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Back To Him: A Thirty Day Devotional on Giving Up Old Hurts and Relying on God
What you do with it involves a series of choices.
In this devotional, we'll learn...
- To pursue forgiveness, not bitterness
- To reconcile the past and rely on God for strength
- The importance of moving forward
- How Satan uses hurt to distract us from God, and how to fight against his schemes
- Why we need to submit ourselves to God in continual obedience
With daily readings, Bible verses, a starter prayer, and questions to contemplate with God, this devotional shares a personal journey of healing while presenting the case for giving up control back to God, throwing off the bondage of sin and shame we've held onto for too long.
Sustain: A Thirty Day Devotional and Study Guide on Remembering God's Sovereignty in Hardship
Sustain: to uphold, to nurture; patiently enduring...to persevere.
In this devotional, we'll find...
- Ways God helps us through trials
- The importance of using pain to grow closer to God
- Case studies of biblical characters whose testimonies point toward a God who does incredible things through suffering
- Why we must submit our will to God's daily
- Ways we can find gratitude in the midst of trouble
With daily readings, Bible verses, starter prayers, and questions designed to deepen your relationship with God, this devotional shares numerous Scriptures that promise God's sustaining strength in our lives even when He feels far away, while challenging various lies the world has taught us about suffering. Included is a five-week study guide for individual use or groups.
Faith, Hope, and Love Volume One
A contemporary Christian volume containing the complete first three books of the Faith, Hope, and Love collection: Welcome Home, My Compass Home, and Guide Me Home.
The Bridge Duology
Bridget Owens spends her days working and her nights trying to escape the nightmare she was born into. One year after leaving her old life, she still sees ghosts, hears threats, feels nails digging into her flesh, and can't sleep unless she wants to wake up sobbing. Her memories become a graveyard of who she once was, and she nurtures it daily until she reaches her breaking point.
When Nick, a childhood friend, suggests help at the last moment, she finds it hard to sit across from a counselor who says he cares. She finds it impossible to trust anything, even herself. She's broken, and she isn't sure how to put the pieces back together. What if they never fit right anymore?
A story of redemption, calling, healing, and recovery.
Back To Me: A Contemporary Christian Novel, book one of The Bridge Duology.
A novella celebrating found family, selfless love, and the power of testimony.
The second book in THE BRIDGE DUOLOGY.
Bethlehem Belle Novellas
Kylie is faced with a choice: she can unravel the past and step into the next chapter of her life, or she can keep running away. But when the truth splits open, can she choose to let go of her own hurt?
Where The Last Verse Ends is a hopeful, fun story celebrating friends, family, forgiveness, second-chance romance...and a Christmas miracle or two.
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Short Stories & Poetry
Life goes sideways.
When it does, it can make or break us with
the flip of a switch.
What we do next - after the switch - is what matters most. Light meets the dark and always overcomes.
Everything I Became celebrates the overcomers, the encouragers, the process of returning to the light after darkness has lost its battle, and sits to mourn and cradle those still struggling.
Darkness only wins if we let it.
Healing takes time and that's okay.
You're seen even if you feel invisible.
Light meets the dark and the dark cannot comprehend.
Oftentimes the deepest betrayals and softest beginnings arrive intertwined.
wading through the fog on a sunny day grapples with fleeting moments of loss, fresh starts, and the moment dreams become reality...unless we destroy them ourselves.
Mount Sterling Collection
Beautiful Chaos (Book 1) 
Joanna and Walter are growing quite comfortable in the role of foster-parenting the baby that slipped into their lives so soon. However, they are once more uprooted when Cassie's biological father steps forward. In a college town like Mount Sterling, gossip is always flowing - when they discover a secret that Cassie's father is hiding, they take it upon themselves to fight for Cassie's life. Meanwhile, plans for Carter's House are well underway, offering light to any teen who wants to reach out for it. Will Joanna be able to turn her memories - the very ones that once drove her away from home altogether - into a path to Christ for the brokenhearted, or will she crack under pressure?
The Rebel Collection
Your attendance to the Dance of Fates is mandated. Hide and you will be found. Resist and you shall die.
