Harvest House Publishers

Devotions to Fit Your Busy Life

It can be hard to carve out quiet time with God when so many things are competing for your attention. But the benefits of spending just 15 minutes a day drawing closer to Him greatly outweighs the commitment. Nurturing your relationship with your Heavenly Father will not only strengthen you spiritually, it will help you accomplish all you set out to do.

Each entry in this beautifully bound edition of the bestselling 15 Minutes Alone with God (over half-a-million copies sold) features a short Scripture reading, key verse, an inspiring devotion, easy action steps, and additional verses for further study.

Let these heartfelt insights from Emilie Barnes bring you into deeper fellowship with God. Emilie's heart was always to help women like you in practical ways as you manage your busy home and life, and her words remain as inspiring today as when they were first published.

Are you overcommitted, overstressed, or just plain overwhelmed? These devotions will give you greater peace and perspective, and a plan for managing your busy life.

Have you reached the point where one more thing on your to-do list is one too many? Do you find yourself praying, "Lord, I don't think I can handle any more stuff?"

Kathi Lipp and Cheri Gregory have been there. They want to encourage you, but even more important, they offer helpful solutions to make your everyday life easier. Get good advice on how to plan ahead, set boundaries with others and yourself, and be more intentional about self-care without the guilt.

Let Kathi and Cheri help you find a place of more joy and abundance, one devotion at a time.

This sweet story celebrates the specialness of boys and encourages children to become who God created them to be. We are each a masterpiece designed by God to reflect His image in our own one-of-a-kind, never-ever-to-be-duplicated way.

Help your children celebrate their specialness as you share this charming tale about a boy who discovers the truth of who God made him to be, with a little help from his animal friends—some of nature’s master builders.

Featuring original writing and watercolors from popular author and artist Emily Lex, Build will become a family reading time favorite and spark important conversations with your children about their unique place in God.

Our dwellings—both our home and body—are intricately connected. Each has the potential to inspire the other to be its very best! Your home is where your life happens. Learn how to create a sanctuary that inspires your well-being, so you can experience a greater sense of peace, comfort, and belonging. Melissa Michaels wants to show you how meaningful it can be to live a life that nurtures both your home and body.

By making a series of small, intentional choices—from what you bring into your home to how you shape your daily habits and mind-sets—you can create a more rejuvenating environment that equips you to go into the world and accomplish all you set out to do. 

Bestselling authors Emily A. Jensen and Laura Wifler show moms how to navigate their everyday decisions and current circumstances through a biblical lens, and experience the freedom and confidence in who God made them to be.

If there’s one thing moms love, it’s a formula. Give us the three-step process, the instruction manual, the straightforward solution for how to mother with excellence and we’ll give it our best shot.

But we all know motherhood isn’t that simple. Each decision seems to present a thousand overwhelming options, or our circumstances suddenly change and we can’t keep up with “the plan,” or we see another mom making different choices and begin to doubt our own. All of this leaves us questioning our decision-making in motherhood.

So how can we find a secure identity in motherhood and know we’re “good” before the throne of God? By understanding the gospel story and how all of scripture applies to our lives. We need more than just to know what to do.
We need to know who to be.

Join Emily and Laura as together you explore what it truly means to be a gospel mom, a woman who is renewed by Christ’s righteousness, knows her mission and purpose, and lives free from guilt and unhealthy comparison.

As friends, fellow moms, and expert guides, Emily and Laura walk you step-by-step through the practices and thinking of how to rest in the grace of Christ, gaining peace and assurance in your motherhood.

Bestselling author Abbie Halberstadt helps parents see how God can use the everyday trials of child raising to radically transform how they view hardship and grow to become more like Jesus.

"Why me, Lord?"

Amid the toddler tantrums, the mealtime melees, and the backseat blowups, have you found yourself asking God that same question? Maybe even screaming it into a couch pillow? You're not alone.

Your most trying moments as a parent can quickly spiral into discouragement, hopelessness, and sometimes even resentment toward God or your family—partly because our culture has conditioned us to believe that anything this hard can't possibly be good for us.

Abbie Halberstadt, author of the bestselling M Is for Mama, shares scriptural wisdom and lessons learned from her own challenges as a mama of ten to help shift your perspective on the hardships of parenting and of life, in general.

When you begin to see struggles as a necessary part of God's plan for your spiritual growth, you can discover supernatural peace and purpose, even when you're down in the deepest trenches of parenthood.

Join Emily A. Jensen with her book He is Strong: Devotions for When You Feel Weak, on a devotional journey to find God’s strength amid your weakness. Whether you think of yourself as overwhelmed, overlooked, or just not very good at life (or perhaps you avoid facing your own shortcomings), Emily shares relatable stories about her own feelings of weakness and points you to the gospel for wisdom, hope, and comfort. As the familiar hymn says, “They are weak, but He is strong.”
 
Let these Scripture-filled reflections remind you that Jesus loves you, even in your weakness. You can rely on the strength of God in any challenge you face.

Sweet dreams aren’t just for little princes. When you look at your little boy, what do you imagine he will grow up to be? A teacher? A doctor? An artist? Only God knows, but wherever your child goes in life, you will be there to cheer him on all the way. "Little Prince, Little Prince" is one mom’s love letter to her young son, affirming her dedication and Jesus’s eternal devotion to her child.

