In this deeply personal and practical book, you're invited on a journey toward renewed hope and resilience.

Drawing from his own battles with depression, burnout and self-doubt, Howard shares honest reflections and hard-won lessons learned through faith, family, conversations with wise Christian leaders such as Dr RT Kendall, and the ministry of Open Doors' work with persecuted Christians around the world.

Packed with stories of courage and actionable steps, Hold on to Hope will inspire you to rediscover strength you didn't know you had. Whether you're in a valley or helping someone through theirs, this book is a compassionate guide to detoxing discouragement.

Reports from an NHS watchdog suggest that the number of people in Britain deliberately harming themselves is reaching epidemic levels. This book aims to bring awareness and possible answers both to those who suffer and those who care. Written by two authors with personal and professional experience in the field, it offers insights into the lonely, and often secret, life of those who self-harm.

The text is divided into three easy-to-use sections:

Part 1 explores the nature of self-harm, who suffers and the underlying causes;

Part 2 addresses the path to recovery, including the physical, emotional and spiritual aspects

while Part 3 offers tips for dealing with relapse and for those helping in different settings.

A range of people will find this book helpful, from those still stuck in the dark world of self-harm, to family members, friends, church and youth workers, and those helping in a professional capacity. Readers are encouraged to address the reasons behind the issue and offered keys to coping with life’s hurdles – tools and hope for recovery.

Follow the Dream Keeper Saga, a Fantasy Adventure for Ages 9–12, with the Complete 5-Book Set

Lily McKinley, a caring, artistic 12-year-old girl, wishes her life could return to the way it was before she lost her father. But when she’s whisked away to a new realm—guided by a talking dragon named Cedric and her dad’s magical, glowing soothstone—she learns she has the power to create dreams that can save her broken world.

Mixing fantasy with Christian themes, the Dream Keeper Saga takes middle-grade readers on an adventure steeped in magic, mystery, and glimmers of hope. In these 5 thrilling stories, Lily and her schoolmates Adam and Keisha travel through a dreamlike landscape of castles, caverns, and forests. With the help of enchanted friends, they battle evil rulers to overcome darkness until the real hero, Prince Pax, comes to make all things new.

This box set includes all 5 books in the series: The Dragon and the Stone; The Prince and the Blight; Lost in the Caverns; The Quest for the Guardians; and The Last Keeper.

• Ideal for Middle-Grade Readers and Families: Includes kids’ favorite fantasy and adventure elements with imaginative new characters and settings they’ll love
• Christian Themes: This exciting story invites readers into deep conversations about the gospel and theological issues including hope, evil, and salvation
• Features All 5 Books in the Dream Keeper Saga: Makes a great gift for ages 9–12

A-Z of Wellbeing helps us to discover the language of wellbeing, so that we can speak it, live it, and share it with others. A-Z of Wellbeing is an accessible introduction to help you attend to your own wellbeing and live out your own alphabet of peace. It presents twenty-six words of wellness to help you discover new practices, connect with God, and share wellbeing with others.

Each topic includes:

• Connect the word to a biblical theme
• Learn a new habit to practise
• Get active sharing the habit with others
• Take Notice of a personal story
• Give back with questions and further resources

By sharing the words that were helpful in her own journey of recovery from breakdown, Ruth Rice gently encourages us to find our own toolkit of words and habits that will help us maintain our own wellbeing.

Content Benefits:

Ruth Rice helps us to find a language that enables us to speak honestly and live healthily together around the area of mental and emotional health.

• 26 words of wellbeing are unpacked with insights and practical application
• Uses the five ways of wellbeing from the New Economics Foundation
• Understands wellbeing within the framework of God’s character, practical habits and community reality
• Enables us to understand wellbeing as a life long journey rather than a quick fix
• Encourages us to find our own alphabet of wellbeing that works for us
• Enables us to speak, live and share wellbeing
• Suitable for anyone who wants to attend to their wellbeing
• Helpful for anyone who wants to understand and come alongside someone who is struggling with their wellbeing

This colorful book introduces children to 50 ordinary men and women who God gifted with extraordinary courage to accomplish incredible things.

Hannah kept a promise. Daniel remained faithful to God in difficult times. Peter repented. And Joseph of Arimathea was kind and generous. What do these and the other Bible heroes featured in this book have in common? They weren’t perfect, but they were courageous and bold, each in their own way.

Each short, easy-to-read chapter profiles a different Bible hero and shows how they exhibited bravery and overcame their own weakness and seemingly impossible challenges to achieve amazing things. This kind of epic courage can only be found when we place our faith in God.

As boys and girls read these captivating accounts, they will learn to love God more intentionally, and they will begin to believe that the Lord will equip them with courage when they need it the most.

Beaver can’t wait to leave home and do exactly what he wants. But when his food and new friends have gone, will someone still be missing him - and longing for him to come home?

Inspired by the Bible story of the Prodigal Son, this is a heart-warming story of unconditional love and acceptance. A simple note in the endpapers explains more about the original story, and why Jesus told these parables.

This book is part of the Picture Book Parables series from Scamp Publishing.

