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Satisfied: Finding Hope, Joy, and Contentment Right Where You Are
Author: Alyssa Joy BethkeStop focusing on what you lack and start feeling grateful and satisfied with what you have! Touching on topics like fear, worry, dissatisfaction, anxiety, and body image, Alyssa Bethke walks you through issues that rob you of your joy and helps you recognize them for what they are: distractions. With all of its expectations and contradictions, this world can take a major toll on us. Be skinny, but not too skinny. Work and hustle but…
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Gay Girl, Good God
Author: Jackie Hill Perry“I used to be a lesbian.” In Gay Girl, Good God, author Jackie Hill Perry shares her own story, offering practical tools that helped her in the process of finding wholeness. Jackie grew up fatherless and experienced gender confusion. She embraced masculinity and homosexuality with every fiber of her being. She knew that Christians had a lot to say about all of the above. But was she supposed to change herself? How was she supposed…
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Gospel Fluency: Speaking the Truths of Jesus into the Everyday Stuff of Life
Author: Jeff VandersteltEven if they want to, many Christians find it hard to talk to others about Jesus. Is it possible this difficulty is because we're trying to speak a language we haven't actually spent time practicing? To become fluent in a new language, you must immerse yourself in it until you actually start to think about life through it. Becoming fluent in the gospel happens the same way―after believing it, we have to intentionally rehearse it (to ourselves…
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The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith
Author: Timothy KellerTimothy Keller uses one of the best-known Christian parables to reveal an unexpected message of hope and salvation. Taking his trademark intellectual approach to understanding Christianity, Keller uncovers the essential message of Jesus, locked inside his most familiar parable. Within that parable Jesus reveals God's prodigal grace toward both the irreligious and the moralistic. This book will challenge both the devout and skeptics to see Christianity in a whole new way.
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GRADE 4 BOOK LIST: 9 books I’m making my fourth grader read – mainly mystery and humorous books
A couple of weeks ago I shared my book list for my seventh grade daughter and now it’s time to share the list for my fourth grade son! Since we just got a new foster child last week I figured I would just share this list on the blog instead of filming a video for it, it makes my life a little easier in the craziness that is the first little while with a new placement. My fourth grader has…
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Brave Every Day
I loved The Invisible Boy by Trudy Ludwig and here’s another one that I cherish. Author: Trudy LudwigMost kids love hide-and-seek, but Camila just wants to hide. Hiding is what she does best when she worries, and she worries a LOT. What if... I can’t... I’m scared! A class trip to the aquarium causes her worries to pile up like never before. But when an anxious classmate asks for help, Camila discovers that her heart is bigger than her fears. From…
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