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Living Before God A Print On Demand Title
$20.99Add to cartAn uplifting invitation to live in the presence of God–every day, everywhere.
Writing in the tradition of Brother Lawrence and authors concerned with the realization of God’s presence in the daily round, Ben Campbell Johnson here invites readers to foster a more consistent relationship with God. Featuring a valuable combination of insight and practical application, Living Before God offers a collection of spiritual practices that will help Christians deepen their sense of the divine presence in their lives.
After an introduction on the nature of spiritual awareness, succeeding chapters explore specific ways Christians can develop their person experience of God. Johnson describes various spiritual postures for being with God, listening to God, and attending the divine presence. Every chapter concludes with questions to prompt further reflection alone or in small groups and with suggestions for journaling designed to let readers experience each posture in a concrete way.
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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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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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Hispanic Challenge : Opportunities Confronting The Church
$28.99Add to cartIVP Print On Demand Title
Ortiz first explores the unique needs and concerns of Hispanics in the United States. Then he turns to key missiological issues, including Protestant-Catholic relationships, justice, racial reconciliation and ecclesiastical structures. The book focuses on leadership training, education, and contains interviews with Hispanic leaders which describe their models of ministry.
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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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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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Pilgrim People : Learning Through The Church Year
$17.95Add to cartAs a people whose faith is formed and nourished by the Bible’s stories of creation and fall, salvation and redemption, Christians hunger to order their lives by the church’s story and their own. Our journey to God leads us through the cycle of the church year?from Advent and Christmas to Easter and the season called “ordinary time”?as we tell and retell God’s story and make it the story we live by. In A Pilgrim People John Westerhoff looks at the gospel texts season by season and relates their teachings not only to Christian life and ministry but to the life cycle of childhood, adolescence, and adulthood.
In teaching the lessons of the church year, Westerhoff starts not with Advent but with Holy Week and Easter, which marks the birth of Christian faith and its vision of a dream come true. Commenting briefly on each of the gospel readings for each Sunday, he moves from Eastertide through Ascension and Pentecost, the season after Pentecost, Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, and Lent, offering useful themes for preaching and education. The final chapter incorporates a radical proposal for Christian education to reform the church’s organization, worship, education, and outreach.
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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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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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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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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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Challenge Of Discipleship A Critical Study Of The Sermon On The Mount As
$59.95Add to cartThis book invites readers to assume responsibility for their own interpretations of the Sermon on the Mount through a practice of “critical study of the Bible as scripture.” Such a practice takes as a starting point the conclusions about “the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount for believers today,” which Christian believers of all walks of life formulate for themselves, which non-Christian ordinary readers readily envision as they observe Christians, and which scholars imply in their sophisticated interpretations.
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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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Spiritual Torrents
$10.95Add to cart120 Pages/17 Chapters
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SPIRITUAL TORRENTSThis book is a spiritual autobiography in which Jeanne Guyon likens her life to a torrent making its way out of the high mountains down into the canyons and chasms of life, passing through many experiences until finally coming to the spiritual experience of death. From there the torrent experiences resurrection and a life lived in concert with the will of God while still going through many stages of refinement. At last the torrent finds its way into the vast, unlimited sea. Even here the torrent does not totally come to be one with the vast ocean until it has once more passed through final dealings by the Lord.
The reader will find this book to be the saga of one believer’s journey with Christ. It does not serve as a pattern for any other life, but simply allows the reader to see how Guyon viewed the Lord’s work in her life. Nevertheless, this is one of the greatest books ever written on the subject of the cross as it works in the life of the believer.
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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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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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Spiritual Guide
$11.95Add to cartThere have been more copies of this book burned than perhaps any other single Christian book ever published.
So powerful was its influence on Europe that within 6 years of its release this book had been translated into every language in Western Europe. In Naples, Italy it was said that 20,000 Christians gathered in small groups to practice inward prayer.
Michael Molinos came closer to reforming the Catholic church than any other single man in history, yet he ended up sealed in a dungeon, his book condemned. A man so controversial that even until today the Vatican will not release the transcript of his (secret) trial. Now, for the first time ever, this book appears in modern English. The first English language release in over a hundred years.
Included in the book is the first biography of Michael Nolinos to appear in English in over 100 years.
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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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See Yourself As God Sees You
$16.99Add to cartThrough stories and lots of Scripture, See Yourself as God Sees You reminds us of what God says about who we are. In understanding this we discover our true identity and can live more fully. Callouts and discussion questions help readers understand and apply the material.
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How Saved Are We
$15.99Add to cartFor years we have preached a defective message – and now we have a defective Church. This unsettling book challenges us to ask ourselves what kind of born-again experience we have had if it calls for almost no personal sacrifice, produces virtually no separation from the world, and breeds practically no hatred of sin. Read this book and find out just how saved we are. It is time for a rude awakening!
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Spiritual Mentoring : A Guide For Seeking And Giving Direction
$20.99Add to cartAs we seek God together we come to know him more deeply. Spiritual-mentoring relationships bring together a mature Christian and a younger Christian who desire to grow in Christ. In their friendship, each learns to follow Christ more closely. Spiritual mentoring is an age-old practice that Keith Anderson and Randy Reese introduce in a way that fits life today. Each chapter of their book draws on the work of a different classical spiritual writer. Augustine, St. John of the Cross, Teresa of Avila and others offer timeless spritual insights from centuries past.
