Lia Ross Reads and I have teamed up for an epic Christian growing giveaway!

In this blog post, I’m here to share the resources in the giveaway. Since there can only be one winner, we wanted to make sure there was a place you could explore all the contents of the giveaway if you were curious about any of the reads.

Make sure to enter the giveaway here. Giveaway will be open from March 11 to March 17, 2024! Winners will be announced on March 18. Open only to US residents.

Here is what you could win!

Memorizing Scripture: The Basics, Blessings, and Benefits of Meditating on God’s Word by @glennadmarshall  (thank you to @moodypublishers for gifting this copy)

Summary:

Bible memory has fallen on hard times. It can feel unnecessary since we have Scripture at our fingertips. Or it just feels daunting and unattainable—you know it’s important, but you’re just not good at it.

Writer, mother, and lover of Scripture Glenna Marshall shows us that to love God with our hearts, we must first love him with our minds. Through Scripture memorization, we begin to meditate on God’s word. This causes us to think deeply about God, which leads to intimacy and trust. Scripture memory bolsters our daily faith, grows us in discernment, and gives us courage to walk through trials. It arms us with what we need to share the gospel, to fight sin, and to encourage our brothers and sisters in Christ!

But how and where do we begin? Glenna gives us practical tools! Even long passages or books of the Bible can be hidden in our hearts with small, doable, daily bites. You’ll look at how to memorize Scripture in Bible study groups or local church settings as well as with children and friends.

Scripture memorization is the path we travel to obey God’s command to meditate on His Word. You will be transformed as the Bible takes root in your heart. The more we know His Word, the more we will—with the help of the Holy Spirit—be shaped like Jesus. You can do this! Memorizing Scripture shows you how!

Colossians: Fullness of Life in Christ Bible Study by @lydiabrownback_author (thank you to @crosswaybooks for gifting this copy)

Summary:

Christ is the ruler of all things and sufficient for our every need. While Christians profess these truths, they sometimes struggle to apply this knowledge to their everyday lives. Thankfully, the book of Colossians offers a practical guideline, exalting Christ as the Lord of everything and showing believers how they share in his life, death, and resurrection in their lives now and for all eternity.

This 10-week Bible study for women explores Colossians verse by verse to help readers understand how the Christian life is meant to be lived through the risen Lord Jesus Christ. Written for individuals or groups, author Lydia Brownback provides conversational teaching, practical application questions, and additional recommended resources to help women live Christ-centered lives focused on the hope of the gospel and the person of Jesus Christ. 

Help for the Hungry Soul: Eight Encouragements to Grow Your Appetite for God’s Word by @kristen_wetherell (thank you to @crosswaybooks for gifting this copy)

Summary:

In our never-satisfied world, our souls hunger for more, and it’s tempting to reach for the wrong “food” to satisfy our needs. Thankfully, Jesus is the bread of life who offers us himself through the life-giving and sustainable feast of Scripture (John 6:35). But how often do we sit at Christ’s table, truly hungry for his word? 

Help for the Hungry Soul offers 8 encouragements to spur an appetite for God’s word. Through searching questions, practical ideas, and moving testimonies, author Kristen Wetherell will help readers to reflect on their journey with their Bible and uncover how it is possible to treasure God’s word. For those feeling discouraged or guilty about a waning desire for Scripture, Wetherell will spark excitement in their spiritual life―ultimately encouraging them to put God and his word at the center of it all.

• Encourages Readers to Love God’s Word: Teaches why readers should treasure the Bible to spark enthusiasm for reading Scripture
• Interactive Elements: This practical book provides reflection questions, habit trackers, and scriptural interaction to spur appetite for the word
• Contains Anecdotal Stories: Each chapter ends with an individual’s unique testimony related to their personal journey with the Bible

In the Lord I Take Refuge: 150 Daily Devotions through the Psalms by Dane C. Ortlund 

Summary:

The Psalms could be called the Bible’s devotional. Each psalm reflects on the greatness of who God is and how he cares for his people. Written with profound emotion, each psalm sheds light on the raw experiences of the human heart, revealing how God’s people should turn to him in times of anguish, pain, remorse, joy, and thanksgiving. 

In the Lord I Take Refuge invites readers to experience the Psalms in a new way through heartfelt devotional content written by Dane Ortlund. Each reading is short enough to read in five minutes or less and will encourage believers to thoughtfully ponder and pray through each of the 150 Psalms. To further enhance the reading experience, this book features the full text of the English Standard Version Psalms; a large font; and thick, cream-colored paper. All of these features, along with a helpful introduction on how to read the Psalms devotionally, encourage believers to pause and reflect on the riches of each text as they commune daily with the Lord. This book was previously published as the ESV Devotional Psalter.

Women of the Word: How to Study the Bible with Both Our Hearts and Our Minds by @jenwilkin

Summary:

We all know it’s important to study God’s word. But sometimes it’s hard to know where to start. What’s more, a lack of time, emotionally driven approaches, and past frustrations can erode our resolve to keep growing in our knowledge of Scripture. How can we, as Christian women, keep our focus and sustain our passion when reading the Bible?

