Maybe you find yourself in a desperate place. Maybe these devotions can help you stir up a determination to reach out and touch the robe of Jesus. Maybe your deliverance is just around the corner. Blue Tassels contains 45 short meditations on 9 personal qualities of Jesus that an unnamed woman experienced in the course of being healed from her 12-year battle with a medical condition that cut her off from society. Five days a week, for nine weeks, the reader will be led through stories and thoughts about compassion, hope, strength, comfort, relationship, love, forgiveness,...
Posted by Debbie Roth on 07/05/2024
Destination Hope is not a self-help book, filled with platitudes from people who think they have life figured out. Instead, Marilyn Nutter and April White link arms with the audience and encourage their readers through stories of their personal challenges in widowhood and chronic illness. Women are encouraged to see loss and hardship as part of life's journey and are reminded to turn their gaze upwards, to the Provider of Hope. Within the pages of Destination Hope comes a sisterhood, a bond, that is formed only through the mutual understanding of loss and the need to find hope in...
Posted by April Dawn White, Pharm.D. on 08/15/2023
A note from your mom in your lunchbox because she knew you’d be having an especially hard day at school. A text from a fellow baseball mom just to say you were on her mind. A lipstick heart that your daughter drew on your bathroom mirror. An unexpected card from a childhood friend. There is something especially powerful and permanent about the written word of encouragement. And it doesn’t take much—just a small reminder that someone is thinking of you, that you’re not alone, that someone sees you, that we are in this together. Sister in Christ, I Need You is a collection...
Posted by Shana Grooms on 07/14/2023
What threatens to steal your joy today? As a leader in women’s ministry, Doris Swift has counseled countless women who have forgotten their worth, question their value, and can’t find their joy. Have you been there? When the struggles of this world drain us dry and wring us out, our desert mentality becomes fertile ground for the enemy’s lies to grow. We place our trust in what we see and feel instead of in the God we know and love. The enemy may threaten to steal our joy–but the truth is, he can’t crack the code. God has infused us with his joy, his Spirit, and...
Posted by Doris Swift on 07/04/2023
Journal for Wisdom is part of the Grace Warrior Journals series. It is an action journal designed to help you as you seek personal growth and spiritual understanding. For each journal entry, you will encounter a scripture verse from the book of Proverbs followed by related questions or comments to consider. While journaling your thoughts and prayers, take the opportunity to record how you might put wisdom into action. There’s extra space to record the activities of your day, too. May you be wiser at the end of your journey through Journal for Wisdom. ...
Posted by Melissa Kirk on 06/09/2023
One question, and your answer makes all the difference! Do you believe that you matter? What would it look like to operate in the truth that God not only loves you, He likes you, and is absolutely head over heels in love with you?! Permanent, God-honoring change does not occur until this question is settled in your heart. Life events can cast doubt on the answer, feeling disqualified. At the crossroads of hurt and healing is Hope, and hope comes from settling the question once and for all. As ‘Chief Instigator’ of the newly launched Dare to Believe Movement, Sue invites the audience...
Posted by Sue Bowles on 01/18/2023
Life hurts, and layers of hurt leave us feeling beyond help. Yet, the human spirit won't let us quit. So how do we navigate the distance between hurt and healing? In "This Much I Know...The Space Between," Sue Bowles shares her pursuit of healing from childhood sexual abuse and other traumas resulting in an eating disorder, constantly struggling to answer the question "Why?" "When we're talking about our stories, the space between is that gap, that time of questioning and anger and confusion and doubt and...whatever else you can think of. It's the...
Posted by Sue Bowles on 10/08/2022
Joan E. Murray relays emotionally powerful stories sharing God’s love, and demonstrates the healing power of Jesus through enlightening biblical commentary and personal testimonies. Her book, Lord, Make Me Whole, encourages Christian spiritual growth as she includes inspiring narratives of recovery. Her narratives takes personal stories of brokenness and examples of pain, as characters―both biblical and non-biblical―turn to God and achieve spiritual growth as well as personal growth. Joan Murray is totally committed to helping people discover their destiny. She is the founder and CEO...
Posted by Joan E. Murray on 09/07/2022
Are you wondering what on earth you were put here for? Do you find yourself wandering from one thing to another? Are you ready to discover your God-given mission? Quit Wandering sits you on the shoulders of scripture's master-strategist, the prophet Nehemiah. This highly acclaimed resource is a step-by-step roadmap for team-leaders and individuals to discover what God has prepared for them and prepared them for. The 15 strategies are clear and applicable to your life and to the life of your team. They include curiositysensitivityfavorthe askdiscretionhandling opposition, etc. Bulk discounts...
Posted by Hannah Thuku Kolehmainen on 08/16/2022
We all know someone younger and older! Maybe God is prompting you to mentor, but you don’t know where to begin. Here are 10 practical and curated worksheets to help you from the very first day of your new mentoring relationship! Topics include: “Getting Started: Mentor Questionnaire” “Personal Growth Plan” “Quiet Time: Four Roadblocks to spending time alone with God” and seven more. Buy all ten for 3.99 and begin your next mentoring relationship today! An exciting adventure awaits as you trust God to bring you alongside another. We are blessed...
Posted by Sue Donaldson on 02/27/2020
