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Mothers Love : Celebrating Every Kind Of Mom
$17.99Add to cartThis Mother’s Day, a new product from (in)courage will give women the opportunity to offer the mothers in their lives a beautifully curated and customized experience, filled with real-life stories, Scripture, brief devotions, and biblical encouragement.
In this beautiful book, the (in)courage community has gathered unique and diverse stories that offer heartfelt encouragement to all sorts of mothers, whether they be mothers in the traditional sense, mothers in the spiritual sense, or mother-figures who break the mold.
This book is full of reflections of God’s heart, sure to help any daughter give a tangible expression of love to her mom, and it will also allow any woman to share a meaningful gift with a mother-figure who has been impactful in her life, a new mom in her circle of friends, or a close loved one facing the joys and challenges of motherhood.
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Defy Your Diagnosis
$15.99Add to cartLife can hit us hard.
The author of Defy Your Diagnosis! understands firsthand the heartache and disappointment that can be caused by life, broken relationships, career setbacks, illness, and chronic pain.
Lorraine knows she isn’t alone because forty-five percent of the population suffers from long-term illness and twenty-nine percent endure chronic pain, and it is a heavy load to carry. Having overcome two incurable diseases, Lorraine’s principles are what helped her defy her diagnosis, and she now wants to help others do the same.
With heart-felt compassion, encouragement, hope, and straight talk, the author shares about her life–its challenges and its victories. “I’ve learned when we are hit the hardest,” says Bosse-Smith,” that our growth and faith expands by leaps and bounds. We mature and become more real and true to ourselves.” The pain is still real, but the author talks candidly on how to get back up when life has knocked the wind out of them–how their pain can have a purpose. She then shows them how they, too, can defy THEIR diagnosis!
Through real-life stories and years of insights as a business and life coach, personal trainer, and professional speaker, the author shares her FIT Life Formula and reminds readers that what they are going through is only temporary and that they, too, can have personal and professional success by getting their life back!
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This Is Gods Table
$16.99Add to cartThis Is God’s Table tells the story of the people of God creating a garden and a community of faith in a deserted lot in Los Angeles. What happens when a group of people decide to plant a church–literally? What happens when a group of people decide to work, worship, and eat together and invite others to join them?
Can a barren city lot become a church?
This is the story of an audacious journey. It’s the story of what happens when people garden, worship, and eat together–and invite anyone and everyone to join them. In This Is God’s Table, writer and pastor Anna Woofenden describes the way that the wealthy and the poor, the aged and the young, the housed and unhoused become a community in this once-empty lot. Together they plant and sustain a thriving urban farm, worship God, and share a weekly meal. Together they craft a shared life and a place of authenticity where all are welcome. Readers of Nadia Bolz-Weber, Sara Miles, and Diana Butler Bass will find here a kindred vision for a church without walls.
As churches across the Western world wither, what would it take to find a raw, honest, gritty way of doing church–one rooted in place, nurtured by grace, and grounded in God’s expansive love? What would it take to carry the liturgy outside the gates? What if we were to discover that in feeding others, we are fed? This is God’s table. Come and eat.
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Exploring This Terrain
$21.00Add to cartWhat is the terrain that Margaret Ingraham explores in Exploring This Terrain? It ranges from the Blue Ridge Mountains to Pluto. The path crosses the trails of memory and illness, the natural world and disintegration, and various parts unseen. Yet it stays, as Margaret says near the end of the book, in the ‘secret places of my brokenness.’ It is the beautiful landscape of wonder, the uneven country of love, the difficult ground of faith.
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Andalusian Hours : Poems From The Porch Of Flannery O’Connor
$20.00Add to cartAndalusian Hours: Poems from the Porch of Flannery O’Connor is a collection of 101 sonnets that channel the voice of celebrated fiction writer, Flannery O’Connor. In these poems, poet and scholar Angela Alaimo O’Donnell imagines the rich interior life Flannery lived during the last fourteen years of her life in rural Georgia on her family’s farm named “Andalusia.” Each poem begins with an epigraph taken from O’Connor’s essays, stories, or letters; the poet then plumbs Flannery’s thoughts and the poignant circumstances behind them, welcoming the reader into O’Connor’s private world. Together the poems tell the story of a brilliant young woman who enjoyed a bright and promising childhood, was struck with lupus just as her writing career hit its stride, and was forced to return home and live out her days in exile, far from the literary world she loved. By turns tragic and comic, the poems in Andalusian Hours explore Flannery’s loves and losses, her complex relationship with her mother, her battle with her illness and disability, and her passion for her writing. The poems mark time in keeping with the liturgical hours O’Connor herself honored in her prayer life and in her quasi-monastic devotion to her vocation and to the home she learned to love, Andalusia.
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I Shall Not Die
$11.95Add to cartThe year 2014 started with great promise. Author Cathy Dillard Byrum’s youngest son, Dan, had graduated college, had a new job, and was moving to a nearby town. Her oldest son, Derick, returned home after two years overseas and proposed to his girlfriend, Jill. Then came the news no one expects and everyone dreads. Cathy was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer, and the prognosis was grim.
In I Shall Not Die, she narrates her story, including details about treatment, losing her hair, an emergency ride on a helicopter, and a stem cell transplant. Cathy offers an inside look at her battle with cancer, and she shares what it took for her to make it to her son’s wedding and beyond.
I Shall Not Die offers a brave, open memoir that focuses on Cathy’s experience with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, including how she dealt with it physically and emotionally. She tells how she stayed strong through the grace of God and the love of her family and friends. Her story serves to inspire others facing adversity.
