What's New at Cross Reference Library? Timeless Hymns for Family Worship

Joni Eareckson Tada and Bobbie Wolgemuth wrote this book together. “Two girls with boys’ names,” they were the best of friends. Then Bobbie stepped into heaven. Now Joni invites you to rediscover some of our faith’s most beloved hymns, embrace their rich spiritual truths, and discover their fascinating historical background. Find comfort and strength in classics like “Holy, Holy, Holy!,” “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God,” and “How Great Thou Art.” Experience God’s love, hope, and peace as you worship together as a family.

When I saw that this book was donated for our library, I was really interested in what Joni and her dear friend Bobbie, had discovered. Along with being fascinated by history and what stories can be told through it, I also really love hymns! Before finding the church I’m in now, I grew up in a little country church with a congregation of 10 people. And during our worship time, everyone would pick up a hymnal and find song requests for my grandma—also the church pianist—to play as we sang along. I simply loved that part of the church service! It didn’t matter how good or bad anyone sang; the strength of the piano and of the lyrics in those beautiful hymns seemed to turn 10 people into 50. As I read through this book, I was excited to see Joni add some pretty interesting input to some of my favorite hymns. A good example is her commentary on, “How Great Thou Art:”

“You already know what it feels like to marvel at something like the mighty ocean or a massive thunderstorm or a sky filled with unbelievably bright stars. When you choose to follow Jesus, prepare to be blown away by His love and grace and power. The more time you spend in His presence, the more you will learn about Him and the more you will become like Him. You’ll experience His greatness and awesomeness, and you’ll live a life of excitement and adventure.”

In reading this book, you will find great thoughts about some of the best hymns ever written. And maybe the next time you are taking part in the worship service in your church, think about what the lyrics mean to you and your relationship with the Lord. So come on down to the Cross Reference Library and check out this beautiful book.

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Sweet Tea for the Soul - Porch swings. Watching fireflies. Sipping sweet tea on a warm summer night. These southern winks of contentment are just downright comforting! This 90-day devotional features truthful and whimsical reflections on what truly matters. Each devotion will bring your heart to a quiet, slowed-down pace and be a reminder of God’s calming, down-home peace in the midst of your busy life. The Lord will bless His people with peace. Psalm 29:11 KJV

Think, Learn, Succeed - Our thought lives have incredible power over our mental, emotional, and even physical well-being. Our thoughts can either limit us to what we believe we can do or release us to experience abilities rather than placing limits on ourselves, we will experience greater intellectual satisfaction, emotional control, and physical health. The only question is…how? Backed by up-to-date scientific research and practical insight, Dr. Caroline Leaf empowers you to take control of your thoughts in order to take control of your life. Dr. Leaf shows you how to combine three powerful tools in order to improve your memory, learning, cognitive and intellectual performance, work performance, physical performance, relationships, and emotional health. 

The Soldier’s Lady: 4 Historical Stories - Join four brave women making their home at Old West forts. Faced with daily challenges—and stubborn men—they bring civility to the frontier. 

• The Colonel’s Daughter by Gabielle Meyer: Major Nathaniel Ward is tasked with guarding his commanding officer’s daughter, Ally Benson, from the amorous soldiers at Fort Snelling, but he finds the hardest person to keep in line is himself.

• Frontier of Her Heart by Susanne Dietze: All is fair in love and war, but the contest of wills between fort cook Emily Sweet and assistant surgeon Boyd Braxton is all about pride, not romance…until they must work together to stop an epidemic. 

• Save the Last Word for Me by Lorna Seilstad: Determined schoolteacher Adelina Dante believes every man, woman, and and child deserves the opportunity to read and write, but when she approaches Colonel Isaac Scot about why he should allow his illiterate soldiers to attend classes, she’s the one who gets educated in matters of the heart. 

• Winning the Lady’s Heart by Janette Foreman: Annie Moreau arrives at Fort Garland to marry her soldier pen pal, Martin, but encounters two surprises—Martin died in battle and she’s been corresponding with dashing Captain Jefferson Gray all along. 

What's New at Cross Reference Library? The Beauty of Transformation

From Trauma to Transformation - We have all heard of posttraumatic stress, but few of us think about the possibility of posttraumatic growth—the positive ways in which we can be transformed by our trauma. Yet this is precisely what can happen when we face our hurts, struggle through the rubble of our broken relationships, and unearth the ways God wants to use our trials to refine and mature us. With compassion born from personal experience and insights gathered from years of counseling others, licensed marriage and family therapist Debra Laaser helps you stop asking “Why me?” and start asking “Lord, what would you have me learn from this?” She offers tangible steps you can take to move beyond daily survival toward a future in which you can thrive. With Laaser’s expert guidance, you can experience positive life change not in spite of the hurt, loss, or betrayal you have undergone, but because of it.  

