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Biblical View Of Law And Justice
$29.99Add to cartThe Bible is not written as a handbook for lawyers, politicians and civil servants setting out a theology of human law. Its concern is the dealings of God with human beings and of human beings with God. What then does the Bible have to say about human laws and legal systems? Looking back to the Old Testament, to the Mosaic Law, the biblical model of kingship and the prophetic call to justice, barrister David McIlroy presents a Christian perspective on the biblical view of law and justice. He also examines the claims and teachings of Christ as King, specifically contrasting these with Caesar, a king of the world. The book then concludes with a reflection on the place of human laws in the light of the Last Judgment. A Biblical View of Law and Justice seeks to wrestle with the biblical message of justice, giving Christian lawyers, civil servants and politicians a renewed vision and understanding of the potential of their work in the post-Christendom world.
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Spirit And Resistance
$22.00Add to cartWriting from a Native American perspective, theologian George Tinker probes American Indian culture, its vast religious and cultural legacy, and its ambiguous relationship to the tradition–historic Christianity–that colonized and converted it. After five hundred years of conquest and social destruction, he says, any useful reflection must come to terms with the political state of Indian affairs and the political hopes and visions for recovering the health and well-being of Indian communities. Does Christian theology have a positive role to play? Tinker’s work offers an overview of contemporary native American culture and its perilous state. Critical of recent liberal and New Age co-opting of Native spiritual practices, Tinker also offers a critical corrective to liberation theology. He shows how Native insights into the Sacred Other and sacred space helpfully reconfigure traditional ideas of God, Jesus’ notion of the reign of God, and our relation to the earth. From this basis he offers novel proposals about cultural survival and identity, sustainability, and the endangered health of Native Americans.
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Loving Jesus
$18.00Add to cartIn this biblical spirituality for today, Powells earnest plea is for Christians to revisit their faith not by blazing in religious enthusiasm but by harboring a steadier flame and deeper commitment. Living at the poetic heart of faith, he argues, entails seeing the coordinates of religious life–love, understanding, truth, hope, and especially devotion–in a new way. Powell espouses the old fashioned idea of piety. Drawing on his wide knowledge of the Bible and Christian tradition, as well as insights from his own journey, he shows how simple religious practices move us beyond the old certitudes of a naive and youthful faith into the less certain but more bracing terrain of a second naivete, a closer walk with Jesus.
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Bible Angels And Demons
$9.99Add to cartBoys 8-12 learn more about being deeper, cooler, stronger, and smarter for God through sound doctrine about spiritual beings Although not many people today have actually seen them, angels, demons, and heavenly beings are very real creatures in the Bible. It’s important for boys to be aware of their existence in a way that is positive and based on biblical truth. This book presents the truth about these creatures_with illustrations interpreting their appearance.
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101 Amazing Things About Heaven
$10.99Add to cartC.S. Lewis once said history shows that the Christians who had the most influence on their world were the Christians who thought most of the next world. This book directs readers’ minds to their future home in glory by offering familiar, surprising, humbling, inspiring, and amazing truths about Heaven, accompanied by an encouraging Scripture and an insightful explanation. This book will remind readers of their wonderful future with God, and help from move out with renewed faith to influence the world in which they live.
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Slender Grace
$21.99Add to cartA Slender Grace is Rod Jellema’s first collection of poetry since his highly praised The Eighth Day appeared almost twenty years ago. In this volume, which consists of 67 poems, almost all of them new, Jellema confronts a culture that loves bigness with poems that notice what is slender – the thin lines, the threads by which some things hang, the narrow crevices through which divine grace offers to reconcile humans to each other and to the Creator.
These beautifully crafted pieces are not “religious poems” in the usual sense. As Jellema explains, “These poems individually are not spiritual message-bearers. Still, it is inevitable that my belief in a beautiful world that is broken and divinely redeemed – though I am not preaching about it – should be evident throughout.” And it is, as Jellema takes a second, deeper look at such things as green beans in all their glory, a lovesick lonely young man in a Laundromat, and his own sense of the world while snorkeling in the Red Sea.
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Protecting Your Home From Spiritual Darkness (Reprinted)
$13.00Add to cartIn ten easy steps, learn how to rid your home of destructive objects and spiritual darkness to create a fortress of love and light for your family. Too many Christians are completely unaware of how the enemy has gained access to their homes through what they own. This practical, easy-to-read book shows you how to pray through your home and property in order to lock out evil and experience a richer spiritual life. With Protecting Your Home from Spiritual Darkness, you are just ten steps away from bringing freedom and security in Christ to your home! Includes the following sections and more: “A Step-by-Step Guide to Praying through Your Home”; “Understanding Spiritual Darkness”; “How to Protect Your Children”; “Learning to Overthrow Generational Curses.”
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In Gods Name
$26.99Add to cartFrom the award-winning author of God’s Paintbrush comes a colorful, spiritual celebration of people everywhere. Like an ancient myth in its poetic text and vibrant illustrations, this modern fable about the search for God’s name celebrates the diversity of, and, at the same time, the unity of all people in the world. Full color.
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Boo Who : A Novel
$19.99Add to cartWhen horror-novelist-turned-Christian Wolfe “Boo” Boone quits writing, the tourist-haunted Skary, Indiana, becomes a ghost town at a frightening pace. Now with his closet cleared of skeletons, Boo must sell cars to scare up a living—and Skary must fish for funds without a marketing hook. Meanwhile Boone’s fiance, Ainsley Parker, discovers success as a domestic diva. Can “Boone town” boom again . . . without Boo?
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Listening To Love
$16.99Add to cartOne of our greatest desires is to know we are loved by our Creator. Yet the depth of our apprehension is often equally strong: If I listen, we wonder, what will God say? If I open myself up to blessings, what will God require in return? As we trace this line of thinking, the God of all goodness becomes, in our minds, the God of our worst fears. Embrace a love that’s worth the risk. God is far greater than our most expectant dreams. While he does often ask everything of us, he actually wants everything for us. He doesn’t want blind loyalty or bored religious compliance; he longs for nothing less than our entire passionate self – something most us of have yet to glimpse. God’s desire is that people lean in, listen, and wrestle with him so that they can respond to him without fear. Can this God be trusted? Will the journey be easy? Not a chance. But once you learn to listen to love, you’ll find that there’s only one way you can adore this unmanageable, wild, and unruly God: with your whole heart.
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Kings Ransom : A Novel Based On A True Story
$13.99Add to cartThe Faith to Face Tyranny
Faith to Face the Third Reich
Two Stories of Undaunted Courage
Set during the darkest days of World War II, King’s Ransom tells the heroic story of Tsar Boris III, King of Bulgaria, and his extraordinary efforts to save his country’s Jewish population from Hitler’s concentration camps. Aware of the price he might pay for his risks, Boris faced the Third Reich with courage and resolve, firm in his Christian convictions that would not permit him to abandon nearly 50,000 Jews. Boris, along with members of the Orthodox Church, Jewish religious leaders, and others, ultimately ensured that no Bulgarian Jews lost their lives to Hitler’s regime.
