave you looking for a place to be still, but that resting spot always seems to be an elusive destination. Jesus offers a different kind of life. He offers peace. He is peace.
In this 7-session study on the Gospel of John, Melissa Spoelstra will encourage you to slow down and linger with the living Word. You’ll appreciate the pace of the Savior who never hurried but completed all that the Father called Him to accomplish. As you turn the pages of John’s Gospel, you’ll be challenged to take on the posture of a learner-understanding that the peace Jesus offers is not an ease of circumstances, but a stillness of the soul. As a result, you’ll grow in intimacy with Him and learn to live, serve, and rest in His peace.
Video Sessions:
*Session One: Introduction (23:01)-Melissa begins the video teaching on the Gospel of John by setting the context for the study. She shares about who John was writing to and his purpose for writing the Gospel. She also gives an overview of the six remaining video sessions, noting the themes and memory verses.
*Session Two: Peace in the Plan of Jesus (25:59)-The video teaching for Session 2 centers on savoring peace in the plan of Jesus. Melissa focuses on John 1-3 to show us how God was the orchestrator of the salvation plan set before the beginning of time. This plan was accomplished by His power, evidenced His great love for us, and displayed His glory.
*Session Three: Peace in the Power of Jesus (25:28)-John 4-6 is the focal point of the teaching in Session 3 video as Melissa talks about savoring peace in the power of Jesus. She discusses three of the seven signs (miracles) found in John’s Gospel and points out three important truths for us to remember. She challenges us to rest in the truth that God is powerfully able and willing to help us in our time of need.
*Session Four: Peace in the Patience of Jesus (24:46)-In the Session 4 video teaching, Melissa focuses on savoring peace in the patience of Jesus. She’ll discuss portions of John 7-9 to reveal the big idea that when we look beneath the surface of our longings, we will find Jesus as our only source of satisfaction.
*Session Five: Peace in the Purposes of Jesus (31:11)-Savoring peace in the purposes of Jesus is the theme of the Session 5 video teaching. Melissa looks at portions of John 10-1
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When God Makes Scribbles Beautiful
Original price was: $14.99.$10.97Current price is: $10.97.Add to cartSometimes, hard things happen. Sometimes, they happen to children. According to the National Survey of Children’s Health, over 34 million children have experienced one or more types of adverse childhood experiences or potentially traumatic events that occur in childhood.
When God Makes Scribbles Beautiful helps kids trust that God can take even the hardest things and make them beautiful. This picture book imagines that the hard things in a child’s life is a scribble following him everywhere. The child can’t get rid of the scribble, no matter how hard he tries. Over time, he realizes that God is with him even though the scribble is there too. Eventually, God turns the boy’s scribble into something beautiful: like a cloud in the sky or a steppingstone that leads him somewhere amazing.
Ultimately, When God Makes Scribbles Beautiful gives young readers spiritual encouragement to plant seeds of hope in the face of difficult childhood experiences.
“He has made everything appropriate in its time. He has also put eternity in their hearts, but no one can discover the work God has done from beginning to end.” – Ecclesiastes 3:11
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Meditations At Midnight
$9.99Add to cartDive into the profound and poetic world of humanity’s paradoxical beauty and absurdity with Meditations at Midnight by Gary Jansen–a literary feast that ignites your love for books and leaves you pondering life’s mysteries.
There are few books that can bring you face to face with your own humanity with all its tragic loveliness and at the same time lift you so high above it that you are able to dispassionately examine mankind’s absurdity and brilliance. Meditations at Midnight, by Gary Jansen, is such a book. Jansen’s stories, verses, and musings are at once familiar, startling, dreamy, funny, and nostalgic. He pays homage to his own favorite writers from Jack Kerouac to Stephen King to Ernest Hemingway to Emily Dickinson to Paulo Coelho and more. This is a book you can devour in one sitting or flip open and just nibble on a thought or a theme that suits your mood. Meditations at Midnight will awaken your love of literature–or inspire
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Unlikely Converts : Improbable Stories Of Faith And What They Teach Us Abou
$18.99Add to cartRely on the unstoppable power of the gospel, not your own words
Most Christians have people in their lives who they’re sure will never come to faith. Whether they’re too committed to their sinful ways, too angry at God, or too quick to shut down any mention of the saving grace of Jesus, these long shots don’t seem worth approaching.
But some of the most unlikely converts have the strongest faith stories, and they can be a source of incredible encouragement for Christians who are trying to evangelize those around them. Randy Newman knows firsthand the discomfort that comes with sharing the gospel. He’s been tongue-tied and timid too. But the truth is, we don’t need to sound like the brilliant, charismatic, legendary evangelists.
In this book, Randy shares surprising conversion stories straight from those who took the long way around to Christianity. He considers current cultural trends that make evangelism more difficult today. Then with his characteristic upbeat style, he offers practical ways, and even exact wording, to proclaim the gospel and includes a plan of action.
In the end, Unlikely Converts encourages us to remember that while the Great Commission requires us to share the good news, it does not require perfection, only confidence in the message.
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8 Down
$16.99Add to cart8 bodies down.
8 more lives at stake.Investigator Carrie Kintz is new blood with the Alaska Bureau of Investigation in Anchorage. But with a serial killer on the loose, there’s no easing into the job. It’s sink or swim. The only clues to help law enforcement stop this madman are the taunts he drops into crossword puzzles across the country–always in the same 8 DOWN position.
Carrie is desperate to prove her worth to the force and the community by catching the killer. But when she discovers signs that these deaths are just the tip of the iceberg in a frighteningly elaborate cyberattack, it’s time to admit she needs help.
Calling in security specialist Scott Patteson for his expertise seems like the right move–until Carrie realizes that he may be a dangerous distraction for her heart. With her faith fading in the face of horror and uncertainty and her career in danger of ending, this is no time for flirtation.
But with a killer who is determined to prove that he’s smarter than everyone else, it may be impossible to fight both the madman and their feelings for each other . . .
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Overflowing Mercies : 100 Meditations On The Tender Heart Of God
$17.99Add to cartWhat if your life was immersed in mercy?
In a culture that is short on compassion, maybe that’s difficult to imagine. There’s not nearly enough patience or tenderness in the world. Maybe you’re in the middle of a hard season and feel disheartened. Or you’re struggling to show mercy and kindness to the people in your life.
In this NOISY world, God’s heart beats hard with love and mercy. But how can God share His heart with us when He doesn’t have our attention?
Best-selling author and Bible teacher Craig Allen Cooper opens readers to the beautiful, merciful heart of our triune God. In this 100-day devotional, you will be comforted as you meditate on God’s character. You will find courage in His promises to you. And as you soak deeply in God’s love and compassion, you will become better equipped to love and bless the family, friends, and people God has placed in your life.
Enter into the soul-heartening journey of God’s Overflowing Mercies.
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Breakthrough : 5 Essential Strategies For Freedom, Healing, And Wholeness
$16.99Add to cartMany of us read our Bibles and pray, but we can still feel fragile, tired, and defeated. This is the book we’ve longed for.We need a breakthrough. We need healing. From our pasts. And from our present battles. But sometimes we feel stuck or despairing-as if nothing is ever going to change. Dr. Marcus Warner shows us the pathway to healing and maturity.Breakthrough! goes beyond the usual one-size-fits-all answers. Written from a Christian perspective, this book takes the Bible and brain science-with the Holy Spirit-and provides an integrative approach to building emotional resilience that changes lives.As you explore five strategies-Be aware of your body, unleash your beliefs, increase your belonging, listen to the Spirit, and defeat demons (BUILD)-you will discover a breakthrough. Our memories and hearts can heal. We can mature and grow in Christ. Whether you’re at your end or simply in need of some spiritual vivacity, this book will not disappoint.Breakthrough! is an excellent resource for Christian counselors, providing essential tools and helpful exercises. It is also for the brokenhearted and those ministering to the weary and brokenhearted. Discover and develop a hope-filled pathway to Christian maturity.
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She Believed He Could So She Did
$15.99Add to cartOur culture has been lying to women. The world defines female empowerment as believing in yourself or looking within to find the power to succeed. But what happens when women grow weary from trying to do it all? Jesus offers a better way.
Becky Beresford used to believe and even promoted some of society’s lies to women. But in God’s kindness, Becky came to the end of herself and embraced healing truth found in the Bible.
Tired and frustrated with self-dependence, Becky wants to be God-dependent. In She Believed HE Could So She Did, Becky invites you to join her as she dismantles commonly held misconceptions and lies so we can live in real freedom and godly confidence.
This is a brave journey toward freedom as we learn to experience Christ-centered empowerment-not by believing in ourselves . . . but by trusting in our faithful God. Becky devotes chapters to the most common messages promoted by our culture and gives readers dependable biblical truths grounded in the gospel:
*Believe in Your God vs. Believe in Yourself
*Speak THE truth vs. Speak Your Truth
*Follow Your King vs. Follow Your Heart
*You Be His vs. You Be You
*The Future is Found Together vs. The Future is Female
*And so much more!Together we will discover how to rely on the Holy Spirit in order to battle cultural lies, put the enemy in his place, and live boldly for Jesus. We will be lifted of the burden to find strength in ourselves and reassured of the hope, joy, and power that comes from living in Christ. We don’t have to be the savior of our own stories.
Contrary to what you’ve been told, true female empowerment doesn’t start with a woman. It starts with a man, and His name is Jesus Christ. –Becky Beresford
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Never Shaken : Finding Your Footing When The World Is Sliding Away
$15.99Add to cartFinding a firm foundation in a shaken and fractured world.
Do you feel tossed about or a little disoriented? The foundations of predictable society are shifting. In this ambiguous cultural forecast, we’re wondering what’s right, what matters most, and how we should respond.
