Curt Thompson
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Kent Annan lives and works in the real world and he knows that the world in which we live is desperate for the transformation of justice—transformation that will last. But it is in our very desperation that we often forget that the transformationfor which we so long only comes slowly. The field of neuroscience is teaching us that the most permanent forms of healthy brain changes—and, by extension, relational and institutional changes—emerge over the course of lengthy, persevering practice. Slow Kingdom Coming is a siren call, drawing our attention away from a world of quick fixes to God's timing, tempo and purpose. In it Annan graciously gifts us with a deeply practical manual for how to join God at his pace in his work of bringing justice to the time and place we occupy. But more so, he leaves us with an offering of spiritual disciplines by which God can change us more permanently in all areas of our lives. If you want justice, and you want it as God wants it—when God wants it—this is a must-read book.”
Christian Living
“Nothing is more shattered or misunderstood in our lives than beauty. We are unable on our own to recapture God’s vision for it, and every generation needs guides who can reintroduce it to us again for the first time. In Melissa Johnson, we have such a guide, and with Soul-Deep Beauty, she has offered us a vision and a way not only to encounter, but to practice becoming the very beauty that God has foreseen us to be. Read this book, and find your soul’s beauty emerging more truly than ever you imagined it could.”
The 4 Habits of Raising Joy-Filled Kids
Marriage, Family & Relationships
“If we were created for joy, and if every relational system in the world is modeled, ultimately, after the family, then who would not want to know how to raise joy-filled children who themselves then go on to be conduits of that joy in every institution they occupy? With The 4 Habits of Raising Joy-Filled Kids, Chris Coursey and Marcus Warner have given us a gem of a book that not only will change how you parent but also bring deep, lasting hope to all of your relational interactions. Read this book prepared to work. Read it prepared to be changed. But mostly, read it for the joy that is waiting for you as you do.”
Counseling, Grief & Mental Health
“To be anxious is to be human, for humans have indeed been anxious for as long as we have been on this earth. Moreover, each generation must address how it will respond to anxiety. Thanks be to God, Curtis Chang has not written a prescription for it; rather, he has opened for us a doorway into it—a doorway that leads to God, who is in all earnestness waiting for us in the very presence of our anxiety. Waiting to transform how we imagine it, which will lead to our becoming more deeply loved and beautifully transformed into the likeness of Jesus. For all of us who live with urgent anxiety, I invite you to allow what you hold in your hands to usher you through that doorway into comfort, confidence, and an opportunity to create the beauty and goodness that God longs for you to share with him.”
Counseling, Grief & Mental Health
“It requires an immeasurable amount of hard work to become a therapist. It requires an altogether different kind of work—albeit no less rigorous—to become an effective translator of that work for others in a written form that is as accessible and compelling as it is beautiful. But far and away, to do both of these things with grace and vulnerability is a rarely cultivated gift, one that empowers the reader to undergo transformation even in the very act of ingesting what falls upon their eyes. In Alison Cook we have someone who embodies and offers all of these. And with The Best of You she delivers, along with so much goodness and beauty, the best of herself. And when that is what you are receiving—trust me—finding the best of you is just around the corner.”
Prayer & Spiritual Formation
“make us human, and we ignore or idolize the body to our peril. I invite you to read this book with hope and confidence that the God who made us, bodies and souls, is in the business of honoring and redeeming all of who we are for joy and glory.”
Marriage, Family & Relationships
“Marriage, by its very design, happens to us. Our work, much like our navigating on the ocean in a two- person kayak, is not merely to use it to get us to where we want to go, but also to train us to become seasoned mariners. In The Fight for Us, Gabe and Rebekah Lyons provide a map and compass to inspire and encourage with vulnerable instruction. You’ll imagine and discover a flourishing marriage, even in the face of odds that seem difficult to overcome.”
Christian Living
“With The Fix comes a herald who pulls the curtain back on what we all sense in the deep: that we are people of insatiable longing, that our longing is often brutally and fathomlessly entangled with our pain, and that as a result, we are all addicts. But our author and guide does not leave us there. With the balm of humor that is required if we are to face the bracing reality of our lives as revealed on these pages and with a compelling vulnerability that never seeks its own notoriety, Ian Cron invites us all to come home. And home is where I want to be. Read this book, and begin to find your way there.”
Church Leadership & Ministry
“It is no secret that pastoral ministry is in crisis. And into that crisis Tom Nelson has unflinchingly walked with humility and authority to provide just what our weary shepherds need—restoration and guidance: restoration that is deep and comprehensive; guidance that is wise and convicting. Grounded and beautiful, The Flourishing Pastor brings necessary healing and hope not only to pastors but also to those of us in their care.”
