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Birthing The Miraculous
$14.99Add to cartGod has promised us miracles. Are you willing to do what it takes to see them through? We all desire the favor of God on our lives. We eagerly pray and hope for God’s promises and blessings, especially when they come in the form of cash or a promotion. But carrying the promises of God often means being inconvenienced, being stretched, and being patient to nourish those promises until it is God’s time for you to give birth to them. The result of the process is a miraculous demonstration of God’s power to bring change on the earth. In Birthing the Miraculous, Heidi Baker weaves true stories from her life and ministry together with the biblical story of Mary’s pregnancy with Jesus to show readers how to carry the promises of God in their own lives, becoming a catalyst for God’s glory here on earth.
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I Wish Jesus Hadnt Said That
$19.99Add to cartIn contemporary culture, many people are driven by a desire to secure their own happiness. But Christians are called to abandon, not cherish, the ways of the world and reject, not pursue, the things that afford us status, prestige, and pleasure.
In I Wish Jesus Hadn’t Said That, Steve Timmis calls all believers to consider ten sayings of Jesus that reveal where our affections lie in order to powerfully reorient our hearts.
Among the well-known sayings and stories of Jesus that Timmis unpacks are ‘You cannot serve both God and money’ and ‘Love your enemies’. Though most people have read these words countless times, most of us have not engaged with them on a level that prompts action. In this book, Timmis challenges true followers of Jesus to grapple with what it means to follow him, and accept his verdict on what constitutes the good life.
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Bad Dads Of The Bible
$18.99Add to cartSome of the most noted, celebrated and godly men in the Bible made some very big mistakes when it came to raising their children. Roland Warren, former President of the National Fatherhood Initiative, calls these errors “bad dad” mistakes. Bad Dads of the Bible examines these mistakes, brings them into a contemporary setting and gives today’s dads much needed advice on how to avoid them. Moreover, should a dad unfortunately make some of these common mistakes, this book will give him practical advice and an easy-to-follow roadmap to help him repair his relationships with his children before it’s too late.
As dads study the examples of the fatherhood legacies of men like Abraham, David and Eli, men who loved God deeply, they will learn from their missteps. More importantly, this book can serve as a clarion call for men to take action now to be the fathers that God designed them to be.
Each chapter includes Reflection, Correction and Connection sections at the end to help dads easily apply what they have read, as well as a “Good Dad Promise” to pave the way for future good parenting decisions….
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When Spiritual But Not Religious Is Not Enough
$19.99Add to cartLillian Daniel takes on the cliched catchphrase “I’m spiritual but not religious” by telling stories – both biblical and contemporary – of what a life of faith can really be: odd, wondrous, and worth trying.
The phrase “I’m spiritual but not religious” has become a cliche. It’s easy to find God amid the convenience of self-styled spirituality–but is it possible (and more worthwhile) to search for God through religion?
Minister and celebrated author Lillian Daniel gives a new spin on church with stories of what a life of faith can really be: weird, wondrous, and well worth trying. From a rock-and-roller sexton to a BB gun-toting grandma, a church service attended by animals to a group of unlikely theologians at Sing Sing, Daniel shows us a portrait of church that is flawed, fallible–and deeply faithful. With poignant reflections and sly wit, Daniel invites all of us to step out of ourselves, dare to become a community, and encounter a God greater than we could ever invent.
Humorous and sincere, this is a book about people finding God in the most unexpected of places: prisons, airports, yoga classes, committee meetings, and, strangest of all, right there in church.
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Unfinished Filling The Hole In Our Gospel
$19.99Add to cartDespite knowing the truth and having a relationship with Jesus Christ, many Christians feel like something is missing. They read the Bible regularly, participate in church life and community and give of their time and resources, but still lack a sense of purpose and mission in their daily lives. If you’re feeling like something is missing, you may be right.
Richard Stearns, president of World Vision and author of The Hole in Our Gospel, believes that what many Christians need is a reawakening of God’s purpose and passion in their lives. In Unfinished: Believing Is Only the Beginning, Stearns explores the invitation God offers to each of us to be a part of His greater work in the world. Sharing lessons from Scripture and inspiring stories of how real people are making a difference, Unfinished will show you that God has a dream for this world that Jesus called the kingdom of God. Discover how the journey into your heart’s cry for significance and purpose can be answered by uniting with God’s vision for His eternal kingdom. Includes a Study Guide. Softcover. -
Happy Wives Club
$19.99Add to cartDiscover the Best Marriage Secrets from the World’s Happiest Wives Join Fawn Weaver on an exciting, exotic trip across six continents and through more than eighteen cities, as she discovers what makes a great marriage. Walk the streets of Mauritius, the historic ruins in Italy, and the vistas of New Zealand and Australia. Go from Cape Town to London, Manila to Buenos Aires, Winnipeg to Zagreb. Along the way, you will meet everyday women whose marriage secrets span cultures. You will hear their stories, witness their love, and be inspired by the proof that happy, healthy marriages do exist – and yours can be one of them
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Balanced Christianity (Expanded)
$8.99Add to cartChristians tend to polarize. Some have an intellectual faith, while others are more emotional. Some focus on structure while others focus on freedom. And some champion evangelism while others advocate for social action. John Stott’s classic statement of balanced Christianity shows how we can hold these tensions together in biblical, faithful ways.
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Evangelicals On Public Policy Issues
$17.99Add to cartSix politically diverse evangelical Christians model a better way to do politics: respectful conversation about twelve public policy issues that uncover common ground and illuminate remaining disagreements.
Current political discourse is broken, characterized by nasty sound bytes, demonizing the opposition, and holding to fixed positions that resist the discovery of the common ground needed for governing. In this volume, six evangelical Christians model a better way, informed by the belief that the call of Christians to love their neighbors should create a welcoming space for persons to talk respectfully about their disagreements.
The six Christians, who situate themselves at various points along the political spectrum, completed a nine-month “Alternative Political Conversation” on the website www.respectfulconversation.net on the following topics: the federal budget deficit, immigration, religious freedom, Syria and Iran, Israel and Palestine, poverty in the US, marriage, health care, K-12 education, gun control, abortion, and the role of government.
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Jumpstart : Your Way To Healthy Living With The Miracle Of Super Foods New
$15.99Add to cartA step-by-step plan to supercharge every area of your health Everybody wants to look and feel their best. Jumpstart! takes a multipronged approach to heath and wellness that provides impressive results quickly. Emphasizing the connection between mind, body and spirit, the author shows you how to:
*Reset your weight to its optimal level
*Reprogram your mind for success
*Tap into the most powerful power sourceWhen you start to drop the excess pounds and cleanse your body of stress and toxins, your body will begin to function at its optimal level, revving up your metabolism and immune system. Jumpstart! your health and get excited about the new life that is just around the corner!
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Dudes Guide To Manhood
$18.99Add to cartAs if we hadn’t noticed, manhood is in deep trouble.
Dudes, look around: The trail we once traveled from boyhood to maturity is now so over-grown, it’s almost impossible to trace. Our vision is blurred, rendering the map that previ-ous generations followed unreadable. Our compass needles are flying in circles, making navigation impossible. We are stuck in dense, dangerous woods, and our communities-the wives, children, friends, and colleagues we could be influencing-are suffering as a result.
It can be tempting to give up and simply exist, but take heart: Now is not the time for men to abandon our quest. We can discover the path to true masculinity-to an adventurous life of strength, purpose, and clarity.
In The Dude’s Guide to Manhood, pastor and author Darrin Patrick charts a course back toward real manliness, mapping out a vision to help men find significance and influence in today’s broken, mixed-message culture. -
Called To Be Saints
$30.99Add to cartIntroduction
Chapter 1: Called To Be Saints: The Need For A Compelling Theology Of Holiness
Chapter 2: Union With Christ
Chapter 3: Holy People Are Wise People: An Invitation To Sapiential Holiness
Chapter 4: Called To Do Good Work: An Invitation To Vocational Holiness
Chapter 5: Learning To Love: An Invitation To Social Holiness
Chapter 6: Joy And The Ordering Of The Affections: An Invitation To Emotional Holiness
Appendix 1: Congregations And Transformation: The Church And The Call To Spiritual Maturity
Appendix 2: Christian Higher Education: A Passion For Wisdom And Spiritual TransformationAdditional Info
Evangelicals are known for their emphasis on conversion. But what about life after conversion and beyond justification? Desperately needed is a comprehensive theology of the Christian life from beginning to end, along with the means of formation and transformation. In Called to Be Saints, Gordon Smith draws on a distinguished lifetime of reflecting on these themes to offer us a theologically rich account of our participation in the life of Christ. Both profound and practical, this book is a trinitarian theology of holiness that encompasses both justification and sanctification, both union with Christ and communion with God. Smith unfolds how and why Christians are called to become wise people, do good work, love others and enjoy rightly ordered affections. If holiness is the ongoing journey of becoming mature in Christ, then there is no better guide than Smith. Christians in every walk of life will find this a rich resource for learning what it means to “grow up in every way . . . into Christ” (Ephesians 4:15). -
Satisfied : Discovering Contentment In A World Of Consumption
$18.99Add to cartWhy does a contented, satisfied life feel so evasive? What deep hungers drive the reckless purchasing habits, out of control accumulation, and crazy consumer lifestyle for so many of us? And why are we often driven more by what our neighbors own than what will truly make us happy?
For many in the recent economic financial crisis a series of lifestyle adjustments became necessary as hours were slashed at work and paychecks diminished. Vacations were simplified or canceled, even important purchases had to be delayed and any extras were put on hold.
