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Having it all together is a myth. Thank God, His grace is real - and it's time to take the pressure off...

Every day we are bombarded with messages that tell us we have to be productive, powerful, perfect. And the Church is no exception.

The Good News of Jesus says that we are saved by grace but for Monique Thomas the gravity of this message didn't sink in until over six years after she first became a Christian. Throughout her time at Bible college, she soon learnt that much of what she had learnt from church culture simply added an extra layer of pressure to that already placed on her by society: do more, strive more, be more.

This book is for every person who desperately needs to understand the real Gospel: God has grace for us in our mess, not just in the moments we get out of it.

'There is not a person on the planet who has not needed a book like this.' Dr R. T. Kendall

'Fresh, insightful and utterly relevant . . . Here you will find depth of insight and height of vision, breadth of wisdom and sharpness of illustration.' Canon J. John

'A very applicable and moving book serving as a reminder of the freedom that is available in Christ.' Rachelle Ann Go

The gospels tell us that God wants to take away our burdens and offer us forgiveness. Confessing our sins should be liberating and joyful - so why do we so often feel only shame and guilt?

Spiritual Detox invites you to rethink the way you see confession and discover greater joy through the recovery of this much-neglected spiritual discipline. Blending biblical teaching with practical advice and application, it will show you how making regular, heart-felt confession will revitalise your spiritual life - whether you are unhappy and discouraged, wrestling with guilt and shame or just longing to drink more deeply of God's forgiveness and abundant grace.

Using examples from Scripture, and with meditations on 1 John 1:9, Spiritual Detox explores how confessing sin frees us from guilt to strengthen our relationship with God. Packed full of practical wisdom and insight, it will leave you with a clearer vision of God's forgiveness, help you to make confession part of your everyday spiritual formation and set you on a path of liberating joy and discipleship.

MORE Trust looks at what the Bible says about what we put our trust in – and more importantly who. With hard-won vulnerability and an intimacy born from big dreams and big doubts, singer-songwriter Leah McFall explores how to trust God through hiddenness, disappointment, risk and reward.

What do you do when God calls you out of your comfort zone? Or into a dream that seems to fade away to nothing? How do we hold onto our faith when the 'full life' we were promised seems to fall short?

Part of the MORE Books series, this is a fresh take on Bible study that is designed to help you carve out more time with God and apply the Bible effectively to your full and fast-paced life. Easy to dip in and out of and the perfect size to slip into your bag, MORE Trust is ideal for young adults, students and professionals on the go.

If you have ever wondered how to trust God when things aren't going your way, or are looking for a practical alternative to Bible study to fit around a busy schedule, this is the book for you - MORE Trust will deepen your understanding of the Bible, and help strength your faith so that it is sure and steady enough to see you through whatever life might throw your way.

Shun self-help in favour of spiritual-help and become the other-focussed disciple that Jesus is inviting you to be in this accessible and practical book.

In recent years, the Church in the West has witnessed a growing hunger to engage in spiritual disciplines that help us become more like Jesus. And yet, if our practices cause us to look inwards without looking outwards, then we can unwittingly distance ourselves from him instead.

Jesus was inherently other-focussed, and in this immensely practical book, Kate Pocklington invites us to explore why being formed by the Spirit is only half of the picture.

We are formed by the Spirit, formed through our experiences with others and formed for the sake of God's mission in the world. Together we will see how God - the grand recycler - wants to use every part of our past and personality to shape us into other-focussed people.

Retreats give us a space for contemplation and developing our relationship with God, but they aren't always possible. So can we still appreciate and detect the everyday God, even without special 'holy' places and spiritual practices?

Dancing at the Still Point is a book for those who can't or aren't ready to go away for a residential Christian retreat, but who want to be in daily relationship and connect with God in a satisfying way.

In sessions that you can work through at your own pace, Gemma Simmonds guides us through the practices and disciplines of retreats, such as being still physically and spiritually, developing a habit of prayer and learning some basic discernment skills. With insights from the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises, she explores how we can fold these practices into every day and shows that a rich life of prayer, in which we have time and space to let God be present, is achievable even in a busy working or family life.

Practical and flexible, Dancing at the Still Point will help you find a richer and more balanced life, where the spiritual takes its rightful place amid all the other calls on time and attention.

Overwhelmed by the silence of prayer? Struggle to concentrate the moment you get past 'Dear God,'?

Drawing as Prayer offers a step-by-step guide to connecting with God through drawing. Each page provides a prompt, inspired by scripture, designed to open up new ways of connecting with the Lord.

This practical book will help you offer your worries, desires and gratitude to God in the form of artwork. With more than 75 biblical prompts and exercises, it is the ideal book to add creativity into your prayer practice. There is no need to be a good artist. Just to pick up the pencil and make some time to quietly and authentically sit with God

'Joshua's tone and message communicates a wisdom that can only come from first-hand experience. The grace and poetic writing within this book will stay with you for ever' - Propaganda, Author, Poet, Political Activist

'Joshua Luke Smith has given us a beautiful book. With the skill of an artist, the heart of a disciple, and the vision of prophet, he invites us to encounter the grace of God in a way that stokes the deeper fire our hearts are aching for in these broken time. What a gift.' - Jon Tyson. Author and Pastor

The culture today tells us we can be whoever we want to be.

So, why do so many of us feel stuck?

Throughout this book, pastor and poet Joshua Luke Smith invites you into a 'selah' moment - an opportunity to quieten the noise – and to see that the clarity you are longing for may be closer than you think.

Something You Once Knew will remind you of what you always hoped to be true and rekindle the wonder you lost along the way.

With thoughtful reflections on following curiosity, building true community and reclaiming your creativity, this book will help you to rediscover the vision and vibrancy installed in you from the very beginning.'

'Joshua Luke Smith writes with an electric heart-on-sleeve honesty that makes me feel like I’m reconnecting with a long-lost friend. Page after page I feel the stirring of a mysterious wonder that I’m afraid I’d long forgotten.' - John Mark Mcmillan

'Every human should read this masterpiece (and I don't call it that lightly) as I honestly think it has the ability to make us all better people.' - Zoe Clark-Coates MBE

In a life full of highs and lows, choice and challenges, the words 'and yet' can change everything. We are surrounded by darkness and yet there is light. We feel we are lacking and yet God provides. We are broken and bruised and yet there is hope.