Christian Living
“Those who have discovered Tim Jennings’s work to be transformational will find in The God-Shaped Heart yet another thirst-quenching spring for parched souls. Jennings offers a needed contribution to the community of faith that is erudite, accessible, and above all, useful in the renewal of the mind. Incisive and kind, practical and generous, our guide awakens us to God’s design—and desire—for us as humans. For those who long for God’s world of goodness and beauty, this is a book where that longing is waiting to be discovered.”
Prayer & Spiritual Formation
“Tara Beth Leach hasn’t simply added one more book to the library of “how a Christian ought to do things.” Rather, she invites us into a deep place of remembrance—a place and time, the morning, in which we can begin to drink deeply from the well of the mercies of God that he expects us to drain by day’s end, such that we may drink again the next morning of his newest installment of the day’s mercies that await us. Read this book slowly. Read it meditatively. Practice what our author invites us to do. And witness over time the transformation that will surely come.”
Prayer & Spiritual Formation
“What story do you believe you are living in? No question is more important—or more frequently ignored, to the detriment of humanity. The vast totality of our afflictions—in the face of our deepest longings—is in no small part a reflection of the stories in which we believe we live, witting or not: stories that are the antitheses of goodness, beauty, and truth. But thanks be to God, with The Magnificent Story, James Bryan Smith has drawn back the curtain on the real cosmic drama in which we find ourselves. And if ever the plots of the stories of our lives have needed this book, that time is now. If you hunger for goodness, beauty, and truth, and moreover, if they have felt out of your story's reach, do not despair. For within these pages lies the chronicle your life has been waiting to read, to hear, to live.”
The Mental Health Handbook for Ministry
Church Leadership & Ministry
“Accessible and practical, The Mental Health Handbook for Ministry meaningfully adds to the necessary conversation we must have about how the church can flourish in its role as a place of hope and healing for all of our wounded souls.”
Philosophy
“Who knew that one could be enchanted by a book about the role of human attachment as told through the story of . . . philosophy? But indeed, with A Mother’s Smile, Esther Meek has done just that. With clarity, humor, and humility, our guide once again demonstrates why philosophy matters so much, and that it matters early and often in our developmental journeys. Read this book and find your mind sharpened, your heart expanded, and your life transformed.”
History & Biography
“There are few things in this world that more ably transform us than our encounters with real stories. Stories that tell of joy and shame. Of hope and anguish. Of the very hard work that leads to a world of goodness, beauty, and redemption—but not without the honest rendition of all the stumbling in the dark that necessarily accompanies such godly liberation. These are the stories that we so desperately need to hear, and they are the very stories that Karen Marsh has so thoughtfully given us with Vintage Saints and Sinners. Stories not only of the saints of clay feet who we all know about, but also the story that is her own, the one that ties all the others—the reader's not the least—into the grand narrative into which God is writing all who are willing to be included. If you want your hope to be strengthened, if you want your mind to be renewed, and if you want your story to be changed, look no further: this collection of stories is for you.”
When Changing Nothing Changes Everything
Christian Living
“The flourishing of our lives depends so much not only on what, but how we see. In When Changing Nothing Changes Everything, Laurie Short has offered us a concise, accessible guidebook that provides not only helpful instruction but—more importantly—hope for how a proper vision of the life we have can lead to the very world of goodness and beauty for which we long so deeply. Read this book—and see your life change before your very eyes.”
When Narcissism Comes to Church
Church Leadership & Ministry
“In the work of the soul, we name things to tame things. And there is nothing that is more in need of taming than the rampant narcissism that is not just a part of our cultural landscape but is hiding in plain sight in my own life. With When Narcissism Comes to Church, Chuck DeGroat unflinchingly names the subject for the leviathan it is, while offering hope in real, embodied stories of redemption. Comprehensive in scope, accessible in application, and generously kind in spirit, this book will provide pastor and laity alike the wisdom and courage that is necessary for the healing and recommissioning of the church's soul for years to come.”
Christian Living
“Given how ancient and ubiquitous our human suffering is, one would think that we would have said all that can be said about it. But it is because of its very nature that we continually, deeply need voices that remind us afresh of what it means tosuffer as we follow Jesus. With When the Journey Hurts, it is to this need that Kelly M. Kapic, M. Elizabeth Hall, and Jason McMartin have so compassionately written, while remaining unflinching in the face of how anguishing our suffering can be. Read this for clarity. Read this to find mercy. But most of all, read this to know that you are not alone on the road of suffering that you and others are traveling.”
NOTE: Only includes books currently in our catalog; not necessarily a complete list.
Christian Living
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