I want to share some of my favorite books here partly because I have always been an avid reader. Because of that, I guess it’s no surprise that I have now become a writer and an author. Some of my favorite books below include Biographies, Christian living, Christian fiction, Devotionals and more.
As I come across new and exciting books, I will be adding them to my favorite books collection for you check out. If you have any favorite books, I would love to hear from you.
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My Favorite Bibles & Commentaries
NIV Application Bible
Learn What the Bible Means. Discover What it Means for You.
Featuring thousands of study notes drawn from the bestselling NIV Application Commentary series (over 2 million copies sold), the NIV Application Bible helps you understand Scripture and apply it to your life in a whole new way. This study Bible guides you in discovering how the ancient truths found in Scripture relate to your experiences today using insight from trusted evangelical scholars, paired with timely biblical application principles. Throughout the Bible, Original Meaning Notes help you explore the meaning of the biblical text while Application Notes make it personal, helping you to integrate the Bible’s teachings into your everyday life.
MEV SpiritLed Woman Bible
Feed Your Hunger for More of God.
The SpiritLed Woman Bible was developed for the woman in passionate pursuit of God. It’s for the woman who wants to know God more deeply and fulfill His plan for her life. It is specifically designed to increase her hunger for God and to help her get to know Him more intimately.
Beautifully crafted for today’s woman, the SpiritLed Woman Bible is the perfect devotional Bible to fan the flame of passion in her heart until it becomes a burning fire of zeal for God.
Special Features
- 40 teaching articles from well-respected voices
- 65+ profiles of biblical women and other heroines of the faith who have inspired others and made an impact for the kingdom of God
- 400+ daily inspirational thoughts and prayers that affirm you as a woman of God and connect you to the power of the Holy Spirit
- Cross-references, concordance, and eight full-color maps
NIV Application Commentary on the Bible
THE AWARD-WINNING COMMENTARY SERIES THAT BRINGS THE ANCIENT MESSAGE OF THE BIBLE INTO YOUR WORLD
The NIV Application Commentary on the Bible is a masterful blend of content written by today’s top academics in a way that is compelling and easy to understand for anyone–no formal training or seminary degree required. This one-volume commentary is intended both for personal study and for teaching preparation.
Concise commentary and background help the reader understand the original meaning of the biblical text in its historical, literary, and cultural context. Clear explanations make it easy to understand matters related to grammar and the meaning of biblical words.
While most commentaries stop there, the unique format of The NIV Application Commentary on the Bible provides a bridge from the world of the Bible to our lives today, guiding the reader to powerfully apply the biblical message to contemporary situations, problems, and questions.
Great Christian Devotional Books
My Favorite Non-Fiction Books
Louis Giglio
Grace & Glory
Come with an expectant heart and step into a deeper relationship with the God of the universe.
In this 365-day devotional from Louie Giglio of Passion City Church, you’re invited into a yearlong journey to deepen your relationship with the God who created the whole cosmos. He is the God of all grace, and He has called you to walk with Him into eternal glory, as a son or daughter of God. Will you take the journey?
In Grace & Glory, Louie guides you day by day through Scripture, prayers, and biblical insights that point to the beauty of Jesus’ transformative work on the cross. Recognizing the radical, personal grace you receive from a glorious God offers you strength and confidence to face every trial and anxious thought. As you dive deeper into the fullness of His love and the power of His Spirit, your soul will rejoice.
Indescribable: 100 Devotions About God & Science
Discover the Wonders of the Universe with the Creator
It’s impossible to out-imagine God. He orchestrates time, creates light, and speaks things into existence–from the largest stars to the smallest starfish. God is a powerful, purposeful, personal, unparalleled Creator.
Psalm 19:1 says, “The heavens tell the glory of God. And the skies announce what his hands have made.”