It’s no surprise when Verity Kühn receives an invitation to the annual Dance of Fates from Allemagne’s Grand Captain. But a new mandate requires all paupers to perform this year: the best saved for an elite Troupe, and the rest sold worldwide to settle their debts to the kingdom. Verity has already lost one brother to the Grand Captain, and the mandate confirms her worst fear: her attempts to hide her little brother have failed. Obeying the mandate means abandoning the only family she has left, but rebellion could cost both their lives.
When Verity learns that her other brother may still be alive, she becomes a stowaway on the Grand Captain’s own merchant ship, determined to bring him home. But in the meantime, she discovers a mysterious rebel soldier with world-tipping news. Not only does he know her brother’s whereabouts, but he is involved with a rival kingdom’s plan to invade Allemagne and topple its twisted regime, once and for all…and he wants Verity to join his quest for justice. But it’s a dangerous dance filled with traitors and deception, and their lives hang in the balance.
Trapped between generations of evil and an unknown future, the pair set out to discover the sacrifices it will take to conquer darkness, rescue those they love, and bring light to a broken kingdom.
Fans of The Nutcracker will be thrilled with this new twist on a familiar story.
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Chasing the Lutetia Light
Daughter of a nobleman. Renegade. Defender of innocents.
When a rash of disappearances strikes Elsbeth’s kingdom, she seeks to rescue the missing children at any cost. Even if that means striking out on her own and hiring a dangerous seafarer to help her.
Benjamin, a cocky young captain, will take most any job to run away from the past. But when his past and Elsbeth’s present collide, he struggles with the consequences.
When Elsbeth and Benjamin realize their battle is against a perilous stronghold, they realize success will take more than they’ve bargained. To conquer darkness takes sacrifice. Selflessness. A willingness to lay down one’s life.
Will the Lutetia Light make it to shore?
Anthologies
Man-eating monsters. Devils in the dark. Darkness lingering in the shadows.Can light overcome it? Can the weak and fearful stand strong?
This anthology will keep you reading past your bedtime with heartfelt stories of light illuminating the darkness.
A burst of inspiration drives a baker to build a tower-without a door. But it proves to be the perfect dwelling for a certain old woman. The question is - Why?
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The Depths We'll Go To
This oceanic collection spans genres, ranging from poems of love to stories that exhibit a visceral fear of what lurks in the depths.
we venture through for hope, unaware we’ll be given hurt'
'Here Lies Wanderland' is a collection of poetry from a
variety of writers. It explores reality through a creative lens,
turning the everyday into something much bigger.
The poems are as connected as they are unconnected, a
tapestry of humanity waiting to be sewn together.
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Seize the Fight
Honoring the Freedom of the Savior
Freedom. Liberty. Independence.
All forms of freedom have a cost. Seize the Fight pulls readers into an anthology of stories all showing freedom. An Army veteran crashing at his sister’s with hidden pain, a lieutenant returning home from overseas, siblings celebrating the Fourth even in the midst of turmoil, and many more stories all show a form of freedom and the fight it represents in some way.
Freedom can mean many things as is shown in this anthology with tales of finding freedom from the past, freedom from slavery, and freedom from sin through Christ who saves…
Galatians 5:1
Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
The Stars Weep Too
The stars weep too as they watch us lose ourselves in the fast flow of life. This collection is a return to the original muse of all our art; humanity and nature and the points where they cross.
These fifty poems are a love letter to the vast variety of emotions we experience when thinking about the universe. You're invited to find a cozy spot, look up at the stars, take a deep breath, and revel in the wonders, hope, fear, and heartbreak of the endless cosmos.
Perfect for fans of Moon Soul by Nathaniel Luscombe, Becky Chambers, and Alex Silvius collections.
Legends of Lanaria
"Mark my words, Evangeline; if you set foot outside this tower, you will surely die."
But as she delves into the world she barely knows, not everything her mother says adds up. Will they find the truth before it's too late? A Rapunzel retelling.
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The Healer of the Brigade
A mysterious healer and an injured soldier, both caught in the crossfire of war.
Word of Princess Evangeline’s return has swept the globe, and a mysterious enemy soon emerges, bent on conquering Lanaria and its surrounding nations. Horace is the first to board the warship sent to aid Absricht, determined to find out why the little country landed in the crosshairs so soon.