Based on a True Story
Historically accurate, Boris’s quest to save Bulgaria’s Jews is interwoven with the love story of Daria, the Jewish attendant to the Bulgarian royal family, and Dobri, a sergeant in the king’s guard. With courageous characters and passionate storytelling, King’s Ransom reveals how individuals acting on faith can change the course of history.
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Letters To A Diminished Church
$18.99Add to cart“The devil should stand alert, for Sayers is one of his foremost adversaries,”—Living Church. An outspoken defender of Christian orthodoxy, Sayers elucidates creedal Christianity with brilliance and wit. Pieces include “The Dogma is the Drama,” “What Do We Believe?” and “Strong Meat.”
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Being White : Finding Our Place In A Multiethnic World
$18.99Add to cartIn this groundbreaking book, Paula Harris and Doug Schaupp present a Christian model of what it means to be white. They wrestle through the history of how those in the majority have oppressed minority cultures, but they also show that whites have their own cultural and ethnic identity with its own distinctive traits and contributions. They demonstrate that white people have a key role to play in the work of racial reconciliation and the forging of a more just society. Filled with real-life stories, life-transforming insights and practical guidance, this book is for any white person who is aware or racial inequality but has wondered, So what do I do? Discover here a vision for just communities where whites can partner with and empower those of other ethnicities.
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Santeria : The Beliefs And Rituals Of A Growing Religion In America
$26.99Add to cartThis book by Miguel De La Torre offers a fascinating guide to the history, beliefs, rituals, and culture of Santeria – a religious tradition that, despite persecution, suppression, and its own secretive nature, has close to a million adherents in the United States alone.
Santeria is a religion with Afro-Cuban roots, rising out of the cultural clash between the Yoruba people of West Africa and the Spanish Catholics who brought them to the Americas as slaves. As a faith of the marginalized and persecuted, it gave oppressed men and women strength and the will to survive. With the exile of thousands of Cubans in the wake of Castro’s revolution in 1959, Santeria came to the United States, where it is gradually coming to be recognized as a legitimate faith tradition.
Apart from vague suspicions that Santeria’s rituals include animal sacrifice and notions that it is a “syncretistic” form of Catholicism, most people in America’s cultural and religious mainstream know very little about this rich faith tradition – in fact, many have never heard of it at all. De La Torre, who was reared in Santeria, sets out in this book to provide a basic understanding of its inner workings. He clearly explains the particular worldview, myths, rituals, and practices of Santeria, and he discusses what role the religion typically plays in the life of its practitioners as well as the cultural influence it continues to exert in Latin American communities today.
In offering a balanced, informed survey of Santeria from his unique “insider-outsider” perspective, De La Torre also provides insight into how Christianity and Santeria can enter into dialogue – a dialogue that will challenge Christians to consider what this emerging faith tradition can teach them about their own. Enhanced with illustrations, tables, and a glossary, De La Torre’s Santeria sheds light on a religion all too often shrouded in mystery and misunderstanding.
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Winning Your Husband Back Before Its Too Late
$18.99Add to cartHe’s walked out and she still wants him back. Thousands of discouraged and hurting women ask, “Is there anything I can do to win my husband back?” Though there are plenty of books on divorce, few talk about what it takes to initiate a reconciliation. Gary Smalley and Dr. Greg Smalley offer women a biblically based strategy for winning back their mate.
Included is an appendix of additional resources on organizations, counseling centers, video series, and books that have proven particularly helpful in this situation. Full of practical advice and realistic encouragement, Winning Your Husband Back can help heal a marriage. And whether the marriage is healed or not, the ideas will also help readers become responsible for their own choices and draw nearer to God.
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Winning Your Wife Back Before Its Too Late
$18.99Add to cartEach year more than five million couples separate in the United States and almost 1.2 million more couples divorce. While there are numerous books designed for the spouse who wants to separate or divorce, there are few resources for those who want to reconcile the relationship. This book is written specifically for the man whose wife has walked out on him and wants to win her back. It includes step-by-step, easy-to-understand instructions and advice. Real-life examples offer insight into how other men won their wives back, and a workbook section helps men develop a personalized plan for their individual situations. This book offers simple steps that God can use to restore hope and make a positive difference in a marriage relationship
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Temple And The Churchs Mission
$35.99Add to cartSeries Preface
Author’s Preface
Preface By Mary Dorinda Beale
Abbreviations
1. Introduction
2. Cosmic Symbolism Of Temples In The Old Testament
3. The Expanding Purpose Of Temples In The Old Testament
4. The Expanding End-Time Purpose Of Temples In The Old Testament
5. The “Already And Not Yet” Fulfillment Of The End-Time Temple In Christ And His People: The Gospels
6. The Inauguration Of A New Temple In The Book Of Acts
7. The Inauguration Of A New Temple In The Epistles Of Paul
8. The Temple In 2 Thessalonians 2
9. The Inauguration Of A New Temple In Hebrews
10. The World-Encompassing Temple In Revelation
11. The Temple In Ezekiel 40–48 And Its Relationship To The New Testament
12. Theological Conclusions: The Physical Temple As A Foreshadowing Of God’s And Christ’s Presence As The True Temple
13. Practical Reflections On Eden And The Temple For The Church In The Twenty-first Century
Bibliography
Index Of Modern Authors
Index Of Biblical References
Index Of Ancient SourcesAdditional Info
In this comprehensive study, G.K. Beale argues that the Old Testament tabernacle and temples were symbolically designed to point to the end-time reality that God’s presence, formerly limited to the Holy of Holies, would be extended throughout the cosmos. Hence, John’s vision in Revelation 21 is best understood as picturing the new heavens and earth as the eschatological temple. Beal’s stimulating exposition traces the theme of the tabernacle and temple across the Bible’s story line, illuminating many texts and closely related themes along the way. He shows how the significance and symbolism of the temple can be better understood in the context of ancient Near Eastern assumptions, and offers new insights into the meaning of the temple in both Old and New Testaments. -
More Than I Could Ever Ask
$19.99Add to cartMeeting Lori Bakker today-a young woman with a bright, outgoing personality, you could hardly imagine her as a teenager living a life of flagrant sexual promiscuity and drug abuse. Nor would you picture her as having had five abortions before she was twenty-one.
More Than I Could Ever Ask tugs at the heartstrings of women and men. Lori’s story is one of forgiveness-finding forgiveness from God, learning to forgive the men who hurt her, and most of all, discovering inner peace. Her story also shows the power of love and faithfulness. After she was single and celibate for nearly nine years, Lori met and fell in love with a man she had known only by reputation-Jim Bakker. Today Lori and Jim-two broken lives brought together by God as one-have been restored and are busy helping restore others to spiritual and emotional wholeness.
