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When Your Bad Meets His Good
$16.99Add to cart*Teaches readers how to change their perceptions regarding the bad things that happen to them
*Includes tips to help readers shift their minds
*Provides prayers and declarations for readers to speak over themselves and their families every day
Imagine a life in which we literally believe God and take Him at His Word, one in which we let the trials and tribulations that hit us roll off our backs. We look at those trials as a “life college” and learn everything we can through them. We get better, not bitter. When relationships fail, instead of looking at them as our personal failures, we believe rejection is God’s protection and that He wanted the people out of our lives.
The points in this book are all about perception shifts-learning how to take the bad and shift it for our good. Everything happens for a reason, so instead of getting mad at God for not healing our marriages, giving us favor with a promotion, or saving us from bankruptcy, let’s look at everything we experience as a means of advancement in our lives.
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Survival Guide For The Soul
$16.99Add to cartWhat keeps us from flourishing in our spiritual lives is a neglect of the inner life of the soul. And more and more today, this neglect is driven by our ambition to accomplish something big outside ourselves. We live in a society that pressures us to achieve professionally, socially, and through the constant acquisition of material possessions. Drawing on a wide range of sources including scripture, church history, psychology, and neuroscience, as well as a rich variety of stories from his own life, Ken Shigematsu demonstrates how the gospel redeems our desires and reorders our lives. He offers fresh perspective on how certain spiritual practices help orient our lives so that our souls can flourish in the midst of a demanding, competitive society. And he concludes with a liberating and counter-cultural definition of true greatness.
This book will appeal to anyone who longs to experience a deeper relationship with Christ in the midst of the daily pressures to succeed, as well as to those on the borderlands of faith seeking to transcend the human tendency to define ourselves by our production and success.
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Tu Mejor Ano – (Spanish)
$16.99Add to cartodos queremos vivir una vida significativa. Todos queremos alcanzar nuestro maximo potencial. Pero demasiado a menudo nos sentimos abrumados por el dia a dia. Nuestras metas grandes van quedando en segundo plano; y entonces, la mayoria de las veces quedan olvidadas. El autor de exitos de ventas del New York Times quiere que los lectores sepan que no tiene que ser asi. De hecho, el piensa que este es el ao que los lectores pueden finalmente cerrar la brecha entre la realidad y sus sueos.
En Tu Mejor Ao, Hyatt comparte un sistema poderoso, probado, dirigido por la investigacion, para establecer y alcanzar las metas. Los lectores aprenden como disear su mejor ao en tan solo cinco horas.
-Tres maneras simples de triplicar la probabilidad de alcanzar sus metas
-Como crear metas a prueba de que te rindas
-Que hacer cuando se sientan atascados
-y mucho mas.Cualquiera que este cansado de no ver progreso en sus metas personales, intelectuales, de negocios, de relaciones o financieras atesorara esta sabiduria probada en la vida real que se encuentra en estas paginas.
We all want to live a life that matters. We all want to reach our full potential. But too often we find ourselves overwhelmed by the day-to-day. Our big goals get pushed to the back burner-and then, more often than not, they get forgotten. New York Times best-selling author Michael Hyatt wants readers to know that it doesn’t have to be this way. In fact, he thinks that this is the year readers can finally close the gap between reality and their dreams.
In Your Best Year Ever, Hyatt shares a powerful, proven, research-driven system for setting and achieving goals. Readers learn how to design their best year ever in just five hours through a process that includes:
-three simple ways to triple the likelihood of achieving their goals
-how to quit-proof their goals
-what to do when they feel stuck
-and much moreAnyone who is tired of not seeing progress in their personal, intellectual, business, relationship, or financial goals will treasure the field-tested wisdom found in these pages.
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Unique Woman : Insight And Wisdom To Maximize Your Life
$14.99Add to cartThere are opportunities everywhere for women who have the courage to seize them! You have more than you think you have. You can do more than you think you can. You alone are responsible to use the intelligence, talents, abilities, and gifts God has given you.
Edwin and Nancy Cole took the truths and experience gathered from over half a century of marriage and ministry together to write Unique Woman. In one of Christianity’s modern classics, the Coles furnish tools to achieve the image God holds for women. In the same upfront and honest style that made Ed Cole an internationally known minister to men, he learned with his wife Nancy, whom he called “The Loveliest Lady in the Land,” to answer the heart’s cry of women around the world who said, “Write us a book!”
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Relationship Principles Of Jesus
$19.99Add to cartWhat would you give to radically improve, even transform, what matters most in your relationships? You can thrive in your career, acquire wealth, or build a great reputation. But if your relationships aren’t thriving, nothing else matters.
This 40-day journey will bring new depth and health to your marriage, your family, and your friendships. Saddleback Church teaching pastor Tom Holladay helps you explore and begin to practice six foundational principles including how to give your relationships the highest value, love as Jesus loves you, and communicate from the heart. You’ll be equipped with insights and a practical path for fulfilling God’s intention for all your relationships–even the difficult ones.
The Relationship Principles of Jesus walks you step by step through learning the foundational relationship truths taught by Jesus. Shaped after Rick Warren’s monumental bestseller, The Purpose Driven Life, this book invites you to learn from the Master of relationships.
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Gospel In Miniature
$25.99Add to cartWitty, wise, and powerful meditations on the New Testament are presented in the perfect form for readers with busy lives who sometimes find that there is not enough time in the day to focus on their spiritual well-being. Martin Copenhaver feels their pain and has packed this volume full of insight into the teachings of Jesus that anyone, no matter how busy, can find the time to digest, reflect on, and enjoy. In addition, a scripture and a prayer accompany each of the 140+ lessons, the distilled results of decades of spiritual scholarship and teaching.
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Glimpses Of Gods Heart
$19.99Add to cartGwen Wellington, retired psychotherapist and pastor, practices the art of listening to the voice of God in daily meditation. To help you experience the peace and joy that results from intimacy with a God who is Love, she shares what she hears in this collection of 366 life-giving love notes from God to the reader.
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Gospel In Miniature
$16.99Add to cartWitty, wise, and powerful meditations on the New Testament are presented in the perfect form for readers with busy lives who sometimes find that there is not enough time in the day to focus on their spiritual well-being. Martin Copenhaver feels their pain and has packed this volume full of insight into the teachings of Jesus that anyone, no matter how busy, can find the time to digest, reflect on, and enjoy. In addition, a scripture and a prayer accompany each of the 140+ lessons, the distilled results of decades of spiritual scholarship and teaching.
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Life Worth Living
$14.99Add to cartA Life Worth Living shares gripping stories from a man who loves Jesus, inviting others into the greatest life possible.
Chuck Reinhold, a minister and long-time Young Life staff member, offers a grand view of his life and the principles he’s learned through his fifty plus years of ministry. Chuck’s influence on the Kingdom in the lives of adults and leaders cannot be overstated. He started ministries that have helped countless men and women meet Christ and grow in their faith–from ministry leaders like Joni Eareckson Tada to missionaries in Ethiopia to pastors, youth leaders, doctors, teachers, moms and dads. Starting in the early 2000’s, Chuck has faced memory obstacles. A Life Worth Living speaks to the power that scripture memory and time spent in God’s Word can bring to those obstacles. Chuck’s stories speak to the real struggles of those dealing with memory loss. Also, A Life Worth Living features principles anyone can use to further their Kingdom impact and demonstrate the impact one person’s faithfulness can have on so many. -
Soul Unfinished : Finding Happiness, Taking Risks, And Trusting God As We G
$18.99Add to cart“There is a warm and confident practicality in Atwell’s teaching. He is the grandparent one always wanted, and the fellow adventurer who understands.”
— Emilie Griffin, author of Turning, Clinging, and Doors into Prayer, from the forewordMore and more people are living into old age–that’s a fact. With our careers winding down and our children having left home, we are faced, sometimes for the first time in our lives, with the most basic questions about the meaning of life. This book is a spiritual guide for just such times, and an opportunity to make the most of the last quarter of a good life.
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More Than Just Pretty
$13.99Add to cartIntroduction
1. Value
Am I Who I Know? Friendships/popularity/family/boys
Am I What I Achieve? School
Am I What I Look Like? We Are More Than Our Image
Be You: You Are A Masterpiece (illustration And Exploration)2. Beauty
Am I Enough? Model Culture-nobody’s Perfect
Am I Pretty? Instagram Perfection Culture, Comparison
Am I A Selfie Queen? Social Media
Be Beautiful: You Are A Masterpiece (illustration And Exploration)3. Purpose
Am I What Has Happened To Me?
Am I Happy? Inner Critic, Don’t Worry
Am I Significant? Future Plans, Dreaming, The Journey
Be A Dreamer: You Are A Masterpiece (illustration And Exploration)4. #AskJessie – Social Media Wave, Final Advice, Further Support
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In today’s world, youth are growing up in a society where social media is an integral part of their sense of self. But what are the repercussions of this, and how can we teach young girls where their true worth and identity is found?Jessie Faerber sets out to put the record straight and redefine how girls see themselves. Highlighting the pervasiveness of selfies, the distortion of beauty on social media, and the chase after perfectionism, she offers hope amidst the pressures of internet perfection and reaffirms our identity as God’s masterpiece: original, exquisite, and of infinite value. -
Descubre Tu Proposito – (Spanish)
$15.99Add to cartHay personas que participan en proyectos importantes, pero no estan viviendo su proposito. Ni siquiera conocen cual es, y menos saben como cumplir con un proposito que ni siquiera conocen. Proposito, o Idea Central Permanente (ICP) como lo denomina el autor Tiago Brunet, es el principal motivo por el cual haces lo que haces; es lo que te motiva en los dias dificiles. Es lo que define tu identidad. Una persona con proposito esta blindada contra la depresion, el miedo, las criticas, las ofensas y las dudas. En este libro vas a descubrir tu proposito, y cuando lo descubras, 5 cosas cambiaran en tu vida automaticamente: los amigos que tienes, la forma en la que inviertes el tiempo, tu manejo del dinero, la fe que posees, y el diseo de tu destino. Tu vida cobra sentido solamente cuando vives tu proposito. Descubre tu proposito. !Quien tiene proposito ya vencio!