How do we build a meaningful life and legacy when our lives feel fragile–when our future seems discouragingly uncertain? With a pastoral heart Daniel Henderson looks to Psalm 15 when David–late in his years–was also trying to make sense of the strangest of times. David felt the unexpected loss of family, dignity, and destiny. Some of his pain was the result of seeds he’d sown earlier in his life. Yet, as he penned Psalm 15, he was led to the solid ground of intimacy with God and integrity in his own life. He was left with the promise from God that He would always be secure – never moved.
The burdens under which David was laboring are staggeringly similar to our own. In Never Shaken, Henderson shows us how to build our lives on the gospel of Jesus Christ. He reveals how true worship and the presence of God is found in Christ’s life in and through us.
This book is an invaluable resource for all who desire to live with the hope and courage of Jesus Christ no matter what befalls us.
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Ultimate Middle School Survival Guide
$16.99Add to cartBy the time you leave your elementary school, you know what to expect. You are the oldest, the smartest, the top dog. But the minute you enter middle school, everything changes. Your classes are getting harder. Your friendships are tested. Your body is changing. How do you know what’s expected of you now? And how do you keep from embarrassing yourself as you figure it all out?
The Ultimate Middle School Survival Guide is your “Do this, not that” guide to nearly everything middle school can throw your way, including:
– the first day
– bullies
– cell phone use
– homework
– gossip
– leadership
– respect
– sports
– and moreWith real-life hacks, humorous illustrations, and tons of true survival stories, Jonathan and Erica Catherman will get you through middle school like a pro.
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Lady With The Dark Hair
$17.99Add to cartEsther Markstrom and her artist mother have always been proud of their ancestor, painter Francisco Vella. They even run a small museum and gallery dedicated to raising awareness of his scandalously underappreciated work. But when Esther reconnects with her former art history professor, she finds her once-solid family history on shaky ground as questions arise about Vella’s greatest work–a portrait entitled The Lady with the Dark Hair.
In 1879, Catalan orphan-turned-fugitive Viviana Torrens has found sanctuary serving in the home of an aging artist in Southern France. It is in his studio that she meets Francisco Vella, a Gibraltarian merchant who sells artists’ pigments. When her past catches up to her, she is compelled to pose as Vella’s sister and join him on his travels or be deported back to Spain to stand trial. Along the way she will discover that the many parts she has been playing in order to hide her identity have far-reaching implications she never could have foreseen.
This dual-timeline story from award-winning author Erin Bartels takes readers from the sleepy Midwest to the sultry Mediterranean on a relentless search for truth, identity, and the freedom to follow one’s dreams.
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Leveling Up : 12 Questions To Elevate Your Personal And Professional Develo
$19.99Add to cartExperience explosive growth and success in your career and personal life by taking ownership of your personal development and understanding you don’t need to know all the answers–but you do need to ask the right questions.
Whether you’re a leader of ten, a hundred, or many more, there’s no one more important to lead than yourself. If you’re not leading yourself, why would anyone else want to follow you? Ryan Leak speaks to thousands of leaders every year, and he has learned that the most successful people have taken ownership of their own development–and in order to realize your potential, you need to fully understand yourself.
Being a great leader is not about having all the answers but asking the right questions–and that starts with careful introspection and inviting others to tell you what they see in you. Leveling Up helps you focus on the person you’re becoming and think about the goals you want to accomplish. Some of the twelve strategic questions in this book include:
*What is it like to be around me? (The Self-Awareness Question)
*What credit can I give away? (The Team Player Question)
*Who knows who I really am? (The Transparency Question)
*What’s my definition of success? (The Vision Question)
*Do I have to do it all? (The Rest Question)
*Am I enjoying it? (The Fun Question)Leadership theory and business practices are important to study, but nothing is better than discovering the answers that will reveal who you are at your core, where you want to go in your career and life in general, and how you can influence and impact those around you
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Becoming Happy And Healthy
$22.97Add to cartThere’s never been a more complex and confusing time to navigate the transition into adulthood than right now. And for more than 10 years, YouTube star, podcaster, and Bible teacher Jeanine Amapola has been the trusted big sister young women need, getting to the heart of their struggles and offering practical, inspirational guidance to help them flourish.
In her debut book she goes even deeper, sharing stories she’s never shared before–including how she overcame and healed from her own struggles, poor choices, secrets, and darkest thoughts. Tackling everything from dating and friendship to body image and confidence to faith and career choices, Jeanine shares real-world advice and tips to help you:
*make wise decisions to set you up for success in every aspect of life
*heal and deal with your past for a better future
*discover your true identity in Christ
*grow mentally, emotionally, physically, and spiritually to be your best self -
Prayers For A Widows Journey
$9.99Add to cart“I don’t want a future, Lord. I want my past. But ahead lie Your plans. Ahead lies life.”
Life after a husband’s death is full of grief, uncertainty, and loneliness. Who can possibly understand the heavy ache of this new life that must be lived alone? Only someone who has lived this experience too.
In Prayers for a Widow’s Journey, a collection of more than 100 reflective prayers, author Gayle Roper talks to the Lord about what it feels like to be caught in the unsought solitude of widowhood. Each prayer is accompanied by a verse from Scripture that grounds the prayer not in self-pity, but in an awareness of the boundless care of the God of all comfort. Rather than explaining grief away, Gayle acknowledges the pain and invites you to trust God even in these darkest of days.
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God Who Hears
$19.99Add to cartPraying for God’s Power in Your Times of Need
Life’s storms serve as sharp reminders of our profound need for God’s strength. But how do we pray when the trials we face bring us to our knees? And how do we cry out to God when we don’t know how to put our heart’s trouble into words?
From author and pastor James Merritt, The God Who Hears is a 40-day journey designed to help you seek the Lord in every circumstance. Guiding you through the apostle Paul’s prayers from prison, Dr. Merritt illuminates how these petitions and praises provide a model for communicating with God today, enabling you to draw nearer to him as you trust his perfect ability to meet your every need.
No matter the challenges you face, The God Who Hears is an inspiring reminder of the power and privilege the Lord has given us through prayer. Rooted in Scripture, this encouraging devotional provides insightful teaching and practical takeaways, equipping you to pray through hardship with clarity and confidence.
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World Wonder
$18.99Add to cartYoung readers will join Cora, a girl with big dreams and even bigger aspirations, on a journey to discover what makes life truly meaningful.
Ever since she was a little girl, Cora has dreamed of designing truly fantastical things, awe-inspiring structures that everyone recognizes as world wonders…and that’s exactly what she does!
As Cora ages and her accomplishments and acclaim grow, she returns to her hometown to fulfill her childhood dream–to transform the house on top of the hill into a true world wonder. In the process, Cora learns that living a meaningful life isn’t all about amazing achievements or always making bigger and better things, but about building community, giving generously of your time and talents, and loving others along the way.
Vividly illustrated and imaginative, A World Wonder helps parents and educatorsencourage children to dream big but also to value wonder and beauty in the ordinary. Most important, young readers will learn that in a world of limitless possibility, it’s the bonds we form and the people we love that bring real meaning and satisfaction in life.
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Build : God Loves You And Created You To Build In Your Own Brilliant Way
$17.99Add to cartThis sweet story celebrates the specialness of boys and encourages children to become who God created them to be.
“Day after day, amazing ideas flashed into his mind. They zipped and zapped from his head to his hands as he built his newest creation. Yes, Brady boy loved to build.”
We are each a masterpiece designed by God to reflect His image in our own one-of-a-kind, never-ever-to-be-duplicated way. Help your children celebrate their specialness as you share this charming tale about a boy who discovers the truth of who God made him to be, with a little help from his animal friends–some of nature’s master builders.
Featuring original writing and watercolors from popular author and artist Emily Lex, Build will become a family reading time favorite and spark important conversations with your children about their unique place in God’s creation.
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What Color Is Gods Love
$14.99Add to cartThis playful rhyming picture book invites young readers to discover all the ways God’s love can be displayed through a rainbow of colors.
All the colors displayed in this world that God made-
every glorious, fabulous, beautiful shade-
show how good God is and will always be.
But what is the color of love? Come and see!God created all the colors in the world, and in each one, we can discover how great His love is for us and how we can let that love shine to others! With each turn of the page, the focus shifts to a specific color-orange, yellow, blue, green, pink, black, white, gray, brown, red, purple-and explores a different attribute and expression of love through its many shades.
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Healing What You Cant Erase
$26.00Add to cartA path from trauma to transformation that doesn’t rely on willpower, but rather on the daily power of the Holy Spirit-from pastor and leadership coach Christopher Cook
The pain that happened to you is real . . . and it matters immensely.
The notion of healing what you can’t erase is not about ignoring the devastation of your past or putting a glossy, positive spin on current tragedy. That plastic version of faith isn’t actually faith; it’s unbelief.
Healing What You Can’t Erase offers a far better solution-a road map for moving forward through the losses and scars by allowing the power of the Holy Spirit to transform us . . . spirit, soul, and body.
Through story, instruction, action steps, and guided questions, you’ll discover
* why transformation beats willpower and self-help
*how to recognize and heal a broken spirit
*well-researched, biblically grounded strategies to revitalize your mental and emotional well-being
*how inside-out integrated transformation changes your spirit, soul, and body
Whether you’re wrestling with the loss of a marriage, a fractured friendship, a betrayal at work, or a chronic illness, there is hope. No matter your pain or traumatic experience, the Holy Spirit can heal and restore you to the life God created you for.
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Is Everyone Happier Than Me
Original price was: $19.99.$11.97Current price is: $11.97.Add to cartThe point where you feel like your life is unraveling can actually be a place of unimaginable growth–an awakening–if you’re willing to ask yourself a few simple questions.