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Gods Biker : Motorcycles And Misfits
$14.99Add to cartThe story of how Sean Stillman, a shy preacher’s son from Reading, started and led a long-term outreach to the motorcycle clubs and street people of Swansea.
Zac’s Place is a church in Swansea. It is a small chaotic community of Jesus followers where the most fragile of life’s walking wounded try to work out their faith, because they quite simply wouldn’t fit anywhere else. It’s also the spiritual home for the local chapter of the motorcycle club God’s Squad. Zac’s Place was founded in 1998 and for nearly twenty years has been led by Sean Stillman – a “painfully shy, nervous preacher’s kid” – whose front-line ministry, at Zac’s Place and on the road, has cost him dearly, including physical beating. In Zac’s Place, chaos and disorder sit alongside community and grace in an environment that sometimes resembles an AA meeting mixed with a casualty department.
This is Sean’s personal story of a transformed faith alongside the broken, the story of the church he started and the European-wide growth of an unlikely bunch of biker missionaries. The thread that will run through it is the ‘greater righteousness’ that Christ was looking for – what can happen when our concern for the perfect performance is stripped bare and replaced with poverty of spirit.
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Cursed With Common Sense
$11.95Add to cartFor many, it can be hard to believe. People can be skeptical about Jesus Christ and Christianity, or they can think that they just don’t have a good reason to believe. Yet so many of us can’t shake this feeling that we should try to understand God and what we believe about Him-but where do we start?
In Cursed with Common Sense, author Nicole Nelson shares her own journey from skepticism and doubt to faith in God. Through her stories, she hopes others can relate to her experiences as she walks with you through the questions she had-and still has-and how she got to the point that she found herself now: writing a book and sharing her faith with the world.
You can have common sense and faith in Jesus. Nicole will take you through her process of realizing that God is real and how it changed her life. Cursed with Common Sense won’t tell you what to do or what to think, but together you can explore these questions and arrive at your own faith.
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Broken Beyond Recognition
$24.99Add to cartDo you need healing from the heartbreaking consequences of your past? Have intrusive memories, soul ties, and debilitating anger bombarded your thoughts, kept you in bondage and consumed your very soul?
Katherine takes you on a personal journey of her life, love, and losses. This is not a fairy-tale. It is a candid, courageous, real-life story of a woman broken beyond recognition. Childhood abuse and abandonment, drug addiction, prostitution, anger, and emotional distress form this narrative. But it is also dynamic evidence of the power of divine intervention.
Whether you are a sinner or saint suffering from trauma, haunted by your troublesome past, hurt by the people you trusted most, hooked on drugs and alcohol, searching for true love, behind the jailhouse bars or a “fly” girl devastated on the inside, this book can help you. The difficulties you face right now may be linked to your past, but your past doesn’t have to control your present or future.
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1 Yellow Door
$14.99Add to cart“My dear Jack–before I met you my life seemed like a train pulling a trail of empty carriages, and then there you were, and suddenly most of them were full–with people and noise and laughter, with faith and vision and your extraordinary, electric vitality.”
“So now, my love, I know the worst. Your brain is shrinking inside your skull. You are going to disintegrate very slowly, mind and body. You will feel our loving in rags and your God absent and I will hold you to my breast and cradle the shell of your skull, for you will have gone, my lover, my dear one. But not quite.” “I know that I cannot bear the pain of Jack’s situation any longer, unrelieved. To survive and provide him with the buoyant atmosphere he wants, I have to have hopes and horizons beyond him. These horizons have included another person.”
When Rebecca de Saintonge’s husband Jack developed Lewy Body Dementia–an incurable degenerative brain disease–she faced the dual challenge of trying to keep the integrity of their relationship intact while also avoiding her own destruction within their diminishing world. She survived by taking a lover.
Through extracts from Rebecca’s journal, One Yellow Door explores the conflicting emotions and complex ethics of infidelity in marriage where one partner is severely disabled. It is about a re-thinking of traditional faith and the discovery of a new, deeper spirituality, and ultimately about the indestructibility of love.
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Father In The Wild
$14.99Add to cartI’m a product of the American divorce rate. Nothing tragic. Nothing obscure or awful. Just good old-fashioned family failure. Then in my early adulthood, I found myself repeating the very same home I grew up in and assimilating into American statistics myself. In response to the wreckage, I began driving. When I thought I was at the end of it all, I discovered that I was really at the beginning of a grand adventure. I was off to find my father. And finding my father would lead to finding security.
Security is perhaps one of our greatest needs as humans. Romantics say love is our greatest need. Philosophers say knowledge is our greatest needs. Mystics say transcendence is our greatest need. But what if security is in-fact our greatest need? Who would we be as a people, as a church, and as a nation if we felt a sense of security in our lives? Not superficial security where life is predictable, but a sacred security. One that’s firm in our identity.
Affirmation by a father is something we all need, whether we want to admit it or not. Not having my father around in my most critical adolescent years created an insecurity in me that I eventually transferred over to my faith. I even transferred it over leaders and other authorities in my life. A breeding ground for insecurity. It wasn’t until I found the secrets of beauty and adversity, and found the Father in the wild, that I became healthy and whole.
This journey is an introspective look at faith and freedom, and finding a father, with crisis as a catalyst. It’s a journey across the wilderness of America, through prairies and mountains, across National Parks and along interstates, and ultimately the highways of the heart and mind.
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Journals Of Jim Elliot
$22.00Add to cartJim Elliot was a missionary–and then a martyr at the hands of the Auca Indians to whom he was witnessing. At the age of 29, he left behind a young wife, a baby daughter, and an incredible legacy of faith.