The Lady’s Mine - When Kathryn Walsh arrives in tiny Calvada, a mining town nestled in the Sierra Nevadas, falling in love is the furthest thing from her mind. Banished from Boston by her wealthy stepfather, she has come to claim an inheritance from the uncle she never knew: a defunct newspaper office on a main street overflowing with brothels and saloons, and a seemingly worthless mine. Moved by the oppression of the local miners and their families, Kathryn decides to relaunch her uncle’s newspaper—and then finds herself in the middle of a maelstrom, pitted against Calvada’s most powerful men. But Kathryn intends to continue to say—and publish—whatever she pleases, especially when she knows she’s right. Matthias Beck, owner of a local saloon and hotel, has a special interest in the new lady in town. He instantly recognizes C.T. Walsh’s same tenacity in the beautiful and outspoken redhead—and knows all too well how dangerous that family trait can be. While Kathryn may be right about Calvada’s problems, her righteousness could also get her killed. But when the handsome hotelier keeps finding himself on the same side of the issues as the opinionated Miss Walsh, Matthias’s restless search for purpose becomes all about answering the call of his heart. Everyone may be looking to strike it rich in this lawless boomtown, but it’s a love more precious than gold that will ultimately save them all. 

Ever since our first steps as babies, we’ve always been moving toward something. And in some cases, we’re also moving away from things too. Whether the situation be good or bad, how we move into that next step is very important. In From Trauma to Transformation author Debra Laaser leads her readers on a path to healing and growth. What’s fascinating is how Debra lays that path out. In the first four chapters she helps define what pain is and how aiming to survive the pain that comes from our personal traumas. But then chapters 5 & 6 take a turn of exploration being titled Exploring You—The Person You Take Everywhere and Practical Steps to Exploring You. I really like this because she helps point out what the root of the trauma is and then when it is established that the pain doesn’t own ‘you’ Debra helps target who ‘you’ are. Our other new addition this week is The Lady’s Mine by bestselling author Francine Rivers. When she is disinherited by her stepfather, Kathryn Walsh is sent west and every step she takes becomes more and more dangerous and unexpected than the last. But even though she would never have chosen that path for herself, Kathryn began to realize that the Lord’s plan for her included a long road full of wagon ruts and a town looking for gold in all the wrong places. So if guys are thinking, “Oh, her theme for this post has something to do with steps, right?” Well, sort of. The theme for this week lies solely in the title of the first book I discussed, From Trauma to Transformation. You know, I’ve always had a fascination with butterflies; their beauty and especially their lifecycle. And I know what you are thinking, “Great. She’s doing the old butterfly analogy that has to do with transformation. I’ve heard that one before.” Well, before you scroll away, I want you to take this into consideration: God is transforming you into something beautiful! It may feel like you're just crawling along this branch hungry for another leaf, or maybe you even feel like you’ve been sitting in that chrysalis for too long. But if you trust in God and continue to grow in your faith with Him, your beautiful wings will take you to great heights. So come on into the Cross Reference Library and check out these uplifting books!

What's New at Cross Reference Library? Keeping Hope in the Dark Times

Christmas at Carnton - Recently widowed, Aletta Prescott struggles to hold life together for herself and her six-year-old son. With the bank threatening to evict them, she discovers an advertisement for the Women’s Relief Society auction and applies for a position—only to discover it’s been filled. Then a chance meeting with a wounded soldier offers another opportunity—and friendship. But can Aletta trust this man? Captain Jake Winston, a revered Confederate sharpshooter, suffered a head wound at the Battle of Chickamauga. When doctors deliver their diagnosis, Jake fears losing not only his greatest skill but his very identity. As he heals, Jake is ordered to assist with a local Women’s Relief Society auction. He respectfully objects. Kowtowing to a bunch of “crinolines” isn’t his idea of soldiering. But orders are orders, and he soon discovers this group of ladies—one, in particular—is far more than he bargained for. Set against the backdrop and history of the Carnton Plantation in Franklin, Tennessee, Christmas at Carnton is a story of hope renewed and faith restored at Christmas. 

