Brandon DeVries

Brandon DeVries

15 booksReligion & SpiritualitySelf-HelpChristianity

Brandon DeVries is a Christian author and U.S. military veteran writing devotionals and faith-centered books for readers in life's waiting seasons — including The Christian Single's 60-Day Waiting Devotional, The Empty Nester's Next-Chapter Devotional, and the 5-Minute Pocket Devotional for Busy Dads. He also writes Victorian thrillers, including The Belladonna Society and A Draught of Hemlock. He lives in West Michigan. Website: obscuredscript.com — Blog: blog.obscuredscript.com/blog

Books

The Christian Single’s 60-Day Waiting Devotional

The Christian Single’s 60-Day Waiting Devotional

Finding Peace, Contentment, and Purpose While Trusting God in the In-Between

  • Religion & Spirituality
  • Self-Help

Are you exhausted from putting your life on hold while waiting for marriage? Between the sting of digital comparison, well-meaning questions at family gatherings, and the quiet fear that your prayers are bouncing off the ceiling, prolonged singleness can feel like an unending test of spiritual endurance. It is easy to treat waiting as a divine waiting room or, worse, a subtle verdict on your worth. The Christian Single's 60-Day Waiting Devotional offers a grounding, scriptural lifeline for when emotional fatigue sets in. Over sixty days of practical, grace-filled reflections, Brandon DeVries guides you away from anxious self-optimization and into the steady embrace of a loving Father. Through scriptural lament, honest self-examination, and practical exercises, you will uncover how to: • Disentangle your core self-worth from your relationship status • Dismantle performance-driven prayer and approach God with tender honesty • Silence the quiet resentment fueled by social media milestones • Surrender rigid timelines and find deep, abiding contentment right now Your current season is not an empty prelude—it is an intentional landscape for spiritual depth. Discover the peace of resting in God's sovereign care and embrace the abundant life waiting for you Today.

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A Draught of Hemlock

A Draught of Hemlock

A Victorian Thriller of Forensic Science, Poison, and Imperial Corruption

  • True Crime
  • Historical Non-Fiction

In 1890s London, hemlock is no longer just a poison—it has become a weapon of class warfare. When a lethal alkaloid formula slips from the shadows of an underground apothecary into the crystal decanters of Parliament, Scotland Yard Inspector Thomas Vance finds himself chasing a ghost. The only person who understands the lethal compound is Hester Finch, a brilliant former vigilante chemist whose radicalized ex-apprentice is systematically executing the city's ruling elite. Bound by an uneasy truce, Vance and Finch track the tainted tincture from toxic Thames wharves to the glittering ballrooms of Belgravia. As the body count climbs and public panic sparks draconian quarantine lockdowns across the capital, the pair unearths The Iron Vault—a ruthless aristocratic syndicate manipulating both the chemical trade and the courts meant to judge them. Armed only with nascent forensic toxicology—color assays, scales, and extraction analysis—Vance and Finch must unravel an imperial conspiracy before the final draught is served. A Draught of Hemlock is a dark, atmospheric historical thriller that exposes the razor-thin line between Victorian high society and the criminal underworld.

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The Belladonna Society

The Belladonna Society

In Victorian London, true justice requires a lethal dose of quiet rebellion.

  • Mystery
  • Historical Fiction

To high society, she sells soothing botanical tonics. In secret, she brews untraceable deliverance. In the foggy alleys of Blackfriars, apothecary Hester Finch serves as the covert lifeline for the Belladonna Society—an underground vigilante network protecting battered wives from Belgravia's wealthiest monsters. Using lethal doses of nightshade and hemlock, she provides desperate women a silent escape. Her double life unravels when Lord Harrington is discovered dead behind the bolted doors of his locked study. Scotland Yard Detective Inspector Thomas Vance enlists Hester's mastery of forensic chemistry and toxicology to identify the rare compound. To Hester's horror, the victim died from her own bespoke formula. Forced to analyze the crime scene under Vance's unrelenting gaze, Hester fakes test results and obscures physical clues. But the sharp detective matches chemical traces straight to her workshop, issuing a brutal dawn ultimatum: surrender the noblewomen or hang. To save her sisterhood, Hester uncovers Harrington's hidden iron vault of blackmail ledgers, forcing Vance to choose between statutory law and moral righteousness. Perfect for fans of The Lost Apothecary and A Study in Scarlet Women, this atmospheric locked-room mystery will hold you spellbound.