Some people may be involved in important ventures, but they may not be living their purpose. They don’t even know their purpose, much less are they fulfilling it. Purpose or Idea Central Permanente (ICP, Permanent Central Idea), the way the author Tiago Brunet calls it, is the main motive for whatever you do; it is what keeps you moving through hard times. It is what defines your identity. A person with purpose is protected against depression, fear, doubts and offense. Through this book you will discover your purpose and when you find it, five things will change immediately in your life: the friends you have, the ways you spend time, the way of dealing with money, the faith you have, and design of your destiny. Your life has meaning only when you live in your purpose. Discover Your Purpose. Whoever has purpose is already a winner!
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Meeting Jesus : 18 Profound Encounters With Christ
$11.25Add to cartMeeting Jesus explores 18 unique and profound encounters that individuals had with Jesus Christ, each teaching us something different about him. These are people who had met Jesus in real life and whose stories enable us to get to know Christ more personally and love him more dearly. People like Mary Magdalene who met the Friend of Sinners, Pontius Pilate who me the King, Thomas who went from sincere doubt to genuine praise, and many more.
Whether you have been a believer for decades, or you have recently come to faith in Jesus, Meeting Jesus will draw you closer to your beloved Lord and Savior, Companion and Friend. -
Call : Finding And Fulfilling Gods Purpose For Your Life (Revised)
$16.99Add to cartRevised and updated 20th anniversary edition with a new foreword
Discover God’s plan for your life—and start fulfilling your heart’s deepest desires! In this penetrating classic, Guinness explores the concept of “calling.” Sharing his personal experience of divine direction, he challenges you to embark on an existence of focus, gratitude, humility, and vision. Updated 20th anniversary edition includes a new foreword and four additional chapters. 288 pages, softcover from Nelson.
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What Happens When Women Say Yes To God
$15.99Add to cartThe God of the Universe Wants to Use You
Does the thought of stepping out in absolute obedience feel too overwhelming-simply too much?
Don’t let fear keep you from knowing the unparalleled joy and satisfaction of following God’s lead! In this book, Lysa TerKeurst will help you…
*determine what holds you back so you can release excuses and receive God’s best
*uncover five questions to ask when you need to distinguish between God’s will and your own thoughts
*find inspiration to serve God in delight-not out of duty-so you will stay the courseWith the encouragement you need and an included Bible study to walk you through each powerful lesson, you’ll be prepared to embrace the growth and blessings God has just for you.
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Convirtiendose En Una Voz De F – (Spanish)
$14.99Add to cartDonde estan las Voces de Fuego que escuchan a Dios y hablan Sus palabras en una cultura que necesita desesperadamente la verdad?
La cultura de la iglesia de hoy esta sacrificando voces de fuego por voces de comodidad, facilidad y el poder de enseanza positiva.
Aprende a avivar la llama del Espiritu Santo en tu vida para moldear tu voz y tener un verdadero impacto para Cristo. Aprende a creer en Dios por grandes cosas y lo imposible. Nuestras circunstancias, entornos o limitaciones nunca limitan, detienen o cambian a nuestro Dios.
Las voces de fuego son hombres y mujeres que:
Predican, ensean y viven con pasion toda la Palabra de Dios
Pasan tiempo con Dios, lo conocen a El y comunican Su corazon
Viven una vida de poder y Dios los usa para cambiar vidas.
!Que todos seamos iniciadores de fuego en todos los rincones de este mundo! -
Jesus Promised Victory
$19.99Add to cartAre you frustrated with trying to live the Christian life?
Do your struggles with sin discourage you?
Have you been taught you can’t ever win the battle . . . that as long as you are living, you will fall short?
Jesus told people to sin no more. Rather than tell them the struggle with sin and Satan would be difficult, He said, “My yoke is easy and my burden is light.” Jesus doesn’t ask us to do the impossible.
Ken Gould rejected distorted teachings about God and was an atheist for twenty years, until God revealed His existence to him. Afterward, he recognized Christianity wasn’t something to be taken lightly. His highest priority became to know God and understand His counsel.
Gould says, “It is possible to live a godly life in victory. What we believe about God affects our ability to live a victorious life.”
In this guidebook on living in God’s victory, learn:
–How to cooperate with God to attain the victory He has for you.
–How our definition of sin can remove frustration and allow us to live a godly life.
–How believing lies about God keeps us from escaping our rebellious, sinful attitudes.
–The interaction between natural laws and sin.“God’s truth sets us free from Satan’s slavery and it’s lies about God that keep us trapped.”
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Cry For Help
$15.00Add to cartHuman hurt, abuse, and neglect are as real as the next breath that you will take. Rape, molestation, and sexual predators that strike from close range are often possessed with spirits of evil that can do damage that last a lifetime. But God, will always hear and respond to the cry of His people.
The transparency of NaTausha Clark is a blessing to the body of Christ. Her willingness to couple her personal pain with the truth of the printed promises of scripture are nothing short of amazing. This book is a must read for every Pastor who seeks to do effective ministry to those who have been wounded by sexual abuse; it is a healing balm for those who have suffered the indignity of being violated yet refuse to be victims but, have decided to be victors!
Clark is a victor and the journey that you will take in this text will prove to be life changing as she reveals her pain for the benefit of those who lack empathy, seek apathy and have refused pity to those that have been wounded but have seen the hand of God grant restoration like never before. Thank you Minister NaTausha Clark for allowing God to use your bruises to heal the brokenness of others.
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Secure The Prayer Guide
$16.99Add to cartJust as regular communication between a parent and child is vital to growing a secure, healthy relationship, so is prayer steeped in God’s Word necessary to foster a secure, healthy relationship with the heavenly father. In this prayer guide, each section guides readers through how to personalize their prayers.
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Restoring The Walls
$14.99Add to cartWalls come in all shapes and sizes. They can be physical or spiritual and have the capability to enhance or divide our relationship with God. This book is intended to assist the reader in the rebuilding process so that they can draw closer to the presence of God and grow in His Grace.
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Thrive : Stop Surviving And Start Living
$16.99Add to cartBecause of the price Jesus paid, each believer has been given access to a world of abundance: Heaven itself. According to Jeremiah 17, when people trust the Lord, they become a mighty tree rooted in the rivers of heaven that can withstand even the harshest conditions. Stop living a withered life. Tap into the streams of Heaven and start thriving!
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Raise Your Voice
$17.99Add to cartIntroduction: The Risk Of Silence Versus The Risk Of Raising Your Voice
Part I: Why We Stay Silent
1. Seen But Not Heard
2. Who Am I? How Imago Dei Gives Us Agency And A Voice
3. Learning To Speak
4. Fear And FailurePart II: How To Speak Up
5. IRL (In Real Life)
6. When You Post It: Everyone And No One Will Care
7. Everyone Has A PartEpilogue
Acknowledgments
Discussion Questions
NotesAdditional Info
You have a voice. And you have God’s permission to use it.In some communities, certain voices are amplified and elevated while others are erased and suppressed. It can be hard to speak up, especially in the ugliness of social media. Power dynamics keep us silent and marginalized, especially when race, ethnicity, and gender are factors. What can we do about it?Activist Kathy Khang roots our voice and identity in the image of God. Because God created us in our ethnicity and gender, our voice is uniquely expressed through the totality of who we are. We are created to speak, and we can both speak up for ourselves and speak out on behalf of others. Khang offers insights from faithful heroes who raised their voices for the sake of God’s justice, and she shows how we can do the same today, in person, in social media, in organizations, and in the public square.Be silent no more. If you have wondered when and how to speak, hear God’s invitation to you to find and steward your authentic voice, whether in word or deed, to communicate the good news in a messed-up world. As you discern God’s voice calling you to speak, you will discover how your voice sounds as you express God’s heart to others. And the world will hear you loud and clear. -
Rehearsing Scripture : Discovering God’s Word In Community
$26.99Add to cartLike a play, Scripture is a text that needs to be rehearsed, says Anna Carter Florence. We can study it carefully. We can listen to sermons and read up on experts. But in the end, Scripture is meant to be encountered-and we do this work best when we do it in community.
In this book Florence offers concrete practical tools for reading and encountering Scripture in groups. She shows how rehearsing the text together enables us to find our script, or place, in Scripture and better apprehend biblical truth for our lives. Her reading strategies are fresh, easy to grasp, and very adaptable to a variety of contexts.
Suitable for new and seasoned Bible readers alike, Florence’s Rehearsing Scripture invites groups and churches to move beyond doctrinal differences as they gather around a shared text and encounter God anew together.
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Heaven : My Fathers House
$17.99Add to cartNow with 250K copies in print! Revised and Updated Edition. Anne affirms that Heaven truly is the home of your dreams: a home of lasting value that’s fully paid for and filled with family, where you will be wanted and welcomed. Best of all, Heaven is a home you are invited to claim as your own.
With over 40 percent new and revised content, Anne Graham Lotz has updated her classic book on Heaven for a whole new generation of readers, and also for herself. With her father, mother, and husband now gone, Lotz beautifully adds her own vulnerability and stories to the journey contained in Heaven: My Father’s House.
Jesus promised us, “In My Father’s house are many rooms…I am going there to prepare a place for you.” Amid the turbulence of today’s world, we cling to the hope of a heavenly home where we will be welcomed into eternal peace and safety. Anne affirms that Heaven truly is the home of your dreams: a home of lasting value that’s fully paid for and filled with family, where you will be wanted and welcomed. Best of all, Heaven is a home you are invited to claim as your own.
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Am I Enough
$19.99Add to cartYou don’t have to live with the worry, am I . . . enough?
