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Having A Mary Heart In A Martha World
$17.00Add to cartEver feel that no matter how hard you try, it’s never enough? Maybe it’s time to follow Mary’s example: leave the dishes in the sink and sit at Jesus’ feet! Through practical strategies and devotional illustrations, Weaver explains how “living room intimacy” with Christ is the key to successful “kitchen service” in the world.
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More Than Rubies
$13.99Add to cartWomen have an essential impact on the atmosphere of the home. They influence the degree of their husband’s success, the level of happiness in the family, and even the spiritual condition of the family.
More than Rubies will help women insure that their impact in their home is a good one. Debra White Smith provides principles for being a woman of godly influence and raising a family in the way of the Lord.144 pages.
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E M Bounds On Prayer
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7 Parts In 96 ChaptersAdditional Info
E. M. BOUNDS ON PRAYER
Prayer that gets resultsPrayer is the Christian’s lifeline to God, and with it lives are changed for eternity! E.M. Bounds knew the secrets of prayer and that God has established divine principles and promises for our every need. He reveals these principles and illustrates how God has answered the prayers of men and women since the beginning of Bible times. He also uncovers how you can…
– Have direct communication with God
– Maintain a prayer life that produces results
– Overcome Satan and his hold on prayer
– Obtain all that God has for you
– Discover all the possibilities of prayerSince the time of the apostles, no man besides E. M. Bounds has left such a rich inheritance of biblical research into the life of prayer. Here are teachings that form the only effective barrier against the powers of evil that prevail throughout the present world. Through his writings, you will discover how you can have a totally effective prayer life and how you can know the fullness of divine power.
“Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.”
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Lighten Up : Great Stories From One Of Americas Favorite Storytellers
$16.99Add to cartKen Davis is a very funny guy. And as his friends and family will tell you, he’s also a very wise one. After all, who but a wise guy would blow the toilet in his new home to smithereens with an M-80 firecracker? Or end up in a hotel lobby wearing nothing but strawberry underwear and the latest addition of USA Today? Only Ken Davis could pull these stranger than life stories together and use them to drive home insights that cut to the heart of Christ-like living. Because Ken, being Ken, knows what human fallibility is all about. He knows how tough we adults can be on ourselves. He knows how hard we try to appear more together than we really are. And to all of us, he offers two words of very solid wisdom: LIGHTEN UP! Ken’s hilarious and touching stories underscore one simple, encouraging theme: God’s grace is for you. You’re not perfect, but you are perfectly loved by God. So take heart. God doesn’t just love you, he enjoys you. No reason you shouldn’t, too.
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Beyond The Broken Lights
$14.00Add to cartPreface
Prologue: Beyond The Broken Lights
Chapter 1. New Light
Chapter 2. The Weight Of Pain
Chapter 3. Living In The Gap: Between What We Dreamed And What We Got
Chapter 4. Why Doesn’t God Do More?
Chapter 5. The Stumbling Children Of Abraham
Chapter 6. To Know The Will Of God
Chapter 7. The Wide Reach Of Pentecost
Chapter 8. The Theology Of Extremity
Chapter 9. Living In The Gap: Between The Sacred And The Ordinary
Chapter 10. Sinners In The Hands Of An Aching God
Chapter 11. Let Those Angels Breathe
Chapter 12. Jesus And God – A Raid On The Inarticulate
Chapter 13. Jesus And Paul – In That Order
Chapter 14. If Jesus Came To Town
Chapter 15. Living In The Gap: Between Jesus And The Church
Chapter 16. Altars To The WindAdditional Info
Taking its title from a line of a poem written by Alfred Tennyson, Beyond the Broken Lights is a thoughtful and inviting look at our questions and the need for clarity in the depths of the mystery of God. Like Tennyson, we cannot find satisfactory explanations, complete resolutions, or simple take-it-or-leave-it answers. Instead, our systems of theological position, conventional wisdom, and standard orthodoxy have their day and then cease to be. They can be described as “broken lights.”Poole examines these broken lights, and tells us that since there are no other lights – no perfect, seamless, unbroken lights that human words can shine on sacred truth – it is the broken lights that become precious to us. These are the lights by which we live. Poole warns, however, that we must not clutch them too tightly lest we cut ourselves on them, or wave them, lest we injure someone; because, after all, they are broken lights.
Beyond these broken lights is God, somewhere past the place where words run out. The words that wait their turn inside this book seek to recover something that was before the broken lights, and they long to glimpse something that is beyond the broken lights.
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I Gave Dating A Chance
$14.99Add to cartIn recent years, “dating” has become a dirty word in many Christian circles. So dirty, in fact, that young believers are now encouraged simply not to date. This position has provoked an open debate among teens, their parents and youth workers, and single adults. For a great number of them, many questions remain unanswered.
-“Lord, what do I do with this desire to date?”
-“Can dating be an option for young adults who love the Lord and long to please Him?”Is not dating really the only acceptable option in God’s eyes? The answer, assures author and youth pastor Jeramy Clark, is a resounding “No!”
The time has come for a sound, biblical, and practical approach that balances out the extreme perspectives: dating without responsibility versus a complete withdrawal from the dating process. Learn how you can confidently pursue healthy dating relationships that are characterized by holiness and integrity–and ultimately bring glory and honor to God–in I Gave Dating a Chance.
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Here I Am Again Lord
$13.99Add to cartHave you ever asked yourself, “Will I ever feel in my heart what I know in my head? Am I keeping the main thing, the main thing?” Warm hearted and vulnerable, Carole Mayhall talks about the truths God has to remind her of over and over again. Here I Am Again, Lord reminds readers that growing in God’s character and stature is a lifelong task.
