Renee Swope understands. Even with a great family, a successful career, and a thriving ministry, she still struggled with self-doubt. Sharing her own personal story, Renee shows you how to rely on the power of God’s promises to find the security you need and the confidence you long for!

Review:

A Confident Heart ~ How to Stop Doubting Yourself & Live in the Security of God’s Promises is a book that will help you exchange fear-filled thinking with faith-filled believing. Renee Swope shows how to use the Word of God to combat negative thinking. She has included Living in the Security of God’s Promises that is designed to help overcome negative thinking with positive confessions of God’s Word.

If you ever said, “I feel overwhelmed,” God says, “I will give you peace.” The powerful promises to this negative self-talk is John 16:33 AMP ~ “I have told you these things, so that in Me you may have [perfect] peace and confidence.”

A Confident Heart is a must-read book if you or someone you know struggles with low self-esteem.  Through reading the Word of God, A Confident Heart and much prayer, the Lord will reveal how much you are worthy to Him.

Isaiah 43:4 says, “You are precious and honored in my sight, and…I love you.

“Everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through the endurance in the Scriptures and the encouragement they provide we might have hope. (Romans 15:4)

Author:

Renee Swope is a popular national conference speaker, P31 radio show co-host, and executive director with Proverbs 31 Ministries. She lives in North Carolina with her husband and three children.

S. W. Titus, Reviewer

Each of the nearly forty Points of Power encourages, uplifts, and comforts. The Points offer material for meditation and reveal a blueprint for harnessing the force of God. Key scriptures with practical applications, helpful prayers, and prompts for self-reflection all help you access the authority and benevolence of God.

The Points of Power themes–faith, love, forgiveness, confession, praise, confidence, prayer, peace, protection, and victory–are freshly presented in an entertaining gathering of stories and anecdotes. The message throughout is that God intends for you to be successful, victorious, and happy.

God has given you benefits and privileges, including the power to change your life, your attitude, and your outlook. POINTS OF POWER will show you how!

You’re probably asking yourself the same question I asked when I initially saw the title of this book, “how do you pronounce this?” Just listen to our interview and you’ll find out!

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In a world where love is romanticized by vampires and far-off adventures of undying love-at-first-sight, audiences don’t always have the opportunity to read stories that reflect God’s design for love. Author Fred Lybrand takes an in-depth look into relationships and dating, plus a little common sense for the real day-to-day world, in his latest book, Glaen.

Lybrand has chosen a unique and effective way to present his knowledge of human relationships and romance by creating a storyline that allows readers to walk alongside believable characters as they discover and explore an exciting and more effective way to relate to those with whom they will share life’s most intimate relationships. Having spent more than twenty-four years as a pastor, Lybrand is deeply involved in caring for people, and he wants others to know the freedom that can be found in relating to others truthfully and without pretense.

Glean introduces the character of Annie Hughes just as she suffers the loss of one of life’s foundational relationships—her parents’ marriage. As a graduate student, Annie suddenly finds herself at a loss to understand how any relationship finds and maintains lifetime staying power, especially a relationship as intimate as marriage.

When Annie meets her professor new writing professor, a rather unconventional teacher named Glaen, her life is set upon a path of both self-discovery and the exploration of romantic relationships. She begins this class with the intention to help others but quickly learns that she must first develop a teachable spirit, and her own faith proves to be the pivotal starting point for her journey. Annie then begins to honestly explore how men and women relate to one another as God designed them to do.

Lybrand’s character development of Annie Hughes allows him to outline several foundational truths. Using Annie’s “research” and “journal” entries as the vehicle to present thought-provoking ideas to the reader, Lybrand first uncovers the lies of a secular world-view and then counters those lies with the truth of God’s design for the marriage relationship. These observations are made even clearer as the reader observes Annie’s interaction with other couples and friends who are in the process of dating and considering marriage. As she questions her friends’ choices, she also takes an honest look at the relationships she is developing within her own life.

Annie’s discoveries are both simple and profound, and truth itself proves to be the foundation upon which all relationships hinge. The discovery that truth can only operate effectively within a relationship when people relate to one another without pretense and unrealistic expectations proves to be life-changing for the characters in many ways.

The life changing principles found in Glaen are the gems Lybrand wants readers to take from the story and experience in their own lives and relationships. Thus, Glaen is a book that demands a second reading, as those who read its story will want to go through it again and highlight and examine the truths Annie uncovers throughout her journey. This book will serve as a great teaching tool for parents to use with their children as well as for church leaders guiding couples who are seeking a more satisfying marriage relationship.