In the midst of paring back and cutting down there lies the critical question: Will a spirit of resentment and complaint invade our heart or can deep, inner joy prevail, even as our dreams seem to fade? Is it possible to live a deeply satisfied life as possessions and opportunities slip away?
Followers of the Christ, living in the first century world, also wrestled with issues related to material longings. For Christians living in Ephesus, Philippi, and Laodicea, the tendency to find their identity through accumulation and comparison was alive and well. These powerful longings are addressed in numerous places in the storyline of scripture — a storyline that points us toward material and financial sanity and the pathway to true abundance and deep satisfaction.
Satisfied will draw richly from seven passages of scripture, exploring the way in which these messages were received by the original readers and the way these passages can transform the way we view wealth, accumulation, and ultimate contentment today.
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Battle Of God And Evil
$18.99Add to cart13 Chapters
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The conflict of good and evil directly concerned and judicially involved all of us because we all have sin against God.The Battle of Good and Evil: Reconciling with God’s True Faith in the Gospel of Christ is a masterfully written and compelling book that describes in detail the problems of sin. Author Carlos Paterson puts much effort into breaking down factors surrounding motivations for sin, is spiritual and moral implications, and is retribution and punishment. Readers explore his unique perspective on the origins of sin, transmission, its consequences and solutions to sin through Biblical teachings and inspiring commentary. Courteous and dignified, it is a tremendously forceful, orderly and systematic presentation of the doctrine of Sin and Reconciliation. In it the Author presents the Biblical Gospel in an expository, pastoral and constructive manner.
Patterson also incorporates thought-provoking questions regarding the nature of sin that are not present in many discourses. His book deeply looks at various scenarios at length that sin flourishes such as:
How it was possible for a holy creature who is in a state of moral perfection, devoid of any corruption, to fall in to sin?
How does an innate sinful nature originate in each human being at the beginning of their existence?
How do the consequences of sin impact society and the individual?
What is the true nature of freedom and the way out of sin?
Are men basically good? Those every religion leads to God?
What is the way of reconciliation with God and eternal life?
How can we live enriching lives and avoid getting caught in sinful lifestyles?Patterson provides enlightening information and Bible verses to encourage you to overcome sinful urges through empowerment with God. The story of Adam and Eve is explained in a way that The origins of sin are explored in depth, as Patterson uses other lesser known examples of sinful activities and lifestyles that hinder your relationship with God.
This book is a must read for readers looking to transcend sin and form a deeper, more meaningful relationship with God through understanding the Gospel from a Divine perspective.
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Comprehensive Guide For Watchmen
$17.99Add to cart12 Chapters
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This book is a useful guide to prepare readers to become better Christians. The author combines personal experiences with her theological experience to inform readers of better prayer, dissects the Lord’s Prayer, illustrates spiritual gifts from God, and strengthen spiritual weaknesses. The author’s insightful commentary explaining biblical content, and the action plans in the book create an interactive read many readers will revisit.The Five Powerful Ps for Prayer and Intercession
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Choices We Make
$16.49Add to cartAn uplifting new guide that will assist you in making choices that are positive choices for a joyous, peaceful eternity, supported by scriptural teachings, and spiritual conviction. With a myriad of choices to succeed in this world, it leaves little time to ask, is this what God wants for me? Yet He allowed your creation, and everyone and everything has a purpose. What’s yours? Perhaps if you find out what God’s plan is for the end times, you might just want to know how to take the first step in becoming completely successful in God’s purpose for you. Who knows you may be the next Abraham, Martin, John, Moses or the Little Drummer Boy – can’t ever tell; until you ask God. Start on YOUR pathway to success – ask the ONE in control. Born at home with umbilical cord wrapped around my neck, everyone present afraid to unwrap it until the doctor arrived and unwrapped it. About 18 months old with my mother in California having just sent my dad off to Japan. Miles away from home (Kansas) became sick and mom told by doctor to pray for me, but most likely I would die, land lady of boarding house contacted her priest, who gave me last rights. After graduating from high school was off to see the world and all it contained, a prodigal son; was in the Navy, got married, divorced, went back to the military joined the Air Force, met and married my wife of 36 plus years, now have 11 grandchildren, 13 great-grandchildren, all are gifts from God. Has my life been perfect? No, because I am not perfect. Have I made wrong choices? Repeatedly. Why? Because I failed to find out what God’s plan was! Numerous failures to grasp the bar offered in my job cycles, 2 massive heart attacks including open-heart surgery; then finally I said okay God I’m all yours use me wherever I’m needed. Now I enjoy telling others just how much God really does love each and every one of us. So please don’t be hard headed like me; learn early on how much more of life you can enjoy, because you have been willing to ask God, not me, nor anyone else, only the most sacred Triune God (God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit) to become the center peace of your life and live in the abundance of His love and forgiveness. God’s love and blessings – Pastor Ben
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Through The Fire For His Glory
$15.49Add to cartWhen promotion comes, all hell breaks loose! You must remember when you feel like giving up God’s word declares in Isaiah 54:17 “No weapon forged against you will prevail, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and this is their vindication from me.” When God makes such a declaration it doesn’t mean that we won’t experience persecution and attack, but He does declare that when calamity comes we must stand on his word knowing he has already fought our battle, provided a way of escape and that we are more than conquerors. Nothing shall separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord!
As you delve into each chapter, and meditate on each scriptural nugget tucked away in designated places, allow the Lord to personally speak to you regarding your own situation.
Through the Fire, for His Glory reveals hurt, healing, disappointment, and frustration, but Evangelist Faye has persevered with a God-given resiliency that has kept her steadfast in the work of the Lord.
From chapter 1, “Life Begins,” to the final declaration be prepared for a fresh revelation of what it really means to walk by “faith,” trusting GOD in the process, knowing that he is in control.
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In The Shadow Of Eternity
$20.99Add to cartA Candid Look at Holding on to the Call of God through Three Cultures, Divorce and Cancer! In the Shadow of Eternity will be remembered as a summary of Jeff Beacham’s final words to his family, friends and the body of Christ. This book provides a candid and transparent look at the stark realities of life through the eyes of a man who loves God, who loves life and who loves people; a man who trusts confidently in his God, no matter what; a man determined to finish his race well. Jeff does a masterful job depicting the framework of his life, culture and the many transitions experienced in his walk of faith. Rarely are we privileged to meet a man of such fire, passion, courage, covenant, commitment and hope. Jeff’s example is an encouragement to all to run their race well, to fulfill their call and destiny, no matter what!
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Desperate For Gods Presence
$20.99Add to cartThis is a revelatory book that Bill Vincent has released to be a help to those who want a deeper hunger for the things of God. Desperate for God’s Presence is sure to stir up all who take it and apply it to their lives. Everywhere we look, the Church is in desperate need to get a passion for God’s Presence. After writing a five book series on the presence of God, Bill has learned that there is always more. No matter where you are in the things of God you need more of Him. We Pray that this book will cause you to hunger for what God has available in His Presence. As you read this book you will…. Be changed by God’s Presence. Get revelation of how atmospheres are important in experiencing the Presence of God. Learn how to have your own encounters. See Revival impact our lives, churches, families, schools, governments and businesses today! Understand that obedience is always key to God’s Presence and so much more.”
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Understanding The Quiet Time
$7.00Add to cartDr. Dag Heward-Mills, an exceptional Christian leader, reveals one of his secrets. “If anybody were to ask me what the greatest secret of my relationship with God is, I would say, without any hesitation, that it is the power of the quiet times I have with Him everyday.” He has decided to write this book so that you too can benefit from the power of quiet time.
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All In Student Edition
$16.99Add to cartThe Gospel costs nothing—it’s a free gift compliments of God’s grace. But while it doesn’t cost anything, it demands everything—including that we go ‘all in,’ a term that means placing all that you own into the game of life. And that’s where many of us get stuck. What if we miss out on what this life has to offer? The truth is, the only thing you’ll miss out on is everything God has to offer. Inside these pages, Mark Batterson shares vivid stories of people going all in for a greater purpose, ranging from the against-all-odds defense of Little Round Top in the Civil War to the lives of biblical characters like Shamgar and Moses and Elijah and Caleb and … Judas. The message of All In Student Edition is simple: if Jesus is not Lord of all then Jesus is not Lord at all. It’s all or nothing. It’s now or never. Jesus gave all of Himself for you on Calvary’s cross. He wants all of you in return. In essence, your life is not your own—but it can be more amazing than you ever dared imagine if you decide to go all in.
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Marriage Matters
$8.99Add to cartMarriage Matters. It matters to children and homes; neighborhoods and schools; communities and governments. It matters. And it will always matter. Today, marriages are declining at an alarming rate. We’ve all heard the statistic – 50% of marriages end in divorce, but do we ever ask why these marriages are ending?
Nobody enters into a marriage thinking “I’m part of that 50% that will end in divorce.” Wedding days are filled with beauty and the promise of a life filled with happiness. So what happens between the wedding day and the day the divorce papers are finalized? According to pastor and teacher Tony Evans, marriages deteriorate because we have lost sight of the purpose and joy of the marriage covenant.
Marriage Matters examines the nature of the relationship that people enter into on the wedding day. Dr. Evans looks to the Bible and defines what a covenant is, who makes it, and what the implications are. Chaos arises when we seek to do things our way, thus the need to align ourselves according to biblical standards of marriage. Let the practical and engaging Dr. Tony Evans lead you in knowing just how much Marriage Matters.