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Integrity : Living The Truth (Student/Study Guide)
$12.99Add to cart1. Imitate Jesus – Mark 10:32-45
2. Keep Commitments – Hosea 1:1–2:1;3
3. Cultivate Endurance – Job 1:1–2:10
4. Speak Truth – Genesis 20
5. Practice Self-Control – Judges 16
6. Respect Your Body – 1 Corinthians 6:12-20
7. Expect Temptation – Genesis 39
8. Guard Your Tongue – James 3:1-12
9. Offer Forgiveness – John 21
10. Trust God – Psalm 25Additional Info
It is considered rude to speak of right and wrong. In such a culture we need to be reminded of the bibical value of integrity. These studies invite us to find contentment in who we are and how we follow God as we become people of integrity. -
Heaven : Finding Our True Home (Student/Study Guide)
$12.99Add to cart1. Preparing A Place
2. The Last Frontier
3. Rapture Ahead
4. Run To Win
5. Practicing Our Praise
6. Welcome To The Party
7. Working For Your Father
8. Looking For A CityAdditional Info
Heaven is hard for us to picture. We think of floating on clouds and playing harps or waling on streets of gold. While we know we want to go there, we are a little nervous about what it will be like. This study provides us with a biblical perspective on heaven-something richer and more exciting than we could even imagine. -
Keeping Hope Alive
$18.99Add to cartIn this fearful and cynical age, when doom and gloomers forecast catastrophe and fear mongers try to get us to hedge our bets on the future with insurance policies and safety nets, we need to rediscover real hope. Lewis Smedes says, “Hope is a native to our spirits as thinking is to our brain. Keep hoping, you keep living. Stop hoping, you start dying.” He shows how hope powers every good thing we accomplish and helps us overcome every bad thing we encounter. He talks about how to keep hope alive in difficult times, discern false hope from true hope, and move beyond worry to trust in God.
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Well Tended Soul
$19.99Add to cart1. How Did Mother Get Into My Mirror?
2. Soul Mirrors: Having Your True Colors Done By Trevor The Terrible
3. Soul Goals
4. Faux Soul
5. Color Me Patient, Color Me Kind
6. It’s Not Easy Being Green
7. Red-Hot Mamas I’ve Known And Been
8. Club Snob
9. A Tree Grows In Wheaton
10. “Younging”
11. Changes And Becomings
12. Transcendence192 Pages
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1. How Did Mother Get Into My Mirror?
2. Soul Mirrors: Having Your True Colors Done By Trevor The Terrible
3. Soul Goals
4. Faux Soul
5. Color Me Patient, Color Me Kind
6. It’s Not Easy Being Green
7. Red-Hot Mamas I’ve Known And Been
8. Club Snob
9. A Tree Grows In Wheaton
10. “Younging”
11. Changes And Becomings
12. Transcendence192 Pages
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Joy In Christs Presence
$16.99Add to cartYou can have an exciting relationship of intimate communion with Christ! In this book, Charles Spurgeon describes the nature of such true fellowship. He also discusses how you can obtain: peace, rest, and joy, healing for your body, complete forgiveness of sins, God’s fullfillment of your needs, the assurance of your salvation, the protection of God, and total freedom from fear.
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Agape Eros Gender
$120.00Add to cartIssues of gender and sexuality have recently come to the fore in all humanities disciplines, and this book reflects this broad interdisciplinary situation. It focuses on issues of gender and sexuality (eros) in the light of the comprehensive divine-human love (agape) which, for the New Testament, lies at the heart of Christian faith and practice. The intention is to outline a distinctively Christian understanding of the male/female relationship reflecting the priority of agape over eros. Key Pauline texts are read alongside modern texts by Virginia Woolf, Freud and Irigaray.
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Kneeling We Triumph 1
$12.95Add to cartFor many years, Edwin and Lillian Harvey edited a Christian paper in Great Britain called The Message of Victory. They also wrote numerous books, the first of which was called The Christian’s Daily Challenge.
Their two books on prayer have come to be regarded as classics on the subject. These two volumes are laid out in the form of sixty-six two-page readings, so that they can be used as a devotional aid in quiet times or at the family altar. These are not “how-to” books on prayer, but rather a collection of challenging writings from spiritual masters down through the ages. The books are intended to give you a shot in the arm–something to spur you on in your prayer life.
Is your prayer life weak? These books are just the thing to get you stirred up to the tremendous opportunities and possibilities that are open to every child of God through the avenue of prayer.
Kneeling We Triumph books one and two have been used by church prayer groups in their regular gatherings as a means of stimulating to deeper, stronger prayer times.
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Called And Committed
$12.99Add to cart223 pages in 12 chapters
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Christ calls us to decisive discipleship but all too often we settle for flabby faith. “The vast majority of Western Christians,” claims David Watson, “are church members, pew-fillers, hymn-singers, sermon-tasters, Bible-readers, even born-again believers or Spirit-filled charismatics, but not true disciples of Jesus. If we were willing to become disciples, the church in the West would be transformed, and the impact on society would be staggering. This is no idle claim; it happened in the first century.”With the international perspective so acutely needed by American Christians, David Watson calls us to build a community of believers who demonstrate Christ’s power, arm themselves for spiritual battle, and demonstrate, by their lifestyle and outreach, their unreserved commitment to Christ’s kingdom. Only then will we be able to change the world.
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Healing Spiritual Abuse
$22.99Add to cartContents
1. An Invitation To Freedom
2. The Seat Of Moses-The Power To Abuse
3. Sniffing Cut The Yeast Of The Pharisees
4. Heavy Loads
5. They Do It For Show
6. Majoring On Minors And Missing The Point
7. Who Gets Hooked And Why
8. Healed By Grace
9. Healthy Church Leadership
10. Healthy Church Discipline
Notes P. 163Additional Info
* Are you discouraged from questioning the decisions or teachings church leaders make?
* If you do little or no volunteer work for the church, do you feel like a second-class Christian?
* Does your pastor insist on being addressed by a title such as “Dr.” or “Pastor”?
* Do you hear many broad, vague appeals to “surrender fully,” yield completely” or “lay it all on the altar”?
* Are public reports about various ministry activities sometimes exaggerated?
* Do church members feel safe talking only about past victories, not present struggles?If you answered yes to any of these questions, you may he a victim of spiritual abuse. Many of us have gone through bad church experiences that have left us feeling like failures. Blaming ourselves, we asked for God’s forgiveness, but still felt distant from the church and sometimes from God too.