Jim’s volumes of personal journals, written over many years, reveal the inner struggles and victories that he experienced before his untimely death. In The Journals of Jim Elliot, you’ll come to know this intelligent and articulate man who yearns to know God’s plan for his life, details his fascinating missions work, and reveals his love for Elisabeth–first as a single man, then as a happily married one.
Edited by his widow, Jim’s personal yet universal musings about faith, love, and work will show you how to apply the Bible to the situations you face every day. They will inspire you to lead a life of obedience, regardless of the cost, and delight you with an amazing story of courage and determination.
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Where Is God In A Coronavirus World
$5.99Add to cartHow belief in a loving and sovereign God helps us to make sense of and cope with the coronavirus outbreak.
We are living through a unique, era-defining period. Many of our old certainties have gone, whatever our view of the world and whatever our beliefs. The coronavirus pandemic and its effects are perplexing and unsettling for all of us. How do we begin to think it through and cope with it?
In this short yet profound book, Oxford mathematics professor John Lennox examines the coronavirus in light of various belief systems and shows how the Christian worldview not only helps us to make sense of it, but also offers us a sure and certain hope to cling to.
Here’s why John Lennox wrote the book:
“This book consists of my reflections on what we are experiencing right now. I started writing it a week ago, and things have changed quickly since then and no doubt will do again…I would invite you, the reader, to view the book like this: we are sitting in a coffee shop (if only we could!) and you have asked me the question on the book cover. I put down my coffee cup and attempt to give you an honest answer. What follows is what I would try to say in order to convey some comfort, support and hope.” -
When The World Stops
$15.99Add to cartWHAT NOW?
When the World Stops is a timely yet timeless message for God’s people that provides practical tools for not only weathering this current crisis, but emerging from it with a strengthened faith and deeper appreciation for the things that matter most. Like a reassuring hand on your shoulder, Dr. Michael L. Brown helps point the way forward for those seeking answers to questions like:
Is this pandemic the final plague talked about in the Book of Revelation?
Are we indeed in the final days before Jesus’ return?
Who or what sent the virus?
How do I balance my family’s needs with the faith to live for Christ in crisis?
Should we submit to the government’s guidelines?
How can I steward my health in a biblical way?
Dr. Brown brings biblically sound and clear answers for staying healthy, living with wisdom, and maintaining your faith. As we move forward with wisdom in the power of the Holy Spirit, we must understand that “the darkness is the divine setup for the light. The sickness is the divine setup for the healing. The current crisis is the divine setup for the church to arise and shine and make a difference. We must seize this moment before it passes. We must milk it to the full, for the glory of God. Does your heart bear witness to my words?”This book will help you see how you can be the hands and feet of Jesus during this world’s dark hour. It provides a God Calibrated compass for the turbulent uncharted-waters we find ourselves in and sifts through the dizzying array of information regarding this current crisis, separating fact from fiction, prudence from pandemonium and faith from fear.
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Journey Back To The Soul Choosing Faith Over Fear
$15.99Add to cartAs she tells her story, Memarie Gayle leads readers on her personal journey toward finding God’s will for her life. She rose to prominence in the Country Music industry only to find the excitement of it too often replaced with disappointments, challenges, and heartache. Then her journey became even more difficult when she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. The author holds nothing back in portraying her gripping story. Her honesty and resolve to find God’s purpose for her life will inspire you on your own journey.
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Neighbors : Christians And Muslims Building Community
$21.00Add to cartFor a long time, American Christians have been hearing a story about Islam. It’s a story about conflict and hostility, about foreigners and strangers. At the heart of this story is a fundamental incompatibility between the two religions going all the way back to their original encounters. According to that story, the only valid Christian response to Islam is resistance.
But it’s time to tell a different–and truer–story. Christians and Muslims have not always fought or lived in fear of each other. Christian communities in majority-Muslim countries have coexisted with their Muslim neighbors for centuries. More importantly, Muslims have been part of the American story from its beginning. And like their Christian neighbors, Muslims want to make the community in which they live a better place for all citizens. In Neighbors, Deanna Ferree Womack lays the groundwork for members of the two religions to understand, converse, and cooperate with each another. With models for cultivating empathy and interfaith awareness, Christians can move from neighborly intention to real dialogue and common action with Muslims in the United States.
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Exceptional You : 7 Ways To Live Encouraged, Empowered, And Intentional
$16.99Add to cartBecome the exceptional person God has called you to be with these seven practices for living a fulfilled and plentiful life from Lakewood Church co-pastor and bestselling author Victoria Osteen.
In her latest book, Exceptional You! Victoria Osteen shares seven ways to become the exceptional person God has called you to be. She says, “If you’re going reach your highest potential in life, you’re going to have to develop the ability to see beyond where you are right now.”
Through empowering, uplifting stories and biblical teachings, Victoria will encourage you to set your mind and intent towards the important things in life with seven exceptional practices:
*Keep your memory box full of encouragement
*Lift up your eyes
*Know that you are chosen
*Love well
*Keep your accounts short
*Live in your space of gratitude
*Start your day off rightLive encouraged, live empowered, and live intentional, and see the new and exciting things God has in store for you.
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Be Revived : Defeat The Spirit Of Death With The Power Of Life
$16.99Add to cartYou don’t have to grow old. You can live forever.
This book will help you walk in God’s promises of long-lasting health.
The Bible is full of promises related to believers having supernatural youth restored even in their advanced years. Yet few are actually walking in those promises. Instead, a huge percentage of Christians are suffering from some sort of pain, disease, or disorder and are physically and mentally exhausted. Plus, many depend on cosmetic procedures and surgeries to recapture their youthful look.
