Afraid of All the Things: Tornadoes, Cancer, Adoption, and Other Stuff you Need the Gospel For
Author(s): Scarlet Hiltibidal
Publisher: B&H Books
Price: $4.99       (Oct 15 Only)

What does the gospel say about your fears? What does it say about the irrational ones, like sinkholes in the Target parking lot? How does it speak to the rational ones, like pet scan predictions? And does the gospel have a word for the fears you feel you’ll have for life, like the possibility of losing the one you love most?

Growing up in the green room of SNL, being born to a fire-eater and adopted by a SWAT cop, having internal organs explode, and adopting a deaf girl from China, Scarlet Hiltibidal has been given some strange life experiences—and lived in fear through most of them.

But life changed for Scarlet when she learned to hold the gospel up to her fears. She realized that though she can’t fix herself or protect herself, Jesus walked into this broken, sad, scary place to rescue, love, and cast out her—and your—fear.

Seeing life in light of the cross will help you avoid fear, overcome fear when you can’t avoid it, and live beyond fear when you don’t overcome it. You don’t have to be afraid of all the things.

Car Line Mom Devotional: 100 Days of Encouragement for the Mama Who Gets Everybody Everywhere
Author(s): Caris Snider
Publisher: B&H Books
Price: $4.99       (Oct 15 Only)

Do you feel like your life these days is basically just carting your people everywhere? Are your mornings filled with horns blaring, cars speeding, and pressure mounting to get out of the house and to the front of the car line on time? Does your blood pressure rise as you fear the inevitable explosion from one of your kids over the wrong breakfast food or forgotten homework assignment? And on the other end of your day, do you find that the afternoon is filled with waiting, at a snail’s pace, for the day to conclude?

Caris Snider gets it.

Whether it’s waiting in the car line or waiting for the afternoon to finally end, she knows that those moments of pausing are sacred for a busy mama like you. In those precious moments, Caris has learned that she has a choice to move toward things that induce anxiety for the rest of her day, or instead, move toward God’s Word, which floods her with encouragement.

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