In an age where everyone else’s successes are flaunted in front of you on social media, it can be a struggle to feel true happiness and contentment exactly where you are. Throw in difficult circumstances–loss, heartbreak, change, midlife–and it’s easy to understand why you feel lonely, lost, unsure of yourself, stuck, and, if you’re honest with yourself, flat-out unhappy.
Is Everyone Happier Than Me? provides practical and relatable answers to the questions you’ve probably already been asking about your life, and poses a few more, to help you figure out what’s standing in the way of your happiness, peace, and connection. Author, podcaster, and midlife mom Sarah Bragg is a trustworthy comrade for the journey as she shares the valuable lessons she’s learned in her own hard seasons to help you:
*Identify the unhealthy habits you do when you feel unhappy and how to overcome them
*Discover simple ways to find peace even in the murky middle of hard seasons
*Find new ways to connect with others and yourself
*Embrace exactly where you are even as you try to move forwardIt’s time to let go of the ideal of a perfect life and allow yourself to be a work in progress. And there’s no better time to find happiness than right here in the middle.
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Finding Peace Through Humility Bible Study Guide Plus Streaming Video (Student/S
$21.99Add to cart“In those days Israel had no king; everyone did as they saw fit” (Judges 17:6).
In truth, the people had a King–the Lord–but they had rejected his authority over their lives. This led to them getting stuck in a cycle of faithlessness, judgment, remorse, deliverance . . . and then faithlessness again. The people lacked humility. If only they had recognized God as their King, they could have broken out of the cycle.
In Finding Peace Through Humility, theologian Dr. Joel Muddamalle reveals how humility can likewise help us break out of our cycles of sin and experience the peace that God wants us to have. You will discover how to:
*walk through hurtful situations in God-honoring ways by gaining a true understanding of biblical humility;
*gain perspective to trust God when you go through hardships and heartaches; and
*face your fears and see the unlikely and unexpected places in which God is working in your life.
Humility isn’t about being passive or a doormat. It’s about relying on God’s limitless resources and inviting more of his strength and peace into your life.
This study guide, based on The Hidden Peace by Joel Muddamalle, includes:
*Individual access to six streaming video sessionsA guide to best practices for leading a group
*Video notes and a comprehensive structure for group discussion time
*Personal study for deeper reflection between sessions
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Interior Castle : Exploring A Spiritual Classic As A Modern Reader
$16.99Add to cartTeresa of Avila was a sixteenth-century Carmelite nun who was committed to a life of contemplative prayer. Beloved for both her deep spiritual insights and practical approach to life, her writings are considered spiritual classics, and The Interior Castle is widely recognized as her literary masterpiece. To read The Interior Castle is to put yourself in the hands of an extraordinarily qualified faith mentor who well understands our struggles to connect with God.
Teresa’s primary metaphor throughout this work is that the human soul is an “interior castle,” or a series of “dwelling places,” of great grandeur, beauty, and value. Her book is a tour of the different ways we relate to God through prayer, with varying intensity, awareness, and intimacy, culminating with spiritual unity with God.
Many books on prayer are about what we do to pray, or to pray better. But there are relatively few, like The Interior Castle, that focus on what God does in prayer–particularly the sometimes inexplicable ways God gives us experiences of love, healing, strength, insight, companionship, and knowledge of God’s presence in, and will for, our lives.
In this new edition of The Interior Castle, editor Laurel Mathewson, author of An Intimate Good: A Skeptical Christian Mystic in Conversation with Teresa of Avila, brings this renowned spiritual leader into clear focus for contemporary readers while modernizing the text to include shorter paragraphs, simpler sentence structure, and updated vocabulary. It features an introduction to St. Teresa and her work, chapter introductions and summaries, brief footnotes for additional information and clarity, and questions for reflection. Mathewson encourages us to be open to the ways in which Teresa’s “experiences and writings still shed light on things that happen in our world, so different from hers in so many ways but still filled with human beings struggling to be in relationship with one another and God.”
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Intimate Good : A Skeptical Christian Mystic In Conversation With Teresa Of
$19.99Add to cartAt age twenty-one, the pain of losing her mother to cancer sent Laurel Mathewson–with a naturally skeptical and questioning outlook–on a years-long existential journey. After an unexpected, overwhelming experience of God’s love, Laurel felt God say to her, “Turn to Teresa. She will guide you.” She understood that “Teresa” was the sixteenth-century saint Teresa of Avila, but she knew very little about her. Even after becoming an Episcopal priest, she had never read more than a few pages of Teresa’s writings.
Laurel began to read The Interior Castle, Teresa’s book about the “dwellings” within our souls that we move through to develop an ever-deepening relationship with God through prayer. She truly marveled at discovering a text that illuminated her own spiritual path with such insight, candor, and clarity. And she continued to experience the intimate presence of a God who kept defying and transforming her cynical nature–and offered her the gift of healing.
This beautifully written and moving memoir illustrates an ancient reality still very much alive today: the love and closeness of a good God, as known through Jesus Christ, who seeks to move out into the world, into our very bodies and lives. Not by nature or training inclined to believe such a wild claim, Laurel discovered that God is full of surprises.
In every age, but perhaps particularly in our own, people hunger for personal narratives that help bring to life complex frameworks and ideas. An Intimate Good brings into focus not just Teresa’s Interior Castle but also the living God who is at the heart of it, especially for modern readers who take the life of the mind seriously and yearn for confirmation of meaning and belovedness. Laurel’s journey will lead you to a clearer understanding of the varied avenues God works in our lives over time, through prayer and other people, leading us in ways only possible by One who knows us intimately and loves us deeply.
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Hebrew Versus Greek
$24.99Add to cartWhat do you get when you cross classical Hebrew with Koine Greek? It may sound like the metaphor for a strange new animal, but what it creates is a fascinating dive into the Bible that’s rarely, if ever, been attempted before in a devotional study.
In Hebrew versus Greek: A Devotional Study of Scripture Through Two Lenses, Hebrew scholar Chaim Bentorah and Greek scholar Chris Palmer explore fifty concepts from the Septuagint (LXX) and explain the subtle nuances found in Hebrew and Greek.
You will discover how:
*Bringing our traumas to speech through prayer can help heal our souls
*Trusting in God binds us to His divine power
*Affliction invites us to walk intimately with the Lord
*Saying, “There is no God” is like walking through fog
*The promise of “long life” can be understood even though people often die youngUsed by the early church, the Septuagint is the oldest translation of the Old Testament into another language: from Hebrew to Greek. It’s considered to be the most important translation of the Bible.
Palmer says, “The Septuagint is underappreciated and underused in theological pursuits, especially in working with the biblical languages. This book breaks ground in that it uses the Septuagint for something as simple as a devotional Bible study.”
Bentorah adds, “This offers a whole new dimension to our understanding of the Old Testament and the importance of using the Greek Septuagint to explain some difficult passages.”
Hebrew versus Greek will draw you nearer to the original text through simple devotional lessons that explore the rich meanings found in these ancient languages.
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Revelation 911 : How The Book Of Revelation Intersects With Today’s Headlin
$24.99Add to cartA riveting account of current events as foretold in the mysterious Book of Revelation.
Are we teetering on the edge of the end of time?
Look at the daily news and you’ll see stories about plague, famine, unexplained deaths, artificial intelligence, looming nuclear war, inflation, transhumanism, wokeness, cancel culture, gender identity crises, and mass shootings. Is this the end of the world? Or are these just precursors to the end of the world?
To answer that question, biblical prophecy expert Paul Begley and former investigative journalist Troy Anderson team up to compare today’s headlines with the events foretold in the book of Revelation. Their findings? Not only are signs of the end times accelerating dramatically, but a catastrophic economic collapse and global conflagration could be the next major events on the prophetic timeline before the rise of the Antichrist, the emergence of the False Prophet, and the installation of the “mark of the beast” economic system. They also explore evidence linking the popular transhumanist movement, artificial intelligence, and top-secret government and military programs with prophecies of the last days.
Revelation 911 offers hope and comfort through the power, protection, and provision of the Holy Spirit. Many believe these cataclysmic shakings will be accompanied by the greatest awakening in history as the world races toward the return of Jesus Christ, who will defeat the powers of darkness at the Battle of Armageddon and usher believers into an eternity of unimaginable wonders in the New Heaven, New Earth, and New Jerusalem.
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We Before Me
$24.99Add to cartHow individuals, church, businesses, and our country can heal the selfish divisions tearing us apart.
Our nation’s greatest challenge is division.
A congressman and former army flight surgeon examines our divisions and shows how social media have amplified them. Will we rise to the challenge and heal the rifts?
The solution is for Americans is a “we before me” life. Sharing the lessons learned from his father, who struggled to provide for his family and serve others while dealing with a serious handicap, Dr. Green shows how they served him so well in his own career in the military, healthcare, business, and politics.
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Reclaiming Education : Teach Your Child To Be A Confident Learner
$15.99Add to cartAre you satisfied that your children’s current educational environment is bringing out their best potential?
In a world where traditional education systems make little or no accommodation for individual learning styles (such as auditory or visual learning), and they’re failing to teach even the basics, it’s time for parents to take charge of their children’s education.
In Reclaiming Education, parents are equipped with practical and immediately useful tools to work in partnership with their children to identify and develop their learning styles and strengths. If you want to help learners build the kind of confidence that inspires lifelong learning, get them involved in the solutions for their own success.
In this book, both parents and children can learn how to:
*Identify learning style strengths
*Develop strategies for adapting to less than ideal circumstances
*Design an effective study space environment that’s tailored to your child’s needs
*Motivate even the most resistant learnersA great faith-based parenting resource for anyone who feels like the traditional education system has failed their children, and for anyone interested in homeschooling or simply helping their children to succeed in any type of school setting.
Say goodbye to a one-size-fits-all education and unlock your child’s full learning potential.
