Follow God’s process for growth and find hope in life’s darkest moments with Bishop T.D. Jakes’s uplifting stories and advice from his own faith journey.
In this insightful book, #1 New York Times bestselling author T.D. Jakes wrestles with age-old questions: Why do the righteous suffer? Where is God in all the injustice?
Daily 3-minute morning and evening devotions and prayers are the perfect way for boys to begin and end their days!
This delightful devotional for the 8- to 12-year-old boys in your life features a truth-filled devotional reading for morning and a comforting, heartfelt prayer for evening, alongside a related scripture selection. Every day of the year, boys will discover relatable truths, peace, and wisdom from God’s Word as they read about topics important to them–like choices, prayer, kindness, courage, love, honor, and so much more. And each reading takes only about 3 minutes! Boys will be encouraged to spend daily quiet time in the heavenly Father’s presence as they come to know and understand that His amazing love has no beginning and no ending
Your Damage Does Not Define You
Underneath our designer clothes, makeup, jewelry, and photo filters are cracks left by abuse, mistakes, rejection, and disappointment. Bestselling author and pastor Michael Todd reveals his own damage: the hits he’s experienced from trauma, dumb choices, and lingering struggles passed down through generations. Using candid stories, engaging illustrations, and biblical wisdom, he encourages readers to be H.O.T.—humble, open, and transparent—and face the pain of past hits to move toward the triumphant future God has for them.
Damaged but Not Destroyed will give you tools to identify the impact of your damage, see yourself the way God sees you, and realize that healing is all about progression, not perfection.
No matter how badly you’ve messed up, and no matter the pain you’ve experienced, nothing can destroy the God-given value of your life. It’s time to turn your damage into destiny! You may be damaged, but you are not destroyed.
The Value Is Still in You
Life has knocked you down—more than once. Your own mistakes have taken you down too, or at least made it harder to get up. But there’s good news: God is not done with you yet.
As someone who’s experienced significant challenges himself, Pastor Michael Todd understands that painful things done to us and stupid things we’ve done to ourselves can make us feel worthless. And he’s here to tell you that it’s time to stop letting your pain, fear, and regret define you.
With candid teaching and in-depth Bible study, this chapter-by-chapter companion guide to Damaged but Not Destroyed offers insightful questions, powerful exercises, and thoughtful reflections to help you see just how valuable you are.
Whether you are recovering from trauma, reeling from your own mistakes, or wondering how to reclaim your identity in the midst of current challenges, you can start your journey toward healing right here.
Thomas and Tasmin, twin siblings hired to oversee a wedding feast in Cana, worry when the host runs out of wine . . . until a guest tells Tasmin to have the servants fill the pitchers by the gate with water from the cistern. Reluctantly, she obeys and is amazed when rainwater turns into the finest wine ever tasted in Cana.
When Thomas impulsively decides to follow the teacher from Nazareth, he and Tasmin argue–since the twins have been together since the womb, Tasmin can’t accept losing her brother to some magician-prophet. Aided by Jude, younger brother to Jesus of Nazareth, she decides to follow the Nazarene’s group and do whatever she must to mend the fractured relationship and bring her brother home.
In the midst of her darkest days, Bunmi began writing down her deepest fears, hopes, dreams, and frustrations with God in the form of letters. The result of Bunmi’s soul-searching journey is Dear God, a collection of funny, heartbreaking, and deeply insightful prayers that put words to the emotions we all feel as we grapple with this broken world and search for divine love.
With the same gutsy and poetic honesty that has already charmed readers around the world, Bunmi now shares these moving, intimate conversations with God–prayers and poems that chart her story of reconnecting with the God she loved, lost, and found once again.
Dear God catalogs what we’re all thinking as we work out our personal relationships with God. These candid field notes will stir your heart and make you laugh out loud with Bunmi’s self-awareness and profound insight into the spiritual journeys we’re all doing our best to navigate.
Join Bunmi as she travels through those all-too-familiar emotions–doubt, anger, joy, desperation, love, loneliness, and gratefulness–that humanity has always wrestled with. Wittily fresh and stunningly relatable, she exquisitely shares the painfully honest questions she’s asked along the way, including:
– God, what is holiness?
