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Unveiling Glory : Visions Of Christs Transforming Presence (Student/Study Guide)
$16.99Add to cartWhy did Jesus come to earth in the flesh and live among us? In what sense did he both embrace this world and reject it? How should our view of Christ form the way we live and act as Christians in our families, neighborhoods, nations, and churches? Unveiling Glory seeks to address these topics and others, boldly considering many of the problems facing Churches of Christ today and insisting that the key to their resolution lies in a deeper commitment to Jesus.
The introduction establishes the premise for the book when it declares that “approaching Christ with transformation in mind has not always been a key element in…our heritage. Yet we are convinced that whenever scripture is allowed to speak with its full voice, the notion of Christianity as transformation into the image of Christ becomes inescapable.” The book seeks to deliver on this promise, leading the reader through the important events in Jesus’ life and unveiling their significance for the Christian today.
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Present From God
$16.99Add to cartFor nearly two years, Alice and her husband Charles sought to determine God’s will for their lives. In 1989, with almost half the world in the grips of political reform, this average American Christian couple packed their bags.Trusting totally in His guiding hand, they began their global mission for God: smuggling Bibles into hostile countries. The power of God’s Word-and the miracle-working power of God in action-is soon evident as they stumble into a world of danger, suspense, and corruption.Yet through the tangled web of international espionage, the couple soon develops a political savvy while relying on their ever-present sense of humor. Was there more than one reason God sent Alice and Charles on this perilous journey? Was there some message for them to bring back to America? Recharge your patriotic zeal and challenge your faith: A Present from God is a story for American Christians today.
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Mustard Seed Of Faith
$10.99Add to cartLongfellow Press
I have known Donna Warren all of my life (which is most of hers). In the early years, I found her to be very headstrong, mean, determined, and slightly vain. She often tried to take an authoritative role with everyone, which resulted in major conflict. To put it in simple terms, I didn’t like her. You see-she’s my oldest sister. About seven years ago, quite by default, my husband and I went to Galveston, Texas, to visit Donna and her husband. We had booked flights to attend her daughter’s wedding a few weeks earlier but were unable to make the trip. With two roundtrip tickets to Texas that we had to use, I had no choice but to pay her a visit. It was during this visit that, for the first time, I MET DONNA WARREN! I found her to be very self-assured, yet humble; very stern, yet compassionate; and very opinionated, yet understanding. The woman I met is truly chosen and anointed by God, and I love her. You see, she’s my friend, mentor, confidante, and prayer partner, and since our mother went on to be with God, she’s been my mother. This book, A Mustard Seed of Faith, is Donna’s testimony. Throughout her life, she has held on to her faith to make it through the trails, tribulations, and triumphs of this world. As you read each poem and inspirational writing, and look into the heart and soul of Donna Warren, I know that you will feel God’s power, wisdom, guidance, and comfort, and will be richly blessed. When you’ve been blessed, pass it on by planting another Mustard Seed of Faith, the way Donna has. -Denese Artis -
Thinking Beyond Your Means
$14.99Add to cart“Who are you and what do you really want?”This vital question from Dr. Evelyn Thomas can inspire you into Thinking Beyond Your Means: The Sixth Sense. Does your current lifestyle seem to have been handed to you by those who think in terms of limitations? How does God see you? “God is the One,” says the author, “who started a great work in you. . . . Once you find out who you are in the Lord, you are on your way to success.” Here is a book that will teach you how to gain a more authentic way of life. You can become an overcomer, no matter what trials you encounter. Learn how to use the sixth sense to gain a truer and fuller life.
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Paul On Marriage And Celibacy
$33.99Add to cartThis study overturns the traditional interpretation of Paul’s thinking on marriage and celibacy. By examining established theories about the main influences on his theology, and by reconstructing the Stoic and Cynic discourse on marriage that formed its context, it offers an illuminating reassessment of both Paul’s understanding of marriage and his place in the history of Christian asceticism, and provides new information for discussions of Christian sexuality and feminist evaluations of the Bible.
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Relentless Tenderness Of Jesus (Reprinted)
$16.00Add to cartDiscover two very different sides of God! Peruse the pages of this book of insightful meditations and you’ll encounter Christ’s explosive power and his incredible tenderness. You will be forever changed as Manning calls you to “adopt the astonishing life of a committed disciple.” Perceptive writing flavored with tough-love honesty.
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Loving God Up Close
$32.00Add to cartWho is the Holy Spirit? How do Christians track His comings and goings? And how can they realize His presence in their lives? In this book, Calvin Miller reminds believers of the power of the Holy Spirit and explores the six symbols of His presence: the cleansing wind; the purging fire; the dove (the descending presence); the gift of communication; the refreshing wine; and the counselor. While many have experienced one or more of the defining presences, many also disagree as to their authenticity. Now, in this insightful book, Miller seeks to relieve some of the mystery surrounding the Holy Spirit and encourages readers to simply make use of his loving guidance.
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Christ Before Creation
$8.95Add to cartUntil now, all Christian literature has been one-dimensional and earthbound. Here, at last, is a way of knowing Christ outside the confines of this realm. For 1300 years Christians have been trying to now Christ intimately with their minds. Now your spirit is invited to join the Lord in unseen realms.
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Weapons Of Mass Deliverance
$15.49Add to cartA weapon is effective only in the hand of a warrior. As the Holy Spirit began to reveal the power of the material in this book, it became clear that He was unveiling a very significant weapon-with the ability to deliver masses of people trapped under the influence of sin and darkness. This book, Weapons of Mass Deliverance, puts the weapons into the hands of the warriors.Who are these warriors? They are the worshipers,musicians, dancers, and prophetic intercessors. Weapons of Mass Deliverance examines three key factors in spiritual warfare: The Gates-Where they’re found, what they represent, what occurred at gates, and how that relates to intercession and worship. Demonic Strongholds-How the enemy keeps us from entering the gates, and experiencing breakthrough. Exercising Your Authority-Unleashing the power of God’s Word through declaration!
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Doing Business By The Good Book
$37.00Add to cartIn Doing Business By the Good Book, David Steward, founder and CEO of World Wide Technology, a privately held, billion-dollar company, takes selected scripture and applies it to business life with clarity and promise. Following a Bible passage for each week of the year, readers will increase their bottom line, as well as the capacity of their souls – a great return on investment!
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Simplify Your Life
$18.99Add to cartKnowing every woman desires to reduce the mess and stress in her life, Marcia Ramsland offers a grace-oriented approach to organizing a home and life. Filled with specific ideas that have been proven true, charts, diagrams, and real life examples, Marcia unveils her trademark PuSH philosophy. PuSH stands for Projects, user-friendly Systems, and Habits and is a sequence of doing things that will help women get and stay organized. Things the reader will discover: The “two minute pickup” for cleaning any room How to spot red flags of disorganization The get-it-done paper system Five steps to clean any room How to create a Personal Organizing Center The “PuSH” Sequence” secret to staying organized Simplify Your Life encourages and motivates women to be a better manager in three major areas: her time, her home, and her life. A prayer at the end of each chapter is a fresh reminder that how we live our lives is important to God. So does God care if your bathroom is clean or your desk is tidy? Of course not but He knows it does give you peace of mind and less stress. His Word is filled with principles to help us live more organized and less stress-filled lives. Join Marcia as she incorporates those principles into practical tips to organize and simply your life!
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How To Keep Your Kids On Your Team
$19.99Add to cart“It’s not what you think that will impact your child; it’s what you communicate.” What are you telling your kids? Are you telling them that their crises are trivial and their ideas are foolish? Probably not in so many words, but you may be communicating just that with your lack of interest in the day-to-day activities of your child. To keep your children on your team, Charles Stanley asserts, you must assure them from the start that you are on theirs. Focusing on the parental role as one of stewardship rather than ownership, Stanley instructs parents on how to ingrain a sense of personal accountability to God into the minds of children at an early age. By doing so, parents can raise confident, self-controlled kids who will hold fast to the values they instill.
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Lifes Little Lessons
$12.49Add to cartAre you sailing through life with an A+ or do you feel as if you spend the majority of your time in the principal’s office? Whatever category fits your life, this book is for you! The school bell is signaling for us to begin. Guess what! A front row seat has been saved for you in the classroom of Life. It is show-and-tell time in the Frederick family. Read about God’s presence in their everyday life experiences. Some of these stories may move you to shed a tear, while others bring about a quiet chuckle, but all express an important life lesson. So, let’s clear off the clutter on our desks and focus on what is really important in life. We can all gain new wisdom in this class. After all, our Master Teacher is Jesus Christ!
