What’s New in the Cross Reference Library? Chaos in the End

Untaken - If the Rapture just happened, would you be Untaken? What would you do? Your husband is missing; you don’t want to be pregnant; you witness a horrific plane crash, and you learn all babies and young children have disappeared. Twenty-eight-year-old Sarah Colton may think she is in control, but she’s far from the truth, not realizing the Rapture has occurred. Enter The writer’s mind as she deals with this imminent, amazing event.

Jacob’s Trouble - Paradoxically, Jacob’s horrific circumstances dynamically unfold through a compelling love story of many dimensions. Jacob Zen ambitiously climbs toward a top position within the US government, only to have his plans explode into chaos. He reacts through computer technology with INterface, human-kind’s ultimately evolved beast-state government of absolute control. Drug-induced flashbacks plunge him into that past time when there was yet hope—while life with Karen promised a future filled with great hope and expectation. When Jacob’s life falls apart in one terrifying instant, events viciously sweep him toward a savage era beyond comprehension or endurance. He struggles mightily through his nightmarish world while powerful forces push and pull at him as he tries desperately to find Karen, the love of his life, who has been taken from him by the monstrous dictatorship. Yet other forces even more powerful influence his every thought, his every action, and propel him unerringly through the vortex of history toward some seemingly predetermined destination.

What’s New in the Cross Reference Library? Emotionally Healthy Spirituality book and Workbook

Emotionally Healthy Spirituality - Peter Scazzero learned the hard way: You can’t be spiritually mature while remaining emotionally immature. Though Scazzero was an experienced pastor of a growing church, his life and faith remained emotionally unhealthy. Like so many in the church, he routinely: 

• avoided healthy conflict in the name of keeping the peace

• ignored and suppressed emotions

• used work for God as an excuse to run from God

• lived without limits

In this bestselling book, Scazzero outlines the top ten symptoms of emotionally unhealthy spirituality. He then unpacks core biblical principles to guide you into an experience of lasting, beneath-the-surface transformation in your relationship with Christ. 

Emotionally Healthy Spirituality Course Workbook - In this workbook, Scazzero helps you unpack core biblical principles to guide you into an experience of lasting, beneath-the-surface transformation in your relationship with Christ. The workbook includes session introductions, group discussion questions, application, and between sessions personal study. Join us for a powerful journey that will walk you through a door that will change forever the way you love God, others, and yourself.

What’s New in the Cross Reference Library? The Wyoming Sunrise Series by Mary Connealy

Forged in Love - Mariah Stover is left for dead and with no memory when the Deadeye Gang robs the stagecoach she’s riding in, killing both her father and brother. As she takes over her father’s blacksmith shop and tries to move forward, she soon finds herself in jeopardy and wondering—does someone know she witnessed the robbery and is still alive? Handsome and polished Clint Roberts escaped to western Wyoming, leaving his painful memories behind. Hoping for a fresh start, he opens a diner where he creates fine dishes, but is met with harsh resistance from the townsfolk, who prefer to stick to their old ways. Clint and Mariah are drawn together by the trials they face in town, and Clint is determined to protect Mariah at all costs when danger descends upon her home. As threats pursue them from every side, will they survive to build a life forged in love? 

The Laws of Attraction - If widowed seamstress Nell Armstrong has to make one more pair of boring chaps for the cowboys in her tiny Wyoming town, she might just quit the business altogether! So meeting Brand Nolte, a widower struggling to raise three girls on his own, seems like her dream come true. Brand has no idea how to dress the girls properly, and Nell finally has a chance to create beautiful outfits while also teaching the girls to sew. But Nell is much more than a seamstress, and the investigative skills and knowledge she picked up alongside her late lawman husband soon become critical when a wounded stagecoach-robbery survivor is brought to town. As danger closes in from all sides, Nell and Brand must discover who has a target on them before it’s too late. 

Marshaling Her Heart - Becky Pruitt has always prided herself on knowing everything that’s happening on her successful ranch, so an unexpected admission from her foreman, Nate Paxton, comes as quite a surprise. With the notorious Deadeye Gang on the loose, Nate—a former U.S. Marshal—believes Becky’s ranch is the best spot for a group of Marshals to use as a base to hunt them down. The timing couldn’t be more crucial for the town of Pine Valley, and Becky feels obligated to help. But after escaping the grasp of her harsh father, she’s never liked giving up control, of her life or her ranch. If there’s anyone she can trust with her ranch, and her heart, it might be Nate. But the outlaws won’t go away quietly, and as danger draws ever nearer, Becky and Nate are faced with impossible choices that will test their growing bond.

