Recommended Reads
We personally recommend checking out these awesome books filled with warmth and wisdom.
A Church Called Tov
A Church Called Tov: Forming a Goodness Culture that Resists Abuses of Power and Promotes Healing
In response to recent revelations of abuses in many churches, Scot McKnight and Laura Barringer seek a path to move Christians toward where we ought to be as the body of Christ. Naming their movement after the beautiful Hebrew word "tov"—often translated as "good"—they explore ways to make the church "grace dispensers," leading to healing and transformation for all.
Can I Be Honest?
How To Process and Express Your Emotions in a Biblical Way, A Study of the Book of Lamentations
What do you do when you gain hope — only to lose it again?
The cycle is exhausting: seeing glimpses of goodness and trusting that God will come through, only for things not to work out … yet another time. In these raw and painful seasons, most of us don't want to admit to feeling upset, disappointed or angry, especially when it's toward God. But He is the very One who created emotions, and He has given us a guide in the book of Lamentations for what to do with them.
In the midst of situations that beg us to see God as anything but good, Lamentations provides a way to actually grow closer to Him. This study is your permission to feel your feelings while still keeping your eyes on Jesus: the greatest hope we have.
Try Softer
A Fresh Approach to Move Us out of Anxiety, Stress, and Survival Mode-and into a Life of Connection and Joy
In a world that preaches a "try harder" gospel-just keep going, keep hustling, keep pretending we're all fine-we're left exhausted, overwhelmed, and so numb to our lives. If we're honest, we've been overfunctioning for so long, we can't even imagine another way. How else will things get done? How else will we survive?
It doesn't have to be this way. Aundi Kolber believes that we don't have to white-knuckle our way through life. In her debut book, Try Softer, she'll show us how God specifically designed our bodies and minds to work together to process our stories and work through obstacles. Through the latest psychology, practical clinical exercises, and her own personal story, Aundi equips and empowers us to connect us to our truest self and truly live. This is the "try softer" life.
In Try Softer, you'll learn how to: know and set emotional and relational boundaries; make sense of the difficult experiences you've had; identify your attachment style-and how that affects your relationships today; move through emotions rather than get stuck by them; and grow in self-compassion and talk back to your inner critic. Trying softer is sacred work. And while it won't be perfect or easy, it will be worth it. Because this is what we were made for: a living, breathing, moving, feeling, connected, beautifully incarnational life.
Tiny Treasures
A new book by Jodie Bivens. Foreword by Christian singer, songwriter, and author, Tasha Layton.
In 2022, Jodie sat on her bed every night, all 365 of them, and thought through the day she was about to lay to rest. She would close her eyes to remember the small victories, the frustrations, the laughs, the disappointments, the blessings, and she would write down three things in a little journal of gratitude. These forty devotions are just highlights of the tiny treasures she found that might bring you inspiration to discover the tiny treasures all around you.
Each devotion is only a couple of pages, with a page to journal your own tiny treasures.
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Natalie Runion
Natalie Runion is a worship pastor, author, and founder of Raised to Stay, a movement for weary ministry leaders. With honesty and grace, she speaks to those navigating church hurt, burnout, and calling—not just preaching healing, but living it.