Resources for Spiritual Growth

Today is Going to be a Good Day: 90 Promises from God to Start Your Day Off Right by Dr. Michelle Bengtson

Every day can be a good day when you trust the promises of God. In this uplifting devotional, Bengtson helps you make each day a good day no matter what is going on in your life. Each reading includes Scripture, reflection, prayer, and a recommended playlist song designed to help you live out Philippians 4:8.

Finding God in the Questions by Dr. Timothy Johnson

The author shares his deeply personal journey of faith: investigating the plausibility of God’s existence and exploring the significance of Jesus Christ. Do you have questions about whether or not God is real? Don’t shy away from your questions. That’s where God meets you – in the midst of honest, heartfelt issues. The author says, “Doubt doesn’t have to tear down belief, however; it can purify it. When it does, the beliefs on the other side become more certain. This is why I would like to affirm that it is possible to find God even while you are still asking the big questions.”

Walking With God by John Eldredge

The story one man’s journey of learning to hear God’s voice. We can go it alone doing our best or we can walk with God by learning to hear His voice.

Think Differently, Live Differently: Keys to a Life of Freedom by Bob Hamp

Many of us remain in captivity. The author shows us how we can access true freedom as we learn to look and think again about everything we thought we knew.

Battle Ready: Train Your Mind to Conquer Challenges, Defeat Doubt, and Live Victoriously by Kelly Balarie

The author shows us how we can train our minds to conquer uncertainty, beat insecurity, and step past the tragedies of yesterday. This scriptural plan includes twelve confidence building mindsets that will transform your thoughts and life so that you can live victoriously!

Unafraid: Be you. Be authentic. Find the grit and grace to shine. by Carey Scott

In Unafraid: By You. Be Authentic. Find the grit and grace to shine, Carey Scott shares how to shed our fears so we can be the best God created us to be. She covers 9 ways we can find the confidence we need in order to shine with fearless authenticity.

Holy in the Moment: Simple Ways to Love God and Enjoy Your Life by Ginger Harrington

Holiness isn’t a rigid standard to keep but a gift to receive through vital relationship with God, who makes us whole. If you’ve ever longed for simple ways to love God and enjoy your life at the same time, then I encourage you to pick up a copy and read the newly released “Holy in the Moment” by Ginger Harrington. I love how in “Holy in the Moment,” the author explores the practical power of choices to grow in holiness without the pressure of perfectionism.

God in the Dark by Sarah Van Diest

“When you are in the dark places of your life, Sarah Van Diest offers a companion for the path you are walking. You will find a voice of comfort and truth to call you back to the light, to help you see that you are never alone, never too far gone, and never unloved. This collection of 31 devotions doesn’t minimize the reality of your struggles, but rather points you to where God is—walking right alongside you. Receive this hope in the pain, God in the Dark.”

Lead Me, Holy Spirit: Longing to Hear the Voice of God by Stormie Omartian

The bestselling author leads readers see that the Holy Spirit wants to lead them. Learn to walk in the power and presence of the Holy Spirit in every area of life. When the reader trusts in the Holy Spirit and His great love for them, they’ll be filled with wisdom and knowledge, they’ll understand their special calling and sense His guidance.

Prayer of Jabez by Bruce Wilkinson

Discover how to release God’s miraculous power and experience God’s blessings by praying the prayer of Jabez found in 1 Chronicles 4:10. Commit to offering this same prayer on a regular basis and find yourself extravagantly blessed by God as an agent of His miraculous power.

Running on Empty: Contemplative Spirituality for Overachievers by Fil Anderson

It’s time to stop living for God and start living with God. A once burned-out believer shares the healing insights that restored his spiritual compass and guided him back to God.

The Blessed Life: Unlocking the Rewards of Generous Living by Robert Morris

This book will change every area of your life for the better: marriage, family health and relationships. When God changes y our heart, every part of your life journey is affected.

Finding God in the Questions by Dr. Timothy Johnson

The author shares his deeply personal journey of faith: investigating the plausibility of God’s existence and exploring the significance of Jesus Christ. Do you have questions about whether or not God is real? Don’t shy away from your questions. That’s where God meets you – in the midst of honest, heartfelt issues. The author says, “Doubt doesn’t have to tear down belief, however; it can purify it. When it does, the beliefs on the other side become more certain. This is why I would like to affirm that it is possible to find God even while you are still asking the big questions.”

Brave Heart: A Nine-Week Study on Joshua (Nourish Bible Study Series) by Aliene G. Thompson

Brave Heart is a nine-week study on the book of Joshua that will lead you to experience your relationship with Jesus Christ on a deeper level. As you study, Jesus is there to lead you out of the wilderness and into the life you were created to live. You’ll find courage and strength to become the woman God created you to be.

Courageous Women of the Bible: Leaving Behind Fear and Insecurity for a Life of Confidence and Freedom by LaTan Roland Murphy

During hard times and periods of exhaustion, stress, and change, it’s easy to lose sight of how God is at work in our lives. God has equipped women with power and influence needed to live freely and confidently. The author, LaTan Roland Murphy, shares about eleven courageous women of the Bible and how they were able to make courageous choices that set them up for success despite the hard times they endured. This book will inspire women today to trust in God and live courageously.

The Overcoming Life by Jimmy  Evans

God has already provided all the tools we need to live victoriously. Read more to learn how to overcome rejection, fear, comparison, shame, unforgiveness, discouragement, sickness, and doubt.

The Only Father I Ever Knew: How a Fatherless Child Finally Found True Love by Lisa Burkhardt Worley

The Only Father I Ever Knew helps the reader understand that God is their Father and only He can fill the void left in hearts by an absentee early father or heal the hurts caused by father wounds.

