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Quest For Character
$17.99Add to cart41 Chapters
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So many voices today tell us that avoiding pain and dodging trouble are the best we can expect from life. Yet God is at work in us. He doesn’t call us to a bland vanilla existence but to an exciting quest for the best thing in life — a heart that reflects the character qualities of Jesus Christ. Let Chuck Swindoll show you the building blocks of character that God wants to develop in you and how these traits can help you achieve lasting fulfillment. The Quest for Character offers forty encouraging meditations on character qualities that can significantly change your life. Each brief devotional ends with helpful suggestions for refining your character and scripture readings to draw you into God’s Word. -
Sky Edge : Mountaintop Meditations
$17.99Add to cart1. The Birth Of This Book
2. Four Bears And …
3. The Beauty Of Bunch Grass
4. Mountain Climbing
5. Eagles In The Wind
6. Snow-fed Streams
7. The Olalla Bush
8. Trees Above Timber Line
9. Fire On The Mountains
10. Stillness
11. The Season’s First Heavy Snow
12. Puma
13. Healing Of The Hills
14. Wonder Springs Anew
15. The Shaping Of Stone
16. The Splendor In The Clouds
17. Hidden Springs
18. Quiet Waters
19. Return Of The Birds
20. The Wonder Of Spring P. 199Additional Info
Out of the depths of his own heart and the stirrings os his soul, Phillip Keller shares with his readers spiritual insights gained as he has walked with God.In the author’s own words, “This book is an earnest endeavor to share with the reader some of the stirring eternal truths which God, by His Spirit, has made so vivid and vital to me. He has always spoken to people of His choosing in the solitude of mountains. So it is appropriate that He should do so again…
“It is in the quiet interludes on some remote ridges against the egde of the sky that God’s eternal Spirit can speak with stunning clarity. There, away from the crush and commotion of our culture, He can commune with us in great depths. In the stillness and solitude of the hills and valleys it is possible to know our Father and understand His eternal intentions for us.”
These insightful interludes come to the reader fresh from Keller’s heart and mind, illustrated with beautiful line drawings to convey to the reader in visual form the places he will visit with this fascinating author.
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Releasing Your Potential
$17.99Add to cart1. The Tragedy Of Unreleased Potential
2. How Will You Be Remembered?
3. What Is Potential?
4. How To Release Your Potential
5. The Foundation Key
6. Know Your Source
7. Understand Your Function
8. Understand Your Purpose
9. Know Your Resources
10. Maintain The Right Environment
11. Work: The Master Key
12. Potential And The Priority Of Work
13. Understanding Work
14. Responding To Responsibility P. 157Additional Info
Releasing Your Potential is a complete, integrated, principles-centered approach to releasing the awesome potential trapped within you. With penetrating insights and pointed anecdotes, this book reveals a step-by-step pathway to releasing your potential. If you have been frustrated by your dreams, ideas and visions, this book will activate your buried treasure and ignite the wheels of productivity. It will release a death blow to procrastination and set you on a path to personal fulfillment, purpose and productivity.Releasing Your Potential will enable you to:
Take the next step from the author’s first best-selling volume Understanding Your Potential.
Activate, stimulate and release the wealth of your potential
Break free and leap over the limitations of past opinions
Comprehend and appropriate the principle keys for unleashing for the next generation the wealth of potential trapped inside.
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Day By Day With C H Spurgeon
$19.99Add to cartThis sourcebook of daily meditations comes from the pen of one of the greatest pulpiteers in the history of the Christian church, and commemorates the anniversary of his death in 1892. Yet, still today, there are more of C. H. Spurgeon’s books in print than almost any other author. This special compilation is selected from his sermons, with Scripture references added by the compiler. It is a completely new compilation, not a condensation of Spurgeon’s famous Morning and Evening.
Though Spurgeon’s public ministry ended a hundred years ago, this collection brings the works of this remarkable author-preacher to the reader in convenient daily devotional form, taking him through the Bible from Genesis to Revelation and providing stimulating commentary to help the reader apply the Scriptures to his daily life. The medititations are carefully indexed by subjuect – i.e., faith, love, adversity, salvation, prayer, death, and many more – making them useful to preachers and Bible teachers looking for Spurgeon’s sparkling thoughts and unique perspectives for special days and occasions.
