Take Note 2022 Issue 1

2022 #1 | CHOSEN. KNOWN. FORGIVEN. | RECOMMENDED CHRISTIAN RESOURCES

DISCOVERING YOUR IDENTITY AND WORTH IN GOD ‘Known’ is an interactive and creative journalstyle resource designed to help young women explore the subject of their identity.

The book will lead the reader on a journey, through the key elements of who they are, by focusing on scriptural truth, prayer and creative exercises.

‘Known’ Is a journey to healthy self-image, acceptance and full appreciation of our Godgiven, beautiful identity. In a society that places increasing importance upon likes, follows and shares, we will explore what gives us our true value. In a world full of comments and opinions we will meditate on what God has to say about us and what it means to be truly ‘Known’ by Him.

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The thrilling first instalment in a new fiction series from bestselling prophecy author Amir Tsarfati and Steve Yohn.

In present-day Israel, Mossad intelligence catches word that a foreign militia is planning a drone strike on Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world.

For believers in God’s life-changing promises, Operation Joktan is a suspense-filled page-turner that illuminates the blessing Israel can be to the world.

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A MEMOIR OF VIOLENCE AND MAYHEM AND HOW GOD CAN TRANSFORM EVERYTHING Greg Stier was raised in a family of bodybuilding, tobacco-chewing, fist-fighting thugs. He never knew his biological father because his mom had met his dad at a party; she got pregnant, and he left town. Though his mum almost aborted him, in a last-minute twist, Greg’s life was spared for so much more.

Unlikely Fighter is the incredible story of how God showed up in Greg’s life—and how he can show up in yours as well. This is a memoir of violence and mayhem—and how God can transform everything.

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2022 As I write this we’re just into a new year, and still have uncertainties as to how and the will pan out in relation to the Covid-19 pandemic with its new variants, Easter ongoing challenges this brings to our daily lives. However, as we look towards hed we find hope – the ultimate hope – knowing that through what Jesus accomplis Him. in secure therefore and forgiven, and known chosen, for us we are and In this issue of Take Note these themes run through the selection of books first full resources. We’re delighted to bring you The Chosen DVD (below) with the season of this ground-breaking TV drama series on the life of Jesus, now available – from to own for yourselves. Our front cover features the new book – Known identity our that reminder g comfortin a Hanna, Philippa artist music g best-sellin of lies in Christ alone and we are fully known by Him. As we come to the season and Lent of selection a have we spring, this Easter for hearts our prepare Lent, and Easter reading (p.4-5), including the new devotional from Tim Chester – Forgiven. (p.2), Elsewhere in this issue we have exciting new biography and fiction to help resources for marriage and parenting (p.6), and a selection of new books 12), us in our daily walk with Christ, and the many life issues that face us (p.7-10, plus new music and DVD (p.11).

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The Chosen, Season 1 DVD

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Lent and Easter reading Forgiven Tim Chester

Rich Wounds David Mathis

We live in uncertain times. Our society is changing rapidly and many of us feel left behind. How can we face the future with confidence? In these resurrection meditations, Tim SAVE £1 Chester reassures our fearful hearts by pointing us to the Lord Jesus and his finished work. Guiding us through the later chapters of Hebrews, these devotions remind us that, when everything around us is turning and churning, we can rest secure in Jesus and his forgiveness, the only anchor for our weary souls.

These short but profound reflections will help you to look deeper at Jesus’ life, sacrificial death and spectacular resurrection— enabling you to treasure anew who SAVE £2 Jesus is and what he has done for us. Many of us are so familiar with the Easter story that it becomes easy to miss subtle details and difficult to really enjoy its meaning. This book will help you to pause and marvel at Jesus, whose now-glorified wounds are a sign of his unfailing love and the decisive victory that he has won.

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Forty Women Ros Clarke

Sharing the Easter Story Sally Welch What is the Easter story really about, and how do we share it?

Through each week of Lent, a different aspect of the Easter story is examined: repenting, forgiving, SAVE £1 hoping, trusting, sacrificing, loving and changing. Within each week, the days are focused on what we need to do in order to share the story: listening, understanding, reflecting, living, telling, sharing and becoming. Each day offers a Bible passage, followed by a reflection and a prayer. Suggestions for group study and group study questions are also included.

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Exploring a different character each day to take you from Ash Wednesday to Easter Sunday, Forty Women is an uplifting and inspirational look at what we can learn from the different women of the Bible.

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The Power of the Cross The Truth of the Cross R. C. Sproul

What Happened at the Cross Billy Graham The message of the cross was the centre of Billy Graham’s life and ministry. He wanted people to know that the SAVE £2 gospel was for everyone. All they had to do was come to the cross.

What Happened at the Cross is a compilation of Graham’s life work. He explains the significance and meaning of the cross by sharing the gospel message, inviting sinners to walk with Jesus, the one true Saviour who is willing and able to forgive them.

