Winner Religion: Christianity 2021 Best Book Awards
How Can I Give My Child Hope?
“I’m such a failure.” “No one cares about me.” “I haven’t felt happy for a long time.” “I don’t want to live anymore.”
If you have heard your child utter these words, your fear for their well-being has skyrocketed. But what can you do to help them?
Some experts say that depression and anxiety are the new normal. Suicide is the second leading cause of death in young people. As parents, we cannot accept this. Many young people feel helpless and hopeless. Our kids must be equipped with more than resilience and positivity. They need hope. Hope for a future. Along with her daughter Kendra, parent and family educator Lori Wildenberg encourages you to take the practical ways offered in Messy Hope to foster necessary hope growth in your children’s hearts. This is more than a self-help book, this is your lifeline to help them overcome depression, anxiety, and suicidal ideation to experience a hope-filled life.
Winner Religion: Christian Inspirational 2021 Best Book Awards
The inspirational true story of God sparing a young girl from being murdered and later transforming her life, as seen on The 700 Club.
By age twelve, Mary Therese Hutchinson had survived not one, not two, but four attempts on her life. Even worse, the assailant and man who had sexually abused her for years was no outsider but a trusted family member. Forced to keep much of what she endured a secret, Mary came to believe everything she'd been taught about God was a fairy tale. After all, what loving God would allow such horrible things to happen to a little girl? Or if he was real, then God had forgotten about her.
By adulthood, Mary was outwardly a successful, beautiful young woman. But unresolved trauma and hate for her abuser led to a downward spiral of despair and self-destructive choices. A stranger's prayers became the catalyst that started Mary on a journey of emotional healing and spiritual transformation. She now knew God was no fairy tale but a loving, merciful heavenly Father who, far from abandoning her, had miraculously intervened to save her young life.
This is a practical guidebook suitable for both beginners as well as more advanced practitioners of Yoga.
PART 1 focuses on the teachings of Self-enquiry as presented by Śri Ramana Maharshi and other luminaries in the field of Advaita Vedānta.
PART 2 summarizes the teachings of Yoga and details how a keen seeker can put into daily practice Patañjali’s eight limbs of yoga to achieve their ultimate aim: Kaivalya or final liberation.
Providing much more than an introduction to Yoga and Vedānta, this book focuses on the higher-level teachings of these two spiritual practices, revealing their underlying unity and complementarity.
Saint Hildegard: Ancient Insights for Modern Seekers is a treasure trove of St. Hildegard’s bracing, rich, and transforming insights. Written for today’s seekers and spiritual directors, it takes us deeper into our own experiences in the company of the mystic visionary St. Hildegard, whose twelfth-century wisdom, still strikingly relevant to our contemporary struggles, enriches our journeys.
Spiritual director and retreat guide Susan Garthwaite knows this journey well—she’s traveled it for years. St. Hildegard has influenced Garthwaite’s spiritual life, as well as her work as a spiritual director, and here she gives concrete examples of spiritual experiences and practices in which St. Hildegard’s insights can draw out our own wisdom. She also gently touches our worst experiences and offers St. Hildegard’s light for our liberation and fullness of life.
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.
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.
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
What happens after we die? What is consciousness? Are God, Jesus, heaven, and angels real? In the past, these age-old burning questions remained entirely unanswered until near-death experiences, like Janet Tarantino’s, have shed light on what lies beyond life on this earth.
Janet’s engaging story is passionate yet humble, thought-provoking yet mind-shattering, and leaves readers wanting a supernatural experience too—but Janet warns we need to be careful what we wish for. She says these types of experiences can blow one’s life apart like glass shattering to pieces until the NDEr understands the deeper meaning of what God was conveying. It is only after understanding the important messages within that bring wholeness, joy, and comfort to our lives in the fact that we never die and life goes on into eternity.
Janet says the narratives of her three near-death experiences hold characteristics that are not restricted to one religion but stretch the boundaries to contain aspects of Christianity, Buddhism, Spirituality, and possibly more because she says God is the superpower of everything.
About 200 million women and girls worldwide have undergone the practice of female circumcision or female genital mutilation (FGM), more is expected after the pandemic. The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) report 2021.