Day by Day is a daily adventure in walking with God, a devotional book with a purpose – to enrich your private meditations and public presentations. Every meditaion is espectially chosen to help the reader to overcome the day-by-day pressures of everyday existence – realistically, biblically, and enduringly. -
Gifted Hands : The Ben Carson Story (Reprinted)
$19.99Add to cartGifted Hands by and about Ben Carson, M.D., is the inspiring story of an inner-city kid with poor grades and little motivation, who, at age thirty-three, became director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins University Hospital. Gifted Hands will transplace you into the operating room to witness surgeries that made headlines around the world, and into the private mind of a compassionate, God-fearing physician who lives to help others. In 1987, Dr. Carson gained worldwide recognition for his part in the first successful separation of Siamese twins joined at the back of the head — an extremely complex and delicate operation that was five months of planning and twenty-two hours of actual surgery, involving a surgical plan that Carson helped initiate. Gifted Hands reveals a man with humility, decency, compassion, courage, and sensitivity who serves as a role model for young people (and everyone else) in need of encouragement to attempt the seemingly impossible and to excel in whatever they attempt. Dr. Carson also describes the key role that his highly intelligent though relatively uneducated mother played in his metamorphosis from an unmotivated ghetto youngster into one of the most respected neurosurgeons in the world.
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Great Women Of The Bible
$15.99Add to cart1. The Woman Who Got Her Man (Ruth 1:16)
2. The Woman Whose Beauty Saved A Race (Esther 4:16)
3. The Woman Who Was Better Than Her Job (Joshua 2:21)
4. The Woman To Remember (Genesis 19:26)
5. Two Women Of Bethany (Luke 10:39; John 12:2)
6. The Woman Who Sheared Him (Judges 16:19)
7. The Woman Who Married The Wrong Man (1 Samuel 25:3)
8. The Woman Who Deceived Her Husband (Genesis 27:15)
9. The Woman Who Married The Right Man (Genesis 29:20)
10. The Woman Who Had Five Husbands – And One Who Was Not (John 4:18)
11. The Woman Who Lost And Found Life’s Greatest Treasure (2 Kings 4:16,20,36)
12. The Woman Who Touched Him (Luke 8:45)
13. The Ideal Woman (Proverbs 31:29) P. 143Additional Info
A series of insightful and Bible-centered sermons on great (and not so great) women of the Bible from the mind and pen of one of America’s great preachers. Of this series Macartney wrote: “Among the subjects of the sermons in this volume is one of the bad women of the Bible, for no series on women of the Bible would be complete without a sermon on such a character as Delilah, the temptress of Samson.“To preach on these biblical women is to illustrate life in its deepest reality – sometimes base, ignoble, comtemptible and wicked, but often lofty, noble, godlike, and glorious. Like the great men of the Bible, too, the great women of the Bible afford the preacher an unsurpassed opportunity to press home upon the people the claims of Christ as Friend and Redeemer.”
In this series of thirteen sermons, Macartney uses his “sanctified imagination” and bibilcal knowledge to glean lessons from the lives of Ruth, Esther, Rahab, Lot’s Wife, Martha and Mary, Delilah, Abigail, Rachel, Rebekah, The Samaritan Woman, The Shunammite, The Woman with the Issue of Blood, and The Faithful Woman of Proverbs 31.
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School Of Charity
$17.95Add to cartThese meditations, based upon the principle articles of the Nicene Creed, were originally presented by Evelyn Underhill (1875 – 1941) at a retreat she conducted at her beloved Pleshy, a small village in England that was the site of her conversion to the Christian faith. The renewed interest in mysticism and spirituality today among Christians of all communions draws heavily from her work.. Evelyn Underhill’s other books include Mystics of the Church, and The Spiritual Life, both available from Morehouse Publishing.
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Short Meditations On The Bible And Peanuts
$21.00Add to cartRobert L. Short, author of the best-selling The Gospel According to Peanuts, presents a book of biblical meditations on everyday life. Charlie Brown, Linus, Lucy, Snoopy, Woodstock, and friends consider their religious beliefs, and the resulting cartoons offer some delightful insights into life. Short seizes the opportunity to explore these insights one step further, to help us laugh at our own foibles and learn from our own collisions with reality.