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Faith The Link With Gods Power
$16.99Add to cartSome believe that simply having faith is an entitlement to blessing and prosperity. Others believe that faith in oneself is all that is needed in life. Still others contend that faith is a cosmic force that breeds superhuman, super-spiritual, invincible power. It is none of these.
Faith is not something requiring you to believe in what you know is not true, nor is it believing something for which there is no evidence. The Bible-a book all about faith-provides the evidence that makes faith so vital, so important, and so astounding.
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Calling : Fulfilling Your God Given Assignment
$15.49Add to cart19 Chapters
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Are you seeking God for what it is that you are called to do?
* Do you know what you are called to do, but have yet to say yes to the Lord?
* Are you running from or running towards your calling?
* Are you among the chosen of God who are well on the way to fulfilling your calling?In the book “The Calling,” Minister Linda Wilder shares powerful information that will encourage you, insight you, and challenge you to say yes to the assignment that is upon your life. Everyone has a Calling. Not everyone knows the significant of their story. God has written your story. He is a Master Builder with a blue print for your life. The Lord has gifted you with a set of tools to use in the up building of His Kingdom. Only He has instructions for who, what, when, where, how and sometimes why he has called you to do just what it is He is calling you to do. It is up to you to discover what your gifted tools are and how to use these gifts that God has given you to fulfill the calling that is upon your life. This book will inspire you with revelation that will help you on the way to writing your very own “Called Story.” Are you ready to answer the call? If your answer is yes, to God be the glory. For many of you that have already answered “Yes” to the Lord and you are operating within your calling. Be uplifted while allowing the revelation from this book to empower you and give you a fresh perspective while on your journey to writing your individual “Called Story.”
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Open Doors : No Matter What Your Past Holds God Holds Your Present And Your
$15.99Add to cartAsif and Leaha have written their story in a he said, she said documentation. And in a day and age when so many he said, she said scenarios end up in divorce court, it is refreshing to read how theirs has led to divine appointments and open doors. Their story celebrates the mystery of how God brings two people together, but it also distills practical insights from the lessons they’ve learned along the way.
As you read their story, you’ll learn to love Asif and Leaha. Their authenticity and passion is infectious. Readng this book is like a long dinner with old friends you haven’t seen in a long, long time. But instead of hearing about last year’s vacation or where they will be sending their kids to college, you will hear stories about what God has done in their lives. This book is both candid and complex. But with each turn of the page, you’ll learn how to walk through the doors God has opened for you.
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Speed Bumps On The Road To Intimacy With God
$15.49Add to cart1. Transforming Your Prayer Monologue Into A Prayer Dialogue
2. Taking God Seriously: Abraham And Sarah
3. Going Solo With God: Joshua
4. Fighting With God: Jacob
5. Praying For A Nation: Nehemiah
6. Moving Outside Your Comfort Zone: Ananias
7. Negotiating With God: Gideon
8. Slow Down For The Speed BumpsAdditional Info
Communication is foundational to any healthy relationship. This is especially true of your relationship with God. Unfortunately this communication, called prayer, becomes too often a monologue rather than a dialogue.That’s where Speed Bumps come in. God knows we need help in reversing this natural tendency to treat God like He solely exists to meet our needs and make us happy. So, God purposefully places speed bumps in our lives to get our attention and slow us down long enough to wake up. Speed bumps are intended to help you re-establish or repair your relationship with Him.
Your relationship with God can be restored. You can go much deeper. But you’ll need to learn how to maneuver around the speed bumps God places before you. This book was written to help you do just that.
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Are We Preaching Another Gospel
$17.49Add to cartFrom the author’s perspective the answer to Are We Preaching “Another” Gospel? is a resounding, “Yes.” “It isn’t that we don’t understand the basic tenants of Christianity,” she writes, “but that we have added to them.”
We used to joyfully proclaim, “Christianity isn’t a religion. It’s a relationship with Jesus Christ,” but if this is so, then why are so many Christians today “miserable”? Why do they have a sense that God is far off or lack confidence that He loves them? What happened to the joy they knew “the hour they first believed”? Why does their “relationship” with Jesus actually seem more like a “religion”-a very difficult, demanding, and unsatisfying religion? Why are so many believers, even though they love Jesus with all of their hearts, giving up on “church” or simply attending out of duty or tradition?
The answers to these questions found in the content of this book are challenging-not that they are difficult to understand-but that our long-held traditions and false beliefs which keep getting passed on from generation to generation stand in our way of perceiving the truth. Jesus said that knowing the truth would set us free, but if our teaching nullifies that truth, bondage follows. So it is reasonable for us, the church, to consider whether or not what we teach is the “grace of Christ” that sets believers free or whether we are preaching “another” gospel which is tying God’s people in hundreds of painful and complicated knots.
So, let the journey begin toward rediscovering the “gospel of the grace of God” (Acts 20:24)! Be prepared to be stretched, challenged, and then set free into the glorious good news of your relationship with God.
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Royal Summon
$14.49Add to cart17 Chapters
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From the Introduction:
This book you are about to read will challenge, change and transform your life.It’s unfortunate that millions of people around the world today who are designed and destined to live and reign in their palaces have their lives gagged up in one prison of life or another…..Only those who are born to reign live in the palace; others are subordinates and messengers…..You are designed and destined to rule your world. The palace is not only your destination but a place where you belong as a child of God….As children of the living God, we are members of God’s divine roayl family. The only God who is greater than the greatest, the king of kings who is stronger than the strongest will give you a royal summons to occupy your palace of success and breakthrough and your life and story will never be the same. Amen.
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Bonhoeffer Study Guide (Student/Study Guide)
$14.99Add to cartIn this four-session video-based small group Bible study, New York Times best-selling author Eric Metaxas will help you discover the major themes of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s writing and speaking and how he not only helped transform an entire faith community in Germany during World War II, but how his beliefs continue to impact the Christian faith of people throughout the world today.
Filmed on location in Germany, Metaxas will take you on a religious journey of Bonhoeffer’s faith and why it has captured so many people’s imaginations and how it has inspired the Christian faith of so many today. Pulling themes from all of his major books, Metaxas helps us understand why these spiritual truths meant so much to Bonhoeffer and how they can be an inspiration and challenge to our faith.
This companion study guide will lead you and your group deeper into the video content (sold separately) with session-by-session discussion topics, personal reflection, and between-session studies to enhance the group experience.
Sessions include:
What is the Church?
Life Together
God Says Yes / Cheap Grace
Religionless ChristianityDesigned for use with Bonhoeffer: A DVD Study.
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God In The Whirlwind
$25.00Add to cartBuilding on years of research and teaching, experienced author and theologian David Wells offers a remedy for evangelicalism’s superficial theology and weightless conception of God: a journey to discover the paradoxical nature of his holiness and his love. We all struggle, at times, to hold that paradox together, commonly resulting in problems such as liberalism or legalism. Yet understanding how God’s holiness is inextricably bound to his love is what enables us to live between the two extremes and defines our life of service in this world. In the vein of classics such as Packer’s Knowing God, Wells’s latest work is written at an accessible level so that all readers can cultivate a balanced vision of the God who belongs in the center of it all.
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Love Worth Giving
$19.99Add to cartLow on Love?
Finding it hard to love? Someone in your world is hard to forgive? Is patience an endangered species? Kindness a forgotten virtue? If so, you may have forgotten a step — an essential first step. Living loved.
God loves you. Personally. Powerfully. Passionately. Others have promised and failed. But God has promised and succeeded. He loves you with an unfailing love. And his love — if you let it — can fill you and leave you with a love worth giving.
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You Dont Have To Be Perfect To Follow Jesus
$12.99Add to cartDiscipleship means being like the Big Twelve disciples, right? But when you read the Gospels and Acts, it’s clear the disciples weren’t always on top of things. In fact, the disciples were clueless, selfish, erratic, inconsistent, and faithless at least half the time. But Jesus loved them and used them all the more for it. Author Mike Yaconelli scrubs away centuries of sentimental buildup and shows there’s hope for us too. In this updated thirty-day devotional, you’ll experience thirty character traits that are marks of a disciple, from boldness to weakness to preparedness. Each reading includes an event from Scripture, a description of that day’s trait, first-person commentary, the obvious and not-so-obvious truth lesson, and questions and journaling space that invite you to ponder and write about your experience.
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Gods At War Student Edition
$16.99Add to cartIn this student edition of gods at war, Kyle Idleman, bestselling author of not a fan, helps us recognize there are false gods at war within each of us, and they battle for the place of glory and control in our lives. What keeps us from truly following Jesus Christ is that our hearts are pursuing something or someone else like money or popularity. While these pursuits may not be the ‘graven images’ of old, they are in fact modern day idols. Behind the sin you’re struggling with, the fear you’re dealing with, the lack of purpose you’re living with is a false god that is winning the war for your heart.
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Its A God Thing Volume 1
$18.99Add to cartSome things in life have no earthly explanation. It’s just a God thing.
Miracles are not reserved for the characters in the Old and New Testaments; they hap-pen to everyday people. Series creator Don Jacobson (When God Makes Lemonade) and K-LOVE Radio Network (12 million listeners) have joined together to produce one of the most remarkable collections of modern day miracles ever compiled.
From a hunter who survived a horrific accident to a mother woken up to escape an attacker, from a soldier guided to safety through unspeakable horrors to a young back-packer who walked free from a terrorist attack, It’s A God Thing presents some of the most amazing stories of God’s hand on our lives. -
Faith Rooted Organizing
$22.99Add to cartThe bible of social action, Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals, mobilizes people around self-interests and common enemies. This strategy is troubling to people of faith. So here historian Peter Heltzel and community organizer Alexia Salvatierra offer a vision for social action that values loving God and loving our neighbor as ourself.
