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2021 ISSUE 3 | GOD IS FAITHFUL | RECOMMENDED CHRISTIAN RESOURCES FIND HOPE AND ENCOURAGEMENT THROUGH GOD’S FAITHFULNESS Highlighting God’s faithfulness to women throughout Scripture and all the way to present, Faithful collects stories, lyrics, and art created and curated by some of the most thought-provoking and influential Christian artists and authors of our time. This beautiful, creative book will invite readers to return again and again for reflection and inspiration through guided Scripture reading and writing prompts. SAVE £4 £15.99 Contributors include: Ann Voskamp, Sally Lloyd-Jones, Ruth Chou Simons, Trillia Newbell & Amy Grant Faithful Also available: Various Authors CD | RRP: £12.99 RRP: £19.99 | 9780830781737 0000768754023 SAVE £3 SAVE £2 £14.99 SAVE £3 £10.99 Page 5 £11.99 Page 4 Page 10 Summer Reading | Up to £3 off Key New Titles | Up to £3 off Music & DVD | Up to £2 off Discover the “JOY POTENTIAL” in your MARRIAGE and your “MINISTRY POTENTIAL” for GOD! In the warm, practical style that has endeared him to audiences worldwide, respected marriage counsellor and New York Times bestselling author of The 5 Love Languages, Dr. Gary Chapman looks at the key issues that will help you build the marriage of your dreams. SAVE £3 The Marriage You’ve Always Wanted £9.99 Gary Chapman RRP: £12.99 | 9780802424280 AN UPLIFTING, BEHIND-THE-SCENES LOOK AT ONE WOMAN’S SAVE £4 Acclaimed musical artist Michelle Williams shares £14.99 the intimate, never-before-told story of how, even in the midst of enormous fame and success, she battled depression, leading her to fi nd her true calling as an advocate for mental health--especially her own. 9781400223336 / £18.99 2 THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING YOUR LOCAL CHRISTIAN BOOKSHOP YOU’RE ENABLING US TO SUPPORT LITERATURE MINISTRIES AROUND THE WORLD Key New Welcome to Take Note Titles The last year and more has been such a difficult one on so many levels for so many people SAVE £2 with the Covid-19 pandemic and the ripple effect of that and the various lockdowns, £8.99 PAGE 4 and yet – God is still faithful. The Spirit is still equipping the church. Jesus is still alive! In this edition of Take Note, the various books and resources demonstrate God’s Summer faithfulness through hope, relationships, stories, real life, prayer, music and Reading: devotional reading. As usual, we have curated the best of what’s new in Christian Biography publishing and media at special Take Note prices. Our cover feature is a beautiful SAVE £3 book giving testimony to the faithfulness of God - and would make an ideal gift. PAGE 7 £6.99 For those of us finally able to get away for a break this summer, even if staying in the UK, we have a great selection of summer reading with faith-inspired fiction Prayer & and faith-driven biographies and true stories (p.6-8). We also have a big selection Christian of books to help us in our day-to-day lives and relationships as we seek to live Living faithfully and prayerfully for Him in whatever circumstances we face (p.2, 4 & 8-9). SAVE £2 £6.99 PAGE 8 Finally we have some new devotional reading on p.11 and new music and documentaries on p.10 and 12, including the latest from Phil Wickham, Dane Take Note is a scheme from Kingsway CLC Trust to support Ortlund and John Lennox. Christian bookshops around the UK. Please support your local Christian bookseller by purchasing from this catalogue Please don’t forget to support your local Christian retailer in these challenging times. in-store. Offers valid until 30/9/21. Take Note is produced by Kingsway CLC Trust, Unit 5, Glendale Avenue, Sandycroft, Every blessing, Deeside, CH5 2QP. Prices correct at time of going to print. Daryl Wearring Promotional prices valid only while stocks last. Evangelistic resources Hope in an 7 Reasons to Anxious World (Re)Consider Helen Thorne Christianity This short, Ben Shaw sympathetic and In this warm, honest warm book will help book, Ben Shaw both Christian and invites sceptical non-Christian readers readers to think understand anxiety again. He outlines better, learn some seven reasons why useful techniques Christianity is worth to cope with it and, SAVE £1 considering—or SAVE £1.50 most importantly, reconsidering—not show how the living £3.99 least because it offers £5.49 God can liberate us some thought- from its grip. provoking and rational answers to our deepest questions. Whether you are used to reading about God or not even sure if he really exists (or if he cares about your anxiety Ben Shaw writes with warmth and empathy to in any meaningful way), this book has precious