Growth Day

Sometimes I Forget invites us to know God more intimately, so we can trust Him more deeply. Inspired by her own experiences of desperation, Julie weaves a prayer of lament and hope through sixty attributes of God. The simple prayers, real stories, and powerful reminders, offer comforting reassurance that God will be faithful in all He promises.

Our souls cry out for nourishment, but many times we look to the world for a satisfying answer. God is always speaking, even in the most unsuspecting ways, and desires to feed our souls with the never stale food of his word. D. T. Niles said, "Christianity is one beggar telling another beggar where he found bread." So from one beggar to another, here is some bread for the day!

Greg Murtha's high-achiever life didn't go as planned. Not even close. Cancer interrupted it. Following Jesus in the unexpected led Greg to life-giving exploits, and he wants the same for you. Because lots of things interrupt our well-planned lives. Out of the Blue will help you embrace interruption as adventure, rather than adversity. It will lead you to the exhilarating bigger story God's story and your unexpected role in it.

Out of Oblivion is an easy, practical book that offers a transformative path towards discovering the power of intimacy with God and the freedom and authority that comes through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. The book includes various Bible translations, reflection questions, and practical exercises to help you connect with God and experience His presence intimately.

Share My Pleasant Stones offers personal insights and practical guidelines for expanding one's relationship with Jesus Christ through daily listening and meditation. Each entry - one for every day of the year - is headed by a quotation from the Bible and followed by notes the author has written in the margins of her own Bible over the years. It is, perhaps, Eugenia Price's most personal book. First published in 1957, and now reissued with a new preface by the author, Share My Pleasant Stones is a book Eugenia Price's listeners will want to play every day.

This book explores how the divine shows itself in our lives, and how our everyday lives are filled with that presence. You'll discover the divine in things that are delightful, when we suffer and fail and have to try again, and when our plans unfold effortlessly or come to an abrupt standstill. Presence will also take you into the world of words and story, as we seek to unravel the amazing symbolism in language. It is for those who doubt their faith but are still open to seek more. This beautiful book connects your regular, everyday life with the divine.

If you feel like your digital life could use a reset, you are not alone. Allie Marie Smith, life coach and author of Wonderfully Made, has walked this road and found freedom and a more fulfilling life. In Social Media Reset, she invites you to pause for 30 days and seek restoration in your mind, heart, body, and soul. Through the process of disconnecting and experiencing a digital detox, you will open yourself up to the wholehearted life God has for you.

The Search for Rest is a 50-day devotional designed to help us adjust to God's ways. Each daily reading includes an inspirational quote, Bible passages to hear, an instructive lesson, questions for group use, and a practical peace step to help you apply the principles involved.

Best-selling author Beth Moore has an amazing gift for insightful Bible character studies. Millions have been drawn to her inspired lessons, and the media has called her "America's Bible teacher." The PERSONAL REFLECTIONS series reintroduces Beth's most beloved character-driven books, expanding them into 90-day experiences that include nearly all of the text from her original work, plus thoughtful questions and journal space to engage readers throughout this special time of study.

The greatest days of planet Earth are on the horizon. Contrary to popular belief, we actually have a bright future on planet Earth. Yes, there are plenty of challenges to tackle, no question. But history and the Bible tell a very different story. You may be surprised to learn how much the Earth has changed in the 2000 years since Jesus' birth — for the better!

Do you long to experience the joy and peace only found in knowing and loving our Lord? The Passion Code leads you to grow closer to God and to discover that the more you know him, the more you want to do his will. Take a 100-day journey with best-selling author O. S. Hawkins from Bethlehem, where we find God with us, then to Golgotha, where we find God for us, and finally to Pentecost, where we discover that God came to take up residence in our lives, God in us. Each entry features a Code Word that serves as a daily reminder of the devotional thought.

What if we truly belong to each other? What if we are all walking around shining like the sun? Mystic, monk, and activist Thomas Merton asked those questions in the twentieth century. Writer Sophfronia Scott is asking them today. In The Seeker and the Monk, Scott mines the extensive private journals of one of the most influential contemplative thinkers of the past for guidance on how to live in these fraught times. As a Black woman who is not Catholic, Scott both learns from and pushes back against Merton, holding spirited and intimate conversations on race, faith, and love.

One of the greatest modern writers on faith and spirituality, Walter Wangerin, Jr., is the author of more than 40 books and the recipient of the National Book Award. In Acts of the Almighty, Wangerin's deep biblical insight and poetic heart help us explore how the Bible fits together into one grand story. This 365-day devotional invites us to understand more fully God's redeeming works through five sections: Genesis and Exodus, David and Solomon, the prophets, the life of Christ, and the birth of the Church.

If you take a moment to think about all that God has told each believer to do, it is almost overwhelming: Go into all the world and preach the gospel, feed the poor, clothe the naked, visit the prisoner and so much more. However, these "works" are to be an outpouring of our relationship with Christ, not a replacement of our devotion and time with him. That outpouring only comes through prayer.

Once again Eugenia Price offers inspiration and insight to the countless listeners who have shared her journey toward discovery through the years. In Another Day she leads her listeners through familiar and favorite passages from the Bible, quoting verses that have been most meaningful to her. For each there is a story of how she has applied these passages to her own life and how they can work for you as well.

Following a youth mission trip that reinforced his faith and taught him to hear God, Ed Carpenter spent years in business and building a family. Facing many challenges and struggles over time, it was the ability to hear God that guided his path to well-being and success. This book is designed to help listeners find truth, meaning, inner peace, and contentment by learning to establish and maintain an intimate connection with God.

Jesus' empowering leadership completely transformed the disciples from everyday men and women into revivalists who turned the world upside down. Today's revival needs the same kind of supernatural leadership! Whatever role you find yourself in, the fact is that you are called to be a leader to the people around you, through the power of the Holy Spirit. In Equipping the Saints, Paul and Susan Kummer share from their decades of experience as pastors and mentors, leading a culture that builds the Kingdom of God with signs, wonders, and miracles.

During the Son of God’s last three hours on the cross, the sun stopped shining and darkness covered the whole land. If Jesus, the light of the world, experienced darkness and distress, it should come as no surprise to his followers when they, too, find themselves in uneasy situations. He came out on top, and so can you!

"Where did you find God today?" This humble question from a pastor to his congregation inspired these touching stories of faith, hope, love, and grace. With a pastor's heart, a scholar's mind, and a poet's soul, Mike Milton invites you to journey through the common and the familiar to seek God's grace at work in everyday life.

In a culture built on consumption - especially of food - it is easy to forget the poor that Jesus cared so much about. We get caught up in acquiring, buying, eating. Yet paradoxically, the more stuff we consume, the more our spirits wither and starve. A Place at the Table invites you on a journey of self-examination, discipline, and renewed focus on Jesus that will change your life forever. Author Chris Seay is giving you a challenge: eat and drink like the poor for 40 days and donate the money you save on groceries to a charity or project that serves the poor in concrete ways.