In the depths of depression and plagued with suicidal thoughts, Rachael Newham never thought she'd find herself writing a book on joy. And yet, if her journey with mental health illness has taught her anything it is that true, deep, lasting joy can only be experienced when we allow ourselves to enter into lament and be honest about our pain before God.

With warm understanding, in this lovely Lent book Rachael traces how Biblical writers used 'and yet' to bring together joy and lament and invites us to see them not as opposites, but two sides of the same coin. Drawing on her experiences with mental illness, she shows us how we can build a rhythm of both joy and lament into our lives both through the season of Lent and the rest of the church's year.

With reflections split over six sections And Yet is the perfect daily Lent devotional, but its undated readings can be used for periods of prayerful reflection throughout the year. This is a beautiful Christian book on lament ideal for anyone looking for to better understand how the tradition of lament and joy work together, and how they can make them a part of their everyday spiritual formation.

We may be living in dark circumstances - and yet with a few simple practices we can experience joy in every season.

The God Story is a compelling and creative retelling of the biblical story. Alain Emerson and Adam Cox - two leaders of the 24-7 Prayer movement - help you find personal meaning and purpose in light of God's unfailing love and awe-inspiring plans for humanity as laid out in Scripture.

Why is it that every time we hear the phrase, 'once upon a time' we are captivated, curious to know what these inviting words will give life to? It seems something fundamental to our existence is exercised when we are drawn into a story. As human beings we are meaning-making creatures, and yet so often we struggle to make sense of the world and our place in it.

Each one of our lives is a unique and unrepeatable creation. Each one of our stories is precious and worthy of being told, shared and experienced. Yet none of our stories make sense in isolation, disconnected from a wider plot. Our stories only truly find meaning when they are linked to the very source of our lives and the unfolding drama into which we were born.

The God Story is a compelling and creative retelling of the biblical story from 24-7 Prayer, which will help you find personal meaning and purpose in light of God's overarching and awe-inspiring plans for humanity as laid out in Scripture. It is the story we're all waiting to hear.

It is time to be enchanted afresh by the God Story and, in doing so, discover beloved identity and be inspired to make a difference in today's world.

'Natalie writes with the raw honesty and authenticity... This book will inspire and challenge you to rediscover that mercy is at the heart of our spiritual formation.'
Olivia Amartey, Elim

In a world of polarising politics, cancel culture and social media virtue signalling, we risk losing any sense of what it means to have mercy. And yet Jesus calls us to 'be merciful, just as your Father is merciful' (Luke 6.36).

In this thoughtful and practical book, Natalie Williams explores what it means to be a true mercy-bringer. First, we need to develop a deep appreciation of the mercy of God, which is more astonishing than we dare to believe. As the old hymn says, 'tis mercy all when it comes to God's dealings with his children. Once we have understood that, it will transform the way we see God, ourselves and the world around us. We will be drawn closer to Jesus and, as a result, we will reflect his mercy to a world that desperately needs it.

'Challenging yet encouraging, moving yet refreshing, and theologically rich yet practically accessible.'
Andrew Wilson, King's Church London

'A much-needed book from an important voice for our times.'
Graham Miller, London City Mission

Contents
Introduction
Part 1: 'A God Merciful'
Part 2: Our struggle to 'love mercy'
Part 3: Merciful thinking
Part 4: Merciful actions
Conclusion

The pace of the modern world with its constant demands and digital connection can make it tough to form a rich spirituality. Though many of us long for a nourishing connection with God, we often struggle to form habits that cultivate and sustain it.

In Faith Habits and How to Form Them, retreat guide and spiritual director Emma Timms shares 21 spiritual practices that will both feed your soul and fit with the life you are actually living. Drawing from the Bible, the saints and mystics of old, as well as contemporary psychology, this book will help you uncover God's already-active presence inside you and help you form rhythms and practices to connect more deeply.

Discover how to:

- Understand the importance of habits in forming a life-giving spirituality
- Apply spiritual practices that have been used throughout the ages
- Make a daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, and seasonal plan for your spiritual life
- Adjust your spiritual practices to the season of life you're in

Whether you're a stay-at-home parent, an overworked business owner, a local church leader, or a student, this book will help you nurture an essential and foundational relationship with God and give you the tools to outwork your faith in your unique context.

Slow down. Breathe deep. Remember you are beloved.

In a world that urges us to do more, hurry up and keep going, Beloved Is Where We Begin offers something beautifully different: a once-a-week pause to rest in God's presence and remember who you really are.

This gentle, practical devotional features 52 simple reflections, one for each week of the year, helping you build a sustainable habit of meeting with God that doesn't add to your to-do list, but restores your soul.

Rooted in the liturgical seasons of the Christian year - Easter, Ordinary Time, Advent, Christmas and Lent - these short, thoughtful readings invite you to slow down and hear the steady heartbeat of God's grace running through every part of life.

Perfect for busy people longing to meet God or reconnect in a way that's realistic, meaningful and kind, Beloved Is Where We Begin helps you find a rhythm of rootedness that can hold you through whatever the week brings - reminding you again and again that you are beloved.

No one doubts that we are all flawed people, but in our social-media driven, polarized society, we often fall into the trap of categorising people as wholly good or wholly bad. In reality, everyone is a mix of the two. What's more, we realise that God loves and calls people in spite of their faults and failings, and that we're still not 'good' enough to qualify.

Drawing on years of careful study and pastoral ministry, Bishop of Plymouth James Grier reveals the ways in which the heroes of scripture are more like us than we realise, with both their God-given strengths and profound weaknesses. The book is in four parts: exploring the beginning of leadership in Genesis, through Moses, the first two Kings and finally Jesus' apostles. Bishop James, along with his wife Liz, adds to this teaching with insights and anecdotes from their own experiences.

This is a book for anyone who is trying, with varying degrees of success, to follow Jesus, whether as a leader or simply as a follower. It will offer reassurance to those who have been shaken by the failure of a leader, aspire to step into leadership themselves or are just trying to lead where they are. It asks questions of our hearts and attitudes, and it provides practical encouragement as we seek to follow God and become more like him, despite our shortcomings.

In this small but powerful little book, Sarah Yardley offers bite-sized explorations on what the Bible says about change and how to navigate it.

