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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERRediscover the woman God created you to be and restore your feminine heart.Sometime between the dreams of your youth and yesterday's to-do list, something precious has been lost: your priceless femininity.God has set within you a femininity that is powerful, tender, and fierce. No doubt it has been misunderstood, but it is there, and it is worth recovering. In this updated and expanded edition of their runaway bestseller, John and Stasi Eldredge vulnerably share their story and show you how to set your heart free and embrace life as a woman who is truly captivating.The mystery of the feminine heart was meant to be a good thing, a source of joy. But all too often, it becomes a source of shame. We almost universally feel that we are too much or not enough.This expanded edition of Captivating combines timeless scripture with honest, heartfelt stories from women who have been there, too, giving you the encouragement you need to:Discover the glorious design of women that God originally intendedUnderstand how Jesus restores the feminine heartHeal the trauma in your storyEmbrace the inherent power, freedom, and beauty that you already possess As we grow older and our dreams are slowly pushed aside, we're told that we have to settle for a life of efficiency and performance, striving to be the women we're told that we ought to be and still feeling like we're failing. But it doesn't have to be this way. Let Captivating help you discover the woman you were meant to be.

Take hold of hope, beauty, and life in a hurting world.Maybe you’ve been whiplashed by an unexpected crisis. Or fear has gripped you, causing you to bury your dreams. Perhaps a sad ending has filled you with loss or hopelessness, and made your faith waver.Don’t despair! God means for us to have JOY–a joy from Him that is defiant in the face of this broken world.In this six-session video Bible study, Stasi Eldredge invites us with courage, candor, and tender vulnerability to a place beyond sadness or happiness. Using stories from Scripture, she expands on lessons from her book, Defiant Joy, to help us maintain a posture of holy defiance that neither denies nor diminishes our pain but dares us to live with expectant, unwavering hope.This study guide for individual or group use includes video notes, group discussion questions, Scripture study, and biblical application for your life. It also features personal Bible study between group meetings, reading and journaling from Defiant Joy, worship song suggestions, and guided contemplative prayer.Sessions include:A Reason to CelebrateGodly InterferenceGreener GrassExpectant HopeCultivating JoyThe Ultimate VictoryDesigned for use with the Unwavering Video Study (9780310096924), sold separately.

Do you feel like you have to settle for a life of duty?Many women feel pressure to strive to be the women they "ought" to be, often living with the sense that they’ve failed. Sadly, too many messages for Christian women do nothing but add to the pressure: "Do these ten things, and you will be a godly woman." The effect has not been good on the feminine soul. But her heart is still there.Every woman was once a little girl. And every little girl holds in her heart her most precious dreams. She longs to be swept up into a romance, to play an irreplaceable role in a great adventure, to be the beauty of the story. Those desires are far more than child's play. They are the secret to the feminine heart.Staci Eldredge wrote Captivating to share that your heart matters more than anything else in all creation. Throughout this study guide, you will:Learn how to guard the most important thing about you...your heart.Find courage to walk away from the ways we live out of fear.Let God tenderly open our wounds to set us free.Fight the right enemy, which is not men. And it's not women.Possess a beauty that is worth pursuing.Our wounds reveal what we are meant to bring to the world.The desires you had as a little girl and the longings you still feel are telling you of the life God created you to live. Really. He offers to come now, as the Hero of your story--to rescue your heart and release you to live as a fully alive and feminine woman. A woman who is truly captivating.Sessions include:The Heart of a WomanFallen EveThe Wound and the HealerA Special HatredBeauty to UnveilYour Irreplaceable RoleDesigned for use with the Captivating Updated Video Study available on DVD or streaming video, sold separately.

This journal is for those who are hungry for more.  The Captivating Guided Journal is designed to complement your reading of Captivating – there is one chapter in the journal for every one of the twelve chapters in the book. Using this journal means you’re hungry for more. More of Jesus, more healing, more restoration, and more transformation into the woman you were created to be. You even get more in the journal itself! The “Windows to the Heart” and “Lifting the Veil” sections feature special features and excerpts from other books and movies that you won’t find in the companion book.   By the way, this is not your normal “workbook.” There are no wrong answers. No fill-in-the-blanks. You don’t have to struggle or worry about “getting it right.” Who wants another workbook anyway? We have enough work to do already. Besides, calling this a workbook would imply that the messages in the book Captivating are to be mastered. And mastered in a measurable way. Not at all. The messages in the book are to be pondered, considered. Some embraced. Some practiced. Some set aside for a later time.  In this journal you will experience… Excerpts from the companion book, Captivating Guided prayers “Windows to Your Heart” – insights from movies, books, and music “Lifting the Veil” – an activity or exercise to try Journaling prompts correlating to each section of the chapter in the book This journal is for your heart. Engaging with it says that you are willing to take a journey of discovery with him. You have said “yes” to God. You are continuing to say “yes.” May he meet you in the deep places of your heart and bring you hope, courage, healing, and the delights of intimacy that only God can bring.  Designed for use with Captivating: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman's Soul (9781400225286), sold separately.

