Spiritual Care

You see, growing spiritually at rapid speeds doesn’t have to be difficult, even if you’ve consumed every other mindfulness book and YouTube videos already. In fact, it’s easier than you think. It’s time to boost your spiritual connection into the stratosphere! Take a second to imagine how you’ll feel once you’re able to take that brave step and say “That’s enough!” to anything or anyone preventing you from reaching your fullest potential.

You keep hoping and believing in faith that your circumstances are going to shift, but the longer time goes on and you don’t see your circumstances change, the more it builds, until finally, it bursts out of you: ”God, don’t you care?” If you’re in the middle of the storm right now, this book is for you. It won’t patronize your pain or give you all the cliche answers. You don’t need to feel ashamed of your questions, but instead you can walk through the steps of how to navigate the pain of struggle from a biblical perspective.

God created us with divinely sophisticated tools and features, but most of us aren’t using them. The result is an inner worth we aren’t aware of, and a life unknowingly lived at half capacity. Neighbor, Love Yourself launches an internal expedition to uncover hidden features installed long ago. Our inner worth isn’t rusty, just dusty. As we locate and reconnect vital principles and truths, we will unearth a value inside ourselves that most of us have never come anywhere close to experiencing.

Many Americans balk at the idea of setting aside a whole day for worship, rest, and time with those who matter most to them. Yet we long for more time to spend on what matters most—unrushed time to rest, reconnect with friends and loved ones, and deepen our relationship with God. An ancient spiritual practice exists that can help restore balance to our lives: the practice of keeping sabbath. But how exactly do we manage to build time for sabbath into our busy lives? Dana Trent explores this question in For Sabbath's Sake.

What if something as simple as listening to song prayers could facilitate personal transformation in ways that bolstered your resilience thereby augmenting your emotional well-being? This is what my doctoral research found by documenting the experiences of four women veterans who listened to song prayers with regularity, repetition, intentionality, and reflection. Listening to song prayers as a private spiritual discipline opens up a liminal space between the physical and spiritual realms where God responds with His interaction.

Christine Wagoner, a senior leader with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, invites listeners to be attentive to the movements of the spirit and engage with opportunities God gives them. She shares about her own yes moments as well as those of others. And she offers practical tools for moving toward yes. There is a significant journey that gets us from no to yes. It is a profound journey of heart, soul, and mind. A journey filled with risk, excitement, pain, and joy. A journey of growing our character and knowing God intimately.

How we hold and carry memories—good and bad—is a part of what forms us spiritually. In this way we have a common bond with the people of Scripture who also had a sensory life, gathering shells and trying to make sense of them. Previously titled As I Recall, Casey Tygrett's writing in The Practice of Remembering explores the power of memory and offers biblical texts and practices to guide us in bringing our memories to God for spiritual transformation.

In The Gift of Love, Amy Clipston shares her story of almost losing the love of her life to kidney disease and the ultimate sacrifice that kept their family together. An ordinary woman who cherishes family above all else, Amy was challenged in every way - from her strength of character to the depths of her faith to the close-knit family that surrounds her. Enduring the good, the bad, and the really bad, she was determined to help her husband once again be the husband and father their family needed.

¿Quieres aprender a quererte a ti misma y a conectar contigo como nunca antes lo habías hecho? Entonces este es el libro para ti.¿Quién eres? ¿Cuáles son tus valores? ¿Cómo podrías comenzar a conectar contigo misma…con tu verdadera esencia y universal? Estas son preguntas con las que tantas mujeres en todo el mundo luchan constantemente y, a pesar de que se habla tanto de descubrir quiénes somos, parece como si las respuestas estuvieran todavía muy lejos de nuestro alcance.

Amanda always had a thirst for adventure. Perhaps it stemmed from growing up without electricity and running water, in the middle of a natural wonderland. Along came Cocoa, her family’s new dog, and the two became the best of friends as they shared a love of the wild surroundings. But Amanda felt like there was something missing, something “more” she had to discover, and gets the push necessary to find it in Australia.

In this spiritual memoir, a white woman in an interracial marriage and mixed-race family paints a beautiful path from white privilege toward racial healing, from ignorance toward seeing the image of God in everyone she meets.

Does failure, or feelings of failure, affect you to the point where you find it hard to move on? Do you avoid situations where you might fail or find it difficult to confront failure? Caris Grimes takes a frank, no-nonsense look at different aspects of failure and what we can learn from them. Using examples from the apparent failures within the ministry of Jesus and other Biblical stories together with academic research, Caris helps us to understand how God uses failure and what we can learn from failure in our personal lives and workplaces.

Is the path ahead unclear? Does life feel uncertain and full of worry and anxiety? Country Soul is filled with Scripture, stories, takeaways, and encouragement that will get your faith moving. Like many of us, Cara Whitney and her husband, Dan (Larry the Cable Guy), have experienced mountaintops and valleys in life. The good news they discovered along the way is that we don't have to go it alone. God's word guides our steps, leading us through the ups and downs of our faith journey.

Horses nuzzle their way into our hearts and have a way of teaching us a lot about ourselves, about life, and even about God. Explore the timeless wisdom of God's word through this beautiful horse devotional from horse enthusiast Cara Whitney. Through years spent working with these majestic animals, Whitney has learned countless spiritual lessons that have brought her closer to God.

In the midst of uncertain and sometimes frightening times, sharing God's love with others gives us hope and purpose. With her humorous and often touching stories - many featuring horses, cows, and rascally dogs - Cara Whitney delightfully reminds us that it's always a good time to share the love of Jesus with your neighbor. In Fields of Grace, Cara passes on lessons from her amazing animal teachers.

As a police officer, Brandon Wainwright has seen a lot in his 10-plus years on the force, but nothing so strange or life-changing as the spiritual awakening he experienced when his dog, a precocious Chihuahua named Tyson, passed away...and then began communicating from the other side. Once a hard-nosed skeptic, Brandon found himself thrust into unfamiliar territory, consulting with spiritual intuitives and pet communicators in an effort to uncover the truth about the afterlife.

Stephen B. Kellough explores 10 critical truths and the habits that typically make or break a student’s spiritual life in college. Whether you are heading off to college, ministering to college students, or are the parent of a college-aged kid, Walking with Jesus on Campus will help you better understand how to tackle what lies ahead.

You have to be the biggest and best to stand out. At least, that's what our culture seems to believe. However, as psychologist Dr. Leia Hughey points out, we are all special and deserving of love, even if we are nothing special. Through nonverbal communication with an ordinary horse, she and others were able to reveal unhealed psychic wounds and provide a context for change and transformation. Just people and horses. Nothing special, really, but what a difference it made!

Sumérgete en un fascinante recorrido por las Escrituras que revela la verdadera naturaleza de nuestro adversario espiritual. "Desenmascarando al Enemigo" es una obra maestra que combina la sabiduría de renombrados teólogos como Arthur W. Pink, David Martyn Lloyd-Jones y Charles Spurgeon para desentrañar el misterio que rodea a Satanás. Desde el Jardín del Edén hasta el Lago de Fuego, este libro te guiará a través de las estrategias del maligno y te equipará con poderosas armas espirituales para vencer sus artimañas.

Understanding more of God's character and how he loves us changed best-selling author Holley Gerth's life in beautiful, powerful ways. She realized she didn't have to settle for "I'm fine" when there was someone whispering to her in every moment, "You're mine." The hope, joy, peace, and purpose she longed for were already there, in the heart of God. Now, in 52 devotional readings, Holley shares with women the answer to the restlessness they feel in their hearts that keeps them hurrying, striving, and pushing.