Take Note 2023 Issue 2

Breaking free from the grip of fear and stress

Anxiety...

It might be the weight on your shoulders, the constant sense of worry by your side, or the cloud of dread hanging over your life. For many, anxiety is a powerful giant wanting to trap you in darkness and defeat.

But there is freedom to be found from its grip.

Knowing first-hand the realities of anxiety, pastor Louie Giglio shares both practical and spiritual ways to live in victory. With encouragement and hope, this book will equip you with the cross of Jesus as your strongest weapon against anxiety by:

• Understanding the root of your anxiety

• Quickly recognizing and addressing anxious thoughts

• Replacing fear and stress with hope and peace

Anxiety can be debilitating, but Jesus has already defeated its stronghold. Find true rest in the Prince of Peace and break free from anxiety.

Putting an X Through Anxiety

Louie Giglio

RRP: £13.25 | 9781949255195

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Welcome to the new edition of Take Note. This time around our focus is on stories of God’s grace in the lives of others, and how his grace sustains us throughout our own lives through our many ups and downs.

We have an extensive biography section on pages 4-5, plus Beth Moore’s memoir below and Portraits of Faith and Love opposite. These include voices from the past as authors recount the lives of well-known characters, such as John Newton and Julian of Norwich, as well as little known characters who, likewise, through the grace of God had an impact for him in their day that resonates through history. We also have inspiration from today, with the story of the Alpha movement and the Timothy Keller biography, plus stories of grace in mission, ill-health and love (including Gary Chapman’s latest book from the back cover).

This same grace is available to us today in our lives as we seek to live for him, and we feature new books on helping us overcome real issues like anxiety (see our front cover feature from Louie Giglio), despair, brokenness, busyness – and more (p.8).

Alongside all this, we have a selection of Bibles (p.10), devotional reading (p.9), books on various aspects of the Christian life (6-7), and new music from Matt Redman and Bethel Music (p.11).

Enjoy browsing and may you know God’s grace in your own life.

Daryl Wearring

Biographies – voices from the past

Amazing Grace

Bruce Hindmarsh & Craig Borlase

Amazing Grace is the surprising true story of John Newton, author of the song that has touched millions. A biography that reads like a novel, it reveals Newton’s dramatic story of sin and salvation as a slave trader before his ultimate transformation to speaking out against the horror of slavery. His story speaks to the brokenness within us all and our need for God’s amazing grace – and reveals the truth behind his song.

Since the first public singing of “Amazing Grace” 250 years ago, every generation has been profoundly moved by the song, and now readers can connect with John Newton’s story like never before.

RRP: £12.99 | 9781400336609

10 Women Who Were Spiritual Mothers

Dayspring MacLeod

From Katherine Parr, sixth and final wife of Henry VIII, to Sharon Dickens and Lisa Harper, the ten women represent a spectrum of life delivered via the prism of motherhood. This book isn’t only for mothers. It’s for those who are heartbroken, single, bereft or at peace in later life. As a woman who knows the support of women in her own life, Macleod has gracefully painted a canvas of joy in sorrows, peace and panic and Christ’s love triumphant. The sequel to the widely acclaimed 10 Women Who Overcame their Past.

RRP: £9.99 | 9781527109728

Clothed with Strength

Sarah Allen

It’s easy to imagine that Christian women of the past were shrinking violets who were side-lined and excluded from making a difference in the church and in the world.

The truth is that God has always raised up strong and courageous women to do his work. You might never have heard of Rebecca Protten, Hannah More, Ellen Raynard and Josephine Butler, but you’ll never forget how God used these four very different women to fight against injustice and poverty and to transform lives. These eighteenth and nineteenth century women worked in partnership with men to shape the evangelical church. Let their stories challenge you and fuel your faith today.

RRP: £8.99 | 9781913896539

The account of a medieval woman who dares to tell her own story, battling grief, plague, the church and societal expectations to do so. Compelled by the powerful visions she had when close to death, Julian finds a way to live a life of freedom – as an anchoress, bricked up in a small room on the side of a church – and to write of what she has seen.

Tender, luminous, meditative and powerful, Julian writes of her love for God, and God’s love for the whole of creation. ‘All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.’

