Are you truly willing to risk everything?

In Believing Jesus, Bible teacher and author Lisa Harper retraces the steps of the apostles in the book of Acts, while throwing in a few of her own crazy adventures along the way. The disciples didn't have much of a road map after Jesus ascended to heaven, but God's grace and spirit filled in the gaps as they moved forward. It required their willingness to risk everything to establish a new community that would change the future world.

As a regular speaker on the Women of Faith^(R) tour, Lisa has earned a reputation as a true theological scholar and hilarious storyteller--not necessarily in that order! Best-selling author and pastor Max Lucado calls Lisa one of the best Bible tour guides around.

Believing Jesus will highlight both of Lisa's strengths as she tackles every chapter of the Book of Acts with biblical wisdom and modern wit. Lisa keeps it real, telling stories on herself and pointing readers back to Jesus, the only one who can truly lead.

Do you ever wonder if the Gospel is truly good news for your actual, everyday, often difficult, sometimes painful, and typically crazy real life? Well, it is. But sometimes we all need a reminder that God's faithfulness really does follow us into the face of all that harried, hard, and even humorous stuff of life.

In her new devotional LIFE, Lisa Harper gives you exactly that: a gut-level exploration of pertinent and redemptive moments in Scripture that prove God's grace is more than sufficient for both the massive and the minuscule things of life.

Whether we deal with personal loss, ongoing trauma, global crisis, or simply a super bad hair day, the Gospel is more than enough to handle everything, so dive into LIFE and find some tangible hope for yours

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Perfection Not Required. . .

Many of us believe that we aren't good enough to meet other people's expectations. Maybe you can't wrap words around why, but lurking beneath the surface of the carefully curated façade you present in public, it's there. Being missed and marginalized by others moves us to assume we're not quite good enough for God either.

The great news woven throughout the Gospel according to Luke is that perfection is not a prerequisite for a deep and personal relationship with Jesus. In fact, this riveting account reveals that Jesus is especially fond of ragamuffins in need of a safe place to lean in and linger! Join Lisa Harper in this Bible study of a literary masterpiece that doesn't celebrate the elite, but embraces the outliers, outcasts, and overlooked!

This study guide has everything you need for a full Bible study experience, including:

• The study guide itself--with discussion and reflection questions, video notes, and a leader's guide.
• Personal study of Scripture and context.
• Scripture memory cards and coloring pages.
• An individual access code to stream all eight video sessions online. (You don't need to buy a DVD!)

Sessions and Video Run Times:

1. Outliers, Outcasts, and the Outrageous Mercy of God (26:00)
2. Worship in the Waiting (25:00)
3. Uphill Glory (29:00)
4. Gut-Level Compassion (27:00)
5. The Tender Heart of Obedience (32:00)
6. A Beautiful Unbending (31:00)
7. A Most Radical Restoration (31:00)
8. A Tale of Two Rooms (31:00)

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--Beautiful Word^TM Bible Study Series--

What book of the Bible do you turn to for wisdom about the situation you find yourself in? Where do you go for words of comfort when you're feeling overwhelmed, lost, or frustrated in life?

The Beautiful Word^TM Bible Study series makes the Bible come alive in such a way that you know where to turn no matter where you find yourself on your spiritual journey. Featuring celebrated authors and teachers like Lisa Harper, Margaret Feinberg, and Jada Edwards, each guide is a creative and illuminating journey through one book of the Bible.

Lisa's fine grasp of Scripture and love for the Lord make her a trustworthy teacher, yet we learn from her own hard-earned lessons as well. She speaks and writes from a place of understanding, as she clings to God's hand, giving us the privilege of stumbling into grace with her.
--LIZ CURTIS HIGGS, best-selling author of Bad Girls of the Bible

So, today I've been thinking about...things that
bind us. The thought flitted around my mind and then landed for a while, likely because I was wearing a pair of too-tight jeans.

