Books by Jackie Smallbones
Live the Story not the Dream: Story and Spiritual Formation Jacqueline L. Smallbones 2016. Reading the Bible is essential but most of us struggle to do so. This book is designed to help people read the Bible in ways that they encounter Jesus and are transformed by him. Available on Lulu.com Available on Amazon Available on Barnes & Nobel 
Keeping Company with Jesus: Reflections on Gospel stories. Augsburg Books 2005. Looking at familiar Gospel stories in order to rediscover the Gospels and see Jesus in new ways. Available on Amazon Available on Barnes & Nobel |
Knit Together: Many Colors one Life (A Memoir). Jacqueline L. Smallbones 2014. Stories that tell my journey to wholeness. Sometimes funny, sometimes serious all of them knit together to form one life. Available on Lulu.com Available on Amazon Available on Barnes & Nobel 
Jackie's latest book
JOURNEY TO JESUS is a 100-day devotional and thoughtful journey through the Gospel of Mark, bringing head and heart together in wholesight. The slow pace of the journey through Mark gives readers time for deep reflection on the Jesus Mark reveals and the response required from them today. The journey with Mark is sometimes enlightening, sometimes trying; always challenging, always worthwhile. An amazing Gospel and a wonder-filled devotional journey. It is available at: lulu.com; amazon and barnes and noble. |
I began writing UNSEEN FOOTPRINTS during the Covid-19 pandemic. I was floundering in unchartered territory with little guidance. Psalm 77 allowed me to lament God’s unseen footprints. Other laments in Scripture trained me to bring my complaints to God with honesty and realness. When our go-to prayers of joyful praise and polite supplication don’t work, we need lament. We’re not called to remain upbeat, uttering joyful praise when the world is in turmoil. As Christians, we’re called to lament, to stand with Jesus in the place of pain and suffering and mourn with him. The lament prayers in Scripture train us to think and speak the unutterable to God and leave it in God’s presence. If you’ve never practiced the prayer of lament, this book of 31 biblical laments, is for you. It will show you how to pray lament, what words you can use, what emotions you can express and still know God can and will support you. Available at lulu.com