If there is one thing most women struggle with it’s the never-ending desire to be enough for this world. They put on makeup and wear certain clothing in hopes of being pretty enough for the popular guy. They use big words to sound smart enough for the job they want. And they do everything someone else might ask of them–even in a toxic relationship–to feel wanted and good enough. But their efforts always fall short because the grass is greener on the other side, and there is always someone else who is prettier, smarter, and more “enough” than they are.
In Am I . . . popular blogger Grace Valentine shares the ten lies that girls believe and unpacks the truth that will set them free. She helps them deal with their insecurities and disappointments, peer pressure, and the inevitable feeling of being overwhelmed. And though they will never be enough for this world, she reminds them that they don’t need makeup, or a boyfriend, or one hundred likes on their Instagram picture. God, the Creator of the universe, sees them just as they are and loves them anyway, and he stretches out his arms to them saying, “You are enough for me, my child, come as you are.”
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Welcoming The Stranger
$22.99Add to cartForeword By Leith Anderson
1. The Immigration Dilemma
2. “Aliens” Among You: Who Are Undocumented Immigrants?
3. Nation Of Immigrants: A Historical Perspective On Immigration To The United States
4. Immigrating The Legal Way: Our Immigration System Today
5. Thinking Biblically About Immigration
6. Concerns About Immigration
7. The Value Of Immigrants To The United States
8. Immigration Policies And Politics
9. Immigration And The Church Today
10. A Christian Response To The Immigration Dilemma
Acknowledgments
Appendix 1: Discussion Questions
Appendix 2: Evangelical Statement Of Principles For Immigration Reform
Appendix 3: Ministries And Organizations Serving Refugees And Other Immigrants In The United States
Appendix 4: Ministries And Organizations Addressing The Root Causes Of Immigration
Appendix 5: Selected Resources For Learning More About The Immigration Issue
Appendix 6: Tools For Political Advocacy
Notes
IndexAdditional Info
Immigration is one of the most complicated issues of our time. Voices on all sides argue strongly for action and change. Christians find themselves torn between the desire to uphold laws and the call to minister to the vulnerable.In this book World Relief immigration experts Matthew Soerens and Jenny Yang move beyond the rhetoric to offer a Christian response to immigration. They put a human face on the issue and tell stories of immigrants’ experiences in and out of the system. With careful historical understanding and thoughtful policy analysis, they debunk myths and misconceptions about immigration and show the limitations of the current immigration system. Ultimately they point toward immigration reform that is compassionate, sensible, and just as they offer concrete ways for you and your church to welcome and minister to your immigrant neighbors.This revised edition includes new material on refugees and updates in light of changes in political realities. -
Lo Que La Perdida No Te Puede – (Spanish)
$13.99Add to cartSon la paz y el gozo una posibilidad dentro de nuestros quebrantos? La Dra. Milland nos ensea que se puede ser esencialmente feliz en medio de la perdida. Otros temas trascendentales que ella desarrolla en Lo que la perdida no te puede quitar son:
*Del trauma al triunfo
*Descubrir las ganancias
*Cierre de asuntos inconclusos
*La valentia de perder a alguien
*De la culpa al autoperdonRecuerda lo que nos asegura el Salmo 30:5
“…por la noche durara el lloro y a la maana vendra la alegria”. -
Respuestas De Dios A Las Dific – (Spanish)
$11.99Add to cartMucha gente sabe que las respuestas a las preguntas mas dificiles de la vida se encuentran en la Biblia, pero no entienden como encontrarlas. Este libro ayuda al lector a descubrir los pasos biblicos basicos para lidiar con temores y problemas. No solo ayudara al lector sino que el lector podra ayudar a otros.
Se ha preguntado alguna vez… Como lidio con el estres? Como me recupero del fracaso? Como supero la depresion? Como vivo por encima de la mediocridad? Como obtengo tranquilidad? Como supero mis problemas? Como tengo fe en medio de la crisis? -Como me meti en este lio? Por que me sucede esto? Como supero la soledad?
Rick Warren te lleva a la Biblia para encontrar respuestas a doce de las preguntas mas dificiles de la vida. Basado en ejemplos de diferentes personajes biblicos que enfrentan los mismos problemas, Warren ofrece ideas concisas y practicas de facil comprension y aplicacion para superar dificultades y experimentar una vida de proposito y significado.
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Life In Christ
$22.95Add to cart* Background on spiritual practices for Episcopalians * Noted spiritual director shares wisdom from Anglican tradition With its great heritage from English mystics, the Episcopal Church has been “spiritual” since before it was trendy, and modern Episcopalians have been in the forefront of exploring practices beyond Anglican boundaries. Yet, perhaps only rarely do they grasp the implications of the theology embedded in these practices or in the liturgies of the 1979 Book of Common Prayer, which has shaped Episcopalians in this country with its emphasis on baptismal spirituality and the centrality of the Eucharist. Julia Gatta wants to change that with her new book, Life in Christ. Applying her years of experience as pastor and spiritual director combined with her study of the spiritual wisdom of the past, she explores common Christian practices and their underlying theology through an Episcopal lens. In the tradition of Esther de Waal, Martin Smith, and Martin Thornton, with particular reference to scripture, The Book of Common Prayer, and the wisdom of the Christian spiritual tradition, she illuminates methods readers may already be practicing and provides insight and guidance to ones that may be new to them.
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Changes That Heal Workbook (Workbook)
$14.99Add to cartThough we cannot change the past or control people in our lives today, we can change who we are and how we relate to others. What changes do you need to make to discover more joy, richer relationships, and freedom from old wounds?
In this workbook companion to the groundbreaking bestseller Changes That Heal, Dr. Henry Cloud guides us through the four crucial tasks we need to complete on our way to lasting healing and growth:
Connect deeply with others
Set healthy boundaries at work, home, and church
Distinguish between good and bad in ourselves and others
Become mature emotionally, spiritually, and relationallyDr. Cloud helps you move forward with each task, overcome hurdles along the way, and draw closer to God. With chapter-by-chapter reflection questions, application ideas, prayers, and Bible study prompts, Changes That Heal Workbook is a great companion for both groups and individuals. Take your spiritual growth another step in this practical, life-changing guide to your personal healing.
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Colors Of Prayer
$13.95Add to cartGods Word overflows with scriptures that illustrate essential aspects of prayer. When these aspects and Gods Word come together, prayer becomes a new and refreshing experience. Using the word PRAYER as an acrostic, The Colors of Prayer offers a way to bring these aspects together in an inspiring Bible study guide and Bible marking plan:
*praising God for who he is and expressing adoration
*responding with gratitude for what he does
*admitting and confessing your sins and seeking forgiveness
*yielding and surrendering to God
*expecting great things from God
*rejoicing in the LordEach aspect of PRAYER also uses a unique color to help you mark your Bible so you can fill the Word with the colors of prayer, highlighting verses as you seek the Lord. Let Gods Word become a beautiful part of your prayer, and see how the Bible comes alive while your prayer life flourishes.
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When Darkness Seems My Closest Friend
$18.99Add to cart1. The Mask
2. The Volcano
3. The Cave
4. The Weight
5. The Invisibility Cloak
6. The Closing
7. The Way
8. The Fellow-traveller
9. The GiftAppendix 1: Managing The Symptoms
Appendix 2: Unexpected Friends In The Cave
Appendix 3: Some Words From Inside The CaveAdditional Info
When Mark Meynell spoke in a central London church, more than 1,500 people hung on to his every word. What they couldn’t have known was that their minister was terrified of being laid bare in public.Fear of shame and exposure is crippling, even if, as in Mark’s case, the sufferer is innocent. And it’s one of the most devastating elements of depression, although certainly not the only one.
Mark invites us into the darkness of his cave. We relive significant moments from boarding school, Uganda, Berli, and London. We visit the Psalms, Job, and The Pilgrim’s Progress.
If you’re after neat conclusions and a fair-weather faith, this is not for you. This book serves up gritty reality and raw honesty, but also the heartfelt hope that the author’s brokenness “can somehow contribute to another person’s integration” and “inspire their clinging while beset by darkness or fog or blizzards.”
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Built To Break
$14.99Add to cartAfter Infidelity and Domestic Abuse Severs a Marriage, One Woman Finds Purpose in Her Pain.
At least 60 percent of married couples will experience infidelity in their marriages, according to Dr. Willard F. Harley Jr., a licensed psychologist in Minnesota. One woman who has personally experienced both infidelity and a subsequent divorce, but in that process found purpose in her pain, is Bekah T. Baker, mom, life coach, author, and speaker. In her new release Built to Break (Redemption Press), Baker candidly shares her tumultuous journey of escaping the pit of perfectionism and people pleasing to gaining freedom and taking ownership of her life all while managing the trauma she had endured from the decisions of her husband – Trauma that almost cost Baker her life.In this raw and redemptive story, Baker tells how she found absolute healing and peace in Christ after discovering she was in a deceptive and codependent marriage. She endured years of emotional abuse, manipulation and infidelity that took a toll on her mental and physical health. However, Baker says, “It’s not about what my husband did to me. It’s about what God did in me.”
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Handbook For The End Times
$16.00Add to cartThe future has never looked bleaker . . . or brighter. In a hopeful, inspiring call to action, bestselling author and pastor Don Finto prepares believers for the exciting possibilities of the days ahead, including how to press into the light, shine more brightly in the deepening darkness, watch for the signs of Jesus’ return, wrestle for victory, and more!
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Changes That Heal
$19.99Add to cartMany of us struggle with anxiety, loneliness, and feelings of inadequacy. We know that God created us in his image, but how can we be loving when we feel burned out? How can we be free when we struggle with addiction? Will we ever enjoy the complete healing God promises?
Changes That Heal by renowned psychologist Dr. Henry Cloud offers a down-to-earth plan to help us recover from the wounds of the past and grow more and more into the image of God. Combining his professional expertise and personal experience, Dr. Cloud guides us through four basic ways to become joy-filled, mature followers of Christ:
*Connect more deeply with others
*Separate from others in healthy ways
*Understand the good and the bad in ourselves and others
*Grow into greater emotional and spiritual maturityWith fascinating case studies and helpful techniques we can start using immediately, Changes That Heal reminds us that God promises to complete his good work in us.