Change is inevitable; from our experiences and expectations, to longings, love and loss. For many of us our twenties and thirties can feel like one big time of transition. It’s too easy to feel adrift when so much in society is screaming we should be settled.

MORE Change invites you to seek the Bible’s wisdom on experiencing change, viewing our shifting circumstances in light of the perspective and protection of an unchanging God.

Part of the MORE Books series, this is a fresh take on Bible study that is designed to help you carve out more time with God and apply the Bible effectively to your full and fast-paced life. Easy to dip in and out of and the perfect size to slip into your bag, MORE Change is ideal for young adults, students and professionals on the go.

If you have ever felt uncertain in an ever-shifting world and are looking for a practical alternative to Bible study to fit around a busy schedule, this is the book for you - MORE Change will deepen your understanding of the Bible, and equip you to face change with a stronger, surer faith.

Every day we face a choice: to give into fear or meet it with faith?

From health concerns to comparison-rife social media, the world offers us plenty of reasons to live in fear. And yet, God offers us countless reasons to live life to the full, facing cowardice and stepping forward with courage.

This book of 365 daily devotionals invites you to feast on God's word in bite-sized chunks, helping you to cultivate new rhythms and patterns to help you live out biblical truth in your day-to-day lives.

Join Youth Director Dan Blythe and artist/theologian Rocky Nti in this new daily devotional to grow in courage. With daily scripture and hard-won wisdom their hope and heart is that you end the year with less fear and more faith.

For many of us, the modern world is overwhelming. Fast-paced. Hard-edged. Exhausting. People are craving more peace. It's no wonder we have seen the social media trend of returning to traditional skills and ways of life. People are craving change. A return to simple and peaceful living. But could this be more than a pretty aesthetic? Is there more connection to be found in living a handmade, homegrown and slow life?

In A YEAR TO SLOW DOWN Rachel Bearn shares her own experience of how reducing her pace helped her begin to heal from severe chronic illness and connect deeper with her faith. Over twelve months she shares the benefits of living slowly, quietly and in the present moment, dependent on God and God alone - as he always intended for us.

This is a practical guidebook that takes readers through the four seasons of the year, incorporating the festivals and celebrations that have punctuated the Christian calendar for generations and encouraging you to live seasonally and in the moment.

Do you long for deeper, authentic connection in a world that often feels isolating?

In a time when loneliness is increasingly common, we often overlook one of life's most profound gifts: friendship. While our culture places a spotlight on romantic love, the lasting, transformative power of friendshig - especially friendship with Jesus - can truly change our lives.

Through the stories of Mary, Martha, and Lazarus, Amy Boucher Pye explores how a relationship with Jesus isn't just another friendship; it's a sacred connection that meets us right where we are and invites us to grow into who we're meant to be. Jesus walked alongside his friends through their joys and challenges, empowering them to embrace life with newfound purpose, strength, and peace. He still does this today for us.

What would it mean to have a friend who understands you completely? How could friendship with Jesus deepen your faith and bring new joy to your life?

This practical, Bible-based work will encourage you, challenge you and inspire you. Wherever you are on your journey, let this book guide you to experience the grounding faith, joy, and peace that flow from a genuine friendship with Jesus - a friendship that has the power to transform you from the inside out.

'There is not a person on the planet who has not needed a book like this.' Dr R. T. Kendall

'Fresh, insightful and utterly relevant . . . Here you will find depth of insight and height of vision, breadth of wisdom and sharpness of illustration.' Canon J. John

'A very applicable and moving book serving as a reminder of the freedom that is available in Christ.' Rachelle Ann Go

The gospels tell us that God wants to take away our burdens and offer us forgiveness. Confessing our sins should be liberating and joyful - so why do we so often feel only shame and guilt?

Spiritual Detox invites you to rethink the way you see confession and discover greater joy through the recovery of this much-neglected spiritual discipline. Blending biblical teaching with practical advice and application, it will show you how making regular, heart-felt confession will revitalise your spiritual life - whether you are unhappy and discouraged, wrestling with guilt and shame or just longing to drink more deeply of God's forgiveness and abundant grace.

Using examples from Scripture, and with meditations on 1 John 1:9, Spiritual Detox explores how confessing sin frees us from guilt to strengthen our relationship with God. Packed full of practical wisdom and insight, it will leave you with a clearer vision of God's forgiveness, help you to make confession part of your everyday spiritual formation and set you on a path of liberating joy and discipleship.

Learn how to sit at the feet of Jesus through pages of Scripture in this guide from New York Times bestselling author John Mark Comer and the team at Practicing the Way.

In an impatient, hurried, and quick-to-critique culture, Scripture can seem dry and tedious - just one more task on our religious to-do list. This approach is tragic because we miss out on the life-giving experience of sitting at the feet of Jesus.

But as we learn to read with hearts open to Jesus and with an awareness of Scripture's cultural and literary backdrop, we can experience it as a channel to God.

This Companion Guide to the Scripture Practice from Practicing the Way offers spiritual exercises, reflection questions, and guided readings. Featuring four engaging video sessions, the Scripture Practice is designed to be run with your community and is available online for free.

This guide will help you:

- Approach Scripture with the heart of an apprentice
- Integrate the Hebrew practice of biblical meditation
- Embrace the cultural and literary depth of Scripture for fruitful study
- Develop an "inner library" through the memorization of Scripture

Learn how to read Scripture in such a way that the presence of Jesus shapes not only your thinking but also the kind of person you become.

Nowadays it seems like everyone wants to be successful, but how many of us actually feel it?

We may know that true success is found in following the one who made us. And yet, in our increasingly polarised and comparison-rife world, many of us find our hearts yearning for an ever-elusive 'success': in money and power, in influence and accolades.

It is time for us to remember that success is attainable - not in what we have but how we live.

This book invites you to recognise the beauty and complexity of the world we live in and how we, individually and collectively, may have conformed our faith in Jesus to simple consumer culture and cultural preferences. It is an opportunity to redefine success, choosing love over efficiency, depth over volume and real friendship over cold transactions.

Jesus' life and teaching are the perfect antidote for a world growing sick with the wrong sort of success. And, he invites us again to experience a success that truly satisfies our souls.