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Road To Daybreak
$19.00Add to cart23 Chapters
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When Henri Nouwen left the world of academe and headed for the village Trosly in France, he sought a place that would lead him “closer to the heart of God.” Arriving at the L’Arche community in Trosly, he felt as if he had finally “come home.” Indeed, it was destined to change his life forever.This book is Henri Nouwen’s intimate diary that records the poignant year at L’Arche that began in the summer of 1985, a precious time of inner renewal and self-discovery. With simplicity and honesty, he describes how the experience changed his attitudes and enriched his spiritual life. Here he recounts the struggles and self-doubts he faced along this rocky road to a new vocation and introduces us to the people of L’Arche and many others whose impact on him was deep and life-lasting. Such was the impact of this experience that he chose to say yes to the call to go to the L’Arche community in Toronto, called Daybreak, and make it his permanent home and ministry.
Rich in insights and sparkling with touching and inspiring anecdotes, THE ROAD TO DAYBREAK invites the reader to join this renowned spiritual writer on his journey to a deeper understanding of God and the human family.
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Living With Aids
$12.95Add to cart“Terry Boyd has touched theological depths and clear biblical understanding in his book, Living With AIDS: One Christian’s Struggle. A victim of the dread pandemic … Boyd shares the practical reality of his intimate experiences with the illness, his daily struggles to face death, his relationships with others whom he loves, both inside and outside the church, and who risk sharing their love with him in return. His words are not only informative, but inspire any reader to make direct application of faith perspectives no matter how severe, untimely, or unpredicated.
“His refusal to accept morbidity for whatever days remain for him call us to a commitment to God’s purposes — one day at a time. I could not put the book down. More importantly, it will never release me.”
Leontine T. C. Kelly
President, AIDS National Interfaith Network
Bishop (Retired), San Francisco Area United Methodist Church“Terry Boyd’s writings during the last year of his life represent the faith journey of a man who has no illusions. He is going to die and he knows it…. Herein you will read about his spiritual journey, the milestones along the way, the importance of prayer, his ability to rely on God and experience God’s presence. Terry also writes about the fear, bigotry, isolation, and financial hardships which too often follow a diagnosis of AIDS and which persons of faith are called to address.
“Faith is a rod by which we measure life. When I visit Terry I take a ladder. Thanks for the soul’s embrace, Terry: for that ‘love that flows between two spirits like water in a stream. ‘ “
Cathie Lyons
Associate General Secretary
Health and Welfare Ministries Department
General Board of Global Ministries
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Celebrating Life : Catching The Thieves That Steal Your Joy (Student/Study Guide
$12.99Add to cart1. CELEBRATING THE PRESENT: Catching Discontent
2. CELEBRATING THE PAST: Catching Regret
3. CELEBRATING PROGRESS: Catching Perfectionism
4. CELEBRATING TRIALS: Catching Resentment
5. CELEBRATING RELATIONSHIPS: Catching Self-Protection
6. CELEBRATING LEARNING: Catching Narrow-Mindedness
7. CELEBRATING GOD’S BLESSINGS: Catching Ingratitude
8. CELEBRATING GOD’S SOVEREIGNTY: Catching AnxietyAdditional Info
NAVPress Publishers Print On Demand TitleDo any of these things got you down?
*Discontent *Failure
*Regret *Unpleasant Relationships
*Resentment *Anxiety
*Disappointment *Pressure
If so, you’re in a perfect position to begin Celebrating Life! Luci Swindoll wants to open your eyes to the many reasons you have for celebrating life. Her enthusiasm will Inspire you, her questions challenge you, and her Insight significantly Impact the way you face each day.So come learn how to “catch the thieves that steal your joy.” Begin to enjoy your talents, experiences, relationships, and uniquenesses. Discover the joy of celebrating your past, your present, your blessings, and even your trials! All It takes Is the decision to stop “enduring,” and to start Celebrating Life.
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Your Personality Tree
$18.99Add to cartContents
238 pages in 12 chapters
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Many honest Christian people are playing roles they never auditioned for, on stages they didn’t design, while glued to masks they don’t know how to remove. What about you?
