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Sneak Peek: LEADING THINGS YOU DIDN’T START by Tyler Reagin

October 9, 2020

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A high-impact leadership coach gives you the tools you need to maximize your influence in a new role, giving you the ability to meet any challenge and take your team, organization, church, or company to new heights.

Everyone talks about those leaders who start something new. But the reality is that most leaders are responsible for corporations, teams, and products they didn’t launch from the ground up. Tyler Reagin saw the immense need to address this mission-critical but often overlooked aspect of leadership: healthy transition for leaders who inherit teams, places, or platforms others created.

His groundbreaking book Leading Things You Didn’t Start provides a faith-based four-step plan that answers practical questions such as:

• Do I really want to take over something loved by so many?
• Is there a secret sauce [ … ]

Sneak Peek: GOD SPEAKS IN WHISPERS by Mark Batterson & Summer Batterson Dailey

August 28, 2020

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Children often begin their faith journey with basic but big questions like How does God speak to me? This charming picture book from the best-selling author of Whisper and his daughter provides a fun and clever answer!

God Speaks in Whispers helps even the youngest readers look for God’s voice in the universe: in creation, as he speaks through his followers, and in the Bible as he speaks through his Word. With a charming rhyme pattern and vivid pictures, Mark and Summer Batterson invite little ones to imagine how God might be showing them love every day, by leaning in close to hear God’s whisper.

Sneak Peek: CHOOSE JOY by Ink & Willow

August 28, 2020

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Relax and enjoy a creative approach to gratitude with this beautiful coloring book for adults filled with breathtaking illustrations and inspirational quotes from writers, hymns, and Scripture.

In today’s hectic, stress-filled world, taking stock of our blessings and truly experiencing gratefulness isn’t always easy, but this coloring book offers a beautiful and unique way to find moments of peace and quiet to meditate on gratitude. Each beautifully illustrated page features an original design from one of seven talented artists that illustrates a corresponding quote.

Features include:

  • Large format 9.75″ x 9.75″ (25x25cm) pages
  • 45 single-sided coloring pages
  • High quality, bright white paper stock–heavy enough [ … ]

Sneak Peek: A BURNING IN MY BONES by Winn Collier

August 18, 2020

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This essential authorized biography of Eugene Peterson offers unique insights into the experiences and spiritual convictions of the iconic American pastor and beloved translator of The Message.

“This hunger for something radical—something so true that it burned in his bones—was a constant in Eugene’s life. His longing for God ignited a ferocity in his soul.”

Encounter the multifaceted life of one of the most influential and creative pastors of the past half century with unforgettable stories of his lifelong devotion to his craft and love of language, the influences and experiences that shaped his unquenchable faith, the inspiration for his decision to translate The Message, and his success and struggles as a pastor, husband, and father.

Author Winn Collier was given exclusive access to Eugene and his materials for the production of this landmark work. [ … ]

Sneak Peek: MY PRAYER JOURNEY by Ink & Willow

August 7, 2020

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With inspirational quotes, ancient hymns, and breathtaking full-color illustrations, this beautifully designed 52-week guided journal will help you focus your time with God and strengthen your faith as you record your prayerful thoughts and requests for a full year.

Prayer doesn’t always come easy. You may struggle to find the words, feel inadequate, or even battle with consistency in our prayer life. Promises to pray are easy to pass out but harder to keep, as this spiritual discipline takes a backseat to the busyness of life. You have great intentions for your prayer life, but all too often, you fall short. This [ … ]

Sneak Peek: FAITH, FARMING, AND FAMILY by Caitlin Henderson

July 29, 2020

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A young farmer’s wife draws on her life with kids, cows, and a front-porch view to help us see God’s goodness and beauty wherever we are, reminding us that the simple life is not a place to be but a way to be.

“Grab a cup of coffee and join Caitlin on her porch to hear the lessons God has taught her through the good and hard of everyday life.”—Vivian Mabuni, speaker and author of Open Hands, Willing Heart: Discover the Joy of Saying Yes to God

When Caitlin, a small-town girl, fell in love with a farm boy named Jake Henderson, she had little idea what farm life—or marriage and motherhood—would bring. But raising a family on a farm is teaching her more about God’s goodness [ … ]

Sneak Peek: REDEEMING LOVE COMPANION STUDY by Francine Rivers

June 10, 2020

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A powerful six-week study, revealing life-changing Bible truths, to the classic bestselling novel Redeeming Love.

Redeeming Love: The Companion Study offers longtime fans as well as readers new to the Christian romance classic a meaningful way to explore the book’s message and go deeper into the story’s Biblical ties.

This six-week study, with three segments per week, explores Angel and Michael’s iconic story as a metaphor for the love relationship between God and those He is yearning to reach. Using excerpts from the novel and quotes from Scripture, Francine walks readers through Angel’s healing journey, showing how her unworthiness, fear, and emptiness are ultimately exchanged for the fullness of knowing God’s unconditional, redemptive, all-consuming love. Each week also includes an essay from Francine tied to her personal journey of writing [ … ]

Sneak Peek: A PATH TO REDEEMING LOVE by Francine Rivers

June 10, 2020

Read the first few chapters of A Path to Redeeming Love.

This one-of-a-kind devotional based on the timeless classic novel Redeeming Love provides forty days of inspiration—featuring essays from the author on her beloved novel.

A Path to Redeeming Love: A 40-Day Devotional welcomes readers to revisit Francine Rivers’s life-changing story of God’s all-consuming love in an inspiring new way: a personal, 6-week journey through Angel and Michael’s iconic love story.

Following the novel’s key themes—Rejected, Resigned, Rescued, Redeemed, Reconciled, Restored—each daily devotion includes a Redeeming Love story tie-in with an excerpt from the novel; selected quotes from Scripture embodying both the message of the devotion and its theme; and prompts for reflection and activities including Bible study, prayer, journaling, and outreach. Each theme begins with a personal essay from Francine in which she shares stories from her life and her thoughts on Angel, [ … ]

Sneak Peek: REDEEMING LOVE by Francine Rivers

June 10, 2020

Read the first few chapters of Redeeming Love.

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California’s gold country, 1850. A time when men sold their souls for a bag of gold and women sold their bodies for a place to sleep. Angel expects nothing from men but betrayal. Sold into prostitution as a child, she survives by keeping her hatred alive. And what she hates most are the men who use her, leaving her empty and dead inside.

Then she meets Michael Hosea, a man who seeks his Father’s heart in everything. Michael obeys God’s call to marry Angel and to love her unconditionally. Slowly, day by day, he defies Angel’s every bitter expectation, until despite her resistance, her frozen heart begins to thaw.

But with her unexpected softening comes overwhelming feelings of [ … ]

From Rich Villodas: The Gospel & Race

June 9, 2020

The Gospel & Race Resource

Explore a more comprehensive vision of this massive issue. In light of the ongoing tensions that exist in our nation, we can all take the next step in pursuing God’s kingdom for the moment we are in.

This resource is laid out in a few sections that can help you and your community take another step forward. This resource is for the purpose of helping you understand the layers of racism, a personal/community practice of self-reflection, and a list of books I highly recommend for further study.

Finally, if any of this content impacts you, I’ve written much more extensively on this in my forthcoming book, The Deeply Formed Life. If you haven’t already done so, let me encourage you to Pre-order it.

Praying for God to deeply form us to be witnesses [ … ]