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The Audacity of Grace A Manual of Kingdom Realpolitik

The Audacity of Grace A Manual of Kingdom Realpolitik

How Radical Grace and Calculated Non-Reactivity Outplay Power, Fear, and Opposition

  • Business & Entrepreneurship
  • Self-Help
  • Religion & Spirituality

Power dynamics usually reward the aggressive, the loud, and the calculating. Machiavellian maneuvering tells us that survival demands matching force with equal force, meeting slander with defense, and securing leverage at all costs. What if the ultimate power move is refusing to play the game on those terms? In The Audacity of Grace, Brandon DeVries introduces kingdom realpolitik—a battle-tested strategic philosophy built on the counterintuitive strength of calculated non-reactivity, strategic innocence, and benevolent audacity. Instead of trading blows or surrendering to passive martyrdom, this manual shows leaders how to dismantle fear monopolies and outmaneuver hostile opposition through bedrock sovereignty. From handling smear campaigns and high-stakes corporate sabotage to breaking relational debt through the jubilee exploit, DeVries reveals why radical grace is not weakness, but an unshakeable offensive weapon. Whether you are commanding a boardroom, restructuring an institution, or navigating daily interpersonal landmines, this book delivers the framework to neutralize aggression, outlast temporal opposition, and build legacies of enduring influence.

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5-Minute Pocket Devotional For Busy Dads

5-Minute Pocket Devotional For Busy Dads

Daily Spiritual Frameworks and Simple Habits to Lead Your Family with Calm and Purpose

  • Religion & Spirituality
  • Parenting & Family
  • Self-Help

You love your family fiercely, but by 7:00 p.m., exhaustion usually wins. Between unrelenting workplace demands, endless to-do lists, and the constant hum of provision anxiety, modern fatherhood can feel like an exercise in survival. You want to lead your home with spiritual conviction and gentle patience, yet traditional devotionals demand thirty quiet minutes you simply do not have. Here is the truth: fatigue is not a moral failure. It is a nervous system alarm that requires a practical, grace-filled response. The 5-Minute Pocket Devotional For Busy Dads gives you an actionable blueprint designed specifically for high-friction days. Built on first-principles thinking and anchored in Scripture, each daily entry delivers a sharp biblical focus, an actionable mindset reframe, and a micro-habit you can practice immediately—from a 60-second breathing reset during traffic to the threshold pause before walking through your front door. You do not need more heavy religious chores. You need repeatable, small acts of faithfulness that steady your heart so you can show up as the father and husband God created you to be. Transform everyday chaos into steady spiritual leadership, five minutes at a time.

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The 66 Guided Journey Through Scripture

The 66 Guided Journey Through Scripture

A Trauma-Informed Devotional Walk Through Every Book of the Bible Free from Performance Pressure

  • Religion & Spirituality
  • Self-Help

Have you ever opened Scripture carrying an exhausting burden of religious perfectionism? For countless believers, daily devotions feel less like an invitation to rest and more like a demanding checklist that leaves them spiritually depleted and anxious. In The 66 Guided Journey Through Scripture, Brandon De Vries invites you to lay down performance-driven devotion and discover a grace-anchored rhythm of quiet restoration. Drawing on trauma-informed insights and biblical wisdom, this whole-Bible guide provides a gentle roadmap through each of the sixty-six books without the weight of guilt or hurry. Through practical, nervous-system-regulating spiritual practices like Read, Notice, Obey and Hear, Turn, Act, you will learn to encounter God not as an exacting taskmaster, but as a compassionate sanctuary. Alongside foundational reflections from Genesis through Revelation, practical prayer logs, Scripture memory tools, and reflective prompts guide you toward genuine emotional resilience. Whether your faith feels bruised, stagnant, or weary from years of trying harder, this guided journey offers a peaceful sanctuary. Step away from performative faith and enter into the enduring freedom of being known, held, and renewed by God.