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Becoming A Screen Savvy Family
$17.99Add to cartHow Do Christian Parents Keep Up with Their Children’s Screen Consumption?
The expert media staff at Plugged In have compiled a must-read resource to help you understand the media your children consume. Years of researching and analyzing the latest media trends are compiled in Becoming a Screen-Savvy Family.
Offering practical advice and strategies to help your children navigate the ever-changing landscape of pop culture, Becoming a Screen Savvy Family includes social media, music, streaming services, video games, movies, and more to help you dialogue with your children about the content that they are exposed to. The effects of technology and media consumption on children are far-reaching, impacting their mental health, sleep patterns, attention spans, and social skills.
In Becoming a Screen-Savvy Family, you’ll learn:
*the effects on your children’s biology, behaviors, and beliefs;
*traits of engaged parents, creating a game plan, and how to step in when needed;
*how to screen those screens; and
*practical strategies for limiting screen time and thinking critically about media.Becoming a Screen-Savvy Family will quickly become an essential tool to guide your family’s relationship with media and your child’s screen consumption.
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Graceful Influence : Making A Lasting Impact Through Lessons From Women Of
$16.99Add to cartEver wonder if you’re making a difference in your world? Lori Stanley Roeleveld offers you the chance to realize the power of your influence. In examining the lives of pairs of women from the Bible, you will discover how their contrasting choices allowed them to influence future generations. In 30 short chapters, unpack the relevance of their struggles and shed light on the struggles modern women face in making similar choices.
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By Faith : Strength And Hope For Life’s Challenges – 40 Devotions From Hebr
$18.99Add to cartDiscover how to cultivate an enduring faith, no matter what trials or hardships you are going through. Learn from the examples of the men and women listed in Hebrews 11-those recognized for holding fast to God’s promises despite living in a world of not-yets, what-ifs, and in-betweens. This 40-day devotional has uplifting readings, guided journaling exercises, blessings, and prayers to help you find a safe place during heartache, loss, or loneliness.
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Life Giving Encouragement From Ecclesiastes
$16.99Add to cartExplore Ecclesiastes, a book of the Bible that gives outstanding wisdom and contemporary guidance about life’s heartaches and limitations. It may not answer all your whys-but instead reveals that a life of joy and purpose is found in giving yourself to the Who, surrendering to the unsearchable wisdom of the One who holds all your unknowns in His hands. Each day’s devotion-along with the Bible text and study tools-will help you navigate life’s uncertainties.
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Africa And The Bible From A To Z
$14.99Add to cartThroughout the Bible, God has used African people and places to tell his incredible story. The daughter of Pharaoh, Phinehas the high priest, Simeon called Niger, Libya, Cush… the list goes on! Many Africans played a crucial role in God’s plans, and the African continent has received many of God’s incredible promises. From A to Z, God cares about Africa!
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Loving People Who Are Hard To Love
$18.99Add to cartRenowned Bible teacher and #1 New York Times bestselling author Joyce Meyer teaches readers to love the people in their life who are hard to love.
We’re never going to be able to prevent people from saying or doing things that hurt our feelings. We will always have opportunities to get offended. But if we do things God’s way, we can choose to save ourselves a lot of misery and hardship. This doesn’t mean we allow people to abuse us. No, there is a time for confronting people and dealing with situations. However, the Bible commands us to love our enemies and forgive those who have wronged us, even when it feels impossible.
Everything the Lord asks us to do in the Bible is ultimately for our good. In fact, when we choose to love our enemies and forgive those who have hurt us, we are actually helping ourselves more than anyone else. Because whatever the Lord commands us to do, He is going to give us the power of the Holy Spirit to accomplish it–and that includes loving and being good to difficult people! God’s love flowing through us is strong enough to melt even the hardest hearts, so use kindness as a weapon to overcome the meanness in people.
A Study Guide is also available for purchase.
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End Of The Alphabet
$29.00Add to cartA rising Gen Z star empowers members of her generation to embrace conservative values and to rise up and fight for the future and those who will come after us
Gen Z has the power to change the world. As the largest emerging demographic in American history, Gen Z is at the center of a cultural shift, one that will define the direction of our country for generations to come. Intellectually curious, culturally courageous, and unafraid to push societal boundaries, Gen Z is ready to embrace leadership as the most educated generation in history. These young and often underestimated Americans are here to fight for a better future–and we won’t wait for permission to lead.
Rising content creator Isabel Brown is smart, driven, and passionate–a strong champion for truth in America. She fervently believes that Gen Z has the power, the potential, and the opportunity to define the cultural direction of America. The End of the Alphabet is a rallying cry for Gen Z to embrace traditional values in a new-age way and step up to make our voices heard.
Although taking an active role in culture and politics is nothing new for young people, today’s youth face overwhelming push back from older demographics. Looked down on by those who came before us as too young, too naive, and too unique to impact our society, Gen Z’ers are instead told to sit down and shut up until they have earned enough “life experience” to lead. This view of Gen Z is crippling and deeply ignorant of the cultural shifts we have and will experience in the coming decades as Gen Z begins to step into positions of power and leadership.
So, who is Gen Z? What does the future of our nation–and conservatism–look like with Gen Z at the helm? Read this book to find out.
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7 Lies That Will Ruin Your Life
$27.00Add to cartJoshua Broome knows this firsthand. He had a successful career in the adult film industry, making lots of money and achieving notoriety and all the markers of success. And yet he felt empty inside. After hitting rock bottom, he cried out to Jesus … and it was only then that he was fully redeemed.
In 7 Lies That Will Ruin Your Life, Joshua examines seven things we are told will make us happy and shows how each of them points us back to our need for God.Using his own journey as a point of reference, 7 Lies That Will Ruin Your Life pairs his personal experiences with Biblical truths, demonstrating both how we can be deceived and the healing truth that comes when we realize that Jesus really is enough.
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Flirting With Disaster
$27.00Add to cartJoin travel writer Angie Orth on a journey of self-discovery as she empowers readers to buck expectations, take leaps of faith, and trust that God’s plan is better than anything we think we want for our lives.
Angie Orth should have had at least 2.5 kids by now–everyone else back home did. Despite a successful PR career in New York, Angie was failing at the roles she was born to play–those of submissive wife and grandchild incubator. Without a potential husband in sight or the hope of a photogenic brood to show off, she was beginning to wonder if God forgot about her.
With her thirtieth birthday looming, Angie was at a crossroads. Should she hightail it home to find a man like a “good girl” or continue running the rat race in New York City and hope for the best?
Orth chose Plan C: Escape! She quit her job, launched a travel blog, and booked a one-way ticket to the South Pacific while her Southern family gnashed their teeth in protest. But the timing couldn’t have been worse for a solo trip: she found herself dodging tsunamis, earthquakes, revolutions, grabby men, and incessant DMs from her worrywart relatives over a journey that spanned five continents. In the midst of her global misadventures, Orth’s hilarious, vulnerable journey of faith and wanderlust demonstrates that God’s plan is so much more creative than society’s expectations.
Fasten your seatbelt for this sassy, relatable memoir about living life unscripted yet still on mission. By the time readers turn the last page of Flirting with Disaster, they’ll feel empowered, knowing God’s vision is better than anything we think we want–or are supposed to want–for our lives. And they’ll be ready to take on the world in their own way.
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Love Language Of The South
$32.00Add to cartExperience love the southern way with television host, blogger, and cookbook veteran Stacy Lyn Harris as she shares her family’s most treasured memories and recipes.
Stacy grew up watching her grandmother cook the same way other kids watched cartoons. The Love Language of the South is a memoir of southern culinary culture, regional traditions, and easy-to-follow recipes.
More than eighty recipes and dozens of hospitality tips give entertaining tools for novice and experienced hosts alike. Featuring an index designed to help cooks with meal planning, and find content by course, this cookbook will make cooking fun and productive. Or you might go straight for the southern classics, like Hoppin John, Bacon Cheddar Biscuits, Pimiento Cheese, and Cornmeal Fried Okra.
With southern food, it’s much more than keeping hunger pangs at bay. Learn the importance of gathering around the table to share food and bring comfort to those you love with The Love Language of the South!
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Sticks Vs Stones
$18.99Add to cartBest friends discover that working together is more fun than being right in this hilarious picture book about a playdate gone wrong.
Sticks or stones? When best friends George and Georgina disagree over which is better, their argument escalates to shouts of “I don’t want to be your friend!” “No, I don’t want to be your friend!”, until two new friends show them a better way. As they argue, George and Georgina build grander and grander structures, resulting in delightfully whimsical depictions of castles and thrones built from sticks and stones. Perfect for kick-starting conversations about considering someone else’s point of view, and packed with wonderfully expressive characters and the humorously overblown emotions of a childhood fight, this picture book makes for a laugh-out-loud story time experience.
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Not All Roads Lead To Heaven Devotional
$15.97Add to cartJesus said no one comes to the Father except through him. But in our inclusive world, such an exclusive claim isn’t popular. Believers today face persistent pressure to abandon this belief, which the world sees as antiquated at best and hateful at worst. What we need is godly encouragement to stay the course and courage to share the gospel compassionately with those around us.
Based on his popular book Not All Roads Lead to Heaven, this new devotional from Dr. Robert Jeffress offers 100 daily readings to bolster your faith in Jesus and boost your passion for sharing the Good News. These readings delve into what both the Old and New Testaments say about salvation, answer popular objections to the gospel, and equip you with the wisdom, reasoning, and illustrations you need to share your faith with boldness and love.
God has appointed us to be his representatives on earth to proclaim the truth that Jesus Christ is the only way to heaven. It’s the most loving thing we can do for the people around us. Let this devotional encourage and equip you to live joyfully in the knowledge of our one-of-a-kind Savior.