– God, how can it be worth it to love life when it could slip away at any moment?
– God, what do I do when forgiveness feels impossible?
– God, I know you love me, but do you like me?
This poignant collection of prayers is a timely reminder that even when we wander, God never leaves our side.
Popular pastor and acclaimed author Van Moody reveals the secret to a fulfilling, life-sustaining relationship with God: a deep understanding of just how much He loves us.
We were made to be in relationship with God, wired to love and be loved by Him. We feel truly whole and complete only when we have a vital, passionate relationship with Him. And that relationship can occur only with a deep understanding of who God is and how much He loves us.
As the story of the Bible makes clear, God’s earnest love for His people is continually given and rejected. To understand how God can keep pursuing us like this, we must see Him as He is: overflowing with desire for, and relentlessly in pursuit of, His people. Desired by God gives a refreshing, eye-opening picture of this God, who wants with all His heart for us to know Him. And when we see Him clearly and fall in love with Him, we will find ourselves more grounded, satisfied, and cared for than we ever dreamed possible.
What if you died without realizing your life’s true purpose or tapping into your great potential?
Christian statesman, bestselling author, and dynamic teacher, Dr. Myles Munroe was renowned for His ability to guide individuals on a biblical road of self-discovery, helping them tap into the wealth of their God-given potential to achieve their divine purpose. Dr. Munroe can take you on this same, crucial journey.
In Discover the Hidden You, you will learn to…
– Recognize the limitless capacity of your potential in Christ.
– Discover the keys to flourishing.
– Overcome the odds stacked against you.
– Press past the fear of failure.
– See and achieve your destiny.
It’s time to discover why you were born, realize what you can do, and break every barrier that threatens to limit your God-given purpose. What are you waiting for? Unleash your potential today!
This trusted spiritual gifts resource has been helping individuals and congregations learn about their unique giftings for generations. Discover Your Spiritual Gifts is the perfect volume for personal study. By using the included questionnaire, you will first be able to identify the unique gifts God has given you.
This book will then help you understand what each gift means and how it works, show you biblical and modern-day examples of others who share those gifts, and reveal how you can use yours to better serve God and others.
Go deep with God. . .
by studying His Word!
Kids have a natural enthusiasm and passion to learn, so give them the tools they need to go deep with God. This personal journal provides space for you to capture insights from your own times in God’s Word.
Each page includes simple prompts such as
• Who are your top 3 Bible characters? Why?
What is your favorite Bible story? What’s so special about it?
• Find an important verse to memorize, and write it here: ______ Now, memorize it!
And there’s plenty of space for kids to write down what they’re learning and feeling.
Created especially for 8–12-year-olds, this notebook could be the beginning of a lifelong journey of discovery. You want to go deep with God—dive into His Word!
Every day we make choices. And those choices accumulate and eventually become our life story. What would your life look like if you became an expert at making those choices?
In this inspiring guidebook, New York Times bestselling author Craig Groeschel shows how the choices that are in your power, if aligned with biblical principles, will lead to a life you’ve never imagined.
Divine Direction will help you seek wisdom through seven principles. You’ll consider:
-One thing to stop that’s hindering you
-How to start a new habit to re-direct your path
-Where you should stay committed
-And when you should go even if it’s easier to stay
The book also includes criteria that will help you feel confident in the right choice, and encourages you with principles for trusting God with your decisions.
What story do you want to tell about yourself? God is dedicated to the wonderful plan he’s laid out for you. The achievable and powerful steps in Divine Direction take you there one step at a time, big or small.
Fear is the devil’s favorite tool in the toolbox of schemes he uses to destroy God’s good plan for you. He uses it to hold you back and prevent progress in your relationships, career, and more.
In Do It Afraid, Joyce Meyer explains that fear is everywhere and affects everyone. It rules many people, but it doesn’t have to rule you any longer. She will teach you how to:
-Understand fear and recognize how it works in your life.
-Confront those fears that are holding you back.
-Change your mindset for lasting freedom from some of the most common fears people face.
