From the kitchen of Mennonite cook, mother, and blogger Hope Helmuth comes a delectable mix of 150 recipes, stunning food photography, practical hints, and stories celebrating the simple beauty of home.

Loneliness is an epidemic right now, but it doesn't have to be that way. The Turquoise Table is Kristin Schell's invitation to you to connect with your neighbors and build friendships. Featured in Southern Living, Good Housekeeping, and the TODAY Show, Kristin introduces a new way to look at hospitality. Desperate for a way to slow down and connect, Kristin put an ordinary picnic table in her front yard, painted it turquoise, and began inviting friends and neighbors to join her. Life changed in her community, and it can change in yours too. Alongside personal and heartwarming stories, Kristin gives you: Stress-free ideas for kick-starting your own Turquoise Table Simple recipes to take outside and share with others Stories from people using Turquoise Tables in their neighborhoods Encouragement to overcome barriers that keep you from connecting This gorgeous book, with vibrant photography, invites you to make a difference right where you live. The beautiful design makes it ideal to give to a friend or to keep for yourself. Community and friendship are waiting just outside your front door.

From the kitchen of Mennonite cook, mother, and blogger Hope Helmuth comes a delectable mix of 150 recipes, stunning food photography, practical hints, and stories celebrating the simple beauty of home.

Sprouted Kitchen food blogger Sara Forte showcases 100 tempting recipes that take advantage of fresh produce, whole grains, lean proteins, and natural sweeteners—with vivid flavors and seasonal simplicity at the forefront. Sara Forte is a food-loving, wellness-craving veggie enthusiast who relishes sharing a wholesome meal with friends and family. The Sprouted Kitchen features 100 of her most mouthwatering recipes. Richly illustrated by her photographer husband, Hugh Forte, this bright, vivid book celebrates the simple beauty of seasonal foods with original recipes—plus a few favorites from her popular Sprouted Kitchen food blog tossed in for good measure. The collection features tasty snacks on the go like Granola Protein Bars, gluten-free brunch options like Cornmeal Cakes with Cherry Compote, dinner party dishes like Seared Scallops on Black Quinoa with Pomegranate Gastrique, “meaty” vegetarian meals like Beer Bean– and Cotija-Stuffed Poblanos, and sweet treats like Cocoa Hazelnut Cupcakes. From breakfast to dinner, snack time to happy hour, The Sprouted Kitchen will help you sneak a bit of delicious indulgence in among the vegetables.

Journey to five continents and see the world of sustainability and conscious eating with new eyes--featuring 100 pages of plant-based recipes to better nurture ourselves and the planet Thirty years ago, Frances Moore Lappé started a revolution in the way Americans think about food and hunger. Now Frances and her daughter, Anna, pick up where Diet for a Small Planet left off. Together they set out on an around-the-world journey to explore the greatest challenges we face in the new millennium. Traveling to Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Europe, they discovered answers to one of the most urgent issues of our time: whether we can transcend the rampant consumerism and capitalism to find the paths that each of us can follow to heal our lives as well as the planet. Featuring nearly seventy recipes from celebrated vegetarian culinary pioneers-including Alice Waters, Mollie Katzen, Laurel Robertson, Nora Pouillon, and Anna Thomas-Hope's Edge highlights true trailblazers engaged in social, environmental, and economic transformations.

From Donna VanLiere, the New York Times bestselling author of The Christmas Hope series comes another heartwarming, inspirational story for the holidays, The Christmas Table. In June 1972, John Creighton determines to build his wife Joan a kitchen table. His largest project to date had been picture frames but he promises to have the table ready for Thanksgiving dinner. Inspired to put something delicious on the table, Joan turns to her mother’s recipes she had given to Joan when she and John married. In June 2012, Lauren Mabrey discovers she’s pregnant. Gloria, Miriam, and the rest of her friends at Glory’s Place begin to pitch in, helping Lauren prepare their home for the baby. On a visit to the local furniture builder, Lauren finds a table that he bought at a garage sale but has recently refinished. Once home, a drawer is discovered under the table which contains a stack of recipe cards. Growing up in one foster home after another, Lauren never learned to cook and is fascinated as she reads through the cards. Personal notes have been written on each one from the mother to her daughter and time and again Lauren wonders where they lived, when they lived, and in a strange way, she feels connected to this mother and her daughter and wants to make the mother proud. The story continues to from 1972 to 2012 as Joan battles breast cancer and Lauren learns to cook, preparing for the baby’s arrival. As Christmas nears, can Lauren unlock the mystery of the table, and find the peace she's always longed for?

