Maybe you long for closeness but push people away. Or you hide behind perfectionism, overthinking, or people-pleasing just to feel safe. These aren’t random behaviors—they’re part of a deeper emotional blueprint you may not even realize you're following.The enneagram is more than a personality tool—it’s a map of emotional survival strategies, many of which form in childhood and mirror attachment patterns. By uncovering your core type, you’ll begin to understand why...

Maren Jacobs learned a long time ago that people always leave; that's what makes her so good at her job as a land acquisitions agent for the Martin & Foster Land Agency. And now, they have a new assignment for her: convincing the people of Apple Alley, North Carolina, to sell the land their lives have been built on for generations.This job should be like every other: get in, convince the powerful Archer family to sell, and get out so she can return home to her brand-new corner offi...

This 7-session Bible study on Revelation by Tim Chester helps you see history from heaven's perspective. Despite everything that is going wrong with our world, God remains in control.Flexible and easy to use, this Good Book Guide is perfect for groups and individuals. A concise Leader’s Guide is included in the back. There are optional bonus sections if you have extra time, including icebreaker ideas.Each session of this Bible study will draw you to…Look close...

This 8-session Bible study on Isaiah by Tim Chester will enlarge your vision of who God is, sharpen your understanding of salvation and illuminate your Bible reading.Flexible and easy to use, this Good Book Guide is perfect for groups and individuals. A concise Leader’s Guide is included in the back. There are optional bonus sections if you have extra time, including icebreaker ideas.Each session of this Bible study will draw you to…Look closely at the Bible t...

This 5-session Bible study on Titus by Tim Chester walks through the way grace changes us. You'll see how the truth about Christ transforms our lives, our churches and our mission.Flexible and easy to use, this Good Book Guide is perfect for groups and individuals. A concise Leader’s Guide is included in the back. There are optional bonus sections if you have extra time, including icebreaker ideas.Each session of this Bible study will draw you to…Look closely ...

For the love of him, I hid my billions and played the invisible wife for three years. Now? The game is over.For three years, Elena endured a husband who barely acknowledged her, a mother-in-law who treated her like hired help, and a sister-in-law who sneered that she was nothing but a golddigger. All the while, her husband, Damien, pined after his "perfect" ex, like his own wife didn't exist.The morning after their third anniversary, her mother-in-law delivered the final bl...

Translating Concepts explores the way translation has contributed to the development of concepts in Western thought and culture. Concepts are understood as complex and dynamic groupings that form complete pieces of knowledge about the world.The book explores the conviction that by bringing together different ways of conceiving of the world, translation creates concepts; that the meeting between two cultures and two conceptual universes produces something new that could not...

Canada’s story is not one of conquest but of coexistence. From the songs of the First Nations to the voices of new immigrants, every culture has shaped the heartbeat of this land. The Mosaic Nation uncovers how harmony, diversity, and resilience became the foundation of the Canadian spirit.Journey through centuries of transformation — from Indigenous wisdom that honored the land, to French and British encounters that redefined community, to the waves of immigration that turned diff...

What does a football hooligan firm do outside football? In the case of Mark Chester and the infamous Stoke City Naughty Forty, the answer was: live off their wits and burn the candle at both ends. Chester left Stoke in the mid-Eighties in search of something more than the buzz of terrace violence. He lived in North Africa with a pickpocket gang called The Hawks and dealt hash and coke in the Spanish coastal resorts, fighting off rival Moroccan dealers. After returning to London as a down-a...

We know Jesus has saved us. We know we need to trust him. But too often there’s little sense of a lived experience of him—of enjoying him and being a joy to him, of loving him and being loved by him, of interacting with him as we walk through each day.In Enjoying Jesus, Tim Chester explores how Jesus acted and interacted with people in Luke’s Gospel and how, through his Spirit, we can experience the joy of Jesus’ presence and companionship in our day-to-day lives.T...

For the love of him, I hid my billions and played the invisible wife for three years. Now? The game is over.For three years, Elena endured a husband who barely acknowledged her, a mother-in-law who treated her like hired help, and a sister-in-law who sneered that she was nothing but a golddigger. All the while, her husband, Damien, pined after his "perfect" ex, like his own wife didn't exist.The morning after their third anniversary, her mother-in-law delivered the final bl...

In 1985 forty hooligan followers of Stoke City FC experienced a riotous trip to Portsmouth - and the Naughty Forty was born. It became one of the most notorious soccer gangs in Britain.Mark Chester was a founder member of the N40. Already a hardened fighter he had been expelled from school after an unsettled childhood and joined the Staffordshire Regiment only to be discharged for misconduct. Stoke City's emerging 'casual' mob became his family. 'Right or wrong I was ready to be a committe...