But what if it were possible to tap into the youth-restoring promises the Bible says are ours? What if these revelations would enable us to run faster, serve stronger, and last longer? What if we could look better than we have in decades without cosmetic surgery and costly procedures?
Katie Souza has found secrets in the Bible that show how we can see these manifestations in every part of our bodies. In this explosive study she gives readers the keys that will enable them to tap into the fountain of youth God promised His people.
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Mother To Son
$20.99Add to cart“Wynn is my son. No little boy could be more loved by his parents. Inquisitive, fiercely affectionate, staunchly opinionated, he sees the world through eyes of wonder and has yet to become jaded by society’s cruelty. I know he’ll grow up with stories of having been made to feel ‘other’ because of the color of his skin. I want to teach him that, though life’s unfair, he still has incomparable value in the eyes of his heavenly Father. I know this wondrous little person has the potential to change the world–and I want him to know it too.” In Mother to Son, Jasmine Holmes shares a series of powerful letters to her young son. These are about her journey as an African American Christian and what she wants her son to know as he grows and approaches the world as a black man. Holmes deals head-on with issues ranging from discipleship and marriage to biblical justice. She invites us to read over her shoulder as she reminds Wynn that his identity is firmly planted in the person and work of Jesus Christ, even when the topic is one as emotionally charged as race in America.
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Fierce Wholeness Companion Journal
$10.99Add to cartIn this interactive, thought-provoking Bible study and journal experience, explore what makes you whole in Christ–despite your current and past traumatic experiences.
When the Bible talks about the third- and fourth-generational curse, that’s so true. If the curse is not broken by you, then who will stop it dead in its tracks? Dealing with forgotten pain, things you stuff down just to survive, is serious business. Rather than bury the pain, author Robin Meade invites you discover what it means to be fiercely whole in Christ.
This study is a companion volume to Fierce Wholeness: Finding Myself after Childhood Emotional Trauma–Robin’s story, in all of its raw and messy but beautiful transparency. Through Robin’s story, readers who grew up in the clutches of the branches of emotional abuse will be empowered to pursue the freedom that Jesus gives.
The Fierce Wholeness: Companion Journal contains reflective questions found in Robin’s book, in a journal format that weaves the study of Scripture into your reflections–all designed to draw you closer, right where you are, to the One who loves you more than any other.
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Demonic Storm : My Life Of Satanic Deception And Spiritual Deliverance
$17.99Add to cart“There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them.” — C. S. Lewis
As a baby, Kimmie was adopted by an amazing couple only to be orphaned shortly after. She was then adopted by her uncle. Nevertheless, she decided to leave home at the age of eleven for a life on the streets. In this new life she slowly immersed herself in demonic deception, and by the age of twelve, she was living a life of full-blown horror and depravity.
In this true story you will journey into a life of extremes, and see how the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ holds the only power strong enough to conquer all.
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Good Tree : A History Of Saint Aidan’s
$10.99Add to cartIt was a project like no other. There was an energy right from the first meeting. Not everyone knew each other but it didn’t matter. No-one knew how to do this thing but that didn’t matter either.
In 1993, the Right Reverend Frank K. Allan, 8th Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta, was keeping an interested eye on the rapid development of a northern suburb known as Johns Creek. He began to think about the Christian souls who were settling there, putting down roots to begin a new life and raise their children in a new city. Where would they worship? How would they express their Christian faith? What could he do meet their needs?
The Good Tree is the story of a group of parishioners from Saint David’s Episcopal Church in Roswell who got together to build a mission church in nearby Alpharetta. Beginning with prayer and enthusiasm and guided by the inspirational Father Noel Burtenshaw, the founding of a new mission church was a deeply spiritual and yet very human journey for all concerned. The Good Tree describes that journey, from its unexpected beginnings, through the first twenty-five years of highs and lows, twists and turns, including the difficult period that followed the ordination of Canon Gene Robinson as Bishop of New Hampshire.
If you ever wondered how a church building comes to be in a particular place at a particular time, or if you are interested in exploring the expression of Christianity in the modern world, or if you are simply interested in reading an inspiring story about a group of ordinary people with a determined Christian purpose, then you will enjoy reading The Good Tree.
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Miracles Happen
$16.99Add to cartStart seeing miracles! You did not encounter this book by accident. God is directing your steps, and he wants you to witness the miracles that continue to take place today. Miracles Happen! explores the miracles of Jesus as told in the Bible and shares stories of God’s miracles today. Filled with inspiring Scripture, spiritual insight, and guided prayers, Miracles Happen! will immerse you in real-life accounts of miracles of healing, salvation, provision, protection, and more. Raise your level of expectancy and open your eyes to God’s miraculous work.
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Goodbye Yesterday : Activating The 12 Laws Of Boundary-Defying Faith
$16.99Add to cartFROM THE BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF THE PRAYER WARRIOR’S WAY; THE ART OF WAR FOR SPIRITUAL BATTLE; HELLO, TOMORROW!; AND COMMANDING YOUR MORNING SELLING MORE THAN ONE MILLION COPIES COMBINED.
Your yesterday does not define your tomorrow.
This book will set you free from the past, change the way you see yourself, and push you to pursue your future and all that God has for you.
Each of us is born with a seed of greatness, but in many of us, it never grows to maturity because we don’t realize our full potential. We continue to live day-to-day based on the failures, defeatist attitude, and purposelessness of the past rather than acknowledging that we were created for more.