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Bare Bible : Uncovering The Bible For The First Time Or The Hundredth
$15.99Add to cartThe Bible holds huge religious, historical and cultural weight, but it can be daunting to approach it with no idea of where to begin, or how to read it. Here enters The Bare Bible, the perfect introductory guide to the Bible. Written with humour and a friendly, accessible tone, author Peter Graystone assumes no prior knowledge from his readers and cheerily sets out on a lively discussion of all the Bible is and isn’t: the various genres found within its pages, the history of how these various books came to be known as the Bible and – most importantly – why, even after all these years, its words are still relevant to us today.
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1 Minute Stewardship
$20.95Add to cartMuch has changed in the 21st-century world of stewardship. Now a person may use electronic funds transfer or use a credit card after clicking on a website link instead of dropping a check in the offering plate. Stewardship witness videos can be linked to the church’s website.
One-Minute Stewardship is designed to promote the development of a meaningful theology of giving in a new age. These short reflections, indexed by Scripture, theme, event, and lectionary, can be included in weekly parish e-mails, newsletters, weekly bulletins, or read as an invitation to the offering during worship. The book addresses the issue of designated giving, which is usually separate from general stewardship appeals and is designed to empower clergy and lay leaders to promote the message of good stewardship every Sunday of the year.
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Why Children Matter
$13.95Add to cartIn the Garden of Eden, there was only one “No.” Everything else was “Yes.”
In this short book on childrearing, Douglas Wilson points out that we have a Father who delights in us and makes it easy for us to love and obey him. If that is the kind of Father we have, shouldn’t we earthly parents do the same? Wilson explains how parents should not just try to get their kids to obey a set of rules or to make their house so fun that following the rules is always easy. Instead, he calls for parents to instill in their kids a love for God and His standards that will serve them well all their days.
This book also features an appendix in which Doug and his wife Nancy answer various parents’ questions about various applications of the principles discussed in this book.
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Advance
$7.99Add to cartHow can young adults make the best use of these years? Be like Jesus and advance!…in wisdom, stature, and favor with God and man.
Your teens and 20s will be put to the best and highest use if you make them a time of sanctification. Even now you can make bold steps in overcoming sin and embracing righteousness.
The Christian faith rises and falls upon this remarkable fact: God became man. Even Jesus had to grow from a baby to an adult, from immaturity to maturity. Even he had to submit to his parents and advance in wisdom, stature, and favor with both God and man.
Advance! is my call to teens and young adults to learn from Jesus and make these years a time of deliberate preparation for the rest of life. I plead with you to use these years not first to focus on outward accomplishments that might shape the world, but inward achievements that will shape your character. In short, I call on you to be like Jesus.
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Aging Gracefully
$7.99Add to cartHow does the Bible instruct us as we grow older? Age gracefully, age wisely, age resolutely to the glory of God.
There are few longings in my heart deeper than this: That God would let me live a godly, purposeful, dignified old age. I mean to encourage us both to age gracefully, to age wisely, to age resolutely to God’s glory.
We are all aging. We are passing through time until we reach the end of our time. We soon learn that greater age brings greater sorrow but also greater joy, especially to those who are in Christ.
To age gracefully we must age in Christ and for Christ. What does it look like to age gracefully? What do we need to be doing now to ensure we finish this race strong?
These are questions for all Christians, young and old. Thankfully the Bible speaks clearly about how to age and how to age well. Join me in exploring what the Bible has to say about age and aging and learn how we can all hear those beautiful words, “well done, good and faithful servant.”
-Tim Challies
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2nd Chance At Heaven
$16.99Add to cartA still, small voice told me to remove the gun from my head and place it at my chest.
As a teenager, Tamara Laroux became so depressed she decided to commit suicide. Taking her mother’s handgun, Tamara locked herself in the bathroom, pleading with God for forgiveness as she resolved to pull the trigger. She heard a voice saying, “Remove the gun from your head and place it at your chest.” She obliged, but nothing was going to stop her from completing her mission.
Tamara did the unthinkable and was immediately plunged into an unforgettable journey through the afterlife. A Second Chance at Heaven is a testimony to God’s goodness in the face of extreme despair and suffering. God rescued Tamara from a dreadful fate, gave her a glimpse of a glorious heaven, and returned her to her body with an undeniable message of love and hope.
Tamara is a vibrant wife, mother, and enthusiastic minister of Jesus Christ. She frequently speaks at churches and events, and shares her remarkable story with whomever God places in her path. A Second Chance at Heaven will introduce readers to an omnipresent, omniscient God who will go to extreme lengths to save His children.
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Ignite Your Passion Chart Your Course Own Your Life
$16.99Add to cartMake everyday life the life of your dreams!
Everyone wants to live their ideal life, but few people actually achieve it. What is the secret to true prosperity?
Successful entrepreneur and businessman, David Yarnes offers a roadmap to the good life. His personal stories, practical insights, and clear vision help you set your own course to sustained, holistic prosperity.
Based on solid moral values and strategies for intentional self-analysis, this book will help you to define true success and craft a realistic plan for achieving your goals.
Get clarity: Discover what goals matter most to you and set your course to achieving them.
Invest in your “secret life”:
*Learn how mastering your emotions, attitudes, and outlook can significantly impact your level of success.
*See failure as advancement.
*Recover from setbacks and use them as growth opportunities.
*Develop strategies for sustainable success.
*Develop written goals, personal vision, and a life action plan.Activate the “Three Circles”: Spirit, self-mastery, and skill.
Don’t waste another minute! Living from the Three Circles is your guide to living the good life-every day!
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Words Without Knowledge
$11.95Add to cartThere is a crisis facing Christianity in America. Both Christian and secular studies show that many professing Christian teens and young adults are leaving the church, forsaking their Christian heritage and turning to the ways of the world. But since they have grown up in Christian families, attended Christian churches, and even graduated from Christian schools, what is the cause of this exodus? Where have all the Christians goneand why?
In Words without Knowledge, author Steve MacFarland offers a biblical answer to the problem of believers being drawn away from their faith, and he presents an easy-to-understand solution that is clearly revealed in Scripture for those who have ears to hear. The key is to be found in understanding something about the nature of truth, and MacFarland shows how if we were more diligent in teaching our youth the nature Gods truth, then perhaps far fewer would stray from their Christian foundation.
It has often been said that knowledge is everything, but knowledge must be a knowledge of truth. Although it is impossible for humans to fully understand the thoughts and ways of our amazing, infinite creator, God can do the impossible and has chosen to gift His children with the truth about His ways and plans. It is time now, more than ever, for Gods children to embrace this gift and build upon a foundation of truth so that they are not led astray.
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Refocus Rekindle Rejoice (Large Type)
$16.98Add to cartLaurus Books
Refocus Rekindle Rejoice” serves as an encouraging reminder that if you trust Him, He will most certainly lead you to green pastures, still waters, and the restoration of your soul! We must focus and refocus on Jesus. We must kindle and rekindle fervent prayer! The outcome is always a great reason for rejoicing! -
Using The Power Within
$5.99Add to cartApostolic Pentecostal Alliance Books LLC
Learn how to obtain and use the supernatural power from God to change one’s life and fulfill his or her true destiny. Discover how mankind lost the power, the boundaries of power, and using the power within to have the highest quality of life.
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Breaking The Marriage Idol
$24.99Add to cartIntroduction
Part I: The Church And Culture As Easy Bedfellows
1. Disney Princesses, Taylor Swift, And The Bachelor: Pop Culture As Premarital Counselor And Sex Therapist
2. The Internal Narratives Of Contemporary Evangelicalism: Waiting On True Love, Kissing Dating Goodbye, And Bringing Up Princes And PrincessesPart II: Reconsidering The Biblical Witness
3. Bone Of My Bones And Flesh Of My Flesh: The First Testament On Marriage And What It Means To Be Human
4. Like A Virgin: The New Testament On Singleness And What It Means To Be SexualPart III: Developing A Theological Framework
5. The Call Of Marriage (or, Why Christians Should Get Married)
6. Desire In Singleness: Ascetics And Eternity (or, Why Christians Don’t Need To Get Married) (By Joshua Beckett)
7. Sex, Saints, And Singleness: Practical (Re)Consideration
Conclusion: A Family Who Forgives Together . . .Acknowledgments
Contributors
Notes
General Index
Scripture IndexAdditional Info
Should all Christians be married?Although we might quickly respond “no,” our cultural stories and norms-including those in the church-often communicate “yes.”Theologian and husband Kutter Callaway considers why marriage, which is a blessing from God, shouldn’t be expected or required of all Christians. Through an examination of Scripture, cultural analysis, and personal accounts, he reflects on how our narratives have limited our understanding of marriage and obscured our view of the life-giving and kingdom-serving roles of single people in the church.In doing so, Callaway helps the church craft a new story that transforms the way we look at marriage and affirms the contributions of all to the body of Christ. -
Most Beautiful Thing Ive Seen
$16.99Add to cartLisa Gungor thought she knew her own story: small-town girl meets boy in college and they blissfully walk down the aisle into happily ever after. Their Christian faith was their lens and foundation for everything–their marriage, their music, their dreams for the future. But as their dreams began to come true, she began to wonder if her religion was really representative of the ‘good news’ she had been taught.
She never expected the questions to lead as far as they did when her husband told her he no longer believed in God. The death of a friend, the unraveling of relationships and career, the loss of a worldview, and the birth of a baby girl with two heart defects all led Lisa to a tumultuous place; one of depression and despair. And it was there that her perspective on everything changed. The Most Beautiful Thing I’ve Seen tells the story of what can happen when you dare to let go of what you think to be true; to shift the kaleidoscope and see new colors and dimension by way of broken pieces.
Lisa’s eloquent, soul-stirring memoir brings you to a music stage before thousands of fans and a front porch where two people whisper words that scare them to the core. It is the story of how doubt can spark the beginning of deeper faith; how a baby born with a broken heart can bring love and healing to the hearts of many, and ultimately, how the hardest experience in life often ends up saving us.