For those called on to pray at the Lord's table, these prayers will stimulate thoughts, sharpen insights, and focus attention.

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Louie Giglio helps you find encouragement, hope, and strength in the midst of any valley as you reject the enemy voices of fear, rage, lust, insecurity, anxiety, despair, temptation, or defeat. Scripture is clear: the Enemy is a liar who will stop at nothing to tempt you into poor decisions and self-defeating mindsets, making you feel afraid, angry, anxious, or defeated. It is all too easy for Satan to weasel his way into a seat at the table intended for only you and your King. But you can fight back. Don't Give the Enemy a Seat at Your Table outlines the ways to overcome those lies so you can find peace and security in any challenging circumstance or situation. With the same bold, exciting approach to Scripture as employed in Goliath Must Fall and his other previous works, pastor Louie Giglio examines Psalm 23 in fresh ways, highlighting verse 5: "You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies." You can find freedom from insecurity, temptation, and defeat--if you allow Jesus, the Shepherd, to lead the battle for your mind and heart. This spiritual warfare book for those who are leery of spiritual warfare books will resonate with Louie's core Passion tribe as well as with Christians of all ages who want to live a triumphant life in God.

This table. I sat down at this table, and I stayed. Without having to try to hide my shortcomings. Instead, we shared ours and even slapped our knees laughing about a few. Because some mistakes are so undoubtably insane that you have no choice but to laugh at them. This table didn't try to perfect themselves. They embraced our imperfectness. Then we moved forward to what was ahead. Not glued to our mess ups.You see, loving this man Jesus isn't contingent on whether or not we mess up. Loving Jesus is acknowledging we fell short, (even if it is yet again. Trust me, I know all about that) and choosing to get right back up. Christianity isn't perfection, my friend. We are not called to have it all together. We are going to mess up and we are going to fall.Choose to get back up. We can hide out and beat ourselves up for messing up, of course. But when it's all said and done, God is still God. He forgives. He doesn't disown what is His. So yeah, we can mourn in it for weeks, but we will come to the conclusion that it's time to move forward because there is such ahead. But the question that sat deep in my soul in one season was, how much time are we going to let go to waste in the duration? He already forgave us. It's up to us when we choose to get back up. It's up to us to pull up our mistake, look at it, maybe laugh about it, and toss it over our shoulder. There's so much ahead. Now go get it, friend.And hey, just for the books - I am still sitting at the second table. Everyday._________"Hi. I'm Hope. This is me, raw and authentic. I have been walking with Jesus for four years and I've been in ministry for six years. What an irony. Just because someone is in ministry doesn't always mean they're living right. I work at the church where I was kicked out of youth group seven years ago and it is one of my favorite things to share. I dropped out of High School in the tenth grade but now I am one of the directors for a college. I had a two in speech class my freshman year but now I speak and laugh about it. I have been writing for four years and I plan to continue to write.I live in Gainesville, Georgia. The chicken capital of the United States and I always chuckle under my breath because this is so not my thing. My heart is for people. Specifically young adults, and specifically the people who haven't made it to church yet. There are a multitude of people to reach the people who are inside the walls of a church -- my heart is for the people who haven't made it here yet. It is my goal to hear the story of every individual I meet because I believe everyone has a story worth hearing. It is my passion to celebrate the mistakes of life because we are who we are because of them. It is my heart to celebrate humanity because we all go through it and we all need a little celebration to keep moving.I write and I speak, but my favorite thing to do is notice people. And love them in a way where all they can say is, "If this is how Jesus is... then I'm in."