Book Resources

Surprised by the Healer: Embracing Hope for Your Broken Story

By:
Linda Dillow and Dr. Juli Slattery
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In the book, Surprised by the Healer: Embracing Hope for Your Broken Story, you will meet nine courageous women who have agreed to tell their stories, to share with you how they moved from hopelessness and brokenness to hope and healing. Whether from sexual abuse, betrayal in marriage, or other harrowing experiences, the Healer invited them on a unique journey of redemption in the midst of deep pain. He is inviting you, too. (Click here to view on Amazon).
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Invitation to a Journey: A Road Map for Spiritual Formation

By:
M. Robert Mulholland Jr.
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In Invitation to a Journey, Mulholland helps Christians new and old understand that we become like Christ gradually, not instantly. Not every personality is suited to an early morning quiet time, so Mulholland frees different personality types to express their piety differently. He reviews the classical spiritual disciplines and demonstrates the importance of undertaking our spiritual journey with (and for the sake of) others. (Click here to view on Amazon).
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Aging Faithfully: The Holy Invitation of Growing Older

By:
Alice Fryling and Leighton Ford
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In Aging Faithfully, spiritual director Alice Fryling offers comfort and encouragement about growing older as she explores how to navigate: The journey of retirement, lifestyle changes, new limitations, new opportunities that come with aging well. (Click here to view on Amazon).
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Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

By:
Richard Rohr
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This new edition focuses on practical guidance that you can use to live a life of love and meaning in a world of suffering and challenge. Falling Upward is an invitation to living the gospel and a call to ongoing transformation. (Click here to view on Amazon).
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Practicing The Way: Be with Jesus. Become like him. Do as he did.

By:
John Mark Comer
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This introduction to spiritual formation, Practicing The Way, is full of John Mark Comer’s trademark mix of theological substance and cultural insight as well as practical wisdom on developing your own Rule of Life. (Click here to view on Amazon).
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How to Hear God: A Simple Guide for Normal People

By:
Pete Greig
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How to Hear God: A Simple Guide for Normal People, Explores the story of Christ's playful, poignant conversation on the road to Emmaus after his resurrection, Pete draws deeply from the insights of a wide range of Christian traditions; weaving together the evangelical emphasis on hearing God in the Bible, and the charismatic commitment to hearing God in the prophetic, with the contemplative understanding of God's "still, small voice" within. (Click here to view on Amazon).
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Enjoying God

By:
Tim Chester
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This seminal work by Tim Chester, Enjoying God, shows us how we can enjoy God in every moment of every day, whether we are experiencing good times or hard times; whether we are changing diapers, or stuck on a train. He explores how the Father, the Son and the Spirit relate to us in our day-to-day lives, and how to respond. (Click here to view on Amazon).
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With: Reimagining the Way You Relate to God

By:
Skye Jethani
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With explores the narrative of the Bible to show that we were created to be with God, and that restoring this connection is his mission. Instead of life over, under, from, or even for God, what leads us into freedom and restoration is life with God (Click here to view on Amazon).
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The Next Right Thing: A Simple, Soulful Practice for Making Life Decisions

By:
Emily P. Freeman
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If you have trouble making decisions because of either chronic hesitation or decision fatigue, Emily P. Freeman offers a fresh way of practicing familiar but often forgotten advice: simply do the next right thing. The Next Right Thing, a simple, soulful practice will help you. Whether you're in the midst of a major life transition or are weary of the low-grade anxiety that daily life can bring, Emily helps create space for your soul to breathe so you can live life with God at a gentle pace and discern your next right thing in love. (Click here to view on Amazon).
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The Practice of the Presence of God in Modern Day English

By:
Brother Lawrence
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The Practice of the Presence of God in Modern English is a modern translation of the timeless spiritual classic. Written over 300 years ago in French, The Practice of the Presence of God is here presented in language understandable to the twenty-first century English reader. Not a paraphrase or an abridgment, this version is a faithful rendering of the text in the spirit of the original work. (Click here to view on Amazon).
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What If It’s Wonderful

By:
Nicole Zasowski
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Author and marriage and family therapist Nicole Zasowski knows what it's like to suffer a blow that makes it difficult to look to the future. Despite the struggle, she found the courage to celebrate and discovered that God is as present in our joy as He is in our pain. With a psychological and spiritual case for celebrating, What If It's Wonderful, Nicole challenges you to let go of the habit of practicing disappointment and fully embrace joy, beckoning you to ask yourself a new question: What if it's wonderful? (Click here to view on Amazon).
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Three Steps to a Strong Family

By:
Richard and Linda Eyre
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Linda and Richard Eyre's Three Steps to a Strong Family shows how to create a family legal system, a family economy and a sense of family identity which work together to provide rules, limits and goals. (Click here to view on Amazon).
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