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May 5, 2023 by Tricia Goyer Leave a Comment

Love is a Choice with Dr. Gary Chapman

Real-life, encouraging stories embodying the bold, brave, beautiful choice to love.

“To last for the long haul and through the stresses and complexities of life, love has to be more than something we feel. It has to be something we do. We have to demonstrate it concretely in our marriages and families, among our friends and acquaintances, and, yes, even among our enemies. And that’s what this book is about. In its pages, you’ll see examples of people just like you—like all of us—who learned to take the obstacles, the lemons they face in life, and turn them into satisfying, emotional thirst-quenching nectar. These are the success stories that make you want to go out and discover the power of love.” Gary Chapman

If you’re feeling weary or burdened by the call to love, you’ll find strength and hope in the pages of this book. Love is a Choice gives us stories of love in action, inspiring us to go deeper in our relationships. Each story is coupled with 5 Love Languages® insights and application points.

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Love is a Choice | Dr. Gary Chapman

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March 31, 2023 by Tricia Goyer Leave a Comment

Building Up Your Faith When Your World is Falling Apart

Beloved author and Bible teacher Michele Cushatt offers ten practices to strengthen your confidence in God’s daily presence and power and build a faith strong enough to endure even the toughest seasons.

Life can be hard. Although there are moments of beauty and goodness, more often than not, life is marked by fear, struggle, disappointment, and loss. And we don’t know what to do with it. We’ve tried to find hope and security in various people and places–but each has proved unworthy of our trust. We need more. Something–or Someone–who won’t fail us when our world falls apart.

In this book, beloved author and Bible teacher Michele Cushatt presents a better way. By exploring powerful personal, historical, and biblical stories of people of extraordinary faith, she curates and shares ten practices to help you deepen your confidence and certainty in the God who can be trusted with your worry, questions, confusion, and grief. As a woman who has been through immeasurable suffering, she writes with both deep compassion and practical insight as she guides you to:

Practice lament and process grief without guilt or shame

Understand what keeps you from trusting God and how to navigate doubt with truth

Learn simple ways to foster shalom and gratitude on a daily basis

Develop a fresh, eternal perspective that delivers both peace for today and hope for tomorrow

Savor daily “faith-builder” practices to strengthen your confidence in God’s love and purposes for you, no matter what happens

There is hope in your hardship and a God who is both with you and for you. These ten practices point the way to the only One you can truly trust, and ultimately, to a faith in him that will not fail.

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A Faith that Will Not Fail | Michele Cushatt
John 14:18
Zephaniah 3:17
Daily Bible Podcast
Relentless | Michele Cushatt

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March 24, 2023 by Tricia Goyer Leave a Comment

The Time Saving Mom with Crystal Paine

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Time is short. Here’s how to invest it in what matters most.

As a busy mom, pulled in many directions, you’ve felt it: There’s too much to do, and not enough time to do it.

It seems like the only solution is to hustle harder. But there’s a far better way to manage your time so that you can simplify and enjoy your life.

Crystal Paine—mom of six, bestselling author, and entrepreneur—delivers a real-world, no-nonsense guide to keeping you sane and doing the things you love most.

In The Time-Saving Mom, Crystal takes you inside her days to help you:

· Adopt an easy-to-implement four-step system to organize and simplify your life

· Create morning and evening routines that set you up for success

· Learn time-saving hacks to help you find time for pursuing your personal passions, friendships, exercise, and better sleep

· Carve out sacred time for God and your family

You don’t have to be a productivity queen to maximize your time. Instead, you can be a time-saving mom, investing in what matters most.

“The Time-Saving Mom will change your life. . . . The practical tools and advice in this book are game changers.”

—ALLI WORTHINGTON, author of Remaining You While Raising Them

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The Time Saving Mom | Crystal Paine

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March 17, 2023 by Tricia Goyer Leave a Comment

Discover Healing, Strength, and Restoration in God’s Word with Image RESTored

This whole-person, interactive approach to body image includes coloring sheets, journaling prompts, and therapist insights that ground you in God’s love and build you up in truth.

Are you tired of being at war with your body—and with your thoughts about your body? Rachael Gilbert struggled with shame when she didn’t measure up to her dream body image. Then, as a fitness instructor and licensed counselor specializing in disordered eating, she realized how many of us bury the same painful insecurities. But keeping up appearances is exhausting. We need restoration from the inside out.