Often, however, the fault is not ours but that of Christian leaders who abuse spiritually. How can we recognize the signs of spiritual abuse? What can we do to gain healing from the wounds we have experienced? With clarity and refreshing honesty, Ken Blue answers these questions and offers hope
and healing to the victims of spiritual abuse. In addition he shows Christian leaders how to avoid abusive patterns and instead offer Christ’s gospel of grace to every casualty of bad church experiences. -
Why Do Christians Shoot Their Wounded
$20.99Add to cartPreface
PART I: HOW AND WHY WE SHOOT THE WOUNDED
1 Don’t Shoot! I’m Already Wounded!
2 Why We Wound
3 Can A Spirit-Filled Christian Have Emotional Problems?
PART 11: WHAT CAUSES EMOTIONAL ILLNESS?
4 Ws Not Necessarily “All In Your Mind”
5 It’s Not Necessarily “All In Your Mind,” Continued
6 How Childhood Experiences And Stress Cause
Emotional Illness
7 What About Personal Choice?
8 Putting It All Together
PART III: HOW SHALL THE WOUNDED BE MENDED?
9 The Church: Business, School Or Hospital?
10 How The Strong Can Help-Not Shoot-the Wounded
11 What The Wounded Can Do While The Bullets Are Flying
Appendix: Are Drugs Of The Devil Or Tools For Heating.?Additional Info
Thousands of Christians suffer real emotional pain-such as depression, anxiety, obsessiveness. Many other Christians, including prominent leaders, believe emotional problems are the result of sin or bad choices. These attitudes often only add to the suffering of those who hurt. -
Free In Christ
$18.99Add to cartSet the captives free! You’re about to discover the incredible joy, power, healing and anointing that is yours as a child of God! Pablo Bottari leads you through the steps of preparation for the ministry of deliverance that awaits you. You’ll discover how to help others enjoy complete spiritual freedom.
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Meditations For Vestry Members
$12.95Add to cartWho is this God who seeks us in so many ways, who calls us from our familiar and comfortable places and moves us into new roles? Part of the answer can be found within the Church. We come to know God better by serving as church members and in church ministries. God is present with us and in others all around us as we worship and serve.
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Hospitality The Sacred Art
$16.99Add to cartWe may think of hospitality as merely being polite to guests, but the ancients understood the profound potential hospitality holds for building and transforming lasting relationships-for binding families together, making strangers into friends, even turning enemies into neighbors.
This practical book provides you with the tools you need to cultivate the spiritual power of invitation and welcome in your life. Guided by Rev. Nanette Sawyer, you will discover the qualities of hospitality-receptivity, reverence, and generosity-and how these qualities can significantly deepen your self-understanding as well as your relationships with others and with God. Drawing from sacred texts and spiritual practitioners from all faiths, this book also addresses the major stumbling blocks that prevent you from becoming truly hospitable. -
Following Jesus In The Real World
$19.99Add to cartIn this guidebook for the post-college generation, Richard Lamb deftly blends scriptural insights, stories of recent graduates and his own life experience to offer sound advice and practical encouragement for a confusing time. From jobs to relationships to the ministry, he shows how spiritual growth can continue after you leave the college community.
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Passion For Pilgrimage
$23.95Add to cartUsing literature, art, and biblical texts as illustrations, Jones explores our search for light and love, repentance, and forgiveness in the context of the Passion and Easter stories. Includes study questions at the end of each chapter and makes an excellent group study during Lent or Easter as well as for individuals who would like to understand the Christian journey more deeply.
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Knowing Gods Will (Revised)
$22.99Add to cartHOW DO I RECOGNIZE GOD’S GUIDANCE IN MY LIFE? Is God’s will likely to be the thing I want least to do? Am I expected to think through God’s will? Or will he impress it on me in a supernatural way? Should I put our a “fleece”? How can I find personal guidance in the Bible? Must my motives be perfectly pure? What do I do when others tell me what God wants me to do? When do open and closed doors indicate God’s will, and when don’t they?
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Journeys Of Simplicity
$25.99Add to cartYou are invited to consider a more graceful way of traveling through life. With arresting clarity, Journeys of Simplicity offers vignettes of forty travelers and the few, ordinary things they carried with them-from place to place, from day to day, from birth to death.
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Grow Your Christian Life
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Being a Christian isn’t easy. The world sure isn’t out to help you. Sometimes neither are friends or family. Money, job, studies, bills, career, fun and the future all compete for your time and energy. If God is going to have a say in all this, you’re going to need all the help you can get. That’s where this book comes in. It provides you with a 30-minute daily workout with God. Along the way you’ll get practical hilp with issues you are concerned about like: Work-Persistent Sin-Your Emotions-Sex-Forgiving Others-Why God seems far away at times. And as you keep at it, you’ll be getting in better and better shape as a Christian. And even though you might discover how true “no pain, no gain” is, you’ll find out how wirthwhile the “gain” really is too.
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Adventure : Putting Energy Into Your Walk With God
$30.99Add to cartThe Christian life is an adventure. Every aspect is full of energy and light. Yet too often we stop at one point of interest–evangelism, spiritual disciplines, social justice–and go no further. Interweaving stories from a summer vacation, Jerry Sittser shows how our lives can include all God has in mind for us. In a book that is fun and challenging, Sittser restores wholeness to the adventure of Christian living.
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Families At The Crossroads
$25.99Add to cart1. Postmodernity: A New Battlefield For The War Over The Family
2. The Unnaturalness Of Family
3. Advanced Capitalism And The Lost Art Of Christian Family
4. Church As First Family
5. The Superiority Of Singleness
6. Whose Fidelity? Which Intimacy?
7. Welcoming Children And Other Strangers
8. No Christian Home Is A Haven
170 PagesAdditional Info
IVP Print On Demand Title“Scant decades ago most Westerners agreed that…lifelong monogamy was ideal…mothers should stay home with the children…premarital sex was to be discouraged …heterosexuality was the unquestioned norm…popular culture should not corrupt children. Today not a single one of these expectations is uncontroversial.” So writes Rodney Clapp in assessing the status of the family in postmodern Western society. In response many evangelicals have been quick to defend the so-called traditional family, assuming that it exemplifies the biblical model. Clapp challenges that assumption, arguing that the “traditional” family is a reflection more of the nineteenth-century middle-class family than of any family one can find in Scripture. At the same time, he recognizes that many modern and postmodern options are not acceptable to Christians. Returning to the biblical story afresh, Clapp articulates a challenge to both sides of a critical debate.