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Yellow Balloons : Power For Living Life Above The Circumstances
$14.99Add to cartDid your parents or grandparents prepare you for wealth? Are your children/grandchildren prepared for wealth? Do they know how to create and manage wealth? Will they handle an inheritance with wisdom? In this book Randall Sanada, a 45 year financial services veteran presents a warm and educational guidebook to his grandchildren and to yours. This book will equip your future heirs with the wisdom to create and manage meaningful wealth.The building block style of teaching will provide basics to the beginner and will at the same time deliver profound insight to even the most experienced financial professionals on formulas for achieving financial independence, enhanced investment returns, and ultimately true financial freedom through the joy of generosity.
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Blue Parakeet 2nd Edition
$19.99Add to cartParakeets make delightful pets. We cage them or clip their wings to keep them where we want them. Scot McKnight contends that many, conservatives and liberals alike, attempt the same thing with the Bible. We all try to tame it. McKnight’s The Blue Parakeet calls Christians to stop taming the Bible and to let it speak anew to our heart.
McKnight challenges us to rethink how to read the Bible, not just to puzzle it together into some systematic belief but to see it as a Story that we’re summoned to enter and to carry forward in our day.
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Serving God In A Migrant Crisis
$19.99Add to cart“God has used migration for millennia to achieve his purposes for his people,” writes Patrick Johnstone. “He is doing so again in our time.”
Millions are on the move, driven by war, drought, terrorism, poverty, failed states, environmental catastrophes, disease, revolutions, and the desire for a better life. Christians have a unique perspective on the migrant crisis: after all, Jesus was a refugee. So were Abraham, Joseph, and Moses.
Today, some turn their backs on refugees. In Serving God in a Migrant Crisis, Patrick Johnstone and Dean Merrill help us understand what’s causing today’s refugee crisis, explore Christian theology and tradition on migration, and show us how Christian workers around the globe are opening their hearts to embrace these modern outcasts.
“The world has literally come to our doorstep,” they write. “Will we open the door?”
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Who Is My Neighbour
$15.99Add to cartFollowing Britain’s decision to leave the European Union, and with increasing division, xenophobia, and confusion over future national and international relationships, this thought- and action-provoking book considers the crucial question: Who is my neighbor?
What does the Christian injunction to “love your neighbor as yourself” actually mean in practice today? Contributions by renowned theologians and practitioners reflect on this subject in relation to issues of poverty, ecology, immigration, fear, and discrimination, and the recent political upheavals both in Europe and the United States.
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Supernaturally Prophetic : A Practical Guide For Prophets And Prophetic Peo
$15.99Add to cartAccess the prophetic voice of the Spirit!Every believer has received the Holy Spirit and the ability to hear God’s prophetic voice. God is always speaking; the question is are you listening?
The first step to hearing God is discovering that you are already supernaturally prophetic!
Prophet John Veal shows how you can become more in-tune with God’s voice. Through powerful teaching and transparent testimony, Veal’s guidance will help you navigate the realm of the Spirit with precision and clarity
Supernaturally Prophetic will help you…
*Develop your God-given prophetic “DNA.”
*Operate within Biblical prophetic etiquette and protocol.
*Identify wrong prophetic motives.
*Avoid deception while prophesying.
*Recognize truly prophetic churches.
*Access deeper realms of the prophetic.Hearing God speak supernaturally can become normal for you! Unlock your prophetic DNA today!
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Big Lie : Giving Up Our Rights
$28.95Add to cartThe Bible contains the knowledge and the message of God, and it is a powerful tool that can guide our lives along the path of truth and righteousness. Yet there are many in the world who wish to exploit this power and use false teachings to deceive others and steal from them. So how can we safeguard ourselves and our salvation from these falsehoods and know that we have received the truth of Gods Word?
In The Big Lie: Giving Up Our Rights, author Ralph Good shares his own investigation into the false teaching that Christians should give up their personal rights. As he grew in his knowledge of Gods Word and studied the subject of rights, Ralph found that there is no biblical evidence to support such teachings, which in fact contradict what the Bible actually says about rights. All translators of the Bible who use the word rights condemn as wicked and evil those who deny the rights of others, even going so far as to condemn them as unjust, doomed, rebellious, and stupid.
There are false teachers in the church today who are telling people that they have to give up their rights, that they dont have rights, and that their rights have been nailed to the cross. The Big Lie reveals these untruths and exposes false preachers, showing instead that the Bible commends the righteous who stand up for and defend the rights of others, especially the poor, the helpless, the oppressed, foreigners, orphans, and widows.
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Big Lie : Giving Up Our Rights
$11.95Add to cartThe Bible contains the knowledge and the message of God, and it is a powerful tool that can guide our lives along the path of truth and righteousness. Yet there are many in the world who wish to exploit this power and use false teachings to deceive others and steal from them. So how can we safeguard ourselves and our salvation from these falsehoods and know that we have received the truth of Gods Word?
In The Big Lie: Giving Up Our Rights, author Ralph Good shares his own investigation into the false teaching that Christians should give up their personal rights. As he grew in his knowledge of Gods Word and studied the subject of rights, Ralph found that there is no biblical evidence to support such teachings, which in fact contradict what the Bible actually says about rights. All translators of the Bible who use the word rights condemn as wicked and evil those who deny the rights of others, even going so far as to condemn them as unjust, doomed, rebellious, and stupid.
There are false teachers in the church today who are telling people that they have to give up their rights, that they dont have rights, and that their rights have been nailed to the cross. The Big Lie reveals these untruths and exposes false preachers, showing instead that the Bible commends the righteous who stand up for and defend the rights of others, especially the poor, the helpless, the oppressed, foreigners, orphans, and widows.
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Walking With Domestic Abuse Sufferers
$11.99Add to cartTragically, the police receive a call about domestic abuse every minute. This is a hidden and terrifying phenomenon, sadly prevalent in churches as well as the wider community. Spouses, partners, parents, and (older) children are the perpetrators. The aim of this book is to bring victims to a place of freedom, peace, and hope. There is a way out, and they can find real hope in Christ.
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Theology From The Spring
$17.99Add to cartWe live in a world of duality, where the clashing of co-existent beauty and chaos robs humanity of its innate purpose. Perhaps as a coping mechanism, we also live in a world dictated by technological advance that, despite its manifold conveniences, yields unintended consequences such as alienation, detached purpose, and synthetic happiness. What if the way to recover our sense of meaning and ultimate transcendent truth was found organically, in the most pure and ethereal settings of the natural world? Theology from the Spring leads readers through a reformation of nature that rediscovers the beauty of creation, ultimately pointing to the majesty and revelation of its creator.
Theology from the Spring uses beautiful vistas gleaned from freshwater springs and fly fishing motifs that converge with rich theological applications. Fly fishing and freshwater springs are a tonic for the soul, each flowing forth with primal truths. Theology from the Spring takes its readers on a voyage that upon closer examination, awakens us to the living discourses of nature. Through vignettes of fresh water springs and fly fishing analogies, Theology from the Spring provides the reader with something we’ve lost: eyes for seeing latent, divine truths that make sense of the beauty and chaos we see within the created order.
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Boundaries For Your Soul
$19.99Add to cartWhat if feelings like anger, sadness, and fear could improve your life for the better? In this practical, life-changing book, Christian counselors Alison Cook and Kimberly Miller describe their unique, five-step process for bringing peace to overwhelming emotions and harmony to your inner world.
Do you ever struggle to calm your competing, internal “enemies”? Boundaries for Your Soul provides a Spirit-based plan for creating remarkable serenity. You can recognize that these often-overwhelming emotions are not your enemies; rather, they are helpers who have gone well beyond their roles, robbing you of deep-down joy and genuine connection with others. By compassionately guiding them to their proper functions you can make them your greatest encouragers and allies.
In Boundaries for Your Soul, Cook and Miller guide you through a five-step process for doing so, showing you how to introduce the Holy Spirit to your wayward emotions and transform your weaknesses into powerful strengths.
Filled with anecdotes and wisdom from the authors’ combined twenty-five years of study and clinical practice, Boundaries for the Soul leads readers on a journey of personal discovery grounded in the Christian tradition. Additional helps include exercises and opportunities for personal reflection.
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Plough Quarterly Number17 The Soul Of Medicine
$10.00Add to cartWe need a vision of how medicine might serve the good of the whole human person: the body’s health, but also the health of that “piece of divinity in us.”
Medicine, so long as you don’t need it, is a tangential part of life, just one more profession among others. Until that is, a loved one suffers an accident or falls sick. Then, suddenly, medicine is quite literally, a matter of life or death. Medicine is also big business. Doctors have been reclassified as “service providers,” and patients are “clients.” Such commercialism breeds false incentives and inequalities, even in nations.
We need a vision of how medicine might serve the good of the whole human person: the body’s health, but also the health of that “piece of divinity in us.” We need love and reverence for humans as they are, not humans as technology may someday engineer them to be. Jesus, the healer from Nazareth, showed what it means to love the imperfect, the frail, the average. The glory of the medical profession is that it is dedicated to these works of mercy. In today’s money-driven healthcare industry, such tasks are often poorly rewarded. Yet they’re at the heart of medicine’s original mission.
Also in this issue: original poetry by Suzanne Harlan Heyd; reviews of new books by Barbara Ehrenreich, Ryan T. Anderson, Beth Macy, and David R. Montgomery and Anne Bikle; and art by Tim Lowly, Michelangelo, Julian Peters, Wanjin Gim, Scott Goldsmith, Jan Mostaert, Suleiman Mansour, Cecile Massie, Peter Doig, Erin Hanson, and Jason Landsel.
Plough Quarterly features stories, ideas, and culture for people eager to put their faith into action. Each issue brings you in-depth articles, interviews, poetry, book reviews, and art to help you put Jesus’ message into practice and find common cause with others.