It's a practice that has gone on for thousands of years, spanning from the coast of West Africa across the Red Sea and the Arabian Sea to India. It has claimed lives and left an indelible mark on survivors.
Who is behind it, how, and why?
Called from their ordinary day living, Babza Tabor and Candice Zakeih embarked on a journey to search for answers. In their hunt, they dove into the heavenly abode of God, the creator of the universe. Using biblical events from the books of Genesis to Revelation as a guide, they unmasked the greatest hijack of all time.
In February 2019, Unsok Hur wrote a paper titled “The Disciples' Lack of Comprehension in the Gospel of Mark” in the Journal of Biblical Theology Bulletin. The contents of this paper are about Jesus' disciples. Jesus' disciples would have acted differently from what was known. Based on this paper, Unsok Hur published a book titled How the Disciples of Jesus Actually Acted Historically.
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.
Are you tired of fighting in your own strength? Are you worn out and weary? Are you paralyzed by anxiety, fear, and depression? This is where Gina Murray found herself seven years ago. After a lifetime of dealing with fear, insecurities, and trying to be perfect for everyone around her, including God, she became physically ill. It was at this point that God spoke to Gina and told her to rest.
The Father took Gina on a path of healing that brought breakthrough to her life. As you read of her experiences along the way, including portions of her journal, you too can begin that journey with the Father, to find life and freedom like you never known.
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.
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.
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.
"It is an unanimously shared view that human knowledge must necessarily progress over time. This conviction is wrong: in fact, after centuries of progress, came the years in which, spontaneously, every form of science stopped its evolution and quickly began to regress, dragging world civilization towards social and individual organizations of existence, increasingly rudimentary, until, a few and scattered survivors adapted to an almost prehistoric condition of life. To bring the history of man back into a favorable course of events, we, Archangels Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, together with Seraph Daniel, have descended into the lands of the Village where the last civilized men lived, to ask the four Oidah brothers, to undertake a fierce war, to be fought both on Earth, and in the Earthly Paradise and they have sworn their assent with full fidelity."
Married three times to a volatile, emotionally abusive alcoholic who had multiple affairs, lied repeatedly, failed to come home hundreds of times and who used harsh anger and intimidation to manipulate their marriages, Jan suffered in silence while praying daily for a heaven-sent miracle that would change her husband's heart.
Disillusioned and upset when she didn't feel her prayers were answered, Jan turned to her own 'Janplans,' including non-stop shopping, frenetic busyness, kid's school activities and expensive vacations, to compensate for the loss of her “Janville” dream where she had fantasized about living in a 'white picket fence' town with a perfect husband and family. Frustrated and trending toward bitterness, Jan eventually tried to run away from her family and God by moving to England to escape the dark, grinding treadmill that she felt had become her life.
Finalist Religion: Christianity 2021 Best Book Awards
This is the true story of eight children who started off in a normal family but had an abusive father. Eventually, constant marital fights and the father's aggressiveness led to divorce, leaving the children to figure out how to survive on their own, with only a mother suffering from mental health issues left to look out for them. Over a five-year period each child experienced profound neglect, lack of supervision, and the breakdown of the family unit, forcing them to make choices they never would have made otherwise.
But by the grace of God, and through the help of ordinary people along the way, they not only survived but developed a relationship with Christ. He transformed their lives and helped them achieve above and beyond anything they could have imagined. God has a plan for each of us, but it's up to us to choose the right path and seek Him in the midst of our trials.
Finalist Religion: Christianity 2021 Best Book Awards
The Desperate Housewives of Biblical Proportions chronicles the lives of the seven (7) matriarchs of Genesis as it relates to the promises God gave to Abraham when God separated him to create a nation unto Himself.
Take this literary journey with me as Hagar and Sarah quite literally birth a nation, Rebekah's contribution and role in the destructiveness of favoritism and how comparison kills in the lives of Leah, Bilhah, Zilpah and Rachel. Discover how their leading men played major roles in their Spiritual and/ or physical relationship with barrenness.
