There Is a River Spirit Talk Collection, Book 7
22 messages of hope, freedom, and peace for every season
“There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God.” Like that river, these messages bring refreshment to weary hearts. Preached to a real congregation, they speak to the storms we face, the rejection we feel, the new beginnings we long for, and the peace that only Jesus can give.
Each message opens with the full Scripture reading and a story that draws you in. There’s the Pilgrims who fell to their knees on a rocky Massachusetts shore, Victor Hugo’s sailors fighting a loose cannon in a storm, and a Christmas pageant of four-year-olds that didn’t go quite as planned.
Inside, you’ll find messages such as:
• Freedom: the true freedom we find in Christ
• Who’s the Prodigal?: seeing ourselves in both sons (Luke 15)
• Peace in the Storm: when Jesus calms the wind and the waves (Mark 4)
• What to Do… When Rejected: how Jesus handled rejection, and how we can too
• Look Up and Live: the bronze serpent and the cross (Numbers 21)
• What’s New?: God’s promise of a new covenant written on our hearts
• True Wisdom: the wisdom that comes from above (James 3)
• God’s Lenses: seeing life the way God sees it
• God’s Heart on Divorce: grace and truth for a painful subject
• An Over Abundance: Jesus feeds the five thousand
• He Loves Us Into Life: Jairus’s daughter and the woman who touched His cloak
A Lent and Holy Week thread
Look Up and Live, When I Am Lifted Up, and Take This Bread walk toward the cross and the Lord’s Table.
From Thanksgiving to Christmas
The collection closes with A Great Thanksgiving and a full Advent and Christmas series: Christ Is Coming, An Extraordinary Obedience (Joseph), A Time to Leap for Joy (Mary and Elizabeth), and From Presents to Presence.
Includes a Scripture index, so you can easily find a message on the passage you’re studying or preaching.
Perfect for:
• a weekly devotional or an Advent reading plan
• small groups and Sunday school classes
• pastors and lay speakers looking for fresh ideas and illustrations, especially for Lent, Thanksgiving, and Advent
Available in paperback and Kindle.