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Isla is outraged at the damages the Norvege war has caused to her own country, and she refuses to turn a blind eye. As the rageful warmonger focuses on finding the rest of the Prophecy before Lanaria, Isla joins forces with the countries fighting to end the war. Labeled a rebel, traitor, and runaway, she takes control where her clan leader would not, and recklessly leads a group of zealous soldiers into battle.
But pride has a deadly cost. And when Isla falls to rock bottom, she’s lured to the darkness her ancestors once worshipped. Will she succumb to death, or will she emerge victorious?
Inspired loosely by the biblical story of Deborah, grab this compelling story of conquering darkness and following God’s path no matter the cost.
Two kidnapped sisters and a secret to ruin a kingdom.
As the race to find the rest of the written prophecy continues, Asta, servant and sister to the Norvege queen, holds a grim secret.
When a Lanarian guard secretly arrives to infiltrate the castle, Asta must make a decision: betray her wounded sister, or betray the countries at risk of crumbling. Abused and broken by her sister’s rule, it should be an easy decision.
But yet another secret ruins the reality Asta once knew: the man commanding the Lanarian guard to capture and kill the Norvege queen…is their father. She is offered freedom and refuge—at the cost of her sister’s life. Will she accept the new world offered to her, or will her loyalty to her sister be her undoing?
Loosely inspired by the biblical story of Joseph, you won’t want to miss this touching story of humility, forgiveness, and healing from bitterness.
The Kingdom's True Queen is book four in the Legends of Lanaria series.
Midnight Hour Series (Makenzie Gray)
In the blink of an eye, Takvi's guardians disappear into thin air, along with thousands more. When the government swiftly moves to cover up the Disappearing, she and her siblings grapple with the truth behind what happened. They've been government loyalists their whole lives, but a split in opinions threatens to upend their lives permanently.
And Takvi is trapped in a vacuum where no solution leaves her or her family unscathed, which is the one thing she can't bear.
The illegal book their guardians left them has answers that agree with her siblings, but Takvi struggles to accept it. When the newly-formed government tightens its grip in eerie prophetic fashion, will she stand up or will she fold? Will any of it matter in the end of the world?
A compelling apocalyptic story on redemption, sibling bonds, and seeking truth in a corrupt world, Those With Ears is the first novel in the Midnight Hour series.
Gathering a ragtag group of Unmarked is dangerous, but it’s Takvi’s only chance at saving her brother. As they travel across apocalypse-torn North America, they learn the Order is growing darker and more powerful than they ever imagined. The group wants to save as many tortured Unmarked as possible - but Takvi refuses to face the wickedness she’s running from. One person can’t stop the End and Takvi won’t die for a lost cause. But everything has a cost these days. Will the rescue come at a cost too high to pay?
A gripping novel about sacrifice and redemption, The Hunger Games meets Mad Max in this post-apocalyptic ride.
Let Them Hear is Book 2 of the Midnight Hour series.
Two months after Noam’s prison escape, Tikvah and the group find themselves on a new mission: find Halfway, a strange place promising shelter, buried deep in abandoned woods. But there’s a price on their heads and the work of liberating Unmarked refugees grows harder. Riskier. Even Noam’s liberation was not a clean escape.
When a ghost from Noam’s imprisonment is assigned a deadly new mission, the team scrambles to stay ahead of the game. To make it worse, the horrors they’ve witnessed come calling in unusual ways. Will they have eyes to see the spiritual and physical war they fight against?
A story of sacrificial love and surviving in defiance when the world demands your death, EYES TO SEE is the third installment of the Midnight Hour series.
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Remnant Of Us
War is coming. Persecution has arrived. The New Beginning is a breath away.
In the aftermath of the worst natural disaster the world has seen, the survivors must persevere. Safety is no longer a guarantee for Marked and Unmarked alike, creating a deadly scramble to simply survive. As Tarik Azrael prepares for the war to end all wars, anyone without a Mark is gunned down for a reward: simple provisions to live another day. Desperation breeds dangerous insanity.
While the final violent birthing pangs of the Second Coming rock the world, Tikvah and her motley family makes one last radical attempt to follow the Sealed man's orders and serve Adonai. The cost will be steep. But the battle will be won.
UNTIL KINGDOM COME is the final installment of the Midnight Hour series.
Miscellaneous
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