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Hands Free Mama
$18.99Add to cartDo you find yourself reaching for your phone instead of talking and playing with your children? Do you spend more time looking into electronic screens than into the eyes of your loved ones? Has your pursuit of the perfectly-orchestrated life replaced time spent making meaningful connection and memorable life experiences? If the answer is yes, you are not alone. Millions of people are experiencing technology as the new addiction. What matters most in life is lost among electronic gadgets, overloaded schedules, and unrealistic social pressures.
But this isn’t the way it has to be. Popular blogger and writer, Rachel Stafford knows, because she experienced a life-changing journey in her efforts to break away and she shares her steps to freedom in Hands Free Mama. This book provides the awareness, motivation, and tools to get free from the chains of daily distraction and live a more fulfilled and meaningful life. In July 2010, Rachel began practicing simple strategies that enabled her to momentarily let go of daily distractions and initiate meaningful human connection. With each small step, a profoundly transforming reaction occurred. She was able to see how both external and internal distractions were sabotaging her happiness and preventing her from bonding with the people she loves. The addictive grip that her technology and an overly full schedule had on her life began to loosen with each step in her journey. That is when she discovered the power of living “Hands Free.”Hands Free Mama is the digital society’s answer to finding balance in a media-saturated, perfection-obsessed world. It empowers all of us to choose what matters over distraction by offering real and meaningful ways to live a present, authentic, and intentional life…..
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Power In The Promises
$14.99Add to cartGoing through tough times? Wonder where God is when you’re struggling?
There is a solution—God’s solution: Live by the promises in God’s Word.
The Bible is chock-full of God’s promises to every believer to help you overcome any obstacle you’ll ever face—and to rejoice during your good times.
In Power in the Promises, you’ll learn how to rely on God’s Word as you deal with:
* Fear
* Disappointment
* Rejection
* Family Struggles
* Financial difficulties
* Poor health
* GuiltAnd much more. You’ll also learn how to receive God’s joy, experience His love, and grow in faith as you begin to believe, say, and pray the promises from the Bible. Living by the promises of God will change your life…for good…
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Redbird : A Memoir
$10.30Add to cartHere is a warm and personal tale of a young woman who was nurtured and protected through childhood, struggled into single parenthood, and, understandably, played defense with her life. Then, after the loss of someone very important and the despair that darkened her world, and unseen Hand turned on the lights, her outlook on everything changed and she discovered what some people never find – where and who she is suppose to be. Heidi found her way home and it was a little redbird that marked the trail.
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War Within : Gaining Victory In The Battle For Sexual Purity (Expanded)
$17.99Add to cartSexual sins are some of the most difficult to conquer. They’re also some of the most destructive-leaving individuals, marriages, families and churches devastated. Facing sexual temptations daily, too often unfaithful in thought or deed, persistently assaulted by the world, the flesh and the Devil, can men and women today possibly win the war for sexual purity?
This courageous book offers a resounding “YES!” It also provides a battle strategy based on the promises and power of God-and on the author’s experiences in breaking a 25-year long struggle with sexual sin. Newly revised and expanded, this book will lead you to a new level of purity and will encourage you that in this terribly private struggle, you are never alone. -
But God : The Forty Things That Happen To You The Instant You Became A Chri
$14.49Add to cartPositional Truth Series Chapter 1
Positional Truth Series Chapter 2
Positional Truth Series Chapter 3
Positional Truth Series Chapter 4
Positional Truth Series Chapter 5
Positional Truth Series Chapter 6Additional Info
Do you desire victory in your walk with God? Do you want to see God’s kingdom move forward? Well Believer you do not lack an experience nor do you need to get something more from God. The moment you became a Christian forty wonderful positional truths instantly became yours. You already have everything you need. As presented in Eph. 1:3 “We have been blessed with every spiritual blessing in heavenly places in Christ.” And in Col. 2:10 “In Him you have been made complete.” So the secret to growth, the secret to victory and the secret to seeing the gospel and the kingdom of God move forward is learning how to apply what is already true of you. We need to learn how to draw on the position that is already ours in Christ. We need to step out in faith presenting ourselves to the reality of the forty things that happen to a believer the instant they become a Christian. In “But God…” you will learn what those forty positional truths are and how they can by faith become real in your life. -
God And Men No Holds Barred
$15.49Add to cart52 Chapters
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God and Men: No-Holds-Barred is not your typical devotional book. It is highly probable that you will be greatly challenged with God and Men: No-Holds-Barred. The objective is to encourage you to become more Christ-like in your living. Through reading God and Men: No-Holds-Barred, it is guaranteed that you will become more convicted either with living by the world’s standards or by God’s standards. The book will not allow you to remain neutral.It attempts to answer the question, “How does the Bible describe a Real Christian Man?” Its objective is to enable Christians to personally apply specific Bible verses to their personal lives. At the same time, you will learn more about your Bible as well as receive an in-depth discussion of the verses selected. Since men do not naturally read books, it is highly recommended that you read the book with someone else. This introduces a joint accountability to read the book through. Husbands and wives are strongly recommended to share this method of reading through the book.
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Blood Covenant : An Unbreakable Covenant Of Gods Love
$12.49Add to cart12 Chapters
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This book will seal the Blood Covenant in your thinking and will make you sure of your place in the heavenly kingdom. The Blood Covenant is very real and it gives us the confidence to approach God, our Father, like 1 John 5:14-15 tells us we can. We have a place in God that no one can take away. And that place is guaranteed by the shed blood of Jesus Christ.If we don’t understand our Blood Covenant, we struggle to achieve our victory. With our Blood Covenant firmly implanted in our thinking, we understand that we can’t lose.
So, sit back and enjoy. You will be blessed.
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Face To Face
$10.99Add to cartFace to Face is about how you look at yourself. Looking at yourself negatively inhibits you from prospering in the will of God. God has so much more in store for you. Let’s see what God says about you and your future life. His picture of you is so much bigger and so much better than you might realize. Victory belongs to you. In this book you will get a better perception of how to find value and self-worth with the Word of God.
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Rebuilding The House Of The Lord
$16.49Add to cartExcerpt from Chapter 1:
Have you been hanging out in that old, worn-out, broken-down house that always needs fixing, where there are cracks and dents in the walls, maybe even holes? It’s where you often hear the sound of creaking and moaning and groaning, like blame, guilt, condemnation, fear, doubt, and unbelief….As you look around, everything seems to be in disarray and disorder and you feel overwhelmed, as you seem to have lost control, lost ambition, lost heart, and certainly lost vision….Why in the world would you linger there in that dark dreary place? Take heart! A provision for a new house has been made for you! When you invite Jesus to live in your heart, He invites you to step out of the old house and into the new one, created in Christ Jesus!….. -
Legal Pathway Of God
$17.49Add to cartThe author, a retired Special Agent of the FBI, explores the legal pathway from Genesis through Revelation that God was required to follow to accomplish His will and purpose for man. He Biblically documents how God was legally limited by His holy nature and His covenants with man in His efforts to provide man the opportunity to be restored to a righteous relationship unto Himself. A multitude of religions exist worldwide asserting that all of them lead to an eternal spiritual relationship with God. Is there more than one God who exercises authority over this world? As the end of this Age approaches God offers irrefutable proof, confirmed by the Holy Spirit, of the legal pathway that man must follow to experience intimate spiritual fellowship with Him.
The author communicates with empowerment that is infectious. Readers will stay absorbed in this well written book and will value the author’s insights and his creativity in illustrating Truths that the Holy Spirit has given to him to share with us from God’s Word. The many values incorporated in the book can be used by readers to perform a final self-evaluation.
The author received the empowerment of the Holy Spirit while serving at FBI Headquarters. He immediately began to experience God’s miracle working power. The Lord gave him an insatiable desire to investigate His Word. The Holy Spirit confirmed God’s Word with miracles of healing and with signs and wonders. He started a Bible study in the J. Edgar Hoover building and has taught the word of God in home groups and churches. He remains committed to sharing the Good News.
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Winning Over Fear
$10.99Add to cartThis life guide explores the realm of fear within people, what prompts people to embrace fear instead of God and how to overcome fear to allow God to lead their lives. The author describes several factors that will impose fear upon people, from uncertainty of oneself to results stemming from life experiences, as well as biblical wisdom to demonstrate why giving God the reins of one’s life bring freedom and peace.
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You And Your Destiny
$15.99Add to cartYOU AND YOUR DESTINY is not just a book about you and I, it’s about your destiny and how to control your life to live for God and be faithful until death. Whether you’re getting close to the corner office or just starting your career, these inspiring stories, fascinating examples and amazing tips will help you in ways you never imagined. You will learn how to make daily decision for your life and also to always put God in the center of every decision taken.
This book is a must read “YOU AND YOUR DESTINY” will bring you a total transformation and will change the way you think, act and live, it’s a wake-up call for anyone who wants to improve their daily living and strengthen their relationship with God, it’s a powerful book building with strong words of faith to keep you moving from day to day to a better career in life. It will give you power and strength to face whatever life may bring to your way, and then you will shout victory all the way to the end.
