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A book for the tiniest ones all about being grateful, based on Psalm 92—from the team that brought you the bestselling Jesus Storybook Bible.

Gratitude is the primary and default posture of serving in God’s kingdom. But that doesn’t mean it will be easy.

Jason Gray releases a vulnerable album about human frailty and God’s love.

In her second work of fiction, biblical scholar Paula Gooder tells Lydia's story—who she was, the life she lived and her first-century faith—and in doing so opens up Paul's letter to the Philippians.

God designed water to be a super dissolver! In fact, scientists call water a “universal solvent” because it can dissolve more things than any other kind of natural liquid.

Committee 7 gave me a glimpse into a beautiful church: the Christian Reformed Church. These are people who hold a high view of Scripture and the confessions. These are people who love Jesus. They recognized that they have often failed to love as Jesus has called them to love, and by God’s grace they want to do better.

Purity seems to have been reduced to something optional in our modern idea of Christianity. But is it?

When I was first preparing to adopt 14 years ago, I cherished the idea that love was what was most needed. My heart fought back when the instructor of our pre-adoption classes warned that love is not enough.

Sean Nemecek takes Christian leaders on a journey from burnout through recovery and on to spiritual transformation.

The story of Steve Glew, a Midwestern machinist who smuggles rare Pez dispensers from Europe and sells them for thousands, drawing the ire of both U.S. Pez and rival collectors.

Set against the backdrop of WWII, this middle-grade novel in verse presents the perspectives of Claire, a Midwestern girl, and Karl, a German POW who works on Claire’s family farm.

Journeymen is a men’s speaker series at Elmhurst (Ill.) Christian Reformed Church where guys see how “God is at work in the mundane things in our lives.”

The story of the Gävle in Sweden helps us see that since the very beginning, Christmas has been under siege. In large and small ways, we’re all guilty of shooting flaming arrows.

“Probably the most difficult thing in my role is to decenter myself and to find the center in the other person and in God's work in them.”

An immersive historical novel inspired by the true story of a woman physician in 15th-century China – perfect for fans of Lisa See’s classics Snow Flower and the Secret Fan and Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane.

In episodes such as “Bookstore Guys,” an academic and radio host do a deep dive into the Christian music subculture of the 1990s to mid-2000s.

Calvin University professor Jennifer Holberg releases a new book about the power of story in our lives and faith.

Once we arrived at the hospital, we were led to a large, dark, mostly empty room, where against the wall on a small rug a little Indigenous boy sat rocking back and forth. His name was Patrick, and he was 14 months old.

What does “going to church” have to do with being missional?

A loving dad goes a little over-the-top as he tries to DIY the best day ever for his kids in this funny, tender, vibrantly-illustrated picture book from the viral video star behind Dude Dad.

Wonka prequel delivers the answer to the “how” of the beloved story.

The classic Kristin Lavransdatter interweaves political, social and religious history with the daily aspects of family life to create a colorful, richly-detailed tapestry of Norway during the 14th century.