Live not by Lies - Over the past few years, America has seen the rise of a chilling “soft totalitarianism—something more Brave New World than Nineteen Eighty-Four. Identity politics are beginning to encroach on every aspect of life. Progressives attempt to marginalize conservatives, traditional Christians, and other dissenters, sneering at the idea of civil liberties protecting their beliefs. Corporations now censor opinions with which they disagree. Technology is inching us toward a surveillance state, and consumerism has dulled our spirits and made us willing to accept a secularism imposed not by gulags but by “softer” means. Despite these warning signs, many American Christians fail to recognize the dangers, and even fewer know what they can do to resist. Meanwhile, the men and women who survived communist oppression have been sounding the alarm that their souls and their liberties are already at stake. In Live not by Lies, Dreher amplifies the alarm and explains why it is so hard for us to recognize the threat of totalitarianism in our own time. He lays out the steps for resistance and shares stories of modern-day dissidents who preserved their faith and their integrity during a time of tyranny, revealing: 

• How to keep your sons and daughters in the faith, like the Benda family, whose six children remained devoted in the face of persecution

• How to stand firm, like Father Jerzy Popietuszko, who gave up his life to speak out against the the communist regime

• How to let go of bitterness, like physician Silvester Krcmery, who prayed for his captors every day of his thirteen-year prison sentence

• How to live not by lies, like Russia’s Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who refused to affirm anything he knew to be untrue, even at the price of exile

Too many of us are sleeping through the erosion of our freedoms, assuming that totalitarianism can’t happen in America. Live Not by Lies is the wake-up call we need—and will equip us for the long resistance.

Have you ever had that heavy feeling where it felt like life was throwing all it had at you? And all you know is that hope feels more out of reach than ever. Well, the people in these two new selections, whether they be fictional or real, feel that way right before they get their hope back. Within the first chapter of Christmas at Carnton, Aletta Prescott finds herself: without a job, soon to be without a home, missing her husband, and wondering how she is going to raise her son all by herself. The stress level is truly demonstrated to the readers when Aletta is, “wishing the Lord couldn’t see the doubts she courted, even in the midst of struggling to believe.” As the story goes on Aletta meets Captain Jake Winston, who becomes a kindred in life’s roller coaster of struggles. As they became closer, they began to regain hope in their circumstances, and realized that God is bigger than any trial. The other new book that I dove into this week was Live Not By Lies by Rod Dreher. This subtitle explains what Dreher intends to tell his readers, “Survivors of Soviet Totalitarianism have a warning for us: It can happen here!” The definition of totalitarianism is: the political concept that the citizen should be totally subject to an absolute state authority. So, Dreher spends the first four chapters going in-depth into what totalitarianism is and how it affects those that it hits. Once again we are shown, not just two people, but a multitude, who are craving to be free from the oppression that seems to crush their spirits more and more. But then Dreher uses the rest of his book to show how priests and families helped generate hope for their people. Another book that talks about enduring life’s roller coaster is the book of Job. In chapter one we read that Job has many things to be grateful for: a wife, sons and daughters, land, animals, and an undying faith in the Lord. Job had everything that a man of that time period could ask for, that is, until the test began. The livestock and the land perished, his wife and children suffered terribly, and up to the end of it all his faith in God almost died too. But the devil couldn’t win that easily. In chapters 39-42 the Lord speaks with Job saying, “Hey, I know you just went through a lot of horrible stuff and you are beginning to lose hope, but I want you to remember something. I haven’t left you through all of this and will never leave you from this day forward. Don’t you know that I brought the world into being, from the smallest to the biggest detail that you can see. So don’t lose hope, Job, and never forget that I am in control.” Have you ever had that heavy feeling where it felt like life was throwing all it had at you? And all you know is that hope feels more out of reach than ever. So, do you want to know how to survive life’s roller coaster? Don’t ever forget that God is in control, and that his plan for you is becoming more and more clear every day. So come on down to the Cross Reference Library and check out these great page turners!

“I was always complaining about the ruts in the road until I realized that the ruts are the road.”

