Imagine the warm feeling you get when you are wrapped in a soft and comfortable blanket. We may be afraid, tense, sad or just need to feel God’s love, and somehow that blanket gives us the sense of security. Did you go through 2020 angry, depressed, or sad? What gave you security through the year of 2020? Has your life and priorities changed though this pandemic? What gave you hope when you did not see any hope in sight? Were you able to tele-work or did you lose your job? Did you struggle every day? When 2021 came, what were you thankful for? What did you pray for when 2020 went away and 2021 came, with the same pandemic? Only God knows what is going to happen every day of our lives. We can trust Him daily to help us and keep us. But we must ask Him for help and let Him help us. Situations and failures may seem like a disaster, but He has it all under control! He wants us to let Him have control of our lives. God can use our mistakes of the past and use them for His Glory and for our good. When things happen that are not under control, God will keep us anchored – if we let Him. That is easier said than done. Sometimes, we want to go outside and scream because things are not going in the direction, we want them to go. But there is always plenty of action going on underneath the surface and in the Spiritual realm. God asks us to keep trusting Him. He always has our best interest in heart -no matter what it looks like! But we must choose Him to be our Good, Good Heavenly Father, Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior and the Holy Spirit as our Comforter, Guide, Teacher, and Intercessor. That is a package deal – three in one and one in three.

What if fear is the new brave? That's the question that you need answered if you are living afraid. Finding courage begins with fear itself--fear of the Lord. I Choose Brave reveals a countercultural plan to help you where you are--knee-deep in fears of parenting, the future, your marriage, and a world that feels unstable. When you're feeling fearful, the last thing you need is a social-media meme telling you to simply "power through" your fears. In I Choose Brave, Katie Westenberg digs deep into Scripture and shows that finding the courage to overcome our fears must start with fear of the Lord. Hundreds of passages speak to this foundational truth, yet we have somehow relegated them to antiquity. In sharing her own compelling story of facing her worst fear, Katie serves up theological truth with relatable application. In this book, you will · discover a fresh take on an old truth that displaces fear once and for all · understand why the culture's idea of "fearlessness" is a farce · access the holy courage you were made for With this new knowledge comes tremendous freedom. Hidden in the cleft of the Rock, the One truly worthy of our fear, you will begin to understand the only path to real courage.

This text-only collection contains 45 contemporary hymns on a wide variety of topics, including biblical stories, the church, the seasons and special occasions in the church year. Each hymn appears on a separate page and one or more hymn tunes is suggested for each text. The hymns are followed by a commentary section in which Gillette provides background information for each hymn.

Women who have maintained their sexual purity often ask, “Is it really that important for me to wait until I get married?” Meanwhile, single women who have been sexually active mourn the loss of their innocence, wishing they could somehow start again. Women want to protect the purity that is God’s gift to them, and they also long to be loved. This volatile combination makes them vulnerable to temptation. That is why it is vital that women know not only that God wants them to wait, but why God wants them to do so. They need solid reasons, conviction, and a strategy that will prepare them to live out their sexual purity as God intends. Filled with powerful true stories of hope and healing, Gift-Wrapped by God provides compelling emotional and spiritual reasons for choosing God’s path of sexual purity, as well as practical help for following it. Whether women have held onto their sexual innocence, have become prematurely sexually active, or have had their purity taken by force, they can express and fulfill their desire to come to their wedding day--and live out every day–-sexually pure and whole.

Women are valued for their ability to bear children in many cultures. The birth process, though supposedly the most painful experience of a woman’s life, is seen as a necessary evil to achieve the end goal of children and motherhood. And yet, in the face of a typically masculinized Christianity that nevertheless professes that women are equally created in the image of God, shouldn’t childbirth—a uniquely feminine experience—itself shape Christian women’s souls and teach them about the heart of the God they love and follow? Drawing on her own experience of giving birth and motherhood—and the conflicting assumptions attached to them, by Christians and the culture at large—Aubry G. Smith presents a richly scriptural exploration of common conceptions about pregnancy and childbirth that will not only help mothers and soon-to-be mothers understand how to think biblically about birth, but also walks them through how to put the ideas into practice in their own lives. Along the way, she shows all readers how to see God’s own experience of the birth process—and how childbirth leads to a deeper understanding of the gospel overall.