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What They Dont Always Teach You At A Christian College
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Prepare your high-school graduates for the challenges that await them as they enter college life! From time management to dating to living for Christ, this relevant resource will help them make faith-full decisions as they face the complex issues of life.
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Yearning
$25.99Add to cartPopluar psychology says we should be fulfilled. Advertisement tease us with dozens of ways we can be fulfilled. Many preachers and books promise Christian fulfillment. Craig Barnes suggests we weren’t created to be whole or complete. With a fresh reading of the early chapters of Genesis, he says that much of our pain and disillusionment arises from wrong expectations of the gospel and of life. Barnes writes for anyone who knows that faith must be tough enough to “hold up in the emergency rooms of life.” But he doesn’t merely help us face reality. He helps us see how our needs and limitations are gifts, the best opportunities we have to receive God’s grace.
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Discipleship Of The Mind
$30.99Add to cartChristians who are serious about their faith want to love God with all that they are-heart and mind and strength. Books abound on the devotional life, on commitment, on evangelism and practical Christian lining, but few take up what it means to love God with our minds. How do we learn to honor God in the ways we think? James Sire blazes a trail for Christians concerned about the discipleship of our minds. After looking at the atitudes toward God and ourselves necessary for the journey, he introduces us to the basics of the Christian world view. Separate chapaters discuss the foundations of knowledge and the relationship between knowing and doing. With an eye to the practical, Sire offers specific suggestions on getting to know what is good and getting to know the world. He also provides valuable insights on how Christians might approach various academic disciplines as disciples of Christ.
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Predestination And Free Will
$28.99Add to cartIf God is in control, are people really free? The Basingers present four views on this thought-provoking question: Bruce Reichenbach on God’s self-limited power, John Feinberg on God’s control through foreordination, Clark Pinnock on God’s self-limited knowledge, and Norman Geisler on God’s control by foreknowledge.
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Disciplined Life
$10.99Add to cartThe door to spiritual maturity can be unlocked by the key of discipline. In the day of easy living, when the cult of comfort yearns for the luxury and ease, here is a straightforward treatment that is vitally needed by everyone who names the name of Christ. The author is both forthright and sympathetic, pratical and yet weaves an a strong idealism.
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Black Mans Religion
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Is Christianity a “white man’s religion?” Keener and Usry say, “absolutely not!” In this extensively researched book, you’ll find the first pro-Christian interpretation of religion and history from a black perspective. Fascinating and compelling, this is must-reading for anyone interested in African-American culture and issues of faith.
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Contemporary Christian
$45.99Add to cartThe Contempory Christian, Applying God’s Word to Today’s World by John Stott from Intervarsity Press is now available in convenient softcover. John Stott makes a trumpet call to all disciples of Christ to be both contemporary and Biblical. The first means to live and move with the times. The second requires that we retain unswerving loyalty to God’s Word. Combining the two is not an easy task. Today people reject Christianity, not because they think it is false, but because they think it is irrelevant. Disciples, he says, can prepare for this task by cultivating a listening ear, embracing both mind and emotions, and finding God’s true guidance. In addition, he sympathetically uncovers the emptiness of secular men and women, demonstrating how the church can meet their quests with the truth and grace of Jesus Christ. John Stott is knwon worldwide as a gifted evangelist, preacher, scholar and Christian statesman. Among his books are Basic Christianity, The Cross of Christ, and Romans.
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Temptations Men Face
$32.99Add to cart1. SET FREE
2. THE TEMPTATION TO BE MACHO
3. THE TEMPTATION OF SEXUAL LUST
4. THE TEMPTATION TO HAVE AN AFFAIR
5. THE TEMPTATION TO WIELD POWER
6. THE TEMPTATION TO LOVE MONEY
7. THE TEMPTATION TO BE PERFECT
8. DELIVERANCE
9. HOW CAN I HELP MY MAN? A CHAPTER FOR WOMENAdditional Info
IVP Print On Demand TitleLike a rushing current in a dark river, temptations flood all around us. Every believer has felt the undertow. And some, even some prominent Christian leaders, have not been able to keep their heads above water.
How can a man stand against these forces? How do men experience common temptations and what can be done about them? Tom Eisenman gives a man’s perspective on these and other tough issues. In straightforward language he honestly discusses the difficulties he and others have had in avoiding common stumbling blocks in the Christian walk. More than that, in a personal and practical way he shows how deliverance is possible even from besetting sins.
He doesn’t stop there. In a chapter for women, he tells how they can keep from contributing to their husband’s problem and suggests what to do when a man resists help. Finally, he offers general strategies for all of us on how to oppose temptation and find freedom from the evil that binds us.
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Christian Spirituality : Five Views Of Santification
$25.99Add to cartThe nature of Christian Spirituality has been widely debated throughout the history of the church. The doctrine of sanctification was one of the main fissures separating Luther from the Catholic Church. Even today different groups of Protestant disagree on how we draw closer to God. To answer these questions Donald L. Alexander, professor of biblical theology at Bethel College, has brought together five scholars that represent each of the main historical Protestant traditions. With an introduction by Alexander and responses to each of the main essays by other contributors, this book provides a helpful and stimulating introduction to an important doctrine of the church.
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Disciplemakers Handbook : Helping Pelple Grow In Christ
$28.99Add to cartWhat does a healthy discipling relationship look like? What do you do together? In order to answer these and other questions, Alice Fryling gathered a team of experienced disciplemakers. Together they give us practical help in such ares as: overcoming our fears about discipling others; beginning a discipling relationship; how to be a friend; learning how people change; helping others share their faith. Many chapters include time-tested resources you can use in discipling relationships. A handbook for those who need help and encouragement in reaching out to others.
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Hard Sayings Of Paul
$32.99Add to cartAs even Peter observed, Paul’s letters ”contain some things that are hard to understand.” Brauch tackles forty-eight of them, such as ”Hand this man over to Satan,” and ”I do not permit a woman to teach.” By supplying background information and by putting each passage in the context of the whole of Paul’s teaching, Brauch helps you understand the importance of Paul’s sayings for Christian life today.