Learn how to sit at the feet of Jesus through pages of Scripture in this guide from New York Times bestselling author John Mark Comer and the team at Practicing the Way.

In an impatient, hurried, and quick-to-critique culture, Scripture can seem dry and tedious - just one more task on our religious to-do list. This approach is tragic because we miss out on the life-giving experience of sitting at the feet of Jesus.

But as we learn to read with hearts open to Jesus and with an awareness of Scripture's cultural and literary backdrop, we can experience it as a channel to God.

This Companion Guide to the Scripture Practice from Practicing the Way offers spiritual exercises, reflection questions, and guided readings. Featuring four engaging video sessions, the Scripture Practice is designed to be run with your community and is available online for free.

This guide will help you:

- Approach Scripture with the heart of an apprentice
- Integrate the Hebrew practice of biblical meditation
- Embrace the cultural and literary depth of Scripture for fruitful study
- Develop an "inner library" through the memorization of Scripture

Learn how to read Scripture in such a way that the presence of Jesus shapes not only your thinking but also the kind of person you become.

In a lonely, fractured culture, Jesus offers a new kind of family. Discover the communal Way of Jesus through this guide from New York Times bestselling author John Mark Comer and the team at Practicing the Way.

Despite the unprecedented connectivity of the modern era, our time is marked by isolation, transience, and superficiality. But Jesus invites his followers into genuine relationships, not just around a stage, but around a table - a place that offers intimacy, joy, healing, and commitment.

This Companion Guide to the Community Practice from Practicing the Way offers spiritual exercises, reflection questions, and guided readings. The Community Practice features four sessions designed to be run with your community and is available online for free.

This guide will help you:

- Build rhythms of intentional connection with others
- Create safe spaces in which to share your joys and sorrows
- Confess your brokenness and begin healing
- Develop committed relationships that grow in mature love

Living in community in our time of radical individualism is not always easy - but it's beautiful, opening us to healing, happiness, and love.

For Christians, prayer is the main way we communicate with God - but what can we do when we struggle with the question of how to pray or feel our prayer lives are lacking?

Seven Ways to Pray explores how by looking to ancient prayer practices of Christianity, we can find fresh ways to relate to God today. Discovering these tried and tested tools will not only strengthen our relationship with him but will bring us joy, contentment, growth and transformation.

With warmth and encouragement, Amy Boucher Pye takes us through seven ways to pray to God: praying with the Bible, receiving and extending forgiveness, practicing God's presence, listening prayer, the prayer of lament, praying with the gospels imaginatively and the prayer of examen. Guiding us through their history, she shows us how easily we can make these prayer practices part of our lives and use them to grow closer to God.

Along with prayer exercises to help us engage directly with God, there are questions for individual reflection or small-group discussion, making Seven Ways to Pray perfect to use as a family, in churches or with friends.

This is a book for anyone who has ever wondered how to pray or is looking for ways to revitalise their prayer lives. It will give you an understanding of some of the oldest prayer practices of Christianity, and equip you with the tools you need to renew and refresh your relationship with God.

Come along, and discover Seven Ways to Pray.

John Mark Comer, the New York Times bestselling author of The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry and Live No Lies, shows readers what is holding them back from authentically following Jesus - and reveals the countercultural practices to connect us with a vibrant lifelong faith.

"One of the most important books I have read in a decade... If we would all follow in this way, our lives would change and the world would change." Jennie Allen, author of Get Out of Your Head and Find Your People

We all have experienced unwanted parts of our spiritual journey: distance from God, gaps in our character, the fear that our lives will be trivial and empty... Jesus is calling us into more. Calling us to be shaped in his likeness. To experience his abundance of life.

But how, practically, can we do that? By becoming his apprentice. By practicing the Way.

Outlining the timeless process of being with Jesus, becoming like him, and living as he did, bestselling author and pastoral voice John Mark Comer delineates God's vision for the journey of our soul.

In this powerful and practical work, he defines his core philosophy of spiritual formation to help us form a "rule of life."

Along the way, readers benefit from his rich cultural insight, deep biblical teaching, and honest and hopeful view of the potential of each human soul.

You feel like there's more to life than this? You're right. Now come discover just how much life awaits you.

In this small but powerful little book, Sarah Yardley offers bite-sized explorations on what the Bible says about change and how to navigate it.

Change is inevitable; from our experiences and expectations, to longings, love and loss. For many of us our twenties and thirties can feel like one big time of transition. It’s too easy to feel adrift when so much in society is screaming we should be settled.

MORE Change invites you to seek the Bible’s wisdom on experiencing change, viewing our shifting circumstances in light of the perspective and protection of an unchanging God.

Part of the MORE Books series, this is a fresh take on Bible study that is designed to help you carve out more time with God and apply the Bible effectively to your full and fast-paced life. Easy to dip in and out of and the perfect size to slip into your bag, MORE Change is ideal for young adults, students and professionals on the go.

If you have ever felt uncertain in an ever-shifting world and are looking for a practical alternative to Bible study to fit around a busy schedule, this is the book for you - MORE Change will deepen your understanding of the Bible, and equip you to face change with a stronger, surer faith.

'Natalie writes with the raw honesty and authenticity... This book will inspire and challenge you to rediscover that mercy is at the heart of our spiritual formation.'
Olivia Amartey, Elim

In a world of polarising politics, cancel culture and social media virtue signalling, we risk losing any sense of what it means to have mercy. And yet Jesus calls us to 'be merciful, just as your Father is merciful' (Luke 6.36).

In this thoughtful and practical book, Natalie Williams explores what it means to be a true mercy-bringer. First, we need to develop a deep appreciation of the mercy of God, which is more astonishing than we dare to believe. As the old hymn says, 'tis mercy all when it comes to God's dealings with his children. Once we have understood that, it will transform the way we see God, ourselves and the world around us. We will be drawn closer to Jesus and, as a result, we will reflect his mercy to a world that desperately needs it.

'Challenging yet encouraging, moving yet refreshing, and theologically rich yet practically accessible.'
Andrew Wilson, King’s Church London

'A much-needed book from an important voice for our times.'
Graham Miller, London City Mission

Contents
Introduction
Part 1: 'A God Merciful'
Part 2: Our struggle to 'love mercy'
Part 3: Merciful thinking
Part 4: Merciful actions
Conclusion

First published in 1937, Letters by a Modern Mystic is a compilation of excerpts from letters Christian missionary Frank C. Laubach wrote to his father. Within them, Laubach shares his findings of the greatest experiment of his life: attempting to live in moment-by-moment communication with God.