Using insights gained from the Book of Genesis, Goodbye, Yesterday! teaches readers the nine principles of faith they need to be set free from the past, change the way they see themselves, and move fully into all that God has for them to do and to be. It enables readers to renegotiate their future, redefine their destiny, reestablish their dominion in a world of chaos, and realize their full potential as God’s representatives on the earth.
This book will help readers move beyond the self-defeating behaviors and mind-sets of the past and embrace the “awesome” person God designed them to be!
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I Quit : Facing Cancer With Faith, Family And Friends And Sarcasm, Theres A
$14.99Add to cartI Quit is a rallying cry for anyone facing a difficult situation–including two cancer diagnoses–to choose joy and faith and embrace humor to make the best of their experience.
There’s more to cancer than chemo and radiation. When she found herself diagnosed with brain cancer for the second time, Kristina Kotlus chose to quit on day one. But rather than meaning she gave up, her quitting meant getting a whole new lease on life. I Quit offers readers a chance to do the same. Inside, Kristina shares how she survived both diagnoses with the help of her family, friends, and faith in a relatable, funny way from her original diagnosis to finding doctors to telling her kids (hint: make someone else do it). She shares openly and honestly, with just a touch of sarcasm and a heavy dose of humor and faith and encourages readers to decide that it’s time to stand up, wash the tears off their face, and keep going.
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Stepping Up
$14.99Add to cartUnlock God’s power to elevate your position and reach your full potential with Stepping Up! by Lakewood Church pastor Johnny McGowan.
No matter your current position, God will unlock the power for you to reach your incredible potential. The key is to approach all you do with a servant’s heart versus your own ambition. This guide to serving with passion, integrity, and intuition for success explores how to appreciate today while anticipating the possibilities that await tomorrow.
With biblical wisdom and personal insights, Johnny McGowan reveals his own exciting trajectory and the doors that were opened each time he stepped up to serve God. For the past thirty years, he has devoted his gifts to serving Lakewood, one of America’s largest churches. Along the way, he has marveled at the leadership opportunities God presented as he stayed committed to serving something larger than himself. By seeking only to fulfill God’s will for his life, Johnny has been blessed with increasing responsibility and innumerable ways to make a difference through Stepping Up!
Regardless of where you are, God can take you where you want to go-and beyond! Chasing the “number one” role or promotion by your own hands will never be fulfilling. God has even bigger things in store for you, and your future starts now. Learn to listen to God’s call and let Him direct your actions. As you do, you’ll rise by discovering the true power of your position.
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Claim Your Crown
$18.00Add to cartYoung women are deeply dissatisfied with society’s standards (and double standards). They want more for themselves–but sometimes they don’t quite know what that more should be. That’s where Miss Black New Jersey 2018 and Teen Vogue “It Girl” turned fashion writer Tarah-Lynn Saint-Elien comes in.
Through her insightful comments on media, pop culture, and pervading cultural myths about beauty, fashion, and womanhood, Tarah-Lynn dismantles the messages that feed into the insecurities, fears, doubts, and guilt that young women experience today. She introduces them to an understanding of God as a loving Father and the King of all kings, who bestows upon his daughters a crown of love, worth, and power. And she shows them how to not only claim the promises of God but also walk purposefully in them as independent women (no prince necessary!) who respond to adversity with righteousness and authority.
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1 Minute With God DayBrightener
$11.99Add to cartIt’s hard to find time to focus! But when we live every day under the umbrella of God’s sovereignty, not one hour will be wasted, nor one moment untouched by the Master’s hand. The pages in this One Minute with God devotional DayBrightener invite you to take a moment each day to dwell on the Father’s voice and experience His presence – as your very first, very last, or very spontaneous minute of the day.
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Practicing : Changing Yourself To Change The World
$22.00Add to cartFrom the masses of young people spurning organized religion to faithful followers of Jesus, there is a deep hunger across gender, age, socioeconomics, and denominational backgrounds for practical, tangible ways to live a life of love, mercy, and justice in our divided, fragmented world. But where do we start? It’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the world’s problems, with solutions to violence and poverty and oppression seeming so far out of reach.
But you have more power to change the world than you realize and it starts with changing yourself.
In Practicing, Pastor Kathy Escobar inspires and challenges readers with practical encouragement to live their faith through real action using ten transformational practices, including listening more, including the marginalized, advocating for justice, and mourning with those who grieve. By putting our hearts, hands, and feet behind our good intentions, we can transform our groups, our communities, and our world. Extremely interactive, relational, and practical, ‘Practicing’ can be read alone or processed together with a group, church, or class. -
Irrepressible : 12 Principles For A Courageous Resilient And Fulfilling Lif
$14.99Add to cartThis book is for women who want to make a difference, it creates a conversation around how we should live as women of influence.
Questions about a woman’s place are being asked in all areas of society. Cathy Madavan aims to cheer women on, to give them courage, to create awareness about their potential and to challenge them to keep ‘lifting the lid’. We are surrounded by women who make a difference. Some thrive in a board room, some in a pulpit, some in a nursery. Some are wired for deadlines, others for creativity. But every woman will influence those around her. How do we learn from others without simply aping or imitating those we admire? Do we have the emotional intelligence and self-awareness to know that the very people who frustrate us are often the ones we need most? However, most women also wrestle with confidence, knowing their identity and place, juggling their lives and managing expectations. This book equips and empowers women. It encourages them to be an irrepressible positive influence and a voice for others. It is a resource and treasury, with principles, stories and insights. Cathy addresses her topic through a series of penetrating questions. What are your personal values and vision? What is your true character? Are you a thermometer, measuring the climate, or a thermostat, setting the temperature? Where does self-assurance come from, and how does it differ from arrogance? Who are your role models? How do you counteract stereotypes and sticky labels? Are you investing in self-leadership, in personal development? How do you build your core relationships, and widen your circle? Do you have healthy boundaries, and the ability to say no? How can you develop resilience? How can you create balance between work and life, exterior and interior?
