Books that invite you into a deeper walk with God

The Nearness

Letters on the Treasure of God's Company in an Ordinary Life

by Jarred Fenlason

The Nearness is a series of fourteen letters, written by a father to his daughter, on the daily nearness of God: not a reward earned by the spiritually gifted, but a gift already given in Christ, available in the middle of an ordinary, distracted life. The letters teach the Godward Turn, walk through the dry seasons the book calls wintering, and keep company with the friends of God across the centuries.

142 pages

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The Interval

The Brief Window That Shapes Your Eternal Soul

by Jarred Fenlason

The Interval explores the brief span between conversion and death as a grace-filled window of formation. It asks how our choices, faithfulness, and Spirit-empowered obedience shape the soul we carry into eternity, offering hope rather than pressure. Drawing from Scripture, the church fathers, and modern voices like C.S. Lewis, Dallas Willard, and N.T. Wright, it makes the case that this life matters more than we imagined.

308 pages

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The Man Who Knew God

The Life of Walter Beuttler

by Jarred Fenlason

The Man Who Knew God is the first full-length biography of Walter Beuttler, a German immigrant, Bible teacher, and missionary voice whose students said he lived in a documented friendship with God. Drawn from sixty-six surviving transcripts, it tells the story of a man formed by decades of 2:30 mornings. For readers of Tozer, Andrew Murray, and Brother Lawrence, Beuttler offers a voice rooted in lived encounter rather than theory.

204 pages

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Encounter Discipleship

An 8-Week Journey into God’s Power, Presence, and Love

by Jarred Fenlason

Encounter Discipleship is an 8-week interactive small group program that equips believers to hear God's voice, walk in spiritual gifts, and experience His manifest presence. Each session combines teaching, testimony, practical exercises, group ministry, and personal reflection. It is designed to move participants from learning about God to actually encountering Him.

211 pages

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God Is Here

Forty Readings from the Letters of Gerhard Tersteegen

by Gerhard Tersteegen · Translated & Arranged by Jarred Fenlason

You do not need to climb to God. He is already here. Forty short readings, each the length of a cup of coffee, gather what Gerhard Tersteegen told merchants, servants, widows, and the dying across nearly fifty years of letters: turn inward, become like a child, tell Him everything, and when it is dark, go on believing. Drawn from the first complete English translation of all 605 of his letters, each reading opens with Scripture and closes with a short poem from his Spiritual Flower Garden.

192 pages · Reader's Edition

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Hidden in God

The Life and Writings of Gerhard Tersteegen

by Gerhard Tersteegen · Translated and edited by Jarred Fenlason

Hidden in God gathers the life and writings of Gerhard Tersteegen, the ribbon-weaver whose hymns John Wesley carried into English: Samuel Jackson’s 1832 Life, given whole and modernized, with twenty-nine letters, a sermon, nine treatises, and his hymns, the letters and hymns newly translated from the German. For readers of Brother Lawrence, Thomas à Kempis, and Fénelon.

386 pages · Selected Writings

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The Spiritual Flower Garden

The First Complete English Translation of Gerhard Tersteegen's Geistliches Blumengärtlein

by Gerhard Tersteegen · Translated & Edited by Jarred Fenlason

The Spiritual Flower Garden is the first complete English translation of Gerhard Tersteegen's treasured devotional work. The complete work is available as a single eBook, and in print in two volumes. Poems, meditations, hymns, devotions, and maxims guide readers into the yieldedness and inward prayer at the heart of Tersteegen's spirituality.

723 pages · Complete Edition

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The Mystic of Caen

Letters and Writings of Jean de Bernières (1602–1659)

by Jean de Bernières · Translated & Edited by Jarred Fenlason

The Mystic of Caen brings Jean de Bernières' original letters and writings into English for the first time. This collection traces the costly radiance of a lay contemplative life through letters, maxims, dialogues, biography, and a glossary of contemplative terms. It is offered across the Catholic-Protestant line for readers hungry for the interior life described by the great mystics.

280 pages · Selected Writings

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Intra Muros

My Dream of Heaven — An Annotated Edition

by Rebecca Ruter Springer · Edited by Jarred Fenlason

Intra Muros presents Rebecca Ruter Springer's beloved vision of heaven in a new annotated edition. Historical context, Scripture references, and pastoral notes help contemporary readers encounter this classic account of comfort, reunion, and hope. This edition preserves the warmth of Springer's vision while helping modern readers understand the world and theology behind it.

176 pages · Complete Edition, Annotated

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On Fire with God

The Fiery Soliloquy of Gerlac Petersen

by Gerlac Petersen · Translated and Introduced by Jarred Fenlason

This book was supposed to be ashes. In 1411, a dying young canon near Zwolle asked his prior to burn everything he had ever written; the prior refused, and the rescued pages became a beloved classic of the late Middle Ages — printed at Cologne in 1616 as Alter Thomas de Kempis, "a second Thomas à Kempis." Now in its first new English translation in over a century, from our Encounter Classics imprint.

196 pages · Complete Edition

Coming Fall 2026

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