* Have you tried so hard to be all things to all people that you are not sure who you really are?
* As an adult are you still struggling to become what your parents had in mind for you?
* Do you know which parts of your personality are genuine or which are responses to the circumstances around you?
* Do you want to break the negative chains that have been passed down in your family from one generation to the next-alcoholism, abusive behavior, divorce?
* Are you fascinated by human personality-what makes us different and alike?
* Do you want to understand yourself and others better?
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Wisdom For Winning
$15.00Add to cartThis Best-Selling Handbook Is A Gold Mine No One Should Be Without. Your family will be challenged by exciting topics such as…7 Keys To Having Your Prayers Answered / 20 Keys To Improving Your Marriage / 10 Ingredients For Obtaining Success and much more! Reach your Life Goals and become a Winner with this powerful teaching!
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They Found The Secret
$19.99Add to cart“The exchanged life.” Hudson Taylor first used the term to describe what it means to know Christ as our sufficiency in all things. Taylor is but one of the many Christian luminaries who have discovered Christ as the secret to abundant living. John Bunyan, Andrew Murray, Amy Carmichael, Oswald Chambers, Charles Finney-behind the varied lives and personalities of these and other men and women lies a common theme, a pattern that leads from desperation to the abundant life Jesus promised. From their stories, we too can find the path to deeper faith and a more vital relationship with God. In They Found the Secret, Raymond Edman presents the lives of twenty well-known and little-known Christians. “The details of their experience of the crisis of the deeper life are delightfully different,” Edman writes, “yet their testimony to the reality of the joy and power of the Spirit-filled life is unanimous . . . It is [the Lord] who satisfies the longing soul. He is the secret of the exchanged life!”
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Be Still And Know
$16.99Add to cartThese daily devotional readings will encourage you in your Christian life throughout the year. Mrs. Stamm says, “Each day offers new opportunities. There will be new choices to make, new decisions, new avenues of service for the Lord. It may even be a day filled with heartache and pain, a day filled with unsolved problems. How different our day will be if we begin with a rejoicing spirit, knowing it has been entrusted to us by the Lord!” Begin each day with a verse of Scripture and a meditation amplifying that Bible verse in light of your innermost needs. Millie Stamm has drawn upon a lifetime of personal experience and devotional reading to build these inspirational messages. You will feel as if a good friend has come to chat and share insights that God has given her. If you feel the need for daily encouragement in the Lord, this book is for you. You will find reassurance and support as Millie Stamm brings messages such as: “Today burdens weigh heavily upon us. Often we are so pressed in on every side that it seems all strength is gone. What a relief to know that when OUR strength is exhausted, we have HIS strength available. He is an unfailing source of supply.”
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Life Of Our Lord
$23.00Add to cartCharles Dickens–perhaps the best loved of all English novelists–here, in his own unique style, brings to life the gospel account of Jesus. This–the last work of Dickens to be published–is a beautiful retelling of the familiar Bible story. Originally handwritten by Dickens for his own children this inspiring account was created in order that they might know more of the book Dickens called “the best that ever was or will be known in the world.” The work remained, at the authors request, unpublished for eighty-five years. Dickens no doubt refused to permit publication because it was such a personal communication to his own children, and he did not want his deepest religious convictions to be subjected to public discussions. After the death of Dickens youngest child in 1933, publication was permitted and the work appeared in newspaper serialization and later in book form. It is now part of the rare books collection of the Free Library of Philadelphia. This charming, nostalgic work includes illustrations of pages from the original manuscript, a portrait of Dickens children, and engravings of Biblical scenes in a style often used in family Bibles during Dickens time. Definitely a work to be cherished. The Life of Our Lord is one book certain to be read again and again.
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Thomas Merton Reader (Revised)
$22.00Add to cartThis edition brings us Thomas Merton is all his aspects: spiritual writer, poet, peacemaker, man among men, servant of God — a one-volume synopsis of his quest for truth, drawn not only from his major works but from his lesser-known writings as well.
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From Lost To Found
$17.99Add to cartDo you “have it all” and wonder why you still feel empty? Are you facing struggles that you cannot overcome alone? Discover God’s transformational grace and a path to peace and healing from marriage and family therapist Nicole Zasowski.