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R.C. Sproul surveys the great work accomplished

by Jesus Christ through His crucifixion — the redemption of God’s people. Dr. Sproul considers the atonement from numerous angles SAVE £4 and shows conclusively that the cross was absolutely necessary if anyone was to be saved.

The Truth of the Cross is an uncompromising reminder that the atonement of Christ is an absolutely essential doctrine of the Christian faith, one that should be studied and understood by all believers.

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Why Easter?

A concise, easy-to-read study of the very real questions people may have about Jesus and why his birth, death and resurrection are central to the Christian faith.

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Written by Nicky Gumbel, the pioneer of Alpha and vicar of HTB in London, it explores why we need Jesus and how he satisfies our hunger for meaning and purpose in life, for life beyond death, and for forgiveness.

Illustrated by Charlie Mackesy

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Three classic books to help you make your family happier and stronger than ever before. Rob Parsons brings together wisdom from all kinds of families and shares his own unique brand of encouragement and practical advice. In the one hour it takes you to read each of these books, you can explore the key principles that have revolutionised thousands of families.

Tim and Kathy Keller’s bestseller The Meaning of Marriage looked at the human need for love and its expression in marriage. This new devotional, drawing on that book but consisting of all-new material, is a day-by-day devotional to help couples find God’s wisdom as they navigate the complexities of married life.

A happy and healthy marriage is one of God’s sweetest gifts to us. And one of the best ways to nurture that is through the power of prayer.

In The Sixty Minute Mother Rob Parsons turns his warm wisdom and wit to the subject of motherhood. Talking to a variety of mothers he has compiled a wonderfully inspirational book.

The Sixty Minute Father sets goals to help every father ensure that he doesn’t miss out on the greatest opportunity of his life. This is a book for fathers that every mother will want to read!

The Sixty Minute Marriage – Take an hour to read a book that will change your marriage forever! Rob Parsons presents an action plan to revolutionise every relationship.

Each day includes a quotation from Scripture, a comment from the Kellers, and a prayer to help you ground your married life in God. Covering friendship and commitment, the completion of men and women in each other, and ministry and discipleship within the context of marriage, alongside many other themes, this is a profound resource to help you connect God’s wisdom with your marriage.

This guide will help you to pray bold, Scripture-based prayers for your husband or wife that will strengthen and enrich your marriage. It covers 21 prayer themes, with each one including five prayer prompts from a particular passage of Scripture. You’ll be equipped to pray deep and effective prayers for your spouse’s character and spiritual walk, for your life together as a couple and through challenging seasons.

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A Life of Faith Anthem for Life Murray Watts

A-Z of Wellbeing Ruth Rice

Anthems resonate. An anthem will stir your soul and rouse your spirits. It’s a song you return to again and again to re-centre yourself and uplift your disposition. What would you adopt as your Anthem for Life?

A-Z of Wellbeing is an accessible introduction to help you attend to your own wellbeing and live out your own alphabet of peace. It presents twenty-six words of wellness to help you discover new practices, connect with God, and share wellbeing with others.

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Murray Watts will help you to see life through the lens of Psalm 23 and upgrade your view of the world. With these lyrics for life readers will find an anthem that resonates through the ups and downs of life, with the melodic accompaniment of enduring hope. Find out if this is the song your soul needs …

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By sharing the words that were helpful in her own journey of recovery from breakdown, Ruth Rice gently encourages us to find our own toolkit of words and habits that will help us maintain our own wellbeing.

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Keller on Birth. Marriage. Death.

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Be still. For some, these two simple words a welcome invitation to slow down. For others, they feel impossible, out of reach in our increasingly noisy world, or simply just too hard to maintain. There is another way. In fact, there are many.

Each moment that you’re given is a precious gift from God. You can choose to have a thankful attitude and live each moment full of joy, simply because God is good. In The Power of Thank You, renowned Bible teacher and #1 New York Times bestselling author Joyce Meyer encourages us to take a look at ourselves and the importance of being thankful.

In this practical, easy-to-read guide, Brian Heasley explores the multitude of rhythms of Christian prayer and devotion available to every believer. From memorising scripture and prayer running to noticing beauty everywhere, he demonstrates how we don’t need to be static for our hearts to be still, and how even in the midst of a full, busy life, we can spend quiet time with God. Be Still is a prayer book for anyone looking for ways to revitalise the way they pray or who is struggling to make space for devotional time with God. RRP: £10.99 | 9780281086337

Living life with a heart of gratitude for who God is and what He has done lifts your burdens and allows you to see everything in a different light. Regularly giving thanks to God not only helps you fully realize how He’s working in your life, it gives you a new perspective-your mind is renewed, your attitude is improved, and you’re filled with joy.

