Kathryn Butler
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What Does Depression Mean For My Faith
$7.99Add to cartBiblical Hope for Those Who Suffer from Clinical Depression
Studies show that everyone will encounter someone who struggles with clinical depression at some point in their lifetime. Depression’s debilitating, pervasive joylessness is crippling. It can affect your body and brain, numb your emotions, and put strain on your relationships. For Christians, it can even inhibit them from delighting in the greatest gift ever known–the good news of the gospel.
What should Christians think about clinical depression? How can church leaders respond lovingly to those who face this dark, unsettling, and sometimes baffling dilemma? In What Does Depression Mean for My Faith? author and physician Kathryn Butler addresses common misconceptions about mental illness in the church. She offers grace, relief, and practical help to Christians who feel shame, and she equips church leaders with the tools they need to extend Christ’s love to the vulnerable.
*Comforts Those Who Suffer: Offers grace, relief, and practical help to Christians who feel shame over clinical depression
*Equips Those Who Care: Provides a clinical, theological, and practical understanding of depression so church leaders can compassionately assist those who suffer
*Short, Accessible Format: Combines anecdotes, a concise overview of depression, and practical pointers
*TGC Hard Questions Series: Equips readers with answers to difficult questions facing today’s church
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Prince And The Blight
$14.99Add to cartAn Adventure Novel for Middle-Grade Readers Steeped in Magic, Mystery, and Glimmers of Hope-Book 2 in the Dream Keeper Saga
It’s been a month since 12-year-old Lily McKinley was whisked away to the Somnium Realm to rescue her father, and although she’s overjoyed to have him home, she can’t leave the magical world behind. The glowing stone pendant that transported her is now bringing strange creatures to life against her will, with her paper-mache pterodactyl and even scrambled eggs suddenly moving about on their own. Lily tries to pretend that everything is normal, but when her friend Cedric the dragon appears to tell her that an illness has taken over the kingdom, troubling questions haunt her. Where is Prince Pax? If he can save the Somnium Realm like he did before, why won’t he stop the blight? Lily and her friends must return to Castle Iridyll to find out.
In this sequel to The Dragon and the Stone, Kathryn Butler takes middle-grade readers on an unforgettable adventure that mixes fantasy with biblical concepts. As young readers join Lily’s exciting quest, they’ll explore what it means to trust in God’s faithfulness, even when he feels distant.
*Ideal for Middle-Grade Readers and Families: Includes kids’ favorite fantasy and adventure elements with imaginative new characters and settings they’ll love
*Christian Themes: This exciting story invites readers into deep conversations about the gospel and theological issues including hope, evil, and salvation
*Book 2 in the Dream Keeper Saga by Kathryn Butler
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Dragon And The Stone Volume
$14.99Add to cartEven though she’s only 12 years old, Lily McKinley already feels the weight of the world’s brokenness. She’s seen it in her mother’s exhaustion, her grandmother’s illness, and the cruelty of Adam, the bully at her school. But most tragically, she experienced it two months ago when her father died in a terrible accident.
As an artistic daydreamer, Lily has a brilliant imagination to help her cope, but that imagination often gets her into trouble. One day, it transports her to a fantasy world called the Somnium Realm, where her father’s secret history embroils her in an epic quest. With the help of a dragon guide named Cedric, Lily battles evil shrouds, harpies, and other creatures to find her way through grief, rescue the world from evil, and discover the power of redemption.
This thrilling novel by Kathryn Butler mixes fantasy with Christian themes, taking middle-grade readers on a quest through castles, forests, and caverns to help a young girl find hope and usher in restoration.
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Glimmers Of Grace
$17.99Add to cartGlimpses of God’s Grace in the Hospital Room
The hospital can be a place of struggles and hardships for both patients and medical personnel. Dr. Kathryn Butler experienced this firsthand as she walked alongside patients, colleagues, and friends through various illnesses and aching loss.
In Glimmers of Grace, Butler draws from her personal experience as a trauma surgeon to guide believers through the deep questions of God’s trustworthiness in the midst of suffering and illness. Blending memoir and devotional reflections, Butler interweaves her own stories of grace in the midst of suffering with narratives from Scripture to reveal how God’s steadfast love endures even in times of great affliction. Through this book, readers will be encouraged to cling to God’s word in both seasons of joy and suffering.