Indescribable displays the majesty of creation with scientific findings, photography, and original illustrations. These 100 devotions encourage awe at God’s creativity with an in-depth look at:
* Space, Galaxies, Planets, and Stars
* Earth, Geology, Oceans, and Weather
* Animals–from Hummingbirds to Dinosaurs
* Our Minds, Bodies, and Imaginations
Don’t Give The Enemy A Seat At Your Table
Discover how to break free from the chains of negative thinking and experience true freedom from unhealthy thoughts and emotions.
The Enemy is constantly seeking to fill your mind with destructive and harmful thoughts—whether of fear, worry, insecurity, anxiety, temptation, envy. . . . It’s all too easy for Satan to manipulate his way into a seat at the table intended for only you and Jesus, and to try making himself at home in your mind. It’s an ongoing battle, but one you can win!
In Don’t Give the Enemy a Seat at Your Table, bestselling author and pastor Louie Giglio shares practical ways to overcome the Enemy’s lies and instead find peace and security in any challenging circumstance or situation.
Matt Tommey
Unlocking The Heart of the Artist
Unlocking the Heart of the Artist is a clarion call to a new generation of artists who want to fulfill their unique purpose in the Kingdom of God. At the core of Unlocking the Heart of the Artist is an invitation to begin a journey of healing and wholeness that will yield deeper Spirit-led creativity and personal fulfillment.
How To Price Your Art
How to Price Your Art is a comprehensive guide that enables visual artists to price their work confidently and with profit in mind. Whether you are new to pricing your art or have been an artist for years and are simply wanting to develop a pricing strategy for your art business, this book will give you everything you need.
Prophetic Art
Every artist has been given an invitation to co-create with the Creator of the Universe. As we cooperate with Him, though the power of the Holy Spirit, we can reveal, reflect and release his image, nature and presence into the world through our creative expression.
Neil T. Anderson
Victory Over The Darkness
“You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free” (John 8:32 niv).
It’s Jesus’s promise to you–the promise that you will live triumphantly. But what keeps you from really walking in the joy of the Lord? The powers of darkness attack us daily. But, as Dr. Neil Anderson shows in Victory Over the Darkness, you can have the power to conquer them by knowing who you are in Christ.
Victory Over The Darkness: Study Guide
In this bestselling study guide, Neil Anderson poses thought-provoking questions for personal reflection or group study that will help you learn how to grow in the strength and truth of your identity in Jesus Christ. The answer to your question, Just who am I? will be changed forever by Victory Over the Darkness and this study guide.
The Bondage Breaker
You Can Break the Chains Holding You Captive
Harmful habits, negative thinking, and irrational feelings can all lead to sinful behavior and keep you in bondage. If you feel trapped by any of these strongholds in your life, know that you are not alone—you can break free.
Andy Anderson
The Noticer
Both entertaining and inspirational, The Noticer is well worth reading.
It is based on the amazing true story of “Jones,” a mysterious old man, who came into Andy’s life, and who has a way of showing up at just the right moment in people’s lives, providing priceless lessons about love, life, and the importance of perspective.
The Traveler’s Gift
The Traveler’s Gift is another great story that mixes Biblical truths with a highly entertaining and inspirational fictional story. It really makes you think and challenge you about the decisions you are making in your life.
It makes you realize that you are responsible for your own life and the decisions you make. Also, that it is a choice to forgive, even yourself, not so much an emotion.
The Seven Decisions
The Seven Decisions are principles of success that Andy discovered when researching great people of history and which he used for his book The Traveler’s Gift above. The Seven Decisions will challenge you in your definition of what is success, how you want to live your life.
Inspirational Biographies
In The Footsteps of Jesus: One Man’s Journey Through the Life of Christ
In the Footsteps of Jesus is the story of Bruce Marchiano who had the opportunity of a lifetime to play Jesus in Matthew.
It is the powerful eye-opening story of how God worked in Bruce Marchiano even years before to prepare him for the role of Jesus and how he worked in him every step of the way through the filming.
