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, a companion piece with questions for personal reflection, small group discussion, and practical application. From the Introduction By faith in Jesus, our ordinary lives can become extraordinary. Grace breaks in to […]
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). Download the free study guide that turns this sermon preparation resource into a personal and group guide. In this collection of sermons for Lent and Easter, each sermon focuses on a gospel text with commentary […]
Four Gifts
Four Gifts: Seeking Self-Care for Heart, Soul, Mind, and Strength (Herald Press, 2018). Download the free study guide, which includes the discussion questions from the book, plus additional questions for book clubs and Bible study groups, a Scripture Index, practical self-care ideas, additional quotes and prayers related to self-care, ideas for creating your own custom guide, […]
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. This five-session study guide grew out of my first Sacred Pauses group and includes an outline for each group session, plus many practical examples from our group discussion. Summary In a fast-paced world full of distractions, this book offers fresh […]
April Yamasaki 