Guaranteed to breathe new life into your walk with God, this 90-day devotional—with entries for March, April, and May—will reawaken your spirit through famous quotes, inspirational readings, meaningful prayers, and targeted scriptures.
Whether you’re looking for those first signs of new life to burst through the soil, hunting Easter eggs with the kiddos, or seeking a closer relationship with Jesus, it seems we’re all searching for something to bring us hope, joy, and a new beginning. That’s why Springtime For Your Spirit: 90 Devotions of Hope, Joy, and New Beginnings is the perfect devotional for such a special season. Award-winning authors Michelle Medlock Adams and Andy Clapp have carefully woven biblical lessons into holidays and happenings that we experience only during spring.
Winner Religion: Christianity 2022 Best Book Awards
Throughout Holy Week, two competing approaches to peacemaking collide. What if we've embraced the wrong one?
At the start of Holy Week, tears streamed down Jesus' face as he cried out, "If only you knew the things that make for peace." From that moment, until a week later when he triumphantly declared, "Peace be with you," Jesus spent each day confronting injustice, calling out oppressors and contending for peace.
But what if—despite all our familiarity with the events of Holy Week—we still don't know how Jesus makes peace? And what if—despite clinging to the cross of Christ for our salvation—we've actually embraced a different approach to peacemaking? One that justifies killing enemies. One whose methods include nailing criminals to crosses.
We desperately need to recover the radical vision of peacemaking that Jesus embodied throughout Holy Week. And we urgently need to be trained in his way of making peace. So, come. Let's journey together day by day through Jesus' final week and discover anew why he is called the Prince of Peace.
Winner Religion: Christian Inspirational 2022 Best Book Awards
How do we make sense of what feels senseless?
Grief leaves us with empty arms and fistfuls of questions. If we don’t get help processing our loss, we can easily get stuck there. But take heart—there is hope to be found for the way ahead.
When Mountains Crumble offers you an interactive, healing journey through the big questions and emotions of grief. This book serves as your companion and guide, providing practical wisdom and thought-provoking questions that will help you wrestle with the pain you’re feeling.
For centuries, The Blue Cliff Record has stood as one of the preeminent scriptures of the Zen Buddhist tradition in China, Japan, and Korea. However, until now there has been no published commentary by a contemporary Zen Master to assist readers in understanding its counterintuitive and sometimes baffling teachings.
The Garden of Flowers and Weeds draws on contemporary scholarship and the author’s extensive experience with Zen in order to offer new insights for sophisticated students who are hoping to uncover the secrets of the koan tradition. At the same time, The Garden is jargon-free and uses personal stories to appeal to readers who are new to Buddhism. The theme of the book is simple: Accepting the unenlightened self with all its flaws is the most profound form of enlightenment.
Finalist Religion: Christianity 2022 Best Book Awards
Finalist Religion: General 2022 Best Book Awards
When we’re waking at the crack of “dawn,” oftentimes our immediate go-to is coffee. Know that this devotion has nothing to do with drinking coffee, but rather everything to do with being COFFEE – Chicks of Faith, Focused Encouraged and Empowered. Natural coffee only has a temporary fix of energy. When you’re tapped into the strength which only God can provide, you’ll find that his strength has the power to sustain you much longer.
The 5-Day Morning C.O.F.F.E.E. Devotion was written with the intent of helping women develop and deepen their faith walk. It provides both a method and a message for those who are new to daily devotions or those who need help strengthening the habit. The hope is to help those needing peace and clarity in life; delving into understanding and expecting God’s peace, strength, joy, and love while seeking His presence daily with intentionality.
Using the same inspiring pattern as her first book, Sandee Macgregor once again encourages and enables the building of a deeper spiritual bond between a mother and her son(s) through reading a short Proverbs devotion segment together. In A Devotional for Mothers and Sons; Walking in Wisdom Through Proverbs, each reading is followed by vigorous, memorable, and meaningful conversation, related to the reading, ending with each writing a journal entry to the other.
Sandee's hope and prayer is that these exchanges will create a unique way in which they each can capture the thoughts and feelings from deep in their own hearts for one another, binding them even closer together and providing mothers and sons with a treasure of memorable words to reflect on for many years to come.
Finalist Religion: Christian Inspirational 2022 Best Book Awards
SINCE THE DAY YOU WERE BORN, there have been giants in your life. Tyrants of immense size who try to exert negative influence over your destiny. Giants try to intimidate you into inaction and apathy. They want to convince you that your past mistakes, family tree, size, and shame will always hold you back. I, too, was born with giants. When I was eight years old, twenty-seven of my relatives were massacred by cult leader Jim Jones in the Jonestown Guyana Tragedy. The shame of my own family history shadowed my life until I discovered the lessons revealed in this book, a searing expose of how our history can influence our legacy.
We were made to break the cycle and, just like men and women in the Bible, fiercely face the giants in our lives before they get passed to the next generation.
Be A Giant Killer is a knockout punch to what's holding you back from your wildest dreams and best life!
Finalist Religion: Christian Inspirational 2022 Best Book Awards
Pain and suffering in our lives do not equal a lack of love from God. Instead, they reveal, at the right time, a divine and perfect purpose packed with love.