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Perfect Love : Intensely Personal Overflowing Never Ending
$16.99Add to cartMost people fail to grasp the incredibly deep, passionate love God has for them. Yet so many personal problems and needs can be traced to this misunderstanding of God. With clear, biblical insight, Ruth Myers leads readers to a deeper understanding of God’s perfect, intensely personal love for them and helps them make this love a cherished reality in their everyday experience.
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Design For Living
$17.99Add to cartManufactured On Demand Title
The Sermon on the Mount may be a well-known portion of Scripture, but how is it meant to impact our lives?
In a day when modern society dictates tolerance and conformity to the losest standards, Pentecost shows how the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5-7 calls us to a higher standard of living. Chapters include:
“Comfort in Tears (Matt. 5:4)”
“Blessed Are the Peacemakers (Matt. 5:9)”
“God’s Moral Standard (Matt. 5:27-32)”
“The Unreasonableness of Worry (Matt. 6:25-34)”
“How to Identify a False Prophet (Matt. 7:15-23)”Pentecost’s devotional study examines the Sermon on the Mount as a design for living – a great book for personal Bible study or sermon preparation!
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13 Crucial Questions Jesus Wants To Ask You
$16.99Add to cartSome of the thirteen questions examined are “Who do you say that I am?” (Matt. 16:15), “Where is your faith?” (Luke 8:25), and “Do you love me?” (John 21:15-17). Study questions at the end of each chapter make this a great tool for group or individual Bible study, Sunday school curricula, or a unique sermon series.
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Jesus The Storyteller
$15.00Add to cartForeword
Preface
Chapter 1. Why Winning The Lottery Won’t Make You Happy (Luke 12:13-21)
Chapter 2. The Kind Of Religion That Makes God Sick (Luke 18:9-14)
Chapter 3. The Bigness Of Smallness (Mark 4:30-32)
Chapter 4. What The World Needs Now (Luke 10:25-37)
Chapter 5. You Can Go Home Again (Luke 15:11-24)
Chapter 6. Get A Life! (Matthew 7:24-27)
Chapter 7. When You Can’t Be The Best, Be Your Best (Matthew 25:14-30)
Chapter 8. You Can Have It All (Matthew 13:45-46)
Chapter 9. Dirty, Rotten Hero (Luke 16:1-11)
Chapter 10. It’s Party Time (Mark 2:18-20)
Chapter 11. Remember Who’s In Charge (Luke 17:7-10)
Chapter 12. Cleanliness Is Not Always Next To Godliness (Matthew 12:43-45)
Chapter 13. The Outsider (Matthew 22:11-13)
Chapter 14. God Is At Work (Mark 4:26-29)
Chapter 15. Dealing With Change (Matthew 13:51-52)
Chapter 16. Payday Everyday (Matthew 20:1-16)Additional Info
Brian Harbour applies the stories of Jesus, which are eternally relevant, in fresh ways for Christians in the twentieth century who want to live by the truths Jesus presented in the first century. Through stories and commentary the author examines sixteen of Jesus’ stories and focuses on the central truths of the parables and their application to Christian living today. The author also provides preaching resources on some of the richest sections of the Gospels for those who have been called to instruct and inspire contemporary Christians -
Top 10 List For Christians (Student/Study Guide)
$16.99Add to cartThis book offers a “contemporary” Top Ten list of important things for Christians to remember as we make our way through life’s journey. Acknowledging that we all need guideposts to help us along the way, Moore offers ten witty and wise reminders of the real priorities in life – God’s priorities for faithful living. These uplifting reminders – along with a number of warm, inspirational stories and anecdotes – will encourage you to live each day with faith, hope, love, joy, trust, and commitment, so that you may live purposefully and in celebration, trusting in God’s faithfulness.
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Living A Purpose Full Life (Student/Study Guide)
$16.99Add to cartGod’s calling in a woman’s life isn’t meant to remain a mystery. More than a role, a spiritual gift, or a job you love, finding your God-given purpose is about knowing who you are. Jan Johnson explains what a “life purpose” is, why you need it, and how you can find it. Discover the joy of Living a Purpose-Full Life! Includes a Bible study and questions for reflection.
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Iglesia Con Proposito – (Spanish)
$19.99Add to cartEvery church is driven by something. Tradition, finances, programs, personalities, events, seekers, and even buildings can each be the controlling force in a church. But Rick Warren believes that in order for a church to be healthy it must become a purpose-driven church with Jesus in the lead. The founding pastor of Saddleback Church shares a proven five-part strategy that will enable your church to grow. . .- Warmer through fellowship – Deeper through discipleship – Stronger through worship – Broader through ministry – Larger through evangelism. Discover the same practical insights and principles for growing a healthy church that Rick has taught in seminars to over 22,000 pastors and church leaders from sixty denominations and forty-two countries. The Purpose-Driven Church(R) shifts the focus away from church building programs to emphasizing a people-building process. Warren says, “If you will concentrate on building people, God will build the church.”