Do you feel like you have to settle for a life of duty?Many women feel pressure to strive to be the women they "ought" to be, often living with the sense that they've failed. Sadly, too many messages for Christian women do nothing but add to the pressure: "Do these ten things, and you will be a godly woman." The effect has not been good on the feminine soul. But her heart is still there.Every woman was once a little girl. And every little girl holds in her heart her most precious dreams. She longs to be swept up into a romance, to play an irreplaceable role in a great adventure, to be the beauty of the story. Those desires are far more than child's play. They are the secret to the feminine heart.Stasi Eldredge wrote Captivating to share that your heart matters more than anything else in all creation. Throughout this study guide, you will:Learn how to guard the most important thing about you . . . your heart.Find courage to walk away from the ways you live out of fear.Let God tenderly open your wounds to set you free.Fight the right enemy, which is not men. And it's not women.Possess a beauty that is worth pursuing.Allow your wounds to reveal what you are meant to bring to the world.The desires you had as a little girl and the longings you still feel are telling you of the life God created you to live. Really. He offers to come now—as the Hero of your story—to rescue your heart and release you to live as a fully alive and feminine woman. A woman who is truly captivating.Sessions include:The Heart of a WomanFallen EveThe Wound and the HealerA Special HatredBeauty to UnveilYour Irreplaceable RoleStreaming video access code included. Access code subject to expiration after 12/31/2030. Code may be redeemed only by the recipient of this package. Code may not be transferred or sold separately from this package. Internet connection required. Void where prohibited, taxed, or restricted by law. Additional offer details inside.

Many women long for a deeper, more experiential relationship with Jesus. They go to church, read their Bible, and pray yet still feel like they know God more in their heads than in their hearts. Shouldn't there be more?In her new book, New York Times bestselling author Stasi Eldredge reveals that Scripture offers a beautiful, intentional progression of intimacy with God. These familiar metaphors—clay, sheep, servant, child, sibling, friend, bride—aren't random images. They're rungs on a spiritual ladder that leads us closer to God's heart. As we understand them, we begin to understand how He invites us to relate to Him. With her signature warmth, biblical depth, and guided prayers, Stasi helps readers:address the heartaches that keep them from drawing closer to God and remove the roadblocks that prevent healing;learn to take prayerful pauses that allow Christ to minister directly to their deepest needs;recognize the difference between knowing about God and experiencing Him personally;identify where they have "learned God wrong" and gently step into learning Him rightly; anddiscover how spiritual disciplines guide them on the journey of drawing near.For every woman desiring closeness with Jesus or longing to rediscover it, this book offers a path of healing, transformation, and the breathtaking joy of truly knowing God and being deeply loved by Him.This study guide includes:Individual access to streaming video sessionsVideo notes and a comprehensive structure for group discussion timePersonal study for deeper reflection between sessionsA guide to best practices for leading a groupStreaming video access included. Access code subject to expiration after 12/31/2031. Code may be redeemed only by the recipient of this package. Code may not be transferred or sold separately from this package. Internet connection required. Void where prohibited, taxed, or restricted by law. Additional offer details inside.

Through the eight-session video-based small group bible study (DVD/digital video sold separately), Love & War, John and Stasi Eldredge help you and your spouse take marriage to new levels through developing deeper intimacy and stepping into the great adventure God has waiting for you … together!With refreshing openness that grabs you from the first words, bestselling authors John and Stasi Eldredge candidly discuss their own marriage and the insights they’ve gained from the challenges they’ve faced. Each of them talks independently about what they’ve learning, giving their guidance a personal immediacy and balance between the male and female perspectives – a unique feature of this study.Both John and Stasi have discovered that once couples begin moving past the shame and confusion surrounding the undertaking of marriage, they learn to fight for love and happiness – and to step into what God has in store for them.This Participant Guide is filled with helpful discussion starters, video overviews, a helpful Leader’s Guide and much more.Sessions include:Hope & VisionA Perfect StormThe Greatest Gift You Can GiveSharing an AdventureThe enemy Is Not Your SpouseStorm CloudsSexA Thousand Little ChoicesDesigned for use with the Love and War Video Study (sold separately).

'You live in a love story set in the midst of a very real war...' What Wild at Heart did for men, and Captivating did for women, LOVE & WAR will do for married couples everywhere. John and Stasi Eldredge have contributed quintessential works on Christian spirituality for men and women separately but now they turn their focus to the incredible union between those two forces - marriage. With refreshing openness, the Eldredges discuss their own marriage and the insights they've gained from the challenges they've faced. Both speak independently to the reader about what they've learnt, giving their guidance personal immediacy and balanced male and female perspectives.John and Stasi begin LOVE & WAR with an obvious but necessary acknowledgement: marriage is fabulously hard. For every minute of happy delirium, there are equal amounts of disappointment and frustration and a sense that we've been deluded, that this isn't the marriage we dreamed of. Once we admit this, we are free to accept the great adventure of marriage; working together through strength gained from our own individual relationships with God, rather than looking to each other for happiness.