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Dating with Conviction: A 40-Day Story-Driven Devotional to Break Fear, Ditch Purity Culture Baggage, and Pursue Mature Relationships

Dating with Conviction: A 40-Day Story-Driven Devotional to Break Fear, Ditch Purity Culture Baggage, and Pursue Mature Relationships

A Story-Driven Christian Devotional to Overcome Dating Fear, Move Beyond Purity-Culture Baggage, and Pursue Mature Relationships

  • Religion & Spirituality
  • Self-Help

Want a meaningful relationship, but feel caught between trusting God and fearing your next step? You are not alone—and you do not have to shame yourself into courage. Dating with Conviction is for Christian singles navigating dating anxiety, confusing expectations, and the lingering effects of purity culture. Through the story of thirty-year-old worship leader Julian Vance and grounded, candid Chloe Ross, it explores what happens when familiar spiritual language can no longer substitute for honest communication. Across twelve narrative chapters, their unfolding relationship is paired with Scripture-based reflection, practical exercises, and invitations to take intentional action. Along the way, you will explore how to: • Recognize when fear—not discernment—is driving delay. • Question the soulmate myth and unrealistic relationship expectations. • Communicate interest, uncertainty, and boundaries with clarity. • Make room for vulnerability without abandoning wisdom. • Pursue relational maturity without treating marriage as the measure of your worth. This story-driven devotional offers room for both conviction and grace. It does not promise a perfect partner or a guaranteed romantic outcome; it invites you to approach relationships with greater honesty, courage, and faith. Begin with the next faithful step—not a flawless plan.

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The $95/Hour Furniture Flip: Turn $20 Thrift Store Finds into High-End Decor

The $95/Hour Furniture Flip: Turn $20 Thrift Store Finds into High-End Decor

Turn Neglected Thrift Store Finds into High-Margin Garage Arbitrage and Serious Cash

  • Business & Entrepreneurship
  • Instructional Guide
  • Educational & Academic

Stop Flipping Furniture for Minimum Wage — Start Running a $95/Hour Resale Engine Turn curbside castoffs into designer showpieces with the lean, garage-based system that makes every hour you work actually pay. Introduction You didn't get into flipping to earn pennies per hour. But here you are — twenty hours deep into hand-sanding a dresser, surrounded by half-finished pieces, boutique chalk paint you overpaid for, and listings that sit unsold for weeks. Your living room looks less like a workshop and more like a furniture graveyard. It's not because you lack talent. It's because nobody handed you the system — the sourcing math, the fast-prep methods, the pricing playbook that professionals use to turn flips into reliable income. The $95/Hour Furniture Flip by Brandon DeVries is that system. It's not a craft hobby guide. It's a lean manufacturing blueprint that transforms your garage into a high-margin resale operation — whether you want an extra thousand dollars a month or a full-scale arbitrage business. Inside This Book, You Will Learn To: ✅ Scout undervalued mid-century gold for under $50 — learn exactly where to look and how to spot heritage brand stamps in seconds, so you never overpay for inventory again. ✅ Ditch the twenty-hour sanding marathon — master rapid mechanical prep and chemical primers that permanently block bleed-through in a fraction of the time. ✅ Achieve factory-smooth finishes at home — spray-application secrets that make your pieces look showroom-professional, not a "DIY project." ✅ Stage photos that sell before buyers scroll past — high-converting digital staging techniques that make premium prices feel obvious. ✅ Write algorithmic marketplace listings that end haggling — command top dollar and stop negotiating against yourself. ✅ Run the operational math on every flip — know before you buy whether a piece will hit the $95/hour threshold, so no project wastes your weekend. Why You Can Trust This Book 🔧 Built on real operational math — every method is measured against hourly return, not vague "flip it for profit" promises. 🏭 Lean manufacturing, not guesswork — the same efficiency principles that run factories, scaled down to fit your garage. 💰 Designed for real-world budgets — start with sub-$50 sourcing and basic tools; no expensive boutique products required. 📈 Scales with your goals — whether you want side income or a full-time arbitrage business, the blueprint grows with you. Your Next Flip Could Be Your First Real Payday Imagine finishing a piece in a fraction of the time, listing it once, and selling it at a premium — no haggling, no graveyard, no burnout. That's what happens when you stop working like a hobbyist and start operating like a business. 👉 Scroll up and grab your copy of The $95/Hour Furniture Flip today — your garage is about to become the most profitable room in your house. Stop sanding for pennies. Start flipping for real profit.