What’s New in the Cross Reference Library? Additions To Multiple Book Series’

A Nir Tavor Mossad Thriller: Out of The Far North by Amir Tsarfati & Steve Yohn  - Tensions are at a breaking point. The Western markets that once relied on Russian gas have turned to Israel for their energy needs. Furious, Russia surreptitiously moves to protect their interests by using their newfound ally, Iran, and Iran’s proxy militias. As Israel’s elite fighting forces and the Mossad go undercover, they detect that The Kremlin is planning a major attack against Israel. Hunting for clues, Mossad agents Nir Tavor and Nicole le Roux plunge themselves in the treacherous underworld of Russian oligarch money, power, and decadence. With each danger they face, le Roux’s newfound Christian faith grows stronger. And battle-weary Tavor—haunted by dreams from his past—must confront memories and pain he’d sought to bury. In this electrifying thriller, hostilities explode as Tavor and le Roux fight to prevent a devastating conflict. Will they be able to outwit their enemies, or will their actions have catastrophic consequences? And how can Tavor’s Kidon team possibly survive when forces beyond the Mossad’s control step in and turn the whole operation upside down? 

For more from this series, check out the following books from the Cross Reference Library:

1. Operation Joktan

The Fairytale Romance Series: The Orphan’s Wish by Melanie Dickerson - Orphaned and alone, Aladdin travels from the streets of his Arab homeland to a strange, faraway place. Growing up in an orphanage, he meets young Lady Kirstyn, whose father is the powerful Duke of Hagenheim. Despite the difference in stations, Aladdin quickly becomes Kirstyn’s favorite companion, and their childhood friendship grows into a bond that time and opposition cannot break. Even as a child, Aladdin works hard, learning all he can from his teachers. Through his integrity, intelligence, and sheer tenacity, he earns a position serving as the duke’s steward. But that isn’t enough to erase the shame of being forced to steal as a small child—or the fact that he’s an orphan with no status. If he ever wants to feel equal to his beautiful and generous friend Kirstyn, he must leave Hagenheim and seek his fortune. Yet once Aladdin departs, Lady Kirstyn becomes a pawn in a terrible plot. Now, Aladdin and Kirstyn must rely on their bond to save her from unexpected danger. But will saving Kirstyn cost Aladdin his newfound status and everything he’s worked so hard to obtain?

For more from this series, check out the following books from the Cross Reference Library:

1. The Healer’s Apprentice

2. The Merchant’s Daughter

3. The Fairest Beauty

4. The Captive Maiden

5. The Princess Spy

Leah’s Garden: A Season of Harvest by Lauraine Snelling - Larkspur Nielsen is determined to keep her family homestead running and to fulfill their dream of starting a seed catalog, with or without her siblings’ help. With Isaac McTavish back in town, Lark finds herself at odds with her own heart and her determination to shoulder the burden of carrying her responsibilities alone. But Isaac is set on convincing her that he’s here to stay and she doesn’t have to carry everything by herself. As a new romance blossoms between Lilac and an old schoolmate and the other Nielsen sisters are busy caring for their families, Lark bears more and more responsibility on the farm. When a long-feared threat returns and Lark approaches the breaking point, the life she has always dreamed of is in danger of disappearing forever. 

For more from this series, check out the following books from the Cross Reference Library:

1. The Seeds of Change

2. A Time to Bloom

3. Fields of Bounty

What’s New in the Cross Reference Library?

Cling - Deuteronomy 13:4, “You shall follow the Lord your God and fear Him; and you shall keep His commandments, listen to His voice, serve Him, and cling to Him.”  There is something about that word cling—so many of God’s commands can be satisfied from a distance, but clinging puts us in His face. It’s personal. And that’s what this book is about—choosing a lifestyle of intimacy with God. Author Kim Cash Tate spent years seeking fulfillment in her relationships and career, only to find herself disappointed by the imperfections of life. But then she discovered clinging to God. She learned to trust Him, cultivating a love relationship that will last forever. Encouraging you to live in the fullness of God’s love, Cling shares wisdom from biblical examples and the author’s personal experience. It shows the importance of the spiritual disciplines of prayer and Bible reading, and how to grow your faith and embrace an ongoing closeness with God. Discover “clinging to God”—which is the source of ultimate blessing and protection, of inexplicable joy and peace. 