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Encountering Our Wild God (Reprinted)
$18.00Add to cartThe wild beauty of our God is calling, beckoning us to pursue him beyond our circumstances, emotions, and logic into the glorious mystery that is HIM. Here are practical, everyday ways to pursue him more passionately, to trust him more fiercely, to see his face reflected in the miraculous, and to experience his wild, limitless nature.
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Inspired : Slaying Giants Walking On Water And Loving The Bible Again
$19.99Add to cartIf the Bible isn’t a science book, instruction manual, or position paper, then what is it? New York Times bestselling author Rachel Held Evans invites readers on a journey of rediscovery as she explores the magic of the Bible, engaging the old, familiar stories in new ways that honor the past and enlighten the present.
Is the Bible relevant to modern people of faith? This is the question Rachel Held Evans, bestselling author of Searching for Sunday, found herself asking, launching her on a quest to understand better what the Bible is and how it is meant to be read. What she discovered changed her forever.
Drawing upon recent scholarship and literary analysis, Evans creatively retells our favorite Bible stories, explaining their contexts and possible interpretations, and then connects these ancient stories to our present-day ones. Using her well-honed literary instincts and experience in both evangelical and mainline Protestant traditions, Evans discovers a way of understanding that avoids noncommittal liberalism on one hand and strident literalism on the other. Readers are invited to fall in love with Scripture all over again without checking their intellect–or their imaginations–at the door.
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In His Image
$15.99Add to cartAfter first teaching women to go deeper in their study of the Bible in Women of the Word, and then unpacking why our limits are a good thing in light of God’s limitlessness in None Like Him, best-selling author and Bible teacher Jen Wilkin helps readers see what human beings are to be like as they reflect the image of their Creator. In His Image explores 10 attributes of God that Christians are called to reflect-they are called to be holy, loving, just, good, merciful, gracious, faithful, patient, truthful, and wise. This book calls readers to discover the freedom and purpose in becoming all that God made them to be.
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31 Days To Happiness (Revised)
$15.00Add to cartDon’t you deserve a little happiness?
Ever wonder . . .
-Why is life so frustrating?
-Is happiness within my reach?
-Is it too late for me?Dr. David Jeremiah takes a look at history’s wisest and most successful man, King Solomon, and challenges readers to find what really matters in life. Solomon tested life’s haunting questions head-on. Tasted the fullness of life’s riches. But found his answers in the last place he thought to look.
If you thought happiness was only an empty hope, maybe you’ve simply been looking in all the wrong places. In this book Dr. Jeremiah reveals the way to the happiness you have longed for, the never-dimming light of your fondest dreams.
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Your Comeback Interactive Workbook (Workbook)
$9.99Add to cartYou May Be Down, but You’re Not Out!
Your future can include an amazing comeback story! This companion to Dr. Tony Evans’s Your Comeback DVD is perfect for individual or group study.
Find inspiration from biblical underdogs and modern-day sports heroes, and see how God has used those who are less than perfect to accomplish incredible feats. This workbook provides…
*brief passages from Tony’s book Your Comeback
*key points and quotes from the DVD
*questions to promote reflection and conversation
*relevant Scripture passages to read and discuss
*activities for further personal studyLearn to release your feelings of inadequacy and embrace the victory found in hope and redemption. Use this resource to find your purpose and begin your comeback today!
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Unexpected
$25.99Add to cartIs it possible to have peace in an uncertain world? To not only expect the unexpected but embrace it?
Most of us want to have life under control. But God wants us to anticipate the unexpected with a faith deeply rooted in his goodness. He wants us to know that because he is in control, we don’t have to be.
In Unexpected, beloved author Christine Caine helps us walk into the life God has for us–unknowns and all. Using dramatic examples from her own journey, Christine offers real-life strategies and biblical inspiration to help us move from fear and worry about ourselves to hope and trust in God. As we learn new ways to manage disappointment, strengthen our hearts, and build our faith, we can enjoy a new adventure with God that is more fulfilling than any day we spend trying to anticipate what will happen next.
Stepping into our God-given destiny means stepping into the unknown, but we can embrace that calling because God knows it already. Nothing in our lives takes God by surprise. So even in the midst of personal upheaval, relational challenges, financial stresses, family transitions, career disappointments, and chaotic world affairs, we can expect God to be good and do good. What other expectation do we need to have? Listen to God’s dare to trust him in every unknown of your life today.
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This Is My Body
$14.99Add to cartKneeling at the communion rail, Hannah Shanks heard the familiar words “The body of Christ, broken for you” as the server tore off a piece of bread and placed it in her hands. And then “The blood of Christ, shed for you” as she dipped her bread into the common cup. Just hours before she had found out she was pregnant. Now she heard the words “This is my body” as she’d never heard them before.
It occurred to her that Jesus’ words spoken at the Last Supper”This is my body, broken; This is my blood poured out”-were as fitting a description of birth as they are of death. Not only do the words describe Jesus’ death, but they also apply to every birth that has ever taken place. Making this connection shifted Shanks’s thinking about the familiar ritual of communion.
This Is My Body is a journey of discovery and reclamation, of finding familiar paths in unfamiliar territory and new facets to ancient rituals. Part personal narrative and part unearthing of scripture passages from a woman’s point of view, it draws women and men closer to the God we profess, a God who is in all things, a God who is present in all genders and beyond them. Readers discover that God can be seen through the eyes, bodies, and experiences of women just as God has long been viewed from a male perspective. Using the communion liturgy and elements of the common table (where all are welcome) as a framework, the book offers much material for reflection on this central act of Christianity.
This Is My Body is about getting surprised by positivity toward one’s body in a time of life when negativity is expected. It is about finding a new relationship to the acts of Christian community through the experience of a woman’s body, including pregnancy and birth. The author approaches motherhood with one foot in the sacred and the other in the often difficult space of the stereotypes the church attaches to mothering.
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Faith Among The Faithless
$18.99Add to cartAcclaimed writer and pastor Mike Cosper provides Christians with a surprising guide for living in a secular culture by looking at the story of Esther–a tale of evil, awakened faith, and hope of good in a world where God seems absent.
How can Christianity survive in a secular world? How can Christians live without compromise in an increasingly hostile society? And what if we have already been shaped by the culture around us in harmful, soul-destroying ways?
Faith Among the Faithless provides answers by drawing parallels between our world and the story of Esther. Far from the gentle cartoon stories we heard in Sunday school, the book of Esther is a brutal tale of people assimilated into a pluralistic, pagan society who discover its murderous underbelly and turn to God in a moment of courage and crisis. A story of sex, ego, and revenge, the book of Esther reveals a world where God seems absent from everyday life–a world not unlike our own.
Faith Among the Faithless helps readers see themselves in the very human character of Esther, discovering that like her we have an enemy who plots against us. A call to spiritual awakening and to faith and courage in an age of malaise and apathy, Faith Among the Faithless is an invitation to remembrance and presence, knowing that in our dark times God may be hidden, but he is never absent.
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Divine Direction : 7 Decisions That Will Change Your Life
$19.99Add to cartMaster the decisions that will make your life everything God wants it to be. Every day we make choices. And those choices accumulate and eventually become our life story. What would your life look like if you became an expert at making those choices?
In this inspiring guidebook, New York Times bestselling author Craig Groeschel shows how the choices that are in your power, if aligned with biblical principles, will lead to a life you’ve never imagined.Divine Direction will help you seek wisdom through seven principles. You’ll consider one thing to stop that’s hindering you; how to start a new habit to re-direct your path; where you should stay committed; and when you should go even if it’s easier to stay. The book also includes criteria that will help you feel confident in the right choice, and encourages you with principles for trusting God with your decisions. What story do you want to tell about yourself? God is dedicated to the wonderful plan he’s laid out for you. The achievable and powerful steps in Divine Direction take you there one step at a time, big, or small.
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Apostles Creed : A Guide To The Ancient Catechism
$18.99Add to cartDo you believe?
Today, we’re flooded with opinions and ideas. And they all might be interesting, but are they true? Would you die for them?
Benjamin Myers re-introduces the Apostles’ Creed, helping us to see how difficult and counter-cultural the Creed really is. It doesn’t give us sweet, empty words. It’s a faith that demands we die so that we might live.
In the early church, many converts died for their faith so they needed to have a good idea what they might die for. Early church pastors and theologians used the Apostles’ Creed as the essential guide to the basics of the Christian life.
The Apostles’ Creed has united Christians from different times, different places, and different traditions. The truths proclaimed in the Creed are eternal.
Will you trust them?
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Mentoring : Biblical Theological And Practical Perspectives
$34.99Add to cartPositive mentoring relationships are essential to the formation of strong Christian leaders. This simple truth is often held as self-evident, but why? How can theological and biblical insights inform mentoring relationships? And what do these vital relationships look like across a range of Christian experience?
Opening multiple angles of vision on the practice of mentoring, Dean K. Thompson and D. Cameron Murchison have assembled an eminent group of scholars to reflect on these and other pressing questions. With contributions from twenty-one remarkable writers, this broad-ranging volume explores mentoring in biblical and theological perspective, within the context of diverse national and international communities, and across generations.
CONTRIBUTORS:
David L. Bartlett
Walter Brueggemann
Katie Geneva Cannon
Thomas W. Currie
Cristian De La Rosa
Jill Duffield
Elizabeth Hinson Hasty
Luke Timothy Johnson
Kwok Pui Lan
Thomas G. Long
Melva Lowry
Martin E. Marty
Rebekah Miles
D. Cameron Murchison
Camille Cook Murray
Rodger Nishioka
Douglas Ottati
Alton B. Pollard III
Cynthia L. Rigby
Dean K. Thompson
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Better Than Yesterday
$24.99Add to cartWe all aspire to be better. Yet, as much as we try, we find ourselves trapped in a prison of yesterday’s sorrows, taunted by our past and dwelling on the saddest words “if only.” If you desire to move from a life of rejection to acceptance, want your todays to exceed your yesterdays, and journey to a brighter future, this book is for you.