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Thus Saith The Lord
$18.99Add to cartYou can discern truth from deception. Jesus sternly warned, “See to it that no one misleads you.” (Matt. 24:4, NAS) To be mislead is to be deceived. Jesus makes it clear – it is our responsibility to discern truth from deception. This includes rightly dividing genuine spiritual authority from counterfeit. This crucial and timely message reveals how to recognize true and false authority, the deceptive tactics of false authority, what brings spiritual maturity, and much more.
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Pleasing God : 9 Studies For Individuals Or Groups (Student/Study Guide)
$12.99Add to cartThis LifeGuide, in the new series format, is all about how we can please God, not by following legalistic rules but by putting our trust in Christ. As we grow in our relationship with Him, we see how godly character flows from a clear conscience and a sincere heart.
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Christian Character : 12 Studies For Indiviuals Or Groups (Student/Study Guide)
$12.99Add to cartWe long for the beauty of Christ to be reflected in our lives. Such character comes only as the Spirit of God transforms us through the Word of God. These Bible studies will help you become the person God wants you to be. The revised LifeGuide study features additional questions for starting group discussions and for meeting God in personal reflection, together with expanded leader’s notes and an extra “Now or Later” section in each study. Includes twelve studies for individuals or groups.
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6 Horas De Un Viernes – (Spanish)
$13.99Add to cartMany spectators didn’t observe any thing extraordinary during those six hours, for them they were six regular hours in any given day. If God really ordained his own crucifixion during these six hours then these six hours are full of triumph, because within these six hours God gave us three strong points on how to anchor ourselves to the cross. This anchor is strong enough to resist any storm that life can throw at us.
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Fuego Vivo Viento Fresco – (Spanish)
$9.99Add to cartThe times are urgent, God is on the move, now is the moment to ask God to ignite his fire in your soul!
Jim Cymbala believes that Jesus wants nothing more than to renew and revive his people to call us back from spiritual dead ends that lead only to apathy and lukewarm religion.
As pastor of the Brooklyn Tabernacle, one of America’s most remarkable churches, he knows firsthand the transforming power of God’s love – strong enough to convert prostitutes, pimps, drug addicts, homeless people, and transvestites. Strong enough to draw professional men and women, blacks, whites, and Hispanics together in worship. Strong enough to rekindle our own dull hearts and flagging spirits.
Twenty-five years ago, the Brooklyn Tabernacle could barely draw twenty people to a Sunday service. Today it is six thousand strong, a testament of what God can do when men and women begin to pour out their hearts to God.
The story of what has happened to a broken-down church in one of America’s meanest neighborhoods points the way to a new spiritual vitality in the church and in your own life. But don’t look in this book for faddish techniques – you wont’ find them. And while the Tabernacle today has an interracial membership and world-renowned choir, don’t look for an emphasis on cross culturalism, numbers, or well-orchestrates worship music.
Instead look for what God can do when a handful of people humble themselves and take the Gospel seriously. When believers turn to their last and only recourse – their knees – and discover there the life-changing reality of the Holy Spirit.
Whether you’re a pastor or a layperson, if you’re hungry for more of God, this book will break your heart and restore your passion.
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Spiritual Journaling : Recording Your Journey Toward God (Student/Study Guide)
$10.99Add to cartThe SPIRITUAL FORMATION STUDY GUIDES explore and explain how the use of disciplines (such as journaling, Bible reading, prayer, and others) can deepen both our walk with God and our community with other believers.
THE FIRST STEP TOWARD GROWTH IS NOTICING. What are the life-style characteristics that distinguish a follower of Jesus from those who share no interest in Him? Widespread research suggests that in our society there are none.
Why is that? Surely one would expect a follower of history’s most influential person to stand out from the crowd. Perhaps it relates to the pace of contemporary life. By running so fast, we miss the meaning of our actions, and the cultivation of our characters.
hough many of us do try to capture each day’s experiences in a journal, few take that practice to the level of a spiritual discipline by using it to explore the work of God in our lives.
In Spiritual Journaling, you will learn to recognize the progression from who you have been to who you are meant to become. By taking time to go back and understand the critical elements of your life-the events, relationships, patterns, and experiences that shape you-you will gradually find yourself viewing the future through the lens of conformity to the way of Jesus.
Whether you choose to explore this new skill with a group of friends (recommended!) or on your own, you’ll benefit from the thoughtful exercises presented in this study guide.
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Apostles Creed
$30.00Add to cart“If there is one statement of the Christian church, it is contained in the Apostles’s Creed,” writes William Barclay, former Professor of Divinity and Biblical Criticism at Glasgow University. Professor Barclay reminds us, however, that the Creed should be seen not so much as a test and yardstick of orthodoxy, but rather as a symbolic, pictoral, and poetic representation of a truth–a truth that Christians should constantly rethink and restate for themselves. Professor Barclay’s insights are particularly valuable at a time when many traditional beliefs are being questions, both by theologians and lay people. He always has managed to bridge the gap between the academic and lay worlds while addressing the most profound issues of the Christian faith.
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10 Commandments
$22.00Add to cartWilliam Barclay saw the Ten Commandments as the universal foundation of all things: the basic laws on human conduct in society and the cornerstone of community existence. Drawing on his vast knowledge of both Old and New Testaments, Professor Barclay examines the ways in which the Ten Commandments demand reverence for God and respect for humankind.