—Unknown

What's New at Cross Reference Library? New James L. Rubart Books

Book of Days - “You will lose your mind. When it starts happening…you must find the Book of Days.” When Cameron’s dying father delivers this message, he brushes it off. Lose his memory? He’s only twenty-five. Find a book that doesn’t even exist. Foolishness. Nothing more than the product of his father’s dementia. But now, eight years after his father’s death, it’s happening. Chunks of Cameron’s life are just—gone. Even memories of his wife, killed two years ago, have slipped away. Could it be…? Is his father’s eerie prediction coming true? Desperate, Cameron is determined to fulfill his father’s last wish. He will find the Book of Days. But when a lead takes him to the small town of Three Peaks, Oregon, Cameron realizes dark secrets are at work. The townspeople, warm as apple pie at first, turn cold as liquid nitrogen when Cameron mentions the Book. As his mind works against him, Cameron discovers that friends may be enemies. And the one person Cameron can’t stand? She might be his strongest ally. But there are others seeking the Book. Others who will stop at nothing to get it. And they’re closer than Cameron ever imagined…

Soul’s Gate - What if you could travel inside another person’s soul? To battle for them. To be part of Jesus healing their deepest wounds. To help set them free, to step boldly into their divinely designed future. Thirty years ago that’s exactly what Reece Roth did. Until tragedy shattered his life and ripped away his future. Now God has drawn Reece out of the shadows to fulfill a prophecy spoken over him three decades ago. A prophecy about three warriors with the potential to change the world…if Reece will face his deepest regret and teach them what he has learned. They gather at a secluded and mysterious ranch deep in the mountains of Colorado, where they will learn to see the spiritual world around them with stunning clarity—and how to step into the supernatural. Their training is only the beginning. The four have a destiny to pursue, a freedom even Reece doesn’t fully fathom. But they have an enemy hell-bent on destroying them and he’ll stop at nothing to keep them from their quest for true freedom and the coming battle of souls. 

The Chair - If you were given an ancient-looking chair and told Jesus Christ made it, would you believe it? When an elderly lady shows up in Corin Roscoe’s antiques store and gives him a chair she claims was built by Christ, he scoffs. But when a young boy is miraculously healed after sitting in the chair, he stops laughing and starts to wonder: Could this chair heal the person whose life I destroyed twelve years ago? As word spreads of the boy’s healing, a megachurch pastor is determined to manipulate Corin into turning over the chair. But the mysterious woman who gave him the piece insinuates it is Corin’s destiny to guard the chair above everything else. But why? Desperate, he turns to the one person he can trust, a college history professor who knows more about the legend of the chair than he reveals. Searching for truth about the artifact and the unexplained phenomena surrounding it, Corin soon realizes he isn’t the only one willing to do almost anything to possess the power that seems to surround the chair.

What's New at Cross Reference Library? The Prodigal Project series

Genesis - On just another Sunday, a man joins a group of friends for a golf game. A working mother, trying to balance career and home, skips weekly services. An internet junkie scours the web looking for comforting news but finds only unrest. Ordinary people who live their lives in an unsettled time, like most, are too overwhelmed by their own concerns to register the groundswell of changes taking place everywhere—until the instant when millions around the world disappear. Immediately, life after the Rapture becomes a chaotic battle for survival. Into the void steps Azul Dante, the charismatic leader of the Prodigal Project. He shines a light in the darkness of the End Times, his new world order representing a return to the promised land of the past. And in the beginning, seven hopeful men and women set out separately to find salvation in the Prodigal Project. Instead, they initiate a series of personal trials that will ultimately prove to be the sternest test of their souls…

Exodus - In the twinkling of an eye, their lives changed forever. Husbands, wives, children, all lost in what was first called “the disappearance.” Now many understand that with millions of Christians called home, the Rapture has irrevocably torn the fabric of their lives. They wander, rootless and searching, in the wake of events nearly too powerful, too overwhelming to comprehend. Some set out on a personal odyssey to reconnect with family, their past, with some semblance of order in a world menaced by the Muslim mujahideen. Offering hope, Azul Dante and his Prodigal Project remain a beacon in the swirling maelstrom of uncertainty that threatens to engulf nations, ideologies, and faiths. While on quiet street corners, in darkened homes, abandoned offices, wherever two or more are gathered, a small band of believers begins again to spread the Word. 

Numbers - Special Agent John Jameson has been assigned a daunting task—to take out the vicious leader of the militant Islamic mujahideen that has been menacing the world in the wake of the Rapture. Caught between his duty to country and his newfound faith, Jameson has learned a terrible secret. Desperate to relay this information to the highest levels of the American government, Jameson enlists the aid of journalist Cat Early. Caught up in chaotic events that neither could have ever imagined, the pair struggle to have their voices heard in the tumult of a world on the brink of catastrophic global warfare. Only one man seemingly holds the power to bring peace—the charismatic world leader Azul Dante. Global in scope yet powerfully focused on the lives of seven individuals struggling with issues of faith and allegiance to their country, Numbers, the third book of the Prodigal Project series, proves once again that: God can use even the most broken of vessels. 