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When God Interrupts
$18.99Add to cart1. Losing Our Lives
2. Terrifying Opportunity
3. A Place You’d Rather Not Go
4. Abandoned 17y Success
5. Abandoned By Health
6. Abandoned By Family
7. Abandoned By GodAdditional Info
When you’re facing difficult times and unwanted changes—the death of a loved one, a child leaving home, an illness—doesn’t it seem as though God has moved far away? Barnes wants you to understand that the opposite is true. He promises hope without denying despair by showing that God is always right at your side—even in the middle of unwanted change. -
Commitment : 6 Studies Based On My Heart Christs Home (Adapted)
$12.99Add to cart1. The Study/Philippians 4:4-9
2. The Dining Room/] John 2:1 5 -1 7
3. The Living Room/1 John.]:] -7
4. The Recreation Room/John 2:1 -1 1
5. The Bedroom/Proverbs 5:1 A’-21
6. The Hall Closet/Psalm 1 3 9:1 -6, 2 3 -2 4Additional Info
Moving from room to room with him, we discover what he desire for us. Are we prepared to meet with him daily in our living rooms in our recreation room? in the study? What about that dark closet that needs cleaning out?These studies will take you through six of the rooms of your heart, helping you to see aspects of your Christian life as Jesus sees them. You will be stretched and enriched by your personal meetings
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Powers Of Darkness
$30.99Add to cartThe last two decades have witnessed a vast upsurge in occult activity. Scores of popular books have warned Christians of the dangers and urged them to do battle against these spiritual forces. Few books, however, have developed a careful biblical theology on demons, principalities and powers. Clinton Arnold seeks to fill this gap, providing an in-depth look at Paul’s letters and what they teach on the subject. For perspective, he examines first-century Greek, Roman and Jewish beliefs as well as Jesus’ teaching about magic, sorcery and divination. Arnold contends that the New Testament view is that principalities and powers are organized, personal beings which Jesus defeated at the cross and will bring into full subjection at his return. Arnold also suggests practical ways in which Christians today can contend with the forces of evil.
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Basic Discipleship
$25.99Add to cartBasic Dicipleship explains what it means for Christ to be Lord of your life. The author discusses why it is important and how it happens by laying the basic building blocks that can last our whole lives. Some topics include, living under Christ’s Lordship, remaining faithful, finding God’s will turning away from sin, nuturing humility, plus more.
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Soul Gardening : Cultivating The Good Life
$16.00Add to cartOpen the gate to the garden of your own soul. Learn to be present. Cultivate appreciation for the ordinary gifts of grace, the value of solitude, the art of listening, and the healing power of nature. Terry Hershey’s stories will lead your to nurture your soul and renew your sense of what it means to live “the good life.”
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Sold Out
$19.99Add to cartFrom Promise Keepers founder Bill McCartney, Sold Out is a roadmap describing how to live a disciplined life with eternal values in mind. By tapping into God’s transforming power, men can become man enough to make a difference in this world. Includes insights on marriage and relationships from his wife, Lyndi McCartney.
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Priorities : 6 Studies Based On Tyranny Of The Urgent (Adapted)
$12.99Add to cart1. Urgent Demands/Exodus 18:13-24
2. Seeking God’s Priorities/Mark 1:21-39
3. Another Painful Decision/John 11:17-44
4. Community Guidance/Acts 5:33-6:7
5. Life Under New Management/ 2 Corinthians 5:11-21
6. The Secret Of Success John 8:26-38Additional Info
Every week we leave a trail of unfinished tasks. Unanswered letters, unvisited friends and unread books haunt our waking moments. We desperately need releif.These studies are designed to help you put your life back in order by discovering what is really important. Find out what God’s priorities are for you.
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SoulWinning : A Classic On Biblical Christianity (Revised)
$16.99Add to cartSoulwinning is the energizing, ennobling life. We have put into practice the truths shared in this book. For well over a half-century in more than eighty nations, we have communicated the good news publicly, out where the poeple are, addressing audiences of 20,000 to 300,000 people.
Discover the secret, the pleasure, the exhiliration of sharing God’s love in a hurting world. Experience new self-esteem. Winning others, you truly win Christ. Enriching people, your own life is enriched.
-T.L. OsbornI am convinced this is the finest book that my father has yet authored. As a world evangelist, a teacher, a pastor, and a bishop, I know of no other literary work that brings such biblical focus to pastors and leaders, and such practical insight and uplifting self-esteem to Christian believers.
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Peculiar People : The Church As Culture In A Postchristian Society
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Christians feel increasingly useless, argues Rodney Clapp, not because we have nothing to offer a post-Christian society, but because we are trying to serve as “sponsoring chaplains” to a civilization that no longer sees Christianity as necessary to its existence. In our individualistic, technologically oriented, consumer-based culture, Christianity has become largely irrelevant.The solution is not to sentimentally capitulate to the way things are. Nor is it to retrench in an effort to regain power and influence as the sponsor of Western civilization. What is needed is for Christians to reclaim our heritage as a peculiar people, as unapologetic followers of The Way.
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1 New People
$27.99Add to cartIf you are aware of the rich benefits of fellowship that crosses racial lines, but aren’t sure how to make that happen in your church, then this book is for you. Loaded with models from those who have done it, One New People will inspire you to broaden the ministry of your church. With questions to help groups process the material, it will give you everything you need to find the model that fits your situation so you can begin the process of change and growth. And if you are already in a multiethnic church, you’ll find ideas and principles for improving communication, developing new leadership and managing conflict from someone who has been there.
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Truth Is Stranger Than It Used To Be
$26.99Add to cartIn this book the authors survey postmodern culture and philosophy, offering lucid explanations of such difficult theories as deconstruction. They are sympathetic to the postmodern critique, yet believe that a gospel stripped of its modernist trappings speaks a radical world of hope and transformation to our chaotic culture. This book is for those who wonder what postmodernism is and how biblical Christians might best respond.
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Waiting : Finding Hope When God Seems Silent
$24.99Add to cartAre you waiting? For a spouse, for a child, for a new career, for healing, for relief in an unhappy marriage? Patterson uncovers two virtues of waiting patiently: humility and hope. You’ll learn how humility teaches us that we exist for God’s sake, not our own; and how hope assures us that there is something worth waiting for.