The William Barclay Library is a collection of books addressing the great issues of the Christian faith. As one of the world’s most widely read interpreters of the Bible and its meaning, William Barclay devoted his life to helping people become more faithful disciples of Jesus Christ.
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Gracia Divina VS Condena Human – (Spanish)
$18.99Add to cartIn 1987, an IRA bomb buried Gordon Wilson and his twenty-year-old daughter beneath five feet of rubble. Godon alone survived. And forgave. He said of the bombers, “I have lost my daughter, but I bear no grudge…I shall pray, tonight and every night, that God will forgive them.” His words caught the media’s ears_and out of one man’s grief, the world got a glimpse of grace. Grace is the church’s great distinction. It’s the one thing the world cannot duplicate, and the one thing it craves above all else_for only grace can bring hope and transformation to a jaded world. In this book award-winning author Philip Yancey explores grace at street level. If grace is God’s love for the undeserving, he asks, then what does it look like in action? And if Christians are its sole dispensers, then how are we doing at lavishing grace on a world that knows far more of cruelty and unforgiveness than it does of mercy? Grace does not excuse sin, say Yancey, but it treasures the sinner. True grace is shocking, scandalous. It shakes our conventions with its insistence on getting close to sinners and touching them with mercy and hope.
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Harvest Of Righteousness
$21.00Add to cartAimed at helping Christians grow in prayer, Bible reading, and personal worship, this beautifully crafted workbook provides a five-week program for individuals and small groups in the practice of daily worship. Drawing on the rich treasure of spiritual discipline in the Reformed tradition, Rebecca Bradburn Langer has prepared biblical passages, devotional readings, prayers, and helpful exercises for each day.
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Tending The Flock
$40.00Add to cartMany churches are unprepared to face the challanges inherent in family life today. Others, though, have developed innovative and exciting responses. In this book, case studies provide insights and stategies to help develop a practical theological perspective on family ministry. This new perspective represents a fresh and powerful witness to the place of families within contemporary communities of faith.
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Bendiciones Del Quebrantamient – (Spanish)
$11.99Add to cartConsidering that life can deliver hard punches in our lives, can we with all sincerity believe that God can bring good out of our crisis? But there is also another possibility: we might discover a richness in our lives that we might not have encountered otherwise.
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His Victorious Indwelling
$18.99Add to cartHave you truly grasped the remarkable heritage that is yours in Christ? Through the years, certain Christians have stood out for their deep insight into the riches we possess in Christ. Oswald Chambers, A. W. Tozer, Hannah Whittal Smith, D. L. Moody, E. M. Bounds . . . these men and women knew the secrets of the abundant spiritual life. Drawing on the meditations and quotes from these and other well-know writers, His Victorious Indwelling explores Christ’s victory and how it can be lived through us. These 366 daily devotions bring together the best writings of such classic authors as John Calvin, Martin Luther, Watchman Nee, Charles Spurgeon, St. Augustine, and John Wesley, as well as contemporary writers such as Corrie ten Boom. These and dozens of others will help you discover the power, liberty, and joy that flow from “Christ in us.”
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Prayer Mountain : Exploring The High Places Of Prayer
$17.99Add to cartPrayer Mountain is a practical handbook to the mountain ranges of the spiritual life. It takes us on a climbing tour of ten Biblical mountains and, with the companionship of those who have climbed them before, encourages us in our own ascent towards the presence of God. aaBrother Ramon ssf is an Anglican Franciscan friar and one of today’s most popular writers on spirituality. For almost ten years, he has lived the hermit life, latterly in the grounds of Glasshampton monastery near Worcester His many other books include Franciscan Spirituality, The Wisdom of St Francis, The Listening Heart and The Heart of Prayer.
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Perfect Love A Study Guide Based On The Book (Student/Study Guide)
$10.99Add to cart96 Pages
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Most people-even those with a deep faith-fail to really grasp the incredibly passionate and deep love God has for them. And yet so many personal problems and needs can be traced back to this misunderstanding of God. The result, as Ruth Myers points out, is “a lack of true identity-a lack of inner sureness about who we are.” Ultimately, everyone is on the same quest: to find and know the perfect love of God. The Perfect Love opens the Scriptures to reveal one delighful discovery of God’s love after another. With this study Guide, you can explore those same Bible passages and make your own life-changing discoveries about God’s love. -
Gods Power In You
$15.99Add to cartGod has saved us through His Son, Jesus. This redemption was planned in His love before man was first created. In a new and revealing manner, William Law discusses God’s wonderful plan for His creation and how His love has brought it all about. Along the way, you will discover: what God’s love has done for you, what it means to have God’s Spirit within you, the only infallible way to God, that you will live with God for eternity, and how to experience the prescence of God.
