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Are you living a life of faith? Or are you weighed down with doubts, worries, and fears? In this audiobook you will hear 21 real stories of faith from ordinary, everyday people like yourself. Some of the stories focus on coming to faith in Christ for the first time, while other stories share lessons learned about faith during a difficult season in their lives. Ultimately, we hope and pray that God uses these stories to inspire and encourage you in your own walk of faith. By listening to this book, your eyes will be fixed on Jesus, the author and "perfecter" of your faith, allowing Him to strengthen your faith. Join us in this journey of living a life of faith!

Are you living life to the fullest? Or are you merely surviving from day to day? One way to live life to the fullest is to live each day with a grateful heart. In this audiobook, we share 21 stories of gratitude to give you encouragement and hope in your own journey. Gratitude is possible! Even though many times we cannot change our circumstances, we can change the way we see them. We can ask God to empower us to change our thoughts. Our prayer for you is that you find encouragement within these words.

This is the Broken Crayons Still Color podcast with your host, Shelley Hitz. Each episode contains an inspiring story of HOPE and HEALING in Christ. Many times what we see as our biggest regrets, failures and mistakes become what God uses the most in our lives. God is able to transform our brokenness into something more beautiful than we can even imagine. He takes our mess and creates a masterpiece. You see, broken crayons still color. God is the artist and our lives are His canvas. What will you allow Him to create from the broken pieces in your life? When you are in Christ, you are His ...

These 90 devotions are intended for teen girls who want to find their true beauty in Christ. We encourage you to listen to one each day, think on it, and apply what you have learned to your life. Over the next three months, these devotions will take you on a journey through God's Word, learning about different areas in the Bible that we hope you can relate to. Followed by ideas for ways that you can apply them to your lives, and a prayer you can pray.

Welcome to Kingdom Writers where CJ and Shelley Hitz help you take a step of faith to finally finish your book. This podcast is filled with spiritual encouragement as well as prayers to help you overcome the resistance you face as a writer. Your story matters! We believe that you have a specific role to play in the kingdom of heaven to impact lives for eternity. And because of this, we will pour out our lives encouraging writers like you to not only tell your stories but to take the courageous step of self-publishing your stories in books that will outlive you and leave behind a powerful ...

Are you looking for ways to get more honest reviews for your books? Offering credibility and proof of readership, reviews have the power to boost your book sales. In part two of this book, we share 7 proven ways authors can legitimately increase the number of reviews written about their books. These are strategies we have used successfully to connect with readers and reviewers and now want to share them with you. 7 Proven Ways to Get Reviews 1) Ask Your Sphere of Influence 2) Harness the Power of Social Media Groups 3) Submit to Readers' Favorite 4) Contact Blog Reviewers 5) Conduct ...

In this Kingdom Marketing Mindset eBook, we help Kingdom writers like you follow the blueprint you develop with God in marketing your books. What makes this marketing plan different than most training for authors is that it’s not a “follow my blueprint” program. We won’t give you a cookie-cutter plan, but instead, encourage you to seek God’s strategy for you and your book. Are you ready to approach marketing from a Kingdom mindset?

Welcome to the Christian Writer Success Stories Podcast with CJ and Shelley Hitz. Discover the stories of Christian writers who have taken the courageous step to write and publish their books. Be inspired by what they have learned and how God is using their words to impact lives. This podcast is sponsored by the Book Marketing Shop where authors can find tools, templates, and training to help them reach more readers with their message. Learn more at the website BookMarketingShop.com.

There’s something powerful about praying God’s Word over our lives and writing. By ‘praying God’s Word’ we’re talking about piggybacking off of the words and prayers found throughout the Scriptures. Utilizing God’s Word in our prayers is like laying down kindling to help start a fire in our own hearts. If we need a prayer jumpstart, we can lift up the many prayers found throughout the Bible while adjusting those prayers for our own personal situation. As Christian writers and creatives, we relate to the Kingdom writers of old as we also endeavor to write words that outlive us ...