While reading, allow the Desperate Housewives of Biblical Proportions’ characters, experiences, lessons, challenges, disobedience and unbelief to challenge you to recognize your own personal and/or Spiritual relationship with barrenness. This riveting and exciting page turner will inspire you to begin reading your Bible while challenging you to begin developing Abraham’s, Hagar’s, Sarah's, Isaac’s, Rebekah’s, Jacob’s, Leah's, Bilhah’s, Zilpah’s and Rachel’s story into a series of lessons for your Sunday School, Small Group Bible Study, Vacation Bible School and/or Women's Ministry to show how their story is actually playing out in each of our lives today. I think Ecclesiastes 1:9 says it best, “…there's nothing new under the sun.”
Finalist Religion: Christianity 2021 Best Book Awards
Nearly 30 people in the United States die in drunk-driving crashes every day — that night, Jennifer was one of them.
On Shattered Wings is the powerful story of the people left behind and their powerful life lessons for us all, an unforgettable true story of a family’s struggle to survive overwhelming sorrow amidst ongoing unexpected and startling events. Along the way, they discover the value of faith, the insignificance of regrets, and the realization there can be joy again through harnessing pain into healing action for themselves and others.
Finalist Religion: Christianity 2021 Best Book Awards
Discover how women in the Bible respond to challenges, take bold actions to bring about justice, and triumph through adversity. Explore LEADERSHIP, CHARACTER, PERSEVERANCE, and the ROLE OF WOMEN in God's plan of salvation.
Each chapter presents a fresh perspective and addresses faithfulness, redemption, and friendship. The accompanying study guide to each women's story provides insights and key questions to encourage thoughtful reflection and lively conversation.
Journey through each study INDEPENDENTLY as a devotional or in a SMALL GROUP in 8 or 16 sessions.
Includes: background information, study guide, discussion questions, author reflections, closing prayers. A FREE VIDEO SERIES is available at WomenInTheBible.info
Finalist Religion: Christianity 2021 Best Book Awards
Dealing with life's problems both with your usual coping mechanisms and God? Learn techniques to open your imagination and command God's promises into your reality!
Surviving through any means necessary while still going to God simultaneously, hoping something will work? This easy-to-read, uplifting, and enjoyable story entertains while including explained step-by-step self-help encouragement toward a victorious life. It is full of understanding, life lessons, simple applications, and empathy. Engage in a journey that provides choice and superior love when the oppressive narrowness of hardships teaches the very opposite.
Finalist Religion: Christianity 2021 Best Book Awards
A spiritual attack on your life is not an accident. Rather, it is a well-thought-out plan that took time, strategy and teamwork. Much like a pack of wolves, Satan and his demonic cohorts patiently scheme and strike when you are most vulnerable. Their goal is to steal, kill and destroy, and they do not play fair. However, we don't have to be the devil's prey any longer. This booklet will empower you with the tools to stand firm, hold onto courage and renew your strength in the Lord. You may be in a spiritual battle, but you can trust that your victory has already been won.
Finalist Religion: Christian Inspirational 2021 Best Book Awards
Mort Crim has reported on major conflicts around the world for more than four decades and was a major inspiration for Will Ferrell's performance in the movie Anchorman. Crim's memoir takes readers behind the camera to show what life was like when the local anchorman was as revered as the professional athlete, and just as overpaid. It was a glamorous life, working alongside some of journalism's legends, like Walter Cronkite, David Brinkley, Dan Rather, and Ted Koppel.
The son of an evangelical minister in a conservative church, Crim suffered his first crisis of faith at the age of 15. Despite nagging questions, Crim eventually followed his father's path into ministry. But the more he delved into the Bible, the more his faith was shaken. Unable to defend things he wasn't sure of from the pulpit, Crim left the ministry for a career in journalism, determined to pursue truth. After a four-year stint in the Air Force, he earned his master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University, and by the age of 30, had made it to New York—the epicenter of his profession.
