Personal Spiritual Growth

In November 2004, Lora Jones was a happy wife and proud mother of two beautiful children. Lora and her family left for a family vacation, excited to celebrate the holidays, but sounds of music and laughter in their van were shattered by a head-on collision. Lora watched helplessly as, one-by-one, her beloved family slipped into eternity. Awake in a nightmare, all traces of laughter were replaced by the mournful cries of a wounded heart. How in the world could Lora go on alone? Song of a Wounded Heart tells the true story of Lora’s journey from death to hope.

Everyone is a storyteller, and stories can help us encounter God. Master storyteller Michael Williams uses poetry, personal narrative, and retellings of biblical stories to lead us to a deeper knowledge of the power of stories. Let Williams guide you to explore your life and the world around you, share your stories, and uncover signs of God’s presence. This book includes storytelling prompts.

Life be Life-ing! While adversity, losses and setbacks are unavoidable in this human experience, Take This L is a profoundly brilliant reminder to anyone at any stage of life experiencing an L that it's just a season, and this, too, shall pass. Through vivid testimonial storytelling, the author helps the listener understand how a new generation is able to find balance between the fragility naturally brought on by L's and the resilience eventually gained in coping with adversity and loss.

Perhaps you've had an encounter with God that powerfully impacted your life - where sin, addiction, spiritual dryness, or other struggles simply faded away. If such experiences are commonplace when revival is happening, then.... How can I experience revival every single day of my life? With guidance from the leaders of the Brownsville Revival and the Bay of the Holy Spirit Revival, you will ignite and sustain your passion for Jesus....

This book is a complete guide helping you unraveling the map of your personality and obtaining the ability of reading people, so that you can increase your impact in your family, in your workplace, in the society, and in your relationships. If you want to increase your self-awareness, discover your core identity, start a journey of personal and spiritual growth, build healthy relationships, and empower your skills, then this book is for you.

We’re not good at living with tension. It’s uncomfortable. It feels unsafe. The moment a friend, spouse, business, or political movement disagrees with us, we flee to the safety of like-minded thinkers, and dehumanize and attack anyone who thinks differently. No one wins. And if someone dares question our particular stance, we demonize them. This is killing us - families, friendships, civility, and discourse. It kills our chance to hear and be heard. We must step out of our bunkers and step into no-man’s-land....

Sometimes you just get stuck. You can't move forward in life. No amount of education, money, love, or discipline has changed the fact that you have plateaued. What else could be holding you back? Becoming Unstuck explores how the first four relationships in our lives affect our ability to make choices in adulthood. Often, our automatic responses—shaped by these past relationships—hamper our decision-making ability. Our emotions get stuck in time. The tools we use to handle life don't seem to work any more. Our relationships, workplace, and sense of self all suffer.

In Hustling God, Craig Barnes invites hard-running, stressed-out, burned-out people to simply stop. Stop running—long enough to realize we’re lost. Stop—and encounter the God who has climbed down the ladder from heaven to earth to find us. Stop—so we can at last receive all the blessing that, in Jesus Christ, God was dying to give us.

Many people live way below their potential because they are plagued by a defeatist mindset arising from feelings of inadequacy, the fear of failure, and reliance on others' perceptions of them, among other reasons. Overcoming the defeatist attitude explores the detrimental effects of this mindset and provides practical strategies for conquering it. Using biblical references and relatable examples, Yubbie shares anecdotes and insights into how negative thought patterns can hinder personal growth and fulfillment.

After her brother died unexpectedly and her mother moved into a dementia-care facility, spiritual travel writer and Episcopal deacon Lori Erickson felt called to a new quest: to face death head-on, with the eye of a tourist and the heart of a pastor. Blending memoir, spirituality, and travel, Near the Exit examines how cultures confront and have confronted death by investigating Egypt's Valley of the Kings, Mayan temples, Colorado cremation pyres, Day of the Dead celebrations, Maori settlements, and tourist-destination graveyards.

Authentic Beauty is a personal and practical book about becoming a set-apart young woman in today’s perverse generation. It explores the boundless opportunities God has for the life of a young woman who makes Christ the first love of her heart and allows him to shape every aspect of her existence.

La respiración es el vínculo sagrado que nos conecta directamente con lo divino. A través de cada inhalación y exhalación, experimentamos el aliento de vida que Dios nos ha dado, llenando nuestros pulmones de vitalidad y renovando nuestra existencia. Es un acto divino que trasciende lo físico y nos sumerge en una realidad espiritual profunda. Cuando inhalamos, recibimos el aliento de Dios, su esencia misma que fluye a través de nosotros. En ese momento, somos conscientes de que somos seres creados a su imagen y semejanza, y que dentro de nosotros albergamos su divinidad.

In our fast-paced world, Finding Flourishing redefines wellbeing as an accessible daily pursuit, even for the busiest among us. Naomi Aidoo presents a practical and tangible approach to achieving wellbeing, one that doesn’t require adding yet another technique to your busy schedule. Instead, it enhances your day-to-day mentally, emotionally and spiritually.

What can I do to fulfill my purpose and become the fullness of what I am designed to be? ALIGNED: FLOURISHING IN A WORLD OF CHOICE helps you answer this question with principles drawn from two guides for flourishing written by the same author: DNA, the guide for biological life, and Genesis 1, the guide for comprehensive human flourishing. Both point to the same four basic types of activities that foster flourishing in our lives and in the world around us.

Whole Health can be achieved! Healing Bipolar and Depression, the 2nd Edition is the inspiring story of God’s grace and healing upon the life of Suzy Hoseus. There is no quick-fix method to gaining Whole Health. This book is about making life-giving choices and learning to live life the way God intended it to be lived—filled with love, joy, and dependence on Him.

This is a book that focuses primarily on Black Woman being Queen, essentially focusing on the importance of Self-care and Self Love as a vital component to a happy and more fulfilled life. This book is essentially focused on encouraging self-acceptance and reinforcing that we should embrace who we are in the Eyes of the creator while encouraging us to take a vital role in our wellness which includes the holy trinity of the Mind, Body, and Soul.

Paul said, "Don't copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God's will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect." Romans 12:2 (NLT). Throughout the Bible, in particular the New Testament, we are instructed over and over to change how we think, not change how we act. In fact, Jesus cautioned against acting righteous and instead implored us to focus on our heart (our mind). But how do you change your thinking?

The purpose of this book is to inform you that you have purposefully been sent here to make the world a better place. You have been sent here to add beauty, color, hope, help, and encouragement to society. If you take one piece away from a thousand-piece jigsaw puzzle, the puzzle will be incomplete.

This book is a fundamental study guide for learning in rehabilitation centers and contains all the necessary steps for healing, as well as a pathway map for everyone who wishes to fulfill their calling on earth, taking with them to eternity to the wedding feast of the Lamb of God, Messiah, the Bridegroom, Jesus Christ with His Bride, Ecclesia and everyone who is saved on their way. It reveals the deep causes of the wounds in human hearts, which is there as a result of the absence of what God originally intended to give to a person through parental love.

Drawing from gospel principles supported by examples across time, genre, and culture, author Susie McGann teaches how to expand your vision for what is possible, increase your impact on your current circumstances, and strengthen your relationship with Christ to take your results from good to great. In You on Purpose, learn how to take life by the horns and let yourself be great unashamedly.