Curt Thompson
Counseling, Grief & Mental Health
“To be human is to be anxious. It is not a question of if, but in what way are we anxious and how we respond to it. Never before have we been more acquainted with all that is true about this; never before have we been more worried about our worry. But thanks be to God, for our good fortune, into our moment comes A Non-Anxious Life, Alan Fadling's superlative offering on what it means to live in the world, practicing becoming the people that Jesus imagines us to become. Vulnerable, accessible, and practical, this volume is timely and filled with great wisdom. Read it and learn to become anxious for nothing, on the way to becoming an outpost of peace in all your life's endeavors.”
Marriage, Family & Relationships
“With An Impossible Marriage, Laurie and Matt Krieg have offered us a living, redemptive sacrifice—a story of durable hard work, and a story of beauty, goodness, and joy that emerges out of trauma, and shame and grief as all the best stories do. In a world of diminished, atrophied imagination, our authors invite us to risk our hearts, re-imagining not merely marriage but all of life as it can be in this present age and as it will be in the age to come. Read this book, practice what you read, and become the love of our triune God.”
Counseling, Grief & Mental Health
“Before we can realize an integrated life—a flourishing life—we must imagine it. We live in a world that often feels drained of the capacity as individuals, let alone as a culture, to imagine the life of an undivided heart, of an integrated soul. Into this world Miller and Cook step—nimbly, generously, and with great kindness. With Boundaries for Your Soul they offer us a wellspring of desperately longed-for imagery and actions that provide the opportunity for real change in real time and space. For all of those parts of us that have been waiting our entire lives to hear the call to come home and take their proper place and purpose of healing, wholeness, and creativity, I cannot think of a better place to start.”
Christian Living
“To become durable—to develop resilience—is to live into the infinite depth of eternity that God has set in our hearts. It is with this vision of the ever-deepening, eternal kingdom of God in her sights that Rebekah Lyons has provided us a wise, accessible offering that leads us not merely to survive but to flourish. Read this expectantly and with hope, but not without the willingness to do the necessary work that God longs to join us in as we become what God imagined before the foundation of the world.”
Counseling, Grief & Mental Health
“When I feel lost in the forest of life’s emotional upheavals and confusion, I’d settle to have a map that would help me gather my bearings and point me in the direction of home. But even more so, I would love to have a guide that is not only familiar with the map but knows the forest without even needing it—and will walk with me to keep me from getting lost again. With I Shouldn’t Feel This Way we have our map, and in Alison Cook we have our guide. For those whose hearts are looking for the way home while making sense of the journey along the way, I can think of no better place to start.”
Children & Youth
“As the wise ancients have made clear, prayer is not part of life; it is life. But to pray—to live with God in the world as God lives and to be formed in the image of our older brother Jesus—necessarily requires the marshaling of our imagination. And it is our imagination that leads to the neuroplastic change—flexible alterations in our neuron firing patterns—to which St. Paul was referring when speaking of the renewal of our minds. With Imaginative Prayer, Jared Boyd has given us a treasure that reveals not only what children need to flourish in their spiritual formation but, even more, what we adults need—we who are woefully undernourished in the practice of truly, robustly imagining God living with us. If the deeper, more joyful, more resilient life is what you seek for your children (and for yourself), then look no further to find what perhaps has been just beyond your imagination but now expectantly awaits your discovery of it.”
Christian Living
“Nothing separates humans from other creatures quite so much as the fact that, at our core, we are storytellers. No wonder, then, that the anguish of our present age reflects the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves—the stories in which we believe we are living. What are we to do? In God’s great mercy, in Adam Young we have a herald who comes to us with humility, vulnerability, and deep wisdom. And with Make Sense of Your Story, he offers us a gift that is a beautiful story itself, one that invites us to tell our own stories more truly—despite how difficult it may be to do so—by listening to and becoming part of the story God has been telling each of us from the beginning. If a story of greater beauty and goodness is one in which you long to live, by all means, read this book.”
Bible Studies & Devotionals
“Indeed, there is no room. No room at the inn. No room in my soul. No room left in our world for God, given how much space is taken up by the traumas of our lives. But be of good cheer. For surely, Bette Dickinson has delivered unto us an offering of such beauty and goodness that we cannot help but allow it as much room as possible. With Making Room in Advent, our artist and guide creates images in color and word that open our eyes and hearts to the new creation that God longs for us to become. If spaciousness for God and the flourishing he promises is what you desire, I cannot think of a better place to start.”
Children & Youth
“We can't give what we don't have. No one knows this—nor fears this—more than parents. Thankfully, with Not Finished Yet, Sharon Garlough Brown and Jessica Linn Evans have offered us a gift that provides as much for us parents as it does for our children. It is a gift that our children—and as it turns out, we adults—so desperately need. For indeed, we each need to be invited to name all that we feel in the presence of the God who is longing to hear it—and be lovingly transformed as we do. Read this story to your children. Read this story to yourself. And when you do, allow yourself to be captivated by the God who is in the business of creating beauty and goodness in the places we might least expect to find it.”