Short, simple and extraordinarily powerful, this little book offers a profoundly challenging but life-changing way of living. Laubach's letters are thoughtful and honest, documenting his failings and struggles with this spiritual discipline - but also showing the joy, wonder and transformation he experienced by connecting with God and living in communion with him every minute of the day.

Easy to read and full of wisdom, Letters by a Modern Mystic is essential reading for anyone seeking to deepen their connection with God or wanting to make their spiritual formation part of their everyday life. With a foreword by Pete Grieg show its continued relevance for today, it will challenge you to see that it is possible to live in communion with God in every moment and change the way you approach your faith.

Included at the back of this book is 'The Game with Minutes', the practical guide Laubach developed to assist others in applying the principles and spiritual practices in his letters. It is a game that has transformed countless lives - and it is time for a new generation to play.

MORE Trust looks at what the Bible says about what we put our trust in – and more importantly who. With hard-won vulnerability and an intimacy born from big dreams and big doubts, singer-songwriter Leah McFall explores how to trust God through hiddenness, disappointment, risk and reward.

What do you do when God calls you out of your comfort zone? Or into a dream that seems to fade away to nothing? How do we hold onto our faith when the 'full life' we were promised seems to fall short?

Part of the MORE Books series, this is a fresh take on Bible study that is designed to help you carve out more time with God and apply the Bible effectively to your full and fast-paced life. Easy to dip in and out of and the perfect size to slip into your bag, MORE Trust is ideal for young adults, students and professionals on the go.

If you have ever wondered how to trust God when things aren't going your way, or are looking for a practical alternative to Bible study to fit around a busy schedule, this is the book for you - MORE Trust will deepen your understanding of the Bible, and help strength your faith so that it is sure and steady enough to see you through whatever life might throw your way.

In The Story of You the author of the bestselling The Road Back to You reveals how to use the power of the Enneagram-the ancient personality typing system-to overwrite the negative stories we tell ourselves, so that we can ultimately become our true selves.

In this powerful, transformative guide, Ian Morgan Cron demonstrates the life-changing power of the Enneagram. The Story of You challenges us to rethink what we believe about who we are and offers lessons in using the Enneagram to help you change your story.

Drawing on his extensive counselling and personal experience, Cron examines each of the nine personality types. Step by step, he explains how each can find happiness by understanding their origin story, harnessing their type's strengths, acknowledging weaknesses, and creating space for an incredible-and more positive-new reality.

The Story of You is a book for anyone looking for practical advice and guidance on how to use the Enneagram as a Christian, and to make it part of their spiritual formation. As you shed the false ideas you have about yourself and master your Enneagram profile, you will unlock your own inner power for spiritual growth-and, ultimately, for becoming the true self God meant for you to be.

Discover the counterintuitive joy and freedom found in generosity--a Practice that reflects our happy, generous God--in this guide from New York Times bestselling author John Mark Comer and the team at Practicing the Way.

In a world driven by consumerism and self-interest, the ancient biblical practice of generosity is both radical and transformative. This Companion Guide to the Generosity Practice from Practicing the Way offers spiritual exercises, reflection questions, and guided readings across four sessions and an optional bonus session. Featuring four engaging video sessions, the Generosity Practice course is designed to be run with your community and is available online for free.

This guide will help you:

- Lean into Jesus' teaching that there is more joy in giving than receiving
- Identify and combat the culture of consumerism and greed
- Embrace the biblical concept of stewardship in all areas of life
- Develop a heart for the poor and marginalized
- Create a sustainable plan for generous living

Experience a life of purpose, joy, and deeper connection with God and others through the Practice of generosity.

Be still. For some, these two simple words a welcome invitation to slow down. For others, they feel impossible, out of reach in our increasingly noisy world, or simply just too hard to maintain.

There is another way. In fact, there are many.

In this practical, easy-to-read guide, Brian Heasley explores the multitude of rhythms of Christian prayer and devotion available to every believer. From memorizing scripture and prayer running to noticing beauty everywhere, he demonstrates how we don't need to be static for our hearts to be still, and how even in the midst of a full, busy life, we can spend quiet time with God.

Be Still is a prayer book for anyone looking for ways to revitalise the way they pray or who is struggling to make space for devotional time with God. Packed full of ideas for different ways to pray and tips and advice for how to build prayer practices into everyday life, Be Still will change the way you think about prayer and devotion and equip you with all the tools you need to deepen your relationship with God.

You can use Be Still individually or in small groups, or read it alongside 24-7 Prayer's new Be Still prayer course. It also makes a great resource for youth leaders looking to help teenagers cultivate daily rhythms of prayer and spend more quiet time with God, or as a gift for people starting out on their faith journey or those returning to faith after a while.

Join Brian Heasley, and discover the different ways in which we can all be still.

Every day we face a choice: to give into fear or meet it with faith?

From health concerns to comparison-rife social media, the world offers us plenty of reasons to live in fear. And yet, God offers us countless reasons to live life to the full, facing cowardice and stepping forward with courage.

This book of 365 daily devotionals invites you to feast on God's word in bite-sized chunks, helping you to cultivate new rhythms and patterns to help you live out biblical truth in your day-to-day lives. 

Join Youth Director Dan Blythe and artist/theologian Rocky Nti in this new daily devotional to grow in courage. With daily scripture and hard-won wisdom their hope and heart is that you end the year with less fear and more faith.

Shun self-help in favour of spiritual-help and become the other-focussed disciple that Jesus is inviting you to be in this accessible and practical book.

In recent years, the Church in the West has witnessed a growing hunger to engage in spiritual disciplines that help us become more like Jesus. And yet, if our practices cause us to look inwards without looking outwards, then we can unwittingly distance ourselves from him instead.

Jesus was inherently other-focussed, and in this immensely practical book, Kate Pocklington invites us to explore why being formed by the Spirit is only half of the picture.

We are formed by the Spirit, formed through our experiences with others and formed for the sake of God's mission in the world. Together we will see how God - the grand recycler - wants to use every part of our past and personality to shape us into other-focussed people.