Women of the Word has helped countless women with a clear and concise plan they can use every time they open their Bible. This book will equip you to engage God’s word in a way that trains your mind and transforms your heart.

Love Your Church Series (thank you to @thegoodbookcompanyusa for gifting this set)

Summary:

In 2021, in the wake of lockdowns and people turning to the internet for teaching, Tony Merida wrote Love Your Church—a book which had a huge impact. He powerfully showed that the local church matters, outlining how ordinary church members can love their church. 

This series expands on the concepts in Tony’s original book, going much deeper into how to love your church family in the areas of belonging, welcoming, gathering, caring, serving, honoring one another, witnessing, and mission.

Written by a collection of Bible teachers from Acts29, these thoughtful and practical books will help you to have fruitful discussions on how you can better love and serve your church family. Choose the resources that cover the areas most helpful to your particular church-family needs.

Love Your Church: 8 Great Things About Being a Church Member by Tony Merida

Summary:

Be inspired to grow in your love for and commitment to your local church as you understand what it means to belong to God’s family.

God calls us to be “devoted to one another in love” (Romans 12:10). What does this look like for us today? How can we be the kind of church member who makes a real difference?

This timely and engaging book by Tony Merida explores what church is, why being part of it is exciting, and why it’s worthy of our love and commitment. He sets out eight privileges and responsibilities of a church member: to belong, to welcome, to gather, to care, to serve, to honour, to witness and to send.

Whether you’re new to your local church or have been attending for some time, this book will re-energise you with God’s vision for the local church.

A discussion guide at the end of book makes Love Your Church a great resource for reading with other church members.

The Valley of Vision: A Collection of Puritan Prayers & Devotions 

Summary:

The strength of Puritan character and life lay in prayer and meditation. In this practice the spirit of prayer was regarded as of first importance and the best form of prayer, for living prayer is the characteristic of genuine spirituality. Yet prayer is also vocal and may therefore on occasions be written. Consequently in the Puritan tradition there are many written prayers and meditations which constitute an important corpus of inspiring devotional literature. Too often ex tempore prayer lacks variety, order and definiteness. The reason for this lies partly in a neglect of due preparation. It is here that the care and scriptural thoroughness which others found necessary in their approach to God may be of help. This book has been prepared not to ‘supply’ prayers but to prompt and encourage the Christian as he treads the path on which others have gone before.

Becoming Free Indeed: My Story of Disentangling Faith from Fear by @jingervuolo

Summary:

Jinger Vuolo, the sixth child in the famous Duggar family of TLC’s 19 Kids and Counting and Counting On, recounts how she began to question the unhealthy ideology of her youth and learned to embrace true freedom in Christ.

When Jinger Duggar Vuolo was growing up, she was convinced that obeying the rules was the key to success and God’s favor. She zealously promoted the Basic Life Principles of Bill Gothard,

• fastidiously obeying the modesty guidelines (no shorts or jeans, only dresses),
• eagerly submitting to the umbrella of authority (any disobedience of parents would place her outside God’s protection),
• promoting the relationship standard of courtship, and
• avoiding any music with a worldly beat, among others.

Jinger, along with three of her sisters, wrote a New York Times bestseller about their religious convictions. She believed this level of commitment would guarantee God’s blessing, even though in private she felt constant fear that she wasn’t measuring up to the high standards demanded of her.

The Journals of Jim Elliot by Elisabeth Elliot

Summary:

Jim Elliot was part of a team of young missionaries murdered in Ecuador in 1956 by the Auca Indians to whom they were witnessing. At the age of 29, he left behind a young widow, a baby daughter, and volumes of personal journals written over many years.

In 1978, Revell published the complete and unabridged journals, edited by his widow, Elisabeth, and the journals have stayed in print ever since. And it’s no wonder-Jim Elliot was an intelligent thinker and strong writer in these personal, yet universal, musings about faith, work, and love. The Journals of Jim Elliot is a wonderful account of the life of a man who yearns to know God’s plan for his life, details his fascinating missions work, and loves Elisabeth-first as a single man, then as a happily married one.

The Journals of Jim Elliot will intrigue fans of Jim and Elisabeth Elliot, readers interested in missions, and young people struggling to find God’s plan for their lives.

Other resources:

@hosannarevival ESV Journaling Bible 

A Reading Record for the Gospel-Minded by @thedailygraceco

Pastel bible highlighters by @thedailygraceco

Floral Scripture Writing Bible Study Journal by @solagratia.co

Pssst. I adore sharing resource recommendations with you! However, when I recommend a resource, please keep in mind that I am not endorsing people or ministries in their entirety. Please do your own digging through prayer and discernment. I am always trying to recommend solid content, but the only infallible endorsement anyone can offer is of the Word of God. Thanks for being here!

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