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Valentins Diary
$30.95Add to cartHow do you recover from a devastating heartbreak, otherwise known as broken heart syndrome? The sufferer experiences heart pain, shortness of breath and even thinks he may be dying. Do you give in to overwhelming grief? Or do you, like the author, have personal dialogues with God searching for insight?
In the beginning there is denial and bargaining: “God, here is my game plan. If it be Your will, let me have Liliana… and I will give her back to you.” Then anger and bitterness. “What’s wrong with me God? I hate this. Why can’t you just snap your fingers and make it happen?
Finally, acceptance. The long six-year journey to recovery is over. The reader will not only learn about God’s plan for the author, but will learn something about God’s divine purpose in their lives as well.
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Divine Appointment
$28.95Add to cartVictor M’s spiritual journey began at an early age, traveling to Pune and experiencing power of God in a convention meeting, he witnessed Sister Florence spouse of Dr. Pastor Susai Joseph walking out alive after being declared dead towards end of meeting, he fell in love with Jesus Christ. He came to Bombay and obeyed in waters of Baptism in November of 1972 though he accepted Christ in November of 1970. Since then, he has searched for and explored deeper ways to experience his spiritual life, delving into the Bible.
In The Divine Appointment, he shares his walk. Through Victor’s personal testimony, scriptural selections, and stories, he talks about his divine appointment, the prophecies he’s received, and how he’s used those messages to live his life for the glory of God.
Victor delivers this message to help others search the heart of God more deeply by connecting them to spiritual blessings for practical living on a daily basis. The Divine Appointment helps believers soar like eagles to explore God-given blessings for their lives and how to be a blessing to others.
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Lets Be Real
$12.99Add to cartLet’s Be Real exposes the depths of honest grief as a 22-year-old girl says goodbye to her father after holding his hand as her family sang him happy birthday.
At only 22, Emily Katherine Dalton never imagined her story would take such a turn, losing every sense of family and home she had ever known. The secure faith she had formed felt shattered. In Let’s Be Real, she shares her honest, gritty journey of fighting to believe all she had ever known until her world turned upside down. Fighting to name the depths of new emotions and questions she had never before held, wrestling to somehow let the people around her into the chaos, and relentlessly trying to run toward a God she had to learn to relate to all over again after facing the greatest trauma she had ever known. Let’s Be Real offers readers insight into processing emotional trauma and what authentic friendship really looks like as Emily Katherine relates and reframes stories that taught her the greatest lessons about the faith that follows trauma, grief, and loss–a faith that has to be real.
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Touching Down : Prayers For Daily Life
$12.99Add to cartDo you find it hard to pray? Does prayer seem divorced from your daily routine, an activity only for the religious few? It shouldn’t, for even in the most ordinary moments can provide the backdrop to a living encounter with God. In Touching Down, Nick Fawcett draws inspiration from things as mundane as a feather duster, a shopping cart, and even a burst pipe to show how prayer can touch down to earth in such a way that life in turn is touched by heaven.
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Prayers For Reflection
$12.99Add to cartPrayers for Reflection offers an abundant selection of over 250 prayers from some of our best-loved authors. Bringing together words of warmth and contemplation across a variety of subjects and situations, this helpful collection provides a wealth of resources for both personal and group prayer.
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Promises Of Home
$9.99Add to cartThose who are in the family of Christ are given the promises of God. There are many things guaranteed by God, but His greatest gifts of love are given to those whose faith is in Him. Even for the children of God, Scripture has promised both good and bad things, but His promises of love are seen in history with fulfillment of past promises and some we’re still waiting for. The written word of God is for building our faith in what He’s promised, and it tells of the future we look forward to.
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Unshakable Hope : Building Our Lives On The Promises Of God
$19.99Add to cart*NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*
What feels shaky in your world? Are you overwhelmed by the problems you’re facing or the pain you’re feeling? Maybe you feel hurt by the past. Disappointed by the present. Worried about the future. If so, you are not alone, but there is hope. You can live with security and purpose.
In Unshakable Hope, Max Lucado unpacks 12 of the Bible’s most significant promises, equipping you to overcome difficult circumstances by keeping your focus on the hope found in the promises of Scripture rather than dwelling on the problems in front of you.
For every problem in life, God has given you a promise.Hope is hard to come by these days. Whether it’s heart disease or cancer, job failure or addiction, natural disasters or family disasters, mass murders or mental illness, there are so many reasons to be overwhelmed.In a world full of instability, we do not need more opinions or hunches; we need the definitive declarations of our mighty and loving God.
What is your life built on-the circumstances of life or the promises of God? The answer to that question changes everything. Join Max as he takes a closer look at Scripture’s unbreakable promises and shows you how to live with unshakable hope.
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Wholeness : Winning In Life From The Inside Out
$18.99Add to cartWholeness, the sophomore book from international thought leader and pastor Toure Roberts, is about removing invisible boundaries from our lives that keep us from realizing our highest potential. Roberts brilliantly lays forth the truth that in order to live an outer life without limits, we have to uncover and address the inner limitations that hide in our blind spots.
This life-changing book explains that regardless of where you are in life, Wholeness will take you higher. Wholeness will elevate your sense of fulfillment in life, produce healthier, more rewarding relationships, and will position you for optimum success in every endeavor.
