Baseball legend Darryl Strawberry and his wife, ordained minister Tracy Strawberry, offer hope for troubled marriages in The Imperfect Marriage: Help for Those Who Think It’s Over ($24.99). The authors are forthcoming about their own mistakes, including addiction, adultery and financial woes, and shed light on how to make marriage work through impossible situations. Howard Books releases this hardcover Aug. 5.

In Simplify: Ten Practices to Unclutter Your Soul (Tyndale Momentum), best-selling author and Willow Creek Community Church Bill Hybels identifies the core issues that propel believers into frenetic living. Hybels admits his own battle with overcommitment and explains practical steps to eliminate the things that drain one’s spirit so that readers can enter into God’s plan for purpose, fulfillment and joyful productivity. Releasing Aug. 19, Simplify retails for $22.99 in hardcover.

Chip Ingram, best-selling author, pastor and radio personality, addresses controversial issues in Culture Shock: A Biblical Response to Today’s Most Divisive Issues ($19.99, hardcover). Topics include right and wrong, homosexuality and the environment. Ingram seeks to help readers understand the issues based on research, reason and biblical truth, and to equip believers to communicate biblical convictions with love and respect. Culture Shock releases from Baker Books this month.

Worthy of Her Trust: What You Need To Do to Rebuild Sexual Integrity and Win Her Back by Stephen Arterburn and Jason B. Martinkus is for men who want to restore their marriage following destruction caused by pornography or sex addiction. Available Aug. 19 ($17.99, softcover), this WaterBrook Press title shows men how to establish transparency and accountability, demonstrate honesty and integrity, and seek forgiveness. Arterburn is known for the “Every Man” series, and Martinkus leads Redemptive Living, a ministry helping men with sexual integrity.

Os Guinness makes an appeal for cultural transformation in Renaissance: The Power of the Gospel However Dark the Times. The author, speaker and social critic is founder of the Trinity Forum, a nonprofit organization cultivating networks of leaders to help renew culture and promote human freedom and flourishing. In Renaissance, he shows how Christian faith remade cultures and civilizations in the past and argues that today’s church can be a renewing power in society when believers take up the opportunities before them. IVP Books, an imprint of InterVarsity Press, releases this softcover ($16) this month.

Through her own story and stories of others, Laurie Polich Short shows in Finding Faith in the Dark: When the Story of Your Life Takes a Turn You Didn’t Plan ($15.99, softcover) how God can transform the dark chapters of life into opportunities for grace. The author explores doubt and disappointment and highlights how God is present and working even if He seems absent. Short is a speaker, an author and associate pastor at Ocean Hills Covenant Church in Santa Barbara, California. Her new book is available to stores Aug. 5 from Zondervan.

Jamie George draws from his own experience as a once-reluctant pastor in a downward-spiraling marriage to offer biblically based encouragement. David C Cook releases George’s Love Well: Living Life Unrehearsed and Unstuck ($14.99, softcover) this month. The author shares how God helped him break the cycle of shame and regret to embrace a life of purpose, faith and meaningful relationships.

The faith stories of more than 125 athletes fill the pages of a new book by Pat Williams with Ken Hussar, Triumph! Powerful Stories of Athletes of Faith. Releasing from Barbour Publishing this month, Triumph! ($18.99, hardcover) features athletes from a variety of sports and the stories of stars such as Tony Dungy, Mickey Mantle and Kurt Warner. Williams is a motivational speaker, author of 70 books and senior vice president of the NBA’s Orlando Magic.

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