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Better Than Yesterday
$32.99Add to cartEveryone aspires to be better. Yet, as much as people try, they find themselves trapped in a prison of yesterday’s sorrows, taunted by the past, and dwelling on the saddest words “if only.” This work is for those who wish to move from a life of rejection to acceptance, and those who want their todays to exceed their yesterdays.
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Living Out Of The Christ Within You
$10.99Add to cartA Streetlamp Publishers Title
One of the least taught subjects from the Bible is what it means to be a new creation in Christ, yet for the Christian it is one of the most important. ‘Living Out of The Christ Within
You’ is a 30-day devotional that helps bring clarity regarding the spiritual identity of the individual who has put their faith in Jesus Christ. It is as the follower of Jesus begins to understand their new identity, that they become better equipped to re-present Him to the world around them. -
40 Day Feast For Your Soul
$11.95Add to cartThe 40 Day Feast for Your Soul is specifically designed to help people who sense the call to a deeper place of purpose, direction and meaning.
Waiting inside are 10 dishes to help reconnect your mind, will and emotions and align them in a meaningful way, guided by the timeless wisdom of scripture. The dishes are simple, yet effective.
Five of these dishes will nourish and strengthen your souls foundations. They are based on forgiveness, thankfulness, memorization, reading and prayer.
The other five dishes will positively impact the people around you, inspiring others and transforming yourself. They are based on encouragement, giving, joy, rest and fasting.
When you adopt these simple dishes into your life, you will not only strengthen your mind, will and emotions, but you will also enjoy a renewed sense of purpose, direction and meaning.
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If You Die Today
$14.99Add to cartDo you believe you will live for eternity? Or do you believe that life on this earth is all there is? Is there anything in this world that will indeed give us true joy? Come along in this compelling read to get some answers to these questions and others you may have about what you are really seeking in this life-and in the life to come!
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Plantation Jesus : Race Faith And A New Way Forward
$29.99Add to cartNot long ago, most white American Christians believed that Jesus blessed slavery. God wasn’t bothered by Jim Crow. Baby Jesus had white skin. Meet Plantation Jesus: a god who is comfortable with bigotry, and an idol that distorts the message of the real Savior. That false image of God is dead, right? Wrong, argue the authors of Plantation Jesus, an authoritative new book on one of the most urgent issues of our day. Through their shared passion for Jesus Christ and with an unblinking look at history, church, and pop culture, authors Skot Welch and Rick Wilson detail the manifold ways that racism damages the church’s witness. Together Welch and Wilson take on common responses by white Christians to racial injustice, such as “I never owned a slave,” “I don’t see color; only people,” and “We just need to get over it and move on.” Together they call out the church’s denials and dodges and evasions of race, and they invite readers to encounter the Christ of the disenfranchised. With practical resources and Spirit-filled stories, Plantation Jesus nudges readers to learn the history, acknowledge the injury, and face the truth. Only then can the church lead the way toward true reconciliation. Only then can the legacy of Plantation Jesus be replaced with the true way of Jesus Christ.
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More Than These
$15.99Add to cartMore Than These: A Woman’s Love for God addresses the question that every woman who desires to walk with God must face. How can a woman love God as she should and keep the rest of her life in its proper place? Innumerable responsibilities fill her life and seek to take control of her time, energy, and focus. In spite of her best intentions, these worthy concerns can slip into a place of prominence in her heart-a place only God deserves. These people and situations that capture her love can quickly become idols when priorities go unchecked.
More Than These: A Woman’s Love for God addresses the issue of a woman’s love for God. Each chapter considers a different aspect of a woman’s life that can become an idol-family, friends, possessions, fears, accomplishments, etc. More Than These: A Woman’s Love for God clearly presents biblical truths and personal illustrations to teach why a woman must surrender these areas to the Lord for Him to remain her ultimate love. Women are searching for the secret to balancing their lives. More Than These: A Woman’s Love for God declares that loving God supremely is the answer.
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Plantation Jesus : Race, Faith, And A New Way Forward
$16.99Add to cartNot long ago, most white American Christians believed that Jesus blessed slavery. God wasn’t bothered by Jim Crow. Baby Jesus had white skin. Meet Plantation Jesus: a god who is comfortable with bigotry, and an idol that distorts the message of the real Savior.
That false image of God is dead, right? Wrong, argue the authors of Plantation Jesus, an authoritative new book on one of the most urgent issues of our day.
Through their shared passion for Jesus Christ and with an unblinking look at history, church, and pop culture, authors Skot Welch and Rick Wilson detail the manifold ways that racism damages the church’s witness. Together Welch and Wilson take on common responses by white Christians to racial injustice, such as “I never owned a slave,” “I don’t see color; only people,” and “We just need to get over it and move on.” Together they call out the church’s denials and dodges and evasions of race, and they invite readers to encounter the Christ of the disenfranchised.
With practical resources and Spirit-filled stories, Plantation Jesus nudges readers to learn the history, acknowledge the injury, and face the truth. Only then can the church lead the way toward true reconciliation. Only then can the legacy of Plantation Jesus be replaced with the true way of Jesus Christ.
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Soul Force : Seven Pivots Toward Courage, Community, And Change
$16.99Add to cartHow can we harness the energy for change that lives in each of us? How can we maximize our power to pivot from fear to freedom and from hurt to hope? How can we bring fullness of life to our communities and our souls?
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Under Cover : Why Your Response To Leadership Determines Your Future (Revised)
$19.99Add to cartTo walk in true spiritual authority, a believer must be submitted to God’s sovereign authority. In this book, John Bevere shows readers how submission to this divine order grants the Kingdom’s provision and protection.
John uses his personal mistakes to illustrate riveting truths about repentance and forgiveness. As he focuses on the true authority of God, he is careful to explain by example the important difference between “submission” and “obedience.” The same struggle with divine authority is also represented through the lives of John the Baptist, the Apostle Paul, and other biblical figures.
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30 Virtues That Build A Man
$10.99Add to cartMen are a strategic force for change in the world, but they have an enemy, and it’s not what you think.
It’s apathy.
It is the appeal of inaction that lies within every man’s heart. When we build better men, we build better homes, marriages, workplaces, and churches. When one man gets better, everyone gets better.
So let’s build better men.
Each of the thirty easy-to- use lesson guides includes the B.U.I.L.D. process and is perfect for men of all ages to use in private reflection or mentoring conversations with other men.
? Begin with the goal.
? Unpack your thoughts.
? Inform through the Bible.
? Land on action steps.
? Do one action for one week.
This book is a plan–a method and a process that results in spiritual payoff. -
Play The Man
$17.99Add to cartSomewhere along the way, our culture lost its definition of manhood, leaving generations of men and men-to-be confused about their roles, responsibilities, relationships, and the reason God made them men. It’s into this “no man’s land” that New York Times bestselling author Mark Batterson declares his mantra for manhood: play the man.
In this inspiring call to something greater, he helps men understand what it means to be a man of God by unveiling seven virtues of manhood. Mark shares inspiring stories of manhood, including the true story of the hero and martyr Polycarp, who first heard the voice from heaven say, “Play the man.” Mark couples those stories with practical ideas about how to disciple the next generation of men. This is more than a book; it’s a movement of men who will settle for nothing less than fulfilling their highest calling to be the man and the father God has destined them to be.
Play the man. Make the man.
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Eyewitness To Miracles
$16.99Add to cartGod continues to perform miracles today! Randy Clark provides first hand accounts of a variety of miracles witnessed and gives reasons to be confident that miracles still happen.
People often say “I will believe it when I see it.” It is this desire to show the miraculous with which Randy Clark begins his latest book. In addition to testimonials of others, pictures, and videos, Randy covers his own personal experiences with the supernatural miracles encountered all over the world.
After thoroughly chronicling the numerous miracles witnessed, Randy then delves into the problems related to miracles. Randy refutes typical worldviews regarding miracles and presents arguments for miracles happening today. The book concludes with a review of opportunities to grow in the supernatural realm of ministries and invites the reader to look for opportunities to be used by God in a supernatural way.
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Unashamed : Drop The Baggage Pick Up Your Freedom Fulfill Your Destiny
$18.99Add to cartShame takes on many forms. It hides in the shadows of the most successful, confident, and high-achieving woman who struggles with balancing her work and children, as well as in the heart of the broken, abused, and downtrodden woman who has been told that she will never amount to anything. Shame hides in plain sight and holds us back in ways we do not realize. But Christine Caine wants readers to know something: we can all be free.
“I know. I’ve been there,” writes Christine. “I was schooled in shame. It has been my constant companion from my very earliest memories. I see shame everywhere I look in the world, including in the church. It creeps from heart to heart, growing in shadowy places, feeding on itself so that those struggling with it are too shamed to seek help from shame itself.”
In Unashamed, Christine reveals the often-hidden consequences of shame-in her own life and the lives of so many Christian women-and invites you to join her in moving from a shame-filled to a shame-free life.
In her passionate and candid style, Christine leads you into God’s Word where you will see for yourself how to believe that God is bigger than your mistakes, your inadequacies, your past, and your limitations. He is not only more powerful than anything you’ve ever done but also stronger than anything ever done to you. You can deal with your yesterday today, so that you can move on to what God has in store for you tomorrow-a powerful purpose and destiny he wants you to fulfill.
Join the journey. Lay ahold of the power of Jesus Christ today and step into the future-his future for you-a beautiful, life-giving future, where you can even become a shame-lifter to others. Live unashamed!
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Heading Home With Jesus
$14.99Add to cartThousands of Chinese students visit our churches and join Christian activities. Many even say they have become Christians while abroad. Some go on to make great contributions to Chinese church and society. Sadly, however, many fall away after they return to China. Debbie Philip has visited hundreds of returnees. She offers a new perspective for understanding what happens when Chinese students encounter Christians abroad and what needs to happen if they are to continue following Christ after returning home. The life stories, illustrations, and suggestions in this book will help you understand and support Chinese returnees better as they prepare to go home.
