We have given years to writing books that connect others to the heart of God and to their own hearts.
We have two devotional series: Cultivate and Foundations. Cultivate is our large-format coffee table devotional book and explores topics such as the process of living from your heart, creativity, and relationships. Foundations is our travel-friendly devotional book that centers on laying a strong foundation, learning God's voice, practicing gratitude, and understanding core beliefs. Scroll below to learn more about our books.
Foundations: 01
a new cultivate series
Foundations exists to help you establish a friendship with God strong enough to build your life on, whether you are in the beginning stages of your walk with the Lord, or you are needing to look back before moving forward.
Just as all houses are dependent upon their structural integrity, we believe that solidifying the core of our relationship with the Lord is an essential part of longevity with Him. Whether your foundations are new, worn down, or cracked or broken, this book is an invitation to let the Master Builder come and do what only He can do: Secure, strengthen, and heal the support system of your life.
Book 01 centers around learning God's voice, practicing gratitude, and understanding core beliefs. In this book, you'll find writings, prompts, practices and testimonies about getting honest with God, receiving His perspective, and what it looks like to let Him define you.
"Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock." Matthew 7:24-25
About FOUNDATIONS: 01 from OUR Editor-in-Chief, Melissa Helser
Cultivate
THE PROCESS OF LIVING FROM YOUR HEART
Cultivate is a series of six books designed to help you tend the rich soil of your heart. It is an invitation to discover the beautiful process of growth that happens when we partner with the Father. These books are full of honest prompts, writings, photography, and poetry from our community’s process with the Lord. Our dream is that each volume would serve as a tool to help you cultivate your relationship with the Father and empower you to enjoy the process. Your heart is worth the work.
Cultivate is an invitation. These devotional books call to rhythms of devotion, creativity, and transformation. They prompt you to initiate personal time with the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit and live an empowered and sustainable life connected to your heart. We encourage you to slow down and savor each part of the journey. These books are a collaborative project featuring writings, prompts, design, poetry, and art from the entire Cageless Birds collective and friends of our community. These writings are testimonies from our personal journeys that prompt you to pursue the Father through new and exciting ways.
Volume I
The Head to Heart Journey (Revised & Expanded)
The revised & expanded Cultivate Volume I: The Head to Heart Journey is a 120 page devotional book that includes 17 new articles, poems, and writings and new art, design, and photography on nearly every page!
In 2013, we released this first volume of Cultivate. Almost a decade later, we have decided to expand and revise Volume I because we have grown and learned so many things over the years as a community of friends committed to Jesus, discipleship, and creativity. In The Head to Heart Journey, we give keys to journaling the voice of the Lord, settling into true identity, and exploring the terrain of your heart with God. As you make your way through these pages, we encourage you to center your heart in this simple truth: God is a loving Father, ready and eager to speak to you.
Volume II
THE CLARITY WINTER BRINGS
Volume II is designed to help you find the beauty in winter seasons of life. We created this issue to champion the significance of your roots growing deep into His heart, and your branches resting from producing fruit. This book includes writings on topics such as hope, perspective, and stillness and is designed to help you carve out moments to hear His voice in the middle of your process.
Volume III
FLY HIGH, BUILD HOME
Volume III is created with the vision of bringing clarity to what it means to live a whole life. Our vision for this issue is that it would help bring language to what it means to thrive—to soar and to land in His heart for you.
Volume IV
CREATIVITY UNLOCKED
Volume IV is meant to challenge your idea of what creativity is and unlock the truth that creativity is a mindset, not a skill set. If every child of God is made in His image, then creativity is not a talent for the select-few, it is a birthright. Our desire is that Cultivate Volume IV would empower you to take risks in expression and discover your creative ability. There are beautiful discoveries to be made when you dare to believe that He desires to speak through your creativity and meet you in the process.
Volume V
THE ART OF CONNECTION, PART 1
Volume V: The Art of Connection, Pt. I was written with your most significant relationships in mind. This volume is designed to encourage and empower you to pursue healthy and thriving relationships in marriage, parenting, dating and relating to your parents. It is full of prompts and practical tools created to help you identify your need for connection and establish new ways of processing and pursuing family relationships. May “The Art of Connection” fill you with courage, hope and healthy perspective for God-centered relationships with those who mean the most to you.
Volume VI
THE ART OF CONNECTION, PART 2
Volume VI : The Art of Connection, Pt. II is the latest volume from the Cultivate devotional book series and the anticipated follow up to Volume V. Centered around core themes of self-awareness, communication and generosity, this volume is designed to inspire transformative conversations with the Lord and propel you toward powerful, healthy relationships in every area of your life. It is full of engaging prompts and practical tools for growing healthy connection with close friends, team, co-workers, acquaintances and strangers.