Tame Your Thoughts
Max Lucado
Perhaps you were overwhelmed with the weight of worry, the fear of failing, or the grip of guilt. The way we think directly impacts our joy and peace. In Tame Your Thoughts, Max Lucado explores three key thought-management tools and then applies them to the most common thought problems: worry, guilt, anxiety, and other types of mental quicksand that threaten to trap us. God loves us too much to let us lead a life marked by poor thinking. He made our brains; he can retrain our brains. God has not left us alone in this battle of the mind.
Stuck in your head? Hounded by regrets? Weighed down by worry? Change is possible! The thoughts that have characterized your past need not characterize the rest of your life.
This is a First Church Book of the Year for 2026. Available now!
Witness to Belief
Russell J. Levenson, Jr.
Through interviews with twelve remarkable and renowned individuals from various Christian denominations, Russell J. Levenson, Jr. explores different ways people come to faith and sustain it in their daily lives. The result is a collection of fascinating, moving, and unique stories, rarely shared with the public. For instance, Secretary Rice notes that she knelt down to pray every night when she worked in Washington, but often was so tired she fell asleep during prayer time; Denzel Washington asked to begin and end the interview for this book in prayer with Levenson; and Amy Grant shared that because of a brain injury she now has trouble reciting scripture, so she sings it instead.
Each interview delves into the private, spiritual side of public figures and reveals that behind success and fame there is often a vibrant, personal belief in God that nourishes them. You will come away contemplating the role of religious belief in your own life and consider what truly matters at the end of the day.
This is a First Church Book of the Year for 2026. Available now!
The Eclipse of God
Dr. Erwin Lutzer
In The Eclipse of God, Erwin Lutzer exposes our nation’s disastrous efforts to redefine God in its own image. The resulting damage has been so great that confusion about God has even crept into the church. Timely and practical, The Eclipse of God will deepen your love for the sovereign God of the Bible and empower you to live and speak as a light for Him in a culture of darkness.
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When A Nation Forgets God
Dr. Erwin Lutzer
Erwin Lutzer studies seven similarities between Nazi Germany and America today—some of them chilling—and cautions us to respond accordingly. Engaging, well-researched, and easy to understand, Lutzer’s writing is that of a realist, one alarmed but unafraid. Amidst describing the messes of our nation’s government, economy, legal pitfalls, propaganda, and more, Lutzer points to the God who always has a plan.
The atrocities committed by the Nazis are almost unimaginable. And yet, in the early 20th century, Germany didn’t appear to be on the brink of world-shaking terrors. Warning against propaganda and dangerous trends he sees in the U.S. government, Lutzer exhorts believers to heed the warning signs.
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