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Christian Ethics
$20.99Add to cartPreface
1. Choices
2. Goals
3. Rules
4. Virtues
5. Church
6. Society
Conclusion: Faith And Ethics
Notes
IndexAdditional Info
In this excellent outline of Christian ethics, Robin W. Lovin achieves a balance between the questions and issues which form the core of the study of ethics, and the life situations from which those questions arise.Eschewing a sectarian approach which dismisses other understandings of the moral life, Lovin nonetheless lays claim to a specifically Christian understanding of ethics. He begins with basic Christian convictions about the reality of God and human redemption and weaves these convictions into the fabric of moral concerns that are widely shared in contemporary society. He takes note of the problems that arise when Christians try to act on or enforce their convictions in a pluralistic society and recognizes the variety of theological and moral beliefs that are held within the Christian community, as well as in the wider society.
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Gospel According To Peanuts
$21.00Add to cart1. The Church And The Arts
2. “The Whole Trouble”: Original Sin
3. The Wages Of Sin Is “Aaaughh!”
4. Good Grief?
5. The Hound Of Heaven
6. Concluding Unscientific PostscriptAdditional Info
In this unique, engaging book Robert Short examines the insights to be found in the comic strip “Peanuts” and makes an expanded comment on these wonderfully imaginative parables of our times.Highlighting his remarks with selected cartoons, Short looks at the antics of Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, Linus, et al. from a Christian perspective, revealing a surprisingly prophetic meaning behind their otherwise hilarious activities.
While these lovable cartoon characters have enjoyed an almost unparalleled popularity–becoming pop culture icons of the highest order and entering the global consciousness practically as family members–Short’s book also has found a place in the hearts of many readers, with sales now totaling more than ten million copies.
Whether coming to the book for the first time or taking a second look, a delightful experience awaits in this modern-day guide to the Christian faith, fully illustrated with Peanuts.
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Choices At The Heart Of Technology
$34.95Add to cartWhat really drives the technologies that dominate our modern world? Ruth Conway here brings under scrutiny: the deceptive dreams of development, the masculine “voice and structure” of so much technology, the obsession with control that obliterates both recognition of human fallibility and sensitivity to the needs of “the other,” the inadequacies of technologies that fail to take account of the “wholeness” of life and what might constitute “justice” (right relationships) within the human community and with nature, and the impact of information and communication technologies on our ways of relating to one another.
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Dios Es Relevante – (Spanish)
$14.99Add to cartMany individuals today want to go it alone, without God. Either they feel no need for God, or they don’t want God in their lives_perhaps because of a bad experience with organized religion. Others may have doubts because God seems to be outdated or contrary to current thought. In this book, readers will tackle the difficult but timely question: is God relevant? If not, what are our options? If God is relevant, how? Luis Palau shows how God is a relevant, powerful, personal force that can transform our troubled times and guide us into the coming millennium.
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Real Followers : A Radical Quest To Expose The Pretender Inside Each Of Us
$18.99Add to cartMany Christians, disillusioned with lives of spiritual mediocrity that have been dampened by today’s rampant materialism and cafeteria spirituality, are asking the same question: “Where is the substance that can move our church beyond ho-hum Christianity?” This book shows how an ordinary church can be transformed into a radical community – a fellowship of everyday people who began looking for meaning and searching for authenticity. Michael Slaughter describes a movement that is hooked in various generations, from buster to boomer to builder. This resource also includes discussion questions.
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Love Disconsoled : Meditations On Christian Charity
$129.00Add to cartFew concepts are more central to ethics than love, but none is more subject to varying interpretation. This book explores several theological, philosophical, and literary accounts of love, focusing on how it relates to matters such as freedom and duty. Timothy Jackson also examines two concepts that are fundamental to Biblical ethical discourse–abomination and liberation–and relates these extremes to love, freedom and duty. Throughout this book he defends the moral priority of a distinctive type of love (“agape”), and argues for a realistic ethic of love.
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Clergy Self Care
$30.00Add to cartNationally known for his work and teaching on clergy development, Oswald integrates research and experience into a liberating perspective on the pastoral calling. Discover how imbalances in your physical, emotional, spiritual, and intellectual lives can destroy the very ministry you seek to carry out. Learn what you can do to restore that balance. Packed with self-assessment tools, real-life experiences, and specific self-care strategies.
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Restoring Margin To Overloaded Lives
$16.99Add to cartFeeling pressured by life? Work through the issues that overload you using this interactive guide. Based on Dr. Richard Swenson’s best-selling book Margin and its companion book, The Overload Syndrome. For groups or individuals.
WARNING: SYSTEM FAILURE AHEAD.
Do you feel like you’re living at high speed and things just keep going faster and faster?
Are you finding yourself without the time, money, physical or emotional energy to accomplish the tasks of a given week or month?
Then you’re headed for system failure.Whether you’re facing it now, or want to prevent it, this workbook is for you. Use these eleven lessons to understand load and limits, find balance, and maintain priorities. You-or your small group-will find its intermingled questions, exercises, and quotes applicable additions to Dr. Swenson’s helpful teaching. Based on his best-selling book Margin and related title, The Overload Syndrome, this workbook will be a useful tool for preventing negative stress and restoring margin to your overloaded life.
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Gods Plan For Man
$47.00Add to cartGOD’S PLAN FOR MAN
Throughout nearly sixty years of ministry, Finis Jennings Dake passionately pursued the literal truth of Scripture. God’s Plan for Man contains the very heart of his life’s work.
Originally designed as a correspondence course, God’s Plan for Man is equivalent to a three-year Bible college program. As such, it is highly interactive, intended for serious study.
In this comprehensive volume, Dake unfolds the plans and purposes of God from the eternal past to the eternal future, exploring the details of biblical prophecy and the privileges of life in Christ. He systematically discusses the nature of the Bible, principles of biblical interpretation, the Trinity, and much more. Yet God’s Plan for Man isn’t filled with a lot of dry information appealing only to the intellect. Rather, Dake writes with a pastor’s heart. His aim is to encourage faith. The result is a balanced diet that satisfies both heart and mind.