Kings - Based on a Biblical interpretation of the Rapture, Kings continues the story of those caught up in the events following this world-upending event. Azul Dante, the increasingly controversial figure whom some nations hope will restore order to the world, recovers from a recent assassination attempt. Behind the scenes, another and even more sinister force exerts its powerful influence at a gathering of ten world leaders. While they meet, other events prefiguring the start of the last days have armies poised for battle. Meanwhile, the members of the seven set out to spread the good news of Christianity and salvation in a world desperate for answers and assurance. 

What we know about The Rapture and what is actually going to happen seem to be two totally different things. Authors like Jerry B. Jenkins and Tim Lahaye are world famous for their Left Behind series, which is filled with so many theories on what will happen to those who don’t believe in God and what the Bible teaches. And that is exactly what authors Ken Abraham and Daniel Hart dig into as well. But instead of putting us in the perspective of a confused airline pilot , Abraham and Hart take a different approach. They kind of played with the idea of: what if there was this organization called, The Prodigal Project, that gave those who remained on Earth some sort of “hope.” But the interesting thing about that storyline is, how can these characters gain any real hope without Jesus? And that makes me wonder what the leader of The Prodigal Project, Azul Dante, is really planning to gain by the giving the world false hope. In reality though, we also have an enemy who loves giving us false hope too. And he will stop at nothing to make sure that God’s people are distracted from where God wants them to be. But we can’t let that happen, because the hope we have in Jesus is so much more amazing than any kind of false hope that the devil tries to give us. So come on down to the Cross Reference Library and discover this interesting new series!

What's New at Cross Reference Library? On Fire for Christ

Unquenchable - What is your faith today? Is it an early spark, just beginning to flicker? A raging bonfire? Smoldering coals? Does your love for God burn so brightly that others are drawn to its radiance and warmed by its heat? Or has your passion cooled, your light dimmed, and your fire faded to cold, gray ashes? Throughout history, God has used the image of fire to represent his awesome power, and one day you will stand in God’s holy presence and see his burning love for you face-to-face. But until then, there is a life to be lived on earth, and the flame of your faith that once burned so brightly can falter in its storms. Whatever the condition of your faith, whether you burn with a feeble flicker or a growing passion, you can discover how to draw nearer to the heat of God’s eternal flame and fan the Spirit within you. Bestselling author Carol Kent takes you into God’s Word and into your own story, revealing the true power of the fire God has placed in you—a power that will stir your desire and embolden you to spark wildfires beyond your wildest imagination. 

The Twelfth Imam - Tensions are rising in the Middle East. Iran’s president vows to annihilate the United States and Israel. Israel’s prime minister says someone must hit Iran’s nuclear sites “before it’s too late.” The American president warns against a preemptive strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities and says negotiations are the key to finding peace. And amid it all, rumors are swirling throughout the region of a mysterious religious cleric claiming to be the Islamic messiah known as the Mahdi or the Twelfth Imam. Word of his miracles, healings, signs, and wonders is spreading like wildfire. CIA operative David Shirazi was born for this moment. He is recruited and sent into Tehran with one objective: use all means necessary to disrupt Iran’s nuclear weapons program, without leaving American fingerprints and without triggering an apocalyptic new war. But time is running out. 

Damascus Countdown - Israel successfully launches a first strike on Iran, taking out all of their nuclear sites and six of their nuclear warheads. American president William Jackson threatens to support a U.N. Security Council resolution condemning the Jewish State for unprovoked and unwarranted acts of aggression. And the Twelfth Imam prepares to order a genocidal retaliation. Meanwhile, CIA operative David Shirazi has infiltrated the Iranian regime and intercepted top secret intelligence indicating that two Iranian nuclear warheads survived the attack and have been moved to a secure and undisclosed location. In danger not only from the ongoing war between Israel and Iran but also from the increasingly hostile governments in multiple countries, Shirazi and his team are in a race against time to find the remaining nuclear warheads before the most cataclysmic event in the history of the Middle East comes to pass.

Celebrating Father's Day at Cross Reference Library!