Women of Faith(R) speaker and author Lisa Harper relates from experience -- life can be uncertain, sometimes even scary. But with a witty twinkle in her eye and a Bible in her hand, she describes what it's like to find real security in the arms of a Savior who doesn't just notice us but who moves heaven and earth on our behalf.

Part diary, part devotional, Stumbling Into Grace weaves hilarious and poignant stories from Lisa's own life with intimate and transformational encounters from the life of Christ. Prayers, reflection questions, and journal prompts help women dig deep into biblical truths to better understand how our Redeemer's compassion, affection, and constancy make every single moment of life not only more enjoyable but well worth living

In this twelve-session video Bible study, some of today's best-loved Christian authors and speakers look at the spiritual lessons learned from twelve daring women in the Bible and what they mean for you today.

As you look at each of these women's lives, you will discover how to:

• Apply biblical lessons to your own modern-day struggles.
• Live through your failures as well as your successes.
• Draw near to God in a world filled with trials.
• Find lasting contentment in every situation.
• Overcome rejection and insecurity . . . and much more.

You'll study the lives of . . .

1. Shulamite Woman: We Had God at Hello (Lisa Harper)
2. Deborah: Fight Like a Girl (Bianca Juarez Olthoff)
3. Proverbs 31 Woman: How Not to Do It All (Karen Ehman)
4. Ruth: Staying Focused in a World of Distractions (Chrystal Evans Hurst)
5. Puah and Shiphrah: How to Fight Your Fears (Margaret Feinberg)
6. Esther: Letting God Be in Control (Courtney Joseph)
7. Priscilla: Living a Life of Blessed Ordinary (Karen Ehman)
8. Mary and Martha: Finding Life in Death (Bianca Juarez Olthoff)
9. Bent Woman: We've Got God's Complete Attention (Lisa Harper)
10. Woman with the Issue of Blood: When Persistence Pays Off (Chrystal Evans Hurst)
11. Elizabeth: How to Win the Waiting Game (Margaret Feinberg)
12. Anna: How to Live a Life Devoted to God (Courtney Joseph Fallick)

This study guide includes:

• Individual access to twelve streaming video sessions
• Background information on each woman
• Video notes and a comprehensive structure for small group discussion time
• Personal study and reflection materials for in-between sessions
• Group leader helps

Previously published as Twelve More Women of the Bible.

Valley or mountain top, do you ever wonder what walking with Jesus actually means in everyday life? Unfortunately, thinkers like A.W. Tozer are right when saying, For millions of Christians, God is no more real than He is to non-Christians. They go through life trying to love an ideal and be loyal to a mere principle. The good news for us is that Jesus is not a proposition to be studied, He's a divine Person with whom we get to engage! Instead of simply obtaining more spiritual information about our Savior, sometimes we just need to remember what a miracle it is to be invited to get to know Him personally.

In her much-anticipated follow-up to her bestselling devotional LIFE, and in her beloved, humorous, and relatable voice, Bible teacher and author Lisa Harper helps you do just that: engage with JESUS personally. As you open each page, prepare yourself for a devotional journey of unapologetically gawking at, reveling in, walking with, and worshipping our incredible Savior--and laughing a lot along the way. Because there's nothing like real relationship with Him in the ups and downs of life!

Journey through the biblical stories of the early Christian movement, and see what kind of wild adventures await those who truly believe Jesus.

Throughout the book of Acts, believing Jesus and what he said is the core value that marked every believer in the first church. Because they believed Jesus, the early Christians were willing to risk everything--their comfort, their homes, even their lives.

In this eight-session video Bible study (streaming included), Lisa Harper launches into the book of Acts to discover how Jesus' command to spread the gospel changed the lives of those who believed and shaped the culture that surrounded the growing church. At the end of this journey together, not only will you have studied this wild, adventurous, risk-taking book of the Bible; but you'll see how God supernaturally orchestrated the events in Scripture to bring about the message of salvation that the early believers preached.

Today, we are faced with the same risks. Will we truly believe the words of Jesus and allow them to transform every part of our lives?