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Your Comeback : Your Past Doesnt Have To Determine Your Future
$16.99Add to cartMoses Was a Murderer…
Rabab was a harlot….
Jacob lied…
Jonah rebelled…
Esther was a diva.These and other Bible heroes were far from perfect. They failed, they sinned, they deceived…and yet each of them had a dramatic comeback and were used of God beyond their richest imagination. The Bible isn’t the only source of “comeback” stories. Life is full of such dramatic turnarounds. Whether it’s a sports team coming from behind to win an upset or a late blooming student who wins the scholarship, or….your life story, God delights in arranging for comebacks.
Like the Biblical and contemporary examples told in The Comeback, your future can include an amazing comeback story. Popular pastor and Bible teacher, Dr. Tony Evans offers hope by pointing you to the good news that God loves to use less than perfect people. If you’re less than perfect, you qualify!
“It is definitely not too late for you. God has a purpose, a destiny, and a goal for your life. Don’t go backward on Him now. You’ve come too far. You can’t change your past regardless of how much you may want to. But your past does not have to determine your future.” Dr. Tony Evans
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Unbound : Finding Freedom From Unrealistic Expectations Of Motherhood
$19.99Add to cartIn UNBOUND, Jamie Sumner gives a hope-filled voice to the silent ones, the women in the Christian community whose picture of motherhood is strained by difficulty, otherness, and even despair. She helps women find hope and companionship by detailing her own difficult journey and highlighting women from the Bible who triumphed in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds.
Women, especially Christian women, do not talk enough about the reality of motherhood: the enormous struggles it takes to get there, the loneliness of it, the unspoken or unmet expectations. We are often too afraid, ashamed, or unwilling to share our stories of disillusionment or pain. We quietly absorb the posts of sonograms and happily messy houses on Facebook as we inwardly wonder what’s the matter with us. We listen to friends coo about their child’s latest success as we watch our own terrorize their sibling or scream for an hour. We struggle to raise kids with special needs, physical disabilities, and social challenges, caught by surprise that this is what motherhood looks like.
With honesty and vulnerability, Jamie Sumner walks readers through each chapter of her own journey to motherhood through infertility and special needs parenting and pairs it with that of a woman in the Bible so that readers can find comfort, hope, companionship and honesty rooted in biblical truths.
The book is broken into four parts: The Wanting, The Waiting, The Getting and The Appreciating. UNBOUND will share the heartbreak of infertility and offer encouragement from someone who has had to wait for the fulfillment of motherhood; detail the specifics of infertility treatments, miscarriage, and raising special needs children through a Christian lens; honestly discuss the expectations versus the reality of being a mother; and highlight specific biblical women in each chapter who did not fit the expectations of their times through verses, scriptural anecdotes and guiding questions.
UNBOUND shows you through Scripture how to be thankful for each step wherever it leads. Happiness is found as we release into His hands our own well-laid plans for His better, and more beautiful one, no matter how different it may look from what we first imagined.
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Educando Hijos Del Reino – (Spanish)
$13.99Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of Kingdom Man and Kingdom Woman, Raising Kingdom Kids equips parents to raise their children with a Kingdom perspective and also offers practical how-to advice on providing spiritual training as instructed in Scripture.
Dr. Tony Evans begins with an overarching look at the need for Kingdom parenting, our roles and responsibilities in raising God-following children, and how to prepare children to take on the assignments God has for their lives. He then takes a practical turn, with examples and illustrations to help parents understand and provide specific training for kids in the power of prayer, wisdom, loving God’s Word, getting through trials, controlling their tongues, developing patience, the surrender of service, and much more.
This book is for every dad or mom who wants to fulfill the parenting role God has given them-not just in raising healthy kids intellectually, physically, and socially, but in contributing to their child’s relationship with God and alignment under His plan.
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Suddenly Single : Rebuilding Your Life After Divorce
$16.99Add to cartThis compassionate guide through grief, fears, and the challenges of divorce encourages readers to see this painful time as potentially one of the most powerful.
Kathey Batey understands the trauma of going through a divorce. In Suddenly Single, she guides readers who have experienced divorce in how to:
*Grieve the past and learn God has a future for them;
*Develop a network of experts for legal, financial, spiritual, and emotional needs;
*Navigate parenting decisions;
*Give structure and protection in fragmented relationships; and
*Embrace God’s comfort in the midst of deep pain.Divorce is not the end of the story. Suddenly Single comes alongside readers to help them move forward into life a full of possibility.
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Just Open The Door
$16.99Add to cartFor many of us women, inviting people into our lives and homes feels like inviting judgement of our entertaining skills and stress on our already maxed-out schedules. But what if you knew that opening your front door was a simple and radical way to change the world? Just Open the Door is for seasoned hosts, nervous newbies, and everyone in between. It is a personal yes-you-can invitation. Through Jen’s hilarious fails, personal tales, and practical tips, you’ll start to see your home as the most likely location for changing the world around you.
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Finding Favor : Gods Blessings Beyond Health Wealth And Happiness
$12.00Add to cartForeword
Introduction
1. God’s Favor
2. Involuntary Perseverance
3. Holy Discontent
4. Intentional Obscurity
5. Supernatural Provision
6. Bodily Affliction
7. Interpersonal Intervention
8. Redemptive Poverty
9. Divine Confirmation
10. Strategic Failure
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
NotesAdditional Info
Why settle for success when you can have God’s favor?Deep down everyone wants God’s best for their lives-also known as God’s favor. Unfortunately, most of the time we don’t feel “favored” when we’re being “blessed.” It takes perspective to recognize what’s going on. God often uses confusing, painful, and counterintuitive measures to bring us his best in our lives. God is always working for our good, even though we may not recognize it at the time.
We want immediate success and easy positive results. God wants long-term transformation. Pastor Brian Jones weaves together stories and Scripture to help readers find God’s favor in their own lives.
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Resist And Persist
$20.00Add to cartOver the past few decades, the roles women play in public life have evolved significantly, as have the pressures that come with needing to do it all, have it all, and be all things to all people. And with this progress, misogyny has evolved as well. Today’s discrimination is more subtle and indirect, expressed in double standards, microaggressions, and impossible expectations. In other ways, sexism has gotten more brash and repulsive as women have gained power and voice in the mainstream culture.
Patriarchy is still sanctioned by every institution: capitalism, government, and even-maybe especially-the church itself. This is perhaps the ultimate irony-that a religion based on the radical justice and liberation of Jesus’ teachings has been the most complicit part of the narrative against women’s equality. If we are going to dial back the harmful rhetoric against women and their bodies, the community of faith is going to have to be a big part of the solution.
Pastor and author Erin Wathen navigates the complex layers of what it means to be a woman in our time and place-from the language we use to the clothes that we wear to the unseen and unspoken assumptions that challenge our full personhood at every turn. Resist and Persist reframes the challenges to women’s equality in light of our current culture and political climate, providing a new language of resistance that can free women and men from the pernicious power of patriarchy.
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Audacious Molly Bruno
$19.99Add to cartMeet Molly Bruno, the real-life prayer warrior who inspired the character “Miss Clara” of War Room. She will change the way you look at prayer forever!
THE AUDACIOUS MOLLY BRUNO, written by her daughter Marie Armenia, is a holy and hilarious mentoring resource for women who desperately long for wisdom from a Godly mother-someone who is a living example of practical experience and steadfast faith. It is also a wakeup call for older women of faith, encouraging them to embrace the calling of Titus 2:3-5 to mentor younger women about what’s truly important in life.
“When I think of my mother’s prayers,” author Marie writes, “I remember the prayer she prayed every morning without fail, ‘Lord, please send someone my way today that I can tell about you.’ Everyone (and I mean everyone) who met Molly Bruno fell in love with her. This includes the Kendrick Brothers, who wrote and directed the film War Room. During filming of the movie, they met Molly, calling her the modern-day Ms. Clara of War Room. She inspired them, just like she inspired everyone around her. When she prayed, she got answers.
Molly lived a lifetime of believing she could boldly approach the very throne of God ‘with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.’ My mother didn’t teach me how to pray any more than she taught me how to breathe. I saw her pray REAL prayers, using REAL words addressed to a REAL God. I learned by observing my mother’s prayer life that the last thing on earth that should be edited is a prayer. Shameless audacity. Those words remind me of my mother’s approach to prayer. She had no fear of God’s displeasure or that He might scold her for asking for impossible things. She had no need to edit her heart to the One she loved. She knew He knew her heart. Having settled this between herself and God, she asked. And asked again. And got incredible answers time and time again.”
THE AUDACIOUS MOLLY BRUNO is about a woman who offered hope and joy and light to every single person she met.
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Winning The Worry Battle
$16.99Add to cartHave you ever tried to fight worry with faith and felt you were losing the battle? Have comments like “God’s got this!” or “Just pray about it” only left you feeling more burdened? We know we shouldn’t worry, but the reality is that we all do at times. Whether it’s personal worries about loved ones and daily circumstances or broader concerns about what’s happening in the world, we long for something more than platitudes that will help us put real feet to our faith and win the worry battle. Many Christians do not have a full understanding of what it means to fight the good fight of faith. They try to live by faith but in the face of everyday trials and failures, they find themselves disillusioned and discouraged, wondering if they have done something wrong or if living by faith only works for others. The problem for most is simply a lack of understanding regarding what faith is and how it works. This book, inspired by the Book of Joshua, reviews three tools a person can develop to Fight In Faith: 1) embracing God’s promises, 2) courage and commitment under pressure and 3) practicing radical obedience while waiting for God to deliver your victory. Just as God gave His people victory over their enemies when they fought in faith, He promises to do the same for us. Following the footprints of bold, courageous faith that God gave His people, we’ll be equipped with tools to bravely fight in faith and overcome both our daily struggles and the bigger battles we all face. Through examples of how God gave the Israelites victory over their enemies and generously blessed them, too, we’ll be victorious in our fight of faith so that we not only radically transform our own lives but unequivocally impact society.