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Faith The Yes Of The Heart
$18.00Add to cartIn this rich and rewarding theology of spirituality, Grace Brame argues compellingly that “faith is not just a matter of understanding God, but of experiencing the real presence of the holy.” Grounded in Martin Luther’s profound understanding of faith and daring trust, and drawing from the insights of leading spiritual thinkers, Brame boldly maps the terrain of the spiritual journey for modern pilgrims. Here is a book to inspire, to give courage, to open the reader to th possibilities of trusting love.
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Becoming Adult Becoming Christian
$25.00Add to cartIn this updated reissue of his 1984 classic, James Fowler applies his groundbreaking research on the development of faith to Christianity. In his revised first chapter Fowler locates his approach to the study of human and faith development in relation to the contemporary conversation about identity and selfhood in postmodernity. Fowler invites readers to explore what it means to find and claim vocation: a purpose for one’s life that is part of the purposes of God. Reclaiming covenant and vocation as ideals for responsible, mature, Christian selfhood, Fowler shows how a dynamic understanding of what vocation involves can both inform and transform lives.
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Longing For Community
$21.99Add to cartUnderstanding the strength and unity of the ummah- the worldwide Muslim community-and its role in an individual’s identity is essential in comprehending the struggles that Muslims undergo as they turn to faith in Jesus Christ. It has been a place of security, acceptance, protection, and identity; turning away from it entails great sacrifice. Where, then, will Muslims who choose to follow Jesus find their longing for community fulfilled: ummah, church, or somewhere in between?
Longing for Community compiles the research and reflection of twenty missiologists, sociologists, anthropologists, and linguists-among them Muslims who have become believers in Jesus Christ- presented at the second Coming to Faith Consultation in February 2010. The contributors explore the multiple levels and hybrid nature of social identity, pointing to the need to free our discussions from single- dimensional scales, which are far from adequate to describe the complex nature of conversion and lived-out faith. Beyond the issue of identity, the contributors offer important lessons from mission history, explore liturgy as an appropriate vehicle for teaching, discuss appropriate means of communication, and point to both the need and contextually appropriate possibilities of greater involvement of women in training and ministry.
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Christian Disciplines : 12 Studies For Individuals Or Groups (Student/Study Guid
$12.99Add to cartDepth, strength, wisdom and maturity – we all long to be people with such qualities. We want to strengthen our character and deepen our relationship with Christ. But spiritual depth requires spiritual discipline. This Bible study guide is designed to help us learn how God wants us to live. This revised guide features questions for starting group discussions and for meeting God in personal reflection, together with expanded leader’s notes and a new “Now or Later” section in each study.
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Seeking Heart
$12.95Add to cartThe name Fenelon has stood for spiritual depth and insight for 300 years. Seeking Christians throughout the years have turned again and again to his writings for guidance and help in their quest for a deeper walk with Christ.
Here are his works and letters for those who have a seeking heart.
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Practicing The Presence Of People
$17.00Add to cartLearn to love deeply, powerfully, and intimately! Inspired by Brother Lawrence’s The Practice of the Presence of God, Mason takes a contemplative approach to love, showing you how to be fully present for others here and now, tenderly identify with their weaknesses, and rejoice that they—and you—were affectionately fashioned by the hand of God.
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Dealing With The Rejection And Praise Of Men
$13.00Add to cartRejection. Ugh! Many of us have been devoured by its ravages, and most of us have also given it out. Praise. Now there’s a happier word! But the sinister tentacles of man’s praise constantly seek to disqualify God’s servants from their highest inheritance. Rejection and Praise are like twin gullies that flank the narrow highway of holiness. Every step counts. For Jesus, man’s opinions were meaningless in light of the exuberant affection and passionate approval of His Father. Learn how to hold your heart before God in a way that pleases Him in the midst of both rejection and praise from people.
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Some Folks Feel The Rain Others Just Get Wet (Student/Study Guide)
$16.99Add to cartThis is another way of saying that some people smell the roses, while others just complain about the thorns. In his warm, controversial style, popular author James W. Moore explores the reasons why some people are able to see our time on Earth as a gracious gift from God rather than as an agonizig endurance test; and, simply put, why some people have the ability to celebrate life with an abundance of gratitude.
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River Glory
$18.99Add to cartThrough the analogy of the “river” God is giving a whole new consciousness and understanding of the moving of His Spirit. In River Glory, let Ruth Heflin, as only she can, show you the waters. As you read, learn how to step into and flow with the currents of the river, where you’ll experience a fresh touch of the Glory of the Lord.
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Exodus : Journey Toward God
$14.99Add to cartConsult the compass for the journey of your life. Life as a Christian is a journey — a journey toward God. But how do you set your compass? How do you make sure that God is guiding your steps and that you are not being blown willy-nilly by life’s shifting winds of circumstance? Turn to the book of Exodus and discover guidance and joy for your pilgrimage. You will grow to know God in a deeper, more personal way. You will learn to trust him more than ever before. You will discover who your fellow travelers are. And you will learn how to chart your course by the compass of God’s will as you take the trip of your life.
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Final Steps In Christian Maturity
$10.95Add to cartThe King of France ordered Jeanne Guyon to appear before Archbishop Bossuet for interrogation. This would be a fateful event for her, for the results of that interrogation would decided whether or not she would be imprisoned.
Jeanne Guyon made the decision to present to Bossuet a clear statement – and defense – of her teachings. The result was a massive three-volume work entitled Justifications.
This work was later printed in French, probably appearing in only one printing. Justifications has never appeared in English, and has been virtually forgotten. Final Steps In Christian Maturity is a careful selection of some of the very best material found in that original three-volume work.
Here, then, is some of the finest literature ever penned on the deeper Christian life.
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Heart Ablaze : Igniting A Passion For God
$14.99Add to cart1. Unforgettable Evening
2. Purpose Of Salvation
3. Getting Egypt Out
4. Glory Of The Lord
5. Pass To The Mountain
6. Manageable Deity
7. Intentions Or Desires?
8. Counterculture Or Subculture?
9. Saving Grace
10. Difficult DaysAdditional Info
Jesus has never accepted lukewarmness. Rather, He calls for passion! But where de we get the fire to heat up our relationship with him? He never requires anything He doesn’t equip us to do. If youhave felt that a passionate relationship with Him is unattainable, this book will show you otherwise.World-renowned author and Bible teacher John Bevere challenges you to exchange a mediocre rerlationship with God for a vibrant, fiery one. A Heart Ablaze offers riveting insights woven with masterful teaching to help you ignite and maintain a passion for God. Read it and allow the Holy Spirit to transform you as the fire of God’s holiness touches the very depths of your soul.