God has more for you. He is inviting you to go beyond the brokenness in your life. The Japanese art, Kintsugi, takes broken pottery and repairs it with gold. Instead of discarding it as useless or hiding the damage, they choose to illuminate the repair. The art of Kintsugi is a powerful picture of how God sees our broken, imperfect lives. We tend to see our brokenness as our biggest flaws, mistakes, and regrets. But God can use them to create a masterpiece that will then display His glory. What you see in your life today is not all God has for you. Your broken pieces in God's hands can be ...

Are you a speaker, professional communicator, or expert who presents information to groups of people? What if we told you that by doing one simple thing you could: • Help and influence more people • Diversify your income • Increase your credibility • Generate more leads • Make it easier for people to find you Would it be worth pursuing? Putting your ideas into a book can accomplish all those things for you. Every speaker needs to be an author...but not every author needs to be a writer. By definition, an “author” starts or create something. Don’t be trapped by the notion ...

Does the mirror define your beauty and who you are? Are you desperately striving for the world's "perfect image" of outer beauty? Or have you given up trying, realizing you'll never be "good enough?" It's time to look deeper, past the surface. It's time to find your true beauty! Get practical, real-life, biblical advice for the issues you deal with every day... Body Image. Beauty. Fashion. Sex. Dating. Self Esteem. Relationships. Will you dare to look deeper? If you do, you will find that there is so much more. More than what your mirror has for you. More than what Hollywood and the media ...

Writing a book is not for everyone. However, for you, writing is your calling. You feel compelled by God to write. You’re getting a lot of things right, but you know God has more for you in the Kingdom of God as a writer. Want to see God move in even greater ways through your writing? If so, this book can help you. Kingdom writers, let the words flow as you allow God to write through you. You are priestly pens in the hands of the author of life. God wants to use your words to impact lives for eternity. It's time to write words that will outlive you. Will you give God your yes?

Living a Life of Faith: 21 Days of Faith Challenge Do you want to live a life of faith? Do you want your faith to be more than simply saying "I believe in God"? Do you want to have a genuine faith that overflows from a heart that is fully trusting in God in every area of your life? If so, consider embarking on a life of Faith . Over the course of 21 days, God began to change me as I spent intentional time seeking Him regarding this topic of faith. This also led me to writing out 21 prayers of faith and compiling 21 stories of faith. I want to share what I learned with you in the pages of ...

Life as an author is an adventure, and there is a lot we have to learn along the way. Certain tasks may seem simple at first, but are really more complex than we realized. Understanding how to get book reviews, what to do with them, and their importance can be especially difficult. We believe book reviews are a crucial marketing tool, which is why it is our endeavor through this book to outline some tips to help authors understand book reviews. We are glad you have decided to pick up this book. We will keep it short and to the point, doing our best to help you separate the myths from the ...

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God has created each one of us with unique abilities, unique talents and a unique personality. As women we are influencers and God has given us that role and our beauty to share with others. Yet, so often we settle for a counterfeit. The enemy has counterfeited our idea of beauty, convincing us to share our beauty with the world in a distorted way. Today, that often means that we see our beauty as what we look like on the outside.

Have you been through difficult times in your life? If so, you are not alone. Jesus says in John 16:33, "In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world." Notice that He doesn't say that we might have trouble or that if we have enough faith we will escape it. He clearly states that on this side of heaven we will walk through difficult times in our lives. And yet we have reason to hope.

Join Max Magee on this new adventure where he learns about unconditional love through a mouse named Henry. Wanting something more from life, Henry leaves his family for the excitement Big City. What he finds is that there truly is no place like home and the unconditional love of his family. This interactive eBook contains the following: Optional discussion questions which relate Henry Goes to the Big City to the story of the Prodigal Son in Luke 15:11-32. An application question Memory verse Short closing prayer. Bonus: When you buy this book, you will also get access to the MP3 audiobook ...