Today, Roberta talks to Jessie Minassian about her new book Your Brightest Life: Tips for Navigating Relationships, Health, Faith, Mindset, and More, available from Zonderkidz publishers.

Today more than ever, as a young woman you can use an extra dose of optimism to tackle the challenges and complicated situations in your life. Inside Your Brightest Life, Jessie Minassian draws on over twenty years of questions and feedback from teen- and college-aged girls to dive into the topics you care about, presenting honest truths and tested tips from a Christian perspective that help you live a life of purpose, joy, and faith.

Maybe you’ve heard it all—God loves you, made you perfectly, and has wonderful plans for your life. But when it comes to nervousness about your future, wondering whether that guy likes you, or dealing with the mean girl in your head, sometimes what you know gets lost. The good news is, you don’t have to tackle everything alone. Your Brightest Life pairs humorous yet wise stories with practical tips to help you navigate the most important questions and challenges you face. And with short, easy-to-read chapters made to fit into your busy schedule, it’s the perfect way to start a journey toward a brighter future, filled with deeper wonder, faith, confidence, and a sense of purpose.

Your Brightest Life helps you take control of your life and make the most of every opportunity with:

• inspiration to live life with courage and determination
• real-world advice about everything from relationships to personal growth, time management, exercise, and staying healthy mentally and physically
• tips that address the challenges you face—like loneliness and uncertainty about what comes next—in new and relatable ways

The 70 stories in the book are organized by categories that include:

• boys
• friends and family
• health and beauty
• faith
• mindset
• life skills

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Today, Roberta talks to Jason Gray about his children's book Sparrows, based on his song of the same name.

Taking inspiration from the song "Sparrows" by Jason Gray, this story teaches children that God loves and cares for them deeply.

Award-winning musician, Jason Gray, along with children’s book author Jes Woller and illustrator Hilary Griffith team up to tell the story of a young girl who worried constantly. She worried about her little brothers making her late, forgetting to bring her lunch to school, or getting teased about her stutter. When her desk was moved next to Annabelle’s, she had more to worry about than ever. One Sunday morning Ellie heard about how God cares for the sparrows, and something started to change.

Matthew 6:26-27 - Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?

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Today, Roberta talks to Katie Trent about her new book A Merry and Bright Adventure: A Christmas Devotional for Family, Faith, Food, and Fun, available from Whitaker House publishers.

With all of the exciting sights, sounds, and smells of Christmastime, it can be hard to get children to focus on the real reason for the season: the birth of Jesus Christ. But let’s face it: all of us can get caught up in the hustle-bustle of planning for family gatherings, decorating, and shopping for gifts.
Author Katie J. Trent offers a solution to the mad rush of Advent with A Merry and Bright Adventure: A Christmas Devotional for Family, Faith, Food, and Fun.
This unique family devotional will help you discover new ways to enjoy the season with Christ at the center of it all. You’ll grow in your relationship with Jesus—and each other—as you learn the history behind holiday traditions and discover Jesus in everyday moments.

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Today, Roberta talks to Jodi Jackson Turner about her new book Healing for Every Heart in Adoption:Redemptive Prayers and Strategies for Adoptive Parents, Adoptees, and Birth Parents, available from Baker Books publishers.

In this groundbreaking book, adoption advocates Betsy S. Kylstra, Lisa C. Qualls, and Jodi Jackson Tucker--an adoptee, a birth mother, and an adoptive mother--reveal that adoption is rooted in both loss and redemptive victory. And healing is needed by all in the adoption triad--adoptees, birth parents, and adoptive parents--to experience restoration and wholeness.

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Today, Roberta talks to Cindy Brinker Simmons about her new book Restored: Reconnecting Life's Broken Pieces, available from Redemption Press publishers.

You might be living in a fragile place after loss, pain, or grief. Is excitement in life and fullness of purpose too hard to imagine embracing right now? You are not meant to go through this alone.

With a voice of empathy, wit, and vulnerability, Cindy Brinker Simmons will walk you through practical tools and biblical truths that will reconnect you to God, others, and yourself. Restored’s message is for anyone who needs:

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  a fresh infusion of hope
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  a gentle reminder of God’s love and goodness
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  a healthy dose of inspiring thought and strength to persevere
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  a helpful roadmap to move forward and experience God’s plan and purpose
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  an effective way to reconcile and strengthen relationships

Restored will help you choose joy in the midst of heartache and hardship. You will be encouraged!

