We definitely cannot deny the presence of a sombre atmosphere hovering over us ever since the new year started. The amount of bad news flooding in is truly overwhelming. And as human beings - we see, hear and feel all the problems just like everyone else.

The unique thing about us is that from the moment we put our faith in Christ alone, we are essentially putting on a new identity as Christians - and with that we are declaring to the world, that even though we still face the daily problems that everyone encounters, we believe our Sovereign God rules and reigns over all things, at all times.

How then shall Christians think/ speak/ behave, accordingly?

These well written books by Max Lucado are now made extra relevant.  He teaches with God's promises and gently encourages with the Holy Spirit. Check out these titles we think were written for such a time as this. We are selling them at a special offer, so come by to get for yourself or to encourage someone today.

" Others see the problems of the world and wring their hands. 

We see the problems of the world and bend our knees. "

Taken from Anxious for Nothing

Max Lucado's Latest Book

Know the life and character of the Savior

Divided into six sections (Immanuel, Friend, Teacher, Miracle Worker, Lamb of God, Returning King), each containing multiple chapters, this book describes both the person Jesus was on earth and how to live in a personal relationship with him. 

By exploring Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection as well as specific details like how he interacted with his friends and his enemies, what he did with time alone, how he acted at a party, this compilation from Max Lucado — now with original never-before-read content from Max — gives readers the chance to become more familiar with the man at the center of the greatest story ever told. 

“  Don’t settle for a cursory glance or a superficial understanding.

Look long into the heart of Christ and you’ll see it. 

Grace and life. Forgiveness of sin. The defeat of death. 

This is the hope he gives. ” 

Jesus wants you to know him.

As you read these pages, may the Hero of all history talk to you personally, and may you find in him the answer to your deepest needs.

The New Testament for Everyone is the result of a passionate conviction that Scripture should be something that everyone can read, understand and enjoy.

Broken up into easy-to-read, bite-sized chunks, and now including helpful introductions to each biblical book, informative maps and a substantial glossary of key words, here is a new rendering of ancient wisdom that can be read like a novel, studied in sections or used as an aid to daily devotion.

Recommended for Lent Devotion

Together in one special volume, selections from the best of beloved, bestselling author C. S. Lewis’s classic works for readers contemplating the ‘grand miracle’ of Jesus’s resurrection.

Preparing for Easter is a concise, handy companion for the faithful of all Christian traditions and the curious to help them deepen their knowledge and consideration of this holy season – a time of reflection as we consider Jesus’s sacrifice and his joyous rise from the dead.

“ The doctrine of death which I describe is not peculiar to Christianity. Nature herself has written it large across the world in the repeated drama of the buried seed and the re-arising corn. 

From nature, perhaps, the oldest agricultural communities learned it and with animal, or human, sacrifices showed forth for centuries the truth that 'without shedding of blood is no remission' ... ”

Carefully curated, each selection in Preparing for Easter draws on a major theme in Lewis’s writings on the Christian life, as well as others that consider why we can have confident faith in what happened on the cross.

Enjoy culture in a way that feeds your faith and helps you share it with others. With Foreword by Timothy Keller.

Whether it's TV boxsets, Instagram stories or historical novels, we all consume culture. So it’s important that we are neither bewitched by it — buying into everything it tells us — or bewildered by it — lashing out in judgement or retreating into a Christian bubble.

Dan Strange encourages Christians to engage with everything they watch, read and play in a positive and discerning way. He also teaches Christians how to think and speak about culture in a way that plugs in to a bigger and better reality — the story of King Jesus, and his cosmic plan for the world.

It’s possible to watch TV and read novels and play video games in a way that actually feeds our faith, rather than withers it. It’s even possible for you — yes, you — to be that person who starts off talking to a mate about last night’s football and ends up talking about Jesus.

So be equipped to engage with culture in a way that helps your relationship with Christ and points others to him.

An interview with Walter Brueggemann by Clover Reuter Beal 

Biblical scholar Walter Brueggemann has always excelled at making the Bible approachable and engaging. Drawn from a series of public conversations with Brueggemann and his former student and longtime friend Clover Reuter Beal, An On-Going Imagination explores Brueggemann’s most influential biblical-theological concepts and methods:

• Why should we still bother with the Bible today?
• What is the purpose of prayer, and what can it do for our lives?
• How is keeping the Sabbath countercultural?
• What does it mean to say that the God in the Bible is “a God in recovery”?

Intimate, provocative, and challenging, An On-Going Imagination offers an enlightening introduction to Brueggemann’s work for readers who want to learn more and a way back into the Bible for people who feel alienated from it by those on the right and the left who claim to have it all figured out. Brueggemann and Beal reawaken us to the fascinating strangeness of biblical tradition and its incredible power to help us imagine new ways of seeing and being in the world.

What if a deeper belief in God comes from embracing the tension of unbelief?  Learn how doubt can lead to greater faith. 

God is infinite, beyond our understanding. Yet He chooses to reveal Himself in ways that spark questions than settle them all.

In this book, Barnabas Piper unpacks what faith really means. He shows how embracing doubts and questions can help us to get to know God better, and he encourages us to trust God in our everyday lives, even when we don't understand everything about him.
Discover the God who not only desires our belief but also welcomes our confusion. This book will encourage Christians seeking to ask questions in a godly way and will give them confidence to trust God, even when some questions remain.

“  "Lord, I believe; help my unbelief" is the best any of us can do really, but thank God it is enough.  

—   Frederick Buechner  ”

This revised and updated edition includes biographical stories about Afshin Ziafat, C.S. Lewis and John Piper.

No story ever told could compare to God's great story. None is as compelling, transforming, or hope-giving.

And your story is a part of it.

What's God doing in Your story?

Our kids beg us for stories at bedtime or while we drive; we gather around firepits and dinner tables to tell and retell our favorite tales — the more dramatic the better.  But when it comes to our actual lives, we prefer something less sensational, even boring — sunny skies and smooth sailing, please and thank you. We want our own stories to be predictable, safe, controllable, and catastrophe-free. 

When plans fall apart, jobs are lost, kids wander off, doctors give bad reports, we often wonder, "What are you doing, God? Are you sure you have this under control? It doesn't really seem like it right now."

God is the master Storyteller. He's writing your story and it's a part of His bigger, grander, eternal Story. But we're still in the middle. We haven't gotten to the happy ending yet, and it can be hard to trust Him in the thick of our struggles. That's why Robert and Nancy share their own story, friends' stories, and the stories of people in the Bible who have faced life-altering challenges, but, in the end, have found God to be faithful. 

Learn why you really can trust God to write your story — no matter what plot twists you may encounter along the way.