Roberts explains we can’t always choose the experiences that keep us from being whole, but we can take control of our lives today and bring healing to any broken area. Key chapters include an in-depth relationship guide titled “Two Halves Don’t Make a Whole.” “The Cracked Mirror” shows how unprocessed experiences can negatively shape our view of self, others, and the world around us. “Ghosts of the Past” gives powerful, practical tools for avoiding the traps of the past and ensuring that we enter into the amazing future that God has planned for us.
Wholeness is filled with wisdom garnered from Toure’s own life–raised by a single mom, narrowly escaping the trappings of inner-city life, and finding success in corporate America. His insight is further broadened by his role as founder of one of the most influential churches in the nation, with over fourteen years pastoring thousands of millennials, couples, families, and a diverse group of individuals. Wholeness will take you on a transformational journey that won’t leave you the same.
Concluding with a “Wholeness Test,” Wholeness will help you track and maintain your progress while walking out your journey to your full potential.
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She Believed : 12 Stories Of Courageous Women Of Faith Who Changed The Worl
$9.99Add to cartGirls are world-changers! . . . And this delightful storybook proves it!
Just for the girls in your life, ages 5 and up, this collection of twelve extraordinary stories of women of faith will empower girls to know and understand how women have made a difference in the world and how much smaller our faith would be without them. Colorful illustrations complement the true stories of these twelve amazing women:
*Gladys Aylward, missionary to China
*Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross
*Catherine Booth, cofounder of The Salvation Army
*Amy Carmichael, missionary to India
*Fanny Crosby, blind hymn-writer
*Florence Nightingale, founder of modern nursing
*Edith Schaeffer, cofounder of L’Abri ministry in Switzerland
*Mary Slessor, missionary to Africa
*Corrie ten Boom, Dutch watchmaker who helped many Jews escape the Nazi Holocaust of WWII
*Mother Teresa, Catholic nun and missionary
*Sojourner Truth, Civil Rights leader
*Harriet Tubman, leader of the Underground RailroadThe stories of these courageous women will encourage and inspire young girls to become the world-changers God created them to be!
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What If : My Story Of Believing God For More Always More
$24.99Add to cartAn ARC Resources Title
Find a need… We need great stories to inspire us, and this is certainly one of them. From crusade tents to “Johnny Cash and The World’s Biggest Sunday School” to 400,000 at an evangelistic event in Bangalore, India, to Dream Centers being established all over the world, Tommy Barnett has seen God do amazing things. Tommy’s God-given passion is to find a need and fill it, find a hurt and heal it. In this book, he looks back over a lifetime of walking with God, being directed by the Spirit, and boldly taking risks to reach more people with the gospel of Jesus Christ. Along the way, he has built great churches and organizations to meet the crushing needs of broken people and restore those who have strayed far from God. Every moment of every day, Tommy has always been ready to share the love of Jesus. This is his amazing story.
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Shattered Dreams But Hope
$10.99Add to cartShattered Dreams-But Hope, by Drs. Laquita and Elton Higgs, is a book of both testimony and advice: testimony born out of the school of trial and suffering, and advice born out of practical experience in being long-term caregivers. Laquita and Elton have for the last 26 years been caregivers to two adopted daughters with early onset Huntington’s Disease (HD), which is hereditary, and they offer a gripping account of their extended experience in adjusting to the challenges of long-term caregiving, followed by sober practical counsel to others who are involved in similar caregiving experiences. A final chapter speaks specifically of the role of Christian faith in coping with the stresses of their long struggle. In the Appendices are a short talk given after Cynthia’s funeral by her older sister Liann and several poems by Elton on the emotional impact of his and Laquita’s relationship with their disabled daughters.
The complexity of the story told by the Higgses is heightened by the fact that their two youngest adopted daughters are mother (Cynthia) and biological daughter (Rachel). Elton and Laquita adopted Cynthia as a baby, knowing that she had HD in her background but hoping and praying that she would not develop the disease. Her childhood was normal, but when she became an adolescent, she began to manifest behavioral aberrations that her parents later recognized as being consistent with early onset HD. At age 25, Cynthia was diagnosed as having the disease, and soon afterward she became pregnant with Rachel. Since it was apparent that she could not function as a single mother, Laquita and Elton agreed to adopt Rachel at birth. This action ushered them into a complicated care-giving relationship that has lasted for more than 25 years.
Laquita and Elton emphasize the difficult but necessary development of trust in God’s goodness and a deep conviction that He is at work even when we can perceive no immediate evidence of it. Especially poignant is their very personal confession of their mistakes in caring for their HD-affected daughters and their struggles to understand that HD, not mere perversity, was the primary source of their daughters’ irrational and angry behavior. Thus, they had to accept that expecting their daughters to be normally responsible persons was both futile and unproductive. Instead, they had to learn simply to love them with God’s love and to pray constantly for God’s wisdom in carrying out their task. It is from this perspective
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Get Out Of Your Head
$23.99Add to cartThe visionary behind the million-strong IF: Gathering challenges Christian women to transform their outlook and their lives by interrupting their spiraling thoughts and realizing their God-given power to think differently.
Speaker and Bible teacher Jennie Allen hears all the time from women who feel stuck in patterns of frustration and defeat. In her search for a solution, she’s learned that the greatest spiritual battle of our generation is taking place between our ears. How we think shapes how we live. So it’s crucial that we learn how to stop our spinning thoughts and refuse to fall prey to toxic thinking patterns like victimhood, anxiety, and distraction. In this book Jennie draws on biblical truth and recent discoveries in neuroscience to show exactly how we can fight the enemies of the mind with the truth of who God is and who He calls us to be.