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Quiet The Noise: 30-day Christian devotional and digital detox for peace

Quiet The Noise: 30-day Christian devotional and digital detox for peace

Reclaim your attention, silence digital anxiety, and restore daily peace in Christ

  • Religion & Spirituality
  • Self-Help
  • Wellness & Fitness

Your Mind Was Never Meant to Live in a Feed Reclaim your peace, your focus, and your quiet time with God — in just 30 days, without extreme digital fasts. Introduction You pick up your phone to check one thing… and lose an hour you'll never get back. The notifications never stop. The scroll never ends. And somewhere beneath all that noise, you can feel it — a quiet ache for stillness, for focus, for the presence of God you used to know before the digital world claimed your attention. You've tried deleting apps. You've promised yourself "less screen time." But willpower alone hasn't worked, because the problem isn't just your phone. It's the restless hurry that's taken root in your soul. Quiet The Noise by Brandon DeVries is a 30-day spiritual journey designed to break the cycle of digital overload — not through guilt or unrealistic rules, but through gentle, sustainable daily practices that fit into real, busy life. This isn't another lecture about putting your phone down. It's a path back to peace. Inside This Book, You Will Learn To: ✅ Silence the mental static — daily stillness protocols help you quiet a mind trained on constant stimulation, one manageable step at a time. ✅ Dismantle the theater of comparison — stop measuring your life against curated feeds and rediscover contentment in who God made you to be. ✅ Reclaim your evenings — establish peaceful bedtime boundaries so you end your day in rest, not in restless scrolling. ✅ Respond instead of react — practical tools for managing emotional reactivity online, so the internet no longer controls your mood. ✅ Create before you consume — flip the daily habit that drains you and start each morning with purpose instead of noise. ✅ Turn silence into sanctuary — transform quiet from something uncomfortable into a spacious place of renewal and prayer. ✅ Meet God in the margins — Scripture meditations, journaling prompts, and contemplative prayer exercises that fit naturally into a full schedule. Why You Can Trust This Book 📖 Rooted in Scripture — every day is anchored in God's Word, not trendy self-help formulas. 🕊️ Grace over guilt — no shame, no extreme fasts, no impossible standards. Just a gentle, realistic path forward. 🗓️ Built for real life — each day's practice is designed for busy schedules, so you can actually finish what you start. ✍️ Written with honesty — Brandon DeVries writes as a fellow traveler, not a critic — someone who understands the pull of the screen and the hunger for something deeper. Thirty Days From Now, You Could Be Different Imagine ending your day in peace instead of a glowing screen. Imagine hearing God clearly again. Whether you're battling screen addiction, creative burnout, or plain mental exhaustion, the next 30 days can change how you live, rest, and pray. 👉 Order your copy of Quiet The Noise today — and begin Day One of your journey back to stillness. The noise will always be there. Your peace doesn't have to wait.