10 Choices Successful Couples Make - Is every marriage doomed to experience one conflict after another? Certainly not, says Dr. Ron Welch. In this practical and encouraging book, he outlines the 10 specific choices you can make to minimize conflict and increase joy in your marriage. With his expert guidance, you’ll learn how to:

• Communicate accurately and positively

• Choose forgiveness over unforgiveness

• Understand your marriage type

• And make decisions more effectively

Whether you are engaged, newly married, or have been married for decades, you’ll find that this book will transform your relationship.

What’s New in the Cross Reference Library? Lessons to Learn

Unquestioned Answers - Have you heard these Christian cliches or found yourself using them? These simplistic statements often go unquestioned. But are they actually true? What do they really mean? Join Dr. Jeff Myers to rethink ten popular Christian cliches: 

1. “Just have faith.”

2. “It’s just me and Jesus.”

3. “It’s not my place to judge.” 

4. “Love the sinner, hate the sin.”

5. “This world has nothing for me.”

6. “Jesus was a social justice warrior.”

7. “God said it; I believe it; that settles it.”

8. “Christianity is a relationship, not a religion.” 

9. “God will heal our land if we humble ourselves and pray.”

10. “God is good all the time—all the time God is good.”

Go beyond unquestioned answers to dip deep into biblical truth. 

Blessin’s and Lessons - A very wise man once said, “Our God specializes in working through normal people who believe in a supernatural God who will do His work through them.” This book is about some of those people who are so worth knowing and about the remarkable and wonderful things God was able to do through them. At the same time, God was teaching them His ways. Lessons are sometimes long and hard, but it is possible to cut down the learning time by learning from others. Lessons have been included in hopes that you will make more rapid progress in your goal to become a person God can work through to show His power to this generation and His glory to the generations yet to come.

What’s New in the Cross Reference Library?

Alive in the Spirit - Is the Holy Spirit active in your life? Many people look to extraordinary experiences as evidence of the Holy Spirit. But what happens when the experience ends? How can we be filled with the Spirit every day in the ordinary things we do? In never-before-published material taken from A.W. Tozer’s sermons, Alive in the Spirit answers these questions and, in a balanced perspective, explores what the Spirit’s involvement in your life should look like. Many talk about being filled with the Holy Spirit, but few accept God’s conditions. Tozer lays down these requirements in his trademark bold and wise way. Though every Christian has the Spirit, not every Christian is filled with the Spirit. Knowing the difference will change your life. 

The Battle Plan for Prayer - Inspired by the Kendrick Brothers’ movie War Room, this exciting resource from the #1 best-selling team behind The Love Dare and The Resolution for Men is designed to help anyone—of any age—become a powerful person of prayer. Including scriptural examples and personal testimonies, The Battle Plan for Prayer explains the fundamentals of how effective prayer works, inspires readers toward a closer relationship with God, and shows them how to develop specific prayer strategies for life. Prayer should become your first plan of attack in all of life’s battles, not your last resort. If you want to walk in greater victory while enjoying mightily answered prayer on a regular basis, it’s time to engage with God at a deeper level. Then you can discover firsthand that nothing is beyond His reach, and that knowing Him is the greatest reward of all. 

What’s New in the Cross Reference Library? Being Money-wise

The Legacy Journey - What does the Bible really say about money? About wealth? Much does God expect you to give to others? How does wealth affect your friendships, marriage, and children? How much is “enough?” There’s a lot of bad information in our culture today about wealth—and the wealthy. Worse, there’s a growing backlash in America against our most successful citizens. But why? To many, wealth is seen as the natural result of hard work and wise money management. To others, wealth is viewed as the ultimate, inexcusable sin. This has left many godly men and women confused about what to do with the resources God has put in their care. They were able to build wealth using God’s ways of handling money, but then they are left feeling guilty about it. Is this what God had in mind? The Legacy Journey takes you deep into God’s Word, revealing His perspective on wealth, your personal and family legacy, and how he wants to use you to further His kingdom work around the world. You can truly live—and leave—a legacy. The journey starts today. 

Your New Money Mindset - Many of us live with ongoing and unexamined tension related to money. Few of us have really escaped the credit-card trap or freed ourselves from worries about having enough for the future. Coauthors Brad Hewitt, CEO of Thrivent Financial, and Dr. Jim Moline, licensed psychologist, believes we haven’t spent enough time examining our fundamental attitudes toward money and aligning those attitudes to our core values. Before we can remake our money habits, we need to start with our hearts. In Your New Money Mindset, Brad and Jim guide you through the New Money Mindset Assessment, which will help pinpoint what attitudes about money you could work on in order to develop an openhearted attitude to life.