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Young Men We Need
$16.99Add to cartThe world needs young men to grow up into real men. But here’s the problem: young men get so many conflicting messages about what it means to be a man, they find it hard to know what masculinity looks like when men are at their absolute best.
Into this cultural confusion Brant Hansen paints a refreshingly specific, compelling picture of what men are designed to be. Combining depth and humor, he calls for young men of all interests and backgrounds to be ambitious about the right things and to see themselves as protectors and defenders of the vulnerable, with whatever resources they have at their disposal.
The (Young) Men We Need is witty, to the point, bracingly honest, and packed with wisdom. Perfect for any guy age 14 and up who wants to know “Why am I here?”–and is ready to show up. Includes discussion questions.
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Courageously Soft : Daring To Keep A Tender Heart In A Tough World
$18.99Add to cartLiving in a broken world gives us plenty of reasons to armor up, shut down, and numb out.
But God wants more for us than just getting by. When we harden ourselves to the world, we not only close ourselves off from the good things God intends for us but close off avenues God wants to work through in others’ lives as well.With deep empathy and encouragement, writer Charaia Rush invites us to experience the countercultural path of staying open and vulnerable to the goodness of God and the miracle of staying tender in a tough world that only God can bring about. In Courageously Soft she helps you to:
*identify the root of a hardened heart
*move from fearful self-preservation to the hope of being held
*recognize God’s presence in the midst of pain
*replace denial, shutting down, and closing off with abiding trust in God’s love and careIf you have been feeling exhausted, bitter, or beaten down by disappointment, betrayal, or suffering, this grace-filled book will help you find your way back to a posture of love, trust, and hope.
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Paint By Sticker Kids Rainforest Animals
$10.99Add to cartJoining the bestselling Paint by Sticker sticker-activity series is Paint by Sticker Kids: Rainforest Animals, a vibrant new title with 10 rainforest animal images (including a sloth, jaguar, and more!) to complete. With more than 5.1 million copies sold, the PBS Kids series includes fifteen must-have, mess-free activity books for ages 5 and up.
“Paint” your favorite rainforest animals–with stickers! The Paint by Sticker Kids series has sold over 5.1 million copies to date, and the reasons are obvious: stickers, stickers, and more stickers! Plus, it’s an activity that delivers hours of screen-free, mess-free fun. Paint by Sticker Kids: Rainforest Animals features a full roster of popular and portrait-ready rain forest animals: sloth, fruit bat, lemur, gorilla, toucan, poison dart frog, chameleon, crocodile, piranha, and jaguar!
Painting by sticker is easy, mess-free, and portable (plus, all pages are perforated so multiple kids can create at the same time!). The stickers are designed to be easy for small hands to maneuver, and no paint means no splatter, drips, or messy clean-up. All you have to do is 1) find the sticker, 2) peel the sticker, and 3) place the sticker on the corresponding numbered space. Voila! Watch your favorite rain forest animals come to life!
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Awakening To Justice
$28.00Add to cart“O where are the sympathies of Christians for the slave and where are their exertions for their liberation? . . . It seems as if the church were asleep.”
David Ingraham, 1839
In 2015, the historian Chris Momany helped discover a manuscript that had been forgotten in a storage closet at Adrian College in Michigan. He identified it as the journal of a nineteenth-century Christian abolitionist and missionary, David Ingraham. As Momany and a fellow historian Doug Strong pored over the diary, they realized that studying this document could open new conversations for twenty-first-century Christians to address the reality of racism today. They invited a multiracial team of fourteen scholars to join in, thus launching the Dialogue on Race and Faith Project.
Awakening to Justice presents the groundbreaking work of these scholars. In addition to reflecting on Ingraham’s journal, chapters also explore the life and writings of two of Ingraham’s Black colleagues, James Bradley and Nancy Prince. Appendixes feature writings by all three abolitionists so readers can engage the primary sources directly.
Through considering connections between the revivalist, holiness, and abolitionist movements; the experiences of enslaved and freed people; abolitionists’ spiritual practices; various tactics used by abolitionists; and other themes, the authors offer insight and hope for Christians concerned about racial justice. They highlight how Christians associated with Charles Finney’s style of revivalism formed intentional, countercultural communities such as Oberlin College to be exemplars of interracial cooperation and equality.
Christians have all too often compromised with racism throughout history, but that’s not the whole story. Hearing the prophetic witness of revivalist social justice efforts in the nineteenth century can provide a fresh approach to today’s conversations about race and faith in the church.
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Beyond The Clinical Hour
$28.00Add to cartThe global mental health crisis is growing faster than our existing mental health care system can address. To meet the scope of human need, we need new models of care. The good news is that there is an institution uniquely positioned with the resources and the heart to help: the church.
Psychologists James Sells and Amy Trout and journalist Heather Sells know firsthand the urgency of the situation-but they have also witnessed creative partnerships between churches and mental health professionals springing up across the United States. In this book, they call clinicians, students, and educators to collaborate with churches and lay leaders to envision and then create innovative solutions in their own communities.
Challenging the dominance of the traditional “clinical hour” as a one-size-has-to-fit-all model, Sells, Trout, and Sells give concrete guidance on how mental health professionals can work with churches to provide consultation, train lay leaders, and develop and evaluate programs to expand a continuum of care. They also explore the skills, theological foundations, and research-based knowledge that both Christian counselors and church leaders need to integrate their spheres of expertise.
Both a call to action and an encouraging roadmap, this book charts the way forward for combining the science of the mental health discipline with the service of Christian ministry.
Christian Association for Psychological Studies (CAPS) Books explore how Christianity relates to mental health and behavioral sciences including psychology, counseling, social work, and marriage and family therapy in order to equip Christian clinicians to support the well-being of their clients.
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From Broken Boy To Mended Man
$22.99Add to cartA Simple and Hope-filled Blueprint to Break Free from a Hurtful Childhood that May Be Holding You Back-Secret Hurts, Destructive Cycles, Buried Anger, and More
Hiding inside every man is a little boy. For some this kid is healthy and strong. For others he’s insecure. Afraid. Angry. And broken. This describes Patrick Morley. Successful entrepreneur and businessman, Patrick ignored the pain of his childhood wounds for decades. This book tells his story and offers a surprising remedy. An ironclad promise of wholeness. Today, millions of men are suffering silently and not breaking the cycle because they’ve never processed the pain of their father and mother wounds. Does that describe you?
If so, you are not alone. And there’s hope. A better way. You can find healing and finally break free from a lifelong cycle of pain and smoldering rage. You can, by God’s grace, re-write the script for your future and achieve so much more. Can you imagine?
In From Broken Boy to Mended Man, Patrick Morley describes his own revealing and healing journey and offers answers on how to safely uncover wounds that may have fueled destructive patterns for decades. This book will help you discover:
*How to overcome denial and acknowledge your suffering;
*How to find healing for your childhood wounds and break free from any destructive, dysfunctional cycles that hold you back;
*How to shift your perspective to have a compassionate view of your parents (even if they’re gone) and reach a place of biblical forgiveness; and
*How to create an action plan to help you better parent your own children so hurtful patterns are not repeated.
You can move forward from unprocessed pain. Discover today how to start brand new.
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Deconstruction Of Christianity Study Guide (Student/Study Guide)
$12.99Add to cartA Study Guide that Helps You Respond Wisely to the Deconstruction Trend
Alisa and Tim will help you respond, both with arguments and with love and sensitivity. This is a timely book! — Carl Trueman, author of The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self
A movement called ‘deconstruction’ is sweeping through our churches and it is affecting our loved ones. It has disrupted, dismantled, and destroyed the faith of so many, and this study guide can help you not only understand what’s happening but also stand your ground and respond with clarity and confidence.
*Maybe you have a loved one who is deconstructing their faith, and you are struggling to know how to respond;
*Maybe you are trying to understand the radical spiritual makeover your friend or family member is going through;
*Maybe your relationship with a loved one has been strained or even cut off because of your “toxic” Christian beliefs and you don’t know what to do
*Maybe you’re experiencing doubt yourself and facing hard questions about God, truth, theology, and the gospel
This study guide is designed to be used alongside the book The Deconstruction of Christianity, written by Alisa Childers, bestselling author of Another Gospel?, and Tim Barnett, host of Red Pen Logic. This guide will help you understand what deconstruction is, the roots of the movement, why it is compelling to some, and how it disrupts the lives of so many. In this study, you will be able to think through all of the issues around this trend and explore wise and loving ways to respond from a biblical worldview.
Includes six sessions:
Session 1: What Is Deconstructionism?
Session 2: How Did We Get Here?
Session 3: Why Deconstruction?
Session 4: What Is Deconstructed?
Session 5: Who Are the Deconstructors?
Session 6: Where Do We Go from Here -
Quest For The Guardians
$16.99Add to cartIn Book 4 of the Dream Keeper Saga, Lily Embarks on a Global Quest to Save the World from Its Nightmares
Lily is excited to reunite with her family after her latest quest in the Somnium Realm, but when she reaches home, she discovers that evil nightmares have invaded the waking world. With the help of her parents, magical friends, and a team of displaced guardians of the Realm, she races to rescue the earth from destruction. Traveling by time machine to the Great Wall of China, Tanzania, and the mountains of Peru, they work together to save the world from fear. As their efforts falter and the threat looms ever darker, Lily pleads for Pax to reach into the waking world to help . . . but can he?
Book 4 of the Dream Keeper Saga is a fast-paced adventure that helps kids and their families discuss biblical themes of sin, salvation, and trust in God.