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The Dove's Gambit: Institutional Realpolitik and the Architecture of Strategic Innocence

The Dove's Gambit: Institutional Realpolitik and the Architecture of Strategic Innocence

Mastering Strategic Innocence to Dismantle Systemic Leverage and Command Market Authority

  • Business & Entrepreneurship
  • Religion & Spirituality
  • Instructional Guide

They're Not Negotiating. They're Engineering Leverage Against You. The Dove's Gambit gives executive leaders a field-tested system to expose hidden agendas and neutralize bad-faith tactics — without becoming the kind of leader you never wanted to be. You shouldn't have to choose between being naive and becoming ruthless. But that's the choice most leadership advice hands you. Fight fire with fire. Match secrecy with secrecy. Outmaneuver, counterpunch, escalate. You've seen where that leads: exhausting political cycles, eroded trust, and decisions made from a defensive crouch rather than from a position of strength. Meanwhile, the real threats stay buried — in one-sided clauses, misaligned incentives, and boardroom dynamics designed to look like partnership right up until the moment they become control. The Dove's Gambit introduces Strategic Innocence: an operational architecture built for C-suite executives, institutional leaders, and founders who need to dismantle manipulation while keeping their integrity fully intact. Inside This Book, You Will Learn To: ✅ Neutralize bad-faith terms before they harden into control — the Daylight Negotiation Protocol shows you how to audit deal architecture and call out hidden incentives objectively, without theatrics. ✅ Navigate hostile politics with structural clarity — the Serpent–Dove Strategic Matrix gives you a field-ready model for board disputes, high-friction negotiations, and corporate power struggles. ✅ Close the doors your rivals plan to walk through — Vulnerability Elimination strips out personal pride and institutional blind spots before anyone can weaponize them. ✅ Spot the trap before you enter the room — repeatable Asymmetric Risk Detection indicators reveal concealed Pressure points and structural traps early, when they're still cheap to escape. ✅ Build authority that can't be used against you — establish durable market power through disciplined integrity and frameworks designed to outlast volatility. ✅ Lead from offense, not defense — replace reactive counter-punching with a system that renders coercive leverage useless. Why You Can Trust This Book 🛡️ Built for practitioners, not theorists — every framework is designed for real deal rooms, real boardrooms, and real stakes. 🔍 Systems, not slogans — you get named protocols, repeatable indicators, and decision architecture you can deploy immediately. ⚖️ Integrity as strategy, not sentiment — this book proves transparency is an operational weapon, not a weakness. 📐 Reader-first design — structured so you can apply each framework to a live negotiation this week. Lead With Authority That Cannot Be Weaponized The next high-stakes negotiation is already forming. The question is whether you'll walk in reading the room — or being read. 👉 Scroll up and click “Buy Now” to master Strategic Innocence. Because the strongest position in the room belongs to the leader with nothing to hide — and nothing to exploit.

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Grace in the Inbox: The Christian Solopreneur’s Guide to AI-Powered Newsletters and Ethical Profit.

Grace in the Inbox: The Christian Solopreneur’s Guide to AI-Powered Newsletters and Ethical Profit.

How Christian Creators Can Scale Income and Ministry in Five Weekly Hours

  • Business & Entrepreneurship
  • Instructional Guide
  • Religion & Spirituality

Transform your online business with faith-based email marketing and ethical AI copywriting designed specifically for the faith-driven creator. If you want to increase your productivity as a Christian solopreneur while maintaining biblical business stewardship, Grace in the Inbox is your step-by-step roadmap. Discover how to launch a high-earning micro-newsletter business model in only five hours a week. Author Brandon DeVries reveals how to build a high-converting Christian entrepreneur newsletter, ethically leverage cutting-edge artificial intelligence, escape social media burnout, and generate sustainable passive income. Protect your Sabbath rest, steward your God-given talents, and turn your subscriber list into a thriving digital ministry today.

