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As a minimalist, I am a firm believer in simple, practical acts of mindfulness each day. Including time devoted to the word. Which is why I’ve enjoyed reading the new CSB Illustrator’s Notetaking Bible. A large-print, leather-bound Bible, I’ve made a part of my seasonal mornings at home. Helping me to enrich my understanding of scripture in a fun and innovative way. With wide margins, perfect for note-taking and illustrating, this Bible will inspire you to spend more time in God’s Word.
From its sturdy, yet quaint cream-colored LeatherTouch cover, to its easy-to-read CSB annotation, that’s not only aesthetically pleasing but durable for on-the-go fellowshipping, this is a Bible worth investing in. Especially, with its easier-to-read font and soothing color palette, this is the Bible you’ll reach for again and again.
What truly sells this Bible is its design. The illustrator’s notes and commentary sections, standard throughout, provide not only quickly indexed verse and scripture but insightful, driven commentary into specific textural patterns and meanings. With sizable space, a full 9.5-point single-column, with wide journaling margins and line-art illustrations on every page spread. Perfect for note-taking, journaling, and memorializing day-to-day reflections. Perfect for your spiritual journey.
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Growing up, my grandmother, Carolyn, started each new year with a new Bible. And this year, I’m taking this reference point to heart with the CSB Jesus Daily Bible. It is the perfect edition for the daily reading of scripture. From rich gold embossing, this affordably priced CSB Jesus Daily Bible will be your next favorite at-hand Bible.
With this Bible’s lengthy scripture learning points and small, but readable text, this format is a worthy addition to your daily scriptural library. Featuring 52 weekly divided sections, allowing readers to start at any point within the year, with lengthy readings, arranged to allow readers five thorough weekly readers. Allowing users a head start, guiding weekly, or yearly Bible reading sessions into customed reading to individual tastes and considerations. From Genesis to Revelation, teachings flow easily from one book to another. Giving readers a greater understanding of scripture with each read.
As with most Bibles, this edition’s text begins with an introduction, along with a detailed section outlining the format of the overall text. Allowing with a Daily Reading Plan checklist and a handy ribbon bookmark for easy at-hand referencing.
Within each book of the Bible included an overview of that book five weekly plans for the week, and a finishing thoughts section, titled, “Where will I find Christ in this week’s reading.” An overview of the book stating who wrote the book, what the focus was when it was written, where it was written, and why the written text is found within scripture. An informative section that brings clarity to Bible referencing. With an inclusive concordance, sharing in-color map and topography sections.
Key features of this Bible include:
Read this Bible in a yearly-centering daily reading on the teachings of Jesus Christ.
This new CSB Jesus Daily Bible includes a 52-week, Christ-focused reading plan you can join throughout the year.
From Genesis to Revelations, study Scripture through a weekly introduction, useful articles, infographics, and a weekly summary to help you understand Jesus’s central role in the New Testament.
View God’s Word in an easy-to-follow format.
The CSB Jesus Daily Bible will help your role in God’s world in an easy-to-follow daily format at home or on the go.
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As a minimalist, I believe in giving with purpose throughout the holiday season. Especially when it comes to gifting art supplies, paper products, and coloring books to those of all ages. This is why, this season, I’m loving Michelle Fritch’s newest coloring book, “You Are a Child of God coloring book.” A faith-based coloring book created to be colored, together, by both children and caregivers. Encouraging meaningful, purposed, seasonal dialogue about God’s love for humanity this holiday season. Created with Fritch’s ministerial background in mind as an ordained Episcopal Priest and a counselor. With a deep belief that love can change the world, this book is a reflection of her passion for teaching others about God’s love.
“You Are a Child of God” isn’t simply a book of coloring pages-it is an experience. Designed to foster creativity and faith for parents, educators, caregivers, and families alike. Featuring pages chock full of biblical expression, creativity, and love for the known world.
Perfect for reading and creatives, this book encourages thoughtfulness and Biblical perspective on special moments of clarity between little ones and loved ones, highlighting scriptural referencing, including Psalm 139:13-18 and Jeremiah 29:11. Aiding children of all ages in the necessity of keeping Christ in Christmas, this season and beyond. Promoting bonding, fellowship, and creativity this season and beyond. Order “You Are a Child of God” today, in time for Christmas!
“You Are a Child of God” is much more than a simple seasonal read. Focusing on interactive experiences, guiding readers of all ages, both parent and child, to color in print and meaningful dialogue. Filled with calming scenes and gently guided Biblical references, this is a gift that will encourage open dialogue and creative expression this season and beyond. Opening the door for important conversations about humility, mindfulness, and artistic creativity.
Looking to enrich your child, godchild, or parishioner’s spiritual journey this season? This is the coloring book experience you’ve been looking for this gift-giving season. Whether you’re gifting it to a loved one or using it yourself, as a welcome addition to your mindful self-care journey, this coloring book is a beautiful reminder of God’s love for us this holiday season.
