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...

*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 ...

The follow up to James Smith’s international number one bestseller, Not a Diet Book.Do you love your job?Does your future excite you?Are your relationships working for you?James Smith is back to challenge everything you thought you knew about the path to fulfilment and happiness. With hard-hitting home truths and a helping of tough love, be prepared to re-set your outlook, redefine your goals and truly consider:...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

From two times number one Sunday Times bestselling author, James Smith, comes HOW TO BE CONFIDENT – the third instalment in James’ no-nonsense guides to gaining the tools to empower your decision-making and change your life.Now, more than ever, we are so often lost within a cycle of negativity – from comparing ourselves to others and doom scrolling on social media, to a paralysis of choice and chasing external gratification that does nothing to nurture authentic happiness. We need ...

Friday, 12th February, 1993. Two outwardly unremarkable ten-year-old boys began the day by playing truant and ended it running an errand for the local video shop. In between they abducted and killed a two-year-old boy, James Bulger. In search of an explanation, award-winning journalist David James Smith looks behind the misinformation, misunderstanding and sensational reporting to an exact account of the events of that day. A sensitive and definitive account, The Sleep of Reason a...

Every person on the planet carries at least 1 skill that someone else would happily pay for. The gap between having that skill and being wealthy from it is not talent, luck, or hard work. It is a system. Most people run their skill like a hobby, waiting for customers, pricing by the hour, and wondering why the money never grows. The builders choose a market, package the skill into an offer, price it on value, and run a pipeline that fills itself.This step by step system takes you t...

Deployment changes everyone it touches. The spouse who waits at home, the service member who serves overseas, and the veteran who came back carrying more than a uniform. This year long devotional meets all 3 where they are, without pretending the hard parts away. It hands you 365 days of Scripture, guided prayer, and 1 tiny habit, small enough to survive your hardest days. Each entry is 1 honest paragraph, so you never need more than a page to meet God.Built around a reading plan t...

The Patron Saint of Restless HeartsThis is not a book about Saint Augustine. In a way, it's a book Augustine has written about each of us.Popular speaker and award-winning author James K. A. Smith has spent time on the road with Augustine and invites us to join him on this journey with an ancient African thinker who knows far more about us than we might expect. Augustine, says Smith, is the patron saint of restless hearts--a guide who has been there, asked ...