The seasons shape us and provide an ever changing, and yet somehow familiar pattern to our lives. We know that winter will be a time of darkness, of candlelight and clinging to the warmth of home. Spring will bring signs of new life and hope, a waking after the dormant time of winter. Summer brings warmth, a full connection with nature and memories of holidays and stepping out of the pressures of work. Autumn offers us a poignant, wistful mood, a time of letting go, of reflecting and prepa...

Satisfy your longing for a closer relationship with God.Jesus wants to give you a heart that burns for Him. This 40-day devotional invites you to discover the beauty of the Lord, the language of worship, the journey of intimacy, and fullness of life. Each day includes a Scripture reading, devotion, prayer, reflective question, and song recommendations. Let Jesus satisfy your soul.Devotions composed by 24 worship leaders and friends of the International House of Prayer. Feat...

"[This] is a book of great richness, beauty and power and thus very difficult to do justice to in a brief review. . . . The violence is sometimes unbearable, the language rarely less than superb. Dillard's description of the moth's death makes Virginia Woolf's go dim and Edwardian. . . . Nature seen so clear and hard that the eyes tear. . . . A rare and precious book." — Frederick Buechner, New York Times Book ReviewA profound book about the natura...

Grow closer to God as you navigate life's challenges with these forty simple prayers to help guide your journey.Do you ever get distracted when you pray? Do your thoughts zig, then zag, then zig again—your head swarming with all the things you need to do that day? If so, there is hope.Max Lucado knows what it feels like to struggle with prayer. If you can relate, never fear! The sign-up sheet for Prayer 101 in the Bible contains some famili...

*WINNER OF THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZE 2015**WINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES / PETERS FRASER + DUNLOP YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD 2015**SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTION 2015*There is a Chinese proverb that says: ‘It is more profitable to raise geese than daughters.’ But geese, like daughters, know the obligation to return home. In her exquisite first collection, Sarah Howe explores a dual heritage, ...

Pastor Colin Smith's four-volume masterpiece moves you past Bible stories to understand the Bible as one story--the glorious, unbroken account of Christ's work to redeem a fallen world. With this accompanying Study Guide, you'll be able to make the journey even more rewarding. The Volume Two Study Guide matches the second volume of the book series, and will help you unlock the Bible Story from Job to Malachi.Unlocking the Bible Story Study Guides will help you:Focus y...

Stop worrying about how to pray, and just start praying!This book reveals one simple truth: That you already know how to pray!Once you discover that you know how to pray as revealed in this book, you will also discover that you already know what to pray for and how to see more answers to your prayers.Read this book and find the freedom and power in your prayer life you have always longed for.This book is Volume #1 in the Christian Questions ...

'Seamus Heaney has gone beyond the themes of his earlier poetry and has made the giant step towards the most ambitious, most intractable themes of maturity. The power of this book comes from a sense that he is reaching out towards a type of desolation and of isolation without which no imagination can be seen to have grown up.' Eavan Boland, Irish Times'Keyed and pitched unlike any other significant poet at work in the language anywhere.' Harold Bloom, Times Literary Su...

JANE HIRSHFIELD's first book, Alaya, received the Quarterly Review Of Literature Prize in 1982. In 1986, OF Gravity Angels receive d the Joseph Henry Jackson Award from the San Francisco Foundation for a book in progress; in 1989, it was awarded the Commonwealth Club Poetry Medal. Hirshfield's third book The October Palace, published in 1994, received the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award, the Commonwealth Club Poetry Medal, and the Poetry Center Book Award. She has also edited aand co-transla...

In the Because of Bethlehem video Bible study (DVD/digital video sold separately)****, bestselling author and pastor Max Lucado guides you through the Advent season to its source at an unassuming stable in Bethlehem...No one expected the Messiah to come the way he did. Yet the way he came was every bit as important as the coming itself. The manger is the message.Because of Bethlehem, God knows what it's like to be human. Because of Bethleh...

"They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues." – Acts 2:4 Would you like to receive a key that will unlock the power of God within you? This key will accelerate your growth and maturity as a believer, allow you to experience things of God that seem impossible to the average person, and help you enjoy deepened intimacy with the Lord. "Tongues – God's Provision for Dynamic Growth and Supernatural Living" shares how you can receive all the above-mentioned b...

John Burnside's remarkable book is full of strange, unnerving poems that hang in the memory like a myth or a song.These are poems of thwarted love and disappointment, of raw desire, of the stalking beast, 'eye-teeth/and muzzle/coated with blood'; poems that recognise 'we have too much to gain from the gods, and this is why/they fail to love us'; poems that tell of an obsessive lover coming to grief in a sequence that echoes the old murder ballads, or of a hunter lo...