*The No.1 Sunday Times BestsellerAre you ready to change your life?Are you sick of always wearing black and getting undressed in the dark?Are you fixated with a number on the scales?Are you afraid to step into the gym and commit to a routine?Is your confidence at an all-time low?Is all of this having a negative impact on your ...

Christianity Today **Book Award Winner ● Martin Institute and Dallas Willard Center Book AwardYou are what you love. But you might not love what you think.**Who and what we worship fundamentally shape our hearts. We may not realize, however, the ways our hearts are taught to love rival gods instead of the One for whom we were made. And while we desire to shape culture, we are not often aware of how culture shapes us.In this book, popular sp...

Aristotle is remembered as one of the most influential thinkers in history. But before his ideas survived for thousands of years, he lived a life shaped by war, politics, exile, friendship, science, and the struggle to belong.Born in the small Greek city of Stagira in 384 BCE, Aristotle left home as a teenager to study in Athens. He spent twenty years in Plato's Academy, eventually becoming a teacher and philosopher in his own right. Yet Athens never considered him a citizen. He wa...

You picked up this book for 1 of 3 reasons. You open the fridge at 5:30 PM and see the same 5 ingredients you used on Monday and you are tired of the rut. You want your kids to try new foods without a battle at the table. Or you love the idea of travel, but the budget says the trip is the kitchen for now. Whatever brought you here, you share a hope this book delivers: dinner can be a small, calm adventure that feeds the family and gives you something to talk about besides homework....

There comes a night in almost every father's life when the house is quiet, the children are asleep, and the weight of the day settles on a tired chest, and in that stillness a man asks himself a question that has no easy answer: whether he is enough. Maybe you have been that man, standing in a dark kitchen, replaying a sharp word or a missed game, and wondering if your children will remember you the way you hope or the way you fear. The burden of fatherhood is not the sleepless nights or t...

Most young athletes believe that the difference between a good player and a great one is raw talent, and that the mental side of sport is something you are either born with or you are not. After years of working with youth athletes, their parents, and their coaches, the opposite conclusion is far more accurate. The mind is a trainable part of performance, and the athletes who rise are the ones who treat their thoughts, focus, and emotions with the same discipline they give their physical r...

The people who fail at retirement rarely fail because they ran out of money. They fail because they ran out of meaning, structure, connection, and a reason to get out of bed, and those are not financial problems at all. The opposite failure is just as common, the retiree with plenty of money and no plan for the life it was supposed to fund. This book is built on the evidence that a happy retirement is a design, not a discovery, and it gives you 20 rules that treat the money and the life as...

You picked up this book because your closet has become the most dangerous room in your house, and you have stood in front of a full rail of clothes and said the sentence that makes no sense: I have nothing to wear. You have tried the heroic weekend purge and watched the chaos return within 3 weeks, and you have concluded that you are broken. Or maybe you have never been diagnosed, but you read the words decision fatigue and felt a door open, because the morning routine that takes others 4 ...

You picked up this book because you share the exhaustion of every content creator: the demand for fresh content keeps rising across books, newsletters, social media, and video scripts, while the hours in a day stay fixed at 24. Most creators who try AI writing tools either abandon them in frustration or settle for generic content that reads like it came from a machine. The problem is not that AI cannot write. The problem is that most people do not know how to work with AI in a way that pre...

When beauty disappears as a central motivating good, we become obsessed with truth as a substitute, producing the mindset of "culture wars" rather than cultural renewal.For two thousand years, Western thinkers understood that beauty is what moves us toward the good and the true. In The Lost Tradition of Beauty, Matthew J. Smith argues that the loss of this idea is the source of our cultural fragmentation today, as he recovers a vision of beauty as a moral,...

2023 Christian Book Award® Winner (Christian Living)Christianity Today 2023 Book Award Finalist (Christian Living & Spiritual Formation)The Spiritual Significance of TimeMany Christians live a faith that is "nowhen." They are disconnected from the past or imagine they are somehow "above" the flux of history, as if every generation starts with a clean state. They lack an awareness of time and...

The first edition of Desiring the Kingdom has been widely used in a variety of educational settings. In this substantial revision, popular speaker and award-winning author James K. A. Smith rearticulates his core argument--that human beings are lovers shaped by liturgies--for a new context.Smith helps us recognize the way cultural practices form--and deform--us. At the heart of Desiring the Kingdom is an account of Christian assimilation to rival gospels....