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Trustworthy Connections : Interpersonal Issues In Spiritual Direction
$14.95Add to cartAlthough God is at the center of the process of spiritual direction, the more readily visible participants are human beings. Like all other people, directors and directees are subject to relationship dynamics. Trustworthy Connections identifies some issues and challenges that can arise in spiritual direction relationships and offers resources for further consideration and reflection. The topics and examples are focused on traditional one-to-one, face-to-face spiritual direction, although some are also relevant to group direction and direction by correspondence. Trustworthy Connections is designed for use as a reference and a springboard for discussion for spiritual directors and anyone else who is interested in spiritual direction. Like the process of spiritual direction itself, this book is about asking questions, discussing ideas, and suggesting alternatives rather than giving advice or getting answers.
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Mens Relational Toolbox
$16.99Add to cartUsing the right tool for the job makes sense when it comes to building or fixing things around the house. But when it comes to significant relationships, men often grab the tools that make them successful in the workplace–and then wonder why they didn’t work. Through humorous anecdotes and practical advice, this engaging book will help men discover and repair the relationships that are most important to them.
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Covenant Marriage : Staying Together For Life
$18.95Add to cartA new movement is spreading across America, bringing hope to existing marriages and new guidelines for marriages yet to be; and Dr. Fred Lowery, in this courageous and insightful book, shares with you the principles of the Covenant Marriage Movement.
Every marriage faces storms and struggles that can lead to failure. Unexpected changes, personality conflicts, money problems, and misguided expectations can send even the best of marriages into a tailspin. But this insightful, new book provides real answers through chapters such as “The Difference between a Contract and a Covenant,” “Learning How to Manage Conflict,” and “What to Do When Marriage Is Not What You Expected.”
Covenant marriages will stand the test of time, change, and personal problems and will shine with brilliance in a world that is besieged by divorce. This book will not only impact your life, but will impact marriages for generations to come. The principles, power, and pattern for a covenant marriages will help you and your spouse stay together in your marriage for life.
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Rebuilding Your Broken World
$18.99Add to cartWhat happens when your ideals and desires, plans and strategies, all go awry? From what sources might one find the resolve to begin a rebuilding process? “The fact is,” writes Gordon MacDonald in Rebuilding Your Broken World, “the God of the Bible is a God of the rebuilding process. And not enough broken people know that.” No stranger himself to brokenness, Gordon MacDonald draws from personal experience and discusses the likely sources of pain, the humiliation, and the long- and short-range consequences of a broken personal world. And he offers encouraging answers to the questions everyone asks when their worlds fall apart: Is there a way back?
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Day Four : The Pilgrims Continued Journey (Revised)
$4.99Add to cartWhen the Walk to Emmaus event is over, your journey as a Fourth Day pilgrim begins. As you move into Day Four’s solo daily practices of piety, study, and Christian action, you will cherish this informative booklet.
Designed to help you better understand the message of Emmaus, agape love, the group reunion, sponsorship, and how to serve in local congregations, Day Four will help make your post-Emmaus Christian pilgrimage more meaningful.
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Talks On The Song Of Songs
$17.99Add to cartBernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153), one of Christianity’s greatest mystics and father of what was perhaps the most influential new monastic order of the Middle Ages-the Cistercians-devoted eighteen years of his life to his literary master piece, Sermons on the Song of Songs.
Although the Song of Songs, a brief book in the Old Testament, contains no explicit mention of God, the passionate love poetry became for Bernard a springboard into a major exposition of Scripture and an illuminated allegory of the spiritual life. Simply said, this gentle saint found God incarnate in every word.
This volume containing excerpts from each of Bernard’s 86 sermons, joins the Paraclete Christian Classics Series, a highly-acclaimed series devoted to making the great writers of the faith accessible to today’s readers. Offering a fascinating glimpse of Christian theology, these writings encourage us to open ourselves to a new experience of love-the transforming and all-fulfilling embrace of God.
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Draw Close To The Fire
$15.99Add to cartThis book lays out the source of healing and charts the path toward healthy relationships and spiritual maturity. How do you respond when you find yourself facing a dark and difficult valley? Most of us want to hurry through the tough times. But when we draw close to the fire of God’s presence, we discover priceless treasures found only in the darkness of difficulty and discomfort. For those experiencing the darkness of deep emotional wounds, this book lays out the source of healing and charts the path toward healthy relationships and spiritual maturity.
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Secrets Of Eve
$19.99Add to cartBased on research of over 2,000 Christian women, this ground-breaking book unlocks the secrets of female sexuality, candidly addressing important sexual issues and ways to resolve them. The Secrets of Eve shows women how to celebrate God’s design for sexuality and through understanding, bridge the gap between the sexes.
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When Dreams Come True (Revised)
$17.00Add to cartThis daringly real, intensely moving love story gives vision and hope to everyone in search of a love worth waiting for. In their best-selling When God Writes Your Love Story, Eric and Leslie Ludy described the breathtaking perfection of God’s plans for each young person and offered fresh guidelines for being Christlike in relationships with the opposite sex. This book shares the Ludy’s personal story, illustrating how the lived out the principles of the first book in their own romance and marriage. Includes an all-new chapter from Eric Ludy, “What Happened Next?”
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Familiar Spirits : The Unseen Enemies
$15.49Add to cart“God determines the journey and the destiny, but we determine how far we will journey into the place called destiny! Most people see and sense the destiny, but fail to reach it. Much of that is because of being ignorant about the role our invisible enemies, called demons or unclean spirits, play in hindering the fulfillment of destiny. Brother John’s book Familiar Spirits blazes a very important trail into some restricted realms of the spirit and exposes it all, empowering the reader with tools for breaking through. The truths contained in this book will fill the reader’s mouth with the much needed bread of deliverance. I highly recommend this work; Prophet John Deby Edukugho has done the body of Christ a great service!” -APOSTLE FRANCIS MYLES Church of the Apostolic Dimension OakBrook, Illinois, U.S.A. “This Book is UNPUTDOWNABLE.” -Students of Spiritual Warfare, Nigeria “A tremendous blessing to those Christians who want to destabilize the devil and recover all he has stolen from them.” -SERGINE SNANOUDJ World Evangelistic Ministries, France
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Faith And Fragmentation
$40.00Add to cartIn this classic reissue, scholar, pastor, and author J. Philip Wogaman addresses “people who wonder whether Christian Faith makes sense in light of the sweeping changes of our age,” changes that have created at the same time a pluralistic world, a technologically sophisticated world, a dangerous world, a world of great prosperity, and yet great suffering. What are we to make of this time we live in? Can the Christian faith really provide a stable foundation? Wogaman wrestles with these and other questions as he investigates the true meaning of a Christian faith with a positive understanding of religious pluralism and a rejection of fanaticism. He concludes that this faith is a “hopeful love” that proclaims the centrality of love against selfishness and the power of hope against despair.
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100 Tons Of Ice
$24.00Add to cartOne Hundred Tons Of Ice is a collection of thirty-one beautifully written and wonderfully moving reflections on the Christian life. Wood weaves together history, legends, and references to popular culture seamlessly with biblical passages to create reflections that are both educational and inspirational.
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Powerful Inspirations : 8 Lessons That Will Change Your Life
$14.99Add to cartKathy Ireland first gained recognition as a supermodel, but today she is respected for her design talents and business acumen as CEO and Chief Designer of Kathy Ireland Worldwide. Ireland, independent and strong-minded, has an entrepreneurial drive coupled with the desire to break free of the skewed standards of the modeling business, that gave her the impetus she needed to start her own company. Her billion-dollar business began with a line of socks, then apparel, and today it extends into home furnishings, flooring, and accessories designed for women like herself – busy moms whose top priority is taking care of their families. She also dedicates her energy to a wide range of nonprofit organizations, many of them dedicated to improving the lives of women and children.
Powerful Inspirations reveals the sources of Kathy’s strengths and enthusiasm, through insightful lessons that form a life-changing plan for her readers. In sharing her plan, Ireland also tells stories from her life, describing her close-knit family, the work ethic her parents taught her, and the sense of compassion they instilled in her. She offers an intimate portrait of her inner life and her spiritual growth, writing movingly of the support and comfort she has found in the Bible and other Christian teachings. She writes movingly of her failures and the lessons she’s learned while triumphing over them. Kathy’s account of her journey from the beaches of Santa Barbara to the boardroom, from supermodel to successful businesswoman provides readers the inspiration and encouragement to create a rich and rewarding life for themselves.
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Credo
$26.00Add to cartWilliam Sloane Coffin has long fought for social justice and argued that faith must be at the heart of political and intellectual life. Now Coffin gives this record of his remarkable public life, offering his inspiring words on issues ranging from charity and justice, politics, economic issues, the environment, nuclear disarmament, and mortality to the meaning of faith, the church, and a pastor’s responsibility. These brief quotations and excerpts demonstrate the wit, fire, and passion he brought to the task of preaching and the moral commitment he has made to change the world.