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Will Of God As A Way Of Life (Revised)
$18.99Add to cartWe’ve all heard that God has a plan for our lives, but what does that mean in practical terms_when we’re faced with important life decisions, like who to marry, what job to take, where to send our children to school, or what church to join? Sometimes, God’s perfect will seems difficult to find, confusing to follow, easy to miss. We may even wonder if we’ve made past choices that have thrown God’s plan for our lives off track. Sittser’s book explores important questions like: How free are we if God has a perfect plan for our lives? Does suffering and trouble mean we are off track? How exactly does God speak? Discussing these and other questions, Jerry Sittser offers a biblically based approach that readers will find truly liberating. No matter what decisions you’ve already made, he points out that it is still possible to live out God’s perfect will for your life_even if you think you’ve married the wrong person, chosen the wrong career, or landed yourself in some kind of serious trouble. This new edition includes study questions designed for individual and group use that will be helpful to anyone faced with decisions large and small.
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Kudzu That Are Yazoo City
$24.99Add to cartThe Kudzu that Ate Yazoo City is a collection of stories that chronicle William “Junior” Jenkins’ growing up during the 1950s and 1960s in Yazoo City, Mississippi. Influenced by a large family, poverty, faith, and the ever-present kudzu vine, Jenkins mingles fact, fiction, and homegrown wisdom to remember those “cotton picking days” in the Mississippi Delta
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Kudzu That Are Yazoo City
$15.99Add to cartThe Kudzu that Ate Yazoo City is a collection of stories that chronicle William “Junior” Jenkins’ growing up during the 1950s and 1960s in Yazoo City, Mississippi. Influenced by a large family, poverty, faith, and the ever-present kudzu vine, Jenkins mingles fact, fiction, and homegrown wisdom to remember those “cotton picking days” in the Mississippi Delta
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Gods Judgement : Regarding Controversial Issues
$16.99Add to cartFulfilled prophecy PROVES that the Bible is the inspired Word of God. This book discloses what the Lord’s Supper should really look like. It exposes the “gospel of the sacraments” as a false gospel. It debunks water baptism as a means of salvation. It exposes the “gospel of good works” as a way to Hell, not Heaven. It debunks Evolution in a single page. Alcoholics Anonymous-is this support group in conflict with the Word of God? Can a Christian drink an alcoholic beverage publicly? Absolutely! Does the Church have the right to demand 10% of your income? Why are Pro-Life and Pro-Capital Punishment views very much compatible? Women pastors-is this Biblical? Multi-Culturalism and Diversity: Are they good for America? Are five billion people really under God’s wrath and condemnation? Is having sex before marriage morally acceptable? What about homosexuality? Will Christ come BEFORE or AFTER Antichrist?
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Back To The Garden The Man The Purpose
$12.49Add to cartBack to the Garden, the Man, the Purpose is encouraging, equipping, and empowering men of God to walk in the life-changing power and victory of Jesus Christ. Anointed Teaching Message! Author and teacher Hope D. Blackwell will take you “back to the garden” of Eden to experience a breaking, healing, and powerful release of the Spirit of God in your life. Discover answers to some of life’s most difficult questions. You will be transformed and renewed as you uncover the deeply rooted issues that can hinder you from walking in the full potential of your purpose as a man of God. Powerful Revelation of the Scriptures! Let’s go “back to the garden” where you will be strengthened and encouraged as you go from the shadow of Adam to the type of Christ. Look for Back to the Garden, the Woman, the Purpose and other books in the Back to the Garden purpose series.
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Help Me God
$23.99Add to cart“This book is about … Abba Father. It is dangerous to read because it will ruin you for the ordinary. No longer will you or can you be satisfied with the artificial substitute.” Dr. Joseph Umidi “You must read this book. We know that with the help of the Holy Spirit, you will experience discovery, healing, and a greater revelation of the Fatherhood and Father-heart of God.” Pastors Joey & Damaris Perez “Dr. Brown has masterfully combined the transforming power of authenticity with relevant biblical truth to create the atmosphere for you to embark on your own journey of intimacy with the Holy Spirit and wholeness.” Bishop Lewis E. Hines “Dr. Brown takes us on a journey into our own lives by opening up his life to us. His book intrigues us and engages us like a mystery unfolding. The insights presented here were not learned in the library but in the forge of pain.” Pastor James O. Einkenberry “What a powerful message God has given you in this book. It’s a message that so many hurting people are thirsting to hear. A message for those inside the church and those outside.” Bishop Robert S. Davis, Sr. Dr. Earl Brown reveals how to receive healing from wounds of rejection caused by an earthly father. If you are like Earl and millions of others whose purposes in God have been disrupted by lingering bitterness and unmet affection, then come join Earl on a journey toward spiritual and emotional wholeness.
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Help Me God
$15.49Add to cart“This book is about … Abba Father. It is dangerous to read because it will ruin you for the ordinary. No longer will you or can you be satisfied with the artificial substitute.” Dr. Joseph Umidi “You must read this book. We know that with the help of the Holy Spirit, you will experience discovery, healing, and a greater revelation of the Fatherhood and Father-heart of God.” Pastors Joey & Damaris Perez “Dr. Brown has masterfully combined the transforming power of authenticity with relevant biblical truth to create the atmosphere for you to embark on your own journey of intimacy with the Holy Spirit and wholeness.” Bishop Lewis E. Hines “Dr. Brown takes us on a journey into our own lives by opening up his life to us. His book intrigues us and engages us like a mystery unfolding. The insights presented here were not learned in the library but in the forge of pain.” Pastor James O. Einkenberry “What a powerful message God has given you in this book. It’s a message that so many hurting people are thirsting to hear. A message for those inside the church and those outside.” Bishop Robert S. Davis, Sr. Dr. Earl Brown reveals how to receive healing from wounds of rejection caused by an earthly father. If you are like Earl and millions of others whose purposes in God have been disrupted by lingering bitterness and unmet affection, then come join Earl on a journey toward spiritual and emotional wholeness.
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Hidden Lives Of Congregations
$30.00Add to cartFaced with crisis, lack of direction, or just plain “stuckness,” many congregations and their leaders are content to deal only with surface issues and symptoms-only to discover that the same problems keep recurring, often in different, and more serious, ways. In The Hidden Lives of Congregations, Christian educator and consultant Israel Galindo takes leaders below the surface of congregational life to provide a comprehensive, holistic look at the corporate nature of church relationships and the invisible dynamics at play.
