Principles to Live By — Paperback Available This Week

This is the update I have been looking forward to writing.

After months of writing, revision, review, and a great deal of prayer, Principles to Live By is now available in paperback. If you have been following along — through the newsletter, the blog, or the podcast — you already know how much this book means to me. I am grateful beyond words that it is finally in your hands.

Principles to Live By is written for young adults who are building their lives and want to build them on something that will hold. Not a self-help framework. Not a motivational system. A set of biblical principles — drawn from Scripture, tested in real life — for living with purpose, integrity, and conviction.

The world offers young people a great deal of advice. Most of it is noise. This book is an attempt to cut through that and get back to what is actually true, actually lasting, and actually worth building a life on.

I wrote this primarily for young men and women in their twenties and thirties — people at the hinge point of life, where the decisions they make now will shape everything that follows. But I have heard from readers of every age who found something in these pages that spoke to where they are.

If you are a parent, a mentor, or a pastor looking for something to put in the hands of a young person you care about, this is that book.

The paperback is available now on Amazon. Order your copy today and start reading.

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If you have been waiting, the wait is over.

To everyone who has prayed for this project, shared the newsletter, listened to the podcast, and sent encouraging notes along the way — thank you. You kept this going on the days when it was hard to keep going.

The book exists because of that faithfulness. I hope it serves you well.

More details on the release, events, and how you can help spread the word are coming soon. Stay close.

— R.S. Ellis