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Below you’ll find FREE chapters, FREE Bible studies, FREE discussion guides and more! Enjoy!

Broke: What Financial Desperation Revealed about God’s Abundance

The FREE Six-Part Group Discussion Guide for Broke is now available! This is perfect for book clubs, church groups, or neighborhood studies. Available here.

Shades of Mercy: A Maine Chronicle Sample Chapters

It was a pleasure to join Anita Lustrea in writing this story she’d had swirling around her imagination for a long time. Here’s a taste of where the story begins:

Shades of Mercy Sampler Chapter 1

Known and Loved Study Guide:

The fine folks at MOPS International and Revell Books developed this fantastic Group Study Guide to accompany Known and Loved: 52 Devotions from the Psalms. This guide allows the book to morph from an individual reflective tool to a conversation starter and relationship builder. Download it for your group today!

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Free Bible Studies:

From Grumble to Hallelujah, from?ChristianBibleStudies.com
In her book?Grumble Hallelujah: Learning to Love Your Life Even When It Lets You Down, Caryn Dahlstrand Rivadeneira contends that Christians must learn that not only is God okay with Christians expressing their hurt and disappointment, but that God can actually be honored by it, that lamenting can be a form of worship and praise. Can this be true? Can Christians really praise God and complain at the same time? This study looks at what the Scriptures have to say about lamenting?about grumbling hallelujahs?when life falls short of our expectations, and how our lives can change through lament.

When You Feel Like Mama’s Got a Fake I.D. from?ChristianBibleStudies.com.

Caryn Dahlstrand Rivadeneira?s new book,?Mama?s Got a Fake I.D.makes the case that while motherhood does change women in many ways, it doesn?t leave moms as less than the complete women God intended them to be, but instead makes them more. She believes that this truth, however, is not often reflected in churches, where people seem more comfortable seeing motherhood as a woman?s primary God-honoring role. So who?s right here? Does the Bible really support her premise? Does God really want more for moms? This study walks readers through the Scripture behind Rivadeneira?s arguments.

Free First Chapters:

First Chapter of Grumble Hallelujah

First Chapter of Mama’s Got a Fake I.D. (Okay. So you’ve got to visit the Amazon page and click on the Kindle “Read the first chapter free” button. But it’s there. And FREE!)

Free Book Discussion Guides

Mama’s Got a Fake I.D. Group Discussion Guide is packed with?great conversation starters for large and small groups. Great for retreats!

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