Knowing the Father: A Six-Week Bible Study to Understand God’s Father-Like Attributes by Lisa Burkhardt Worley

Knowing the Father, a sequel to The Only Father I Ever Knew, is a bible study that helps readers take a deeper look at six father-like attributes of God and learn more about experiencing a fulfilling relationship with Him.

Pearls of Promise: A Devotional Designed to Reassure You of God’s Love by Lisa Burkhardt Worley

Pearls of Promise is a devotion compiled of 120 “pearls of promise” from God written by 46 authors showing how God makes a pearl out of every one of our trials and struggles.

Surrendering the Secret: Healing the Heartbreak of Abortion by Pat Layton

Many women carry a painful burden of shame and failure as they hide the secret of abortion. This book helps women release this burden and find freedom.

Prayers of Hope for Caregivers: Seeking God’s Strength When Someone You Love Needs You by Sarah Forgrave

The caregiver role can drain you emotionally, physically and spiritually. This book filled with prayers and devotions helps you navigate the emotions that come with caregiving.

Prayers for Hope and Healing: Seeking God’s Strength as You Face Health Challenges by Sarah Forgrave

A book of heartfelt prayers and devotions that help you navigate the difficult emotions that come with chronic health issues.

The Seven Deadly Friendships: How to Heal When Painful Relationships Eat Away at Your Joy by Mary DeMuth

In 30 years as a mental health practitioner, I’ve had the privilege of working with patients who have struggled with and suffered because of toxic friends, akin to those detailed in The Seven Deadly Friendships. Mary helps us identify those toxic relationships and then points us to seven life-giving practices to help us receive and extend healthy friendships.

Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No To Take Control of Your Life by Cloud and Townsend

In the New York Times bestseller, Boundaries, Dr. Henry Cloud and Dr. John Townsend help you learn when to say yes and know how to say no in order to take control of your life and set healthy, biblical boundaries with your spouse, children, friends, parents, co-workers, and even yourself.

Fear Fighting: Awakening Courage to Overcome Your Fears by Kelly Balarie

In Fear Fighting, author Kelly Balarie shows us how to fight fear by cultivating our faith, praying prayers that usher in peace, exchange worry for God’s greatest gifts and how to stand armed through the day with daily bravery decrees. A 12-week study guide helps foster new habits.

Freedom! The Gutsy Pursuit of Breakthrough and the Life Beyond It by Jennifer Watson

In Freedom, Jennifer Watson shares practical ways to move from a place of brokenness to a place of experiencing the God of breakthrough. You can leave behind shame, emptiness, the victim mentality and experience lasting restoration.

Eyes of Faith: Winning the Battle Between Our Feelings & Our Faith by Carolyn Newell

In Eyes of Faith, Carolyn Newell describes how she adjusted to the loss of her vision. She takes the reader on a journey of how to remove the spiritual blinders so you can win the battle between feelings and faith.

The Struggle is Real: Bus So is God by Misty Phillip

The Struggle Is Real, But So is God is a 6-week Bible Study that empowers you with wisdom, helps you grow spiritually, teaches you to declare scripture over yourself and shows you how to activate God’s word in your life to conquer challenges.

I Am Loved: Walking in the Fullness of God’s Love by Wendy Blight

I am loved is an in-depth study of the book of 1 John. It will help you walk in the fullness of God’s love by helping you to develop a more intimate understanding of God’s love, transform your attitude and actions into reflections of God, identify and discern God’s truth from false teaching, confront barriers keeping you from experiencing God’s complete love and boldly and confidently walk as a woman loved. This study can be done individually or in a small group.

Mended Heart: God’S Healing For Your Broken Places by Suzanne Eller

The Mended Heart will encourage you to trust God, to give grace and receive grace and move ahead stronger than before. If you’ve experienced brokenness and unsuccessfully tried to fix it yourself, this the book for you. You can experience God’s healing for your broken places.

Shift: Changing Our Focus to See the Presence of God by Abby McDonald

Shift explores the life-changing truth that when we adjust our lens to focus our eyes on God rather than on what we wish we were seeing in our lives, he reveals himself to us. In fact, those moments when he seems invisible to us are often when others see him the most in us. No matter our circumstances, we can see God in our lives – right here, right now.

Transforming Your Thought Life: Christian Meditation in Focus by Sarah Geringer

In Transforming Your Thought Life, learn how to train your mind to stay grounded in God’s word using guided meditations and personal examples. It helps you transform your thought life by replacing negative thoughts patterns with God’s word.

Discovering Hope in the Psalms by Pam Farrel & Jean E. Jones

In this creative Bible study experience, you’ll explore God’s word on a deeper level. Through the interaction, you’ll engage with God’s truth in fresh ways.

Appeal to the Courtroom of Heaven: Petitions for Prisoners and Prison Families by Shonda Whitworth

In Appeal to the Courtroom of Heaven, Shonda shares how she went from deferred-hope to a hope-filled life. In the process, she found mercy in God. She shares how to find your hope restored as you confidently plead your case in the courtroom of heaven.

Slow Down, Mama: Intentional Living in a Hurried World by Patty H. Scott

In Slow Down Mama, Patty shares practical tools you need to make more of your life when you feel overextended. Learn how to move past personal pitfalls, identify your purpose and develop life-giving habits.

Slow Down, Mama: Thirty-One Days to Help You Slow and Savor by Patty H. Scott

A 31-day devotional filled with encouraging stories, reflective questions, prayer and daily actions to help you move towards a more purposeful, peaceful life.