Nicole felt her greatest joy was to help her clients know their inherent value and safety. What she could not see was that she was personally missing out on the peace she was so passionate about helping others find. She had no idea that coping behaviors she had relied on since childhood–performing, control, and independence–held her identity and sense of security together and only numbed the broken parts of her that needed healing. She lived her life from a deep belief that peace and joy could be found only on the far side of a dream realized, a change of venue, or a goal achieved.
But as Nicole would discover, the coping behaviors we adopt in order to protect ourselves from pain in our early years become barriers to meaning and connection later in life. When she faced multiple miscarriages, a devastating diagnosis, relational struggles, a cross-country move, and a job change, these protective behaviors failed. In the midst of pain, Nicole discovered that the unlikely path to healing begins when we release the protective behaviors we once trusted and find ourselves with open hands to receive what we need in the transforming reality of God’s grace. Through vulnerable storytelling, wise teaching, and thought-provoking questions, Nicole guides readers to consider their own pain and coping behaviors and points them toward healing truths.
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Song Of Ascents
$36.99Add to cartIn this Song of Ascents not one single note is here by right. I deserve nothing; I have everything. God is the heart of this everything. I have everything – everything I need, and more. … What I had – Jesus, God, the Kingdom of God – was all I wanted and needed. I didn’t want anything different. I only wanted more of what I had. (from the Introduction)
The spiritual autobiography of E. Stanley Jones remains relevant for readers in any age, from any background, of any faith, in any place in the world. Jones’ message centers on the good news of Jesus Christ that Jones lived and preached around the world for 60+ years. This is Jones’ story of coming to know Jesus, following Jesus and proclaiming Jesus. Jones lived and ministered as a missionary throughout India which was his base. In India, he primarily preached to the intellectual class; however, his reach was to all Indians. He also traveled to just about every part of the world preaching Jesus–China, Japan, Europe, South America and the United States.
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Holiness And High Country
$25.99Add to cart15 Chapters
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Bodies diseased by malnutrition are a pitiable sight. Minds dwarfed for lack of the opportunity or will to improve them are cause for deep regret. But stunted souls, surrounded by spiritual abundance, are the occasion for greatest lament.The essentials for growing great souls are enlightenment of the understanding, quickening of the conscience, and nourishment for those who hunger and thirst after righteousness. All of these are amply supplied in God’s Word. But most Christians need help to lay hold on its vast resources.
In Holiness And High Country, Dr. Albert F. Harper has made available to all who will spend 10 minutes a day the product of his search and discovery of the hidden treasure of God’s Word.
Anyone who will read this book with willingness to examine himself, and receive the light and walk in it, will find that spiritual reinforcement that will push him out in deeper dedication and stricter disipline of his life. The end result will be a Christian character vital, energetic, and radiant. If one out of every 10 church members will prayerfully read this book, the entire church will witness revival in holy living.
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Christ Of The Indian Road
$16.99Add to cartContents:
Messenger And The Message
Motive And End Of Christian Missions
Growing Moral And Spiritual Supremacy Of Jesus
Jesus Comes Through Irregular Channels
Mahatma Gandhi’s Part
Through The Regular Channels
Some Evangelistic Series
Great Hindrance
Question Hour
Jesus Through Experience
What Or Whom
Christ And The Other Faiths
Concrete Christ
Indian Interpretation Of Jesus
Christ Of The Indian RoadAdditional Info
Christ of the Indian Road” is a first-person account of E. Stanley Jones’ experiences as a Christian missionary in India almost 100 years ago. He describes the journey that he undertook from a presumptuous young missionary hoping to bring meaning into the lives of lost pagans (my wording) to a seasoned veteran proclaimer of the joy found through following Christ, ultimately trying to contextualize Christ within a rich, religious Indian culture. Jones clearly communicates his disdain for the common mistake that many Christians make to assume that our cultural framework is the “Christian” one, trying to superimpose our culture on top of the culture of those to whom we bring Christ. As an alternative approach, Jones admonishes us to learn from other cultures, to respect the truth that can be found in them, and to allow Christ to enter into that culture on His terms and on their terms, not on our terms.