RRP: £18.99 | 9781399807524

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I, Julian Claire Gilbert

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Timothy Keller

Collin Hansen

Millions have read books and listened to sermons by Timothy Keller. But which people and what events shaped his own thinking and spiritual growth? With unfettered access to Keller’s personal notes and sermons – as well as exclusive interviews with family members and longtime friends – Collin Hansen gives you unprecedented understanding of one of the 21st century’s most influential church leaders. This authorized biography captures the people who made the man and takes readers behind the scenes to meet the people and understand the events that formed Keller’s spiritual life and ministry priorities.

RRP: £14.99 | 9780310128717

With These Hands

Leanne Mallett

Leanne’s life was comfortable and fulfilled. Her faith was steady, nurtured from childhood. But then she was faced with the diagnosis every woman dreads. Leanne’s battle with breast cancer forced her to face some of her greatest fears and tested her faith in a way she had never experienced before. Treatment changed her appearance and stripped her of her identity as a woman, and her life was changed.

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Repackaging Christianity

Andrew Atherstone

The story of Alpha is of major significance, but that story has never been tolduntil now. Since its launch in 1993, the Alpha movement has evolved from ‘supper party evangelism’ in the Kensington suburbs into a global brand of Christian outreach, with over a million attending every year.

Andrew Atherstone leaves no stone unturned – with exclusive access to original archives, he recounts the miraculous stories of HTB’s early years, the first full account of Nicky Gumbel’s conversion, and the strategic decisions that launched Alpha onto the global stage of Christian influence.

RRP: £10.99 | 9781399801539

Come with Me to Kathmandu

Anna Townsend

Meet twelve incredible women from Nepal whose lives have been transformed by God. Thanks to traditional customs and religious rituals, many Nepali women face ordeals unimaginable to those living in the West. Anna Townsend invites you to discover their astounding stories. Among them is Kopisha, whose infant daughter died due to the neglect of her own family, Suki, the mother of a human trafficking victim, and Maria, forced to marry her rapist.

With deep honesty, Leanne shares how she dealt with this new reality and reveals the lessons she learned about God’s incredible faithfulness and the strength that he gives us when we need it most.

RRP: £10.99 | 9781788932745

Poignant, shocking, but ultimately inspirational, you will be encouraged to see how God is at work in these women, changing their lives and giving them a more hopeful future.

RRP: £10.99 | 9781788932486

Heavenly Minded

Mary Willson Hannah

“It seems odd to say that in order to live a meaningful life on earth, we must be focused on other-worldly things. But that is precisely what the Bible teaches.” It’s easy to become focused on this world and all the struggles and activities that fill our lives. But one of the keys to the Christian life is to have our hearts and minds centred on the right place – heaven.

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This short book captures how fixing our eyes on heaven will transform our Christian experience here on earth, bringing assurance, hope and purpose.

RRP: £3.99 | 9781913896522

Say the Right Thing

Carolyn Lacey

Words are powerful. Many of us want to “say the right thing” and make a difference to others with our words, but we don’t know how to. This positive, constructive book delves into the Bible to show us how to overcome specific temptations, such as gossip or angry words. But it also goes much further. It shows us how we can use our speech to bring beauty, hope, truth and comfort into the lives of those around us—and to give glory to God.

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Raising Confident Kids in a Confusing World

Ed Drew

As kids grow up, they hear many conflicting messages about how they can define themselves. For example, they are told that they can define themselves by their achievements, popularity, sexuality, morality or gender, or by how they feel.

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This warm, realistic and sympathetic book provides much needed biblical help for parents on this topic. It shows parents how to encourage their kids to find their identity in the fact that they are made and loved by Jesus. Children will gain a positive and realistic view of themselves, based on God’s amazing love for them, giving them confidence to live by faith in a secular world.

RRP: £8.99 | 9781784988678

The Best of Friends

Phil

Knox

Full of gracious words and practical help, this book will help readers to find out how to let the gospel shape their speech and enjoy the blessings that flow from this.

RRP: £8.99 | 9781784988692

Phil Knox, Head of Mission at Evangelical Alliance, celebrates the best of friendships in The Best of Friends. Punctuated with personal story, poetry, and practical application, Knox examines friendship in the setting of the church and explores how Jesus invested his time both with his closest companions and oneoff encounters. Readers will recognise the power of friendship in bringing non-believers to church, and Knox explores the importance of becoming friends with people who are different from us.

RRP £10.99 | 9781789744248

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A Good Return

John Lennox

The world of work is expanding. New technologies, industries and means of meeting apart–and–still–together, have presided in the transition of the workplace into a fast, digital and busier–than–ever era. It is more than easy to complain, drag one’s feet while getting out of the door, and face daily tasks with an apathetic attitude.

