Throughout the year on Bloom (in)courage, we like to share a few of our favorite reads with each of you. It’s our hope that a book listed below will be a blessing to you! Each author listed below will be sharing a couple posts related to their book. Tune back in throughout the month of November on Bloom for each Recommended Read!
November 5-6
Chasing Silhouettes: How to Help a Loved One Battling an Eating Disorder by Emily Wierenga
Chasing Silhouettes is the story of a broken family that finds healing through an eating disorder. It’s the story of how even good Christians need redemption, and how eating disorders pervade all homes—even the seemingly perfect ones.
A unique resource, it addresses the whole of the illness: physical, mental, emotional and spiritual, providing shocking insight into the disordered eater’s mind that no other book will offer.
November 7-8
An Invitation to the Supernatural Life by Michele Perry
Born without her left hip and leg, Michele Perry is no stranger to overwhelming impossibility. Yet again and again among the vulnerable children in South Sudan, God uses her and her co-workers–and even the children–to accomplish the impossible. Here she shows you, too, how to experience God’s supernatural intervention genuinely, fully in your everyday life–wherever you live. Each chapter includes practical keys, discussion questions and application exercises to show you
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how you can grow in awareness of God’s presence
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how you can be sure of His voice
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what it’s like to see a vision
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how to recognize the holy in the ordinary
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how to foster your own supernatural encounters with God
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and more!
November 12-15
Graceful {for young women} by Emily Freeman
For the good test taker and the strict list maker. For the rule follower, the fear wallower, the messy, and the misunderstood. For the self-critic, the silent judge, and the girl who feels invisible.
For the girl who is tired of trying and the one afraid to fail.
You don’t have to be perfect, but do you trust the One who is? The God who came to save you also came to live with you, in you, today.
November 19-22
Perfectly Unique by Annie Downs
Your body is an instrument. No, it’s not a flute, or a guitar (I hope). It is a sacred and original design by a master craftsman with a specific plan and purpose.
That’s a pretty big deal. From head to foot, the way you view your body is directly connected to how you serve God. Seriously. From the thoughts you think to the steps you take, every part of you is linked to the divine.
Perhaps you are struggling with your body image or are trying to make sense of why God made you as you are. Maybe you are looking for new ways to understand Scripture or to love God more fully. Either way, this book will take you on a thoughtful, funny, and spirit-filled exploration of the way you were designed and will help you better honor the Creator by learning to value his perfectly unique creation (yourself!).
November 26-29
Unglued by Lysa Terkeurst
Lysa TerKeurst admits that she, like most women, has experiences where others bump into her happy and she comes emotionally unglued. We stuff, we explode, or react somewhere in between.
What do we do with these raw emotions? Is it really possible to make emotions work for us instead of against us? Yes, and in her usual inspiring and practical way, Lysa will show you how.
Filled with personal examples and Biblical teaching, Unglued will equip you to:
- Know with confidence how to resolve conflict in your important relationships.
- Find peace in your most difficult relationships as you learn to be honest but kind when offended.
- Identify what type of reactor you are and how to significantly improve your communication.
- Respond with no regrets by managing your tendencies to stuff, explode or react somewhere in between.
- Gain a deep sense of calm by responding.
Margaret says
I’m familiar with some of these titles–but others are new. Thanks for the suggestions!
Lisa says
All sound like great reads…
Anna Radchenko @ Here Am I says
all of these are lovely and I’m looking forward to them all!! can’t wait for the first book as that is something I haven’t read much about.
imperfect prose says
so honored to be featured here. thank you so much for helping me spread the word. for those of you interested, the book trailer for Chasing Silhouettes can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=T_6ZHGqJ57Y. bless you all.
Britt says
Loved chasing silhouettes!!!
Sarah Comley Caldwell says
These books look so delightful! (Many are already on my list, and I’m reading ‘Perfectly Unique’ right now 🙂 Thanks for sharing these titles! The Bloom book studies/community speak so much to my heart.
living out of overflow – from the unpaved road says
[…] I am a born problem-solver, a creative to the core. An out-of-the-box thinker, a paradigm iconoclast. And then I moved to South Sudan… {Continue reading at incourage.me where I am thrilled to have An Invitation the Supernatural Life featured as one of their Fall Recommended Reads.} […]
Marinalva Sickler says
Unglued. That’s how I feel right now. Saying good-bye through phones call to a son, daughter-in-law and granddaughter. Answering questions to an eight-years old grandson, who deals with mom being absent of the Thanksgiving table while we set down new placemats. “Who will sit here, Grandma? What leaf color are we putting here to this person who we don’t know? Here will be the turkey and the pumpkin pie.” Yeaks. I cannot even regret over the farewell to my deceased husband on the Veteran’s day. The flags on the poles will wave hi and bye to me as I go by. I feel like cry. I woke up every hour waiting for the hope of a call that will take me from the losses I’m gathering as leaves in a pile. Unglued…