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Today, Roberta talks to Megan Hill about her new book Fritz and the Midnight Meetup: A True Story About Kids Who Prayed, available from B&H Kids publishers.

One by one, the children tiptoe down the stairs . . .

It's midnight at the orphanage, and a group of children are sneaking to the kitchen to pray together. Would anyone else come too? they wonder. Night after night, more children join the fireside prayer meeting. But a bully named Fritz threatens to disrupt the group. When he sneaks down to scare the other children, will Fritz be the one who is surprised?

In this heartwarming story, readers will share the excitement as the boys and girls creep down the dark stairs, and they will feel the tension of the bully’s threats. But most of all they will discover the difference children can make when they pray together. Based on a true story from a German orphanage in 1860, Fritz and the Midnight Meetup celebrates the blessing of corporate prayer—and how children play a valuable part.

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Today, Roberta talks to David Brickner about his new book Does the Jewish Bible Point to Jesus?: 12 Key Prophecies That Unfold God's Plan, available from Moody Publishers.

How will we be able to recognize the Messiah?

Christians claim that Jesus is the Messiah, but how can we know if that is true? Jesus revealed the truth about himself through passages in the Torah, the Prophets, and the Writings—which together comprise the Tanakh (the Old Testament).

In Does the Jewish Bible Point to Jesus?, Messianic Jewish author David Brickner likewise guides us through twelve prophecies from all three sections of the Tanakh to show:

• why God promised a Messiah.
• how God planned to bless the whole world through the Jewish people.
• the location and strange circumstances of the Messiah's birth.
• how and why the Messiah would suffer and die.
• how the Messiah would exceed human limitations . . . and more.

You’ll also find stories of contemporary Jewish people who discovered compelling connections to Jesus in their own Bibles.

Whether you’re curious, skeptical, or a committed believer—if you are in search of truth, this book is for you. Come and see how God’s timeless plan to redeem and renew the world still shines as a beacon of hope today.

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Today, Luke Taylor talks to Tim Price about the book The Labyrinth of the World and The Paradise of the Heart, originally by John Amos Comenius, available from Ekklesia Press.

Find out more about this book at his website: https://labyrinthoftheworld.com/

***ONE OF THE BIGGEST PUBLISHING STORIES IN 400 Years***

If you loved Pilgrim’s Progress, now you need to read what inspired it. Labyrinth of the World was written 55 years prior to Pilgrim’s Progress yet it remains virtually unknown to English readers. Now this work has been made more approachable for readers of every type.

In this newly adapted and illustrated tale, Pilgrim, the protagonist, meets many characters with character trait names. He experiences despair, vanity, and violence as well. Pilgrim desires to live a good life, to be meaningful and significant. He must choose a life's involvement. To do so, he goes on a tour of the world to see what he might put his hand to doing. He is aided in his tour by Mr. Ubiquitous and Mr. Delusion, whose sole effort is to get Pilgrim to see the world as they want him to see it. Pilgrim gets to see all the world offers in work, life, and meaning. Yet he is baffled. His guides get frustrated with his seeming obstinance. He then is tried before Wisdom, queen of the world. Finally, Pilgrim is abandoned by his journey guides. He becomes despondent. However, he meets Jesus Christ and his life is transformed.

This book illustrates how a follower of Christ can live in a world that is falling apart and rise above the existence of their times. This volume also features a significant section about the author –John Amos Comenius–his times, and his legacy that will encourage us in our own day. Comenius lived in a time when his world was coming apart at the seams, but he was able to offer it something it could not give itself. Comenius became the father of modern education. He was a philosopher, theologian, pastor, father, and mentor. His biography, as well as his allegory, are remarkable.

Now, on the cusp of the 400th anniversary of this tale having been written, this story has been made much easier to read. It has new illustrations. In addition, for the first time in history, this version is made available in color hard bound, eBook, and Audiobook editions so that it can be enjoyed in every way possible.

This book isn’t just a book. It’s a piece of art:

16 newly commissioned illustrations
24 Endorsements
32 page historical and biographical feature about the author: John Amos Comenius
Full-Color throughout
Newly adapted easier to read narrative
Also available in eBook and Audiobook

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