What’s New in the Cross Reference Library? Living for the Mission

Brothers, We Are Not Professionals - In this updated and expanded edition of Brothers, We Are Not Professionals, John Piper pleads with fellow pastors to abandon professionalization of the pastorate and pursue the prophetic call of the Bible for radical ministry. “We pastors are being killed by the professionalizing of the pastoral ministry. The mentality of the professional is not the mentality of the prophet. It is not the mentality of the slave of Christ. Professionalism has nothing to do with the essence and heart of the Christian ministry. The more professional we long to be, the more spiritual death we will leave in or wake. For there is no professional childlikeness (Matt. 18:3); there is no professional tenderheartedness (Eph. 4:32); there is no professional panting after God (Ps. 42:11).” 

“Brothers, we are not professionals. We are outcasts. We are aliens and exiles in the world (1 Peter 2:11). Our citizenship is in heaven, and we wait with eager expectation for the Lord (Phil. 3:20). You cannot professionalize the love for His appearing without killing it. And it is being killed.” 

“The World sets the agenda of the professional man; God sets the agenda of the spiritual man. The strong wine of Jesus Christ explodes the wineskins of professionalism.”  

Unchained - Ron and his wife, Jean were watching the news showing the emaciated body of a dead teenage girl carried from a field in Thailand. Horrified by the devastation ensnaring a mass populace of Cambodian refugees, during the “Killing Fields” of 1979. Ron and Jean were heart-stricken. At that moment, God spoke in Ron a clear directive that began his harrowing forty-year mission to serve the needy in forsaken regions worldwide. Unchained is Ron’s real and raw experiences in the center of massive human displacement, starvation, illness, injury, death, and grief—the atrocities of wars, natural disasters, disease, congenital malformation, and the work of those who gave selflessly to save and assist millions of lives. Unchained also carries readers through Ron’s journey of overcoming childhood abuse and hopelessness. Releasing the past by forgiving and learning to love those who hurt him freed Ron to find true meaning and purpose in life—helping and serving others. The healing of Ron’s heart ultimately readied him for God’s extraordinary and unexpected call: to found and lead Medical Teams International, which continues to serve the needs of those who otherwise lack medical care, food, clean water, a voice, and love. Ron has witnessed God’s miraculous work among the worst human conditions and discovered the source of utmost fulfillment and joy. All resulted from one word of response to God, “Yes,” that moved him out of his comfortable chair with one resolve: to give his all to those most in need.

What’s in the Cross Reference Library? A Best-selling novel and Devotional by Francine Rivers

Redeeming Love - California’s gold country, 1850. A time when men sold their souls for a bag of gold and women sold their bodies for a place to sleep. Angel expects nothing from men but betrayal. Sold into prostitution as a child, she survives by keeping her hatred alive. And what she hates most are the men who use her, leaving her empty and dead inside. Then she meets Michael Hosea. A man who seeks his Father’s heart in everything, Michael Hosea obeys God’s call to marry Angel and to love her unconditionally. Slowly, day by day, he defies Angel’s every bitter expectation until, despite her resistance, her frozen heart begins to thaw. But with her unexpected softening come overwhelming feelings of unworthiness and fear. And so Angel runs. Back to the darkness, away from her husband’s pursuing love, terrified of the truth she no longer can deny: Her final healing must come from the One who loves her even more than Michael Hosea does…the One who will never let her go. A powerful retelling of the book of Hosea, Redeeming Love is a life-changing story of God’s unconditional, redemptive, all-consuming love.  

A Path To Redeeming Love: A 40-Day Devotional - We know that God loves us unconditionally. So why is it so hard to break free from the past and live in that truth? The classic best-selling novel Redeeming Love, inspired by the biblical book of Hosea, introduces a love so profound that it forever changes Angel, a woman who had viewed herself as broken beyond redemption. With A Path to Redeeming Love: A 40-Day Devotional, you can immerse yourself daily in the truth of God’s unshakable love for you. Personal essays from Francine explore key themes from the novel—Rejected, Resigned, Rescued, Redeemed, Reconciled, Restored—inspired by Scripture. In addition, each daily devotion includes: 

• an excerpt from Redeeming Love, Angel and Michael Hosea’s classic love story

• Bible verses for meditation

• prompts for Bible study, prayer, and journaling to enhance reflection and application

Whether you feel stuck or hurt, confused or lost—or simply want to experience God's boundless grace—this devotional invites you into a transformative understanding of God’s redeeming love.  

About The Author: New York Times bestselling author Francine Rivers continues to win both industry acclaim and reader loyalty around the globe. Her numerous bestsellers include Redeeming Love, A Voice in the Wind, and The Masterpiece, and her books have been translated into more than thirty different languages.