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Power Of Favor Study Guide (Student/Study Guide)
$13.99Add to cartLearn how God has set you up for a favored life with this companion study guide to The Power of Favor by #1 New York Times bestselling author and Lakewood Church pastor Joel Osteen.
In his book The Power of Favor, Joel Osteen shared that favor is something that God has put on you that will help you accomplish what you couldn’t accomplish on your own. The psalmist said, “God’s favor surrounds us like a shield.” That means that everywhere you go, you have an advantage, a divine empowerment, and a key to open up the right doors.
Now, through this companion study guide, Joel wants to encourage you that you are weighed down with God’s goodness. With encouraging scripture, practical exercises, and empowering insight, you will learn how reach new levels of fulfillment, new levels of increase, new levels of promotion, and new levels of victory. You have been called out, set apart, chosen to live a distinctively favored life.
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Go Big Or Go Home
$17.99Add to cartPlatinum-award winning country music star Scotty McCreery shares his path from North Carolina to American Idol to the top of the country music scene.
It was just a simple singing competition that would be fun to audition for. Who knew what kind of doors it might open for a sixteen-year-old from Garner, North Carolina.
Go Big or Go Home is the story of a kid with country songs in his soul. The special thing with Scotty McCreery, however, is that he has this God-given ability to sing those tunes the exact way they should be sung. Daring to enter the limelight at such a young age, Scotty finds himself embraced by the nation, and even overseas, as he competes on “American Idol”. This is his journey from his North Carolina roots to winning America’s most popular singing competition and launching a musical career he had always dreamt about.
Go Big or Go Home narrates Scotty’s journey from a kid imitating Elvis on the school bus to 30 million across America tuning in to see him win Season 10 of “American Idol”. Now as he continues his ground-breaking career, Scotty shares a glimpse of where he came from and the impact his faith, family and friends have had on a humbled guy who keeps asking “why me?”
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Daily Readings From Its Your Time
$17.99Add to cartThe #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Better, Live Better and Fresh Start shows you how to fortify your faith, look for God’s favor, and give up control to Him so you can live your best life ever with these inspirational daily readings from his classic bestseller It’s Your Time.
Turn every day into an opportunity for a better life with pastor and bestselling author Joel Osteen’s messages of hope and faith. With thought-provoking anecdotes, words of encouragement, and inspiring scripture, this 90-day devotional gives you new and exciting ways to incorporate the teachings of It’s Your Time into your life. Focusing on encouraging themes including belief, favor, restoration, and trust these messages of strength will help you rise above any circumstances so that you can fulfill God’s best plan for you.
God does not want you to merely survive challenging times, He wants you to thrive. When you give your life over to Him, God will send opportunities your way so you can soar to new heights of fulfillment. Discover all this and more in this remarkable devotional. After all, it’s your time.
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Beyond Blessed : God’s Perfect Plan To Overcome All Financial Stress
$17.99Add to cartReach your financial goals and reduce the stress in your life with this book of biblical principles by the New York Times bestselling author of The Blessed Life.
Who doesn’t want to eliminate financial stress? Who doesn’t want to get out of debt, reach their financial goals, experience the joy that God intends for us, and be free to bless others with their resources?
In The Blessed Life, Pastor Robert Morris teaches that generosity is a key component to being in God’s favor. Now, in BEYOND BLESSED, he shares the importance of being a good steward, not only with your finances, but with every part of your life. Pastor Morris will motivate you to become a better manager of your money, and provide practical lessons on taking your finances to the next level. Through Biblical principles, personal stories, and incredible testimonies, you will learn how to be a good steward, and that when you properly manage your finances, blessings will pour into all areas of your life. Here is a guide to increasing and going further with what God has given you, and living beyond blessed.
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Jesus Calling For Easter
$19.99Add to cartTake a few moments to focus on the hope we have because of Easter in Jesus Calling(R) for Easter, a beautiful compilation that includes 50 Jesus Calling devotions and Scripture, alongside breathtaking imagery and design.
Jesus Calling(R) for Easter is a meaningful and beautiful compilation of devotions from Sarah Young’s bestselling brand. With 50 themed selections for the Lent and Easter season, as well as high design and exquisite imagery, Jesus Calling(R) for Easter makes a stunning addition for those who love Jesus Calling(R) and would like a new way to observe the Easter season. You’ll enjoy devotions with select Scriptures about the story of Easter and the hope it brings alongside lovely images with overlaid script.
Whether a self-purchase to enhance your observation of Easter and the death and resurrection of Christ or a gift for friends and loved ones, Jesus Calling(R) for Easter will be a central part of your Easter experience for years to come.
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Help My Unbelief (Expanded)
$16.99Add to cartBarnabas Piper unpacks what faith really means. He shows how embracing doubts and questions can help us to get to know God, and encourages us to risk trusting God in our everyday lives, even when we don’t understand everything about him.
This book will encourage Christians seeking to ask questions in a godly way and will give them confidence to trust God, even when some questions remain.
Includes testimonies from John Piper and Afshin Ziafat.
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FreeFall : Holding Onto Faith When The Unthinkable Strikes
$16.99Add to cartWe all know life can change in an instant, but what happens when the life being changed is our own? Faced with her own devastating, life-altering events, author Rhonda Robinson was forced to deal with these questions. Instead of losing her faith, she became a witness to the undeniable, unseen hand of God. FreeFall, written for women experiencing tragedy, examines frequently heard but often misguided words in light of Scripture and offers unshakable truth to use in a time of profound change. Emerge a different, restored person.