Dynamic Dads - You know what it takes to win in the workplace, but what about at home? Are you as determined to win at home as you are at work? Have you learned to balance the deadlines and demands of your job with the tremendous task of fathering? It’s a difficult balancing act—keeping your priorities right and being the best you can be in both worlds. With a little bit of knowledge, a strong commitment, and lots of prayer, you can be a Dynamic Dad, someone who wins at work and at home. In Dynamic Dads, Paul Pettit gives you everything you need to formulate your own strategy for pulling together a winning home team. Whatever else you accomplish on this planet, your role as a father deserves your very best. 

The Heart of a Father - Each brief story in this collection reveals the loving, wise, or comforting heart of an earthly father while pointing us to our heavenly Father, who is all-loving, all-wise, and all-comforting. As the stories tug at our heartstrings or make us smile, they reveal God and what He desires our relationship with Him to be. For “If you…know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your Father who is in heaven give what is good to those who ask Him!” (Matthew 7:11 NASB). For all dads who love their kids and all the grown-up kids who love their dads, these sixty stories will be read again and again, savored, and shared. They’ll bring a smile or tears—or both together—with accounts of a father’s provision for his family, his forgiveness, his hugs, and his companionship. These stories, written by many favorite authors, are perfect for devotional reading. 

Heart to Heart: Stories for Dads - There is no substitute for the love of a father, whether it’s the love of a biological father, a beloved teacher, a mentor, a pastor, or another father figure. Heart to Heart: Stories for Dads is an inspiring collection of classic short stories that will cause you to reflect about why the love of a father is so important—and so special. From the tale of the father who learns, almost too late, how to receive the love his little daughter offers him in a paper bag—to the heart-tugging story of the dad facing his first Christmas after a much-loved son is killed in action during World War II—these stories will grab your heart and touch your soul. Compiled by Joe L. Wheeler, long-time collector of great stories and books, this collection has been beautifully illustrated with classic engravings and woodcuts, each carefully chosen to add the perfect touch of remembrance.

What's New at Cross Reference Library? A New Jody Hedlund Novel!

The Heart of a Cowboy - Brilliant scientist Linnea Newberry is on the adventure of a lifetime, traveling the Sante Fe Trail with her grandfather, Dr. Powell, on a botanical expedition to Colorado Territory. She longs to be valued for her contributions and not seen as a helpless liability. But at every calamity she faces, her grandfather threatens to send her home. After watching his ma suffer and die in childbirth, Flynn McQuaid has sworn off women and marriage forever. Headed west to start a new life, he has his hands full not only taking care of his younger siblings but also delivering cattle to his older brother. He doesn’t need more complications. When Flynn rescues Linnea from drowning during a river crossing, Dr. Powell promptly hires Flynn—unbeknownst to Linnea—to act as her bodyguard for the rest of the trip. As Flynn fights against the many dangers of the trail, he soon finds himself in the greatest danger of all—falling for a woman he’s determined not to love.

What's New at Cross Reference Library?

The Forgotten Life of Eva Gordon - Failing memory has forced Eva Gordon to move in with her granddaughter, Breezy. But Eva hates the bustle of Boston, not to mention having someone else in her business. All she wants to do is move back to her quiet, cozy Cape Cod home and be left alone. Then Breezy announces she’s getting married, and they’re moving to her husband’s rundown family farm, where he lives with an elderly uncle. They’ll be one big—but not necessarily happy—family. It’s all too much for Eva. Too much change, too much togetherness, too much of an overcrowded life she never wanted. But as her desire for privacy collides with her worsening memory, Eva may find herself in a pickle she can’t get out of. 

Breath as Prayer - Find hope amid anxiety through the spiritual practice of breath prayer in this beautifully illustrated and practical guide to connecting body, mind, and spirit during times of stress. Breath as Prayer will lead you through the practice and the proven health benefits of Christian breath prayer: intentional prayers centered around Scripture that focus our minds on Christ as we calm our bodies through breathing. 

Breath as Prayer offers: 

• More than 80 breath prayers focused on Scripture, along with brief meditations

• Gorgeous original full-color illustrations

• A quick-start how-to guide to refer to as needed

• Guidance on how to implement a breath prayer practice 

• The science behind breath work and prayer and why it works 

• An invitation to reflect on the effect of breath prayers on your body

God created our bodies, minds, and spirits to be intimately connected with one another. Purpose-filled breathing is one of the most effective, calming ways to integrate all aspects of who we are, especially during times of intense stress. Breath as Prayer invites you to the crossroads of Christian contemplative practice, Scripture, psychology, and science to deepen your faith, bring peace to your body, and discover a new reliance on Christ. Breathe deeply, lean into God’s Word, and discover why every breath can be an invitation to pray.