We are in a battle. At stake? The souls of our friends, family members, and coworkers.

Apologist and evangelist Ray Comfort has spent his entire career sharing the faith and answering people's objections to it. He wants you to be equipped to do the same. In this practical book, he shows you how to answer twenty objections to Christianity, including questions such as

• What physical proof is there that God even exists?
• Why does a "loving" God threaten eternal torture for not believing in him?
• If there's an all-powerful God, why is the world so out of control?

Don't go into battle unarmed. Let Ray Comfort train you to be ready with an answer--not so you can be right, but so you can help bring people from darkness into light.

Do you get anxious when you have to make a decision? Do you overthink, overtalk, and overanalyze? When anxiety surrounds every decision, the result can be decision-making paralysis. Counselor Michael Gembola explores this common struggle and then points to the peace that comes from knowing God as your refuge and ever present help in trouble. Learning to trust God, even when the path is not clear, will give you courage to move forward one step at a time.

When you're faced with decisions both big and small, God offers you something better than certainty and the absence of risk. He promises to be with you. And when you allow the Good Shepherd to lead, you will find that he uses times of decision-making to make you more peaceful and become a better steward of the opportunities in front of you.

Anxious about Decisions will help you learn to approach decisions more confidently with a conscience shaped by God's Word and values shaped by God's heart. Learn to undertake decisions in the context of the community of believers and your identity as God's child.

Anxious about Decisions is part of the Ask the Christian Counselor series. This series walks readers through their deepest and most profound questions. Each question is unpacked by an experienced counselor that gives readers the tools to understand their struggle and how the gospel brings hope and healing to the problem they are facing.

A biblical framework for understanding mental illness and helping the mentally ill. Synthesises the relevant biblical material with our scientific understanding of mental illness.

Equips the reader to deal wisely, intelligently and compassionately with issues of mental health in churches and the community. Helps us discern between bad behaviour which is a result of illness and that which results from sin.

In A Rhythm of Prayer, Sarah Bessey seeks to recapture the spirit of the prayer circles she experienced growing up.

Gatherings of women of all ages and backgrounds, in living rooms and church basements, came together to pray joyfully or with sorrow; in thanksgiving or in anger; loudly or in silence.

Their prayers were as diverse as the individuals who spoke them, and none sounded like any script. In her ministry, Sarah hears often from people who tell her they don't know how to pray, or have forgotten how.

This book offers daily inspiration, with original contributions from Barbara Brown Taylor, Amena Brown, Nadia Bolz-Weber and other faith leaders.

Bessey introduces each prayer as a way of sharing exactly why she loves and looks up to its writer.

In the process, she offers spiritual nourishment, helping readers feel less alone in these difficult, isolating times.

Lyrical Poem by Kristyn Getty Teaches Children the Importance of Singing as Worship

Join this song, each girl, each boy, until the world resounds with joy. God created his children to sing! Through music, we can express our heartfelt praise, weave the gospel into our daily lives, and grow in our understanding of the Lord. Written by acclaimed singer and hymn writer Kristyn Getty, We Sing! beautifully highlights the power and joy of worshiping God through song.

With lively rhyming verses and engaging illustrations, We Sing! helps children ages 3–8 connect with important biblical truths: worship is for everyone, every day, and forever. This book invites families to read, sing, and live out its message together, praising God and joyfully reflecting on all he has done for us.

• Memorable: Rhyming language and beautiful illustrations stick in the minds of young readers
• Written by Kristyn Getty: Award-winning singer-songwriter of many popular hymns including “In Christ Alone” and “Christ Our Hope in Life and Death”
• Biblical: Teaches readers that worship is for everyone, every day, and forever
• Designed for Ages 3–8

This book provides a theologically rich commentary on the challenge of addiction and the long road to recovery. Written by a minister with extensive experience working with people who struggle with addictions, this book helps pastors understand the roots and realities of our universal human struggle with addictions and attachments while showing that together we have great hope for freedom, wholeness, and recovery. Readers will learn how to create and foster a Beatitude Community, the kind of environment Jesus prescribed for his people, to help addicts and those who love them heal from brokenness. Foreword by Bob Ekblad.

About the Series

Pastors are called to help people navigate the profound mysteries of being human, from birth to death and everything in between. This series, edited by leading pastoral theologian Jason Byassee, provides pastors and pastors-in-training with rich theological reflection on the various seasons that make up a human life, helping them minister with greater wisdom and joy.

Endless Grace helps us rediscover the rich treasures of the Psalms--through free-verse prayer renderings of their poems and hymns--as a guide to personal devotion and meditation.

The church has always used the Psalms as part of its prayer life, and they have inspired countless other prayers. This book contains seventy-five prayers drawn from Psalms 76-150, providing lyrical sketches of what authors Ryan Whitaker Smith and Dan Wilt have seen, heard, and felt while sojourning in the Psalms. While each prayer corresponds to a particular psalm and touches on its themes and ideas, it is not a new translation of the Psalms or an attempt to modernize or contextualize their content or language. Rather, the prayers are responses to the Psalms written in harmony with Scripture. These prayers help us quiet our hearts before God and remember the Lord's daily mercies.