This study guide has everything you need for a full Bible study experience, including:

• The study guide itself--with discussion questions, conversation starters, video notes, and a leader's guide.
• An individual access code to stream all eight video sessions online (you don't need to buy a DVD!).

Sessions and video run times:

1. The Declarations that Define Us (21:30) - The book of Acts, an extension of Luke's gospel
2. Earth, Wind, and Celestial Fire (19:00) - The Holy Spirit's dramatic entrance
3. Checkered Pasts Can Make Incredible Preachers (21:00) - The powerful preaching of Peter and Paul
4. What's Mine Is Yours (20:00) - Finding freedom in freely giving
5. Loving More People, More (16:00) - A challenge to welcome everyone
6. The Need to Be ReGospeled (19:30) - Even Peter and Paul made mistakes along the way
7. Turning Your World Upside Down (20:00) - A closer look at THIS Jesus: the one we're following
8. Bearing the Chain Because (24:00) - Anything is worth seeing the gospel suddenly click for someone

Watch on any device!

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God is good, God does good, and oh, how He wants you to be happy.

In her new book, The Sacrament of Happy: What a Smiling God Brings to a Wounded World, Lisa Harper unveils that happiness is a gift from God that we can unashamedly enjoy. Happiness tends to be cast as a fluffy emotion without substance rather than a biblical concept, but this is not theologically accurate. Wearing the twin hats of both seminarian and belly-laughing adoptive mom, Lisa Harper dismantles the old-school idea that joy, not happiness, is the truly spiritual emotion, and asserts that Christ-followers are actually called to happiness.

We are called to happiness, and this happiness is not impacted by personal or global tumult. In fact, happiness is a sacrament. The general definition of sacrament is a visible sign of inward grace. In communities of faith, it most often refers to holy communion or the Eucharist. In the broadest understanding, however, a sacrament is a gift bestowed by God, and in that case, 'happiness' is absolutely a sacrament--a visible, sometimes even audible, sign of inward grace!

Lisa shares heart-wrenching difficult stories from her past, as well as some side-splitting hilarity along the way. Throughout the book, we see that happiness and sadness can coexist and ebb and flow like the tides.

Christine Caine, Founder of A21 & Propel Women, had this to say about Lisa's new book: The Sacrament of Happy--like all of Lisa's messages and books--enriches my understanding of God and His Word--and His great love for us. As always, she unfolds biblical truth so clearly and calls me to action. Every. Single. Time.

Maybe your head knows that God is always good, but your heart's not so sure. Or perhaps while reading Scripture, you've wondered if our Creator Redeemer went through a personality change--from strictly enforcing the rules in the Old Testament to loving the outcast in the New!

In this 7-session Bible study, you'll discover divine love in the often overlooked and misunderstood passages in Scripture. And you'll be delighted to find that Jehovah of the Old Testament is the same redemptive and compassionate God we see through Jesus Christ in the New Testament. He has always been and will always be for us!

Features:

• Personal study to be completed between the 7 group sessions
• Teaching videos, approximately 30-40 minutes each, via redemption code printed in the Bible study book
• Leader helps for group discussion
  

• Explore the historical-cultural context of biblical texts to grasp their deeper meaning.
• Discover God's redemptive heart throughout Scripture and how He longs to redeem you.

• Allow a renewed understanding of God's perfect compassion and perfect holiness to drive you to deeper intimacy and trust in Him.