*Ideal for Middle-Grade Readers and Families: Includes kids’ favorite fantasy and adventure elements with imaginative new characters and settings they’ll love
*Christian Themes: This exciting story invites readers into deep conversations about the gospel and theological issues
*Book 4 in the Popular Dream Keeper Saga by Kathryn Butler
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Bravest Heart : 365 Devotions For Boys
$17.99Add to cart“Here is what I’m commanding you to do. Be strong and brave. Do not be afraid. Do not lose hope. I am the LORD your God. I will be with you everywhere you go.”
Joshua 1:9 NIRVYou can be strong and brave because God made the whole world, and he made you! When you spend time praying and reading your Bible, you will learn more about God and how much he loves you.
This book of devotions is written especially for boys like you. It will teach you to trust God, to make good choices, and to help others.
You were created to do something special! With God on your side, you can do whatever he wants you to do. He can give you the bravest heart… you only have to ask!
Features:
*High-grade faux leather provides durability and exquisite tactile appeal.
*Heat debossing on faux leather darkens its color, giving the cover a two-tone appearance and creating indentation which shows off the intricate design and varied texture.
*Metallic and matte foil finishing touches are elegantly placed to enhance certain features, capturing attention and adding class for an aesthetic appeal.
*High-quality Smyth-sewn binding stitches book signatures together creating durability and allowing pages to lay flat when open. Decorative head and foot bands are also added to further complement the overall design.
*Matte art high quality paper with a smooth satin touch provides long-lasting vivid coloration and durability.
*A beautiful satin ribbon marker conveniently keeps your place so you can quickly pick up where you left off.
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Why Everything That Doesnt Matter Matters So Much
$19.99Add to cartA hopeful and practical model for what it means to be a Christian and a culture-maker in a world of hurt and wondrous possibility, from multi-Grammy winner Charlie Peacock and his wife and author, Andi Ashworth.
Do you feel powerless and overwhelmed by the pain and suffering all around you? Have you ever asked, What can I do to mend the world, my family, or my own life? And if I could, why bother? Does my own small part even matter? If so, here comes hope from two guides who are further down the road. Charlie and Andi have written a collection of letters to Christians and spiritual seekers who think deeply and care acutely about the state of the world and their personal spheres of influence.
In Why Everything That Doesn’t Matter, Matters So Much, beloved and trusted mentors, Charlie and Andi offer you:
*Thought-provoking explorations into the many facets of Christian culture care and making, from the kitchen to Carnegie Hall.
*Practical guidance for how to care for and improve the quality of human life, locally and globally, no matter your vocation.
*A theology of imagination and creativity that provides a framework for all of life.
*A model for expressing love in marriage, friendship, citizenship, and every kind of work–even in the midst of cynicism, fear, exhaustion, and oppression.
It might be said of Christians that our lives are either moving in the direction of the redemption Jesus has on offer, or away from it. Each of these letters is a gentle nudge in the direction of God’s powerfully ordinary purpose for each of us, no matter what the future holds, to participate fully in the beautiful, redemptive work of Christ.
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Permission To Dream
Original price was: $19.99.$11.97Current price is: $11.97.Add to cartDo you have a dream God has put on your heart? A desire to change the world around you for the better? As you pursue those dreams and your purpose in this life, you will encounter moments where you feel unworthy, ill-equipped, or like you’re not enough. And when you do, it is important to know that God is for you.
The highs and lows are part of your story, but they aren’t the whole story. With God’s help, you can build the resilience to keep pushing forward and hold onto hope–even in the face of setbacks or obstacles.
Permission to Dream by bestselling author Christine Caine will:
*teach you about resiliency and how to be strong despite the challenges.
*help you listen and tune into God’s calling so you can overcome previous pain.
*provide you with steps on how to overcome feelings of unworthiness.
*teach you strategies to help you manage disappointment and maintain hope.This book is for anyone who:
*knows their purpose but isn’t sure how to take the next step forward.
*questions their value.
*feels like they’re not enough.
*is wondering what God has planned for them.Curated from messages shared in Unstoppable, Undaunted, and Unexpected, along with new insights and encouragement, Permission to Dream is a reminder that you are needed in this world, and you matter. Your purpose is bigger than you know, and God has created you to do something that will reflect his light in the world, and he has qualified you to do it. With his help, you can fulfill all that He’s created you to do.
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Hidden Peace : Finding True Security, Strength, And Confidence Through Humi
$19.99Add to cartThe peace we long for begins with coming to the end of ourselves.
There are inescapable aspects of life we are all marked by. We have less control than we want, more anxiety than we’re comfortable with and just enough insecurity to continually remind us of our shortcomings. To experience these things is to be human. We aren’t superheroes and invincibility isn’t an option.
But humility is.
Whether we’ve incorrectly defined it or underestimated its relevance to our daily life, humility is the missing piece for the security, strength and confidence we all want. It’s time to stop trying so hard to avoid our limitations or overcompensate for them. God has better for us and it begins with bowing low in humility.
With relatable stories, practical wisdom and biblical theology broken down into digestible takeaways, The Hidden Peace by Dr. Joel Muddamalle will help you:
*Overcome the fear of being “found out” or looking like a fraud by realizing God’s intent for shortcomings and weaknesses.
*Walk through hurtful situations in the most God-honoring way by gaining a true understanding of biblical humility.
*Answer the question “why do bad things happen to good people?” by learning a perspective shift that will change how you process suffering.
*Know confidently that you’re living with purpose and being used by God through seven ways to practically live like Him today.
*Be led by the biblical definition of self-awareness so you can experience the unexpected ways it brings safety and security to your life.
*Stop believing the lie that theology is out of touch or too difficult to comprehend as Joel shows you how to dig into scripture and study it yourself.
Weakness is not your enemy. Planted in the soil of humility, weakness becomes a means to gaining more strength and more peace.
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Amazing Grace : The Life Of John Newton And The Surprising Story Behind His
$19.99Add to cartNow available in trade paper!
Amazing Grace is the surprising true story of John Newton, author of the song that has touched millions. A biography that reads like a novel, it reveals Newton’s dramatic story of sin and salvation as a slave trader before his ultimate transformation to speaking out against the horror of slavery. His story speaks to the brokenness within us all and our need for God’s amazing grace-and reveals the truth behind his song.
Amazing Grace is based on years of research on the life and writings of John Newton. It tells of a prodigal who returns home, and a young love that defies the odds; of a young man whose life is torn by grief and wounded by the cruelty of others, following his descent into deeper suffering and finally into the brutal world of the slave trade. Newton rejects God repeatedly but is rescued by a divine mercy that reaches deeper than he could ever have imagined as he ultimately faces his past and repents.
Newton’s story is shocking, and Amazing Grace does not try to airbrush or excuse his faults. There are glaring contradictions in the life of a ship’s Captain who retreats to his cabin to study his Bible and write tender love letters to his wife while hundreds of slaves lie in chains in the hold below.
The profound lessons from his life are applicable to us today, helping us to:
*Discover that the need for grace is universal and offers the deepest hope for overcoming hatred
*Be honest about our lives even when we are ashamed and face seemingly unresolvable problems
*Look for grace when life is far from perfect and doesn’t match up to our expectations
*Trust that our mistakes and regrets, no matter how deep, can be redeemed in the end
Since the first public singing of Amazing Grace almost 250 years ago, every generation has been profoundly moved by the song, and now readers can connect with John Newton’s story like never before. In these days of extreme polarization when beliefs about race, church, and politics have all become deeply divisive in society, we need grace more than ever. We need stories like this one that talk honestly about the human condition but even more about the relentless love of God and his forgiveness of sins. -
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Grace For The Moment For Moms
Original price was: $19.99.$11.97Current price is: $11.97.Add to cartYou’re the best, Mom. Mothers, for so many, are a welcoming hug, a helping hand, a comforting ear, a wise source of guidance. They do so much for so many, and in the devotional Grace for the Moment for Moms, bestselling author, husband, father, and grandfather Max Lucado offers moms comfort, encouragement, and some much-needed moments of grace and appreciation.
You’ll find Scripture-based devotions that:
*Encourage moms in their faith and help them embrace the hope of the Lord
*Remind moms of God’s grace over their lives and the lives of their children and grandchildren
*Inspirational insight on how to choose love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, and faithfulness in very real situations
This compilation of 50 beautiful devotions from Max’s bestselling brand also includes:
*A prayer for moms by Max
*Lovely design and illustrations
*Inspirational messages that remind moms how loved and appreciated they are
*Written-out Bible verses to encourage and uplift mothersWhether a gift for your own mom or for a mom who means so much to you, this book is ideal for Mother’s Day, birthdays, Valentine’s Day, and more and will be a cherished favorite for years to come.Tell your mom thank you, I love you, and more with Grace for the Moment for Moms.
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Clear Mind Peaceful Heart
Original price was: $24.99.$14.97Current price is: $14.97.Add to cartGod not only has the whole world in His hands; He’s holding the details of your life in His faithful hands as well.
What lies heaviest on your heart as you lay your head on your pillow? Are paralyzing fear and anxiety stealing tomorrow’s peace? Listen to this invitation from Jesus: “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest” (Matthew 11:28 NIV).
Experiencing this kind of rest won’t come from escapism, more vacation days, or stuffing our feelings. Jesus Himself provides rest to our weary souls. While He may not always fix everything right away, we can fix our thoughts on His Word. In doing this, we can sleep at night with ease knowing that God has it all under control.Through the pages of Clear Mind, Peaceful Heart, written by New York Times bestselling author Lysa TerKeurst and her friends at Proverbs 31 Ministries, you will be equipped to:
*Quiet fearful and anxious thoughts that always seem to be the loudest before bedtime by incorporating the Bible into your nightly routine
*Find relief from the stress of daily obligations and pressures through 50 encouraging devotions and guided prayers written by women like you
*Release the heaviness you feel about hard situations in your life so you can wake up refreshed and walk into the next day with courage
We may feel afraid, but we don’t have to live afraid. Let this devotional help you fall asleep tonight with a clear mind and a peaceful heart.