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Flipped

Malcolm Duncan Christians are called to model a way of life that challenges the status quo and infuses the world with hope and possibility. We are to be people who see possibility where others see failure, beauty where others see ugliness and freedom where others see chains. This is the Upside Down Kingdom, where the forgotten are noticed, the silenced are given back their voice and love is stronger than hate.

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A Good Return does not provide maxims to get you through the day. Instead, is a book that encourages Christians to view their workspace as an avenue of worship with thoughtful, biblical and evangelical deliberation on our behaviour in, and towards, our work.

RRP: £15.99 | 9781527109926

A Sensitive Exploration of Jesus’ Teaching on Sexuality

The new edition of this best-selling book has been updated to reflect the cultural changes in the past decade and to make it more accessible to people who do not follow Jesus. It looks first and foremost at the extraordinary claims and promises of Jesus and then it examines his teaching on sexuality and relationships and the costs and rewards of following him.

Author and speaker Sam Allberry draws on his own experience as a believer who experiences same-sex attraction and says: “Above all I want people to realise how good Jesus is, in this area of life and in every area of life.”

God’s Kingdom is unshakeable, local churches are its vanguard and Christians are its citizens. Flipped paints a vision of what is possible when ordinary people catch a glimpse of God’s radical call to follow the Lord Jesus.

RRP: £9.99 | 9780281088126

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Grace for life

When God Seems Gone

Adam Mabry

What do you do when it feels like God isn’t there—when the state of the world, our own suffering, or the struggles of those we know suggest that God is absent? When you’ve experienced soulcrushing silence from heaven, despite your fervent supplications?

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Using the book of Habakkuk, as well as his own personal experience of deep suffering, Adam Mabry examines the art of lament—how to cry out to God in desperation from a place of faith and hope. Readers will be encouraged to keep trusting God even when he seems silent, slow, unfair, different or wrong.

RRP: £8.99 | 9781784988197

Why Less Means More

Cathy Madavan

Do you feel frazzled?

Broken Planet

Sharon Dirckx

The question of suffering is one of the greatest hurdles to Christian faith. When believers respond to the question of why there is suffering in the world, they often turn to the free-will defence. In Broken Planet, Dr Sharon Dirckx, scientist and apologist, offers a measured and thoughtful case for how there could be a God of love that allows natural disasters and diseases.

If you have ever struggled to reconcile the idea of a loving God with all the pain in our world, this book will encourage you that belief in such a God is not as unreasonable as it may seem. In fact, it may be where God is revealed most profoundly.

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Safe All Along

Katie Davis Majors

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Frantic? Fearful you haven’t got enough? In a world obsessed with more, where potential is maximised, and busyness is glorified, another reality also exists: we all have limits - and many of us are living at the edge of them. What would it look like to pursue less success and more significance? To live with less complexity and more clarity?

Cathy Madavan, accomplished author and speaker, invites you to leave your fear and franticness behind and discover more space, simplicity and the truth that less really can lead to more.

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From the bestselling author of Kisses from Katie learn how to leave behind your anxious thoughts and embrace a steady confidence that you are never beyond the reach of God’s loving hand.

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Katie offers reflections and stories from around the world and from her own kitchen table about her personal journey toward living from a place of surrendered trust. Every chapter leads us deep into Scripture as we learn what it looks like to break free from anxiety and take hold of peace. Our God has promised us a peace that transcends all understanding. And we can accept his promise, trusting that in him we are safe all along.

RRP: £19.99 | 9781788933162

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In the Footsteps of the Saviour

Max Lucado

Have you ever wondered what the Holy Land might have looked like through Jesus’s eyes? Join Max Lucado as he takes you on an unforgettable journey following Jesus through his life on earth, giving you a chance to see the Holy Land and God’s heart for humanity in a brand-new light. With beautiful photographs and thoughtful questions for reflection, In the Footsteps of the Saviour will take you on a journey through Bethlehem, Nazareth, Galilee, the Jordan River, Bethany, Jerusalem, and more. And you’ll also deepen your connection with the King of the universe who became the Saviour on the cross.

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Beholding

Strahan Coleman

In an age of noise and hyper connectivity, Beholding invites readers to rediscover prayer as a welcoming space to simply be with God. Through lyrical writing and biblical insights, Strahan Coleman helps readers move from having a transactional association with God based on work to having a transformational relationship with God based in love.

