Author(s): Ann Voskamp
Publisher: Zondervan
Price: $1.99       (Aug 15-17)

What do you do when you wake up and feel like you’re not enough for your life? Or when you look out the kitchen window as dusk falls and wonder how do you live when life keeps breaking your heart?

As Ann Voskamp writes, “great grief isn’t meant to fit inside your body. It’s why your heart breaks.” And each of us holds enough brokenness to overflow—to be given as the greatest story of our lives.

In sixty vulnerably soulful stories, The Way of Abundance moves from self-weary brokenness to Christ-focused givenness. Drawing from the critically acclaimed, New York Times bestseller The Broken Way and Ann’s online essays, this devotional dares us to embrace brokenness as a gift that moves us to givenness as a way to draw closer to the heart of God. Christ Himself broke like bread, giving Himself to us so we might have a lifelong communion with Him. Could it be that our brokenness is also a gift to the world?

This gentle but exquisitely profound book does nothing less than take you on an intimate journey of the soul.

As Ann writes, “The wound in His side proves that Jesus is always on the side of the suffering, the wounded, the busted, the broken.” Discover how surrendering in unexpected ways is the first step toward receiving what you long for. Discover the good news that your beauty is not in your strength but in your fragility. Discover why your healing shines radiant through your wounds—and how only in brokenness will you ever be whole—and find the way to the abundance you were meant for.

Could a long-buried secret give this family back the joy they’ve lost?
My Oil of Joy For Your Mourning, the second book in the Promises to Zion series will take you to another level of emotion with its gripping storyline that won’t let you go until the characters say so.
Elder Paige Morganson is facing quite a few life-altering decisions. Some of them seem easy and others, not so much, but whichever way she chooses, the path will be filled with twists and turns that will rock the very foundation of her faith, causing her to question her ability to listen to God.
The very God that Victoria Branchett would curse if she could. Victoria’s plans to gain sole custody of her granddaughter, Vivian, are overshadowed by the need to save her marriage and hold on to the only man she has ever truly loved. To do so, she will have to choose between keeping her secrets or him.
Elder Brandon Tatum is fighting for his life, which isn’t anything he hasn’t gone through before, but Paige is something else. Will he have the courage to put all of his cards on the table and do what it takes to keep Paige in his life?
The fog of grief Mason Jenson has lived under for two years is finally lifting and he has his daughter Vivian and Elder Paige to credit his new life to. The real struggle will be in keeping them close. He’s built a life for his family before, can he do it again?

What do you do when your God-given dream comes to life but doesn’t last your lifetime?

***This is not a stand-alone novel. This is the continuation of the story from “My Beauty For Your Ashes”. You will want to read this series in order.***

Author(s): Shaye Cohen
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Price: $2.99      

This is the third edition of Shaye J. D. Cohen’s important and seminal work on the history and development of Judaism between 164 BCE to 300 CE. Cohen’s synthesis of religion, literature, and history offers deep insight into the nature of Judaism at this key period, including the relationship between Jews and Gentiles, the function of Jewish religion in the larger community, and the development of normative Judaism and other Jewish sects. Cohen offers students more than just history, but an understanding of the social and cultural context of Judaism as it developed into the formative period of rabbinic Judaism. This new edition includes a brand-new chapter on the parting of ways between Jews and Christians in the second century CE. From the Maccabees to the Mishnah remains the clearest introduction to the era that shaped Judaism and provided the context for early Christianity.