Hope Beyond Our Sorrows: Learning to Live with Life-Changing Loss
By April Yamasaki
Herald Press
Releasing June 24, 2025 – now available for preorder on Amazon.com or Amazon.ca.
When a shattered dream breaks your heart, how do you learn to hope again?
When April Yamasaki and her husband married, they were young and full of dreams. After almost forty-five years of marriage, those dreams fell apart as Yamasaki found herself grieving the death of her husband. How could life go on without him? Yet even in the depths of her sorrows, she experienced God’s goodness and mercy – big enough for her soul’s lament, longer and deeper and wider than our laments can ever be.
Whether you’re grieving the loss of a loved one, a job, a marriage, a church community, or a dream, you too may find yourself wondering, how can I go on? What hope is there for the road ahead? Whatever loss you’re living with, you can find comfort in these short, easily digestible readings accompanied by prayers and spiritual practices from a seasoned devotional writer. Grounded in Scripture, personal experience, and a pastoral heart, Hope Beyond Our Sorrows invites readers to journey with grief, find a new way forward, and live with faith and hope beyond their broken dreams.
Lucy’s Adoption Song
By Sandee Macgregor
Castle Quay Books
“Following the success of her first children’s book, by author Sandee Macgregor, Can I Take it to Heaven, this new story of Lucy is based on the true story of a family that adopted internationally. Journey with Lucy and her parents as they cross the ocean to meet their new family members, Grace and John. Through many months of planning, preparation and prayer, they make it to their new home.
Finding Courage
by Steve Brown, Columbia Bible College, Abbotsford
Castle Quay Books
Do you need more courage? How might you live today differently if you lived with more courage? How could you more intentionally be a courage giver to others? Courage is about choosing to follow Jesus even when your knees are knocking. More than ever, courage is required to faithfully follow Jesus in our volatile world. Courage is also an incredible gift you can give to others. Whether you are navigating the everyday or a crucible moment, this four-week devotional journey pairs a daily dose of biblically grounded encouragement with practical insights to help you find more and give more courage.
Is that True? Discerning Truth in an Age of Deception
By Chuck Stephens
Castle Quay Books
Respected writer and author Chuck Stephens undertakes his dream of going back to the future, to the good old days of clear divisions between right and wrong. Warning that the mix of subjective, objective and revealed truth is changing the meaning of truth so much that even our ethical plumb line is wobbling. The book is packed with quality talking points and a unique format spotlighting 24 specific areas that are suffering a truth malaise?
Let There Be Light
By David S. Mackenzie
Word Alive Press
Let There Be Light presents a scripturally based understanding of the Genesis creation narrative that aligns with the findings of modern science. Its transformative thesis is called the Week Within a Week Creation Model which generates a timeline that successfully matches the days of the Genesis creation story with the scientific age of the universe and the natural history of Earth. The creation of life, Adam and Eve, and Noah’s Flood are also explained in a plausible, literal manner within the context of science. By reading this book, you can embark on an exciting, faith-building adventure of biblical discovery.
The Sacrifice: Yearning for Messiah
By Jack A. Taylor
Word Alive Press
The Temple of Jerusalem was recognized as one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, but how did it rise out of the rubble of social chaos, international intrigue, family mutiny, and a passionate quest for the Messiah? How did two simple servants of Yahweh linger through bloodshed and traumatic leadership changes to remain standing when the day of the Messiah’s arrival finally came? In a place dedicated to sacrifice, there was one sacrifice no one expected. This is the untold story of the years before the event that forever changed the course of world history.
The Storywriter
By Jordan Hageman
Word Alive Press
Emelin, from the village of Olam, is eleven years old and has a mind of her own, thank you very much. After a strange visit from the Tooth, she and her best friend Frank are sent on a grand adventure to stop the Dark and Evil Being from doing a terrible something. Along the way, Emelin is told she is in a story written by the Storywriter. However, this is ridiculous and can’t possibly be true – because Emelin writes her own story, and no one is going to tell her otherwise.
Ayumi’s Language Academy
by Alan V. W. Doerksen
Welcome to Ayumi’s Language Academy! This is the story of Keith Barker, a young man from Halifax, Nova Scotia, who graduates from university, can’t find a satisfying job and decides to go to Japan for a year to teach at a language academy. While in Japan, he deals with culture shock, goes on a faith journey, and meets an interesting variety of people. They include a potential girlfriend and an android girl who also has her eye on him. During his time in Japan, Keith needs to make some big decisions such as how long to stay in Japan, and what to believe in.
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Scholarships available
| We’re pleased to re-announce this important opportunity for developing writers in Canada. Please share this with post-secondary students who will appreciate it. The Wendy Elaine Nelles Memorial Award is a prize established by friends of Wendy Nelles (1955–2018) in partnership with The Word Guild – an organization of Canadian writers and editors who are Christian – which Wendy cofounded. Journalist Thomas Froese, who helped initiate the award in honour of his friend, notes Wendy cared passionately about quality in both writing and character. “The Award celebrates both her professional life and how her faith was the foundation of that,” Froese said. “Wendy loved teaching, mentoring, and encouraging writers in the spirit of Christ’s love.” Writer and communications consultant Patricia Paddey, among Wendy’s closest friends, echoes this, how this award celebrates Wendy’s virtues along with her commitment to excellence. “Those who knew and loved Wendy saw certain virtues displayed in her life,” she said. “So each year we invite eligible young writers to apply for this award, writers who strive to emulate Wendy in terms of her leadership, perseverance and excellence, and also the character and commitment to the Christian faith that was so important to her.” The memorial award is to encourage young Canadians who are developing their writing lives. Submissions are open to post-secondary students enrolled (either majoring or minoring) in Journalism, Literature, Media, Writing and Communications programs. In 2025, the cash prize will be $750, to be used for the winner’s writing development.The application includes a written questionnaire and also character reference. It can be found at https://thewordguild.com/wendy-elaine-nelles-award/ The application deadline is June 30, including receipt of reference letters. To contribute to the Wendy Elaine Nelles Memorial Fund please click here. A tax receipt will be issued in the new year. The Word Guild – www.thewordguild.com |
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