Glaen by Fred R. Lybrand

The Barnabas Agency   February 2010

ISBN: 978-0-578-04652-5/softcover/171 pages/$14.99

Website: www.glaen.com ~ Blog: www.glaen.wordpress.com

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Sadly, many women today see their ongoing singleness as a weakness or lack of worth. In truth,our dreams go unfulfilled not because we do not deserve for them to come true, but often because of wrong assumptions–assumptions that can easily be corrected.

Drawing on both male and female perspectives, this book deals with the hard issues and questions you and other women ponder as you consider how to obtain lasting love. What Women Don’t Know(and men don’t tell you) will help you adjust your desires, redefine what you are attracted to, set your values in order, and determine your goals–freeing you at last to pursue the loving relationship you desire.

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Since their debut, these revolutionary guides have sold well over a million copies, been translated into fifteen languages, and sparked much fascinating water-cooler conversation around the country. Now together in the For Couples Only boxed set, these books provide the perfect resource to help you understand what you never knew about the woman or man in your life.

Each volume is based on input from more than a thousand members of the opposite sex—including an unprecedented nationwide survey and hundreds of personal interviews. This innovative approach yields candid and surprising answers about everything you don’t “get” about your significant other—even what that person deeply wishes you knew. It also produces simple but groundbreaking awareness of how you can best love and support the one who is most important to you. [Part of me wanted to make this paragraph past tense—yielded and produced—because of the first paragraph, but that took away some of the immediacy of what the books offer. I’ll leave that up to you.]

So whether you are newly dating or have been married fifty years, get ready to know each other in a whole new way. The adventure is just beginning!

Shaunti and Jeff Feldhahn hold graduate degrees from Harvard University and are popular national speakers, authors, and entrepreneurs. They are also active church members and the parents of two young children, and they enjoy every minute of living life at warp speed

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In his book Love As a Way of Life, best-selling author Gary Chapman shows readers how to cultivate a new lifestyle built around the seven characteristics of authentic love. Now in a companion devotional, he provides ninety inspirational readings to help Christians consistently live out the characteristics of love in every relationship.

Each devotional entry showcases biblical truths that guide a life of love, offering fresh insight and practical guidance in how to make love a lasting habit. Over the course of three months, readers will learn to follow God’s lead as they practice the characteristics of a loving person: kindness, patience, forgiveness, courtesy, humility, generosity, and honesty.

The Love As a Way of Life Devotional makes an ideal gift for the holidays or for any special occasion. Couples, parents, new graduates, and anyone celebrating a milestone in life will welcome this inspiring daily guide to richer, more satisfying relationships.

Dr. Gary Chapman is the author of twenty-six books, including the New York Times bestseller The Five Love Languages, with more than 4 million copies in print. His daily radio program, A Love Language Minute, is broadcast on more than 100 stations nationwide. Dr. Chapman, a graduate of Moody Bible Institute, Wheaton College, Wake-Forest University, and Southwestern Seminary, serves on a church staff in North Carolina.

I had the liberty of interviewing bestselling  inspirational author and speaker LeAnn Weiss. She has a heart full of love and she expresses her love by writing love letters to God. Is that awesome or what?! The topic of her two recently released books, Christmas Promises and Valentine Promises,  is love (of course). They are full of inspiring love stories to help encourage and refresh the soul.  Both books are laced with scriptures and quotes, and embellished with beautiful pictures.

Christmas Promieses: Heavenly Gifts for the Holiday Season, is a gentle reminder that Christmas is a time to celebrate the love of God. It also includes true stories of others who attest to the miraculous restoration hope during a time when their hearts were heavy.

Valentine Promises: Heartfelt Reminders of True Love, helps us to keep in mind that the Lord expresses His love to us daily. As you’re reading these true accounts of how the power of true love will penetrate great depths and overtake all human senses as well as the heart, you won’t look at Valentines Day the same again.

QUICK NOTE — LeAnn is acctepting submission on stories with topics such as love, encouragement, and the fullfillment of God’s promisses. If you are interested please contact LeAnn via email at ecblessings@cs.com put TAKIELA in the subject line.

Listen in as LeAnn and I discuss both books, her ministry, and the romantic story behind her marriage…