What Not to Do on Vacation

Author(s): Rachel Magee
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Price: $2.99       (End Jun 30)

Ten Things I Hate About You meets the charm (and sisterly shenanigans!) of Netflix’s Nobody Wants This.

“I give it five umbrella drinks!” –Nancy Naigle, bestselling author

“Perfect, sweep-me-away summer beach read!” –Anna Grace, award winning author

“Don’t leave this book behind.” –Jennifer Shirk, bestselling author

Savannah is on a mission to reconnect the Prestly sisters the best way she knows how: reliving their carefree childhood summers at the beach. She’s booked the same beach house, convinced her sisters to take the month off, and even made a bucket list to fit in all their favorite coastal fun. It’s going to be perfect . . . or else. (And if planning this trip has anything to do with a certain secret she’s hiding . (more…)

Man Up!: A Guide to Restoring Biblical Manhood

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Author(s): Mike Winter
Publisher: Know God Coach Publishing
Price: $4.99      

MAN Up! is a biblical challenge to men to embrace their God-given glory by assuming their God-ordained role. My goal for this book is to give you a helpful tool for measuring yourself as a man, a standard for your sons to aim at, and a scale for weighing your future son(s)-in-law(s).

Masculinity is under attack in the modern world. Never in human history has disrespect, dishonor, and confusion been so prevalent in world society over the nature of a man. Knowing nothing about manhood or how to be a man at birth, a male child grows up wondering who he is and how to live. This is not how God intended things to be.

God made man in His image. God came to earth as a man. God loves men and has given them the opportunity to live with Him forever in honor and glory. While a man’s value is no greater than his fellow created image-bearer, woman, his role and purpose are unique as defined by God.

God has given us men a clear purpose for our lives, a clear target to shoot for. This book helps you focus on that target with practical ideas for helping you hit the bullseye. You need to make the decision to man up!

Christians Reading Classics

Author(s): Nadya Williams
Publisher: Zondervan Academic
Price: $11.99       (Ends Jun 28)

Can Christians today read the great classics of Greco-Roman pagan literature for spiritual formation and growth in the virtues?

Classical scholar Nadya Williams responds with an unequivocal “Yes!” Even in the Late Roman Empire Christian readers, like Augustine and Boethius, did just this. But reading the classics this way requires reading differently than, perhaps, most people today are used to doing.

This is a book about reading the Greco-Roman classics as Christians–the why, the how, and to a lesser extent, the when. This exercise, equal parts intellectual and spiritual, is timely. Just as our bodies are what we eat, so are our minds what we consume. The past few years have seen the appearance of books on the value of literature in nourishing our minds and souls–developing the practice of reading not just the Bible but all that we read for spiritual formation. Most such books have focused largely on medieval and modern literature, involving antiquity only occasionally.

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Prepared by Grace, for Grace: The Puritans on God’s Way of Leading Sinners to Christ

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Author(s): Joel R. Beeke and Paul M. Smalley
Publisher: Reformation Heritage
Price: $2.99       (June 30- July 1)

Few teachings of the Puritans have provoked such strong reactions and conflicting interpretations as their views on preparing for saving faith. Many twentieth-century scholars dismissed preparation as a prime example of regression from the Reformed doctrine of grace for a man-centered legalism. ‘In Prepared by Grace’, for Grace, Joel Beeke and Paul Smalley make careful analysis of the Puritan understanding of preparatory grace, demonstrate its fundamental continuity with the Reformed tradition, and identify matters where even the Puritans disagreed among themselves. Clearing away the many misconceptions and associated accusations of preparationism, this study is sure to be the standard work on how the Puritans understood the ordinary way God leads sinners to Christ.

Table of Contents:
Introduction: The Question of Preparationism
Preparation and (more…)

Two e-books on Personal Growth: July 13/26

Body Teaches the Soul
Author(s): Justin Whitmel Earley
Publisher: Zondervan
Price: $3.99 (Ends Jul 13)

Your body is more spiritual than you think.

How can we preach a gospel of peace, yet still find our bodies wracked by anxiety? How do we call our bodies temples of the Holy Spirit, yet regard eating, exercise, or sleep as inherently “unspiritual” activities? How is it that modern Christians who claim God made their bodies have come to care so little about them?