Informed by family systems theory and grounded in a wide-ranging ecclesiological understanding, Galindo unpacks clearly the factors of congregational lifespan, size, spirituality, and identity and shows how these work together to form the congregation’s hidden life. He provides useful tools for diagnosing and understanding how one’s congregation fits into the various categories he names and suggests what leadership skills are necessary to get beyond the impasse of surface issues and help the congregation achieve its mission.
The Hidden Lives of Congregations provides one of the most far-reaching looks into the invisible nature of faith communities written in recent years. For seminaries and divinity schools, it provides a standard text for getting a solid start in congregational practices; for experienced pastors, it provides support for renewing ministry; for lay leaders and committees, it offers insight to deepening mutual ministry. Israel Galindo has written an indispensable manual that leaders will return to repeatedly for new wisdom and guidance on the unseen mechanisms that drive congregational life.
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Becoming Barnabas : The Ministry Of Encouragement
$28.00Add to cartWestern culture has made a cult of success, and the church has accepted the larger culture’s definition, focusing on success as growth in membership and budget, rather growth in faithfulness as disciples of Jesus. When we do not measure up, we become discouraged, disillusioned, and perhaps even envious.
Paul Moots offers a welcome antidote: a vision for the ministry of encouragement. Based on his study of the book of Acts, Moots has identified five incidents from the ministry of Barnabas, an easily overlooked character, that provide a starting point to explore encouragement and how it can work in a congregation. Moots then examines five components of this ministry: partnership, hospitality, courage, reconciliation, and authenticity.
Moots details numerous examples to show how the ministry of encouragement offers a workable, effective pattern for church leadership. “I am convinced,” he writes, “that accepting Barnabas as my model has changed my ministry for the better and that Barnabas’s example can benefit any pastor and congregation who take his lessons seriously.”
Barnabas and his ministry of encouragement offer us a focus for the vital, messy, and exhilarating work required of us as faith communities. Foreword by Robert Reber
“At last! Here is a leadership book that provides practical help for congregations of every size and setting and pastors with a variety of gifts. Drawing from his own experience as a pastor, Moots shares a model of faithful ministry that is within the reach of every pastor, layperson, and congregation.”-Rueben P. Job
“In an age when so many pastors and leaders are discouraged, no work of the Spirit is more needed or more welcome than encouragement. Moots’s book moves beyond diagnosis and actually shows readers how to ‘become Barnabas’ in ministries of partnership, hospitality, courage, and reconciliation.”-Donna Duensing
Paul Moots has served as pastor in a variety of settings in his 22 years of ministry: associate pastor, campus ministry, pastor of an urban congregation, and his current position in the village church of First United Methodist in Mount Sterling, Ohio.
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When Better Isnt Enough
$28.00Add to cartMany sociologists and a growing number of church scholars have noted that we live in a time of transition-from the modern era to the postmodern. Whenever a shift of this magnitude occurs, it leaves all of life, including the church, in flux. We instinctively strive to stabilize the situation by re-establishing what has worked in the past. Increasingly, however, congregations are finding that the same old things done harder or better don’t seem to make a difference.
Author Jill Hudson argues, “We must identify new criteria for success, and perhaps even for faithfulness, and hold ourselves accountable to them.” Approaching the postmodern era as a tremendous opportunity, Hudson identifies 12 characteristics by which we can measure effective ministry for the early 21st century.
Based on those 12 criteria, Hudson has created evaluation tools, “an early measuring stick” to help congregations evaluate their work in this new era. Not everything of the past is ineffective and best discarded, she says, nor will everything we try in the future be successful. But by faithfully listening for God’s guidance and carefully evaluating progress using Hudson’s tools, looking at the ministry of the whole people of God as well as that of the professional staff, congregations can improve their ministry, help members and staff grow in effectiveness, deepen a sense of partnership, and add new richness to the dialogue about the congregation’s future.
Jill Hudson makes us face the hard reality that the world has changed, but the church hasn’t. This gap can create a problem when assessing the effectiveness of church leadership. Practical and easy to read and understand, this book will prove an effective new tool in assisting pastors to lead today.-Mike Regele
Our kicking and screaming aside, the postmodern church beckons, and Jill Hudson provides guidance and information to equip us for this enormous ministry challenge.-The Rev. Christine Shiber
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My Life And My Death
$18.95Add to cart“My greatest teacher has been my cancer,” says the author in his story of faith as he faces death. But the author never goes too far in the direction of becoming “touchy-feely” with his illness. In fact, he refers to his cancer as being of the devil, yet he never dwells too long in this application either. There is humor but never too much. There is some “preaching” about people with grudges against God but never too much. Instead he tells us, step by step, how he learned of his cancer, how he learned that his cancer was worse than originally thought, how he came to bond with his doctor, how he came to accept the stages of disintegration of his body. The author’s main work here is to find ways to bring us unbearable tidings about sickness and dying in ways that, with God, are bearable.
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Improving Your Serve
$14.99Add to cartIn this classic volume, Charles Swindoll uniquely shows the important aspects of authentic servanthood, such as: What it takes to serve unselfishly; why a servant has such a powerful influence; and what challenges and rewards a servant can expect. He offers clear guidelines on developing a servant’s heart and challenges you to realize the rich rewards promised in a life of authentic Christian servanthood. As a Contemporary Classic, this edition includes a CD of the original message by Swindoll that later developed into this inspiring book.
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For All The Saints
$15.95Add to cart“We have been drifting into a muddle and a mess, putting together bits and pieces of traditions, ideas and practices in the hope that they will make sense. They don’t. There may be times when a typical Anglican fudge is a pleasant, chewy sort of thing, but this isn’t one of them. It’s time to think and speak clearly and act decisively.”
With these robust words Tom Wright, Bishop of Durham, throws down a challenge to current liturgy and practice surrounding All Saints’ and All Souls’ Days, and sets out to clarify our thinking about what happens to people after they die. Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory, what it means to pray for the dead, what (and who) are the saints, are all addressed in this invigorating and rigorously argued book. -
Paul In Roman Custody
$57.99Add to cartIn this book, Rapske uses ancient literary sources and archaeological evidence to uncover important background on the custodial system of the Graeco-Roman world in order to better view Paul’s persona and Christian mission. This study shows Luke to be keenly aware of the practical and theological threat that imprisonment posed for Paul and argues that this understanding motivated one of Luke’s primary objectives in his writing of Luke-Acts to defend or justify the prisoner missionary Paul to the reader.
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Then Sings My Soul Book 2
$22.99Add to cartRob Morgan’s unmistakable talent for storytelling continues to help reacquaint people with the hymns of the faithful. With Then Sings My Soul, his goal was to keep traditional hymns vital and meaningful to all generations. Over 300,000 copies have been sold, and it’s still going strong!
In Then Sings My Soul Book 2, don’t look for a recounting of boring stories. These devotional-style stories brim with emotion and drama about the people whose faith led them to write the hymns, and about the people whose lives were changed by them. Designed to be personally reflective, these stories speak to your soul and add depth and meaning as you worship God through the beauty of song.