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Breaking Through Towards Spiritual Maturity
$22.99Add to cartWhat is really going on? Have you ever wondered what is going on in your life? What are these things called life and purpose really all about, and what do they have to do with you? Gain a better understanding of God’s intricate and intimate processing for those that He calls His own! This book was written at a time when it seemed to me everything and everyone around me were unraveling. But this unraveling is what has served to drive me into God’s position and purpose for my life. Once you begin to receive and understand the Father’s gentle hand in growing us up, you too can begin walking in your divine purpose!
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Breaking Through Towards Spiritual Maturity
$14.99Add to cartWhat is really going on? Have you ever wondered what is going on in your life? What are these things called life and purpose really all about, and what do they have to do with you? Gain a better understanding of God’s intricate and intimate processing for those that He calls His own! This book was written at a time when it seemed to me everything and everyone around me were unraveling. But this unraveling is what has served to drive me into God’s position and purpose for my life. Once you begin to receive and understand the Father’s gentle hand in growing us up, you too can begin walking in your divine purpose!
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Believer Warrior
$19.99Add to cartWhen a believer does not grow spiritually, he becomes a liability to the body of Christ. Just as a newborn baby starts at the infant stage, but with time grows to be a fully mature adult, a newly born-again believer goes through certain growth phases before he becomes a spiritually mature adult. Spiritual growth phases are clearly evident and unmistakable as seen throughout the New Testament epistles. One of the dominant characteristics of a carnal believer is unbrokenness. God allows the chastening process as if to chip away the outer man by periodic pain and affliction in the believer’s life. As the believer grows, he can no longer feel peace while having inward hatred toward others. Spiritual growth is not human perfection, but it is having a willing and obedient heart and mind to walk in the ways of God in spite of the common struggles of life.
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Fierce Goodbye : Living In The Shadow Of Suicide
$10.99Add to cartWhat does the Bible say on the topic of suicide? What does it not say? G. Lloyd Carr, now professor emeritus of biblical and theological studies at Gordon College, Mass., began to ask these questions after a precious daughter-in-law died by suicide. He embarked on a thorough canvassing of the scriptures and church history on this topic, which helped him on his grief journey.
His poet wife, Gwendolyn C. Carr, who has published poetry in several magazines and is the author of Stars And Songs and Diamonds In A Daisy Field, found solace in writing out her responses and thoughts in moving, sensitive poetry. Their combined efforts in this destinctive book meld the pain and poignancy of the devastating experience of a family member’s suicide with expertise from their respective professions.
This book is first and foremost a penetrating account of a family dealing with suicide, and offers solid guidance for those who worry about the eternal fate of a loved one. It also provides a reliable and readable summary of Christian thinking about suicide, useful for pastors, counselors, students and teachers.
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Peacemaker : A Biblical Guide To Resolving Personal Conflict (Reprinted)
$18.99Add to cart1. Glorify God
2. Get The Log Out Of Your Eye
3. Gently Restore
4. Go And Be Reconciled
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Peacemaker Ministries president Ken Sande gives practical Biblical guidance for conflict resolution that takes you beyond resolving conflicts to true, life-changing reconciliation with family, coworkers, and fellow believers. -
Godawful : Connections Between Biblical Journeys And Life Transitions
$16.95Add to cartWhether it’s leaving home, having children, losing a parent, or retiring, we spend much of our lives passing through transitions — and it is often very stressful to cope with changing circumstances, as we feel lost, confused, and depressed, sometimes even wondering “Where is God in all of this?”
The scriptures offer valuable guidance for navigating these difficult passages. Andre Papineau suggests that if we think of biblical journey stories (such as the Prodigal Son or Jonah’s journey to Nineveh) as accounts of life transitions, we can begin to understand the profound spirituality of our own transitions — no matter how “godawful” the experiences may seem.
By viewing transitional experiences and journey stories through a common lens, this enlightening book provides abundant insight into both the scriptures and the human condition, helping us to see how the hand of God, yes even “Godawful,” is at work in our everyday lives. Each chapter includes helpful exercises and discussion questions, making it an ideal individual or group study resource.
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Building Character
$12.95Add to cartAre we facing a moral crisis in today’s world? Perhaps so, judging by the daily headlines that parade the ethical failings of numerous public figures before us. It seems that more traditional role models, whether in the worlds of business, government, sports, or sadly, even the ministry, than ever are disappointing us and falling short of expectations and fostering cynicism rather than idealism. But these lapses are hardly limited to well-known people. Many surveys have made us aware of a cavalier approach to values in general, such as rampant cheating from term papers to tax returns.
So how can we arrest this decline and instill a greater sense of “character” in our lives? “Character” is an elusive term, but we usually use it to describe the quality of a person’s inner being — their “moral fiber.” In this insightful set of meditations, E. Dale Click suggests that the way to develop character is to put God at the center of our lives. And, he points out, the Ten Commandments and the Beatitudes provide us with the blueprints to enjoying life. These essays illustrate that the timeless yet timely guides to living in God’s laws (the commandments) and his declarations (the beatitudes) exemplify all the admirable characteristics of the godly, character-filled life.
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This Is Our Calling
$18.99Add to cartHow can I hear God’s voice?, What plans does God have for me?, How can I do his will if I don’t know what it is? These are questions that have plagued Christian for centuries and continue to haunt Christians as they plan their futures and try and discover their vocations. This Is Our Calling aims to help searching Christians to trust God that his plan for them will become clear in time but also help them to discover a little more of what that plan may be. The authors, almost all of whom write from their experience as parish priests, discuss the great themes of Christian doctrines and the narrative patterns of the Bible to show how God might be calling each and every one of us today. They have written for anyone who are exploring a sense of calling and are looking at their futures in terms of vocation and discipleship. Each chapter has a particular vocational theme, such as evangelism and discipleship, and provides various avenues to explore and questions to discuss.
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Healed Without Scars
$18.99Add to cartHave you been hurt by past disappointment, fear, rejection, abandonment, or failure? If so, you’ve probably learned that time doesn’t necessarily heal all wounds. When pain from the past lingers in your life and causes emotional scars, you need to understand that God is always ready to help you be healed without scars! Filled with contemporary and biblical accounts of those who have emerged victorious from life’s tests and trials, this book will show you how to: overcome depression, anger, fear, and hopelessness; discover the path to personal wholeness; find peace in the midst of life’s storms; renew you hopes and dreams; experience a life of freedom and joy. For years, author David Evans has helped people from all walks of life learn how to live in victory. Let him guide you to a joyful life of wholeness in Christ as you learn that…you can be Healed Without Scars!
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Servant First
$17.49Add to cartEntering the new millennium, men and women across the globe are crying out for a new type of leadership. The old command and control model is dead, and the search for a new approach has begun. In Servant First! Leadership for the New Millennium, John Sullivan develops a practical leadership model based on a careful study of the teaching and practice of Jesus of Nazareth. This upside-down leadership style puts the needs of followers above those of the leader; promotes teamwork, individual dignity, and worth; and results in a synergy of purpose unachievable with the old leadership models. Its application in today’s organizations creates an environment in which people freely choose to create, innovate, and strive for excellence. The book begins with a review of traditional leadership theories and contrasts them with servant leadership. Sullivan shows how modern leadership approaches are molded by the servant-first style of Jesus. The reader is left with a model for leading 21st-century organizations that will unleash the creativity of people working together to achieve common objectives.
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Many Loves Of Marriage
$16.99Add to cartPassionate and playful, tough and tender, warm and winsome—love has many hues, and Painter of Light Thomas Kinkade and his wife, Nanette, have experienced them all. Painting a colorful portrait of The Many Loves of Marriage, they share what their own real-life romance has taught them about the rewards of fidelity, endurance, unselfishness, and faith. Kinkade’s radiant illustrations illuminate their insights.
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20 Someone : Finding Yourself In A Decade Of Transition
$17.00Add to cartThe decade of your twenties is full of important, stressful, maddening questions: What will I do? Who will I love? Where will I live?
But maybe there’s a bigger question: Who am I? The fact is, the period of time between your teens and thirties will shape a lot of your character, your calling, and your view of the world.
Authors Craig Dunham and Doug Serven (recent graduates of their twenties) explain that the difference between a twentysomething and TwentySomeone has to do with the questions we ask. Instead of asking, What will I do? twentysomeones need to ask Who am I? the real question of the twenties.
Full of personal experience and practical wisdom, TwentySomeone helps you make the most of your twenties while giving you the skills to handle common life experiences like singlehood, first jobs, getting married, having kids, and buying stuff. This is a guidebook that will help you discover who God is calling you to be.