With warmth and encouragement Pastor John Mark Comer, author of ECPA Bestseller The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry, offers guidance and advice to help you recognise the lies and resist the forces that seek to steal your happiness, wholeness and holiness.

As Christians, we're all at war with three fierce adversaries of the soul that feed us deceptive ideas to harm our spiritual well-being: the world, the flesh and the devil. Live No Lies parses out the tactics, strengths and weaknesses of these enemies, giving you a clear battle plan and spiritual practices to outwit and overcome these evils.

Skilfully weaving together uplifting wisdom and reassuring, practical guidance, this is a book for anyone looking for everyday disciplines to help them care for their soul. Live No Lies will equip you with all you need to make practices for resisting evil an active part of your spiritual formation, and leave you motivated to find happiness and peace in Jesus.

The tug-of-war in your chest for wholeness? Those lies that sabotage your peace? It's time to identify them, and defeat them.

Retreats give us a space for contemplation and developing our relationship with God, but they aren't always possible. So can we still appreciate and detect the everyday God, even without special 'holy' places and spiritual practices?

Dancing at the Still Point is a book for those who can't or aren't ready to go away for a residential Christian retreat, but who want to be in daily relationship and connect with God in a satisfying way.

In sessions that you can work through at your own pace, Gemma Simmonds guides us through the practices and disciplines of retreats, such as being still physically and spiritually, developing a habit of prayer and learning some basic discernment skills. With insights from the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises, she explores how we can fold these practices into every day and shows that a rich life of prayer, in which we have time and space to let God be present, is achievable even in a busy working or family life.

Practical and flexible, Dancing at the Still Point will help you find a richer and more balanced life, where the spiritual takes its rightful place amid all the other calls on time and attention.

In our era of chronic exhaustion, learn how setting aside 24 hours to stop, rest, delight, and worship restores joy and spiritual vitality in this guide from New York Times bestselling author John Mark Comer and the team at Practicing the Way.

This Companion Guide to the Sabbath Practice from Practicing the Way provides a practical, accessible approach to incorporating this life-giving rhythm into your weekly routine. Designed to be used with four engaging video sessions freely available online, this guide offers spiritual exercises, reflection questions, and additional resources to help you and your community experience Sabbath as the best part of your week.

This guide will help you:

- Understand the biblical foundations of Sabbath
- Learn to "stop" and align with a rhythm God built into the fabric of creation
- Develop personal practices for meaningful rest, play, and communal celebration
- Resist internal and external forces that war against Sabbath
- Cultivate a spirit of worship that extends throughout your week

Discover how setting aside 24 hours can transform every day of your week, leading to a deeper connection with God, others, and your own soul.

Inspired by John Mark Comer's New York Times bestseller Practicing the Way, this official companion to the Practicing the Way Course is an eight-session introduction to following Jesus in the modern era.

The Practicing the Way Course, available free online, is designed to lay a foundation for lifelong apprenticeship to Jesus. This full-color companion guide helps you practice, reflect, and dialogue with your community as you walk through the Course together to experience real, lasting transformation.

Inside, you'll find resources like:

- Helpful tips to get the most out of each session of the Course
- Supplemental resources to dive deeper after each session
- Real-life exercises to help put each session into practice
- Additional prayers and liturgies

Slow down. Breathe deep. Remember you are beloved.

In a world that urges us to do more, hurry up and keep going, Beloved Is Where We Begin offers something beautifully different: a once-a-week pause to rest in God's presence and remember who you really are.

This gentle, practical devotional features 52 simple reflections, one for each week of the year, helping you build a sustainable habit of meeting with God that doesn't add to your to-do list, but restores your soul.

Rooted in the liturgical seasons of the Christian year - Easter, Ordinary Time, Advent, Christmas and Lent - these short, thoughtful readings invite you to slow down and hear the steady heartbeat of God's grace running through every part of life.

Perfect for busy people longing to meet God or reconnect in a way that's realistic, meaningful and kind, Beloved Is Where We Begin helps you find a rhythm of rootedness that can hold you through whatever the week brings - reminding you again and again that you are beloved.

'Joshua's tone and message communicates a wisdom that can only come from first-hand experience. The grace and poetic writing within this book will stay with you for ever' - Propaganda, Author, Poet, Political Activist

'Joshua Luke Smith has given us a beautiful book. With the skill of an artist, the heart of a disciple, and the vision of prophet, he invites us to encounter the grace of God in a way that stokes the deeper fire our hearts are aching for in these broken time. What a gift.' - Jon Tyson. Author and Pastor

The culture today tells us we can be whoever we want to be.

So, why do so many of us feel stuck?

Throughout this book, pastor and poet Joshua Luke Smith invites you into a 'selah' moment - an opportunity to quieten the noise – and to see that the clarity you are longing for may be closer than you think.

Something You Once Knew will remind you of what you always hoped to be true and rekindle the wonder you lost along the way.

With thoughtful reflections on following curiosity, building true community and reclaiming your creativity, this book will help you to rediscover the vision and vibrancy installed in you from the very beginning.'

'Joshua Luke Smith writes with an electric heart-on-sleeve honesty that makes me feel like I’m reconnecting with a long-lost friend. Page after page I feel the stirring of a mysterious wonder that I’m afraid I’d long forgotten.' - John Mark Mcmillan

'Every human should read this masterpiece (and I don't call it that lightly) as I honestly think it has the ability to make us all better people.' - Zoe Clark-Coates MBE

In a life full of highs and lows, choice and challenges, the words 'and yet' can change everything. We are surrounded by darkness and yet there is light. We feel we are lacking and yet God provides. We are broken and bruised and yet there is hope.

In the depths of depression and plagued with suicidal thoughts, Rachael Newham never thought she'd find herself writing a book on joy. And yet, if her journey with mental health illness has taught her anything it is that true, deep, lasting joy can only be experienced when we allow ourselves to enter into lament and be honest about our pain before God.

With warm understanding, in this lovely Lent book Rachael traces how Biblical writers used 'and yet' to bring together joy and lament and invites us to see them not as opposites, but two sides of the same coin. Drawing on her experiences with mental illness, she shows us how we can build a rhythm of both joy and lament into our lives both through the season of Lent and the rest of the church's year.