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There Shall Be No More Among You
$28.99Add to cartThere Shall Be No Poor Among You is a careful and comprehensive but not overly technical study of the biblical portrait of the poor and poverty. Hoppe introduces the study with the socioeconomic structures of ancient Israel and Roman Palestine, then proceeds systematically to examine the biblical evidence, including that of the Old Testament, New Testament, Apocrypha, and rabbinic literature.
The Bible describes the poor and poverty in a variety of ways. Sometimes poverty is a curse; other times it is a blessing. Sometimes the text is concerned about material poverty exclusively; other times poverty becomes a metaphor for another reality. Hoppe describes the various ways the Bible deals with the poor, but his fundamental conclusion is that the Bible never idealizes the reality of material poverty and the oppression of the poor by the rich. Even when the Bible speaks of “poverty of the spirit” as a positive religious metaphor, God requires humans to seek social justice.
Hoppe suggests that just as poverty is not idealized in the Bible, so the poor should be a priority of every community of faith. Ancient Israel, early Judaism, Jesus, and the first Christians did not forget the poor, and if believers today wish to be faithful to their biblical heritage, neither can they.
This book provides a practical background for scholars and is a primer for a significant theological motif. It will be useful in the classroom (in college and seminary courses in biblical ethics and social justice), as well as in serious Bible study. Study questions will help readers and students further probe history, theology, and application.
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Faces At The Manger
$19.00Add to cartIn this Christmas classic Barrie Shepherd describes the thoughts, feelings, questions, and dreams of those who gathered around that manger of long ago, as well as the faces that have been there in the centuries since. Through poems, stories and prayers, Shepherd leads the reader to be one of the many who have knelt in worship beside the manger of the Savior, Jesus Christ.
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Muslims Next Door
$17.99Add to cartThis insider’s view of how North American Muslims think and live goes beyond false stereotypes and provides practical suggestions on how to establish friendships that can point to Christ. Since September 11, 2001, Americans are more curious about the followers of Islam. We can no longer afford to be ignorant of such an influential and historical world religion. Muslims Next Door dispells commonly held myths and helps readers to better understand how Muslims think. Author Shirin Taber comes from a multicultural background and has lived in Iran, France, and Turkey, and now in the United States. Stories of her experiences as well as from interviews with Muslims help readers understand the human side of Islam. Each chapter contains questions for reflection to use in group settings. The book also includes a glossary of Islamic terms.
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Principles Of Christian Living
$13.49Add to cartSeventeen Inspiring, Unforgettable Life Lessons You Won’t Want to Miss!
Are you looking for answers to some of life’s challenges? Does it seem hard to overcome the trials you face daily? Often mixed with spontaneous advice and encouragement, Principles of Christian Living is a “must read” for believers of all ages. Don’t put it down. Make it a part of your library. It will bless you!
“God does not always give deliverance from all of life’s troubles. However, He offers the best way to deal with them.” -Derek Eurales
In his book, Derek Eurales shows how you can obtain the freedom God intended for your life, with lessons on:
How to receive salvation
Atonement
God’s provisions for living
Elements of worship
Many, many more!Principles of Christian Living will impact your life in a special way. Begin to receive your answers now!
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Gods Glorious Church
$14.99Add to cartThis is a book about the church, the most important spiritual institution in human history. Tony Evans helps the church discover its identity and purpose for existence, and provides believers with a biblically healthy context to grow and live out their lives by faith. This book will inspire you to help make your place of worship all that God intends it to be.
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Biblical Study Of Divorce
$18.99Add to cartHaving been taught the strict Traditional View, the author studied the Scripture and concluded that this view is lacking both biblically and in practice-as are the Traditional Dissolution-Divorce, the Betrothal, and the Consanguinity views. Studying all the pertinent passages, the author adopted what he calls the More Liberal Dissolution-Divorce View. The two testaments teach the same view on divorce and remarriage with one exception. The New Testament passages of Jesus and the Apostle Paul are interpreted in harmony with Greek grammar and the meaning of words. The author concluded that the divorce teaching of Scripture is addressed only to believers, and that it is time to stop the hypocrisy (fostered by the other views) of professing a certain belief but not daring to implement that belief in practice. The author knows of no study in print that reaches these important conclusions.
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Unveiling Mary Magdalene Workbook (Workbook)
$19.00Add to cartWhether readers have already enjoyed Unveiling Mary Magdalene or are about to dive in for the first time individually or in a group setting this 6-week companion workbook provides a practical, meaningful resource for spiritual growth and a deeper understanding of God’s Word.
The questions at the end of each chapter of Unveiling Mary Magdalene are included and expanded in the Unveiling Mary Magdalene Workbook, with more in-depth biblical material and plenty of space for jotting down individual answers and observations. Sized to match the original book, the Unveiling Mary Magdalene Workbook enhances the message of Liz Curtis Higgs’s third book in the Bad Girls series, a best-selling combination of solid Bible teaching and Liz’s unique style of girlfriend theology.
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Bring Em Back Alive
$16.99Add to cartEvery believer is a precious part of Christ’s body. When even one is missing, the church lacks power and is less than whole. Whether we’re victims, perpetrators, or innocent bystanders, we’re called by God to seek restoration. And when one of God’s sheep goes missing we have no choice. We must Bring ‘Em Back Alive
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Alchemy : A Novel
$17.99Add to cartEach book in The Creoles Series revolves around one of four girls who become close friends while attending a convent school in New Orleans. The setting reveals the rich and tumultuous years of the nineteenth century, a time when the world seemed to take shape and transform itself daily, to the wonderment of the many immigrants crowding onto America’s shores by way of Louisiana’s bustling port.
The third book in The Creoles Series, The Alchemy focuses on Simone d’Or, a vivacious young woman hardened by high society life, and Colin Seymour, a talented young man from humble beginnings. As the famed singer and composer Lord Beaufort nurtures Colin’s singing voice, Colin rises to stardom in the opera world. At first, Simone judges Colin as a man beneath her standing, but after hearing Colin at the opera, she finds herself captivated by his talent and passion. Meanwhile, Simone’s brother places the family name in jeopardy by his gambling debt, and she must face the possibility of marrying Vernay, a rigid young man of equal status who is feared for his skill in dueling others to the death.
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Handbook Of The Christian Faith (Reprinted)
$15.00Add to cartThis book is a one-volume overview of the Bible, church history, Christian beliefs and practices, other religions, and other issues of Christianity written in an easy-to-understand style. Organized in ten thematic chapters, this book is designed for use by individuals or study groups.