words of encourage readers to investigate the person of Jesus encouragement for you. and decide for themselves whether Christianity has credible answers to the meaning of life. RRP: £4.99 | 9781784986261 RRP: £6.99 | 9781784986346 THERE’S MUCH MORE TO SEE IN STORE 3 WE’D LOVE TO HELP YOU FIND THE PERFECT BOOK Key New Titles Don’t Give the Enemy Grace-Filled a Seat at Your Table Marriage Louie Giglio Claire & Steve Musters Louie Giglio helps you Marriage is a beautiful find encouragement, expression of love. Yet hope, and strength in the it can also sometimes midst of any valley as you cause us pain. We reject the enemy voices of need God’s help and fear, rage, lust, insecurity, grace to navigate anxiety, despair, this most precious of SAVE £2 temptation, or defeat. relationships well. £7.99 Scripture is clear: the SAVE £3 Interwoven with biblical Enemy is a liar who will teaching and practical stop at nothing to tempt £11.99 application, the authors you into poor decisions share their own story of and self-defeating mind- rebuilding a marriage after loneliness, sets. Don’t Give the Enemy a Seat at Your Table outlines the betrayal and separation as well as telling the stories of other ways to overcome those lies so you can find peace and couples who have faced specific challenges such as infertility, security in any challenging circumstance or situation. physical and mental ill health. Whether you want to lay good foundations in your marriage, or feel you are struggling RRP: £14.99 | 9780785247227 and need help, this book will encourage you that God Also available: Study Guide & DVD Pack has a new portion of grace and mercy for you each day. RRP £35 | 9780310134275 | (also sold individually) RRP: £9.99 | 9781788931380 How Did I Get Here? Faith for Life Christine Caine Richard Coekin Do you feel lost? This wonderfully Disconnected? Like encouraging book will you’re just going spur you on to live by through the motions? faith in Jesus as you When you don’t examine the witnesses know the next step of Hebrews 11. The to take, God’s grace refreshing honesty of empowers you with a SAVE £2 their stories will help SAVE £2 way forward. His hope you manage your offers an anchor for £8.99 expectations in a world £6.99 the soul and a way to of lies and spin. They get back on track. His will remind you of the faithfulness declares glory and blessing that that wherever you are now, he is await you at the finishing line. And always ready to bring you home. they will encourage you to see that Jesus is the real Hero Writing for all who feel empty of the spiritual passion they of the faith and that his Spirit will enable you to endure once knew, Christine vulnerably shares her journey of through exhaustion, opposition and discouragement. turning her eyes back to Jesus in her thoughts, prayers, Ideal for private devotional reading and useful background actions, and the hard questions she asked along the way. reading to a small-group study of Hebrews 11. RRP: £10.99 | 9781400230006 RRP: £8.99 | 9781784986186 4 ALL SPECIAL PRICES IN THIS CATALOGUE ARE VALID UNTIL 30/9/21, WHILST STOCKS LAST Summer reading – faith-inspired fiction SAVE £2 SAVE £3 SAVE £2 £7.99 £14.99 £7.99 The Chosen The Diary of Isabella M Smugge The Healing Jerry B. Jenkins Ruth Leigh Joy Margetts When Augustus Caesar became Newly arrived in the country, Isabella Driven to despair by heart-breaking Emperor of Rome, Judea was made is ready to bring a dash of London betrayal, Philip de Braose has lost a Roman province. For 400 years the glamour to the school gate and faith in God and man. Working as a prophets of Israel had been silent. gain a whole new set of followers – soldier for hire he is brutally injured, Roman officers patrolled the streets, though getting past the instant only for rescue to come in the heavily taxing the Hebrews. The coffee, terrible hair and own-brand unlikely form of a Cistercian monk - prophecies whispered of a coming sausage rolls may be a challenge! and he begins to rediscover the man Messiah who would save God’s people. But as her Latvian au pair’s behaviour God always intended him to be. This novel is based on Season 1 of becomes increasingly bizarre and When his past invades the present, the TV series The Chosen, revolving a national gossip columnist nurses his newly awakened faith is around Jesus and the people with a grudge, Isabella finds herself in challenged by long-buried dreams whom He came in contact, need of true friends and begins and he must decide if he can live including those He chose to be to wonder if her life really is as a life devoted to God outside the His disciples and their families.