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Big Girls Dont Whine
$18.99Add to cartNo one wants to be labeled a whiner, but many of us go through life with a “poor me,” victim mentality that sounds a whole lot like whining. God never intended for us to act like “little girls,” says Jan Silvious. His goal is for each of us to live as “big girls”_mature Christian women_who are capable of enjoying the richness of life He has planned. In Big Girls Don’t Whine, Jan helps women: Move beyond the past and on to healthy relationships, Choose to be proactive rather than let life just “happen,” Discover their full potential, And become everything He made them to be. So how can we tell if we’re living life as an immature ‘little girl” or a confident “big girl?” A little girl Is insecure Becomes the victim of circumstances Says “I can’t” Manipulates A big girl Is secure Rests in God’s sovereignty Says, “I can” Communicates In Big Girls Don’t Whine, Jan Silvious calls us to be real women in a real world, free to experience a life of full of potential and vision. This book is the how-to manual for making it happen.
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Holiness : The Journey The Joy The Difference
$11.99Add to cartDo you feel dissatisfied with the way you are and long to be a better person?
Have you ever wanted to cry out to the Lord, “Lord, please change me”?
That’s the grace of God at work in your heart and mind, and it is God who gave you the desire for a deeper, closer walk with Him.
He is concerned with every area of your life.
He has called you into a wonderful relationship with Him.
He has planned something wonderful with you in mind.Tom Hermiz gives you guidance to recognize and respond to God’s call to a holy life. Learn how the Holy Spirit’s presence in your heart and mind will release you and allow you to reflect God’s character in every way.
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Living In Love With Jesus
$18.99Add to cartFollowing the success of the highly acclaimed Falling in Love with Jesus, Dee Brestin and Kathy Troccoli give women the encouragement needed to become radiant women of Christ. Living in Love with Jesus will help women go deeper with Jesus by applying the secrets from John’s first letter, learning to clothe themselves in Christ’s love. Instead of being a washed-out beige, living mediocre lives, they can become radiant with the colors of love. Using art as a literary theme throughout the book, facets of God’s love are paralleled with colors, giving women vivid pictures of how the imprint of God’s love can change their lives. This art theme will be carried out visually in classic masterpieces that illustrate biblical stories of God’s transforming love such as Esther, Doubting Thomas, and the Good Samaritan.
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Following The River
$14.00Add to cartDoes your congregation feel the flow of the Holy Spirit each Sunday? As the worship leader for the International House of Prayer, Sorge shares his insights for moving from platform-driven to congregationally based praise; combining traditional hymns with contemporary music; and creating an atmosphere open to God’s healing and miracles.
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Search For Significance Student Edition
$14.99Add to cartRobert McGee’s bestselling book has helped millions of readers learn how to be free to enjoy Christ’s love while no longer basing their self-worth on their accomplishments or the opinions of others. Now this book will change the lives of countless teens as well, in this completely rewritten student edition of Search for Significance. With updated illustrations, practical application points, youth challenges, and journaling space, this version of the classic book is perfect for any teen or youth group. Teens will learn to: Experience the amazing truth that their self-worth is found not in their accomplishments or what their friends and family think of them, but in God’s love for them Discover how their lives have been negatively affected by the four big lies that the world teaches about significance Learn to stop looking in all the wrong places for affirmation and affection Gain life-changing confidence as they learn the true meaning of what God has done for them in Christ
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Walk At Work
$16.99Add to cartWhether you work with your hands or your head, God wants your heart to be at work for Him. However, with all the confrontation, conflict, and frustration in the workplace, too often we leave God out of the equation. Amid the all-out pursuit of our hopes and dreams, we find ourselves wondering, How can my faith sustain me through challenges of work? How can I daily honor God on the job?
The Walk at Work is a guidebook that combines daily inspirational readings with a seven-step plan for personal spiritual growth to answer those questions about faith at work. Whether you face difficult relationships, job anxiety, or office politics, Andria Hall will show you how to experience success by aligning your priorities with God’s. Through the down-to-earth, practical wisdom in these pages you will:
* receive daily wisdom from God
* discover the benefits of praying for others
* learn how to carry out your God-given tasks in the workplace with integrity
* unearth a new commitment to honor God in all that you do, say, and think
* settle your mind and nurture your spirit through timely daily readingsExcellent as a daily devotional or group study, The Walk at Work also includes a topical index of common work-related challenges, questions for further reflection, and recommendations for additional reading.
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What Now Lord
$13.49Add to cartNow That I Am A Christ Follower The purpose of What Now Lord? is to help you move from where you are now in life toward where God wants you to be. From the non-believer to the most mature Christ follower, my prayer is to help you move forward in your life’s journey and to make the principles in the Bible relevant to everyday living. What Now Lord? takes the reader on a sojourn from “just what is the Gospel” to discovering what God wants us to do once we accept the Gospel. The book is written in a conversational style that candidly takes you along my trek from believing to doubting, drifting away, and coming home again. Sit back, relax, and enjoy the ride.
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Lord God Almighty Attributes
$15.99Add to cartIn Hosea 3:6, God says, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; and because thou has rejected knowledge, I will also reject you.” The most exciting thing to know as a human being is that your salvation is sealed by the things you know biblically, which the material in this book can help you obtain. True Bible knowledge will help you clearly understand the Eternal Power and the Godhead, which will affect everything that you do. Perhaps the Eternal Power and Godhead will become your daily meditation with your daily knowledge of the Bible and everyday works. The material in this book can help you in speaking and demonstrating your knowledge and understanding of the truth. It will give you the highest Bible knowledge in clear charts, showing the human family generations, for a truly comprehensive picture of the Bible. By focusing on the generation of family trees concept, your knowledge of the Bible will increase rapidly. These charts of family trees will allow you to make excellent Bible notes for reproofing, correcting, and instructing in righteousness unto profitable doctrine, showing yourself approved unto the Eternal Power and Godhead as you rightly divide the Bible in truth. Watch for the patterns shown in the family tree charts, for God has worked according to patterns (Exodus 25:40; Numbers 8:4; Hebrews 8:5).
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God Help Me
$15.99Add to cartLife can sometimes be incredibly hard.Sometimes we find ourselves at the bottom of a pit of despair, dejection, and possible defeat. The death of those close to us, economic concerns, sudden unemployment, past or present abuse, divorce, addiction, major depression, or other major life-shaking events can lead us to the breaking point. Situations of hardship, loss, disappointment, and extreme hurt can leave us all physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually drained and unable to function. With nowhere to turn and no apparent way out,we cry,we scream, and we plead,”God help me!”. This is the author’s personal testimony based upon his own life experiences, observations, reflections, and training in chaplaincy, ministry, counseling, and life. Here the author shares the feelings and insights gained in times of such extreme challenge as well as spiritual and practical steps toward climbing out of the pit before starting over or moving forward in life. Neither theological nor psychological, this is the work of one who has been there in his own life and in the lives of others. God Help Me! is for those seeking hope,meaning, purpose, and the hand of God to help them climb out of the darkness.
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Biblical Survival Manual
$24.99Add to cartThroughout our lives, we’ve heard references about God from a variety of sources, both secular and religious. Yet it is through the scriptures that God reveals His character to us and displays His love, faithfulness and purposes. This is a book of compiled scriptures for Christian believers to meditate on and delight in. The purpose of this book is to share the goodness of the scriptures and encourage fellowship with God through His written Word. Life for all of us is full of challenges and battles. We fight everything from simple misunderstandings to gross injustices. We experience health problems, economic downturns, and moral failure. From loved ones to leaders, we sometimes find ourselves deceived or betrayed. There are times and seasons in everyone’s life where it seems like there’s no one on earth to trust. However, we have a Heavenly Father Who loves and cares for us. As we grow in our personal relationship with God, He develops a history of Himself in each one of our lives as He leads us victoriously through life’s seasons and daily challenges. God in His Word teaches us how to forgive, how to cast aside bitterness, how to pray and how to go on. He brings victory into the darkest places. His purpose is not always to shield us from adversity, misunderstandings and heartache, but He walks with us and leads us through life’s difficult seasons in victorious ways. The Biblical Survival Manual is a unique compilation of God’s Word, providing guidance for us as we journey through life. Amongst other things, this manual serves as: A Book of Encouragement meant to strengthen those going through the difficult seasons of life A Book of Inspiration for those seeking to learn more about the mercy, faithfulness and love of God A Book of Prayer & Spiritual Warfare for those willing to enter into intercessory prayer for others A Book of Reconciliation for those seeking to return home after a prodigal’s journey A Scriptural Guide & Reference for all those seeking after God’s heart and desiring to know His truth This manual is meant to enrich and strengthen you in your own unique journey. Read it, enjoy it and treasure it! You will not only want copies of this valuable reference for yourself, but copies also for your cherished friends, family members and associates.