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Masters Plan For Making Disciples (Reprinted)
$20.00Add to cart1. The Vision To Fulfill
2. The People To Win
3. The Fellowship To Cherish
4. The Ministry To Give
5. The Discipline To Keep
6. The Power To BecomeAdditional Info
Robert Coleman’s best-selling The Master Plan of Evangelism, which has sold over two million copies, told how Jesus made disciples. Now learn how the disciples did it in this companion volume. The Master Plan of Discipleship, now available in mass-market paperback, will help you discover a discipling lifestyle from the early church. -
Following Christ : Experiencing Life The Way It Was Meant To Be
$19.99Add to cart1. Follow the Leader/High Stakes in the Game Called Life
2. Life the Way it Was Meant to Be/Finding the Road Less Traveled
3. The Follower in All of Us/Submitting to the “Hound of Heaven”
4. The Tyranny of Self-Directed Living/Why We Need a Leader
5. The Compelling Christ/Why Wouldn’t You Follow?
6. It’s a personal Thing/The Pleasure and Power of Intimacy with Christ
7. Radical Reformation/Transforming Conduct and Character
8. The Compelling Cause/Where Will He Take Us?
9. Netlessness/What is That in Your Hands?
10. Getting Out of the Way/The Risk of Relapse
11. Following as One/Breaking Up Is Not Hard to Do
12. Followers Are Blenders/Group Dynamics for the Trip
13. Cross-Bearing/The Ultimate Challenge to Following
221 PagesAdditional Info
FOLLOWING CHRISTDo you want your life to count for Christ? Would you like to make a real impact for God’s kingdom in this world? You can-and you don’t have to be a great leader for it to happen. Just a good follower.
In Following Christ, Joseph Stowell shows why Christ’s command to “Follow me” isn’t merely the starting point of Christianity. It’s the very heartbeat of vibrant, effective faith. And its not just for a few gifted leaders, but for all believers.
“Christianity is a relationship, an adventure, a passionate pursuit of Christ,” says Stowell. “Followers escape the drudgery of a system of rituals and regulations, and revel in the discovery of the ever-interesting Christ.”
Stowell shows you what happens when an ordinary man or woman pursues not the trappings of Christianity, but Christ himself.
You’ll discover:
– What a “non-negotiated” follower looks like
– Why God does his best work through followers
– Why self-directed living is a recipe for emptiness
– What makes Christ so worth following
– How Christ transforms our character
– What it means to pick up your cross
– Why a close walk with Jesus is the key to effective livingThis inspiring book cuts through the side-issues of Christianity to reveal its true, compelling object: Jesus Christ. As his fully devoted follower, you’ll discover a dynamic and refreshing way of living-one that will sustain you through life’s valleys and provide breathtaking spiritual vistas from its peaks. Its Christianity the way God intended it, marked by simplicity. Vigorous faith. Purpose and direction. Soul-winning impact on those around you.
And above all, a joyous, growing closeness with Christ.
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Meditations On The Cross
$19.00Add to cartThe cross and the resurrection were central themes for Bonhoeffer’s theology. These excerpts from sermons and letters contain his personal and faithful words about the crucifixion and the power of the cross for all Christians. Meditations on the Cross is ideal for devotional reading and personal reference.
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Reflecting The Glory
$19.00Add to cartAn award-winning Bible scholar challenges us to live the life of Christ. How can we become the people through whom God heals and reconciles the world? One of the most respected biblical scholars of our time provides fifty-three meditations for Lenten reflection or for use any time of the year. Includes a study guide for seven weeks of group study in Lent, for weekend retreats, or use in adult education classes in congregations
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Men Mentoring Men
$32.95Add to cartAnd Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, “… Go therefore and make disciples …”
Men Mentoring Men is a resource designed to assist Christian men to fulfill Christ’s commission. The contents are not merely information. It is an action-oriented guide which requires relationship and mutual accountability. Each session will challenge men to share their victories and their struggles … to maintain a weekly journal as well as being committed to regular Bible reading.
This resource guide deals with foundational Christian principles and practice: how to pray … study the Bible … be led by the Holy Spirit … how to share one’s faith. Men will learn about responsibility for marriage, parenting, finances, sexual issues and more.
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7 Keys To 1000 Times More
$10.00Add to cartIf Increase Is Your Passion, Then You Will Appreciate This Powerful Book. 40 Facts About The Uncommon Dream God Places Within You / 8 Facts About Solving Problems For Others / 10 Rewards For Using Right Words / 58 Keys To Unlocking 1000 Times More. The Perfect Gift For Any Occasion!
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Divine Comforter : The Person And Work Of The Holy Spirit
$19.99Add to cartManufactured On Demand Title
Personal, intimate fellowship between the believer and the Spirit is essential for spiritual growth. God’s purpose in redemption is to bring believers into fellowship with Himself. He has therefore given the believer a mind to know Him, a heart to love Him, and a Person to commune with him–the person of the Holy Spirit.
Internationally known author and Bible teacher J. Dwight Pentecost examines the Person and ministry of the Holy Spirit in this thorough yet practical work that seeks to know the Spirit’s work in daily life. “It is my desire, “he writes,” to bring you face-to-face with a Person so that you might enjoy fellowship with Him.”
Some of the subjects discussed in the eighteen chapters of this work include the nature of the Spirit, the filling of the Spirit, the baptism of the Spirit, the Spirit and the inspiration of Scripture, the witness of the Spirit to the world, and gifts of the Spirit.
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Parables Of Jesus
$20.00Add to cartIn this startlingly original interpretation, Ford explores seven of the longer parables attributed to Jesus. Bypassing the assumption that the superior character represents God and the subordinate one the Christian believer, Ford focuses instead on how persons, long separated by inequality, are called upon to collaborate.