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Get Your Hopes Up
$18.99Add to cartTweens will encounter much-needed hope, read inspiring true stories, and learn to love generously and why connection matters in this 90-day devotional from Carlos Whittaker, bestselling author, activist, and head of the “Instafamilia,” a hope-minded online community. With Bible truths, stories of real hope and joy, and Carlos’s “let’s do this” energy, kids will be empowered to thrive no matter how life tries to discourage them, put them down, make them anxious, or cause them to feel isolated.
In Get Your Hopes Up, 8 to 12-year olds will:
*connect Bible verses with real-life stories of finding and spreading hope,
*see prayer in action today,
*discover ways to advocate for the marginalized, and
*learn to lead with love and fight for change.In this plugged-in world, the lines between childhood and adulthood have become blurred, and kids are exposed to hate, division, injustice, and negative emotions earlier than ever. Knowing where to find truth and positive environments can be confusing. Jesus gave us something long ago, though, that helps us remain grounded and steady in the face of all that’s broken in our world: hope.
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K9 Mattis On The Job
$18.99Add to cartMeet Mattis, a K9 police dog who loves helping people and fighting crime alongside his partner, Sergeant Mark. Learn what Mattis’s favorite part of the day is as he follows scent trails, tracks down missing items, and performs his official police work. K9 Mattis on the Job from author and police sergeant Mark Tappan will captivate kids as they discover what a day in the life of a German shepherd police dog is all about.
Real-life hero Mattis the K9 officer first captured America’s hearts on A&E’s America’s Top Dog and at school visits across the country. Now, through this fun story based on Mattis’s official police work, kids will find out what this pup loves to do each day, from driving to the police station in the morning (okay, Sergeant Mark does most of the driving) to training with the other officers to using his super sniffer to find missing items! But can you guess what Mattis’s favorite part of the day is?
This picture book:
*is for boys and girls ages 4 to 8;
*is for kids who love dogs, are fascinated by police officers or other first responders, or are fans of PAW Patrol’s Chase and Officer Buckle and Gloria;
*includes bright, action-packed illustrations; and
*is a perfect choice for read-aloud events at school or libraries.
Find out why so many have already fallen in love with one of America’s fluffiest heroes!
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Gods Wisdom For The Graduate Class Of 2024 Botanical NKJV
Original price was: $14.99.$8.97Current price is: $8.97.Add to cartGraduates, now more than ever, need God’s wisdom to face uncertain times. And while the world around them is full of changes, God’s Word and His wisdom are constant. God’s Wisdom(R) for the Graduate inspires young people with its biblical teachings, relevant for their new season of life and beyond.
It addresses carefully chosen topics that are highly pertinent to this season of life, such as spiritual discipline, godly relationships, and finding peace in God. The writings are organized by theme, allowing graduates to find wisdom for their specific needs quickly and easily.
From Jack Countryman, bestselling author of God’s Promises(R) for Graduates, this classic graduation gift offers:
*More than 70 inspirational writings
*Relevant Bible verses from the New King James Version (NKJV) translation
*A modern, high-quality cover that today’s grads will value
*A presentation page to personalize your gift
*A portable size, perfect for a gift basket or to take on-the-goCelebrate the graduate in your life with this popular, inspirational book impacting nearly 2 million graduates with the hope of God’s Word.
Look for additional biblical inspiration for the graduates in your life through the God’s Promises(R), God’s Answers(R), and God’s Wisdom(R) gift books.
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Gods Wisdom For The Graduate Class Of 2024 Mountain NKJV
Original price was: $14.99.$8.97Current price is: $8.97.Add to cartGraduates, now more than ever, need God’s wisdom to face uncertain times. And while the world around them is full of changes, God’s Word and His wisdom are constant. God’s Wisdom(R) for the Graduate inspires young people with its biblical teachings, relevant for their new season of life and beyond.
It addresses carefully chosen topics that are highly pertinent to this season of life, such as spiritual discipline, godly relationships, and finding peace in God. The writings are organized by theme, allowing graduates to find wisdom for their specific needs quickly and easily.
From Jack Countryman, bestselling author of God’s Promises(R) for Graduates, this classic graduation gift offers:
*More than 70 inspirational writings
*Relevant Bible verses from the New King James Version (NKJV) translation
*A modern, high-quality cover that today’s grads will value
*A presentation page to personalize your gift
*A portable size, perfect for a gift basket or to take on-the-goCelebrate the graduate in your life with this popular, inspirational book impacting nearly 2 million graduates with the hope of God’s Word.
Look for additional biblical inspiration for the graduates in your life through the God’s Promises(R), God’s Answers(R), and God’s Wisdom(R) gift books.
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Gods Promises For Graduates Class Of 2024 Navy NKJV
Original price was: $14.99.$8.97Current price is: $8.97.Add to cartToday’s high school and college graduates are looking for a promise of hope for their future. This practical and inspirational gift for graduates delivers God’s promises of wisdom, guidance, comfort, and encouragement straight from the Bible on relevant topics such as character, integrity, loyalty, focus, respect, and perseverance.
This attractive book is a perfect keepsake gift offering:
*Hundreds of Scripture passages from the New King James Version Bible translation
*A Leathersoft cover designed for personalization with your graduate’s name
*A portable size, perfect to take on-the-go
*Two popular color options: navy and pinkGod’s Promises for Graduates(R) is a #1 bestselling inspirational book impacting nearly 2 million graduates with the hope of God’s Word.
Look for additional biblical inspiration for the graduates in your life through the God’s Promises(R), God’s Answers(R), and God’s Wisdom(R) gift books.
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Gods Promises For Graduates Class Of 2024 Pink NKJV
Original price was: $14.99.$8.97Current price is: $8.97.Add to cartToday’s high school and college graduates are looking for a promise of hope for their future. This practical and inspirational gift for graduates delivers God’s promises of wisdom, guidance, comfort, and encouragement straight from the Bible on relevant topics such as character, integrity, loyalty, focus, respect, and perseverance.
This attractive book is a perfect keepsake gift offering:
*Hundreds of Scripture passages from the New King James Version Bible translation
*A Leathersoft cover designed for personalization with your graduate’s name
*A portable size, perfect to take on-the-go
*Two popular color options: navy and pinkGod’s Promises for Graduates(R) is a #1 bestselling inspirational book impacting nearly 2 million graduates with the hope of God’s Word.
Look for additional biblical inspiration for the graduates in your life through the God’s Promises(R), God’s Answers(R), and God’s Wisdom(R) gift books.
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Gods Promises For Graduates Class Of 2024 Black NIV
Original price was: $14.99.$8.97Current price is: $8.97.Add to cartToday’s high school and college graduates are looking for a promise of hope for their future. This practical and inspirational gift for graduates delivers God’s promises of wisdom, guidance, comfort, and encouragement straight from the Bible on relevant topics such as character, integrity, loyalty, focus, respect, and perseverance.
This attractive book is a perfect keepsake gift offering:
*Hundreds of Scripture passages from the New International Version Bible translation
*A Leathersoft cover designed for personalization with your graduate’s name
*A portable size, perfect to take on-the-goGod’s Promises(R) for Graduates is a #1 bestselling inspirational book impacting nearly 2 million graduates with the hope of God’s Word.
Look for additional biblical inspiration for the graduates in your life through the God’s Promises(R), God’s Answers(R), and God’s Wisdom(R) gift books.
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What Do You Really Want
$28.99Add to cartSuccessful entrepreneur and life coach Cayla Craft reveals to readers the seven questions that can unlock a new paradigm for dreaming, envisioning, and activating the life story they want to live.
We all want to experience great joy, peace, and love in our lives. We all want to find our true purpose and live an abundant life. But to do that, we have to first ask ourselves a few questions and get to know someone who we might be unconsciously allowing to drive our lives: our younger selves.
Cayla Craft was working as an ER nurse when she realized that she was unconsciously believing a lot of unhelpful narratives about herself that were influencing her everyday life. She started getting honest with herself and answered some tough questions, trying get to know the “little me” who was making a lot of the decisions in her adult life. This realization led to her quitting her day job and developing the Take 7 approach to personal growth and fulfillment that has helped thousands of women live their best lives. In What Do You Really Want?, Cayla guides readers through the seven questions that can change everything and shows them how to:
*eliminate areas of self-sabotage by learning how to take control of their narratives,
*find the courage to identify and make necessary sacrifices to create the lives they were made for, and
*replace a cycle of toxic positivity with action that comes from a place of truth and self-knowledge.
When you learn to use this self-coaching method, you’ll discover the more enriching, deeply fulfilled life that God intended you to have. What Do You Really Want? goes beyond current explanations about how narratives shape us and helps readers discover the questions they should be asking so they can use those answers to inspire a transformation in their lives and the lives of others.
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Gods Gift For The Graduate NKJV
Original price was: $14.99.$8.97Current price is: $8.97.Add to cartLove. Protection. Direction. God loves to give abundant gifts! During the time surrounding graduation, a season of new beginnings, seek God’s face and receive His gifts through the powerful devotions and Bible verses in this inspiring book from Jack Countryman.
God’s Gift for the Graduate includes 60 inspirational devotions, along with Scripture and prayers, to remind you that God is eager to bless and guide you in this new season of life.
This book will keep you rooted in these comforting truths from God’s Word:
*God has an incredible, eternal purpose for you
*God’s wisdom can guide you as you make decisions about the future
*Relying on God every day brings confidence and peace
*You can live your best, world-changing life in the center of God’s will
*God offers gifts of joy, friendship, hope, and so much moreThis striking book is a perfect gift for:
*College, trade school, nursing, seminary, and high school graduates
*Adults who returned to school for a secondary degree
*Teens, grandchildren, nieces, nephews, and friendsStarting a new chapter in life can feel both intimidating and exciting–but you don’t have to do it alone. God is with you through every opportunity and challenge, ready each step of the way to give you His good and perfect gifts.
