Does your anxiety constantly make you question whether you have control, if you're safe, or if you have the power to change? Anxiety often creates an intense, excessive, and persistent worry and fear that makes your normal day-to-day feel challenging and overwhelming. You know that phrase . . . practice makes perfect. What if practice could help you crea… Read more…
Does your anxiety constantly make you question whether you have control, if you're safe, or if you have the power to change? Anxiety often creates an intense, excessive, and persistent worry and fear that makes your normal day-to-day feel challenging and overwhelming. You know that phrase . . . practice makes perfect. What if practice could help you crea… Read more…
Are You Doing What God Created You to Do? Can you identify your spiritual gifting or understand God's purpose for your life? If you can't confidently answer yes, you're not alone. Yet there is a simple, biblical framework to finding your God-given gifts and finding His purposes for your life--and it leads to a relationship with the Tri… Read more…
Are You Doing What God Created You to Do?Can you identify your spiritual gifts or God's purpose for your life? Are your gifts leading to a deeply rewarding relationship with the Trinity? If you can't confidently answer yes, you're not alone.Created as a hands-on companion to the groundbreaking biblical teaching in The Spiritual Gifts Bluepri… Read more…
Live by the Word. Walk by the Spirit. You were never meant to live the Christian life in your own strength, so stop trying. Each morning, awaken your heart to the presence of the Holy Spirit in your life. And then, each evening, renew your mind with the unchanging truth of God’s Word. The Sword and the Spiritcontains morning and evening devot… Read more…
You Weren't Created to Tread Water--You Were Created to WALK on ItWhen storms hit and the mess of life comes crashing down, it is easier to sink into the undertow than fight to stay above water. When you focus on the waves, you miss the hand reaching down to help you.With warmth and wisdom, pastor and New York Times bestselling author Jentezen Franklin r… Read more…
The world is noisy and disorientating. Our hearts need beauty and truth.Heather Holdsworth experienced the death of her father followed shortly by the death of her mother. A few years later she battled a sickness that left her without the strength to stand, walk, or even speak. She opened the book of Psalms. She began writing. And from her writing emerged… Read more…
The Bible calls Jesus the friend of sinners, but it's hard to imagine what friendship with Jesus really looks like. We so often don't even know how to do friendship with the people around us, despite all the options we have to connect. So how are we supposed to feel that close to a holy, perfect, and invisible God? How do we see Jesus as the real per… Read more…
We want the thousands of hours we will work over our lifetime to matter. But how do we know they're really significant? How do we go from being defined by what we do to having our work become an expression of who we are?
There is not a quick fix but a progressive solution: it begins with surrendering our whole lives and then every momen… Read more…
365 encouraging messages from God help readers grow their faith.365 Days in God's Presence is an inspiring daily devotional that offers engaging and encouraging messages from God and His Word. With messages like: “I go before you today. I fight for you today. And I carry you today. Trust Me, child. I will show you the way out of the desert. Fo… Read more…
Whether by choice or circumstances out of our control, we will have moments where we feel like we've been punched out, dragged down, or knocked out. What do we do in those situations? You must learn to persevere.Perseverance requires a deep sense of hope, and thought leader, pastor, and podcaster, Bianca Juárez Olthoff, knows that personally. But it'… Read more…
Read by the author.Whether by choice or circumstances out of our control, we will have moments where we feel like we've been punched out, dragged down, or knocked out. What do we do in those situations? You must learn to persevere.Perseverance requires a deep sense of hope, and thought leader, pastor, and podcaster, Bianca Juárez Olthoff, knows that per… Read more…