• Session 1: The Heart Behind the Herding (35:00)--Lisa opens the study by showing us how God's action of driving, or herding, Adam and Eve out of the garden after the fall was redemptive in nature. She emphasizes that even when God is herding us, He is expressing His love for us.
• Session 2: Inheriting Grace from Mr. Z's Girls (41:15)--In Session 2, Lisa unpacks a difficult passage in Deuteronomy and digs into the story of Zelophehad's daughters to show God's deep love and mercy for His daughters.
• Session 3: All It Took Was Just One Look (45:09)--Lisa unveils the beautiful love story in Song of Songs to reveal the attentive and affectionate love of Christ.
• Session 4: His Supernatural, Superlative Affection (37:48)--In Session 4, Lisa uses the parable of the drowsy daddy and the persistent neighbor in Luke 11 to show the heart of God to bless His children with His how much more love.
• Session 5: Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice (31:54)--In the Session 5 video, Lisa points out the vital roles specific women played in Jesus' ministry and in the leadership of the early church to show that God doesn't consider women less-than in His kingdom's work.
• Session 6: Always For Our Good and His Glory (40:28)--Lisa reinforces the theme of the study by discussing several passages that have shown her the love of God and His redemptive heart for His people.
• Session 7: The Only Story We Can Stake Our Lives On (31:05)--Lisa wraps up the study in this session 7 video by reminding us that God has revealed Himself and His love through His Word. She cautions us that, like the Israelites, we are prone to lose our way if we don't always align our lives by God's life-giving Word.

Previously published as Untamed - Lisa Harper invites you to meet the Jesus she knows--and just as those who encountered Jesus centuries ago, you'll never be the same.--New York Times bestselling author Max Lucado

Too many people settle for relating to Jesus merely as a comfortable friend and companion, when what we all need is an untamed Savior, a fearless champion tough enough to conquer our shame and compelling enough for us to follow without hesitation.

I finally realized my caricature of Jesus wasn't big enough to calm my anxiety or heal my wounds or defeat the wickedness in our world. Pretending Jesus is less than He is resulted in someone I wasn't compelled to worship. So I began a journey to discover the whole Jesus--including the seemingly rough and wild parts--revealed in the Bible. And I found Him to be bigger and better than I ever dreamed.
--Lisa Harper

Through a powerful blend of storytelling and biblical insights, Lisa Harper invites you to engage with the Jesus of the Gospels, a person so provocative that no one who encountered Him was left unchanged. Pharisees fumed, paralytics turned cartwheels, and pariahs found love and acceptance.

Come meet the Jesus who is both safe and strong--and learn how this radical Redeemer can liberate you to live and love with abandon.

Includes questions for group discussion or personal reflection.

Would you consider your life stretched to the limit?

Are you a burn-the-candle-at-both-ends kind of gal with lots of room for improvement when it comes to creating margins for rest? But you actually love it and wouldn't want it any other way? Well, so does Lisa Harper.

In her humorous and packed-with-biblical-wisdom way, Lisa shows us that it is possible for a frazzled nature to be glorifying to the Lord. Every late-night conversation with a hurting friend and each precious, adopted child needing a little extra tender loving care--exhausting, yet imperative, ways to be extensions of the gospel. In each of these vignettes illustrating Lisa's overextended life, we learn that even in the middle of our own pure motives and hectic schedules, it is only by resting in God's sovereign mercy that we are able to keep risking our hearts to serve his people and fulfill the callings he has placed on us.

Real life . . . abundant life . . . godly life is about loving Jesus and the people he allows us to rub shoulders with well--which means some days you'll be stretched emotionally and physically. You'll feel overextended. Thankfully God will expand our hearts and calendars to accommodate the calling. He is in the business of supplying us with new mercies every morning . . . new candles to burn, for more lives needing his light.

He is pursuing you at this very moment. Are you ready to be found? Open the pages of this book, and open your hear to His relentless love.

• Provides readers with a deeper, more expositional approach to understanding the Song of Solomon than traditional fill-in-the-blank Bible studies.
• Provides a wide variety of helpful handholds throughout the text (i.e. historical context, Biblical vocabulary guides, interesting facts about the time period, and explanations of Hebrew translations).
• Fast Fact, Did You Know? and More Info sidebars provide additional information about the historical context of the verse in question as well as explanations for unfamiliar Biblical vocabulary words, and translations from the original Hebrew.
• Open-ended, in-text questions allow for deeper discussion/study, individually or with a group.

Missy has lived with her new mommy ever since she was adopted from Haiti. But when someone asks little Missy a BIG question--Who's your daddy?--she starts thinking and learning a lot about daddies.