“You Are a Child of God” is available for purchase just in time this holiday season. To purchase a copy for yourself and others, click here. The perfect way to inspire yourself, and others, through this season of creative, lasting joy.
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The Autumnal Season. It is a time for reflection, soul searching, and great new reads. Including this season’s new find from Priscilla Shirer’s latest work, “I Surrender All,” a fervent appeal, in times of uncertainty, to surrender all unto Jesus. To follow Him as both your savior and priority. It is moving beyond being a passionate Stewart to becoming a devout disciple and knowing the difference.
Discipleship comes at an enormous personal cost. It’s an act of faith, surrender to your greater good, and the effort to understand and maintain the two—a daily choice to envelop your life around His. The choice that makes all the difference, and it for believers choosing this route, or spiritual individuality, who will benefit the most from reading about the ways a lifestyle of organized religion, centered around the perception of freedom and fulfilling choice, of peace-filled understanding, can make a difference in your season of hope and beyond. Making this book selection, I Surrender All, and its overriding message about choice. The choice, author Priscilla Shirer, believes will change your season for the good.
A book that will gesticulate you into becoming the woman of faith you were intended to be. In thoughtful prayer, meaningful self-dialogue, and a faithful desire to be called into a life of intentional surrender.
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In times of political, social, and environmental uncertainty, words of serenity can help to calm the mind, secure sleep, and rest even the most tired of spirits. Leading many people, including a fair number of women weery from around the world. Always looking for positivity in a troubled world, worlds of encouragement can bring hope to many in need of a clear mind and peaceful heart. As is the message of the new devotional publication, from Christian author Lysa TerKeurst, “Clear Mind, Peaceful Heart.”
Featuring simple-to-understand daily devotional messages of faith and futility, author Lysa TerKeurst shares with readers methods to avoid uncertainty, how to unpack personal frailty and feelings of fear, as well as devotions to help readers fall safely asleep with a clear mind and a peaceful heart in her latest work from Thomas Nelson Publishing, “Clear Mind, Peaceful Heart.”
Guided meditations showcasing God’s juxtapositioning, simultaneously holding the meaning of life, alongside details of your journeys, in his faithful hands is what New York Times best-selling author Lysa TerKeurst, and her friends at Proverbs 31 Ministries, share in these fifty encouraging devotions and guided prayers written by women, for women, like you. Remebering that the Lord not only has the whole world in His hands; He’s holding the details of your life in His faithful hands, too. Learn more at www.ClearMindPeacefulHeart.com.
Helping to release the pressures of everyday life and the hard situations we all endure. Helping readers to wake up daily, refreshed and prepared for the challenges ahead of them each day. Days filled with intersection and faith methods to help us all feel hopeful in our days, with nights filled with peaceful, restful sleep. This is the devotion to consider as you start your spiritual life this fall.
Sleep meditation and exerts directly from scripture, including: “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest” (Matthew 11:28 NIV), aids readers in identifying, “What lies heaviest on your heart as you lay your head on your pillow? Are paralyzing fear and anxiety stealing tomorrow’s peace?” Allowing readers to experience rest, not full of unfilled escapism and uncertainty, but rest for the weariest of souls. Sharing that everything negative in our lives may not be fixed today, we can fix our thoughts on His word.
Readers are also given contextualization from ministry insights perfect for colder days ahead. Learn more about these teachings for your days, and nights ahead at ClearMindPeacefulHeart.com. Helping readers to experience the kind of rest escapism won’t provide. The hope of sound sleep, the sleep we can all claim, with the ease of knowing God is working on our behalves.
Through the pages of “Clear Mind, Peaceful Heart,” Lysa TerKeurst, you will be equipped to quiet riotous, anxious thoughts depriving sound sleep and to find relief from the stress of obligations and social pressures through fifty inspired and relatable devotions and guided prayers written, again, for and by, women, like you.
The publication, “Clean Mind, Peaceful Heart,” in its hardcover, east-to-store binding is now available for $24.99 from Thomas Nelson Publishings. Order your copy of “Clear Mind, Peaceful Heart” today!
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With the collapse of various fixed international systems of commerce, including both the Soviet model and Asiatic forms of Communism, some may find it hard to envision an alternative to a free global system of trade. This, and other economic discussions, are featured in the new title, “The Christian Capitalist,” by Rich Sanders.
Sanders, the founding pastor of the Online Home Church, in the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta, earned his Master’s in Divinity from the Candler School of Theology at Emory University in 2015, whose bi-vocational calling in ministry and business, and as the retired President of Southern Health Lawyers, and the founder of St. Michael’s Mission, Inc., a ministry organized to assist and serve active duty and veterans of the armed services bring readers down a spiritual journal into the economic thoughts of John Paul II, the late pointing of the Episcopal Church.
