We all ask questions like: Should I pursue this degree? take this job? buy this house? Is this the right time to retire? take on a new volunteer position? move to a new city? In our journeys through life, we yearn for God to point out all the roads and pathways He wants us to take.
While God rarely provides us with such a detailed map, He does provide guidance in His Word. The Bible is filled with stories of journeys. Abraham traveled from Ur to Canaan. Moses led the people of Israel from Egypt to the Promised Land. Ruth left her home in Moab and went with her mother-in-law, Naomi, to a new home. The Magi followed a star to find the King. Paul journeyed over the known world to share the Gospel. Divine Directions examines these stories and gleans scriptural principles that can help us in our own journeys through life. By looking at these accounts, we learn how God guides and leads us every step of the way.
Divine Directions: How God Guides Your Path will help you:
- Discover biblical principles for seeking God’s guidance
- Learn about important journeys in the Bible
- Embrace God’s wisdom and timing in your life path
- Use a four-step process when making decisions
Joseph, Rahab, Peter, Paul. What comes to mind when you hear these biblical names? Failure? Probably not! But in the Scriptures, we find no lack of sinfulness, shortcomings, and rejection. Despite this, God adopted each of these people and transformed their lack into His good.
In Measured by Grace, you’ll see that God does the same for you! Study the biblical accounts of eight flawed and faithful people, and see how God works throughout their lives and yours. You’ll see that the Lord included the stories of mess-ups and mistakes to demonstrate the transformative power of His grace.
In this eight-week Bible study you’ll get a new perspective on well-known Bible characters through historical information, maps, and in-depth study of God’s Word. The included study guide with help you reflect on the reading, dig into the biblical account, and apply the Word to your life. You will also find opportunities for hands-on projects to help you remember all you have learned.
This Bible study will help you:
- Discover God’s definition of success
- See how God’s love for you is not dependent on your performance
- Discover how the Lord redeems failure for His glory
- Live measured by grace!
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Think about it for a second: The Lord and Creator of all things pursues you. He wants to know you. He loves you. God pursues an intimate relationship with you, just like Hosea pursued his wife Gomer.
Although the Old Testament book of Hosea can be confusing and complicated, inside we can find reassurances of God’s redeeming and unfailing love. The story of a godly prophet with a wayward wife reminds us that we don’t have to be perfect or accomplished before we can come to God. He simply loves us because He is love.
Inside this eight-week Bible study, you will find in-depth study, thought-provoking questions, and hands-on projects. Plus, you can have access to related videos filmed in Israel–so you can get a glimpse of the land where the prophet lived and worked.
This Bible study will help you:
- understand a complicated Old Testament book
- learn about the historical time of Hosea
- discover what Hosea’s message meant to his contemporaries
- discern what the prophet’s message means to New Testament believers
- immerse yourself in God’s relentless love for you
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We don’t have enough—enough time, money, clothes, Instagram followers, chocolate ice cream. Our lives are a constant comparison game, where we’re always one step behind the girl next door.
So we try everything in a desperate attempt to feel like we have enough. We buy more, we buy less. We work more, we work less. We get rid of items that don’t “spark joy.” We build a capsule wardrobe. We eat a plant-based diet.
But no matter what we do, we still feel empty. We crave something more.
Only God can satisfy the longing in our hearts for more. Enough for Now: Unpacking God’s Sufficiency explores the concept of enough. As you study the parable of the rich fool, you’ll learn to find full sufficiency in God alone—the only One who can satisfy our longings.
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In this modern world, it’s easy to live distracted. In fact, it’s difficult not to be sidetracked by the myriad of things clamoring for our attention. We feel pressured to have more, do more, and be more. And yet with all this doing and having, we still feel unfulfilled. In the quest to have it all, we wonder if we have missed something important. We sense that we have been spending too much time and effort on the trivial and not enough on what really matters.
Distracted: Finding Faith-Focus Habits for a Frenzied World will enable you to exchange frenzy for rest, anxiety for peace, and distraction for focus. Learn spiritual habits and practical tactics that will help you discard distracting activities from your calendar so that what is left is meaningful and life-affirming. Find routines that will enable you to avoid disappointing detours and remain on the path God intends for you.
Distracted will teach you how to:
- find focus by connecting to God
- prioritize essentials
- discover focus in your work
- make important choices
- defeat the distractions of technology
- find rest in our hectic world
- make time to enjoy God and His people
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We wait. And wait. And wait. In traffic, at the doctor’s office, at the restaurant. For the right guy. For a baby. For test results. For prayers to be heard. Waiting can be agony. In our culture where almost everything is instant, we are accustomed to getting what we want now. So when our lives are put in a holding pattern, we squirm.