Are you searching for hope amidst a trial? Beauty Beyond the Thorns offers a transformative perspective as to where it can be found. Darci weaves biblical stories with modern day stories, including her arduous journey through chronic pain, to demonstrate how God can turn life’s unexpected curveballs into victorious home runs. This is a story about the upside of suffering. In Beauty Beyond the Thorns, you will learn:
Suggestions as to why God allows suffering, and how he provides gifts (like courage, perseverance, and direction) to guide you through difficulties
How to experience peace, faith, and joy in suffering
How God uses trials to transform you, just like he did with Job, Joseph, Hagar, and Paul
To discover God’s goodness despite hardship
How adversity can bring you closer to what you truly long for
Finalist Religion: Christian Inspirational 2022 Best Book Awards
Are you prepared to survive when one of life's tough challenges rudely intersects your journey? This journey through life is tough, but you're tougher.
In Challenges Won't Stop Me, author, podcaster, and speaker Melony Brown invites you to join her for an eight-mile journey in which you will create a personalized survival guide that will equip and prepare you to survive the rugged terrain that is sure to mark your path. Do not be afraid or discouraged as the master navigator, God, will be with you and fight for you.
Finalist Religion: Christianity 2022 Best Book Awards
The words of Jesus have been wonderfully impactful for millions and have brought life to countless more, they have been water for thirsty souls and food for hungry spirits. Jesus Speaking will capture your attention and connect you with Jesus.
Jesus Speaking is a must have daily devotional that goes beyond feel-good cliché-isms and delivers what you really need for encouragement and transformation, which is more Jesus. This devotional will help you trust in God's goodness, rely on His grace, and live for His glory every day as you spend time every day listening to Jesus speaking into your life.
In the hills of China’s central Hunan province, an anxious young apprentice officiates over a Daoist ritual known as the Banner Rite to Summon Sire Yin. Before a crowd of masters, relatives, and villagers—and the entire pantheon of gods and deceased masters ritually invited to witness the event—he seeks to summon Celestial Lord Yin Jiao, the ferocious deity who supplies the exorcistic power to protect and heal bodies and spaces from illness and misfortune. If the apprentice cannot bring forth the deity, the rite is considered a failure and the ordination suspended: His entire professional career hangs in the balance before it even begins.
Finalist Religion: Christianity 2022 Best Book Awards
We often think of the apostles as spiritual giants--men who were uniquely qualified to walk with Jesus and carry on His mission to the world. But the reality is they stand out more for their lack of qualifications. They were not trained religious scholars; they often misunderstood what Jesus told them; and sometimes they simply failed to live up to Jesus's expectations.
Not only did they lack qualifications, but they also encountered many of the same fears and issues we experience. They struggled with doubts, cowardice, ambition, faithlessness, pessimism, and greed. In other words, the apostles were people just like us.
Yet, Jesus chose them to change the world. And they did.
Finalist Religion: Christian Inspirational 2022 Best Book Awards
My Walks with Remi is a book of devotions illustrated with stunning color images of nature taken during Cindy's walks in California with her handsome and spirited Portuguese Water Dog, Remi. As Cindy's first dog, Remi has taught her a lot, but walking in nature with Remi helped her be more aware of God's presence. The majesty of the mountains, the sparkling blue Pacific Ocean, and the vibrant colors of the flowers that were in perpetual bloom opened her eyes to the inspiration God brought her as he seemed to whisper in her ear, "Look at that!"
In My Walks with Remi, Cindy shares the life lessons she felt God taught her through photos, reflections, and prayer, as they relate to the images she observed. With Scripture that spans both the Old and New Testaments, the devotions are a witness to how God still speaks to us today. They will uplift and encourage you as you are awakened to God's presence in the beauty of nature in your life.
My Walks with Remi will delight your eyes and nourish your soul.
It's frustrating to fail against the sin of this world. It's even worse failing against temptation, fear, and faithlessness as a believer in Christ.
You're not alone.
Jason Ritchie never felt so "not right" with God as during his biggest failure. He cried out in distress, "Oh God, why can't I stop failing? I can't seem to stop. Though I pray, though I study, though I return to You, I still sin, and I don't want to."
In the aftermath, he wondered: "Will You still keep me? Will You still love me? Will You still use me?"
Are you overwhelmed with your new role as a caregiver? Do you want to learn from other caregivers? If so, Reassuring Guidance is the book for you. After learning from a variety of caregiving situations, authors Roy Cook and Catherine Hilliard developed a heart to encourage other caregivers with practical suggestions and faith-based inspiration.
As you read Reassuring Guidance, you'll
gain more confidence in your ability to care for your loved one.
realize you're not alone in the ups and downs of caregiving.
understand what to expect and how to cope with each phase of the journey.
identify the people and resources needed to support you and your loved one.
discover creative solutions from the stories of other caregivers.
acknowledge the need for self-care as a caregiver.
learn to trust that God is with you every step along the way.
Finalist Religion: Christianity 2022 Best Book Awards
Salt & Light: The Complete Jesus is the highly acclaimed and award-winning definitive statement concerning Jesus of Nazareth, history's most compelling figure. The single most important book about the Historical Jesus in the last 30 years, more comprehensive than Josh McDowell's Evidence that Demands a Verdict and more powerful than C.S. Lewis' Mere Christianity.
When you realize there is purpose in everything that happens to you, it will become easy to keep your faith and trust your loving God, even on your darkest days.
Through your greatest sorrows, you can find many joys. Through your greatest "knock downs," you can get up and become much stronger. Through your greatest struggles, you can have the most amazing victories.
Many people sit around and reminisce about things they wish they could do. Then there are people who DO. Which one do you want to be?
We ALL face our own storms. When they happen, we have one choice--our reaction.
You can choose to pause and smile, knowing God has you.
This book will help you work through your storms and show you how to be victorious.