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Jazz Of Preaching
$20.99Add to cartWhat if preachers were as contagiously joyful in their preaching as Louis Armstrong was in his playing and singing? As rich in their sermonic renderings as Sarah Vaughan was in her musical vocals? As honest about heartache as Billie Holiday was every time she sang about the blues of life? As alluringly clear as the angelic voice of Ella Fitzgerald? As tenaciously uninhibited in the action of creating as Duke Ellington?
Of course, this is too much to ask of people, even those called by God. However, it is not too much to ask this question: Can preaching be enhanced through the metaphor of jazz? Can an understanding of the inner dynamics of jazz–its particular forms, rules, and styles–inform one’s practice of preaching as well? Can jazz’s simultaneous structure and spontaneity help preachers better understand their own art? The answer to these questions, says Jones, is an unqualified yes. He explains how one can dramatically improve one’s preaching through understanding and applying key elements of the musical art form known as jazz. No musical background is necessary; all examples are well explained and tied in with preaching.
The key elements include innovation (what one commentator refers to as “the experimental disposition of jazz”), improvisation, rhythm, call and response, honesty about heartaches, and delight. After discussing the reality and role of each of these elements in jazz, and how they can be important for preaching as well, each chapter concludes with five exercises for applying the jazz element to preaching preparation and performance.
Drawing on a deep love of jazz and enlivening the discussion with insights drawn from the realities of African American preaching, Jones introduces readers to rich and rewarding possibilities for constructing and delivering the sermon.
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Christianity At Corinth
$60.00Add to cartFirst Corinthians provides a unique glimpse info the life of a young Christian community in a Greco-Roman environment during the early decades of emerging Christianity. It supplies a range and richness of information about the early church that is unparalleled by any other New Testament document. Much effort has gone into reconstructing Christianity at Corinth; more recently, attention has focused on the Corinthian community itself. The scholarly picture of the Corinthian Christians throughout the period of modern interpretation has been far from constant, and their profile has altered as interpretive fashions have shifted. This collection of classic and new essays charts the history of the scholarly quest for the Corinthian church from F. C. Baur to the present day, and offers the reflections of leading scholars on where the quest has taken us and its future direction.
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Creative Bible Lessons In 1-2 Timothy And Titus (Student/Study Guide)
$16.99Add to cartThis newest installment of the bestselling Creative Bible Lessons series provides practical faith-sustaining principles for Christian teenagers from every walk of life. These “pastoral epistles,” written by the Apostle Paul at the end of his life, give sound instruction on how to lead the young church in a world of oppression, danger, and difficulty. In twelve chapters this book covers leadership, worship, getting in shape, walking the talk, knowing your enemy, money, overcoming opposition, and the Bible.
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John And Charles Wesley
$13.99Add to cartJohn and Charles Wesley led the Methodist revival that swept eighteenth-century England and America and changed the face of Christianity forever. Their spirituality synthesized a unique blend of elements from the church fathers, Catholic mystics, and Protestant Reformers. This selection includes John’s incisive writings on the spiritual life as well as the famous hymns of Charles, giving vibrant expression to the faith of the Wesleys.
“About a quarter before nine, while he was describing the change which God works in the heart through faith in Christ, I felt my heart strangely warmed. I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone for salvation; and an assurance was given me that he had taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of sin and death.” — John Wesley
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Teresa Of Avila
$13.99Add to cartTeresa of Avila, a renowned sixteenth-century Spanish mystic, received the vision for The Interior Castle one Sunday in 1577. In this signature work, Teresa uses the castle as a symbol for the interior life to describe her mystical experience of the presence of God. Her humble and straightforward treatise invites readers on a spiritual journey to enter into the deep places in their soul where they will find God.
“The soul of the just person is nothing else but a paradise where the Lord says he finds his delight. So then, what do you think that abode will be like where a King so powerful, so wise, so pure, so full of all good things takes his delight? I don’t find anything comparable to the magnificent beauty of a soul and its marvelous capacity.” — Teresa of Avila
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Experiencing The Passion Of Christ
$17.99Add to cart144 Pages
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Answering the why of Christ’s death.With the flood of questions and deep introspection that Mel Gibson’s blockbuster movie, The Passion of the Christ, is creating, John MacArthur responds with a workbook that answers those deep, personal, and sincere questions. So many people know about Jesus, but they don’t really understand why Jesus had to suffer and die. Experiencing the Passion of Christ will give you a front-row seat as Christ’s life unfolds. You will be placed on the scene, confronted up close with the painful events of the cross, but you will also see the majestic glory found in “the rest of the story.”
* 13 intimate lessons on the suffering and significance of Christ
* “Did You Know” sections providing historical tidbits
* Corner verses on the bottom of every page
* A summary section to help you understand the main points each week
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Jeremiah : Demanding Love (Student/Study Guide)
$12.99Add to cartIt was a dark time for Israel. And Jeremiah was their last chance to turn things around.
The ministry to which God called Jeremiah was difficult and painful: proclaim God’s demanding love. Yet with this burden, God also gave the prophet a gift–the gift of his presence. In this study guide, Stephen D. Eyre shows how the example of Jeremiah’s rich relationship with God can inspire you to become more deeply open to God than ever before.
This revised LifeGuide Bible Study features additional questions for starting group discussions and for meeting God in personal reflection, together with expanded leader’s notes and a “Now or Later” section in each study.
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Beyond The Passion
$24.00Add to cartFor most Christian believers, what is truly remarkable and important about Jesus is not his life, but his resurrection from the dead. They may believe that Jesus’ death is significant not as the end of Jesus’ life, but as the first half of the saving event that comprises the Christian gospel: the death and resurrection of Jesus. For Christians, this great divine cosmic event, around which all of human history pivots, is what saves us from our sins. Apart from this, the death of Jesus would simply be the meaningless end to an interesting but insignificant life. In this lively and provocative work, Patterson reconstructs early Christian assessments of Jesus’ significance and also questions basic assumptions about modern interpretations of Jesus’ death. He emphasizes the importance of Jesus’ life in relation to his death and resurrection. And he challenges individualistic notions of how Jesus’ death relates to Christian ethics.
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Boundary Leaders : Leadership Skills For People Of Faith
$23.00Add to cartA major challenge for religious communities today lies in harnessing the commitment and energy of religious people to address larger societal issues. Key to such efforts are people who are willing to live and learn “at the boundaries” where secular meets religious, public meets private, and subcultures meet each other. “A way of life on the boundaries, lived in community and faith, finds a broad menu of possibilities,” says Gunderson.