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No Te Des Por Vencido – (Spanish)
$12.99Add to cartEveryone has experienced sadness and pain once in a while. Sometimes they are so big that we want to give up. David Wilkerson knows how to help us solve our feelings of hopelessness and despair about life. He does an exam of despondency. He examines the things that afflict us and offers resources to exceed the problems. Learn to let God heal, reconstruct your faith and give you genuine peace.
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Secrets Of The Journey 1
$5.00Add to cartA 7-Day Mentorship Program. Will give you a whole new perspective…Sometimes The Smallest Key Unlocks The Greatest Treasure. 9 Reasons Not To Make Decisions When You Are Tired / Treasuring Your Mentor / Improving Your Speech / Giving Your Seed A Specific Assignment. This Book Will Help You Get The Results You Want.
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Sacred Romance : Drawing Closer To The Heart Of God
$19.99Add to cart12 Chapters
Additional Info
The God who saves is also a God who woos His own to a relationship primarily of the heart. As we draw closer to Him, we must choose to let go of other “less-wild lovers,” such as perfectionistic driveness and self-indulgence. Eldredge and Curtis identify the lies offered by “false loves” and instruct us on the journey back to the Lover of our souls.In carefully crafted words and images, the authors entice the reader to his or her own journey of the heart, promising, “It is possible to recover the lost life of our heart and with it the intimacy, beauty, and adventure of life with God.” -
To Walk And Not Faint
$24.99Add to cartCompletely revised more than fifteen years after its first printing, To Walk and Not Faint is Dawn’s popular first book. Her devotional reflections examine the fortieth chapter of Isaiah as it deals with many of the critical issues of daily life. Dawn’s meticulous study opens up each verse of Isaiah 40 to challenge us with significant insights for faith and profound motivation for growth in discipleship.
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To Follow Him
$15.99Add to cart1. The Ultimate Personal Trainer
2. A Tunnel-Vision Romance
3. God’s Gymnasium
4. The Reflection In God’s Mirror
5. Bring Your Own Cyanide
6. Follow The Leader
7. The Eternity-Based Investment Guide
8. They’ll Know We Are His Disciples
171 PagesAdditional Info
“‘WHAT DOES IT REALLY MEAN TO FOLLOW CHRIST?”Most Christians know that Jesus commanded His followers to “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations.” Yet many of us remain unclear about what Christ intended such a disciple to be or do.
Recognizing that now, more than ever, believers need clear, biblical teaching ion this all important subject, author Mark Bailey cuts through the confusion surrounding the term “discipleship,” providing a scriptural measuring stick to help us discern what it means to follow a Christ.
Learn how to recognize the seven biblical marks of a disciple, and make these qualities a part of your own life as you whole – heartedly answer Jesus’ call To Follow Him.
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3 Most Important Things In Your Life
$15.00Add to cartNo Student of Success Should Be Without This Book. If you are seriously interested in succeeding, you need this book! The Holy Spirit / The Assignment / The Seed / 17 Facts About The Holy Spirit / 7 Secrets of Survivors / The Power of Expectation / Singing To The Holy Spirit. Proven Results That Will Last You A Lifetime. 31 Chapters!
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Images Of The Church In Missions
$19.99Add to cartThe Bible shows that the very existence of the church is grounded in God’s saving mission. The church is a visible demonstration of the reign of God, his “experimental plot” in the midst of history, pointing toward the restoration of all things.
Driver offers studies of 12 biblical images for understanding the church. They steer us toward a church more in harmony with God’s missionary purpose for his people, and toward a mission solidly based in the biblical vision of peoplehood. These images communicate with power and clarity, reflecting the sense of identity in early Christian communities. In our own time, such images can inspire the church to live up to its reason for being. The images the church uses to understand itself will largely determine what the church will become.
Driver explores images of pilgrimage, of God’s new order, of peoplehood, and of transformation. By its calling, the church must be in mission. The church needs the vital sense of identity inspired by these biblical images to serve God’s saving purpose for all creation.
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Love Made Perfect (Student/Study Guide)
$13.99Add to cartLove Made Perfect. Is it possible this side of heaven? Is it just for the chosen few? Dr. William Greathouse believes that entire sanctification is a genuine and necessary experience for the growth and victory of every believer. He sets forth in easy-to-understand terms and illustrations the scriptural basis for this hope. Love Made Perfect is written not only for the believer seeking a deeper walk with the Lord but also for the one who already knows Christ in His sanctifying fullness. It is a book designed to set you on the journey of a lifetime – and beyond.
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Leadership Secrets Of Jesus
$15.00Add to cartPossibly The Greatest Leadership Book Ever Written-Powerful “Leadership Secrets” That Build True, Lasting Achievement. Included are…5 Power Keys For Effective Delegation / The Secret of Handling Rejection / How To Deal With The Mistakes of Others…Plus Many More.
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Women And Religion
$22.00Add to cartA thoroughly revised and updated edition of the most outstanding volume on women in Christianity
A classic in the field of religious studies since its original publication in 1977, Women and Religion has remained the definitive and most compelling documentary history of the relationship between Christianity and half of its membership. This new edition-completely revised by the original editors, renowned historian Elizabeth A. Clark and theologian Herbert Richardson, with the assistance of Gary Brower and Randall Styers-includes fully updated introductions, newly available source material, and incisive contemporary analysis. An invaluable resource for exploring the progressive history of women and Christian thought.