Evident Not Seen:
The True Story of One Woman’s Triumph of Faith.Newlywed American missionary Darlene Deibler Rose survived four years in a notorious Japanese prison camp set deep in the jungles of New Guinea. Thinking she was never to see her husband again, Darlene Rose was forced to sign a false confession and face the executioner’s sword.
Wilma Rudolph: A Biography
It says in Luke 18:27, “And he said, The things which are impossible with men are possible with God.”
“True story! In 1940, a large and wonderful Christian family, the Rudolph’s, announced the birth of their 20th baby! Though the baby was not expected to live, having been born prematurely and with polio, she defied all odds.
Favorite Christian Fiction
Ted Dekker
The Complete Circle Series
Ted Dekker’s bestselling and most beloved series—together in one volume. It’s an epic tale of evil and rescue, betrayal and love, and a terrorist threat unlike anything the human race has ever known.
Thomas Hunter is an unlikely hero who finds himself pulled between two worlds. In our reality, he works in a coffeehouse. In the other, he becomes a battle-scarred general leading a band of warriors known as the Circle.
Every time he falls asleep in one reality, he wakes in the other—and both worlds are facing catastrophic disaster.
Beyond The Circle Boxed Set
Some say the great mystery of how one can live in two worlds at once died with Thomas Hunter many years ago. Still others that the gateway to that greater reality was and is only the stuff of dreams.
They are wrong.
In the small town of Eden, Utah, a blind girl named Rachelle Matthews is about to find out just how wrong.
You are about to embark on a mind-bending quest to find an ancient path that will save humanity.
The clock is ticking; the end rushes forward.
Ready? Set? Dream.
The Heaven Trilogy
Dive deep into the stories that began it all. Ted Dekker’s first novels–collected together for the first time. This trilogy is the collection of three gripping, psychological thrillers that peel back the skin of this world to reveal a supernatural reality rarely seen. A daring wager of life and death in Denver. An unfathomable leap of faith in a small Balkan village near the end of WWII. A global struggle for power that begins deep in the Amazon jungle.
All three stories are bound together by one family’s timeless, harrowing discovery of love and all that is unseen.
Davis Bunn
The Presence
T. J. Case, a North Carolina lawyer and politician, takes a stand of integrity that costs him his election. As he considers his future, a morning of quiet reflection is transformed into a remarkable summons that propels him into the middle of Washington politics. And accompanying this commission is an extraordinary sense of divine direction to help reshape twisted lives and challenge corrupt systems.
The Great Divide
When attorney Marcus Glenwood resigns from a prestigious corporate law firm to retreat to a small town in North Carolina and rebuild his life after a devastating personal tragedy, he suddenly finds himself in the biggest and most emotionally difficult case of his career.
Miramar Bay
When Connor Larkin boards a late-night bus in downtown L.A., he’s not sure where he’s going or what he’s looking for. Putting his acting career—and his fiancée—on hold, he’s searching for a part of himself he lost on the road to success. Now, with his wedding day approaching, Connor finds himself stepping into the sleepy seaside town of Miramar Bay—where one remarkable woman inspires him to rethink all of his choices . . .
Terri Blackstock
Newpointe 911 Series
New York Times Best-selling Author Terri Blackstock’s NewPointe 911 Collection—now available in one volume.
Private Justice– The firemen of Newpointe, LA, face a personal and terrifying trial: someone is murdering their wives, one by one.
Shadow of Doubt– A poisoned past. A bitter present. Is Celia a murderer … or a victim?
The Second Chances Collection
New York Times Bestselling Author Terri Blackstock’s Second Chances Collection—now available in one volume.
Never Again Good-bye- The strength of love and family and the struggles and joys of Christian living weave together in this touching contemporary romance.
The Restoration Collection
A masterful what-if series from New York Times bestselling author Terri Blackstock in which global catastrophe puts a family’s very survival at risk—and both reveals the darkness in human hearts and lights the way to restoration.
Four full-length suspense novels!
Last Light, Night Light, True Light, Dawn’s Light
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