Finalist Religion: Christian Inspirational 2021 Best Book Awards
The thesis of this book is quite simple and intuitive: If you want to look for evidence for the afterlife, observe the dying, to see if there’s any indication that they’re going somewhere. Researchers are finding that several experiences related to death are global and quite common, including:
Primary Deathbed Experiences, where over 80% of the dying in a hospice unit report vivid experiences with deceased relatives and angels
Terminal Lucidity, where people lose brain function over time, only to regain full consciousness to say their goodbyes before dying
Shared Death Experiences, where healthy people experience a part of their loved one’s death experience
Crisis Apparitions, where people otherwise unaware of a person’s death somehow know of the person’s death
After Death Communications, where people claim to receive visits from deceased loved ones.
Finalist Religion: Christian Inspirational 2021 Best Book Awards
A PRECIOUS ETHIOPIAN GIRL IN PERIL...AN AMERICAN ADOPTIVE FAMILY IN PURSUIT OF HER FREEDOM...INTERVENTION FROM AN UNSHAKEABLE GOD
With Hurricane Sandy slamming into the East Coast, an epic spiritual storm ensues for Mark and Missy Worton, who courageously board the last plane to Ethiopia to rescue a six-year-old girl. Although Favor has already been declared their daughter, she is about to be wrongly placed into a foster care system that looks more like child slavery.
Once they land, the storm is far from over. The couple faces false accusations of illegal actions, fears of imprisonment, and threats to their family's safety. People call them crazy for staying, but in the midst of the turmoil, prayer warriors around the world gather and miracles begin to happen.
Finalist Religion: Christian Inspirational 2021 Best Book Awards
I Had A Secret for Seventeen Years is the redemptive life story of Tori Shaw, centered around her abortion as a teenager. She spent years covered by guilt and shame while enduring continual abandonment and rejection. Childhood experiences taught her to hide hardship, so she silently dealt with depression, fear, anxiety, self-loathing, and addictions. After hiding her dark secret for seventeen years, Tori shares her story with the world. A woman who once walked in fear and self-doubt is now willing to go wherever God wants her to go. Through Tori’s story, God builds a ministry that helps abortion-minded women choose life for their babies and shares God’s forgiveness and love with post-abortive women. I Had a Secret for Seventeen Years enables the reader to see a post-abortive woman come full circle and embrace the world of possibilities God makes available to those who are willing.
Finalist Religion: Christian Inspirational 2021 Best Book Awards
Three years ago, Lynda Rozell sold her house, quit her job, and began living on the road full-time in an Airstream travel trailer that she tows with a RAM 1500 truck. This book chronicles Lynda’s transformation from her previous life to that of a Tin Can Pilgrim, including her ongoing spiritual growth and the practical skills she has acquired to live in and tow her Airstream trailer. Lynda seeks to live out her Christian faith in her ordinary, everyday life as she travels around the country visiting campgrounds, RV resorts, parks, and religious sites. Through engaging stories, she invites others into the communities she has found on the road and shares the beauty of Creation and spiritual signposts that continue to lead her to radical trust in God.
Finalist Religion: Christian Inspirational 2021 Best Book Awards
After doctors told Praed that her MS would be terminal for her, she had a dream about her funeral. In the dream, a minister said, “The book for which Beth is best remembered is her devotional on disease.”
Beth Praed's first book on multiple sclerosis was the #1 book on MS at Amazon for six years. Praed's devotional about disease promises to be just as moving and insightful.“
So You Have a Disease: Devotions and Stories to Restore Hope” helps readers flourish even though they have been diagnosed with a disease. Praed's true life stories are uplifting and are well-matched with relevant bible verses. This book can be read in solitude or can be used by Christian study groups who are seeking a deeper understanding of their difficult circumstances.
As children, it took very little for us to look up to someone; oftentimes, these people were not even real. Following fictional heroes was perhaps a way to cope with a dysfunctional home, maybe even a fatherless one. With adulthood comes an added awareness of the faults, failings and brokenness of people and our world.
Is there anyone to whom we can look as we navigate the various aspects of life? Is there someone who can help us with its challenges, complications and demands?
In "All Man All Amazing," we find the answer to these questions. While Jesus Christ is God, he also lived as a man, wading the waters of life like the rest of us. This book's view of Jesus through the primary lens of humanity will offer a refreshing perspective of the life of Christ, also providing encouragement and inspiration to those who read its pages.