In Image RESTored, Rachael offers professional guidance, coloring pages, Scripture, prayers, journaling prompts, and a link to online teaching videos to help you experience true freedom. See your whole self in a new way as you learn:

A biblical perspective on eating, weight loss, fitness, and self-confidence rooted in God’s love.
Counselor-inspired strategies to help you appreciate how God made you.
How to reframe stories that formed your attitude toward your body.
Tools for overcoming comparison and trauma.
Ways to use thoughts and feelings so they help you rather than sabotage you.

Rich with spiritual and therapeutic insights, this Christian body image workbook calls you to experience healing and wellness that starts with knowing God’s love for you—mind, soul, body, and spirit.

“Is there a struggle more universal than the one surrounding our views of our own bodies? Satan knows this is an easy target, and frankly, it’s one that is not discussed very often in the Church. That’s why I am so glad Rachael Gilbert wrote this book. I love how she mixes real-life experience with a biblical worldview and the expertise of a therapist. I believe there is such a need for this book right now in the Church, and there’s no better person to write it than Rachael.”

—from the foreword by Robert Morris, senior pastor of Gateway Church and author of The Blessed Life

Purchase your copy of Image RESTored.

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Image Restored | Rachael Gilbert

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March 10, 2023 by Tricia Goyer Leave a Comment

Diving Deep into the Word with David Nekrutman

What if the Bible was Your Teen’s Favorite Subject?

The Bible is equipped to build the student’s thinking muscle, the brain and engage the heart of your student. This leads to a love of learning and critical thinking. Challenge your students to use critical thinking skills to influence the world, stand firm in their faith in a shifting culture, and develop a deeper relationship with God.

COMPLETING THIS COURSE WILL HELP YOU:

Have a deeper, more authentic relationship with God
Influence the world around you with Truth
Tackle any subject, thought, or ideology
Acquire a love for and appreciation of the Scriptures

Enroll in Your Sabbath Invitation here.

World Travel, Passion for Story, and the Calculated series with Nova McBee

Set in Shanghai and Seattle, Calculated is a gritty, modern-day blend of the Count of Monte Cristo and Mission Impossible.
She has many names – Octavia, Double 8, Phoenix, Josephine. She’s a math prodigy, a calculating genius and everyone wants her.

In seventeen-year-old Jo River’s complicated world of numbers, there’s no such thing as coincidence. When she is betrayed by someone she loves, kidnapped by the world’s most wanted smuggler, and forced to use her talent to shore up a criminal empire, Jo deems her gift a curse—until she meets Red.

Fellow captive and unlikely sage, Red teaches Jo to harness her true potential, so she can do more than just escape. Before he dies, Red reveals a secret about her enemies and makes her vow to right his wrongs. But Jo has a vow of her own.

With help from Chan, a bitter billionaire, and Kai, his off-limits son, Jo rises into a new role, ready to take down those who ruined her life. Until a mathematical error comes back to haunt her with a threat much more dangerous than the criminals on the loose.

To beat the odds, Jo must decide who she really is and if risking everything is worth it.

After all, history is not made—it’s calculated.

Grab all the books in the Calculated series here.

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Calculated | Nova McBee
Simulated | Nova McBee
Activated | Nova McBee
The Chronicles of The Spanish Civil War | Tricia Goyer
Daily Bible Podcast

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February 17, 2023 by Tricia Goyer 5 Comments

Escape to a New Life with Piper Penn on Mackinac Island

Mackinac Island Story Series follows the life of Piper Penn in 1979 as she tries to leave her past behind and start a new life on Mackinac Island.

In Being Ethel (In a world that loves Lucy) we follow her journey as a known shoplifter in San Francisco to Mackinac Island where she encounters mystery, romance, and true friendship with an I Love Lucy-loving nun.

In Book 2, Being Dorothy (In a world longing for home) -1980- Piper becomes involved with a couple who have a secretive background and are not who they appear to be to anyone on the island.