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Bread For The Journey
$18.99Add to cartWhen beloved author Henri Nouwen set out to record this daybook of totally new reflections, he suddenly found himself on “a true spiritual adventure.” For in these 366 original, interlocking morsels of daily wisdom, Nouwen provides both sustenance and a trail for us to follow, as he unveils, to his own surprise, his personal map of faith. From the delicate interplay of human experience to the surrender to Christ and the embrace of Christian community, that journey of Christian spirituality is explored and celebrated here in each eloquent, thought-provoking passage,
“The table is one of the most intimate places in our lives. It is there that we give ourselves to one another. When we say, ‘Take some more, let me serve you another plate, let me pour you another glass, don’t be shy, enjoy it,’ we say a lot more than our words express. We invite our friends to become part of our lives. We want them to be nurtured by the same food and drink that nurture us. We desire communion…. Every breakfast, lunch, or dinner can become a time of growing communion with one another.”
Intimately personal and inspiring, Bread for the Journey is a daily feast of fresh insight into the challenges and deep joys of a life lived in close communion with God. Nouwen is a wise, loving companion who invites us along as he finds joy in the community of loss, true freedom in forgiveness of others, and hope in surprising places. Each daily meditation is a stepping-stone along a path of private discovery, offering Nouwen’s seasoned yet fresh ideas on kindness, love, suffering, and prayer, the Church as God’s people, and the importance of Jesus in one’s life-reflecting, as a whole, Nouwen’s own ‘personal creed.’ Bread for the Journey brims with daily nourishment and guidance for devoted followers and new friends alike — food for thought on a yearlong journey of discovery and faith.
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Patterns Of Discipleship In The New Testament A Print On Demand Title
$33.99Add to cartDiscipleship is a subject that lies at the heart of Christian thought, life, and ministry. For centuries it has been a way of thinking and speaking about the nature of the Christian life. But what is actually meant by the notion of “Christian discipleship”? In Patterns of Discipleship in the New Testament thirteen first-class scholars examine what the New Testament writings say about the subject of discipleship, highlight the features of both unity and diversity that appear throughout the New Testament, and suggest, in a very readable style, how Christian discipleship can be expressed today in ways that honor both the oneness of the gospel and a legitimate variety of lifestyles.
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Challenge Of Diversity
$24.00Add to cartDavid Rhoads examines the four Gospels and the letter to Galatians and finds a suprising amount of material that relates to diversity. By looking at these passages, and explaining their relevance to contemporary Christianity, Rhoads hopes to create better understanding of diversity, thus facilitating respect for differing Christian groups. The volume also includes a study guide, references for further reading, and suggestions for parish study. David Rhoads is Professor of New Testament at the Lutheran School of Theology, Chicago.
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Spiritual Entrepreneurs : Six Principals For Risking Renewal
$21.99Add to cartThis book tells the story of an innovative pastor and leadership team who intentionally led their church to take spiritual risks. By using six principles, renewal can come to any church, asserts Slaughter. These six principles are focused on Jesus Christ, the Bible, new forms of worship, a commitment to membership, equipping lay people for ministry, and spiritual leadership.
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Cross And The Resurrection (Student/Study Guide)
$10.99Add to cartNavPress Print On Demand Title
As Christians, we’re followers of Jesus Christ. But how much do we really know about our leader? The LIFE AND MINISTRY OF JESUS CHRIST series recounts the life of Christ, who He is, what He taught, things He did. It pulls together accounts from all four Gospels, in chronological order, of His life and ministry on earth. If you want to know Christ more fully, this series will give you a unique look at some of the most important teachings and events in the life of Christ. As you examine the life of Jesus, you’ll be challenged and encouraged to follow Him more closely.
THE FINAL HOUR HAD COME. InThe Cross and the Resurrection you will witness the events leading up to the crucifixion of Jesus. Observe Jesus, unyielding in His pursuit of God’s will, in agony as He considers the death He must face. But you’ll also see the glorious resurrection of Jesus and experience His commissioning of His followers to take His gospel to the ends of the earth.
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Jesus Prescription For A Healthy Life
$28.99Add to cartLeonard Sweet, with his profound insight and humor examines how Jesus laughed, hung out with friends, played with children, walked, enjoyed the good times at social gatherings, and poked fun at pious pretensions. By examining the life of Jesus, this prescription for health and well-being details the ways and habits through which Jesus lived a disciplined life and healthy existence during his ministry among us.
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Growing Deep In The Christian Life
$19.99Add to cart22 Chapters
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Whether you drive a truck, wait tables, work in an office, or ferry the kids to and from soccer practice, Chuck Swindoll understands that your world is practical, earthy, tough, and relentless. Growing Deep in the Christian Life takes theology out of the ivory tower and enables you to apply it to where you live every day.The basics of the faith are the roots from which we draw emotional. stability, mental food for growth, and spiritual energy and perspective on life. Growing Deep in the Christian Life offers an easy-going and practical approach that reviews ten key doctrines and shows their power to strengthen and encourage you in the faith.
Swindoll says, “By returning to our roots, we determine precisely where we stand. We equip ourselves for living the life God designed for us to live.”