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The Kingdom Investor A Biblical Blueprint for Real Estate Stewardship

The Kingdom Investor A Biblical Blueprint for Real Estate Stewardship

Build lasting property wealth with faith, integrity, and wise stewardship

  • Instructional Guide
  • Finance
  • Religion & Spirituality

Wealth without purpose is empty. Purpose without a plan stays a dream. The Kingdom Investor is a tactical and theological guide for Christians who want to build a real estate portfolio that honors God and secures a family legacy. Moving past prosperity-gospel slogans and get-rich-quick schemes, Brandon DeVries reframes credit work, market analysis, negotiation, and property management as acts of biblical stewardship. Inside, you will find rigorous frameworks for identifying high-growth markets, calculating returns with honesty, negotiating without compromise, and managing rentals with a neighbor-first mindset. From debt-to-income ratios and SMART acquisition goals to tenant retention, partnerships, and tax-aware estate planning, every chapter pairs practical steps with timeless wisdom. If you are ready to grow sustainable wealth that serves your family, strengthens your community, and points beyond yourself, this blueprint shows how faith and finance can work together—with integrity at the center.

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Holy Heretics

Holy Heretics

A compassionate guide to dismantling spiritual trauma, reclaiming agency, and finding God outside institution walls

  • Religion & Spirituality
  • Self-Help

They Called You a Heretic for Asking Honest Questions. What If That Was the Beginning, Not the End? Holy Heretics shows you how to heal from religious trauma and rebuild an authentic faith — without forfeiting God to escape a toxic church. You loved God. You asked a question. And everything changed. Maybe it started small. A doubt you voiced in a small group. A concern about leadership you couldn't keep quiet. And suddenly, you weren't family anymore. You were a problem. A rebel. A heretic. If you've been shamed, silenced, or exiled from a high-control religious environment, you know a pain few people understand — grieving a community and a version of God at the same time, while wondering if the problem was you all along. It wasn't. In Holy Heretics, author Brandon DeVries reframes the label meant to wound you as a sacred calling. Drawing powerful parallels between modern survivors of church hurt and history's great reformers, he reveals a liberating truth: exile is not a spiritual failure. It's often the doorway to a faith that's finally, fully your own. Inside This Book, You Will Learn To: ✅ Process theological grief without drowning in it — trauma-informed guidance helps you name and heal religious flinching, somatic dread, and the losses no one taught you how to mourn. ✅ Unbraid weaponized Scripture — untangle the proof-texts used to control you, so the Bible stops feeling like a threat and starts feeling safe again. ✅ Dismantle internalized guilt — quiet the inner voice of institutional shame and stop apologizing for questions that deserved answers. ✅ Set unyielding boundaries with past abusers — protect your peace with relational limits you no longer have to justify to anyone. ✅ Rebuild your internal moral compass — learn to trust your own discernment again after years of being told you couldn't. ✅ Reconnect directly with the divine — discover an embodied, genuine faith that needs no gatekeeper's permission. Why You Can Trust This Book 📖 Trauma-informed, not trauma-dismissive — DeVries takes spiritual wounds seriously, blending psychological insight with pastoral care rather than platitudes. 🕊️ Faith-affirming, never faith-shaming — this is not a book about abandoning God. It's about finding Him outside the walls that hurt you. 🧭 Rooted in history — you stand in a long line of exiled believers whose "heresy" became the church's renewal. You are not alone, and you are not new. ❤️ Written by someone who gets it — every page carries the empathy of an author who understands what it costs to walk away and keep believing. Your Exile Can Become Your Wilderness Awakening You don't have to choose between your faith and your freedom. Step out of the shadows of institutional control and into a genuine, unshakeable connection with God — starting today. 👉 Get your copy of Holy Heretics now and begin rebuilding the faith they couldn't take from you. They called you a heretic. Turns out, you were just honest.

