"Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest."

We hear Jesus's words and want to respond, but so often we're too busy, too anxious, too heavily laden to take hold of His invitation. Mornings with Jesus, an annual, 366-day devotional, is your entry into His world. Jesus will comfort you, and you'll experience the delight and challenge of knowing Him and living for Him.

In Mornings with Jesus 2016, you can read and reflect on one devotion each day that will encourage you to embrace Jesus's love, to lay down your worries and walk with Him, and to focus on Him as Redeemer, Friend, and Faithful One.

Lifting up their voices in heartfelt gratitude, ten women, including best-selling authors Tricia Goyer and Cynthia Ruchti, consider the character and teachings of Jesus and share how He enriches and empowers them daily and how He wants to do the same for you.

Every day readers will enjoy a Scripture verse, reflection on Jesus's words, and a "Faith Step" that inspires and challenges.

In just five minutes a day, Mornings with Jesus will help you experience a closer relationship with Jesus. It's full of inspiring and lasting motivation and spiritual nourishment that fill you with hope and direction.

Every page of the "Jesus-Centered Bible" opens your eyes to fresh ways of seeing the Savior. And the closer you get to Jesus, the more you discover your true identity and purpose in life. You'll finally see how every part of your life can revolve around Jesus himself.

The "Jesus-Centered Bible" gives you an extraordinary Scripture experience that draws you to Jesus in unexpected ways. It's the first-ever Bible that shows Jesus in every book, highlighting how all the Old Testament points to Jesus, how all the New Testament reveals Jesus, and how Jesus can transform your life in more ways than you ever imagined. Dive into Jesus' story from extraordinary perspectives. See just how much Jesus saturates page after page of the Bible, from beginning to end. You'll never look at Scripture the same way again.

Blue-Letter Text reveals hundreds of Old Testament connections to Jesus, with short explanations tied to each reference that show how Jesus is the focal point for all of the Bible's narrative. Jesus In Every Book introductions for Old and New Testament books, written by authors and leaders who are well-known for their focus on Jesus, draw you closer to Jesus as you discover how all of Scripture connects to him. Reframing Jesus Break-Outs take you far beyond the Sunday school Jesus into the meaningful back-stories and cultural context of the real people, places, and social forces that formed the geography of Jesus' ministry.

Short essays called Jesus Answers Life's Biggest Questions focus on Jesus' own words, helping you tackle your uncertainties head-on and make sense of your personal struggles, doubts, and fears. The Jesus Questions will draw you closer to Jesus and others through provocative and surprising discussion-starters about Jesus and his influence on our lives. And The Red-Letter Names of Jesus focus on the "red thread" of Jesus through the rest of the New Testament by highlighting in red every time his name is mentioned, including all of the "nicknames" the writers of the Bible use for him.

Features include:

• Hundreds of Blue-Letter Highlighted Texts in the Old Testament, Pointing to Jesus
• Old Testament Introduction by Tony Campolo
• New Testament Introduction by Derwin Gray
• Jesus' Name, Titles, and "Nicknames" in Red Throughout the New Testament
• NLT Dictionary/Concordance
• Jesus Answers Life's Biggest Questions--Essays Throughout the Gospels
• A "Get to Know Jesus" One-Chapter-a-Day Bible Reading Plan

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For so long, Stella was known for her beauty. Now, with her heart stripped bare, she must discover who she really is.

Former pageant queen Stella Varland doesn t trust beauty anymore after her divorce. Her appearance betrayed her and led to her brokenness so instead of being beautiful, now she tries to make beautiful things, but always falls short. So she keeps her passion for her secret art to herself and focuses on her interior design work. But if she doesn t get another job soon, she ll be stuck living with her parents.

Contractor Chase Taylor is determined to live a life of no regrets after losing his fiancee in a car crash. Now he lives life at full speed, striving to see how much he can accomplish. He knows if he slows down, he ll fall apart. So he returns home to Bayou Bend to renovate the town s old theater, and is shocked to learn former flame Stella is the designer for the project.

Forced to work together, Chase and Stella battle their chemistry and their pasts as they struggle to compromise and come together on a vision for the theater. Chase doesn t understand why Stella is such a subdued version of herself, while Stella doesn t get Chase s constant need for productivity and speed. Their wills clash as they attempt to hide their brokenness and their unresolved feelings for each other until Chase breaks through Stella s walls and convinces her to enter her mosaic tile art in a contest.

A near catastrophe, a fire, and a small-town gossip mill finally force both Stella and Chase to realize that they have a choice to hold on to the shards of their pasts, or surrender their fragmented pieces to the One who makes a beautiful masterpiece from the broken. "