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More Life : Breaking Free From The Spirit Of Death
$12.49Add to cartIntroduction
A Personal Odyssey Of Discovery
Unmasking The Spirit Of Death
Christians Under The Influence
When It Begins
Operating Under The Influence
Breaking Free
Staying Free
Evicting The Squatters
Prayer Essentials: Embracing Life
Appendix
Bibliography & Suggested ReadingsAdditional Info
Discover the power of More Life!Based upon Embracing Life Ministries’ popular book, Breaking Free…from the spirit of death by Jonathan Hunter, this new Guidebook Edition offers clear and practical leader’s notes, interactive questions and prayers for group participation…all in one book.
More Life! equips you to effectively identify and confront destructive influences in your life…feelings of helplessness, hopelessness and worthlessness. Join with others and learn how to receive and respond to the Father’s great love found in Christ through the gift His indwelling Holy Spirit.
The result: you are liberated from dominating, detrimental influences and freed for the abundant life Jesus promises us in John 10:10.
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Raw Christianity The Way Jesus Christ Expects All To Know It
$31.49Add to cart27 Chapters
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Raw Christianity – The Way Jesus Christ Expects All to Know It!Look around you. Doesn’t the world seem to be getting more chaotic? Scary? The more I talked to people, the more I realized that many of them, even some who call themselves Christians, aren’t getting what Christianity really is. The real scary part is that many people are sitting in churches every Sunday and they probably won’t be going to heaven. Is that you? It doesn’t have to be. Come see what Jesus wants all of us to know:
* Information that will empower and comfort ones faith in Christ
* How the love of God can change our thinking
* How to overcome the many obstacles to true faith in Christ
* The three types of faith
* The Master Teachings of GodThis book will teach you how to read that Bible that’s been gathering dust on your shelf or how to go buy one (really, you can do it!). God’s Word is beautiful and amazing and well…we all need to know it the way Jesus Christ wanted us to know it. Join me on this journey! I promise you, you’ll never be disappointed in what Jesus wants you to know!
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Raw Christianity The Way Jesus Christ Expects All To Know It
$20.49Add to cart27 Chapters
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Raw Christianity – The Way Jesus Christ Expects All to Know It!Look around you. Doesn’t the world seem to be getting more chaotic? Scary? The more I talked to people, the more I realized that many of them, even some who call themselves Christians, aren’t getting what Christianity really is. The real scary part is that many people are sitting in churches every Sunday and they probably won’t be going to heaven. Is that you? It doesn’t have to be. Come see what Jesus wants all of us to know:
* Information that will empower and comfort ones faith in Christ
* How the love of God can change our thinking
* How to overcome the many obstacles to true faith in Christ
* The three types of faith
* The Master Teachings of GodThis book will teach you how to read that Bible that’s been gathering dust on your shelf or how to go buy one (really, you can do it!). God’s Word is beautiful and amazing and well…we all need to know it the way Jesus Christ wanted us to know it. Join me on this journey! I promise you, you’ll never be disappointed in what Jesus wants you to know!
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You Are Not An Abandoned Project
$12.49Add to cartDedication
Preface
Introduction
God Of Remembrance
PRAYER
When God Remembered Zion
The Word For Your Situation
Failure Is An Orphan
The Case Of Jabez
God Is Too Big To Fail
Faith That Works
Power Of God
Your Turn To Laugh
ABOUT THE AUTHORAdditional Info
This book is dedicated to all believers in the world who are getting ready to move to the next level.
The economic depression, terrible situation, political tension and myriad of crises in our society and in all the nations of the world today have made a lot of people including believers to feel neglected, forgotten and abandoned by God Almighty.God is not an author of confusion but only allows some tests and trials in our lives for us to learn a lesson and glorify Him.
Your life will be transformed as you embark on this journey and grow in spirit and the thought of being forsaken will disappear while His words increase.
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Biblical Antidotes To Lifes Toxins (Anniversary)
$16.49Add to cart14 Chapters
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This illuminating and challenging book is filled with sound biblical counsel, engaging illustrations, and practical suggestions as to how, with God’s enabling, we can face and overcome some of life’s most vexing – and universal – challenges. Glenn Gunderson’s pastoral wisdom and compassionate spirit shine through on every page of this eminently readable guidebook. -
Unexpected : Navigating Life’s Unforeseen Turns
$14.99Add to cartHow is life shaping you?
Adversity doesn t discriminate. Live long enough and adversity happens to all of us—a healthy marriage crumbles, a child becomes an addict, a meaningful friendship abruptly ends, a parent s health rapidly deteriorates, a business venture goes bad, a routine check-up reveals cancer, a long-awaited child arrives deformed—and how we navigate through these times ultimately determine who we become.
The author writes, Over the years, I ve observed a variety of ways people have responded to difficulty and as a result, have been shaped by it. Some become hardened, others more humble. Some become cynical, others more grateful. Some grow to resent life; others discover a deeper purpose to life. Some wilt, others bloom. Some learn to hate, others learn to love. Some become hopeless; others become resilient. Some are blown off course; others are moved toward their destiny. It s not a question of if life shapes us, only a question of how.””
On a routine trip to a women s Bible study, Ken s wife of twenty-five years was killed in a car accident. At the time of the accident, Ken was forty-seven years of age, the father of two adult children, and the pastor of a large and growing congregation. Using his own story, as well as his thirty plus years of experience in pastoring hundreds of others through adversity and tragedy, Ken in his new book “Unexpected: Navigating Life s Unforeseen Turns” will help you navigate through your unexpected turns in life and in the process become the person you hope to become.”
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Restless : Because You Were Made For More
$19.99Add to cartA practical plan to identify the threads of your life and how to intentionally weave them together for God’s glory and purposes.
Restless explores the fact that God has called each of us to do great things in his name, and then helps us discover what that might mean for each of us individually. Jennie says, “We are called to dream but we’re afraid to. But because we are called, when we don’t act on it we become restless-restless to find purpose, to make a difference in the world, to matter.”
Jennie doesn’t suggest women add one more thing to their to-do list, but instead invites them to stop and listen where they are. She frees them to be themselves and to see themselves as valuable. In addition to this permission to dream she helps them get over themselves and their issues and then offers a simple process on highly designed journal pages to identify the raw materials-the unique threads-they’ve been given by digging into five areas:
*Gifts
*Suffering
*Places
*People
*PassionsUsing her own story and that of women with whom she has walked through this process as examples, Jennie weaves in the story of Joseph the dreamer and how God used his threads to fit into the greater story of God. Untangling the threads of our lives and assembling them together in one place reveals a beautiful plan designed by the Creator himself:
God’s Agenda + my threads + the need + the Holy Spirit = my purposeAnd since living out our purpose is often filled with uncertainties Jennie addresses the doubts, fears, and challenges that hold women back from what they’ve been called to do. This repositioning of their lives is not a promise that all things will be perfect, or will go perfectly, but a promise that it will be the start of the best part of life-the part that completes what we were made for.
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Rethink How You Think (Reprinted)
$17.00Add to cartDid you know most of our patterns of behavior are set by the time we are six years old? No wonder it’s so hard to change! Even when we’re committed to making a change in life, it’s always an uphill battle. But there is a secret to lasting change that God gave us long before modern neuroscience and self-help gurus were the norm.
Rethink How You Think is for anyone who has been frustrated by an inability to change habits, overcome fears, or keep up new healthy patterns of living and thinking. Dr. David Stoop shows readers that the true way to lasting change is in the renewing of our minds, which we accomplish when we faithfully read God’s Word and meditate on it daily. He clearly shows how to move from fear to love, from resentment to gratitude, from lust to purity, from loneliness to connection, from idolatry to contentment, and from mistrust to trust. Anyone eager to find change that lasts will welcome this practical and encouraging message.
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Satisfied Study Guide (Student/Study Guide)
$10.99Add to cartI’ll be happy after: the promotion… the new house… the next vacation… a different car… you fill in the blank. Why is a contented, satisfied life so evasive? What deep hungers drive the out of control accumulation, reckless purchasing habits, and crazy consumer lifestyle for so many of us? And why are we often driven more by what our neighbors own than what will truly make us happy? Filmed at biblically significant historical sites in Turkey and Greece and in the United States, this six-session, video-based Bible study provides an inspiring and transformative vision for living a deeply contented life in the midst of our consumer-driven, materialistic and often shallow culture. Pastor Jeff Manion weaves masterful contemporary storytelling with rich biblical, historical, and cultural background, revealing the similarities between the struggles of today’s culture with that of the New Testament churches. Satisfied explores the way in which the messages to the New Testament churches were received by the original readers and how these passages can alter the way we view wealth, accumulation, and ultimate contentment today. This study guide contains video notes, individual or group reflection questions, and between session personal projects enhancing your journey through each of the video sessions, taught by Jeff Manion.
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21 Day Financial Fast
$19.99Add to cartIn The 21-Day Financial Fast, award-winning writer and Washington Post columnist Michelle Singletary has a field-tested financial challenge for you. For twenty-one days, you will put away your credit cards and buy only what you need to survive. With Michelle’s guidance during this three-week financial fast, you’ll discover how to:
*Break bad spending habits
*Plot a course to become debt-free with the Debt Dash Plan
*Avoid the temptation of overspending for college
*Learn how to prepare their elderly relatives and themselves for future long-term care expenses
*Be prepared for any contingency with a Life Happens Fund
*Stop worrying about money and find the priceless power of financial peaceAs you discover practical ways to achieve financial freedom, you’ll experience something even more amazing—your faith and generosity will increase as well.