With reflections split over six sections And Yet is the perfect daily Lent devotional, but its undated readings can be used for periods of prayerful reflection throughout the year. This is a beautiful Christian book on lament ideal for anyone looking for to better understand how the tradition of lament and joy work together, and how they can make them a part of their everyday spiritual formation.

We may be living in dark circumstances - and yet with a few simple practices we can experience joy in every season.

As Christians, we know that we should become more like Jesus - so we try to act differently. But changing our outward behaviour doesn't change our hearts. Only God's grace can do that.

Renovation of the Heart lays a biblical foundation for spiritual transformation, and explores the disciplines and practices that are crucial if we are to be changed from the inside out. Immensely profound but also practical and encouraging, Dallas Willard's insightful wisdom challenges us to rethink what it really means to become more Christlike and how we do so.

This special 20th anniversary edition - featuring a new introduction by John Mark Comer, revised discussion questions and a never before published interview with Dallas Willard - shows that this dynamic and practical approach to spiritual growth is just as needed today as it was 20 years ago. It will both challenge and inspire you on the path of becoming more like Jesus and equip you to engage actively and intentionally in your spiritual formation.

Renovation of the Heart has helped countless Christians begin the process of spiritual transformation. It is ideal both for anyone new to the Christian faith looking for guidance in discipleship, and those who are already Christians and want a new approach to help their spiritual growth and reaffirm their faith.

Don't settle for complacency. Accept the challenge Renovation of the Heart offers and discover what Dallas Willard describes as a divine process that "brings every element in our being, working from inside out, into harmony with the will of God." Become an intentional apprentice of Jesus Christ, changing daily as you walk with Him.

The pace of the modern world with its constant demands and digital connection can make it tough to form a rich spirituality. Though many of us long for a nourishing connection with God, we often struggle to form habits that cultivate and sustain it.

In Faith Habits and How to Form Them, retreat guide and spiritual director Emma Timms shares 21 spiritual practices that will both feed your soul and fit with the life you are actually living. Drawing from the Bible, the saints and mystics of old, as well as contemporary psychology, this book will help you uncover God's already-active presence inside you and help you form rhythms and practices to connect more deeply.

Discover how to:

- Understand the importance of habits in forming a life-giving spirituality
- Apply spiritual practices that have been used throughout the ages
- Make a daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, and seasonal plan for your spiritual life
- Adjust your spiritual practices to the season of life you're in

Whether you're a stay-at-home parent, an overworked business owner, a local church leader, or a student, this book will help you nurture an essential and foundational relationship with God and give you the tools to outwork your faith in your unique context.

ECPA BESTSELLER - Sixty contemporary, comforting liturgies that break through the chaos of modern life to offer a time-tested message of hope for readers navigating fear, burnout, loneliness, and other worries.

"Powerful, prayerful poetry covering topics that are at once universal but also timely in their particularity" Christie Purifoy, author of Placemaker

Remind us, Jesus, that You lay sleeping in the boat, in the middle of the storm at sea. You are neither surprised nor distressed by the mounting chaos. You are not a God who panics.

When writers Audrey Elledge and Elizabeth Moore were inspired to create an anchor of hope for their own local community, they moved forward by turning to the past, to a time when Christians looked at the collapsing world around them and resolved to offer something beautiful - something true - through poetic prayers.

The stunning result is Liturgies for Hope, an original collection of modern liturgies reminiscent of past generations of faith. Designed to awaken your prayer life, the entries in this gentle guideexplore experiences such as

- feeling burned-out and soul-weary
- embracing the mystery of faith
- receiving the kindness of others
- struggling with secret shame
- bursting with thanksgiving

With Scripture references for every prayer, Liturgies for Hope is both timeless and ideal for this moment, offering words to express our longings, shore up our prayers, and reorient our souls. 

Deeply uplifting, this beautiful collection of 60 comforting prayers for modern life will help readers speak to the God who knows them, supports them, and see that whatever their circumstances there is always more hope to be had.

Learn how to cultivate a deeper union with God through intentional, multifaceted prayer in this practical, accessible guide from New York Times bestselling author John Mark Comer and the team at Practicing the Way.

In the hurry, distraction, and noise of the modern world, few things are more difficult, or more rewarding, than developing a life of prayer. As an apprentice of Jesus, it is vital to set aside time to be more deeply connected with the Father.

This Companion Guide to the Prayer Practice from Practicing the Way offers spiritual exercises, reflection questions, and guided readings to lead you into a richer experience of prayer. Featuring four engaging video sessions, the Prayer Practice is designed to be run with your community and is available online for free.

This guide will help you:

- Develop a daily rhythm of prayer using both liturgical and personal approaches

- Engage in various forms of prayer, including gratitude, lament, and intercession

- Listen to God's voice through practices like Lectio Divina

- Move beyond words to experience contemplative union with God

Discover how dedicating intentional time to communicate and commune with God can lead to a transformed life, deeper spiritual growth, and a renewed sense of partnership with God in the world.

Having it all together is a myth. Thank God, His grace is real - and it's time to take the pressure off...

Every day we are bombarded with messages that tell us we have to be productive, powerful, perfect. And the Church is no exception.

The Good News of Jesus says that we are saved by grace but for Monique Thomas the gravity of this message didn't sink in until over six years after she first became a Christian. Throughout her time at Bible college, she soon learnt that much of what she had learnt from church culture simply added an extra layer of pressure to that already placed on her by society: do more, strive more, be more.

This book is for every person who desperately needs to understand the real Gospel: God has grace for us in our mess, not just in the moments we get out of it.

For many of us, the modern world is overwhelming. Fast-paced. Hard-edged. Exhausting. People are craving more peace. It's no wonder we have seen the social media trend of returning to traditional skills and ways of life. People are craving change. A return to simple and peaceful living. But could this be more than a pretty aesthetic? Is there more connection to be found in living a handmade, homegrown and slow life?

In A YEAR TO SLOW DOWN Rachel Bearn shares her own experience of how reducing her pace helped her begin to heal from severe chronic illness and connect deeper with her faith. Over twelve months she shares the benefits of living slowly, quietly and in the present moment, dependent on God and God alone - as he always intended for us.

This is a practical guidebook that takes readers through the four seasons of the year, incorporating the festivals and celebrations that have punctuated the Christian calendar for generations and encouraging you to live seasonally and in the moment.