Writing for clergy and lay people and other community groups, Gunderson employs his expertise from years of leading and coordinating work at the Carter Center and elsewhere to improve the quality of life in local communities. He discusses the five important traits leaders must cultivate, centered on knowledge, commitment, integrity, relationship, and the future. -
Rivers Edge
$17.99Add to cartMurder and suspicion disturb the peaceful haven of Cape Refuge. In book three of the #1 bestselling Cape Refuge series, Terri Blackstock weaves another riveting story of blackmail, deceit, and murder. Reconciling themselves to the tragic death of her parents, Morgan and Jonathan Cleary continue to manage Hanover House, a residence for those seeking a new start in life. They are also trying desperately to have a child. When Jonathan is recruited to run for mayor, they are drawn into a gritty campaign that tests their faith and ethics. Ben Jackson seems to have the mayoral election locked up-until his wife’s body is found at the bottom of the river. Police Chief Cade investigates Lisa’s death and finds the facts of the case don’t add up. Lisa’s best friend and partner is sure Ben is responsible in some way. Rani Baxter claims Lisa had been receiving mysterious letters written by a woman claiming she had an affair with Ben. Even though Ben swore the letters were a hoax, Blair Owens-in her new job as a newspaper reporter-begins searching for the woman who wrote the letters. Could Lisa’s death have anything to do with Ben’s affair? Was it tied to her decade-long quest to get pregnant? Does the fertility clinic she’d been frequenting-the same one she encouraged Morgan to visit-hold any clues? Was this an act of a jealous love? A dangerous client? Or is this all about the election?
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Why Enter Heaven Unannounced
$13.49Add to cartIn Why Enter Heaven Unannounced?, author and biblical scholar, Angela Lougee, masterfully explores the critical phases of discovering and fulfilling your life?s calling. She takes you on a stepby- step journey toward identifying, accepting, and completing your God-ordained mission. No matter who you are, where you are, or how much time has passed, it?s never too late to complete the assignment God predestined for you to finish. Lougee reminds you that, as long as you have breath in your body, there is still hope for fulfilling the call of God. Whether you?re a ministry leader or lay member; entrepreneur or employee; college student or corporate executive?reading Why Enter Heaven Unannounced? will position you to reach optimum levels of productivity in every area. Through solid biblical wisdom and instruction, inspirational life stories and personal anecdotes, Lougee clearly shows you how your eternal destiny is directly connected to the fulfillment of your divine assignment in the earth. Ask yourself, ?Am I living life on purpose?? Are you ready to get moving along the path? Well . . . the starting line is right here, inside the pages of this book.
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Creation And Fall
$29.00Add to cartVolume 3 in a sixteen volume series offering a fresh, critical translation of Bonhoeffer’s writings, with introductions, annotations, and interpretation. Creation and Fall originated in Bonhoeffer’s lectures at University of Berlin in 1932-33 in which he called his students to focus their attention on the word of God as the word of truth in a time of turmoil.
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Healing The Wounds Of Sexual Addiction (Revised)
$18.99Add to cartIn this expanded and updated edition of the bestselling book previously titled Faithful and True: Maintaining Sexual Integrity in a Fallen World, Dr. Mark Laaser offers help and hope for regaining and maintaining sexual integrity, self-control, and wholesome, biblical sexuality. Dr. Laaser traces the roots of sexual addiction in families and in culture, and shows how sexual sin poisons the lives of pastors and laypeople alike. He provides a complete program for treatment and recovery from sexual addiction, including the all-pervasive Internet pornography, the number one form of sexual addiction.
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Literary Structure Of The Old Testament
$45.00Add to cartDorsey deftly provides a detailed yet concise analysis of the various forms within Old Testament literature—particularly occurrences of symmetry, parallelism, and sevenfold patterns—then examines the relationship between each book’s structure and its message. Imbued with creative insights and artistic sensitivity, this important work is destined to become a classic of Old Testament studies.
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Teaching That Makes A Difference
$34.99Add to cartThis comprehensive, research-informed textbook reviews all aspects of traditional and contemporary theories and experience in youth ministry, but also points to the future by analyzing youth culture and charting innovative paradigms in the art and craft of teaching. The book is fueled by the urgent need in youth ministry to better reach students, to inform them about God’s will for their lives, and to encourage change in their lives beyond the youth group setting. Features include: * Website dedicated to the book, including chats hosted by the author * Scriptural instruction on reaching the minds, hearts, and souls of students * Cultural analysis of adolescents in ministry contexts and in the larger community * Explanation of learning styles: auditory, visual, tactile, kinesthetic * Explanation of multiple intelligences: imaginative, analytic, common sense, dynamic * Tips on creativity: where to find ideas, list of teaching methods
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Why Revival Tarries (Reprinted)
$16.99Add to cartLeonard Ravenhill’s call to revival is as timely now as it was when first published over forty years ago. The message is fearless and often radical as he expounds on the disparity between the New Testament church and the church today. This book contains the heart of his message, A.W. Tozer called Ravenhill “a man sent from God” who “appeared at (a) critical moment in history,” just as the Old Testament prophets did. Included are questions for group and individual study.
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Worship : His Love Endures Forever
$12.99Add to cartWhy do we worship?
Do we do it simply because it’s part of a church service, or does it spring from a heart of genuine praise?
The Bible gives us a clear picture of what worship is–and isn’t–about. In eight studies Sundee Tucker Frazier helps you dig into the Bible, learning how to worship with your whole life and taking you to the heart of the matter–the character of the God who loves you.
This LifeGuide Bible Study features questions for starting group discussions and for meeting God in personal reflection, together with leader’s notes and a “Now or Later” section in each study.
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Who Runs The Church
$24.99Add to cart“Many Protestants, individually and denominationally, are divided by differences regarding the form of church government. While these differences are not necessarily as divisive as theological and doctrinal issues, they are significant to churches and church leaders and affect the way Christians do God’s work. This book in the highly acclaimed Counterpoints series offers insights and contrasts into four kinds of church government: (1) episcopalianism (hierarchical, with priests, bishops, and archbishops), (2) presbyterianism (a representative form at multiple levels-church, classis/presbytery, synod/general assembly), (3) single-elder congregationalism (pastor-led local autonomy), and (4) plural-elder congregationalism (another form of local autonomy). Each form of government is explored through (1) description, (2) historical development, (3) hermeneutical assumptions, (4) biblical and theological foundations, (5) an understanding of the nature, number, and relationship of church officers, (6) the practical implications. The contributors are Peter Toon of the Anglican Church (episcopalianism), L. Roy Taylor of the Presbyterian Church in America (presbyterianism), Paige Patterson of the Southern Baptist Convention (single-elder congregationalism), and Samuel E. Waldron of the Reformed Baptist Church (plural-elder congregationalism).” EDITOR: Cowan, Steven B.