No matter where you are in your walk with God, if taken to heart the words of this book will transform your life. A must read for those who desire a stronger relationship with God.
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Churchgoing And Christian Ethics
$104.00Add to cartRobin Gill argues that moral communities should take center stage in ethics. This book examines recent evidence about church communities in relation to faith, moral order and love, and shows that churchgoers are distinctive in their attitudes, beliefs and behavior. Some attitudes change over time, and there are several moral disagreements among different groups of churchgoers. Moreover, their values and behavior are shared by many nonchurchgoers also. The distinctiveness of church communities in the modern world is thus real but relative, and is crucial for the task of Christian ethics.
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Stories For A Teens Heart
$16.99Add to cartNourish the souls of your young people with this collection of 110 bite-sized stories! Humorous, poignant, and uplifting, these quotes, anecdotes, and encouraging tales from best-selling Christian authors speak straight to the issues kids face. A great gift for on-the-go teens that reassures them they aren’t alone as they walk the road to adulthood.
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For The Familys Sake
$19.99Add to cartTurn your house into a home! Using Christ as her foundation, Macaulay presents a solid blueprint for building a haven of peace and security. Discover how the tools of love, tradition, and common sense can help you create a nurturing environment where every family member can thrive and survive the challenges of modern living.
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Intimacy With Christ
$11.95Add to cartWithin the pages of this book you will find spiritual insight and Christian counseling from church history’s best-known woman. These letters contain her advice as shared with common people, famous people and clergy who sought her guidance.
You will receive from her, help in such areas as discouragement, failure, self-conciousness, poor self-esteem, emotional ups and downs, sorrow, embarrassment, and persecution.
She will counsel you concerning decision making, your search for God’s will in your life, and following Him and uncertainties.
You will come away from this book with more understanding of accepting others, even your opposites and responding to Christians who are at odds with you. You will gain a new perspective on peoples’ faults, as well as the church’s short-comings.
Guyon lights up the precious and powerful value of Christian fellowship. She offers advice and encouragement for Christian workers. Guyon will meet you where you are in your walk with Christ.
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Gods Call
$15.99Add to cartNothing in this world can hold you back from experiencing the fullness of the marvelous life that God has for you. Charles Finney’s powerful and thought-provoking messages reveal how you can…receive complete forgiveness of sin, break the chains of worldly addictions, rest confidently and securely in the Lord, drink from the foundation of God’s blessings, be totally free of sin and its bondage, discover the worth of your soul, and witness to others sucessfully.
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Answer
$14.99Add to cartIn a world full of puzzling problems, it’s nice to find a source of practical solutions. From God’s own Word, R. A. Torrey delves into the specifics of what Christianity is all about and offers biblically sound responses to probing questions, such as: Can I be forgiven of every sin? How much power does Satan really have? Is there a chance to be saved after death? How can I be victorious over the Devil? and much more.
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Churchgoing And Christian Ethics
$48.99Add to cartRobin Gill argues that moral communities should take center stage in ethics. This book examines recent evidence about church communities in relation to faith, moral order and love, and shows that churchgoers are distinctive in their attitudes, beliefs and behavior. Some attitudes change over time, and there are several moral disagreements among different groups of churchgoers. Moreover, their values and behavior are shared by many nonchurchgoers also. The distinctiveness of church communities in the modern world is thus real but relative, and is crucial for the task of Christian ethics.
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Amazing Faith That Works
$14.99Add to cartMiracles are for today! In this lifetime! Here and now! The miracles written in this book will cause your faith to soar into the heavens. Real believing moves the hand of God, and nothing shall be impossible unto you. This book is designed to help the everyday born-again Christian to learn the steps of faith that will give you the power to receive from God. The Lord never created His children to be defeated, scraping by from day to day, but there is victory through faith in Jesus! The Lord desires for you to overcome in five areas of your life: SPIRITUALLY PHYSICALLY FINANCIALLY MENTALLY SOCIALLY In my experience of holding prayer meetings for several years, I have seen miracle after miracle through the operation of faith in Jesus’ name. For years, I have taught others about the endless possibilities of “The Amazing Faith That Works.”
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Growing Young : Embracing The Joy And Accepting The Challenges Of Mid Life
$15.99Add to cartEnthusiastic and mature, vigorous and insightful, we women between the ages of forty and mid-sixty find ourselves in an incredibly unique phase in our lives-a time marked by fulfillment, introspection, and tremendous growth. From our outward appearance to our inner spirituality, our maturing relationship with our children to our shifting perceptions of self, it seems as though everything is on the cusp of change.
Many of these changes are liberating. Some are unnerving. But all are a part of God’s beautiful tapestry design for our lives. With excitement, humor, and warm-hearted understanding, Lois Mowday Rabey explores these peaks and valleys in Growing Young, inspiring us to laugh, reflect, and celebrate as we move through the surprising — and truly glorious — God-ordained changes of mid-life.
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Total Life Prosperity
$14.98Add to cartCreflo Dollar, Jr. knows from experience that God can be trusted. But often our expectations are too immature and not biblically informed, so when times are tough we assume God has let us down or wants us to struggle. This popular televangelist offers 14 practical steps from understanding the dynamics of godly prosperity in all spheres of lifeand how to move from a state of inadequacy to a state of fullness in Christ. Starting with what the Word of God says about total life prosperity and taking the reader into practical application for his or her own life, Dollar offers proven principles that will help believers find all they need to serve God faithfully.
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Micah Mandate : Balancing The Christian Life
$14.95Add to cartFor centuries Christians have puzzled over what role to take in world affairs. Grant claims that this role should be based on the insight of Micah 6:8 — to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God. This guidance provides the balance and foundation for applying the principles of faith and the acts of mercy and compassion.