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£7.99 Holding on When You Want to Let Go Sheila Walsh Are you struggling today? Do you look back and long for what used to be, or are you looking ahead and have no idea what’s coming? Are you stuck in the middle of a mess because life has not turned out as you expected?

In times of not knowing, Sheila Walsh offers a lifeline of hope.

With great compassion born of experience and hardship, she comes alongside the hurting, fearful, and exhausted to remind us that we serve a God who is so much greater than our momentary troubles, no matter how insurmountable they feel.

She doesn’t offer a quick fix. She offers a God fix. Sharing from her own painful struggles and digging deep into biblical stories of rescue, hope, and miracles, she gives you the strength to keep going, to keep holding on to God in a world turned upside down.

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Key New Titles God and the Transgender Debate (2nd Ed.) Andrew T. Walker

Sleeping Giant Tommy MacNeal

It’s a crucial moment to consider how to engage lovingly, thoughtfully and biblically with one of the most explosive cultural discussions of our day. This SAVE £2 warm, faithful and compassionate book that helps Christians understand what the Bible says about gender identity has been updated and expanded throughout, and now includes a section on pronoun usage and a new chapter challenging some of the claims of the transgender activist movement.

This isn’t yet another book calling the Church to arise using unrealistic, triumphalist language. Neither is it a critique of everything that is wrong with today’s Church. Rather, it’s an urgent prophetic cry to a very powerful SAVE £2 but slumbering giant – the Church of Christ. It is time to realise our identity and rise to become God’s agency to deliver His love to a world in desperate need. If you and your church have tried everything and are weary of old models of church that bear no fruit, Sleeping Giant will inspire to reconnect your heart with God’s heart, passion and vision.

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Devotional resources Soul Fuel (PB) Bear Grylls

ESV Search the Scriptures Bible

For the first time, in this open, brave and honest book, Bear reveals the inspiration that helps him to stand strong and find peace each day. These daily readings - exploring themes of friendships, failure, courage, risk, and much more show us all how to face each day with purpose and power.

God has given us his Word as a vital means of encountering him, and the ESV Search the Scriptures Bible gives you the questions to go deeper in knowing him. The Search the Scriptures Bible SAVE £6.01 reading plan offers guidance for daily Bible study and aims to make it a delight as well as a source of strength. Using a question-and-answer approach, it helps you discover God’s truth for yourself.

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‘Be brave. Embrace faith wherever you may find it. You have nothing to lose and everything to gain.’

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JUMP START YOUR PRAYER LIFE When your days feel overwhelming and your life has you anxious and stressed, you can find peace and hope in Jesus.

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In this NEW 365-day devotional prayer book, Jesus Listens by Sarah Young, author of Jesus Calling, you’ll find confidence to come to God in all circumstances with short, heartfelt prayers based on Scripture.

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Music & DVD Healer CD Casting Crowns The first single from Healer, “Scars In Heaven”, impacted fans and broke the global first-day streaming record for a Christian song debut on Amazon Music. This new album will cause a variety of emotions for listeners as they experience the deep, thoughtful lyrics, the uplifting worship songs, and more.

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Best of Worship Anthems 2CD Our unique Worship Anthems series has charted the course of ground-breaking, heaven-shaking worship songs for more than twelve years. Best Of Worship Anthems gathers together an incredible selection from previous albums featuring songs led by Lucy Grimble, Elim Sound, Chris McClarney, Lou Fellingham, Jesus Culture, Stuart Townend, Kees Kraayenoord and many others. Recorded live at a wide range of international Christian, this outstanding collection includes ‘Raise A Hallelujah’, ‘Build My Life’, Forever (We Sing Hallelujah)’, ’Oceans’ and more.

Devotion, declaration, adoration and awe ... this is the Best Of Worship Anthems.

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£10.99 Show me the Father DVD Everyone has a unique father story. Whether positive or painful, it’s always personal and can deeply affect the core of our identity and direction of our lives. Kendrick Brothers’ Show Me The Father is the first documentary film from the creators of WAR ROOM, OVERCOMER, FIREPROOF, and COURAGEOUS. Featuring a variety of amazing true stories, this captivating movie takes audiences of all ages on an inspiring and emotional cinematic journey.

Providing a fresh perspective on the roles of fathers in today’s society, Show Me The Father invites you to think differently about how you view your earthly father, and how you personally relate to God. RRP: £12.99 | 5035822474833

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THE SECRET TO

HEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS Even in the best of

relationships, we mess up. We say and do things we deeply regret later on. So, we need

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saying you’re sorry isn’t enough. In The 5 Apology Languages, Gary Chapman,

the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The 5 Love Languages, partners with Jennifer Thomas to help you on the

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Don’t let hurts linger or wounds fester.

Start on the path to healing today and discover how meaningful apologies

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