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Sneak Peek: THE GIFT OF ONE DAY by Kerry and Chris Shook

September 6, 2019

Read the first chapter of The Gift of One Day.

Kerry and Chris Shook’s grandson, Jude, lived for only one day after he was born. That one day changed the way they now live every day. Now they share their lessons of faith and hope.

As they recount the compelling true story of Jude’s short but inspiring life, Kerry and Chris reveal the transformative insights they learned when tragedy struck their family. Told with humility and transparency, their story illustrates the goodness of God even in overwhelming circumstances as they share answers to the question: How do we live each day with attentive hope when life is often so crushingly hard?

Exploring the power of gratitude, the privilege of prayer, and the blessing of suffering, The Gift of One Day is a compelling and accessible Christian message of hope and encouragement for those [ … ]

Be The Message Devotional: SNEAK PEEK

January 9, 2015

 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 [ … ]

CBN News: Pastor Tells Congregation to Get Packing

October 14, 2014

CBN News featured Kerry and Chris Shook, authors of Be the Message and founders of The Woodlands Church near Houston, for cutting church services in half recently so the congregation could participate in an effort to package up food items to be shipped to West Africa.  The special Sunday packing session was a kick off to the nationwide “Be the Message Sunday” where churches around the country will shorten services on Sunday, November 16 to do service projects and be living examples of the Gospel  in their communities.  For more information or to sign up for “Be the Message Sunday,” visit Be the Message Sunday

 To view the CBN News story, go to here.

Ryan, Josh & Kerry Shook on “Family Talk”

May 6, 2013

 Ryan and Josh Shook, authors of Firsthand: Ditching Secondhand Religion for a Faith of  Your Own, are guests along with their father Pastor Kerry Shook on “Dr. James Dobson’s Family Talk” radio broadcast on Monday, May 6 and Tuesday, May 7.  The Shook family discusses the difficulty young adults are having as they tranisition to a personal faith and not that of their parents or others.  Ryan and Josh advise parents and peers to ask the hard questions and to go directly to God with their doubts.

To hear more, click here:  http://www.drjamesdobson.org/Broadcasts/Archive

 

 

 

“Firsthand” Makes NY Times Bestseller List

April 1, 2013

 

Firsthand: Ditching Secondhand Religion for a Faith of Your Own (WaterBrook Press, March 19, 2013) by debut authors Ryan and Josh Shook has swept through the national bestseller lists during its first week on sale with the book ranking #4 on the New York  Times Hardcover How-to, Advice, Misc list (Apr. 7), #5 on the Publishers Weekly Hardcover Non-fiction list (Apr. 1), #8 on the Wall Street Journal Hardcover Non-fiction list (Mar. 29), and #107 on USA Today’s Top 150 (Mar. 28).

Brothers Ryan (24) and Josh (23) Shook, the oldest sons of mega-church pastor Kerry Shook of the Woodlands Church near Houston, joined forces to tell their experiences of leaving home and doubting their faith. The two discovered that each of them needed to develop a personal relationship with Christ instead of relying on the one passed [ … ]

Houston Post: Ryan & Josh Shook Rediscover ‘Firsthand’ Faith

March 15, 2013

 

Ryan and Josh Shook are profiled in the Houston Chronicle regarding their debut book Firsthand: Ditching Secondhand Religion for a Faith of Your Own (March 19, 2013) and their personal struggles as  pastor’s kids to find a personal faith instead of copying that of their parents.

“You don’t have to be a pastor’s kid to find the faith that you had – or faked – for years doesn’t feel real anymore, they say. Ask most 20-somethings raised in a Christian home: They’ve gone through struggles and left the church, or like the Shooks, been forced to find a deeper understanding of Christianity,” writes the Houston Post.

Ryan and Josh Shook, along with their father Kerry, pastor of the Woodlands Church, will appear together at Lakewood Church in Houston on Wednesday, March 20 at 7:30 PM.

Kerry Shook in Christian Post “Time to Be All There for Our Kids”

December 20, 2012

In an interview in the Christian Post, Woodlands Church Pastor Kerry Shook, co-author of One Month to Love with his wife Chris, encourages parents in the wake of the Newtown tragedy to be “all there for our kids.”  “…What we all hope would come out of such a terrible tragedy is that parents all over the country will see that we need to be totally engaged with our kids, totally there for them when they need us the most.  Being over-protective is not the answer. The answer is being overly-engaged, completely into their lives.”