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Vyrso Is Now Faithlife Ebooks


Faithlife’s Vyrso Ebooks has changed its name to Faithlife Ebooks.

Effective February 1, the change makes it even easier to identify with the larger company and our broader mission—using technology to equip the Church to grow in the light of the Bible.

We’re also expanding the Faithlife Ebooks catalog with even more original content from Lexham and Kirkdale Press, including fiction and non-fiction from trusted Christian authors.

Faithlife began in 1992 with a computer program for searching the King James Bible in plain text. That soon morphed into Logos Bible Software, with mobile and desktop applications used by pastors, church workers, academics, and Bible students worldwide.

Today the Faithlife family includes everything from Logos Bible Software to Faithlife Proclaim (church presentation software), Faithlife TV (family-friendly video), Logos Mobile Education (theological education), and more.

Learn more about the new Faithlife EBooks now.

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How To Brag on God & Feel Good About It

This guest post by Elizabeth Vince is excerpted from Moment with God: A Devotional on Every Biblical Book.

Childhood lessons about the consequences of bragging have stuck with me. As I learned about humility and modesty, I became afraid of being seen as conceited. When presenting myself at a job interview, I was hesitant to speak of my successes. I was especially careful when I talked about my faith or told people about God. I didn’t want to offend their beliefs. I didn’t want to come across as a know-it-all Christian.

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8 Things You Didn’t Know about Rich Mullins

Rich Mullins: A Ragamuffin's Legacy

Twenty years ago this month, singer-songwriter Rich Mullins lost his life in a car accident on his way to a benefit concert in Kansas. We remember him from hit songs like “Awesome God” and “Sing Your Praise to the Lord.”

At the peak of his career, Mullins turned his back on fame and success to live on a Native American reservation in New Mexico, teaching music to children and sharing his simple hope in the gospel of Jesus.

But who really was the enigmatic performer whose bold honesty ruffled the feathers of the music industry—and his fellow believers? [Read more…]

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How to Overcome Doubt with Remembrance

This post is by Christy Tennant. It has been excerpted from Moment with God: A Devotional on Every Biblical Book.

I must confess that sometimes I read about the forgetfulness of Bible characters and chide them in my mind. I think, “If God showed me a burning bush, I would never doubt him again.” But I would. And so would you.

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What to Do When It Feels Like God Is Asleep on the Job

This post is by John Barry. It has been excerpted from Moment with God: A Devotional on Every Biblical Book.

I say, “Help comes from God.” I tell people, “You’re not alone.”

Both are empty phrases if I don’t live like I believe them. The book of Numbers shows us that as the Israelites traveled through the wilderness, they, too, struggled to live out these words. After 40 years of wandering, they were likely wondering if God had fallen asleep on the job.

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Faithlife Roundup: A Lost Classic, Giants in the Bible, and Cheap Books

Each week we round up fascinating articles, free resources, and fresh deals from Faithlife. Let’s jump right in with an exclusive discount for readers of the Logos Bible Software blog.

Get $10 off Christian books

Looking for some great resources to deepen your time in the Word? The Logos Bible Software blog is offering an exclusive coupon code worth an extra $10 off Christian books already on sale on Logos.com. Get your exclusive code over at the Logos blog.

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How the Curse of Adam & Eve Shows Up in Everyday Life

This post is by Jeannie Seery. It has been excerpted from Moment with God: A Devotional on Every Biblical Book.

Perhaps it’s because of the immense joy and pain I’ve experienced being a parent that I’ve been thinking a great deal lately about how the actions of Adam and Eve, our first parents, influence our daily lives.

As I’ve read it and heard it preached, the curse itself seems to be pretty straightforward: Women will toil in childbirth while men toil in work. I find myself wondering, though, how is this ancient curse evidenced in our modern existence, as we seek to work out our salvation with fear and trembling?

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Reflecting on Spiritual Trials: How Kenneth Ching Wrote Shattered Prayers

Kenneth ChingWe sat down with Kenneth Ching, author of Shattered Prayers: The Testing of a Father’s Faith, to talk about his book and the process of writing such a personal story.
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How a Son’s Health Challenged a Father’s Faith

Shattered Prayer book

Kenneth Ching lived a comfortable life—with a great job, a big house, and an easy faith. He went to church and believed in God’s goodness. But when his son is born with a serious and rare genetic condition, his life is thrown into terrifying chaos.

In his honest and raw memoir, Shattered Prayers: The Testing of a Father’s Faith, Ching brings to life his experience of letting go while learning to truly trust the Savior he claims to know. Ching doesn’t shy away from asking the hard questions: Why does God answer some prayers but not others? How does prayer work? Is God even listening?

Shattered Prayers is ultimately a story about recognizing God’s presence and faithfulness in the midst of brokenness. And how one man thought God ruined his life by giving his son a terrible disease, but eventually realized God was actually fighting to save his faith and his son’s life.

Enjoy this excerpt from Shattered Prayers:

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