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Change Starts With You
Original price was: $18.99.$11.97Current price is: $11.97.Add to cartInjustice, division, and suffering may loom large in this broken world, but you have the power to stand up for truth, unity, and healing. Join writer, motivational speaker, humanitarian, and NFL veteran Sam Acho as he gives you the courage you need to be a changemaker.
When gold is put into a crucible over a fire, the impurities (known as “dross”) rise to the top. When faced with extreme heat, these precious metals are purified. Nothing about the metal’s essential makeup changes, but the impurities in them are brought to the surface, leaving behind precious gold.
America is in a crucible right now–and maybe you are, too. The pandemic has strained an already struggling economy, longstanding cultural and political divisions have reached a boiling point, and injustices have been brought into the spotlight in ways that we can no longer ignore. But the thing about crucibles is that they bring out both the worst and the best of us.
As you read Change Starts with You, you’ll be:
*Inspired to discover and follow your fire–the unique passions that God has put in each of our hearts
*Equipped to dream big, channeling your passions into creating positive change wherever God has called you
*Encouraged by Acho’s firsthand accounts of communities transformed by people with the courage and tenacity to follow their own fire
*Motivated to be a leader who empowers others to become changemakers too
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Help Is Here
$19.99Add to cartBills pile up. Savings accounts go down. Marriages go south. Pandemics rage. Work goes off the rails. Stress goes off the charts. Suddenly, you feel powerless to calm life’s chaos. It’s all too much to take on by yourself. But pastor and bestselling author Max Lucado has great news for you–Help Is Here.
Now more than ever, we’re all weary from the loads we carry and the challenges we face. We have questions we cannot answer and problems we cannot solve. We’d hoped that life would be an invigorating adventure or an inspiring journey. We never expected to grow so tired so quickly. But Max teaches us that we can find fresh strength and purpose in the power of the Holy Spirit.
The Bible makes more than a hundred references to the Holy Spirit, and Jesus says more about the Spirit than he does about the church, marriage, finances, and the future. But do we really know the Spirit? In Help Is Here, Max will give you the tools and encouragement you need to:
*Learn who the Spirit is and how the Spirit can help
*Become joyful, enthusiastic, and empowered as you draw closer to God
*Confidently take on any difficulty with the power of the Spirit
*Discover your unique gifts and purpose to further God’s kingdomHelp Is Here reminds us that our Good Shepherd doesn’t just feed us; he leads us. He does more than correct us; he directs us. God keeps us on track–and best of all, he’s commissioned the Holy Spirit to guide us down the winding roads of life, wherever they may lead us.
No more walking this path alone. No more carrying weight you were not intended to bear. It’s time for you to enjoy the presence of the Holy Spirit and experience the vigorous life he offers. You can rest easy knowing that Help Is Here.
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Love Unscripted
Original price was: $17.99.$10.97Current price is: $10.97.Add to cartThe perfect boyfriend only exists on paper…doesn’t he?
Fresh off the heels of a bad breakup, Chloe Anderson poured her heart into penning the perfect boyfriend–and the result was an off-the-charts debut beach read that resonated with women worldwide. Now, Chloe’s scripted hero is headed for Hollywood, with her book destined to become a major motion picture.
When Chloe gets wind that silver screen bad boy Liam Hamilton has been cast as the ideal-in-every-way hero of her novel, she’s horrified by the film director’s choice. How could a player like Liam possibly do Chloe’s perfect hero justice? Unafraid to speak her mind, Chloe lets her executive producer know she’s one hundred percent opposed to the casting. And oops–the call is on speakerphone, where the annoyingly attractive Hollywood star hears Chloe’s unbridled outrage firsthand.
With Liam’s reputation already on the rocks, his agent concocts a PR plan to upgrade Liam’s image while putting the story–and the film–in the spotlight. The catch? During the movie’s filming in Chloe’s cute hometown of Stillwater, North Carolina, Chloe and Liam will fake a wholesome, committed relationship. Both stand to gain something from the arrangement. Liam’s fans will see him in a new light, while Chloe can boost her struggling social media following and further her writing career. What could possibly go wrong?
As author and actor navigate the waters of the PR relationship, they’re unprepared when their professional agreement turns into an actual friendship. And when serious sparks start to fly–well, that’s an unread chapter for both of them.
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No Address An Interactive Study Guide (Student/Study Guide)
$17.99Add to cartA four-session interactive Bible study, based on the documentary Americans with No Address, that examines the biblical response to people experiencing homelessness.
Homelessness is not an “issue”; it’s an opportunity for the church to love our neighbors. In this four-session interactive Bible study, we examine what Scripture has to say on the topic. A companion to the documentary Americans with No Address and the full-length theatrical movie No Address (starring Ashanti, William Baldwin, Beverly D’Angelo, and Xander Berkeley), this study teaches participants:
*The root causes of different types of homelessness.
*How to engage rather than enable.
*The importance of collaboration among existing agencies.
*How to mobilize their church to follow Jesus’ call to serve.Each session includes:
*Facts, true stories, and background about the people who experience homelessness in America.
*QR code for quick link to online videos.
*Discussion questions for churches and small groups.
*Perspective from the Bible.
*”Go and Do” action steps.
*Ideas for further resources.
*Prayer prompts and reflection questions.
The government can’t solve homelessness alone. The nonprofit sector can’t solve it alone. But neighbors loving neighbors, working together, can make a difference for the people who are experiencing homelessness in America. No Address equips Christians to lead the way.
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Restorative Hope : Creating Pathways Of Connection In Women’s Prisons
$29.99Add to cartHow theological education can engender life-giving hope for incarcerated women
Amid dehumanizing conditions, incarcerated people strive to generate hope. As one returning citizen explains, “Hope is not just sitting around waiting for things to change. Hope is not always an individual making things change. Hope is sometimes a community making things change.” What can theologians, teachers, and chaplains do to assist their work?
Sarah F. Farmer amplifies the voices of women who are or have been incarcerated to learn what supports their flourishing. Combining theology and sociology, Farmer shows how theological education can help cultivate the resilience and connection that women describe as life-giving in and after prison. Based in her own ministry, this pedagogy incorporates artistic expression and critical thinking about justice to cultivate agency.
Restorative Hope will open readers’ eyes to the lived realities of the US penitentiary system. Educators and theologians seeking to serve those in prison will find a wealth of firsthand perspective and practical resources in these pages.
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Lets Read The Gospels
$16.97Add to cartNew York Times bestselling author Annie F. Downs knows from personal experience that when you start to read the Gospels, they start to change your life. As an experiment, she read all four Gospels–Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John–in 30 days. When she finished, she picked up another translation of the Bible and did it again. And again. Suddenly she realized she couldn’t keep this experience to herself, and the Let’s Read the Gospels podcast was born.
Annie wants you to have the same life-changing experience reading the Gospels as she has, and with this guided journal, she makes it even easier. Each of the 30 entries
– shows you what to read on that day
– offers questions to think about and journal through
– can be used again and again, as many times as you go through the GospelsJoin this growing community of people who are seeing their lives, attitudes, and relationships change as they immerse themselves in the story of Jesus.
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Kids Big Questions About Heaven The Bible And Other Really Important Stuff
$17.99Add to cartWhat is heaven like? Is it going to be fun?
Does God answer our prayers?
How do I make God smile?
Were there really spies in the Bible?Kids have lots of questions. But adults don’t always have the answers, especially about the BIG things. Sandy Silverthorne is here to help! In this book, he tackles 101 questions–including some you never thought to ask–offering honest, biblical answers. His quirky cartoons and activities make finding the answers fun. And the information he provides helps kids explore their faith, consider God’s plans for their lives, and understand just how much God loves and cares for them.
Perfect for kids ages 6-8, this thoughtful and entertaining book is great for sparking conversation over breakfast, reading before bed, and all those in-between times when kids are coming up with more questions to ask!
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Never Fall Again
$17.99Add to cartLandry Hutton has spent three years rebuilding her life behind the secure gates of The Haven, an exclusive resort on the outskirts of Gossamer Falls, North Carolina. As the artist-in-residence, and with her pottery prized by The Haven’s guests, Landry is finally ready to settle in permanently. She wants to give her daughter, Eliza, a safe home to grow up in and hires former Marine Callum Shaw to handle the construction.
Cal grew up in Gossamer Falls and always knew he would someday join his family’s business. He longs for a family of his own but has almost given up on that ever happening. Landry is funny, gifted, and everything Cal could ever want in a partner, but he vows to keep his distance. Landry has a daughter and a past. Cal has been down that road before and barely survived when the woman he loved left, taking her two sons with her. He can’t bear to lose like that again.Before construction on the house can begin, Landry’s pottery is destroyed in a suspicious fire. It soon becomes clear that Landry and Eliza are in grave danger–but because of whom? Despite his best efforts to remain unattached and uninvolved, Cal knows Landry needs him–and he fears he needs her just as much.
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Very Best Hands On Kinda Dangerous Family Devotions Volume 3
$18.99Add to cartRegular family devotions are important. Unfortunately, they’re often . . . boring. But what if devotions looked less like sitting still and listening to someone read and more like, say, shooting bottle rockets, exploding eggs, playing soccer, pranking a friend, or putting on a make-believe game show?
These hands-on, kinda dangerous, totally unforgettable object lessons (along with nearly fifty others) are not only more fun than other family devotions–they actually deliver the spiritual impact you desire for your kids. So get out the safety goggles and start bringing the truths of Scripture to vivid life in your household. Just remember to change out of your Sunday clothes first.