Sanders’s encyclical views, extrapolated from the sermons of Father Richard John Neuhaus, whose views on funding centered on, “Doing Good & Doing Well.” Principles that helped Sanders’s traditional sense of economy. Centering on the Catholic social gospel, and incorporating Neuhaus’ teaching of fiscal propriety, to keep users’ “Feet planted on the ecumenical earth while pointing toward the loftiest ideals of Christian virtue.”
The author shares practical knowledge of leading a Christian, debt-free lifestyle. Sharing thoughts on the personal impact of frugality in, “The challenge before us now is how to make what John Paul calls ‘the new capitalism’ . . . work better, especially for the poor and marginalized,” writes Neuhaus, a Catholic neoconservative commentator, to. “The challenge of making democratic capitalism more genuinely democratic.” Giving readers a perspective of a society, that, in his opinion, should be valued, “Free work, of enterprise, and participation.”
Focusing on the social gospel that Neuhaus embraced that does not condemn the accumulation of wealth, regardless of origin or intent. Likening Christian capitalism to a young priest, who expressed his devotion to the Blessed Virgin by juggling. Stating, “The only thing some people know how to do well makes money,” Neuhaus shares that the pursuit of money is, “Not an unworthy thing to offer up.”
Suggesting, again, that good intentions, like good works, Neuhaus states that those who worship, as he does, can, and should, go about the business of making money activities. Stating that “God loveth adverbs,” and that “We are to take care of business conscientiously, fairly, honestly, lovingly, and, yes, even prayerfully.”
Combining his beliefs in monetization and the free market through the guise of spiritual development. That living a righteous life, and the mechanics of public policy, are less important than their fundamental moral design. Its pages leave readers to ponder what role they play in a free marketplace and enterprise, while simultaneously admonishing and deeply questioning corporate tithing, volunteerism, and social safety nets including secular domestic welfare programs
Some readers may conclude that this work holds a deep-seated mixed message. Stating the Catholic Pontive’s hope for “a nicer world” or reporting that capitalism can feel comfortable, when even his current Pontive’s views ask God’s village to be responsible our world’s growing for poverty, despite the world’s amassed wealth, enterprise, and commercialized property.
Despite its nonsectarian temperament, “Doing Well & Doing Good” is specifically Christian in design and tone. Yet, the essential message hosts a narrative to spend time daily in the role of an “acting, thinking, creating person,” who feels a tug of conscience at the sight of a homeless family. Provoking readers to “envision” the moral compass within our own day-to-day lives. An ambitious message in a world ever prone to dissonance, disease, and discord.
For readers seeking a secular view of finance and smaller formats of macro financing, The Christian Capitalist explores various scriptural references that support twin pillars of Christian belief:
1) Working hard to make a productive benefit from talents and materials that God has provided all people; and
2) Giving generously to share those benefits with our neighbors in the name of Jesus Christ. Through a discussion of Holy Scripture, it analyzes various passages that relate to these concepts of productivity and generosity, along with two thousand years of history discussing the good works of Christians as examples. Ultimately, this book develops a philosophy that is uniquely Christian and capitalist: the Gospel of Hard Work and Generous Giving. If those methods perpetuate your budgetary concerns, then this script is picture-perfect for you.
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Throughout my lifetime, there have been many occasions I’ve studied the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. This can be, obviously, a challenging task, both in terms of time and interest. So, when allowed to review the Old Testament Handbook, I could not think of a better time of year to consider the roots of my faith in the coming months ahead.
The Old Testament Handbook features a reader-friendly text of the Christian Standard Bible. Showcasing both the Bible’s original meaning, its original Torah teachings, and new, easy-to-follow, engaging scripture designed to highlight thought and individual Biblical responsibility. Allowing readers to quickly immerse themselves in the Old Testament Handbook, with its elegant, full-color Biblically-minded handbook styling that provides readers with a robust summary of conceptualized charts, maps, Biblical studies, illustrations, and summarized teachings. Something every member of the family can use as a daily Biblical reading, too.
Constructed with high-quality cloth covering and a double-sticked binding, the Old Testament Handbook is designed to last a lifetime. The companion resource necessary for modern Biblical study for ongoing discipleship at home.
Plus, the text, beyond its durable, easily-cleanable, cloth binding and covering, can lay flat- a true necessity for late nights of Biblically study at home. The book is both elegant and sturdy in design. Including, a rich fabric ribbon marker perfect for easy referencing, teaching, gifting, or sharing. A gift that will bring meaning to its recipients for decades to come.
Making the Old Testament Handbook both a true companion for your personal bible studies and library, as well as the ultimate holiday gift for those looking to gift your nearest and dearest this holiday season-you’ll want to purchase your copy of the Old Testament Handbook this Christmas, too. For those looking to gift this book, please click here.
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