This artful, poetic, and classic devotional book features compelling custom illustrations and beautiful hardcover binding, offering a fresh way to reflect on and pray the Psalms.

Following the tried and tested formula of his earlier Lion Storyteller titles, Bob Hartman retells a selection of Easter stories in his own inimitable style.

This collection of 23 stories includes the key Bible accounts of the events of the first Easter from Palm Sunday through to Jesus' resurrection, encounters with his friends and followers, and the ascension.

Bob Hartman's retellings of familiar and sometimes serious tales are fresh and engaging, making these Bible stories accessible to the young and not-so-young. Line illustrations complement the text.

As a bonus, this book includes some of Bob Hartman's favourite storytelling tips.

Through the lives of Elizabeth Freeman, Nannie Helen Burroughs, Amanda Berry Smith, Mamie Till, and others, author and speaker Jasmine Holmes shares the significant role that Black women have played in the formation of our faith--and are playing in our formation as modern-day women of faith.

As these historical figures take the stage with Holmes, you will be inspired by what the stories of these women can teach us about education, birth, privilege, and so much more. Carved in Ebony will take you past the predominately white, male contributions that seemingly dominate history books to discover how Black women have been some of the main figures in defining the landscape of American history and faith.

Come along on Jasmine's journey and be encouraged by the powerful and persuasive Black women of our past so that you can help inspire a better, more inclusive future.

Q: Why is your wife in a wheelchair?

A: Because she can’t walk.

Q: Why were you ironing in the nude anyway?

A: No wait, I can explain…

Q: Why would this happen to you?

A: Why wouldn’t it?

People ask the silliest things.

But for Jade and John Reynolds it’s the silence surrounding disability that’s the strangest of all.

When Jade unexpectedly suffered from a rare condition which left her paralysed and in a wheelchair at the age of twelve, she never imagined that she’d one day meet her husband John and that together they would take to social media to dispel the stigma surrounding disability, one story at a time.

From questions about suffering and sex to family and faith, Jade and John speak honestly and humorously about life as an inter-able couple. And here, they bring together the big questions (and big jokes) that have made them so popular online onto the page in a debut book that will help you reframe your hardship into reasons to hope.

It’s time to discover that no matter what life throws at you, you are truly, able to laugh.

A practical guide to help adults understand the unique mental health challenges facing our children, teenagers and students today.

From the rise of AI personal technology to the ability to connect to your loved ones wherever you are, you’d think that we’re advancing as a society. But for our young people’s mental health such progress has come at a cost.

The book examines the key mental health problems impacting young people today (such as depression, loneliness and anxiety) and explains how the lifestyle, culture and world they are living in has a significant mental health impact.

Suitable for parents, grandparents, teachers, youth workers and anyone in a position of care or interested in the future of mental health, this book offers tools, exercises and resources to support the next generation.

In Broken Planet, Dr Sharon Dirckx, scientist and apologist, offers a measured and thoughtful case for how there could be a God of love that allows natural disasters.

The question of suffering is one of the greatest hurdles to Christian faith. When believers respond to the question of why there is suffering in the world, they often turn to the free-will defence. This states that humans make choices for good or ill that can bring about suffering in the lives of others. However, that doesn't explain why children die of cancer, or why the latest earthquakes, tsunamis or pandemics have been so destructive. These seem to happen not because of our choices, but in spite of them. So how do we make sense of these events?

Dr. Sharon Dirckx blends argument, science and first-person narrative in this unique book, weaving answers to real questions with compassion and empathy, while also acknowledging the element of mystery we will always live with while on earth.

Dr Dirckx addresses topics such as:

• If God exists, why would he make a world with earthquakes and tsunamis?
• Why is there so much suffering in a natural disaster?
• Are natural disasters God's judgement?
• Is my illness a punishment from God?
• What kind of God would allow natural disasters and diseases?

If you have ever struggled to reconcile the idea of a loving God with all the pain in our world, this book will encourage you that belief in such a God is not as unreasonable as it may seem. In fact, it may be where God is revealed most profoundly.

The Waverley Abbey Insight Series is based on CWR's one-day seminars held at Waverley Abbey house to give insight into key issues that many people struggle with today.

Drawing on biblical wisdom and professional expertise, Insight into Managing Conflict, by Claire Musters and Chris Ledger, is packed with case studies, practical insights and scriptural guidelines.

"The light of a big star filled her room and lit the whole wide world outside."

A little shepherd girl loves her father greatly, and adores spending time with him on the hillside, tending his flocks. But one night, he is called away and she can't find him. She anxiously searches high and low, eventually finding him at a stable in Bethlehem, where her journey ends with a most glorious discovery.

Discover the meaning of Christmas as the shepherd girl enters to find a radiant baby, whose light is a gift to everyone. Weaving the Nativity story into an original tale, this evocative Christmas book exudes a heartwarming message about love and peace.

Alan Marks' illustrations - crafted in detailed ink and deep watercolour washes - flow through the pages, taking the story towards its colourful and evocative end.