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Bait Of Satan 20th Anniversary Edition
$18.99Add to cartThe twentieth-anniversary edition of one of our most popular books The Bait of Satan exposes one of the most deceptive snares Satan uses to get believers out of the will of God-offense. This trap restrains countless Christians, severs relationships, and widens the gulfs between us. With testimonials from people whose lives have been changed by his message, the book will inspire readers to stay free from offense and its destructive power, answering tough questions like: · Why am I compelled to tell “my side” of the story? · How can I fight thoughts of suspicion or distrust? · What can I do to stop rehearsing past hurts? How can I regain trust after someone deeply offends me?
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Listening Prayer : Learning To Hear The Shepherds Voice
$15.99Add to cartListening Prayer is a Bible-based method of hearing Gods precious voice, so relationships can be healed and personal struggles overcome. The simple technique presented is so appealing that after the first few pages readers are eager to begin their own journal. Often people are afraid to ask, Father, what do You want me to know? Even more daunting is the question, Lord, what do You see when You look at me? Over and over, His answers bring tears to eyes and healing to hearts.
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Discipleship Expanded : Living For Christ In The Daily Grind
$14.00Add to cartPerhaps the hardest thing about following Christ is translating our good intentions into deeds. Christ calls us, and we yearn to answer him, but time and again we lose resolve. Is discipleship really possible today? Many of the selections in this book offer answers to specific needs or problems. Others grapple with broader themes such as world suffering, salvation, and the coming of the kingdom of God. All of them pulsate with conviction and compassion, giving fresh hope to those who find themselves lonely or disheartened in the daily search to follow Christ. J. Heinrich Arnold served for many years as elder of the Bruderhof, a Christian communal movement. Discipleship contains writings, letters, and talks from his forty years of service as pastor, marriage counselor, educator, and parent.
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Reclaiming The Gospel At Home
$18.95Add to cartKing David’s imprint on the history of Israel is significant. Scripture reveals that he was a “man after God’s own heart.” We see David as a young shepherd boy, a friend of Jonathan, and a servant to King Saul. Ultimately, we follow his journey as King of Israel. Many of the episodes from his life are set within the context of his often complicated family, affording opportunities to see David’s personal successes as well as his heartbreaking failures. The scriptural account of his life provides many insights and reveals that biblical manhood is a noble pursuit achievable even in the most challenging of situations. The men contributing chapters to this book are godly men who shepherd God’s people as pastor. They have a unique perspective on the challenges confronting men in their congregations. As they lay the lens of scripture over David’s life experiences and build a bridge to the experiences confronting men today, they provide wise biblical counsel to help men develop a passion for becoming godly men of faith personally, in their homes, and in their communities.
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Listening Heart : Hearing God In Prayer
$20.00Add to cartListen to My heart in the quiet of your heart . . .More. Life is full to overflowing, but we crave an illusive more. Via social networking, airwaves, and TV, our culture tells us to strive for more stuff, more activities, more adventure–you name it. Yet we are often left feeling unfulfilled and wanting. Empty, even. With so many demands for our attention, it is difficult to quiet our minds long enough to hear the still, small voice of our loving Father, and to listen to the One who desires to bring us so much more than the noise of everyday life.
Judy Gordon Morrow discovered the more when her world was turned upside down and she knelt before God to seek Him and ask for His help. More than a decade ago, in tear-stained notebooks, she began to pen God’s responses to her desperate prayers. Now, in The Listening Heart, Judy invites you to spend a year hearing from the God Who Speaks–the God who wants to speak to you. Each daily devotion echoes the Father’s love and care for you, offering hope, comfort, encouragement, and more–a rich closeness with God that will satisfy the longings of your heart.
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Case For A Creator Study Guide Revised Edition
$10.99Add to cart‘My road to atheism was paved by science… but, ironically, so was my later journey to God.’ Former atheist Lee Strobel has discovered that science, far from being the enemy of faith, now provides a solid foundation for belief in God. New scientific discoveries point to the incredible complexity of our universe, a complexity best explained by the existence of a Creator. This revised six-session video study invites participants to encounter this evidence delivered in a compelling conversational style. Join Strobel in reexamining the theories that once led him away from God. Pastors, small group leaders, and individuals seeking resources that answer tough questions about the existence of God will find compelling answers in the Case for a Creator study. Designed for use with the Case for a Creator Revised: A DVD Study. The six sessions include: Science and God Doubts about Darwinism The Evidence of Cosmology The Fine Tuning of the Universe The Evidence of Biochemistry The DNA and the Origin of Life
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Case For Christ Study Guide Revised Edition (Student/Study Guide)
$12.99Add to cartIs there credible evidence that Jesus of Nazareth really is the Son of God? Skeptics dismiss the Jesus of the Gospels by claiming there is no evidence in the case for Christ. Lee Strobel disagrees. The former legal journalist and one-time atheist knows how to ask tough questions. His own search for truth about Jesus led him to faith in Christ. Now Strobel invites you and your group to investigate the truth about Jesus Christ leading to the facts that guided Strobel from atheism to faith in Christ. In this revised six-session video study, participants will journey along with Strobel on a quest for the truth about Jesus. Rejecting easy answers, you will sift through fascinating historical evidence as you weigh compelling expert testimony. In the end, groups may very well see Jesus in a new way—and even, like Strobel, find their life transformed. Pastors, small group leaders, and individuals will find compelling answers for their questions about Jesus in this revised study guide, to be used in coordination with The Case for Christ Revised: A DVD Study (sold separately).
The six sessions include:
The Investigation of a Lifetime
Eyewitness Evidence
Evidence Outside the Bible
Analyzing Jesus
Evidence for the Resurrection
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Food Triggers : End Your Cravings, Eat Well And Live Better
$19.99Add to cartA licensed psychologist and certified addictions counselor, Epstein brings insights learned through her own battle with addictive eating to deliver tangible action steps to overcome eating issues. It is written for people who are currently battling an unhealthy relationship with food. Food Triggers is full of practical applications from Scripture, genuine compassion and true stories of struggle and success. The book helps readers understand that addictive eating is a physical, emotional and spiritual problem that must be addressed on all three levels in order to achieve true freedom. Food Triggers isnt just another diet book; it is truly a food addicts roadmap to the Promised Landthe land of success, peace and total freedom.
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Bible Meditations For Busy People
$30.95Add to cartThe goal of this book is to assist busy people in reading the Bible book by book and understanding what it says. The aim is not mere reading for the sake of reading or as a discipline. Reading the Word of God daily is a great habit, but we must realize that it benefits us most if it is understood and applied. This book and the ones that follow seek to challenge believers’ assumptions and preconceived notions about what the Bible says. It assists believers in applying scriptural principles to their daily lives and equips them to do the work of God’s kingdom in the midst of a sinful, uncaring, and often hostile society and culture.
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Makers Diet Revolution
$21.99Add to cartThe Maker’s Diet Revolution is the long awaited sequel to The Maker’s Diet that Jordan Rubin’s fans are ready for.Jordan will share everything he has learned in the years since he wrote The Maker’s Diet, including:
*Health and Diet Tips
*Why our nation’s food supply is compromised
*The importance of organic foods
*Choosing the best water sources
*Raising healthy children, healing chronic illnesses and much more!
*His Popular Health Myths and TruthsJordan Rubin is a renowned natural health expert and NYT best-selling author of The Maker’s Diet.
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Executing God : Rethinking Everything Youve Been Taught About Salvation And
$24.00Add to cartWhy did God have to murder his only son to pay our debts? What kind of vengeful, violent God can only be satisfied by vicarious blood atonement? In Executing God, theologian Sharon Baker presents a biblically based and theologically sound critique of popular theories of the atonement. Concerned about the number of acts of violence performed in the name of God, Baker challenges cultural assumptions about the death of Jesus and its meaning to Christians. She ultimately offers a constructive alternate view of atonement based on God’s forgiveness that opens up salvation to a wider group of people.
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Case For Faith Study Guide Revised Edition (Student/Study Guide)
$14.99Add to cartDoes believing in Christ mean refusing to ask hard questions in the midst of doubt? Doubt is familiar territory for Lee Strobel, the former atheist and award-winning author of books for skeptics and Christians. But he believes that faith and reason go hand in hand, and that Christianity is a defensible religion. In this six-session revised small group Bible study, Strobel explores the most common emotional obstacles to faith in Christ. These include the natural inclination to wrestle with faith and doubt, the troubling presence of evil and suffering in the world, and the exclusivity of the Christian gospel. They also include this compelling question: Can I doubt and be a Christian? Through compelling personal stories and experts testimony combined with reflection and interaction, Christians and spiritual seekers will learn how to overcome these obstacles, deepen their spiritual convictions, and find new confidence that Christianity is a reasonable faith. Designed for use with The Case for Faith Revised: A DVD Study (sold separately).
Sessions include:
The Challenge of Faith
Dealing with Doubt
Evil and Suffering, Part 1
Evil and Suffering, Part 2
Why Is Jesus the Only Way to God?
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Becoming More Than A Good Bible Study Girl
$19.99Add to cartIs something missing in your life?
Lysa TerKeurst knows what it’s like to consider God just another thing on her to-do list. For years she went through the motions of a Christian life: Go to church. Pray. Be nice. She longed for a deeper connection between what she knew in her head and her everyday reality, and she wanted to personally experience God’s presence.
Drawing from her own remarkable story of step-by-step faith, Lysa invites you to uncover the spiritually exciting life for which we all yearn. With her trademark wit and spiritual wisdom, Lysa will help you:
*Learn how to make a Bible passage come alive in your devotional time.
*Replace doubt, regret, and envy with truth, confidence, and praise.
*Stop the unhealthy cycles of striving and truly learn to love who you are and what you’ve been given.
*Discover how to have inner peace and security in any situation.