Ruth Haley Barton's award-winning, practical introduction to the spiritual practice of silence and solitude is an invitation to you to journey into the real presence of God and hear and his voice.

Much of the Christian faith is about words - preaching, teaching, talking with others. But the hectic demands and noise of daily modern life can drown out God's words, and keep us from fully meeting him.

Taking the story of Elijah the prophet as inspiration and example, Invitation to Solitude and Silence explores the power of quietness and stillness in connecting with God. Filled with practical exercises that draw on Ruth's own experience, it encourages and challenges us to rethink how we see silence and solitude and to use them to invite God deeper into our lives.

Invitation to Solitude and Silence is ideal for anyone looking for spiritual disciplines to help them connect more fully with God and practices to aid their spiritual formation. Ruth's gentle wisdom will expand your idea of what prayer can be, and help you find time to rest and renew your faith so that your relationship with God is strengthened.

Helpful and hopeful, this book is a reminder that God does not push himself where he is not wanted but waits for us to respond from the depths of our desire. Will you say yes?

No one doubts that we are all flawed people, but in our social-media driven, polarized society, we often fall into the trap of categorising people as wholly good or wholly bad. In reality, everyone is a mix of the two. What's more, we realise that God loves and calls people in spite of their faults and failings, and that we're still not 'good' enough to qualify.

Drawing on years of careful study and pastoral ministry, Bishop of Plymouth James Grier reveals the ways in which the heroes of scripture are more like us than we realise, with both their God-given strengths and profound weaknesses. The book is in four parts: exploring the beginning of leadership in Genesis, through Moses, the first two Kings and finally Jesus' apostles. Bishop James, along with his wife Liz, adds to this teaching with insights and anecdotes from their own experiences.

This is a book for anyone who is trying, with varying degrees of success, to follow Jesus, whether as a leader or simply as a follower. It will offer reassurance to those who have been shaken by the failure of a leader, aspire to step into leadership themselves or are just trying to lead where they are. It asks questions of our hearts and attitudes, and it provides practical encouragement as we seek to follow God and become more like him, despite our shortcomings.

Do you wake up feeling as if there's a mountain to climb before you can go back to bed?

Do you long to be able to ease yourself into a more positive frame of mind?

Do you know God has equipped us to do just that?

Stop the Spiral Devotional, inspired by the New York Times bestseller Get Out of Your Head, is an accessible yet transformative daily resource. It's easy to read and life-changing to put into practice!

Anxiety, insecurity and an inarticulate dread of what might happen next affect everyone. They can lead to patterns of thinking that drag us down. In these heartfelt reflections, Jennie offers warmth, hope and comfort. You'll find:

- verses for meditating on the Bible

- a 'Rewire the Spiral' statement to repeat throughout your day

- a personal prayer for sparking deeper intimacy with God

Offering one hundred devotions, this is a book to have at hand every morning. With timeless wisdom, it helps us to confront our fears, live in freedom and use our gifts to the very fullest.

Jennie Allen is the founder and visionary of IF:Gathering. Stop the Spiral Devotional is inspired by her New York Times bestseller, Get Out of Your Head.

The God Story is a compelling and creative retelling of the biblical story. Alain Emerson and Adam Cox - two leaders of the 24-7 Prayer movement - help you find personal meaning and purpose in light of God's unfailing love and awe-inspiring plans for humanity as laid out in Scripture.

Why is it that every time we hear the phrase, 'once upon a time' we are captivated, curious to know what these inviting words will give life to? It seems something fundamental to our existence is exercised when we are drawn into a story. As human beings we are meaning-making creatures, and yet so often we struggle to make sense of the world and our place in it.

Each one of our lives is a unique and unrepeatable creation. Each one of our stories is precious and worthy of being told, shared and experienced. Yet none of our stories make sense in isolation, disconnected from a wider plot. Our stories only truly find meaning when they are linked to the very source of our lives and the unfolding drama into which we were born.

The God Story is a compelling and creative retelling of the biblical story from 24-7 Prayer, which will help you find personal meaning and purpose in light of God's overarching and awe-inspiring plans for humanity as laid out in Scripture. It is the story we're all waiting to hear.

It is time to be enchanted afresh by the God Story and, in doing so, discover beloved identity and be inspired to make a difference in today's world.

Discover how to serve with genuine love in a time of self-interest and overwhelming need through this guide from New York Times bestselling author John Mark Comer and the team at Practicing the Way.

In a world where self-interest too often takes precedence, service is a defining characteristic of those who apprentice under Jesus. The Service Practice features a practical, accessible approach to integrating service to others into your daily life. Designed to be used with four engaging video sessions freely available online, this guide offers spiritual exercises, reflection questions, guided readings, and additional resources to help you and your community.

This course guide will equip you to experience the power of a neglected discipline as you learn to:

Embrace a lifestyle of love and acting on behalf of others, following the example of Jesus
Imitate the radical availability of Jesus and reframe interruptions as invitations
Value community engagement and notice the needs of others around you
Practice intentional acts of service where you are, starting today, in your everyday life

Discover how a life of service can lead to a transformed heart, meaningful connections with others, and a deepened sense of purpose.

Discover how to step away from the noise of life and into a place of encounter with this guide from New York Times bestselling author John Mark Comer and the team at Practicing the Way.

In our hyper-connected, constantly buzzing world, the practice of solitude is both countercultural and essential. The Solitude Practice provides a practical, accessible approach to incorporating this vital spiritual discipline into your life. Designed to be used with four engaging video sessions freely available online, this guide offers spiritual exercises, reflection questions, guided readings, and additional resources to help you and your community.

This course guide will equip you to experience the power of solitude as you learn to:

Create a daily rhythm of quiet time with God
Encounter your true self and address avoided emotions
Combat spiritual enemies through Scripture-based reflection
Deepen your intimacy with God through listening and loving presence

Discover how stepping away from distractions can lead to a transformed life, deeper self-awareness, and a renewed connection with God and others.

Part of a series of nine core practices that together build a Rule of Life for following Jesus in the modern world, each guide can be read individually or together in any order:

The Sabbath Practice
The Prayer Practice
The Fasting Practice
The Solitude Practice
The Generosity Practice
The Scripture Practice
The Community Practice
The Service Practice
The Witness Practice