Christian Living
“made to become our true selves—an enterprise to which evil is violently opposed. To become ourselves, therefore, is the hardest task put before us. But thanks be to God, with Ken Shigematsu’s Now I Become Myself we have a field guide of the first rank to assist us on our journey in becoming real human beings. With this book, we have so much more than a map for the road, for indeed our author knows well the road himself, and with his offering he is not merely telling us what to do—he is showing us how. If becoming yourself is what you long for, look no further to begin, and allow what you hold in your hands to inspire you to do the work required to become what you have not heretofore imagined.”
Counseling, Grief & Mental Health
“To be human is to suffer. And to suffer is, in its essence, to continually bear our pain in isolation with no imagined future in which our pain will cease. With On Getting Out of Bed, Alan Noble enters with us into our suffering—but not suffering as an abstraction. Rather, suffering as the fully embodied thing that it is, occupying as it does every single one of us. Most importantly, our guide does not simply come in and sit with us. He speaks—by his own authoritative experience—of away not so much to rid ourselves of our suffering but to open ourselves to God and each other in its midst, so that we may be transformed. Read this book and find that this is so. Live this book and witness your own transformed life being the conduit by which God transforms the lives of those around you.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Dudiak delivers wisdom that startlingly overtakes us . . . and kindness, the depth of which in many respects is the very vehicle that carries it so compellingly. . . . Our author has tossed our world, drowning as we are in the deep end of the pool of late and postmodernity, a life vest that, should we dare to put it on, will not simply keep us from dying. It will teach us to live.”
Raising Wise Kids in a Sexually Broken World
Marriage, Family & Relationships
“With wisdom, humility, gentleness, and the proper confidence of those who knows their subject and the fraught landscape it can sometimes bring, Laurie and Matt Krieg have, with Raising Wise Kids in a Sexually Broken World, offered their readers a book that we ought not simply read. Rather, we would do well to meditate upon it, carefully and with the same humility with which it has been penned. For all of us who long for our offspring to joyfully follow Jesus, this is a book that is no mere manual about children and sexuality; it is an invitation to partnering with God as he forms them into the image of the King.”
Prayer & Spiritual Formation
“I have been waiting for this book for a long time. With Relational Spirituality, Todd Hall and Elizabeth Hall have, with erudition and mercy, given us a masterpiece that not only tells us who we are but also points us in the direction of who we long to become. Broad in its scope, prophetic in its conviction, beautifully imaginative in its synthesis of multiple domains of human experience, and accessible in its application, this is sure to become a wellspring of hope and transformation—one that could not come at a more timely moment.”
Resilient Life Journal and Planner
Christian Living
“To become durable—to develop resilience—is to live into the infinite depth of eternity that God has set in our hearts. It is with this vision of the ever-deepening, eternal kingdom of God in her sights that Rebekah Lyons has provided us a wise, accessible offering that leads us not merely to survive but to flourish. Read this expectantly and with hope, but not without the willingness to do the necessary work that God longs to join us in as we become what God imagined before the foundation of the world.”
Rhythms for Life Planner and Journal
Christian Living
“We humans have short memories. In our haste, we forget that we have been created as rhythmic beings, reflecting our deep connection to the entire creation. We need to be reminded, and Rebekah Lyons has done just that. With Rhythms of Renewal, she draws our attention with kindness and clarity to those actions whose engagement will create the space and embodied encounters that Jesus so longs to use for his generative purposes in our lives. Read this book and learn to flourish in the cadence of our God.”
Fiction
“Really good fiction is at its best when it helps those of us who read it to tell our stories more truly, in all of their grandeur and pathos, in all their joy and suffering, in all their nobility and brokenness. But mostly, it helps us tell them against the backdrop of hope. And with Room of Marvels, hope is what James Bryan Smith brings in the ways we most desperately need it. Read it and laugh. Read it and weep. But above all, read it—and hope in the confidence that heaven is real, and it is surely coming.”
Counseling, Grief & Mental Health
“We don't believe we are loved until we feel it in our chests. Given how infrequently this happens, no wonder we are as exhausted as we are. But thanks be to God, . . . Michael Cusick takes us on a deeply personal and comprehensively practical journey that invites the reader into the wide place to stand of which the psalmist writes. A wide place in which you become the beauty and goodness that you have been destined to become. Read this book and rest. Read this book and be revealed. But mostly read this book and know—in your chest—what it means to be loved.”
Discipleship & Christian Education
“The formation of the mind is a communal act. The formation of minds that flourish, then, necessarily requires communities that are grounded in beauty, goodness and truth. With School With a Big Why, Peter Denton offers us a story of thoughtful, reflective perseverance; a willingness to learn from mistakes; a commitment to the biblical narrative; and above all, humility. If the pursuit and dissemination of wisdom in education is what you seek, the story you hold in your hands is a very good place to learn.”
NOTE: Only includes books currently in our catalog; not necessarily a complete list.
Christian Living
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