Approximately 80 percent of Americans admit they haven't read the Bible. If they did, they'd be pleasantly surprised by its impressive quantity of sex and poop jokes.
David danced naked. Noah was basically a moonshining hillbilly. Ezekiel baked poop bread. Herod was eaten by worms. Jesus cursed a fig tree, just to prove he could. Mark went streaking. Hosea married a prostitute. Lot was date-raped by his own daughters.
It turns out, there's a lot of weird stuff in the Bible. Murder-Bears, Moonshine, and Mayhem is a tongue-in-cheek look at all of it. From Elisha, who loosed homicidal bears on some kids because they called him bald (it's a long story), to the story of Ehud, who gets away with assassinating a tyrannical king because his servants think said king is taking a dump (also a long story), this book examines and casts new light on some of the Bible's stranger moments.
Organized by topic (poop, genitalia, weird violence, prostitution, gratuitous nudity, seemingly pointless miracles, and other fun stuff), Murder-Bears, Moonshine, and Mayhem is a thoroughly researched (really!), reverent, and insightful look at the best-selling book in history.
This book is about three death row men and their experiences in living life and trying to avoid hell. Each of the three death row men's experience is viewed through a different moral lesson found in the three parables of the Christian Bible's Book of Matthew, Chapter 25. These moral lessons sound simple. But moral lessons always get a bit tricky when applied to the human endeavor. And there is nothing trickier than the lives of death row men. While taught by Jesus, who believed in hell, the application of the moral lessons are relevant to all readers, not just Christians. Who are these death row men? All three are associated with the death row inside a state prison, Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, Alabama. Jack Trawick, on death row for 15 years, was executed. Jimmy Davis, Jr., who observed his 25th anniversary on death row a few years ago, still awaits execution. The third death row man, this author, is a free-world volunteer on death row. I do not physically live there but, as you will see, I reside there in substantive ways. Each death row man presents an intimate, sometimes disturbing and even horrifying, story of struggle with God's moral expectations on how to live and, thereby, avoid hell.
You Found Me. Finding Me here was no accident, My child. You heard the sound of Spirit Calling to you, and you responded by coming to this webpage. I am almost in your hands now; you can place Me in your heart and soul each day by entering the sacred space prepared in this inspirational devotional. I am eager to be with you. Let us journey through this year together.
Yes, God still speaks to us today. Unfortunately, we sometimes forget to listen to that still small voice of God within each of us. Spirit Calling completes the trinity trilogy of God Calling and Jesus Calling of the first-person voice of God daily devotional readings. Spirit Calling is devoted to helping you find a deeper spiritual meaning in your everyday life. Nothing is closer to you than the Spirit of God.
Have you ever wanted to read the Bible, but found it intimidating?
Have you ever read parts or all of the Bible, but come away more confused than ever?
Does it seem like there are contradictions in the Bible?
Why is there an Old Testament and a New Testament?
Does the Old Testament even matter to Christians today?
How do the sixty-six books of the Bible fit together?
Is there an overarching theme?
If you have asked yourself any of these questions, or others, you are not alone. The Bible Blueprint divides the entire Bible chronologically into six easy to read parts. It provides a basic understanding of Scripture as a complete story that links all the various books together. It gives an overview of each book, touching on highlights and some of the amazing and significant events in each, without the reader getting bogged down in the more difficult sections.
The translation of Rumi's Mathnawi became the best-selling book of poetry in the USA. Now, the time has come for the world to introduce a new Rumi who calls himself a disciple of Sir Dr. Allama Muhammad Iqbal who called himself a disciple of Rumi. Aadil Farook from Pakistan is the first person who can be rightly called the English Poet of Islam. This is not just a work of literature but a book of wisdom, spirituality and philosophy. It is a major original contribution to Islamic Thought & Civilization which resonates perfectly well with the Western audience whether Muslims, Non-Muslims and even disbelievers. It is the fruit of pure genius. A must-read for lovers of Iqbal and Rumi, it is a treat for intellectuals, thinkers and spiritualists who believe in both the revolution without and revolution within. If you are seeking the truth and reality of life, look no further and buy this epic title.