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Vocation : Discerning Our Callings In Life
$26.99Add to cartSchuurman draws on the Lutheran and Calvinist traditions in constructing his doctrine of vocation. In doing so, he provides biblical, theological, and ethical analysis in exploring current responses to the classic view of vocation and offers a revised statement and application of this doctrine for contemporary North American Christians. According to Schuurman, many Christians today find it both strange and difficult to interpret their social, economic, political, and cultural lives as responses to God’s calling. To renew this biblical perspective Christians must recover the language, meaning, and reality of life as vocation, which (it is hoped) will inevitably lead them to experience and understand God more deeply.
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Essence Of Christianity
$27.99Add to cartPostmodern thought has attempted to strip many traditional values and beliefs of their power, and the Christian faith is no exception. In this spiritually and intellectually wise book Bruno Forte upholds the “essence” the heart and meaning of Christianity despite the claims of the contemporary world.
In the tradition of thinkers like Feuerbach, Harnack, and Guardini, Forte restates what is unique, reliable, and universal about Christianity for our current age. After outlining in broad terms the nature of postmodernity and its challenges to traditional faith, Forte proceeds, with the voice of one intimately in love with God, to present anew what lies at the heart of genuine Christianity and why it is still good news for women and men today.
Among the many books on postmodernism, this one is distinct for its conscientious dialogue with postmodern culture and its clear proclamation of meaningful faith. It will interest everyone pondering the role of Christianity in contemporary life.
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Gods Rules For Holiness
$11.99Add to cartTaken at face value the Ten Commandments are binding on all people, and will guard the way to Heaven so that evil will never spoil its glory and purity. But the Commandments are far greater than their surface meaning, as this book shows. They challenge Christians on a very wide range of sinful deeds and attitudes. They provide positive virtues as goals. And they give immense help for staying close to the Lord in the life of faith. Here readers will find a panoramic view of the standards and goals for God’s people.
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Low Road To New Heights
$15.99Add to cartWellington Boone, author of the popular, well-reviewed Christian marriage manual Your Wife Is Not Your Momma, delivers the unvarnished truth about what it takes for Christian believers to become Christ-like.
While becoming a believer in Jesus and joining the Christian faith are a gift of God a person need only accept, following Jesus requires much more. To walk in the footsteps of Jesus means making sacrifices like those he made if one is to imitate the example of Christ every day.
In The Low Road to New Heights, Wellington Boone elucidates the often difficult path to becoming a true disciple of Christ. Through examples drawn from real life and passages from the Bible, Bishop Boone gets to the heart of the matter: by living a humble life, Christians can conform to the character of Jesus. In an engaging style, Boone offers a serious spiritual regimen a kind of high-energy Christian aerobics routine that will last a lifetime. For those who want to move from being Christians in name only to being spiritually committed followers of Christ, Boone provides the no-nonsense, down-to-earth advice and inspiration they need to achieve their goal.
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Come To Me
$13.49Add to cartWeariness can wear away at our souls, our dreams, our hopes, our determination, and our joy. Weariness is a thief that steals life. It is a descending staircase that leads us into the deep pit of despair and threatens to leave us there with no way out. But the good news is that the way of Christ is ascending. It is the stairway that leads us out of human despair and into the joy of knowing and serving God. Come to Me: An Invitation for the Weary Soul comes to us from the heart of someone who has seen and experienced the dark shadows of true weariness of the soul and mind. In these pages, the author shares with us God.s solution to human weariness and explains why this invitation from Jesus Christ for us to “come” to Him is an invitation worth considering. Reviewed by: Marie DisBrow for Wordsmith Shoppe “Come to Me, written in an easy-to-read, conversational style, is a devotional aimed at those who are overcome by weariness. In this hectic and stressful world, there is surely a large audience for this book. The author uses experiences in his own life, and those of others, to show how weariness can overcome us. A prayer and Scripture reading conclude each of the fourteen chapters.” “The theme of the book is Jesus’ invitation to the weary in Matthew 11:28-30: “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.” I especially appreciated the author’s explanation of a yoke and how taking Jesus’ yoke upon us is not burdensome because it is “custom made” for each individual.” “Beaird encourages setting priorities: God first, then family and other relationships, and even ourselves. He reminds us that Jesus took time to be alone for prayer and refreshing.” “As a caregiver, I’ve often found myself weary and depressed. Reading Come to Me lifted my spirits and pointed to Jesus as the only true solution to the problem of weariness. This little book was very helpful to me, and I’ll read it again and again.” “Mark Beaird is a pastor, columnist, freelance writer, and the author of Let Me Encourage You Today: Daily Devotions and The Pastor’s Collection Sermon Series. Mark and his wife and two daughters reside in Huntsville, Alabama, where he serves as the associate pastor at Life Church International.” (C) Marie DisBrow for Wordsmith Shoppe Are you discouraged, weary, want to give up on the
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Whole Truth : Classroom Strategies For Biblical Integration
$16.49Add to cart“Mark Eckel clearly and convincingly shows how all worldview beliefs affect teaching and learning. The book is unique in that it directly links insights about comprehensive biblical integration with numerous activities and examples. Christian school administrators will find it a valuable tool for staff discussions and teacher professional development.” Harro Van Brummelen, Dean, School of Education, Trinity Western University “This is a book that every serious Christian must read. In a popular, easy-tounderstand style, Mark Eckel explains the process of biblical integration, addresses the foundational issues of Christian worldview, and gives hundreds of examples showing God’s world through the lens of God’s Word. As Paul taught us in Romans 12:2, living Christianly begins with thinking Christianly.” Joseph M. Stowell, President, Moody Bible Institute “The Whole Truth is an owner’s manual for connecting biblical truth with everyday learning. And an education without Truth steeping to its bones is like junk food to the body-all fat and no muscle. Eckel’s school and teacher-proven strategies provide practical help for those who want to restore proper ‘Truth’ nutrition for America’s soul! I have seen him teach his doable approach to teachers, and I know it works!” Ed Gamble, National Executive Director Southern Baptist Association of Christian Schools
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Incredible Patience Of God
$15.99Add to cartMany believers become discouraged with the long process of growth in their walk with Christ. In fact, Lane Adams believes it is “the rare spiritual prodigy” who moves rapidly to spiritual maturity. In this refreshing and helpful book, he offers encouragement, candid humor, and practical insight for those who are struggling in their Christian lives. In many ways, some Christians today are indistinguishable from the culture around them.They deny moral absolutes of right and wrong and affirm situational ethics. Their God is one-sided-all blessing and no judgment. In this book, Lane Adams urges Christians to seek a balance between asking for forgiveness and being accountable. The Incredible Patience of God will help Christians rethink their beliefs about sin and repentance, and will assure believers who are sincerely seeking a closer relationship with God.
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Exalted Horn
$24.99Add to cartThe Exalted Horn challenges people to take a seat at the feet of the Holy Spirit, humble themselves before the Lord and hear His voice. As children of the Most High God, we should claim our inheritance and walk in the authority that He has given to us so that our horn(strength) may be exalted in Him. When our horn is exalted in the Lord, we lead victorious lives because we rejoice in His salvation. It is very easy to stray from the Word of God and disregard Him because of the depth of our daily struggles. But, if we are willing, we can know Him as Abba Father through the help of the Holy Spirit. The author shares in this book some lessons learned at the feet of the Holy Spirit by surrendering and believing such as “Wealth,””The Lust of the Eye,” “Procrastination,” “Sickness: Whose portion?,” “The Ministry of Suffering,” “Walking and Stumbling in God’s House,” “God’s way or My Way,” “The Power of Praise” and many more. She urges you to read, understand and “Exalt the LORD our God, and worship at His footstool–He is holy (Psalm 99:5). Each chapter ends with prayers to aid the reader in making direct supplications to God.
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Exalted Horn : Lessons At The Feet Of The Holy Spirit
$15.99Add to cartThe Exalted Horn challenges people to take a seat at the feet of the Holy Spirit, humble themselves before the Lord and hear His voice. As children of the Most High God, we should claim our inheritance and walk in the authority that He has given to us so that our horn(strength) may be exalted in Him. When our horn is exalted in the Lord, we lead victorious lives because we rejoice in His salvation. It is very easy to stray from the Word of God and disregard Him because of the depth of our daily struggles. But, if we are willing, we can know Him as Abba Father through the help of the Holy Spirit. The author shares in this book some lessons learned at the feet of the Holy Spirit by surrendering and believing such as “Wealth,””The Lust of the Eye,” “Procrastination,” “Sickness: Whose portion?,” “The Ministry of Suffering,” “Walking and Stumbling in God’s House,” “God’s way or My Way,” “The Power of Praise” and many more. She urges you to read, understand and “Exalt the LORD our God, and worship at His footstool–He is holy (Psalm 99:5). Each chapter ends with prayers to aid the reader in making direct supplications to God.