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Repentance 1 : The Doctrine Of God And The Knowledge Of Salvation
$27.99Add to cartThis work is written with a law enforcement officer’s investigative mindset and from the perspective of a prisoner. I discovered through a survey of Christian bookstores that no books were exclusively on or about repentance, but most only touched on the topic. The only author who had anything to say about repentance beyond a mere mention was Charles G. Finney in Finney’s Systematic Theology. This 600-page work transformed my thinking and influenced my investigation. This book discusses spiritual leadership without bashing any spiritual leader. It points out carnality without castigating any particular ministry or denomination. Hundreds of illustrations will familiarize the reader with revelations about repentance and carnality. These illustrations, like parables, contain revolutionary truths that are true to Scripture, reason, and life, so that Repentance: The Doctrine of God may become one harmonious revelation! Warning: As you read this book, you will encounter deep-seated carnality residing within the blackened depths of your soul, and it will not want to be exposed! But take heart-Almighty God will accompany you on this journey for the complete regeneration of your soul.
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God Entranced Vision Of All Things
$25.00Add to cartCommemorating the 300th birthday of Jonathan Edwards, this volume celebrates the philosopher-theologian’s life and legacy. General editors John Piper and Justin Taylor chose ten essays that enlighten different aspects of Edwards. Opening with biographical and historical background, contributors then examine lessons from Edwards still useful today, concluding with an analysis of three of his most influential and demanding works.
Contributors Stephen Nichols, J. I. Packer, Donald Whitney, Mark Dever, Sam Storms, and Mark Talbot – among others – are helpful in guiding today’s readers to understand the man who strived to glorify God in his personal life and public ministry.
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Choosing Wisely In Life
$4.99Add to cartMany people don’t realize the decision Moses made when he re-entered Egypt as a former
son of Pharaoh and convicted murderer to lead his people out of slavery. From his account
in the Bible, readers will gather powerful principles useful in making quality decisions in
their own lives.Author Buddy Harrison outlines seven key steps that will enable people to make wise
decisions in every area of their lives. From “weighing choices through esteeming” to “passing
through with the choice” readers will identify the step-by-step method to making quality
decisions. This timeless message will encourage readers to witness the account of Moses’
decision to return to Egypt while gaining powerful insight into God’s direction for their
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Satan Unmasked : The Truth Behind The Lie
$15.99Add to cartWho is Satan, really? Far too many Christians have a distorted image of the devil. Contrary to popular belief, he is not a powerful spiritual being! He is a defeated foe; Jesus has stripped him of all power and authority. Satan is NOT out problem; it is ignorance. What we don’t know WILL hurt us. When we know the truth, the truth will set us free. The Book of Isaiah teaches that a time will come when we will look on Satan in utter astonishment, and we will say, “Is this the one who made the nations tremble?”
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Human Dignity In The Biotech Century
$35.99Add to cartWhat will be the greatest moral challenge facing our society throughout this century? Are we ready to face it? The contributors to this book make the case that the greatest watershed debates of this new century concerning ethics and public policy will surround the issue of biotechnology. These twelve essays alert the reader to the ethical and legal challenges we face in the new genetics, involving embryo research, stem cell research, cloning, genetic engineering, gene therapy, pharmocogenomics, cybernetics, nanotechnology and, of course, abortion. Leaders in their fields, these contributors point out the crucial role Christians can and should play in the public square. The forward-looking thought by these spokespersons will help us get prepared.
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Semper Fi : Business Leadership The Marine Corps Way
$18.99Add to cartFor more than 200 years, the U.S. Marine Corps has been a paragon of world-class leadership, excelling in the areas of motivation, training, and management. Semper Fi — which since its hardcover publication has become a best-selling, business leadership classic — shows readers how to adapt these proven practices for their own organizations. Semper Fi goes behind the scenes to pinpoint what works for the USMC, showing readers how to create a training and management culture that brings out the best in all their employees. The book gives readers tough, practical tips for: * inspiring individual initiative * rewarding hard work * encouraging loyalty * working with limited resources * dealing with change * “leading the troops”” at every level of the organization. “This is not,” according to Dan Rather, “one of those mumbo-jumbo, pseudo-philosophical books on leadership. Semper Fi is a book you will actually USE, read, and refer to again and again.”
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Women Of Worth (Reprinted)
$10.00Add to cartThe first book in the Focus on the Family Women’s Bible Study Series, Women of Worth, will help women discover their true identifies in Christ and develop a closer relationship with their Savior. The Focus on the Family Women’s Ministry series provides the opportunity for women to reconnect with their Savior and one another through Bible study, prayer, fellowship, and activities.
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Prayer (Student/Study Guide)
$9.99Add to cartThis book will explore and define biblical and contemporary images of prayer. All the sessions exploring prayer will be based upon God’s relationship with humans as the ground of all prayer and the essential human need to reach toward God that leads to prayer. Readers will explore definitions of prayer, a variety of scriptures that show Jesus’ teachings and practices related to prayer, methods of prayer, aids to prayer, the varieties of individual and communal words, needs, and emotions that form the content of prayer, ways people interpret answered or unanswered prayer, and the unity between prayer and human action. The book will invite readers to reflect upon questions like: Why do we pray? What is God’s role in prayer? the human role? How is God’s grace involved in prayer? What is prayer? What did Jesus teach about prayer? How do we pray? What do we pray? What is an attitude of prayer? How does God answer prayer? What difference does prayer make in our lives? Have I been praying all along? What happens in the quiet times of my week? in the busy times?
Is prayer possible in both quiet and busy times? Why do I feel like I don’t have
time to pray? Do I need to make time for prayer? How? The book will affirm
persons and groups who struggle with an understanding of prayer or with
a style of prayer. It will provide opportunities for transforming encounters with
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Gods Comfort : 9 Studies For Individuals Of Groups (Revised)
$12.99Add to cartSuffering has power. It can tear our hearts apart. At the same time it has the positive power to transform us–if we allow ourselves to experience God’s comfort. In these studies you will discover how to meet God in the midst of struggles and receive his strength and grace.
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Loving Justice : 12 Studies For Individuals Or Groups (Revised)
$12.99Add to cartGod is loving and powerful. He is able to work against some of the strongest forces of hate in the world.
You can imitate God’s justice by fighting against these same powers in your own life and in the lives of those around you.
Taking a fresh look at this theme throughout Scripture, Bob and Carol Hunter challenge you to love justice as God does. And they show you how to work for justice in your everyday life.
This revised LifeGuide Bible Study features additional questions for starting group discussions and for meeting God in personal reflection, together with expanded leader’s notes and a “Now or Later” section in each study.
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Deuteronomy : Becoming Holy People (Student/Study Guide)
$12.99Add to cartDo you long to experience God’s presence in your life?
In this study guide Stephen D. Eyre leads you to explore the story told in Deuteronomy–the story of God’s people seeking after him. As you trace their journey, experiencing their forward progress, their detours and their obstacles, you, too, will learn to follow God more closely.
This revised LifeGuide Bible Study features additional questions for starting group discussions and for meeting God in personal reflection, together with expanded leader’s notes and a “Now or Later” section in each study.