Justin Whitmel Earley–bestselling author of The Common Rule and Habits of the Household–is intimately familiar with the consequences of ignoring the body. As a young lawyer, Earley collapsed into anxiety and insomnia that nearly ruined his life. In his journey back to mental and spiritual health, he realized that the healthy and unhealthy habits shaping his life weren’t physical or spiritual; they were physical and spiritual.

The Body Teaches the Soul is a practical guide to the union of body and spirit in our overall health. With his characteristic vulnerability and story-driven approach, Earley shares personal failures, fascinating research, and biblical wisdom to reveal ten simple habits that will improve your health and deepen your relationship with God. In these pages, you will:

Connect deeply and positively with your body as the image of God while avoiding the mistakes of ignoring or idolizing the body
Explore how daily patterns of healthy eating can be as spiritual as fasting and how rhythms of feasting can become guilt-free celebrations of the world God made
Recover your mental health through upper-brain spiritual truths that work together with lower-brain physical practices to reshape thought patterns
Develop a sleep routine that honors your body’s need for rest and your soul’s need for sabbath
Discover how to lament sickness and injury while still praying with hope for the miracle of healing
Learn how exercise can create a humble lifestyle of loving others with your body instead of becoming a vain search for body image
Earley is not a health guru telling you how to get in shape; he is the ordinary Christian’s guide to rediscovering the extraordinary gift of the body and the spiritual life that flows from it. Join this journey of wonder and well-being to reconnect with your whole self and repattern your whole life in the image of the God who made you and loves you as you are–body and soul.

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Every Thought Captive
Author(s): Kyle Idleman
Publisher: Zondervan
Price: $3.99 (Ends Jul 13)

Discover the biblical, neurological, and emotional keys to transforming destructive patterns of thinking into a renewed mind–one thought at a time.

Whether we wrestle with anxiety, harmful thoughts about ourselves, or mental spirals that hold us back from spiritual growth and healthy relationships, many of us wish we could control our thoughts rather than let them control us.

As the senior pastor of one of the largest churches in America, bestselling author Kyle Idleman has seen the power of right thinking transform lives, including his own. In Every Thought Captive, Kyle points us to the tools we need to get our thoughts into submission so we can live a fuller and more joy-filled life. If you feel frustrated and discouraged in your battle to take control of your thoughts, this biblically rich, practical book will help you:

Learn to identify the five thinking patterns that sabotage your life and relationship with God
Encourage your brain’s neural network to develop new ways of thinking that are consistent with your values
Start getting “unstuck” immediately as you implement simple but profound practices like “Win the Morning” and “Say It Out Loud”
Understand what transformed thinking looks like in the unique context of your life
What you think about creates your attitudes, governs your emotions, determines your behavior, shapes your relationships, and ultimately defines your life. But armed with God’s wisdom and fresh truth about brain health, you can take control over your thoughts and embrace the full and flourishing life you long for.

Mom Brain

Author(s): Nicole Hackett
Publisher: Harper Muse
Price: $2.99       (Ends Aug 1)

“Hackett’s skillful plotting and character work will keep readers hooked…”- Publishers Weekly

Can a luxury resort transform her life by giving her back control? Georgia Evans thinks it sounds too good to be true. Turns out her motherly intuition isn’t wrong . . . In the vein of Liane Moriarty’s Nine Perfect Strangers, Mom Brain turns a discerning eye toward society’s view on modern motherhood and reframes “mom brain” as a superpower.

Welcome to The Program, an immersive week-long experience set to the backdrop of the breathtaking island of O’ahu, where mothers in all stages of crisis can come to take control of their lives. It’s not exactly the type of thing Georgia Evans–a busy working mother of two–would usually consider. However, (more…)

Abundantly More

Author(s): Jeremy S. Begbie
Publisher: Baker Academic
Price: $9.99       (Ends Aug 18)

Late-modern culture has been marred by reductionism, which shrinks and flattens our vision of ourselves and the world. Renowned theologian Jeremy Begbie believes that the arts by their nature push against reductionism, helping us understand and experience more deeply the infinite richness of God’s love and of the world God has made.

In Abundantly More, Begbie analyzes and critiques reductionism and its effects. He shows how the arts can resist reductive impulses by opening us up to an unlimited abundance of meaning. And he demonstrates how engaging the arts in light of a trinitarian imagination (which itself cuts against reductionism) generates a unique way of witnessing to and sharing in the life and purposes of God.

Theologians, artists, and any who are (more…)