*Sense God responding to your prayers.The adventure God has in store for your life just might blow you away.
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Love Does Study Guide
$12.99Add to cartIn “Love Does,” a five-session, video-based small group study, you will discover the whimsy of “New York Times” best-selling author Bob Goff through a sometimes humorous, thought-provoking, meaningful lesson that makes faith in God simple and real.
You will discover the paradigm shifts, musings, and stories from one of the world’s most delightfully engaging and winsome people. What fuels his impact? Love. But it’s not the kind of love that stops at thoughts and feelings. Bob’s love takes action, just like Jesus did. Bob believes “Love Does.”
When “Love Does,” life gets interesting. Light and fun, unique and profound, the lessons drawn from Bob’s life and attitude just might inspire you to be secretly incredible too.
This companion study guide is designed for use with “Love Does” A DVD Study and will lead you and your group deeper into the video content (sold separately) with video notes, group discussion questions, and between session personal reflections and actions to enhance the group experience.
Sessions include:
1.I’m With You
2.Not Defined by Our Failures
3.God’s Audacious Love
4.The Story
5.That’s What Love Does -
Inhabiting Eden : Christians The Bible And The Ecological Crisis
$22.00Add to cartIn this thoughtful study, respected Old Testament scholar Patricia K. Tull explores the Scriptures for guidance on today’s ecological crisis. Tull looks to the Bible for what it can tell us about our relationships, not just to the earth itself, but also to plant and animal life, to each other, to descendants who will inherit the planet from us, and to our Creator. She offers candid discussions on many current ecological problems that humans contribute to, such as the overuse of energy resources like gas and electricity, consumerism, food production systems-including land use and factory farming-and toxic waste. Each chapter concludes with discussion questions and a practical exercise, making it ideal for both group and individual study. This important book provides a biblical basis for thinking about our world differently and prompts us to consider changing our own actions.
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Ultimate Girls Body Book
$12.99Add to cartGirls’ bodies do the craziest things! They spin perfect pirouettes or fall flat right in front of class. As girls’ bodies start to grow up and go through some wild changes, you might be wondering things like: Why don’t I look like her? When will I become a woman? And how can I handle that talk my parents want to have—you know, the talk? Yikes! The Ultimate Girls’ Body Book answers all the important questions you want answers to but would rather not ask, mixing fun with great advice for growing girls—from a Christian perspective. This easy-to-use and easy-to-understand handbook is designed for girls heading into and through puberty — and for their parents. Two trusted Christian family physicians answer over thirty-five questions that girls frequently ask about their changing bodies and emotions. You’ll find answers that are medically reliable and Biblically sound … answers that you can trust in a world where so much information to young ladies is both misleading and harmful.
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Purpose Driven Life What On Earth Am I Here For Expanded Edition (Expanded)
$19.99Add to cartTranslated into over 50 languages, The Purpose Driven Life is far more than just a book; it is a guide to a spiritual journey that has transformed millions of lives. Once you take this journey, you’ll never be the same again. This new, expanded edition of The Purpose Driven Life, created for a new generation of reader, includes: Video introductions by Rick Warren to chapters 1-40 An audio Bible study at the end of each chapter, with over 30 additional hours of teaching by Rick Warren. Two new bonus chapters on the most common barriers to living a purpose driven life. Access to an online community where you can discuss your journey to purpose, get feedback, and receive support. Living out the purpose you were created for moves you beyond mere survival and success to a life of significance—the life you were meant to live. On your journey you’ll find the answers to 3 of life’s most important questions: The Question of Existence: Why am I alive? The Question of Significance: Does my life matter? The Question of Purpose: What on earth am I here for? Transform your life. Start your journey today.
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Tell Them I Still Am
$15.49Add to cartIn this book are simple, true events as told by a woman who dared to believe and simply ask GOD for help. Donna Loyd shares how GOD answered her cries and turned tragedies into triumphs. These events were not mere coincidences. They were orchestrated by GOD who is not an imaginary friend. HE is a FATHER, concerned with every detail providing every need. Just as HE multiplied the loaves and fishes, HE is willing to multiply to meet our needs whether shoes, watermelons, or even boxes. We hope these accounts encourage and inspire you to dare to develop an intimate relationship where you feel comfortable enough to ask GOD to help in your time of need. He is waiting anxiously for you come to know Him as your own personal “I AM.”
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7 Money Rules For Life
$18.00Add to cartAmericans young and old are flunking their finances. A shocking 77 percent live paycheck to paycheck with no savings. And 43 percent of Americans have less than $10,000 saved for retirement, while 49 percent could cover less than one month’s expenses if they lost their income. In the face of this bleak financial picture, bestselling author and finance expert Mary Hunt offers 7 Money Rules for Life(R). This no-nonsense and encouraging book gives readers the keys to get their money under control and get prepared financially for the rest of their lives. In her warm and engaging style, Hunt takes everything that she’s learned over the past twenty years and boils it all down. Presented in a conversational style and readable in a weekend, this book offers applications for each of the seven rules as well as practical advice for how to recover from past financial mistakes. These simple, unchanging, basic rules work in every financial situation, for every income level, and for every stage of life.
Money mastery isn’t really that hard. 7 Money Rules for Life(R) can help readers change their futures from uncertain to rock-solid with principles they can apply right away.
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Disunity In Christ
$20.99Add to cartDespite Jesus’ prayer that all Christians “be one,” divisions have been epidemic in the body of Christ from the beginning to the present. We cluster in theological groups, gender groups, age groups, ethnic groups, educational and economic groups. We criticize freely those who disagree with us, don’t look like us, don’t act like us and don’t even like what we like. Though we may think we know why this happens, Christena Cleveland says we probably don’t. In this eye-opening book, learn the hidden reasons behind conflict and divisions. Learn: Why I think all my friends are unique but those in other groups are all the sameWhy little differences often become big sources of conflictWhy categorizing others is often automatic and helpful but can also have sinister side effectsWhy we are so often victims of groupthink and how we can avoid itWhy women think men are judging them more negatively than men actually are, and vice versaWhy choices of language can actually affect unity With a personal touch and the trained eye of a sociologist, Cleveland brings to bear the latest studies and research on the unseen dynamics at work that tend to separate us from others. Learn why Christians who have a heart for unity have such a hard time actually uniting. The author provides real insight for ministry leaders who have attempted to build bridges across boundaries. Here are the tools we need to understand how we can overcome the hidden forces that divide us.
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Prayer Praise And Promises (Reprinted)
$20.00Add to cartThe Psalms have always held a special place in worship. From expressions of joy and thanksgiving to heart-wrenching pleas for mercy and strength, these poetic verses have been the basis of Christian worship for millennia.
You can experience the riches of the Psalms every day with Prayer, Praise & Promises. In this classic book, Warren W. Wiersbe plumbs the depths of the Psalms and adds personal devotions and reflections you will want to savor all year long.
If, like the saints of old, you yearn to make the Psalms a part of your daily expression of love and gratitude to God, this book is the place to start.
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Doing The Right Thing
$22.99Add to cartAccording to author Scott B. Rae in Doing the Right Thing, our culture is in an ethical mess because we’ve neglected moral training and education. This book proposes that there is such a thing as moral truth, that it can be known, and that it can be put into practice. Looking specifically at the areas of medicine, the marketplace, public life, education, and the family, Rae shows how foundational ethical principles can guide you in making moral day-to-day decisions. Informed by Scripture and calling for a renewed understanding of the importance of the Christian faith in moral training, Doing the Right Thing issues a call for cultivated virtue that can bring about both better lives and a better society.
You will find yourself examining the ways in which ethical and character issues relate to your life. As a result, you will be better equipped to promote virtue in your own spheres of influence and the culture at large.
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Pursued : Gods Divine Obsession With You
$19.99Add to cartChristian faith isn’t blind obedience to a set of rules and regulations; it is entering into a relationship with a God who pursues us-not to punish, but to love. As the leader of Central Christian Church in the self-proclaimed “Sin City, U.S.A.,” Jud Wilhite has seen it all, and he knows that no matter how far someone has strayed from God, God always remains in passionate pursuit. Using the biblical prophet Hosea’s marriage, commanded by God, to an unfaithful prostitute as a metaphor for God’s unwavering love, PURSUED compellingly illustrates God’s plan for every person-to be freed to become his or her own unique self through intimate togetherness with the living, loving God.
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iGods : How Technology Shapes Our Spiritual And Social Lives (Reprinted)
$26.00Add to cartToday the world is literally at our fingertips. We can call, text, email, or post our status to friends and family on the go. We can carry countless games, music, and apps in our pocket. Yet it’s easy to feel overwhelmed by access to so much information and exhausted from managing our online relationships and selves.
Craig Detweiler, a nationally known writer and speaker on media issues, provides needed Christian perspective on navigating today’s social media culture. He interacts with major symbols, or “iGods,” of our distracted age–Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Pixar, YouTube, and Twitter–to investigate the impact of the technologies and cultural phenomena that drive us. Detweiler offers a historic look at where we’ve been and a prophetic look at where we’re headed, helping us sort out the immediate from the eternal, the digital from the divine.
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Jesus Feminist : An Invitation To Revisit The Bibles View Of Women
$17.99Add to cartFor centuries, the role of women in the church has been a subdued one, with many limitations. The time has come, argues Sarah Bessey-called an “accidental grassroots voice for postmodern and progressive evangelical women”-to take a new look at Scripture and challenge old assumptions.