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They Called It God

They Called It God

Exposing Spiritual Abuse and Reclaiming Your Personal Authority

  • Self-Help
  • Religion & Spirituality

When sacred authority is weaponized, where do you turn to find the truth? For many devoted individuals, high-control spiritual environments begin with promises of community, divine purpose, and unconditional love. But beneath the surface lies a subtle web of coercive control, institutional gaslighting, and the systematic erosion of self-trust. In They Called It God, Brandon DeVries provides a compassionate, evidence-based roadmap for survivors ready to step out from under the shadow of spiritual abuse. Through a structured three-act journey, this groundbreaking guide helps you identify toxic group dynamics, deconstruct weaponized dogma, and navigate the painful fallout of social exile without losing your soul. Packed with actionable somatic grounding protocols, diagnostic grids, and practical boundary frameworks, this book empowers you to dismantle internalized guilt and reclaim your innate intuition. You do not need human gatekeepers to access the sacred. Whether you are actively deconstructing your faith or supporting a loved one in recovery, They Called It God offers the tools to heal your relational health, rebuild unshakeable self-trust, and reclaim your personal sovereignty.

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The Spiritual Abuse Recovery Workbook & Devotional

The Spiritual Abuse Recovery Workbook & Devotional

14 Bible study exercises to heal from toxic leadership and restore your faith

  • Religion & Spirituality
  • Self-Help

Heal From Spiritual Abuse—Without Losing Your Faith A trauma-informed, 14-day Bible study workbook that helps you untangle God's truth from the people who misused it—so you can reclaim your faith on your own terms. Introduction Faith was never meant to feel like a cage. If you've experienced religious manipulation, weaponized Scripture, or heavy-handed church leadership, you know the ache no one talks about: the place that promised peace became the source of your pain. You still believe—or you want to—but every prayer, every verse, every Sunday now carries the echo of what was done to you. Here's the truth you may have never been told: Jesus is not the system that hurt you. In The Spiritual Abuse Recovery Workbook & Devotional, Brandon DeVries offers a compassionate road map for believers who refuse to choose between healing and faith. You don't have to burn it all down. And you don't have to pretend it didn't happen. There is a third way—and it starts here. Inside This Workbook, You Will Learn To: ✅ Recognize toxic spiritual authority — Identify the patterns of control, fear, and manipulation so you can name what happened to you with clarity, not confusion. ✅ Untangle weaponized verses — Revisit the Scriptures that were used against you through gentle, contextual biblical analysis that restores their true meaning. ✅ Set healthy emotional boundaries — Use ready-made, custom boundary scripts for difficult conversations with churches, leaders, and family. ✅ Process suppressed grief safely — Guided reflection prompts create space to mourn what you lost—without shame, Pressure, or judgment. ✅ Reclaim your spiritual autonomy — Complete 14 targeted Bible study exercises designed to rebuild your relationship with God at your own pace. ✅ Rediscover the true character of Christ — Separate divine truth from human misuse and fall back in love with the Jesus who never hurt you. Why You Can Trust This Workbook 🕊️ Trauma-Informed by Design — Every exercise is built to be gentle, paced, and pressure-free. You are never told to “just forgive and move on.” 📖 Rooted in Scripture, Not Systems — This isn't anti-church or anti-faith. It's a careful return to the Bible in its true context—free from the distortions of controlling leadership. 🤝 Written for Survivors, Not Spectators — Brandon DeVries writes with the compassion of someone who understands that spiritual wounds are real wounds—and that healing them takes safety, not sermons. 💛 Zero Guilt, Zero Pressure — Move through the 14 days at whatever pace feels safe. Skip, pause, and return. This workbook meets you where you are. Your Healing Doesn't Have to Cost You Your Faith You've carried this long enough. In just 14 days, you can begin to dismantle the toxic theology, grieve what was taken, and step into a relationship with God that feels like freedom—not fear. 👉 Order Your Copy Today and Begin Day One of Your Recovery Because the God who loves you was never the one holding the cage.

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