Inspirational Study Bible

God Won't Leave You There is a powerful reminder that God has a plan for your life, even when things are tough and seem hopeless. Drawing from the story of Joseph, rediscover how God can lift you from your pit to fulfill a glorious purpose, convert your struggles into strength, and lead you...

Creating the first truly global Bible for children of all nationalities, Desmond Tutu retells more than 50 of his most beloved Bible stories in Children of God Storybook Bible. Many of the finest artists from around the world - such as Jago, E.B. Lewis, Javaka Steptoe, and Xiao Xin - have illustrated these favorite Bible stories from Desmond Tutu, connecting Scripture with the multitude of ethnicities across the globe.

Joan, Tisha, and Lila are three single, ambitious party girls embarking on a journey where they attempt to give up sex and draw nearer to God. Giving up their boyfriends and club hopping for empty beds and Bible study is more challenging than they could have imagined. The Single Sister Experiment is a fast-paced, drama-filled ride that you don’t want to miss!

From Jude 3 Project founder and apologist Lisa Victoria Fields comes a compassionate and insightful guide to healing, rebuilding trust, and renewing faith after our spiritual heroes fall to sin. Our faith is built by the people around us—our parents, coaches, leaders, and pastors. We look up...

How do we learn life lessons from a grumpy penny-pincher so unpleasant that dogs run from him on sight? Does Scripture suggest we all have a touch of Scrooge in us? Can we all benefit from reexamining who we've become in our own life stories? Bestselling author Bob Welch invites us to discover...

Thirty short-yet-powerful morning and evening reflections offer encouragement, hope, and inspiration to people dealing with a life-threatening illness, and to their family members and caretakers. Here are honest insights and personal stories from a pastor who continues his own journey with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), often referred to as "Lou Gehrig's disease".

Does God know the future? Or is the future unknowable to even God? Open theists believe the search for biblical answers will spark a new Revolution. Are they right? Arguing that God interacts with his creatures spontaneously, the controversial new movement known as “open theism” has called...

What Does It Take to Be a Godly Man? In this six-session study, NFL All-Pro and sports analyst Tim Brown teaches men the principles and priorities for leading a life that honors God. He addresses what is true manhood, how guys attain it, and how they should live with honor and integrity—two...

You can say good-bye to the person you've been pretending to be! Life is often messy. God makes provision to help us move beyond our messes. Oftentimes our first instincts are to hide, deny, ignore, or run. In Move On best-selling author Vicki Courtney helps readers come clean with their...

Why is it so important to know the One who knows all about you? The answer is simple: When you come to a point where you understand his ways, your life takes on new meaning. Most people know a little something about God, but their knowledge of who he is and how he works stops just past the point of an initial introduction. In Step with God, pastor and author Charles F. Stanley offers simple, clear teaching that answers questions such as: What is God like?

From intellectual historian Carl Trueman, an argument that a rejection of Christian anthropology drives the social ills of our time. As church attendance falls, suicide rates climb, and birth rates plummet, Christian pundits have suggested disenchantment and the loss of tradition are to blame...

Reading the Old Testament doesn't need to be a difficult journey through strange and bewildering territory. How to Read the Old Testament Book by Book walks you through the Scriptures like an experienced tour guide, helping you understand each of its thirty-nine books. For each book of the Old...

Reading the New Testament doesn't need to be a difficult journey through strange and bewildering territory. How to Read the New Testament Book by Book walks you through the Scriptures like an experienced tour guide, helping you understand each of its twenty-seven books. For each book of the New...

Six verses are among the most comforting in all Scripture. Psalm 23 is the basis for this classic book from 1921. Filled with poems and stories, this should leave each listener with assurance and comfort. There's more to these six verses than you might have believed.

If we pay attention to the alarms in our lives, they could save us. Worry. Anger. Loneliness. Negative emotions are uncomfortable by design. Like any good fire alarm, they alert us to a greater danger. But they won’t help us if we try to cover them up, hide them behind excuses, or assume they...

How does a man pick up the pieces when his world crashes around him? Misplaced priorities shattered his marriage. Problems almost crushed him. Love motivated him to mend the damage, once he found all the pieces. After only a few months of marriage, Lorraine left Dylan on a wintry night after he'd spent one too many nights out with the guys. Unable to cope with the loss, Dylan escapes the painful feelings by drinking them away.

Is your life limited by labels the world and other people have used to define you? Labels you have internalized and apply to yourself every day. Labels like Afraid. Or Addict. Orphan. Damaged Goods. Failure. Maybe even Religious. These labels might be sewn into your life with such tight little...

“I just can’t ever seem to shut off my brain and rest.” It's easy to feel paralyzed by uncertainty. We want our questions answered, our decisions affirmed, and our plans applauded. But life doesn't come with an instruction manual and rarely follows a straight path. How would your life...

Jacob and Solomon were polygamists. Tamar and Rahab were prostitutes. What are polygamists and prostitutes doing on the pages of Holy Scripture? And God told the prophet Hosea to marry a prostitute. What about Cain—did he really marry his sister? Abraham did, and he was also a polygamist. Lot...

We all have a desperate need for God--not just for following him or being committed to him, but to be intimately connected to him. We long for purpose, for affirmation, for attention, for nurture. But Gari Meacham writes that we fall short of being desperate for God, or we miss the longed-for...