In Jesus Feminist, Bessey shares her spiritual journey, which ranged from growing up in a post-gender-debate home to learning about the worldwide struggles of women and the obstacles even a well-meaning church can pose. Through disarmingly intimate storytelling, she tells how she grew to understand the story of God and the vastness of his work through women. Never one to shy away from the hard questions, Bessey engages critically with Scripture and church practices that are often used against full equality and shares how following Jesus made a feminist out of her.
Filled with beauty, hard truth, and brave vulnerability, Jesus Feminist urges the church to stop asking “man or woman” as a qualification for ministry and to start helping everyone find freedom in the fullness, hope, glory, and work of Christ.
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How To Conduct Spiritual Warfare
$14.99Add to cartHave you ever been oppressed by a spiritual or physical infirmity and couldn’t seem to break free? Have you ever wondered how Satan works against believers? Have you ever wondered what Jesus’ call to “free the captives” means for believers today?
In this book, Mary Garrison imparts the wisdom that she’s gathered in her years of ministry on how to conduct spiritual warfare. Along with sharing personal experiences and testimonies of people who have broken free from spiritual strongholds, she equips readers to distinguish between the kingdom of God and the kingdom of darkness. Join her in discovering how to effectively engage in spiritual warfare, exploring such questions as…
*Who is the enemy?
*How do I recognize Satan’s strategies?
*How do I discern and try the spirits?
*By whose authority do believers work?
*How important is faith in spiritual warfare?
*And so many more!This book will prepare you to take action. Every power must yield to the risen Christ. Equipped with His power and authority, you can cast out demons and set the oppressed free-you can walk in victory!
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Dark Threads The Weaver Needs
$14.99Add to cartSuffering is an age-old question that has puzzled the people of God since time began. After all, if our God is both a loving and an all-powerful being, why does He allow such pain and suffering in the world?
At the age of eighty-two, legendary Bible scholar Dr. Herbert Lockyer took on this question. As he watched his wife of sixty-six years slowly fade from loving spouse to an incapacitated person who needed his constant care, it caused him to look upon her afflicted, helpless form, and ask, O my God, why?
In this outstanding work, Lockyer does not present ideas on how to cope with suffering but teaches how to pass through it, removing self-pity and using personal trials as a springboard to help others. In the midst of his darkest hour, Lockyer examines the problem of human suffering in light of God’s love and His eternal plan.
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Teen To Teen For Teen Guys
$14.99Add to cartWhat more encouraging way to gain perspective than by talking to someone who has been there, especially when that someone is one of your peers.Written expressly for teens by teens, this unique 365 day devotional is filled with personal experiences that are relatable and heart-felt.In addition to learning teen to teen how to deal with difficult issues and maneuver the often trying path to adulthood, each devotion leads teens to move into a deeper relationship with Christ as they recognize that He is the answer to life’s problems and strife. Through the stories of others, teens see how God works in our lives when we open ourselves to Him.The devotion includes hundreds of teen authors and teens love reading what their peers have written. This devotional creates a safe, social atmosphere for teens to learn that they are not alone and that God is at work in their lives. Teens learn from other’s failures and triumphs how to make the right choices. The impetus for this devotional is to help teens understand how God can and does work in their lives.
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Teen To Teen For Teen Girls
$14.99Add to cartWhat more encouraging way to gain perspective than by talking to someone who has been there, especially when that someone is one of your peers.Written expressly for teens by teens, this unique 365 day devotional is filled with personal experiences that are relatable and heart-felt.In addition to learning teen to teen how to deal with difficult issues and maneuver the often trying path to adulthood, each devotion leads teens to move into a deeper relationship with Christ as they recognize that He is the answer to life’s problems and strife. Through the stories of others, teens see how God works in our lives when we open ourselves to Him.The devotion includes hundreds of teen authors and teens love reading what their peers have written. This devotional creates a safe, social atmosphere for teens to learn that they are not alone and that God is at work in their lives. Teens learn from other’s failures and triumphs how to make the right choices. The impetus for this devotional is to help teens understand how God can and does work in their lives.
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Having A Mary Heart In A Martha World Study Guide (Student/Study Guide)
$13.00Add to cartThis signature book, now with DVD and participant’s guide, from Joanna Weaver has consistently hovered at the top of the CBA bestseller list since its release in 2000, selling more than 900,000 copies to women, churches, ministries, and small groups. Written specifically for women and the issues they face, this book appeals to women at every stage on their faith journey as they strive to live more fully in the truths they believe.
Thoughtful and personal, practical and encouraging, Having a Mary Heart in a Martha World looks at contrasting sisters of the Bible-Mary and Martha, the friends of Jesus-to gently show readers how they can deepen their devotion, strengthen their service, and experience less stress and greater joy.
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Strangers At My Door
$17.00Add to cartJesus Told Us Where to Find Him. Just Look for an Outcast.
His first followers knew that Jesus could be found with the fatherless, the widows, and the hungry and homeless. He said that he himself was a stranger, and commended those who welcomed him. If he really meant these things, what would happen if you opened your door to every person who came with a need?
Jonathan and Leah Wilson-Hartgrove decided to find out. The author and his wife moved to the Walltown neighborhood in Durham, North Carolina, where they have been answering the door to anyone who knocks. When they began, they had little idea what might happen, but they counted on God to show up.
In Strangers at My Door, Wilson-Hartgrove tells of risks and occasional disappointments. But far more often there is joy, surprise, and excitement as strangers become friends, mentors, and helpers. Immerse yourself in these inspiring, eye-opening accounts of people who arrive with real needs, but ask only for an invitation to come in.
You will never view Jesus and the people he cares about the same way again.
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Pursuit Of God (Reprinted)
$9.99Add to cartThe Pursuit of God is the enduring Christian classic written by renowned pastor and theologian A. W. Tozer. More than 65 years later, the words Tozer penned on a train from Illinois to Texas echo across the decades to resonate with power in the heart of anyone longing for a deeper experience with God. This devotional masterpiece is at once thought-provoking and spirit-enlivening, an invitation to think deeply about your faith even as you come alive to God’s presence surrounding, sustaining and–yes–pursuing you. “This book is a modest attempt,” Tozer wrote, “to aid God’s children so to find Him.” If you are hungry, The Pursuit of God will lead you to the only One who can satisfy the soul.
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Restored Lives : Recovery From Divorce And Separation
$14.99Add to cartRestored Lives has been developed to help people recover from the experience of divorce or relationship breakdown. It will empower them to regain their self-confidence and show them how to rebuild their lives. Erik Castenskiold outlines the journey of breakdown and recovery, offering assurance that recovery is possible and revealing how to move forward as a single person. He highlights the importance of forgiveness, revealing how it is possible to let go and move on, and establishes important tools for communicating well with your ex-partner, handling conflict, setting emotional boundaries and expressing yourself clearly. He also addresses the impact of separation on family and friends and considers relevant legal and financial factors. While based on Christian principles, the material is relevant and helpful for anyone with or without a Christian faith or church background. It was developed from the Recovery from Divorce and Separation course that Erik runs at Holy Trinity Brompton, London. The book is accompanied by a professionally-prepared DVD and a short workbook, available singly and in packs of ten.
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Your Next Chapter
$14.99Add to cartYour next chapter is a personal development resource which provides its readers with a comprehensive guide to pick up the broken pieces of their life and start anew. Whether working through a failed relationship, job loss or bankruptcy, this practical resource offers step by step instructions to assure the readers success.
This book is written by a personal life coach and as such, coaches the reader through their reinvention. Beginning with an assessment of the reader’s crisis, then analyzing the reader’s present value and subsequently developing a strategy that will guarantee the readers success again and again.
The chapters are brief summations of more sophisticated strategic lessons readers can easily digest and execute. Building on small accomplishments, by the books end, the reader will have undoubtedly achieved dormant goals or surrendered milestones.
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Does God Listen To Rap
$9.99Add to cartA lot of people think that if there is one style of music in the world that God hates, it has got to be rap. Some have even gone so far as to call rap, “An unclean thing before the Lord.” They don’t believe something originally associated with so much evil can ever be redeemed for God’s glory.
Lots of other people love and accept rap as their preferred form of musical expression. Many of these who are Christians can’t imagine why God would have any issues with rap – at least, not with songs by believers that encourage and edify them in the faith.
Who’s right? And maybe more importantly, who cares? You should. And here’s why.
In the past 30 years, rap music has become a vital artistic and cultural force globally, and it’s showing no signs of slowing down. Like it or not, you are probably exposed to rap in one form or another on a fairly regular basis. If you’re interested in this book you may be a believer in Jesus who likes rap a lot, and as Christians, when we love something that is (if you hadn’t noticed) closely associated with sin and rebellion, our justification for being involved with it really does need to go beyond, “Dude, this is good stuff.”
But maybe you’re in a different category. Maybe you’re a Christian parent, concerned that rap music may have a negative impact on your child. Maybe you’re a youth pastor worried about having a rap concert at his church because of the potential pushback. Or maybe you’re just a rap fan who is curious to see if there’s even any biblical evidence for or against rap.
To put it simply, if you’ve made it this far, this book is probably for you. Does God Listen to Rap? covers two areas. First, it presents a sociological history of the emergence and development of rap. If you enjoy rap and hip hop culture, you’ll love this part of the book. Then the book explores the Scriptures to bring some biblical (not just personal or anecdotal) resolution to the question of God and rap. Ultimately, this involves a set of larger questions involving God and the arts. This is more than just an apologetic for rap music, this is a biblical way to think about how Christians can be in the world yet not of the world, and how they can express themselves to the glory of God.
So, does God listen to rap? Come find out.
