Unafraid by Susie Davis – SNEAK PEEK

 Learn how God’s imprint on your heart can make a lasting impression on your children.

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Though I don’t know where your fears started or how deep they sit in your soul, I do know this: Fear is a heavy burden. One of the heaviest you can carry. It’s exhausting and overwhelming. And it’s not from God.

—Susie Davis, Unafraid

 In 1978 Susie Davis watched as a thirteen-year-old classmate entered her classroom and killed her teacher. As a witness to one of the earliest school shootings in our nation, Susie faced years of paralyzing fear and an intense distrust of God. But God relentlessly pursued her and, over time, broke Susie’s fear addiction.

 In Unafraid, Susie offers her hard-won insights about how we can trust [ … ]

Walking with God in the Season of Motherhood by Melissa Kruger – SNEAK PEEK

 Learn how God’s imprint on your heart can make a lasting impression on your children.

 

Click here to download chapter one of  Walking With God in the Season of Motherhood. 

Being a mom usually means being busy. Really busy. Whether you’re zipping from your children’s piano lessons to their next ballgame or nursing a baby while comforting a toddler, life is brimming with activities.  Yet one encounter can help shape every moment: time in the Word with Jesus. In Walking with God in the Season of Motherhood, you’ll learn how to nourish your own heart, mind, and soul with the wisdom you need to become the mother you long to be.  

As you spend time with God [ … ]

Be The Message Devotional: SNEAK PEEK

 Move Beyond Words

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Be The Message Devotional. 

The Gospel is not a well-crafted sermon. It is a life well lived. It is you. Drawn from the book Be the Message, this thirty-day devotional will help you cultivate your life message and live it out.

Over the course of a life-changing month, you will learn how the messes in your life can become a door of hope, discover new ways to love those in front of you, and find out how God is calling you to take a stand in the world.

Using Scripture, illustrations, and practical action steps, the Be the Message Devotional can bring you to a deeper understanding of how your life can make a difference and be [ … ]

SNEAK PEEK – Rise of the Fallen by Chuck Black

Angels and demons collide over the fate of one unbelieving young man. One angel must unlock the mystery behind the man and God’s plan for humanity.

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  Validus is the last and least of God’s angels, but he’s seen much across the millennia since his creation. Empires have risen and fallen as angelic and demonic forces battle in a raging war that will determine humanity’s fate – and the fate of his defeated brothers.

 Eventually called to be an earth-bound warrior, Validus rises to a position of power and respect, commanding legions of angels through impossible battles and overwhelming odds. But when orders arrive from the Creator’s most elite Messenger, he finds himself suddenly demoted to a task of apparent insignificance considering [ … ]

SNEAK PEEK: Finding Your Way Back to God by Dave Ferguson and Jon Ferguson

 “God, if you’re real,

make yourself real to me.”

 

Click here to download chapter one of  Finding Your Way Back to God. 

Each of us spends our lives on a journey toward God. Yet often our most deeply felt longings—for meaning, for love, for significance—end up leading us away from, instead of toward, our Creator and the person he made us to be. 

Finding Your Way Back to God shows you how to understand and listen to your longings in a whole new way. It’s about waking up to who you really are, and daring to believe that God wants to be found even more than you want to find him. It’s about making the biggest wager of your life as you ask God to [ … ]

SNEAK PEEK: The Pharaoh’s Daughter by Mesu Andrews

 “Fear is the most fertile ground for faith.”

Click here to download chapter one of       The Pharaoh’s Daughter. 

  “You will be called Anippe, daughter of the Nile. Do you like it?” Without waiting for a reply, she pulls me into her squishy, round tummy for a hug.

I’m trying not to cry. Pharaoh’s daughters don’t cry.

When we make our way down the tiled hall, I try to stop at ummi Kiya’s chamber. I know her spirit has flown yet I long for one more moment. Amenia pushes me past so I keep walking and don’t look back.

Like the waters of the Nile, I will flow.

 Anippe has grown up in the shadows of Egypt’s good god Pharaoh, aware that Anubis, god of the afterlife, may take her or her [ … ]

SNEEK PEEK: When Grace Sings

When trouble roars into quiet Arborville, Alexa and Anna-Grace find themselves the target for discord and exposed secrets. Can they continue to seek the God of all grace amidst the fog of confusion?

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Alexa Zimmerman wonders if the Old Order Mennonite community in Arborville, Kansas will ever fully accept her. Her family roots here aren’t what anyone thought when she first arrived, but she is hopeful that her culinary and hospitality skills will win the skeptics over. The bed-and-breakfast she’s operating needs to succeed so Alexa agrees to allow Briley Forrester, the hotshot reporter from Chicago, to stay as a long-term boarder not knowing his real motives for being amongst the Plain folk.

But when Alexa agrees to [ … ]

SNEEK PEEK: The Power of a Half Hour by Tommy Barnett

 Turn your fleeting minutes into defining moments.

Click here to download chapter one of The Power of a Half Hour.

What can you do in 30 minutes? Have lunch? Watch television? Check Facebook?
How about change your life? Why do some people achieve far more than others? We all get the same 24 hours in a day, yet a special few seem to have superhuman abilities when it comes to accomplishing great things in life. Tommy Barnett, a proven master at “getting things done,” says the key to maximizing your productivity is to make use of small, manageable moments in your day—just 30 minutes at a time.

Click here to download chapter one of The Power of a Half Hour.

Religion News Service: Randy Alcorn on Christianity’s Fiercest Debate

Jonathan Merritt of Religion News Service talks with Randy Alcorn, author of hand in Hand  about one of the mostly hotly debated topics in the Christian church: God’s sovereignty vs. meaningful human choice. In a Q&A article, Merritt asks why Alcorn believes the traditional approach to the debate isn’t working, what he’s saying that’s new, and whether he agrees with John Piper that God is responsible for fatalilty-inducing natural disasters. Click here to see the answers to those questions and more.  

 

DOWNLOAD: Bible Study Guide for The Women of Christmas

The Women of Christmas is much more than a pretty hardcover gift book with gold embossed lettering. It’s also a Bible study filled with substance and heart, designed to encourage you in Christ. Since it does not require a lot of homework, it is the perfect study to prepare you for the season to come.  Use it for individual study or in a group.  Liz Curtis Higgs offers a FREE GUIDE full of helpful tips and ideas.

Get it here:  How to Use the Women of Christmas as a Bible Study.2014

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