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Building Materials For Life 2
$16.00Add to cartFundamentals
Seek Meaningful Work
God’s Rest
Humble Pride
Achieve Through Excellence
Focus Your Power
Direction In Life
Ripeness
OpportunityFaith
From Heaven To Earth
Live Your Faith
God’s Healing Hand
Let Your Light Shine
Hope
Taking God’s Name In Vain
Blessed Are The Meek
Ask, Seek, And KnockChallenges
Do Something
Urgency
Be Responsive
Commitment
Go Forth And Make Disciples
Incarnational Evangelism
Jesus Is The Idea
A Bold New IdeaLife Lessons
Learn From Mistakes
Embrace Change
Procrastination
Sorrow
Anxiety On A Mission
Fear In The Home
Anxiety On A Mountain
InfluenceGifts
Joy Of Children
True Worth
Simple Pleasures
Building Excitement
Gentleness
Passion
Unforgettable Moments
God’s GraceAdditional Info
This collection of forty essays is a continuation of those in Building Materials for Life,
Vol. I of this series. Volume II continues the series with essays on topics like direction in life, hope, urgency, sorrow, true worth, and simple pleasures. As in the first volume, the topics deal with matters, both religious and secular, that arise in the lives of people everywhere. This second volume provides new building materials that are relevant to issues people face, regardless of station in life, on a regular basis. -
Is There Any Clean Place
$15.49Add to cartIs There Any Clean Place? is a cry for holiness.This is God’s cry as well as the author’s and all those who desire to be like Christ. For the Lord says, “Be holy, for I am holy.” Through a process of dreams, visions, life’s lessons, and God’s Word, the Lord has imparted a revelation to Norine, which she shares in her quest for holiness. “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.” MATTHEW 5:6
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Break Through Prayer
$18.99Add to cartPrayer is an essential part of the devoted Christian’s life, Cymbala (Fresh Faith) reminds readers, and the Bible sets forth numerous examples of faithful men and women who prayed constantly. In this inspirational guidebook for committed Christians, the author, the pastor of the Brooklyn Tabernacle, writes that he has seen the power and comfort of prayer not only in the Bible but in his own life, as well as in the lives of his church members, many of whom were personally affected by the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Cymbala assures that God wants to hear and answer people’s prayers, and thus people should pray with “certainty” and with “confidence.” He gives guidelines for making effective prayers, and suggests that only supplicants who abide by “God’s spiritual laws” can expect to have their prayers answered. “An unforgiving spirit, bitterness, secret, sexual sins,” he writes, “can stymie our praying.” (This is the reason, he says, that he once refused to pray for a man in his Tabernacle-because he lived “in fornication” with his girlfriend.) Cymbala focuses largely on how to use prayer to become filled with joy and to cast away worries or fears, and he spends much of the book explaining how a life of faithful prayer can result in deep, lasting inner peace. Spiced with lively anecdotes-the heroin addict who found God; the disaffected young man who became a soapbox preacher-and punctuated with pullout quotations, Cymbala’s impassioned message should bring encouragement to the Christian faithful.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.–This text refers to the Hardcover edition.Book Description
Breakthrough Prayer explains the principles and lays out a vision that can revolutionize our lives, enabling us to receive all that God has for us. -
Little Pot Of Oil
$11.00Add to cartRunning on Empty? The Holy Spirit’s empowerment comes when we step into the forward motion of God’s love flowing through us-not backwards into our comfortable shell!
A time comes when we just don’t have anything left over to give. We run out of faith, energy, strength, patience, options, peace, joy, ideas, and even love. So when God’s call comes knocking and our resources seem thin, we tend to hole up and hide from the needs of others. But that’s exactly when God’s greatest blessing is within a single step, according to Jill Briscoe. He’s asking us to obey, senseless as it may seem.
God has given us what we need to fill up when we run low. It’s the incredible gift of Himself. In this engaging book, Jill Briscoe guides you to a source of ample sustenance. Even as you empty yourself, the Holy Spirit will fill you. And in giving yourself away, you will find life.
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Fatal Distractions : Uncover The Roadblocks That Keep You From Fulfilling Y
$13.99Add to cartLord, deliver us from distractions, especially the fatal ones! Woman of God, the devil wants to discourage you and keep you ineffective in all areas of your life. Learn why you are such a threat to him and how you can experience major breakthroughs.
Using biblical characters and principles, evangelist Joyce Rodgers explains the importance of becoming a proactive, solution-seeking woman of the twenty-first century. You must develop a positive, confident attitude and sidestep the fatal distractions that lurk around the next corner.
Lord, enable us to triumph over our adversary! You do not have to be distracted by the enemy for one more minute of one more day. You are a woman of destiny. The victory is yours; step into it!
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Releasing The Rivers Within
$15.99Add to cartYou want to influence others for God. To experience more of the abundant power Jesus promised. To live a life overflowing with God’s presence. To make a difference in the world.
So why do these desires go unfulfilled? Where can you find the resources you need to experience the exhilaration of utter dependence on God?
In Releasing the Rivers Within, Dwight Edwards reveals that all the good God wants to dispense through your life finds its origin in the indwelling supernatural resources He has already implanted within you.
As Jesus told us in John 7:38, every believer has rivers of living waters within, pressing forward and awaiting release. And as you open yourself up and allow God’s life to flow through you, you’ll bring the greatest glory to Him, the most good to others, and the deepest satisfaction to yourself.
Discover the resources God has placed within you. Release the rivers within and experience life as God intended it: filled to overflowing.
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Anointing Of His Spirit (Reprinted)
$19.00Add to cartThe Anointing of His Spirit captures Smith Wigglesworth’s message of faith. You will find the heart of a man who cried out to God on behalf of others, praying powerfully and effectively for healing and provision–spiritual, financial, emotional, and physical. Today his words still ring with power and continue to inspire incredible faith in those who hear them.
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God Of The Fairy Tale
$12.99Add to cartWhat Treasures Are Hidden in the Enchanted Woods?
More than just bedtime traditions, more than simple children’s literature, the most enduring stories are echoes of the greatest of all stories, the Gospel. God of the Fairy Tale is a collection of spiritual reflections on the truths found in classic fairy tales, truths that point us to the ultimate Truth about God, redemption, and ourselves.
Delving into twenty classic folk and fairy tales, God of the Fairy Tale leads us into the mystical landscape of elves, goblins, and talking animals to reveal the jewels of truth that hide inside these most simple of stories. Through the fables of Snow White, Cinderella, Hansel and Gretel, and many others, we discover a perspective not unlike that of the Bible-a world of people trying to be something more, questing to do good in a realm fraught with evil, where a turn of the tables leaves the strong defeated and the weak victorious.
Each tale is presented along with a meditation on the spiritual and theological themes present. God of the Fairy Tale will warm your heart with a world of characters, creatures, and circumstances that spin an entertaining yarn and affirm the most essential Christian worldviews.
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Gods Gift To Women
$16.99Add to cartIn a culture that exalts the caveman like qualities of masculinity, most women have stopped expecting anything more. Young men are often taught to view women as slaves to their self-centered desires. More than ever, men need to know that they can rise above this sad mediocrity. They desperately need someone to recognize their potential for blending courage and kindness, strength and spiritual sensitivity. With its riveting vision of Christ-centered manhood, God’s Gift To Women shows young men how to become the heroic, selfless knight that every woman dreams about.
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Gospel According To Tolkien
$25.00Add to cart1. Great Symphony Of The Creation
2. The Calamity Of Evil: The Marriage Of The Divine Harmony
3. The Counter-Action To Evil: Tolkien’s Vision Of The Moral Life
4. The Lasting Corrective: Tolkien’s Vision Of The Redeemed Life
5. Consummation: When Middle-Earth Shall Be UnmarredAdditional Info
In this accessible and engaging book, Ralph Wood shows us that J. R. R. Tolkien’s masterpiece is a deeply Christian work because it does not blink back the horrors of our terrible times but confronts them with startling honesty. Readers keep turning to this work because here they are immersed in significance and meaning – perceiving the Hope that can be found amidst despair; the Charity that overcomes vengeance; and the Faith that springs from the strange power of weakness.The Gospel According to Tolkien will be loved by both long-time Tolkien fans and those recently drawn to his books through the popular feature films.
Readers have repeatedly called The Lord of the Rings the most important book of our age–absorbing all 1,500 of its pages with an almost fanatical interest and seeing the Peter Jackson movies in unprecedented numbers. Readers from ages 8 to 80 keep turning to Tolkien because here, in this magical kingdom, they are immersed in depth after depth of significance and meaning–perceiving the Hope that can be found amidst despair, the Charity that overcomes vengeance, and the Faith that springs from the strange power of weakness. The Gospel According to Tolkien examines biblical and Christian themes that are found in the works of J. R. R. Tolkien. Follow Ralph Wood as he takes us through the theological depths of Tolkien’s literary legacy.
