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Book Review: Encountering God’s Heart for You

March 22, 2020March 22, 2020

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The Basics

Title: Encountering God’s Heart For You
Author: Diane Stortz
Genre: Christian Non-Fiction, Devotional
Release Date: September 3, 2019

Book Synopsis

If everything looks so perfect, how does she know it’s all wrong?

God put the Bible together for you, and he wants you to understand and know him better. But sometimes you can get lost in the details and miss the big picture. The Bible is more than just a collection of wisdom, instructions, and history. It’s one unified story of the incredible love of God!

Encountering God’s Heart for You takes you on a daily journey through the full narrative of Scripture in a year. And in the process, it will draw you nearer to God as you discover his love and compassion. It won’t cover every verse, or even every chapter, in the Bible, but by the time you’re through, you’ll have a strong grasp of what the Bible is all about.

Reading Scripture isn’t just a way to collect information or check something off a to-do list. Let this book bring you into God’s presence to better understand the Bible’s story of love, sacrifice, and redemption as he draws you to himself.

Click here to get your copy!

My Two Cents

A Devotional Journey Through the Bible

These devotionals take you on a 365-day chronological journey through God’s Word. Through these devotionals you’ll see God’s story of redemption unfold in devotions drawn from most books in the Bible.

Each day has a Scripture passage and a focal passage to read, followed by a devotional thought, and prayer.

I recommend this devotional for all Christ-followers, and for new Christ-followers, in particular. All Christ-followers will find this a helpful devotional, and it will help new Christ-followers gain a good view of the chronology of Scripture.

NOTE: I received a complimentary copy of this book for reviewing from Diane Stortz. I was not required to provide a positive review. Thoughts in “My Two Cents” are my own opinion.

About the Author

Diane Stortz is a multipublished author who writes to make God’s wonders known to the next generation. Diane’s books for women, A Woman’s Guide to Reading the Bible in a Year and Encountering God’s Heart for You, both from Bethany House, encourage women to get to know God through His Word, the Bible. Her children’s releases include the best-selling Say & Pray Bible and I AM: 40 Reasons to Trust God, both from Tommy Nelson. Diane and her husband have two married daughters and five grandchildren—all boys! Visit her at www.DianeStortz.com.

More from Diane

Twenty years ago, I was invited to join a women’s Bible study group planning to read through the Bible in a year to get to know God.

Although I’d been a Christian for many years and had read many parts of the Bible and used the Bible in my work as an editor, I had never actually read the entire Bible.

I joined the group. We read about three chapters a day and met weekly on Monday nights to discuss what we’d read.

I’ve repeated that experience in various forms most years since then, and it has changed my life in so many ways. (Getting to know God does that, right?)

I’m convinced that one of the most loving things we can do for someone else is to invite and encourage her to become a lifelong reader of the Word, and to read it together.

That’s how I view my new devotional, Encountering God’s Heart for You. It’s an invitation to every woman to pick up her Bible, read along with me, and look together for all the ways God teaches us about himself on every page.