Next, in Being Alice (In a world lost in the looking glass), it’s 1981 and we find Piper Penn meeting a young woman burdened by the scars on her face and the scars in her heart and she becomes the music tech for a famous rock star playing at the Grand Hotel for several weeks in the summer. In 1982, we meet Wendy T. Bell who is celebrating her 50th birthday by wondering which of her guests is trying to blackmail her and end her illustrious career as a famous author. An escape to Mackinac Island to elude the paparazzi and her troubled past leads to more mystery, suspense, and a look at what matters in life. Each book is filled with mystery, romance, friendship, faith, and yes, some recurring quirky characters.

The continuation of the series finds Piper Penn living on the island and interacting with intriguing visitors who draw her into their story.

Each book stands on its own, but reading them in order will provide a richer experience as you get to know Piper Penn and her life. Take a virtual visit to Mackinac Island with Piper Penn and an ever-surprising cast of characters, including the magical island itself, in this Mackinac Island series.

Get the Mackinac Island Story series here.

Enter to win an ebook copy of one of the stories in the Mackinac Island series (4 winners will be chosen, one for each book!)

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February 10, 2023 by Tricia Goyer 1 Comment

Talking with God About Hard Times

When you can’t find the right words to pray…

In hard times, many of us shy away from God, not sure how to talk to him about what we’re feeling. Through her own battles, Suzie Eller has experienced the peace of knowing that prayer is not about the number of words that come out of your mouth or how eloquent you sound. It’s about being in God’s presence.

When you can’t figure out what to say to him, these 90 prayer starters will begin the conversation you’ve been longing for. Each one is birthed from a specific Scripture, and on each page, journaling space is provided so you can complete the prayer in your own words or simply write what you’re feeling.

Don’t let your hurts, fears, or doubts keep you from freely talking to God. He loves you and wants to hear what’s on your heart.

Prayer Starters: Talking with God about Hard Times is more than a prayer journal. It’s more than a book about prayer. Prayer Starters is a book that helps you connect with God, right where you are.

Purchase a copy of Prayer Starters.

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January 27, 2023 by Tricia Goyer Leave a Comment

Honest Conversations about Racism

Over the last few years, it’s sadly evident that we still struggle with racism in America. Yet even when our hearts ache, it’s hard to know what to do or say. What can we say to let others know we care and want to be involved in honest conversations about race? The good news is that we don’t have to figure it out alone. Instead, we can “listen in” to honest conversations to better understand how to respond.

Reggie Dabbs and John Driver are friends who have allowed themselves to be uncomfortable in order to speak from their hearts about racism. In their book, Not So Black and White, these two men open themselves up to conversations about racism from a Christian perspective.

Through Reggie and John’s honest conversations, readers:

Hear the stories of fellow believers who have found ways to reach across the racial barrier with humility, empathy, and forgiveness
Understand a simple yet robust history of racism in America and in the church, including its role in systems, policies, and individual actions
Discover fully biblical yet culturally wise responses to the challenges of racism in yourself and your community
Come away with fresh thought processes and practical steps for what you can do to think rightly and engage bravely in conversations and actions to end racism

I loved talking to Reggie and John, and I know you’ll enjoy this conversation. Listen in!

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Not So Black and White | Reggie Dabbs and John Driver
Little Rock Nine
The Warmth of Other Suns | Isabel Wilkerson

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January 20, 2023 by Tricia Goyer Leave a Comment

Everyday Prayers for Joy

Everyday Prayers for Joy | by Gina Smith

The word joy became my word a few years ago after God ushered my family and me into a season of very difficult circumstances. It happened one night when I couldn’t sleep. I quietly tiptoed out to our living room, sat on the couch, and wrapped myself in a warm blanket. The only light in the room came from three letters that sat on a shelf: “J-O-Y.” As I sat there, I reflected on what a difficult season we were in and I knew that God wanted me to learn His definition of joy. Not merely an intellectual knowledge of the definition. He wanted joy to be my heart and soul’s down-deep experience.

I came to the end of every single resource I had been clinging to and was forced to sit alone before the Lord. He opened my eyes to the fact that often I find joy in the blessings He has provided for me more than I find joy in Him, the provider of the blessings. I needed to begin the process of learning what it meant to find joy in Christ alone. Those difficult days and that life-changing lesson was the beginning of what God would use to prepare me for the writing of my book Everyday Prayers for Joy!

