Books that invite you into a deeper walk with God

Encounter Press publishes books for readers hungry for a deeper life with God: works on spiritual formation, Christian discipleship, contemplative prayer, heaven, and recovered devotional classics from across the Christian tradition.

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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.

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296 pages Publisher: Encounter Press

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Kindle eBook: $7.99 Paperback: $14.99 Hardcover: $24.99

Free Companion Resource: An 8-week discussion guide with deep-dive questions and practical exercises for small groups. Download at intervalbook.com →

ISBN: 979-8-9941752-0-0 (Paperback) · 979-8-9941752-1-7 (Hardcover) · 979-8-9941752-2-4 (eBook)

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Encounter Discipleship

An Interactive Biblical Discipleship Program Equipping Believers to Encounter the Power, Presence, and Love of God

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.

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214 pages Publisher: Encounter Press

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Paperback: $15.99

Free Leader's Guide: Access class resources and downloadable materials at encounterdiscipleship.com →

ISBN: 978-0-578-38299-9 (Paperback)

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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.

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200 pages Publisher: Encounter Press

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Kindle eBook: $7.99 Paperback: $15.99 Hardcover: $24.99

ISBN: 978-1-971776-14-9 (Paperback) · 978-1-971776-15-6 (Hardcover) · 978-1-971776-16-3 (eBook)

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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.

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176 pages Publisher: Encounter Press

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Kindle eBook: $4.99 Paperback: $12.99 Hardcover: $19.99

ISBN: 978-1-971776-01-9 (Paperback) · 978-1-971776-00-2 (Hardcover) · 978-1-971776-97-2 (eBook)

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Hidden in God

The Life and Writings of Gerhard Tersteegen

by Gerhard Tersteegen · Edited by Jarred Fenlason

Hidden in God gathers the life, letters, treatises, sermons, hymns, and devotional writings of Gerhard Tersteegen in the most comprehensive English collection in nearly 200 years. It is a doorway into the hidden life of prayer, surrender, and union with God. Readers of Thomas à Kempis, Brother Lawrence, Fénelon, and the Christian mystics will find a voice both searching and deeply pastoral.

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460 pages Publisher: Encounter Press

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Kindle eBook: $7.99 Paperback: $17.99 Hardcover: $27.99

ISBN: 978-1-971776-03-3 (Paperback) · 978-1-971776-04-0 (Hardcover) · 978-1-971776-02-6 (eBook)

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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, with the large print edition offered in two volumes. Poems, meditations, hymns, devotions, and maxims guide readers into the yieldedness and inward prayer at the heart of Tersteegen's spirituality.

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Publisher: Encounter Press

Complete eBook

The complete work in a single volume · 723 pages

Kindle eBook: $9.99

ISBN: 979-8-9941752-3-1

Print Edition (2 Volumes)

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Volume I

Books I & II: Short and Edifying Verse, Meditations and Spiritual Verses · 314 pages

Paperback: $16.99 Hardcover: $24.99

ISBN: 979-8-9941752-4-8 (PB) · 979-8-9941752-5-5 (HC)

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Volume II

Book III & The Devout Man's Lottery: Spiritual Hymns, Devotions, and Maxims · 378 pages

Paperback: $16.99 Hardcover: $24.99

ISBN: 979-8-9941752-6-2 (PB) · 979-8-9941752-7-9 (HC)

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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.

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272 pages Publisher: Encounter Press

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Kindle eBook: $7.99 Paperback: $15.99 Hardcover: $24.99

ISBN: 978-1-971776-05-7 (Paperback) · 978-1-971776-06-4 (Hardcover) · 978-1-971776-07-1 (eBook)

Jarred Fenlason

About the Author

Jarred Fenlason, D.Min., has spent most of his life trying to find words for something that arrived before he had the language for it — a weight behind the ordinary world that pressed through at seventeen in a canyon, at thirty in a warehouse, and at the desk on a thousand mornings when the words on the page were heavier than his eye could hold.

He holds a Doctor of Ministry from United Theological Seminary. His discipleship work has trained over 200 pastors across six countries. He is the author of The Interval, The Man Who Knew God: The Life of Walter Beuttler, and Encounter Discipleship. His translations and editions of Gerhard Tersteegen and Jean de Bernières — Hidden in God, The Spiritual Flower Garden, and The Mystic of Caen — grew from a desire to bring voices that still carry the heat of what they stood inside into the hands of English readers.

The soul that suspects there is more deserves to know the door is open.

Jarred lives in the foothills of North Carolina with his wife, Rochelle. They have three adult children.