Remember, courage isn’t the absence of fear; it is learning how to move forward in the presence of fear. Courageous people do what they believe in their hearts they should do, no matter how they feel or what doubts fill their minds. When you take ownership of your problems and open your heart to God, He will help bring light into darkness so that you can be free.
#1 New York Times bestselling author Bishop Jakes has been speaking in front of audiences large and small for decades, and over the years, he has learned a thing or two about communicating with audiences.
Now, for the first time ever, Bishop Jakes shares his wisdom and skills he’s learned to help readers communicate better themselves. Whether you are preparing to speak on stage before thousands or present at the next budget meeting, preach a sermon or deliver a diagnosis, this book is full of practical advice and solutions to help you get your message across.
Readers will learn:
– The process Bishop Jakes uses to create his sermons, which connect with hundreds of thousands each week
– How to tailor you message for your intended audience
– The importance of body language
– How to be ready to make every opportunity count
– When and how to use silence to speak for you
– Why how you present yourself matters
Drawing lessons from Scripture and his own life, Jakes gives career advice for those who have or want to grow into a speaking career, but he also provides clear direction and insight for everyone who gives presentations, writes emails, or talks to other people in their job or home life.
In this book, Bishop Jakes gives you tools and skills so that you can communicate better.
Popular speaker and New York Times bestselling author of Woman Evolve, Sarah Jakes Roberts shows women they are not disqualified by their pain and failures and offers encouragement and strength to believe God’s best is still possible.
Everyone has experiences in their lives that stop them in their tracks and become burdens they carry with them everywhere they go. No one knows this better than Sarah Jakes Roberts.
Pregnant at fourteen, married by nineteen, divorced by twenty-two, and all while under the intense spotlight of being Bishop T.D. Jakes’s daughter, Sarah knows what it is to feel buried by failure and aching pain.
But when her journey brought her to faith’s fork in the road, Sarah found she had to choose between staying in the comfort of the pain she knew or daring to make new wounds and move forward.
Now Sarah shares the numerous life lessons she’s learned along the way with other women also struggling to believe they’re not disqualified by their pain and past mistakes. She delves into topics such as allowing the past to empower the present, choosing to step forward while still being afraid, facing struggles in the midst of community, finding intimacy with God outside of preconceived notions of what it should look like, and learning to focus on others.
In Don’t Settle for Safe, Sarah will help you:
– View your history with positivity
– Demolish destructive patterns
– Connect with true intimacy
– Repurpose your passion into to your purpose
– Realize your true calling
With deeply personal stories of her own, Sarah helps readers find their way to the right perspective and the confidence to walk toward the best God has for them.
In Dream Big, bestselling author Bob Goff taught the foundational importance of
• clearly defining our dreams and ourselves;
• identifying the obstacles holding us back;
• devising specific plans for reaching goals; and
• developing the tools that will help us act on the plan.
But let’s be honest: can we really commit all of that to memory? How can we possibly clear our head space for the next big dream and the next? Bob knows this work is too important to risk having our thoughts, fears, inspirations, and strategies go off leash like a runaway dog. We need help wrangling all the wild and exciting dreams we have for our lives.
Reinforcing important themes and facets of the Dream Big Framework that lead to more clarity, courage, and blessings—every week of the year—the Dream Big Journal offers prompts, reminders, inspirations, and introspective questions excerpted from Dream Big. It empowers each of us to take our most cherished revelations about where we want to go, why, and what to do next with us as we go about our days, helping us stay motivated, focused, enthusiastic, and in close touch with what God has planned for us.
In a difficult, uncertain time, it takes a person of great courage, such as the Dalai Lama, to give us hope. Regardless of the violence and cynicism we see on television and read about in the news, there is an argument to be made for basic human goodness. The number of people who spend their lives engaged in violence and dishonesty is tiny compared to the vast majority who would wish others only well. According to the Dalai Lama, our survival has depended and will continue to depend on our basic goodness. Ethics for the New Millennium presents a moral system based on universal rather than religious principles. Its ultimate goal is happiness for every individual, irrespective of religious beliefs. Though he himself a practicing Buddhist, the Dalai Lama’s teachings and the moral compass that guides him can lead each and every one of us—Muslim, Christian, Jew, Buddhist, or atheist—to a happier, more fulfilling life.
