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Creating a Beautiful Life: A Woman’s Guide to Good-Better-Best Decision Making
By Elizabeth George

What Will You Do with This Beautiful Day God Is Giving You?

Each new day presents opportunities to grow your faith, manage your work and your goals, and make good use of the time God gives you.  But making the right choices moment by moment isn’t easy.  And the first decisions of your day can affect the next 16 hours – for better or for worse.  (more…)

Finding Holy in the Suburbs: Living Faithfully in the Land of Too Much
By Ashley Hales

Suburban life – including tract homes, strip malls, commuter culture – shapes our desires.

More than half of Americans live in the suburbs.  Ashley Hales writes that for many Christians, however: “The suburbs are ignored (‘Your place doesn’t matter, we’re all going to heaven anyway’), denigrated and demeaned (‘You’re selfish if you live in a suburb; you only care about your own safety and (more…)

Boundaries for Your Soul
How to Turn Your Overwhelming Thoughts and Feelings into Your Greatest Allies
By Cook PhD, Alison, Miller MTh LMFT, Kimberly

You can turn your shame to joy, your anger to advocacy, and your inner critic into your biggest champion.  Do your emotions control you or do you control your emotions?  Many people let guilt, anger, or self-criticism dominate their lives and negatively affect their relationships.  Boundaries for Your Soul shows you how to calm the chaos within.  This ground-breaking approach will help you:  (more…)

Spiritual Grit : A Journey Into Endurance. Character. Confidence. Hope.
By Rick Lawrence

Why do some people thrive in the midst of great challenges, and others don’t?

The answer is grit: the strength at our core that fuels a scrappy response to threats, fear, confusion, and pain.  Best-selling books and viral TED Talks have launched the study of resilience into the stratosphere, touting grit as the tool for personal and professional success.  (more…)

God, Where Are You?!
By John Bevere

Do you feel lost in a difficult season, wondering, “GOD, WHERE ARE YOU?!”

Perhaps you heard God speak, but now He seems silent.  Maybe you moved forward in faith, but now His presence is nowhere to be found.  Welcome to the wilderness ― the place between receiving a promise from God and seeing it come to pass.

But here’s the good news ― this is no purposeless wasteland.  (more…)

You Can Understand the Book of Genesis
By Skip Heitzig

In the Beginning — A Good Place to Start

Genesis is chock-full of some of the Bible’s most exciting stories. From Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden to Joseph’s reunion with his family.  Do you ever wonder if God really did create the world in seven days?  What’s the deal with Cain and Abel anyway?  And just how big was that boat Noah built?  (more…)