Missy could be sad that she doesn't have a skin daddy who can make her pancakes and take her to soccer practice. But through lots of talks with Mommy, Missy realizes that she DOES have a Daddy! In fact, no matter what our family looks like, we all have the same amazing Daddy; and Missy can't wait to tell everyone about the Daddy who loves us more than all the stars in the sky.

Told mostly through a mother-daughter conversation, this sweet story is careful to affirm relationships with the good, strong daddies here on earth, but it is also comforting for children who might be struggling due to divorce or the loss of a father.

Joy is the constant companion of the woman who trusts in the Lord. And while you can find it in friends, family, and circumstances, unfailing, persistent joy will only ever overflow from your relationship with Jesus.

Just ask Job, the man from Uz who clung to God's goodness while all his worldly joys were stripped away.

But how is it possible to hold onto such joy in times of sorrow?

In this 7-session study, discover the redemptive facet of Job's suffering. Learn to view pain as a way to strengthen your faith, point others to the gospel, and trust in the Lord. Because His providence will never take you to a place where His grace will not sustain you.

Features:

• Leader helps to guide questions and discussions within small groups
• Personal study segments to complete between 7 weeks of group sessions
• Teaching videos, approximately 30-35 minutes per session, available for purchase or rent
• Moving interviews with Christine Caine, Scott & Tracie Hamilton, Natalie Grant, and more

Benefits:

• Learn to trust in God's character.
• Repair past or current wounds.
• Realize God welcomes your difficult questions.
• Let go of complacent Christianity.
• Pursue joy even in the midst of personal pain.

In your less-than-lovely moments,
God sees a precious daughter in need of His perfect love.

In this liberating look at how God adores and transforms imperfect people, Bible teacher Lisa Harper weaves poignant stories of her own personal foibles with a fresh take on selected Psalms to reveal a loving Father who remains your greatest champion even when you don't feel anywhere close to holy.

Join Lisa in discovering what happens when we stop trying to hide our inadequacies and doubts and instead trust God with our anger, frustrations, flaws, and regrets. As you accept God's loving invitation to exchange your junk for His joy, you'll find the imperfect pieces of your life shaped into a glorious pattern of divine grace.

For what does a woman's heart yearn? What drives her and feeds her true passions? What is every woman's hope? Lisa Harper uses humor, biblical insight, and real-life experiences to connect with women everywhere as she reveals three of our most basic soul-needs--the yearning to satisfy our desperate need for mercy, the desire to know that our lives are defined by God's grace, and the need to believe, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that we are beloved by God.

Harper fortifies readers with the power of God's promises and then points the way to the hidden potential in the heart of every woman. As you step through these pages, you will search your own hungers and desires and discover that a woman's greatest hopes cannot be fulfilled by the ragged offerings of this world; rather, they are pinned to a sacred cross, fulfilled by unbounded mercy, and made sure by the unconditional love of God.

The Book of Hebrews is a rich, dense section of Scripture that can intimidate the most scholarly biblical student. But Lisa Harper makes digging into Hebrews fun and doable, as only she can, without losing an ounce of depth. Hebrews was a sermon for a specific people and culture in the midst of martyrdom and persecution, but is also so relevant for us today, reminding us to continue walking toward Jesus regardless of our culture or our circumstances. Join Lisa as she journeys through this bridge between the Old and New Testaments to get to the heart of the matter: Jesus is our accessible King. He is not a faraway God, but an up-close Redeemer who draws near to us. Hebrews helps women make the connection between God the Father and God the Son and reminds us that Jesus is supreme, but He is also compassionate, empathetic, and loving to no end. (7 sessions)

Features:

• Biblically rooted and gospel-centered
• Leader helps (included within the Bible Study Book, features guides to questions and discussion with small groups)
• Personal study segments in Bible Study Book to complete between group sessions
• 7 group sessions, 6 weeks of personal study material

Benefits:

• Dig deeper into Scripture as an experienced or new Bible student
• Understand the depth of Jesus's compassion for humanity
• Come to make the connection between God the Father and God the Son
• Discover a more intimate relationship with an up-close Redeemer