This lovingly written and illustrated story will speak to your heart as you reflect on all the beautiful possibilities that God has in store for your little man. As you read this charming and colorful picture book aloud, allow yourself to dream big about your son’s future and worship the One who holds your child’s plans in His tender and capable hands.

Mama of ten Abbie Halberstadt helps women humbly and gracefully rise to the high calling of motherhood without settling for mediocrity or losing their minds in the process. 

Motherhood is a challenge. Unfortunately, our worldly culture offers moms little in the way of real help. Mamas only connect to celebrate surviving another day and to share in their misery rather than rejoice in what God has done and to build each other up in hard times. There has a be a better way, a biblical way, for mamas to grow and thrive.                   
As a daughter of Christ, you have been called to be more than an average mama. Attaining excellence doesn’t have to be unsettling but it will take committed focus and a desire to parent well according to God’s grace and for His glory. 

M is for Mama offers advice, encouragement, and scripturally sound strategies seasoned with a little bit of humor to help you embrace the challenge of biblical motherhood and raise your children with love and wisdom.  

Mama, you are worthy of the awesome responsibility God has given you. Now it’s time to start believing you can live up to it.   

If discipling your children sounds like a daunting, shame-filled impossibility, you’re not alone. As a children’s pastor and father of four, Chris Ammen has experienced your frustration firsthand and understands that most parents feel inadequate for the task. But what if our inadequacy isn’t a failure, but is just the place from which God chooses to work? 

In his debut book, Chris celebrates the freedom we have to disciple our children from a place of weakness and dependency on God while uncovering these key truths . . . 

Truth #1:  You are not the lynchpin of your child’s journey of discipleship. God is.

Truth #2: Discipleship is nothing less than God molding and shaping the entirety of our personhood into his image as those who delight in him and bring him glory.

Truth #3: You’re not qualified to disciple your children. But God is. And he can work through you to move your children closer to becoming more like his son, Jesus. 

Let’s explore together what discipleship is and isn’t and what we can do to partner with God in loving and discipling our kids. 

Motherhood is hard. In a world of five-step lists and silver-bullet solutions to become perfect parents, mothers are burdened with mixed messages about who they are and what choices they should make. If you feel pulled between high-fives and hard words, with culture’s solutions only raising more questions, you’re not alone.

But there is hope. 

You might think that Scripture doesn’t have much to say about the food you make for breakfast, how you view your postpartum body, or what school choice you make for your children, but a deeper look reveals that the Bible provides the framework for finding answers to your specific questions about modern motherhood.

Emily Jensen and Laura Wifler help you understand and apply the gospel to common issues moms face so you can connect your Sunday morning faith to the Monday morning tantrum.

Discover how closely the gospel connects with today’s motherhood. Join Emily and Laura as they walk through the redemptive story and reveal how the gospel applies to your everyday life, bringing hope, freedom, and joy in every area of motherhood.

Lead your child into a lifetime love of the Bible with this colorful storybook. With nearly 300 beautiful two-page illustrations to capture even the youngest child's imagination and heart, this vast collection of the Bible's most-loved stories is just right for sharing together or reading alone throughout the day.

"The Complete Illustrated Children's Bible" is the perfect picture and storybook for young ones and an ideal first reader your children will treasure.

These charming snapshots of life on the farm invite readers to incorporate the heart of homesteading—slower living rooted firmly in faith and family—into their everyday lives. For nearly two decades, Lana Stenner and her family have been living their version of the simple life on their small Midwest farmstead—following God, chasing goats, and tending gardens.

Join Lana as she shares heartwarming stories, hearty recipes, and some of the valuable lessons she’s learned in her homesteading journey, including: • Chase your dreams over, under, or through that fence. Persevere. • Intentional living brings joy. Laser focus on what’s important. • Hard work is holy work. No job is beneath you.

Though you may not be ready to pack up and move into a 120-year-old farmhouse like Lana, you can experience more grace and authenticity right where you are when you learn to seek beauty in your surroundings, cultivate bonds with those you love, and work hand in hand with God.

This colorful board book helps little ones identify their feelings by comparing their many moods to different foods. Young children will be introduced to 10 of the most common emotions, likening each to a familiar food item. Little ones will learn biblically sound ways to handle their feelings and start to develop strong self-management habits.

God Loves You and Created You with Your Own Special Twirl...

This simply delightful story by Emily Lex encourages children (ages 4-8) to become exactly who God created them to be...living freely and lightly for Him.
 
Each of us have been exquisitely designed by God to receive his love and reflect it in our own one-of-a-kind way.  Help your children celebrate their specialness as you share this sweet story about a girl who discovers the truth of who God made her to be--with a little help from her animal friends.             
 
Twirl is sure to become a family reading time favorite, and a great way to dive into deeper conversations with your kids about their unique place in God’s creation!

Measures 9” x 11”

Keep Saying Yes to God Every Day

Let the important faith lessons from What Happens When Women Say Yes to God by Lysa TerKeurst inspire you daily through this 40-day devotional.  Experience the joy and satisfaction of following God as you choose to say yes to all He has in store for you.

Each day you'll encounter scripture to ponder, a relatable story to encourage you, a prayer to help you put words to your desires, and a prompt to keep you moving forward.

When it comes to obeying God, a moment of perspective can stir your passion…and remind you that saying yes to Him is always the right path.

Measures 5” x 7”, 172 pages