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Bible Counseling : Equipping Christians For Evangelistic Counseling
$22.99Add to cartYes, the twenty-first century is now here, and along with it, the pressures and stresses of life have grown immeasurably. Marriages are pummeled on every side; the divorce count is rising; we see an increase in the number of victims of sexual and physical abuse. Pastors are inundated with requests for counseling. What is the church’s solution? Should churches send their people to secular sources for “professional” help? Or does God have a different solution? This book is a foundational wealth of resources to train everyone in the church to apply biblical truth in a practical way to overcome the problems they face. BIBLE (Biblical Insights for Basic Living Everyday) counseling is an effective method that uses basic Bible truths about God to transform people’s emotional, mental, and spiritual states, bringing them back to the root of their faith and confidence in the God who created them.
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God Good Debt Bad
$21.99Add to cartGod Good-Debt Bad will inspire as well as motivate you to seek scriptural answers to many of today’s complex financial questions. Written from a financial planner’s viewpoint, Randy C. Cowell shares nearly two decades of financial planning experiences, making God Good-Debt Bad a must read for anyone struggling with debt and the management of their finances. Bridging the gap between scriptural truths and financial applications, Randy’s insightful commentary on the state of the new millennium Christian family is sobering and thought provoking. He challenges you to seek scriptural answers to the financial questions of today. God Good-Debt Bad redefines stewardship and encourages the reader to achieve the ultimate goal of being DEBT FREE. To reach this status is possibly the greatest financial accomplishment one can achieve. To gain control of your finances will change you and your family’s life forever and impact ministries in a powerful way!
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Time And Seasons
$10.99Add to cartStart today to transform your heartbreak into valuable life lessons… What do you do when life hands you lemons? Make lemonade, of course! Is this easier said than done for you? Do you find yourself lost and confused when the unexpected happens in your life? How do you triumph over adversity? Time & Seasons offers ten practical, easy-to-implement strategies to help you overcome misfortune and find peace in a time of storm. There are no magic formulas here, but just plain and simple truths to help you heal as you face difficulties in your life. As surely as we breathe, we all must face adversity. How we react when tragedies strike will depend on us. Learn how to get past the pain and disappointments that cloud your life and how to love, forgive, and care for yourself in the midst of it all.
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Healing His Way
$14.99Add to cartThis book is based on Kathy’s radio series teaching on the healing ministry of Jesus Christ. In today’s Church, inundated with various programs, methods, and “how-to” approaches to healing, Kathy’s messages are solidly based on the Word of God. She stresses the need to keep all eyes focused on Jesus, and all hearts increasing in faith. Her fresh approach to the Scriptures is enlightening and powerfully motivating to those who seek to know more about the healing ministry. You will be challenged to faith as you read this book. Kathy continues to travel around the world in healing crusades, and is available to speak in churches and conferences providing uplifting teaching and witness. She loves to empower and encourage those who have a desire to serve on the mission field. www.hopeinternationalservices.us kabhis@aol.com
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Step Into A Higher Dimension
$13.49Add to cartIn Step into a Higher Dimension, author John Lataster breaks new ground with thought-provoking perspectives that will give the reader insight into a higher spiritual level. This book will reveal, prepare, and equip you for the greatest calling that’s upon your life. Live out your destiny and purpose, and discover: The highest call there is in life How to embrace your calling The purpose of running the race How the heavenly ranks work in your daily life God’s ridiculous dream The wisdom and poverty story Where the secret place is By reading this book you will experience that God has called you to be anointed and not to fail, but to overcome every obstacle of the enemy. The book you have in your hands today is the key to change your circumstances and take charge of your destiny. Yes, God is in control, but we have to come into action.
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Weakness Of God
$14.99Add to cartThe Weakness of God examines the character of Jesus Christ’s life as a man and how his life relates in comparison to today’s Christian men. The book touches on the fallacy of the so-called “macho mentality” prevalent in men. It answers the misconception of Jesus being a passive and docile man at all times. Gospel accounts of Jesus contending with religious groups such as the Pharisees are noted and discussed. Each chapter illustrates a quality of Jesus as a pattern for believers to follow. The book shows Jesus as an emotional and sensitive man who exhibited moments of crying. It reveals how crying and prayers will touch the heart of God and rebuts the myth that man should not cry. It tells why Christian men should shun the worldly attitudes of today and conform to the attributes of Jesus. It explains the compassionate Christ’s regard for the weak and his defense of women’s rights. It demonstrates how men are to be benevolent leaders in the home and the church. It explains mutual submission in the marriage relationship. This is an informative, relevant book that espouses the issues that affect Christians today and provides biblical answers in living a fulfilled life in Christ.
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God Wants You Happy And Rich
$10.99Add to cartRobert E. Mawire has transformed the idea of success and happiness into something real and tangible. As he likes to say, “he’s been there, done that.” He understands what it takes to get people to pick up the pieces of broken dreams-to dream, love, and live again. Robert goes beyond the hodgepodge of “be happy” mantras and spiritual mumbo-jumbo to teach us a balanced perspective on how to live our lives. God Wants You Happy and Rich is a book about transformation and practical preparation for abundant living. Get rid of low self-esteem Deal with failure Find your life’s purpose Be successful God Wants You Happy and Rich addresses spiritual and practical concerns. As Robert shows, happiness and financial success are an integral part of God’s vision for your life. It’s all about discovering who you really are and being what God created you to be.
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Sabbath Challenge Sabbath Delight
$29.99Add to cartWhat is the connection between Jesus Christ and the Sabbath and you? In a user-friendly question-and-answer format, this book explores the meaning, significance, and identity of the true Sabbath day. The Sabbath is a divine prescription for family happiness. It is like an envelope from Heaven containing rest and peace. It is like a key that unlocks our understanding of the many unique and amazing accomplishments of Jesus. The Sabbath is also of great importance for Earth’s soon-coming and final crisis. Are you confused about Sunday versus Sabbath? Do you need a spiritual challenge? Do you need breathing space in the “rat race”? Choose this book for a relevant, in-depth, and challenging examination of the Sabbath.
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Sabbath Challenge Sabbath Delight
$19.99Add to cartWhat is the connection between Jesus Christ and the Sabbath and you? In a user-friendly question-and-answer format, this book explores the meaning, significance, and identity of the true Sabbath day. The Sabbath is a divine prescription for family happiness. It is like an envelope from Heaven containing rest and peace. It is like a key that unlocks our understanding of the many unique and amazing accomplishments of Jesus. The Sabbath is also of great importance for Earth’s soon-coming and final crisis. Are you confused about Sunday versus Sabbath? Do you need a spiritual challenge? Do you need breathing space in the “rat race”? Choose this book for a relevant, in-depth, and challenging examination of the Sabbath.
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Gospel For Real Life (Student/Study Guide)
$15.99Add to cartWhat difference does the gospel make?
The gospel of Jesus Christ is the door to eternal life, but what difference does it make once we’re inside God’s kingdom? Jerry Bridges says the gospel is the very lifeblood of our walk with God day by day. It is the key to our salvation, for sure, but it is also the power for our daily progress in holiness. In The Gospel for Real Life, Jerry helps you:
*Experience freedom from the grip of sin and know the joy of pursuing holiness
*Revel in God’s acceptance of you and participate in His grace as a daily reality
*Expose the subtle acids of legalism in your life and enjoy the liberty of the cross
*Understand the crucial doctrines of the gospel and their priceless benefits to you
*Discover how to “preach the gospel to yourself daily” and so partake of its continuous transforming power
*Carry the true fullness of the gospel to a desperately needy world around you–This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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Building Materials For Life 1
$15.00Add to cartBuilding a fulfilling and productive life- much like building a solid, durable house-requires the right materials on a solid foundation. Building Materials for Life, a collection of 40 inspiring essays, will motivate you to gather the resources you need to succeed in life. Learning from Failure, Overcoming Doubt, Forgiveness and Peace Within are just a few of the raw materials that will ensure the success of your life’s building project.
“We are laborers together with God; you are God’s field, God’s building. According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and someone else is building on it.”
1 Corinthians 3:9-10
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Call : Finding And Fulfilling The Central Purpose Of Your Life
$19.99Add to cartThe Call continues to stand as a classic, reflective work on life’s purpose. Best-selling author Os Guinness goes beyond our surface understanding of God’s call and addresses the fact that God has a specific calling for our individual lives. Why am I here? What is God’s call in my life? How do I fit God’s call with my own individuality? How should God’s calling affect my career, my plans for the future, my concepts of success? Guinness now helps the reader discover answers to these questions, and more, through a corresponding workbook – perfect for individual or group study. According to Guinness, “No idea short of God’s call can ground and fulfill the truest human desire for purpose and fulfillment.” With tens of thousands of readers to date, The Call is for all who desire a purposeful, intentional life of faith. Also availbale in audio format, narrated by Os Guinness.