But what if the waiting rooms of life are God’s best classrooms? What if the Holy Spirit changes us through the uncomfortable delays of life? Throughout history, God has called on His people to wait for His timing and His will. Waiting highlights principles that make these times more bearable, and maybe more meaningful, even if it feels like God isn’t present or there’s nothing we can do. In Waiting: A Bible Study on Patience, Hope, and Trust you will study eight women in Scripture who experienced a waiting period and learn learn how God meets us in the in-between times of life.
Do you need a place to rest your heart? When your body aches you can take it to a spa for a therapeutic massage. But what do you do when you are soul-tired? Come to the Soul Spa where God is eager to meet you and care for your spirit.
Soul Spa: 40 Days of Spiritual Renewal, gives you tools to care for your soul and bring your life back into balance. You will have the opportunity to explore Spiritual practices that will help you meet with God and allow Him to heal your spirit. You will discover how to develop a personal soul care plan for long-term spiritual health and joy.
This book will help you learn creative ways to meet with God and discover how centuries-old Spiritual disciplines can strengthen your faith today. You and your study group can have fun with spa activities and come away refreshed and energized.
Sharla’s book for teens: Divine Makeover: God Makes You Beautiful is based on her first book: Divine Design: 40 Days of Spiritual Makeover. Refashioned for young women, this Bible study helps young women discover the inner beauty that is there for all of us because of Jesus’ love. This makeover will transform your heart, soul, and mind.
Ideal for church youth groups or for mothers to do with their teen daughters, this study will help readers transform their “closet” by tossing out unattractive and constrictive outfits like the prom dress of pride and the handbag of worry. It will enable young women to see themselves as beautiful in God’s Mirror–His Word.
Bless These Lips: 40 Days of Spiritual Transformation helps readers achieve a Mouth Makeover–not with a $50 lipstick, but with God’s grace. Examine what God’s Word has to say about our mouths, tongues, and lips. Discover the power of your words and how you can influence your world through them.
The book examines things we say that get in the way of our relationships with God and with others. Each chapter uses lipstick analogies along with humor and personal stories to dig into scripture passages that teach how to use our words wisely. Each day’s reading contains study questions and ways to reflect on what you have learned.
In Divine Design: 40 Days of Spiritual Makeover readers are inspired to participate in a “heavenly” makeover through relinquishing unattractive habits and attitudes and exchanging them for God-pleasing behaviors and thinking. In this “What Not to Wear” experience, readers will be encouraged to get rid of the worry handbag, the prom dress of pride and other soul-constricting outfits.
Your journey through these pages will, by God’s grace, enable you to experience a spiritual makeover that will transform your heart. This renovation of character will not become chipped, or scuffed.
This study book is divided into 8 weeks of study with each week having 5 days of reading and Bible study. A companion DVD with 8 teaching sessions is also available.
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Sharla is a contributing writer to The Household Money Organizer (Revell). This book is a unique month-by-month pocket planner designed to help you keep your personal finances on track.
Sharla wrote articles on “Fun Ways to Live Withing Your Means” and “Handling the Holidays.” Other articles on reducing debt, saving on everyday expenses, and teaching children to handle money are also included.
Keep saving and sharing goals in front of you as you pay bills–and get practical, biblical help on topics like reducing debt, saving on everyday expenses, even teaching teens about money. Each month includes scriptural inspiration to help you stay motivated in your financial plan.
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Meal planning and grocery shopping can be tedious and time-consuming. But they don’t have to be! The Household Menu and Coupon Organizer is a unique month-by-month pocket planner that makes planning menus, making grocery lists, filing coupons, and managing your food budget easier than ever.
This portable organizer includes twelve monthly sections with handy pockets for corralling coupons and new recipes, informative articles on health and nutrition, space to plan menus that correspond with what’s in season and which coupons you have, and much more. Sharla contributed an article on holiday baking.
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Sharla is a contributing writer to the devotional Heaven Calling (Zondervan). Written as if God were talking directly to you, His daughter, this devotional takes you through the Bible in a year. This beautiful gift book paints a colorful portrait of the Bible’s most important concepts.
In canonical sequence, Scripture is divided into 365 daily devotionals with readings. Each devotional is a one-page, 150-word exposition of the daily theme verse. For those who wish to read the entire Bible text each year, the appropriate verses will be shown at the bottom. Each devotional ends with a seed prayer to provoke reflection and action.
Experience God’s Word in a personal way.
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Learn from the Hymns Bible Studies
Sharla has written a series of Bible studies for ChristianBibleStudies.com. The Learn from the Hymns series examines classic hymns, the biblical lessons they offer and their relevance to life today.
The series includes; “Holy, Holy, Holy,” “Amazing Grace,” “Have Thine Own Way Lord,” “It Is Well with My Soul,” “Jesus, Lover of My Soul,” and “Come Thou Font of Every Blessing.
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