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A Letter That Makes Sense Of Life

Strahan shows that prayer can be more than a way of finding answers. When readers realize that prayer can be a way of learning God’s heart language, they see that they are already closer to God than they dare imagine.

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With his trademark straightforward teaching style, Andrew Ollerton leads us through Romans - one of the most theologically complex books of the Bible - to discover how an understanding of Paul’s longest letter unlocks the whole story of Scripture.

It’s been said that if the New Testament were the Himalayas, Romans would be Mount Everest. The chapters of this book therefore imagine the contents of the letter as a great mountain landscape –complex, challenging but highly rewarding. Together, we will take on the challenge of ascending to the summit, taking in the view and then descending to put it into practice on the other side.

Romans

Andrew Ollerton

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The ESV Large Print Value

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Bible: TruTone, Black

The ESV Value Compact Bible features a quality TruTone cover with 6-point Bible text. This is a conveniently sized and affordably priced edition, making it a practical option for anyone who wants to take God’s Word wherever they go.

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The Message Deluxe Gift Bible

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Translated from the original Greek and Hebrew Scriptures by scholar, pastor, author, and poet Eugene Peterson, The Message combines the authority of God’s Word with the cadence and energy of conversational English. For the first time as a gift Bible, The Message includes all these popular features!

• Personalize your Bible with the colourful presentation page.

• Find passages with The Message’s unique versenumbered paragraphs.

• Get your bearings with handcrafted maps, charts, and timelines.

• Use your Bible for years to come with its durable binding.

• Keep your place with a satin ribbon marker.

Charcoal Ascension & Blue Diamonds

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Pink & Gold Waves

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NIV Pocket Mint Polka-Dot Notebook Bible

This hardback Bible comes in a fresh mint and purple cloth-covered pocket format, in the popular notebook-sized style. This edition features a practical elastic strap to protect the Bible pages while on the move, a hidden pocket in the inside back cover for storing loose notes, plus a ribbon marker and presentation page. This Bible also features clear, readable 6.75pt text and British spelling, punctuation and grammar.

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Lamb of God

Matt Redman

New music & study guide

Come Up Here

Bethel Music

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Matt Redman’s new album exists to remind the Church that there is both beauty and dread in the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross through songs that resonate for the young and old. It honours the ancient and modern styles of worship music by connecting the sacredness of lyrics of old to current sensibilities - reflecting on the past and embracing the present. Lamb of God invites listeners into a shared experience of salvation that embraces the whole spectrum of beauty and suffering at its core.

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Come Up Here is an invitation... A heavenly summons to see what He sees, to feel His heart beat, to breathe in His air - to catch a glimpse of His majesty and all that is to come. This album, recorded in the Redwoods of California, is Bethel Music’s collective “eyes up” in full amazement and awe of God’s glory, and it is their personal invitation to people to “Come Up Here” and do the same.

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The Way of the Chosen

This interactive Bible study is for readers who want to engage deeper into The Chosen season 3 and how Jesus’ followers apply His teaching to their lives.

In this unique Bible study companion to the groundbreaking show The Chosen, readers will discover what it means to walk the “narrow road that leads to life.”

The Way of the Chosen

Amanda Jenkins, Dallas Jenkins & Douglas S. Huffman

RRP £12.99 | 9780830784561

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What Does It Mean to Be Chosen?

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CHOSEN

Blessed Are the Chosen RRP £12.99 9780830782703

REAL LIFE, ENCOURAGING STORIES EMBODYING THE BOLD, BRAVE, BEAUTIFUL CHOICE TO LOVE.

“To last for the long haul and through the stresses and complexities of life, love has to be more than something we feel. It has to be something we do. We have to demonstrate it concretely in our marriages and families, among our friends and acquaintances, and, yes, even among our enemies. And that’s what this book is about. In its pages, you’ll see examples of people just like you – like all of us – who learned to take the obstacles, the lemons they face in life, and turn them into satisfying, emotional thirstquenching nectar. These are the success stories that make you want to go out and discover the power of love.”

— Gary Chapman

If you’re feeling weary or burdened by the call to love, you’ll find strength and hope in the pages of this book. Love is a Choice gives us stories of love in action, inspiring us to go deeper in our relationships. Each story is coupled with 5 Love Languages® insights and application points.

Love is a Choice

Gary Chapman

RRP: £14.99 | 9780802429025

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