Hope Beyond Our Sorrows
Hope Beyond Our Sorrows: Learning to Live with Life-Changing Loss (Herald Press: 2025). When a shattered dream breaks your heart, how do you learn to hope again? When April Yamasaki and her husband married, they were young and full of dreams. After almost forty-five years of marriage, those dreams fell apart as Yamasaki found herself […]
This Ordinary, Extraordinary Life
This Ordinary, Extraordinary Life: Cycle B Sermons Based on the Gospel Lessons for PentecostThrough Proper 16 (CSS Publishing, 2023). Download the free study guide. From the Introduction By faith in Jesus, our ordinary lives can become extraordinary. Grace breaks in to the routine of daily living. Ordinary bread becomes a sign of God’s kingdom. Ordinary […]
On the Way With Jesus
On the Way With Jesus: Cycle A Sermons for Lent and Easter Based on the Gospel Readings (CSS Publishing, 2019). This collection of sermons for Lent and Easter is designed for sermon preparation as well as personal and group study. Each sermon focuses on a gospel text with commentary and ends with a brief prayer. […]
Four Gifts
Four Gifts: Seeking Self-Care for Heart, Soul, Mind, and Strength (Herald Press, 2018). Download the Four Gifts Study Guide. I can’t do it all,and you can’t either. Feeling overwhelmed by the pace and stress of daily life? Find respite from superficial definitions of self-care and move toward deeper engagement with God. From the Back Cover […]
Sharing Faith Stories
Upside-Down Living: Sharing Faith Stories (Herald Press, 2017). Summary Everyone loves a story! What’s more, everyone has a story, and for people of faith, everyone has a faith story. The possibilities are endless for sharing Bible stories, personal testimonies, and everyday anecdotes of faith in daily life. This study will empower you to discover how to communicate […]
Everbloom
Everbloom: Stories of Deeply Rooted and Transformed Lives by Women of Redbud Writers Guild (Paraclete Press, 2017). Summary Everbloom is a collection of essays, stories, and poetry by the women of Redbud Writers Guild. These are stories of pain and beauty, loss and growth, that encourage readers to embrace their own stories with honesty, faith, and imagination. […]
Sacred Pauses
Sacred Pauses: Spiritual Practices for Personal Renewal (Herald Press, 2013). Download the Sacred Pauses Group Guide. Summary In a fast-paced world full of distractions, this book offers fresh ways to find everyday personal renewal. Each chapter explores a different spiritual practice—from classic disciplines of Scripture reading and prayer to less conventional approaches like having fun […]
April Yamasaki 