Your woman's heart is one of God's most prized creations.Designed into it are three holy desires:To be romancedTo play an irreplaceable role in a great adventureTo unveil beauty As a mother, how you nurture these core desires of the heart establish a path for motherhood. When your children look to you for comfort and strength, encouragement and advice, you can lead them to the Father because you have discovered the truths he designed into you.In this inspiring book, learn more about your design and how it empowers you to enrich and lead the life of your children.

Journey into the Mystery of God's PresenceWho our God is and how he works cannot be captured or contained. Our God is extreme. Our God is unstoppable, unfathomable, and untamable. Our God is wild. And he is beckoning us to pursue him beyond our circumstances, beyond our emotions, and beyond our logic into the glorious mystery that is him.Offering miraculous, inspiring stories of lives and circumstances transformed by the Holy Spirit, author and speaker Kim Meeder shows that God isn't calling us to fully understand him; he's calling us to fully trust Him. Here she gives practical, everyday ways to pursue him more passionately and to trust him more fiercely. The wild beauty and glory of our God are calling. And in this hallowed, thrilling place, we will see his face reflected in the miraculous--and we will experience the limitless nature of our wild God.

We all spend a lot of energy reaching for happiness, but we're never quite able to hang on to it. Real life happens, and our circumstances take us on an emotional rollercoaster. Oftentimes, the Bible's call to "be joyful always" seems out of reach--but it doesn't have to be.We are called to live. And, miraculously, to live with joy. Join bestselling author Stasi Eldredge as she shows us how to choose a joy that stands against the tides of life's real and often overwhelming pain.Defiant Joy reminds us that a joy that is defiant in the face of this broken world was meant to be ours. This joy isn't simply happiness on steroids, it's the unyielding belief that sorrow and loss do not have the final say. It's the stubborn determination to be present in whatever may come and interpret both goodness and grief by the light of heaven.Defiant Joy will give you the encouragement you need to:Finally experience daily joyLearn how to have a posture of holy defiance when circumstances threaten to weigh down your soulFind new perspectives on the painful circumstances you've facedIn Defiant Joy, Stasi invites us with courage, candor, and tender vulnerability to a place beyond sadness or happiness, leading the way as we learn how to maintain a posture of holy defiance that neither denies nor diminishes our pain but dares to live with expectant, unwavering hope.

Bestselling author Stasi Eldredge guides women into deeper intimacy with Jesus through a biblical progression of relationship--clay, sheep, servant, child, sibling, friend, bride--inviting them into healing, discovery, and the joy of being deeply loved by God.Many women long for a deeper, more experiential relationship with Jesus. They go to church, read their Bible, and pray yet still feel like they know God more in their heads than in their hearts. Shouldn't there be more?In her new book, New York Times bestselling author Stasi Eldredge reveals that Scripture offers a beautiful, intentional progression of intimacy with God. These familiar metaphors--clay, sheep, servant, child, sibling, friend, bride--aren't random images. They're rungs on a spiritual ladder that leads us closer to God's heart. As we understand them, we begin to understand how He invites us to relate to Him. With her signature warmth, biblical depth, and guided prayers, Stasi helps readersaddress the heartaches that keep them from drawing closer to God and remove the roadblocks that prevent healing,learn to take prayerful pauses that allow Christ to minister directly to their deepest needs,recognize the difference between knowing about God and experiencing Him personally,identify where they have "learned God wrong" and gently step into learning Him rightly, anddiscover how spiritual disciplines guide them on the journey of drawing near. For every woman desiring closeness with Jesus or longing to rediscover it, this book offers a path of healing, transformation, and the breathtaking joy of truly knowing God and being deeply loved by Him.

Galardonada por los Premios SEPA (Asociación de Editoriales Evangélicas) por el libro más vendido del año 2023 en la categoría Matrimonio y Familia.El libro best seller que ha transformado la vida de millones de mujeres, revisado y ampliado.Lo que Salvaje de Corazón hace para los hombres, Cautivante lo hace para las mujeres: liberar sus corazones. Este innovador libro ayuda a las lectoras al:Proveer una mirada al diseño glorioso de las mujeres;Describir cómo el corazón femenino puede ser restaurado;Proyectar una visión del poder, libertad y belleza de una mujer liberada para ser todo lo que está destinada a ser; y,Sanar los traumas del pasado.El mensaje de Cautivante es este: tu corazón importa más que cualquier cosa en toda la creación. Los deseos que tenías de niña y los anhelos que todavía sientes como mujer te comunican la vida para la que Dios te creó. Él ofrece venir ahora como el Héroe de tu historia, a rescatar tu corazón y liberarte para que vivas como una mujer completamente viva y femenina, una mujer realmente cautivante.CaptivatingThe bestselling book that has transformed the lives of millions of women, revised and expanded.What Wild at Heart does for men, Captivating does for women: set their hearts free. This groundbreaking book helps readers by:providing a look into the glorious design of women;describing how the feminine heart can be restored;casting a vision for the power, freedom, and beauty of a woman released to be all she was meant to be; andhealing the trauma of the past.The message of Captivating is this: your heart matters more than anything else in all creation. The desires you had as a little girl and the longings you still feel as a woman are telling you of the life God created you to live. He offers to come now as the Hero of your story, to rescue your heart and release you to live as a fully alive and feminine woman--a woman who is truly captivating.