God Will Carry You Through: Encouragement for Tough Times

Author(s): Max Lucado
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Price: $1.99       (Ends Jan 31)

Find hope to get you through life’s toughest times when you know that God will carry you through.

Looking for answers to replace your tears? Running low on hope for the future? Spending more time with discouragement than joy?

New York Times bestselling author and pastor Max Lucado has discovered that at any given point, almost everyone is dealing with something difficult. Whether it’s the loss of a loved one, marriage issues, illness, job loss, or the stress of everyday life, you need the assurance that God will be there for you during tough times.

In God Will Carry You Through, Max teaches through the life of Joseph in his no-fluff, casual storytelling style, inviting you to let God’s words guide you through loss and uncertainty.

Laced throughout are:

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Pieces of Forever

Author(s): Valerie M. Bodden
Price: FREE      

The scars on her face are nothing to the scars on her heart. But can God help her find healing―and love?

Eight years ago, Ava and Joseph had the perfect future planned—he would go to veterinary school, she would embark on a career with an exclusive modeling agency, and they’d eventually get married and have three dogs and four children. Until a terrible accident changed everything. Unwilling to believe they could still have a future, she made Joseph promise to leave and live out their dreams without her.

Joseph has never broken a promise to Ava. Until now.

Because before he made that stupid promise to leave, they’d made each other another promise—one of forever. Now that he’s done with veterinary school, he’s determined to return to River Falls and show her that his promise still stands. That he loves her just the way she is.

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Broken Children, Sovereign God

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Author(s): Leslie Schmucker
Publisher: Christian Focus Publications
Price: $2.99       (Sept 20-21)

A testimony to the sufficiency of God in the gruelling day–to–day reality of raising a child with a mental health disorder.

Mental health disorders have become increasingly prevalent, especially in children and teenagers. Suicide is the 3rd highest cause of death in fifteen– to nineteen–year–olds around the world. This effect of the Fall has left thousands of families in despair, confusion, and impotent desperation. Leslie Schmucker knows this all too well.

Writing to encourage other parents who find themselves in a similar situation, she explores different aspects of her and her family’s experience with their daughter, Jackie. Through violence and mayhem, joy and hope, intense isolation, shame and confusion, Leslie’s honest testimony to the goodness of God is humbling.

Leslie’s testimony is split into four sections:

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Refresh: Spiritual Nourishment for Parents of Children with Special Needs

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Author(s): Kimberly M. Drew
Publisher: Kregel Publications
Price: $2.99       (Sept 23-24)

More than one-fifth of US households with children have at least one child with special needs. Raising a child with special needs is spiritually, emotionally, mentally, and physically challenging. Parents of these children need encouragement to restore hope and a passion for God in their lives—but the realities of having to be parent, nurse, therapist, and caregiver make it difficult to find the time or initiative to seek encouragement.

Packed with encouragement from parents who understand this complicated balancing act, Refresh is designed to provide just what these parents need. The devotional guides parents to spiritual truths that can be applied to the demands they face every day. It offers perspective and hope through the varying stages and phases families experience, from diagnosis to loss and grief.

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Broken Children, Sovereign God

This e-book was chosen by our readers to be placed on sale.

Author(s): Leslie Schmucker
Publisher: Christian Focus Publications
Price: $2.99       (Nov 1-2)

A testimony to the sufficiency of God in the gruelling day–to–day reality of raising a child with a mental health disorder.

Mental health disorders have become increasingly prevalent, especially in children and teenagers. Suicide is the 3rd highest cause of death in fifteen– to nineteen–year–olds around the world. This effect of the Fall has left thousands of families in despair, confusion, and impotent desperation. Leslie Schmucker knows this all too well.

Writing to encourage other parents who find themselves in a similar situation, she explores different aspects of her and her family’s experience with their daughter, Jackie. Through violence and mayhem, joy and hope, intense isolation, shame and confusion, Leslie’s honest testimony to the goodness of God is humbling.

Leslie’s testimony is split into four sections:

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Intellectuals Don’t Need God and Other Modern Myths

Author(s): Alister E. McGrath
Publisher: Zondervan
Price: $2.99      

Intellectuals Don’t Need God is for people who are not convinced by the arguments of classical, rationalistic apologetics, for people who feel that Christianity must have a broader appeal that to reason alone if it is to be persuasive to non-Christians. Alister McGrath shows convincingly that reason is only one of many possible points of contact between the non-Christian and the gospel. In today’s world, nonrational concerns — such as a sense that life lacks focus, an unconscious fear of death, a deep sense of longing for something unknown we don’t have but know we need — are much more effective points of contact for apologetics. In this book, Dr. McGrath (who is both a theologian and a scientist with a Ph.D. in microbiology) combines the clarity of a brilliant scientific mind with a deep commitment to Christ and to reaching non-Christians. Intellectuals Don’t Need God is for anyone who has questions about the validity of Christianity as well as for students, pastors, and lay leaders. Anyone who works with students and young people especially needs to read this book. As McGrath says, “apologetics is not about winning arguments — it is about bringing people to Christ.”

Power for Your Day Devotional

Author(s): Samuel Rodriguez
Publisher: Chosen Books
Price: $3.99       (Ends June 23)

Receive God’s Power, Purpose and Peace Every Day

Like the great biblical prophets Elijah and Elisha, we live in dark times marked by destruction, trials and temptations that consume our time, energy and faith. And like these men, we, too, can experience God’s faithfulness and abundance in the face of impossible odds.

Join bestselling author and pastor Samuel Rodriguez for 45 power-packed days that will ignite your faith and revitalize your soul. Through life-changing biblical truths, each day immerses you in God’s power, encouraging and equipping you to persevere with hope, joy and peace–no matter what you’re facing.

We can’t control the challenges we face, but we can control how we respond to them. Here is the light to shine on your path and move forward into the glorious future God has for you.