While studying the meaning of biblical joy, God highlighted what is called the Prayer of Lament. The prayer of lament is the prayer for a suffering soul. It is our fight with our soul to remember that there is a future. I’ve come to believe God gave us the prayer of lament to help us process the suffering we face in this life. Lamenting is the way we come to God when life is overwhelming. In the book of Psalms, we see this type of prayer when the writer is facing very difficult circumstances. We see him crying out to God for deliverance from a particular difficulty, often listing his complaints, describing his suffering, and crying out to God for help.

We are invited to come to God with our questions and pour out our hearts to Him, but in a prayer of lament, there is an eventual choice to remember the truth of God’s character and His past actions as defined in Scripture. This is a choice we will have to make one day at a time, maybe even minute by minute. After we are reminded of who God is and what He has done, God gently and lovingly challenges us to cling to the hope that is found in Him alone.

It is when we focus on the hope that we find in God’s Word that we can experience biblical joy. Biblical joy is found when we focus on God, his perspective, and his precious promises.

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What is joy? We can receive fleeting moments of it when we watch sunlight break through the clouds, or see a little child laugh as he blows apart the fluff of a spent dandelion. But there is only one source of true, lasting joy—and that’s our Savior, Jesus.

During a season of unknowns, God opened His Word to author Gina L. Smith and taught her His definition of joy so that she could experience it deep in her heart. He helped her realize that she had been finding joy in His blessings, rather than in Him, the source of those blessings. And she learned how to “count it all joy” (James 1:2) come what may.

Everyday Prayers for Joy is a thirty-day journey through God’s Word that will help you discover the joy that God wants to share with you. He is with you always and can work out all things for good. Fill yourself to overflowing with God’s joy!

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Everyday Prayers for Joy | Gina Smith
The Grumble Free Year | Tricia Goyer
Nehemiah 8:10

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January 13, 2023 by Tricia Goyer Leave a Comment

Friendship Breakups, Church Hurt, Mental Health, and Confessions of a Crappy Christian

Why does it so often feel like Christians can’t talk about the real, hard stuff in life?

We know our lives should reflect Jesus; what He did and said, and how He interacted with others. But if we’re being honest, there are days when we face tough, confusing things that can make us feel, well, very not like Jesus. As our culture moves further from truth and grace, Christians are burned-out, isolated, and unsure of where to turn for sound biblical advice that applies to their everyday struggles. If you’ve ever felt this way or wished someone would talk about things like forgiveness, mental health, broken friendships, redirected dreams, sex, facts versus feelings, church hurt, rest, weakness, healing, and more in honest, down-to-earth terms while sticking to what Scripture has to say about them, you’ve come to the right place.

Confessions of a Crappy Christian is for you if you

have ever thought you’re too messed up for church
feel exhausted and alone in your struggles
think you need to complete a checklist before God will love you
need a friend who cares about you too much to let you stay stuck

With honesty and vulnerability, Blake Guichet, host of the popular podcast Confessions of a Crappy Christian, helps us embrace the truth that we can’t do it all perfectly and gives us the wisdom, guidance, and hope to move from “crappy” Christian into a freer and fuller walk with Christ.

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Confessions of a Crappy Christian | Blake Guichet
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Confessions of a Crappy Christian the Podcast
Heart Happy | Tricia Goyer

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We weren’t meant to go through life alone. —Blake Guichet

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Do we really believe He [God] not only loves us, He likes us? —Blake Guichet

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Love is a Choice with Dr. Gary Chapman

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Building Up Your Faith When Your World is Falling Apart

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Connect with Michele Cushatt

The Time Saving Mom with Crystal Paine

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Discover Healing, Strength, and Restoration in God’s Word with Image RESTored

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Diving Deep into the Word with David Nekrutman

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World Travel, Passion for Story, and the Calculated series with Nova McBee

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Escape to a New Life with Piper Penn on Mackinac Island

Enter to win an ebook copy of one of the stories in the Mackinac Island series (4 winners will be chosen, one for each book!)

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Connect with Michele Olson

Thanks to this week’s Sponsor Karen Ferguson’s Guess How Much God Loves You

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Talking with God About Hard Times

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Honest Conversations about Racism

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Everyday Prayers for Joy

Everyday Prayers for Joy | by Gina Smith

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Friendship Breakups, Church Hurt, Mental Health, and Confessions of a Crappy Christian

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