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Overcoming Addictive Behavior (Reprinted)
$17.00Add to cartI have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do–this I keep on doing (Romans 7:18-19, NIV). Addiction forges its own chains of pain and problems that grow with each day and seem impossible to overcome. If you are, or someone you know is, a captive of addictive behavior, Neil Anderson and Mike Quarles have both a message of hope and a plan of action. Anyone can be set free from addictive behavior, can experience victory in Jesus, and can become an overcomer in life! The key is to identify the root cause of your problem and, instead of running away from it, run to God! Do this, and your mind and spirit will be renewed; and no matter what you struggle with, you will find your freedom in Christ!
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Finding Gods Will In Spiritually Deceptive Times
$12.99Add to cartWho has the authority to speak for God? How do we hear His message? Does it come through other people, through the Scriptures, or both? These are questions that nearly every Christian has struggled with. According to author Neil Anderson, the answers for believers must be based on two powerful truths: We are alive in Christ, and we are God’s children, To help readers explore and apply the principles that are presented, questions (ideal for group study or discussion) are provided at the end of each chapter.
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Dream Giver : Following Your God Given Destiny
$17.99Add to cartBestselling author Bruce Wilkinson shows how to identify and overcome the obstacles that keep millions from living the life they were created for. He begins with a compelling modern-day parable about Ordinary, who dares to leave the Land of Familiar to pursue his Big Dream. With the help of the Dream Giver, Ordinary begins the hardest and most rewarding journey of his life. Wilkinson gives readers practical, biblical keys to fulfilling their own dream, revealing that there’s no limit to what God can accomplish when we choose to pursue the dreams He gives us for His honor.
Are you living your dream- or just living your life?
Welcome to a little story about a very big idea. This compelling modern-day parable tells the story of Ordinary, who dares to leave the Land of Familiar to pursue his Big Dream.
You, too, have been given a Big Dream. One that can change your life. One that the Dream Giver wants you to achieve. Does your Big Dream seem hopelessly out of reach? Are you waiting for something or someone to make your dream happen?
Then you’re ready for The Dream Giver.
Let Bruce Wilkinson show you how to rise above the ordinary, conquer your fears, and overcome the obstacles that keep you from living your Big Dream.
You were made for this. Now it’s time to begin your journey.
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Dwelling In A Strange Land
$12.99Add to cartThe Exile in the Old Testament is frequently portrayed as a sign of failure and judgement, the inevitable consequence of human disobedience. Turning this idea on its head, John Holdsworth asks whether being in exile is not in fact the proper state for God’s pilgrim people to be. Freeing the Church of the tyrannical grip of material security and safety, might it become more open to God’s direction and a more authentic sign of the kingdom?
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Hunger For The Holy
$14.99Add to cart(When placing your order, please mention that this is a Lightining Source book.)
Using the imagery of the Book of Psalms as a backdrop, author Calvin Miller explores our hunger for intimacy with our holy God. Insisting that the pathway to God’s holiness is through a journey into our own selves. Miller yet maintains that our end is not to know ourselves but to know Christ. Our hunger for the hold leads us to a table for two in a quiet wilderness. Here, Miller says, we meet as “ardent lovers in the lonely desert of the human heart. There, he speaks as much as we do, and even when both of us say nothing, we are rapt in a welded oneness.”
In Miller’s inimitable style, he graciously invites up to satisfy our hunger for the holiness of God as we meditate on the psalms and are challenged to know the God of the universe in a personal, intimate relationship -
How To Live Right When Your Life Goes Wrong
$17.00Add to cart224 Pages
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Despite the abundant availability of both self-help books and Bible study materials, many of us find it difficult to apply what we learn, to make that long head-to-heart journey of change. When we are faced with life’s daily trials, our responses often lack the Christian maturity we desire–showing us clearly just how far we have to go. Is it possible to achieve a deeper, more permanent change of heart?Discover the principle that could transform your life through one practical, simple-to-understand and easy-to-remember model. You will:
– gain a new perspective on the troubles God allows in your life.
– come to better understand your response to those trials.
– discover the underlying idols that hamper your efforts to change.
– learn how to discern the truth of God’s Word.
– develop the heart response that will draw you closer to God.
Come on a journey of personal growth and spiritual discovery as your heart is drawn back to a central tenet of the Gospel: Truth isn’t something you learn, but Someone you know. And the Truth will set you free.
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Tough Questions Leaders Guide (Teacher’s Guide)
$14.99Add to cartReasonable answers to the tough questions about faith_for seeker small groups This revised edition of the Tough Questions series of small group curriculum faces head-on the difficult and challenging questions seekers ask about the Christian faith. This honest, informative series is the result of authors Garry Poole and Judson Poling’s extensive work with seekers at Willow Creek Community Church. Each of the 7 guides deals frankly with common objections to Christianity: * How Does Anyone Know God Exists? * What Difference Does Jesus Make? * How Reliable Is the Bible? * How Could God Allow Suffering and Evil? * Don’t All Religions Lead to God? * Do Science and the Bible Conflict? * Why Become a Christian? In 6 sessions, each guide is designed to get small groups thinking, discussing, and eventually discovering that the Christian faith can stand up to scrutiny. Quotes from non-Christian skeptics in various disciplines, together with responses from credible Christian apologists, fuel the discussions. The Tough Questions Leader’s Guide provides detailed lesson plans for facilitating the discussion and, in the process, giving an overview of the key elements of Christianity. This series is appropriate for small groups, churches, and Sunday school classes. It offers seekers and believers alike the kind of reasonable, factual answers that inspire faith, conviction, and trust in the reality and claims of Christ.
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What Difference Does Jesus Make
$14.99Add to cartReasonable answers to the tough questions about faith_for seeker small groups This revised edition of the Tough Questions series of small group curriculum faces head-on the difficult and challenging questions seekers ask about the Christian faith. This honest, informative series is the result of authors Garry Poole and Judson Poling’s extensive work with seekers at Willow Creek Community Church. Each of the 7 guides deals frankly with common objections to Christianity: * How Does Anyone Know God Exists? * What Difference Does Jesus Make? * How Reliable Is the Bible? * How Could God Allow Suffering and Evil? * Don’t All Religions Lead to God? * Do Science and the Bible Conflict? * Why Become a Christian? In 6 sessions, each guide is designed to get small groups thinking, discussing, and eventually discovering that the Christian faith can stand up to scrutiny. Quotes from non-Christian skeptics in various disciplines, together with responses from credible Christian apologists, fuel the discussions. The Tough Questions Leader’s Guide provides detailed lesson plans for facilitating the discussion and, in the process, giving an overview of the key elements of Christianity. This series is appropriate for small groups, churches, and Sunday school classes. It offers seekers and believers alike the kind of reasonable, factual answers that inspire faith, conviction, and trust in the reality and claims of Christ.
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I Bear A Cross
$22.49Add to cartDo you know your spiritual self? Do you know your mission and purpose in life? Are you or someone dear to you experiencing a lengthy mental or physical illness? Then it’s a must that you journey with Peggy Thomas Templeman, a professional social worker and survivor of clinical depression-a condition with which she has struggled for over forty years. Her highly inspirational autobiography tells of her almost insurmountable challenges, of progressively increasing trust and faith in God, and of the powerful light of hope. Feel the author’s struggles prior to birth and on through college, marriage, motherhood, numerous hospitalizations, and up to the completion of this book. She acknowledges this writing as a “divine assignment.” Marvel with Peggy Templeman in her recent diagnosis of Meniere’s Disease-an inner ear disorder. According to some medical professionals, it is this condition that could have contributed to her lengthy struggles with depression.
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Anointing : Yesterday Today And Tomorrow
$13.99Add to cartAnointing. While the word has several meanings in the Bible, it always revolves around the idea of the Holy Spirit and His power to change human lives. Each of us has an anointing or a special gift from God. Using it properly is the key to creating what is good, blessing and encouraging others, edifying ourselves, and pleasing the Lord.
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Healing The Masculine Soul
$18.99Add to cartIn his groundbreaking book fifteen years ago, Gordon Dalbey identified the fact that men’s souls have been torn between strength and sensitivity. Today, the situation is even worse. The politically correct crowd cries out for men to be more sensitive, to tame their masculine nature. On the opposing side, the media bombards men with “macho” images of violence and lust. Is it any wonder men are left bewildered about who they should be? In this newly revised and updated edition of Healing the Masculine Soul, Dalbey claims that there’s hope for restoration, hope for healing_because Christ has come to heal us. God is calling men out to a relationship with Himself and calling them out to authentic manhood. “Our task is not to curse our manhood, but to redeem it,” he writes. Gordon Dalbey’s refreshing, comprehensive picture of God’s design for the masculine soul dares men to be as God created them to be_not as society demands. Dalbey tackles the tough issues, including work, sexuality, marriage, and fatherhood. Book includes Study Guide.
