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Longing to love God and reflect on his word? Wanting to read artfully and enjoy it more? Searching for Scripture-saturated comfort in mourning the loss of a little one? Seeking devotionals that dive into a specific passage and include personal application, while focusing on God? Looking for a good book to give young readers (8-12) a taste of literary quality in an engaging story? Scroll down and discover the answers.

Writing across genres for all generations, Glenda Faye Mathes crafts literary work that conveys timeless truths. She writes on a wide variety of people and topics in nonfiction stories and fiction narratives. Her devotionals share more of God and less of herself. Explore her published books below and click the button under each to learn more and order.

Finding Faithfulness: A Year of Reading and Reflecting on God’s Word

Finding Faithfulness: A Year of Reading and Reflecting on God’s Word stands apart from many devotionals and reading plans due to its viable schedule, unique presentation, and meaningful participation.

A Month of Sundays: 31 Meditations on Resting in God

In today’s hectic and distressing world, demands and distractions agitate our spirits. Disasters trigger anxiety. Diseases generate pain. Despair creeps into our hearts. These influences displace our peace and keep us from resting daily in Christ and His Word. How can we recapture the concept of daily rest? In A Month of Sundays: 31 Devotions…

Discovering Delight: 31 Meditations on Loving God’s Law

Does “loving law” sound like an oxymoron, like two things that don’t belong together? Christians today often don’t care to read about law because they prefer to revel in gospel and grace. Yet the Bible clearly links law with love, a connection especially repeated in Psalm 119. In these insightful reflections, Mathes sheds light on…

Recovering the Lost Art of Reading: A Quest for the True, the Good, and the Beautiful

NEW – Listen to Leland Ryken and Glenda Faye Mathes discuss Recovering the Lost Art of Reading with Chris Fabry Live on Moody Radio!

Puritan Heroes

Puritan Heroes is a beautifully illustrated book that gives the reader an idea of what the Puritan movement was about and offers a glimpse into the lives of more than twenty of its most well-known leaders.

Exoneree

Uriah Courtney was convicted and incarcerated over eight years—for a crime he did not commit. Uriah lived his personal hell, but God set him free—spiritually and physically—to new life inside his heart and outside razor wire.

Matthew Muddles Through

As the middle child in his family, Matthew Vos struggles in the middle of trouble on all sides. He shares a room with an annoying younger brother and dodges the harassment of an obnoxious older brother. A big-as-a-bear neighborhood dog targets him like a heat-seeking missile. His Cadet Club crams into the church’s too-small basement,…

Matthew Makes Strides

Matthew Vos doesn’t like feeling afraid. And he fears lots of things, like threatening storms, high places, and dark caves. He wants to be brave, but discovers that being a hero isn’t at all what he’d imagined. Will his dream to attend the Cadet International Camporee ever come true? And what’s up with that crabby…

Matthew Moves Ahead

After three years of waiting, Matthew Vos is finally going to the Cadet International Camporee! He’s earning money to buy supplies, but the lawnmower slips from his grip and cuts through a customer’s garden. Matthew’s hopes wither like the sheared-off plant tops. What more could possibly go wrong? And will the Camporee turn out to…

Little One Lost: Living with Early Infant Loss

The grief of miscarriage, stillbirth, and newborn loss is often misunderstood and frequently ignored. Little One Lost: Living with Early Infant Loss shows from Scripture that these littlest ones are not really lost.

Not My Own: Discovering God’s Comfort in the Heidelberg Catechism

This first workbook of the popular Life in Christ curriculum overviews the Heidelberg Catechism through sections of explanatory material followed by thought-provoking questions. Memory work features simplified versions of the Heidelberg’s questions and answers as well as Scripture texts and coordinating questions and answers from the Westminster Shorter Catechism. It is currently available in Russian and an Indonesian dialect and…

Soul Communion

Do you long to increase your soul’s communion with God? After years of meditating and writing, Glenda Mathes has developed seven helpful Reflection Recommendations. In this little guide, she walks the reader through a personal devotion pattern that increases communion with God and Christian love for others.

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