Growing Deep in the Christian Life helps you dig deeper and discover the essentials of the faith–essentials that enable you to experience Christian discipleship at a richer and more mature level.
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Wisdom : Gods Golden Key To Success
$7.00Add to cartGod is Determined that you succeed in every area of life! The secret is out and time has proven that your heavenly Father is intent on blessing you. Miracles, provisions, ideas and vision are being released from heaven everyday to believers just like you. Once you determine that it is God’s will that you succeed, then it is only a matter of you learning the principles that govern the God-kind of success. In this book,Dr. Murdock shares his insight into the Wisdom of God that will remove the veil of ignorance and propel you into the abundant life!
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Mary Magdalene And Many Others
$39.00Add to cartThis extensive study of Mary Magdalene and the “many other women” mentioned in the Gospels sheds light on how Jesus treated women. Ricci is surprised that so much that is known about these women is ignored by scholars who choose to turn the focus away from these loyal followers of Jesus.
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Esposa De Cristo – (Spanish)
$14.99Add to cartThe promise of the coming of Christ is awaiting us in the shadows of the horizon. Maybe only a couple of hours remain before daybreak, the darkest part of the night is immediately before the dawn. For the bride of Christ it is time to start the fire, light the lamps and to dissipate the shadows.
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Workbook Of Living Prayer (Workbook)
$16.99Add to cartIn over two decades, nearly half a million persons have been reawakened to prayer by using The Workbook of Living Prayer. One of the best-selling groups resources ever published, this workbook teaches us to pray in a simple, practical way. Updated and revised, this six-week, personal adventure in prayer will strengthen a new generation of prayers as well as those who have used it before.
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Economic Empowerment Through The Church
$24.99Add to cartThe Kingdom of God is not only spiritual — it is intensely practical. The church today must move beyond its traditional role if it is to truly fulfill its mission. It can no longer respond only to spiritual needs and speak only to people’s hearts. The church is called to be a force for change in the world, especially where the needs are greatest: the inner-city neighborhoods where crime, violence, and unemployment are the order of the day. Economic Empowerment Through the Church is a practical book that shows churches how to become a force for revitalization in their community by means of “economic empowerment”– by becoming involved in the everyday, economic life of their communities. It shows churches how to structure themselves, how to avoid tax problems, what businesses they can operate without jeopardizing their tax-exempt status, and step-by-step guidelines for implementing ancillary operations such as real estate, day care centers, drug abuse rehabilitation centers, housing projects, and others. The book includes checklists that help churches avoid missing crucial steps, as well as sample documents and forms.
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Fix Your Eyes On Jesus
$18.99Add to cartIn the struggles of life, even the most well-meaning Christian can lose sight of the happiness and fulfillment God intends for this life. In this deeply personal volume, author Anne Ortlund explains how you can renew and clarify your pespective on life by deriving more practical help for everyday living, and gaining a deeper biblical understanding.
With practical insight, she points the way to achieving a more balanced and purposeful life amid life’s intrusions when you focus on the person of Jesus Christ. Fix Your Eyes on Jesus…it will provide you with a dependable source of strength as well as comfort no matter where you are in your spiritual walk.
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31 Facts About Wisdom
$5.00Add to cartThe Bible Refers to Wisdom 479 times. Wisdom is the Master Key to every Miracle and Blessing you will receive during your life time. Wisdom enables you to see your circumstances through the eyes of God. It is the Door to harmony and happiness in the home. It enables you to see God’s purpose in your problems. Wisdom unlocks opportunity. ” Wisdom is The Principal Thing ” (Prov. 4:7) In this power-packed book focusing on what God says about the rewards and blessings of Wisdom, Dr Murdock has creatd an ideal study guide or family devotional you can use each day of the month. Sow These Seeds of Wisdom into your life, and into your family’s life, and watch them grow into priceless treasures.
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Diagrams For Living
$14.99Add to cartFox has inspired millions of people over the past forty years through his simple, practical guidelines. In Diagrams for Living he presents valuable keys to living a more fulfilled life drawn from the eloquent spiritual wisdom of the Bible.
If we read the Bible literally, cautions Fox, we miss the eternal power and personal relevance found in its symbols, allegories, and parables. “Whether you realize it or not,” he writes, “you are on every page from Genesis to Revelation.” Fox shows how to read dramatic biblical stories as symbolic diagrams for living that can “show you how to overcome difficulties and problems, and how to give expression to the deep aspirations that lie hidden in your soul.” This power to reveal, inspire, and guide makes the Bible’s teachings adaptable to everyone at every stage of spiritual development.
Sensible, contemporary, and full of reassurance, Diagrams for Living offers sage counsel from a gifted teacher.
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When All Else Fails Read The Instructions (Student/Study Guide)
$16.99Add to cartIn When All Else Fails, Read the Instructions, Mooer takes a close look at three sections of the Bible which dramatically underscore key “instructions” for living: 1. Instructions for Meaningful Living- The Beatitudes, 2. Instructions for Moral Living- The Ten Commandments, 3. The Bottom Line Instruction- The New Commandment of Jesus, “Love One Another.” Drawing upon rich stories and personal experience, Moore illustrates how these Bible passages can help you find meaning and fulfillment in life.
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Depleted Self : Sin In A Narcissistic Age
$29.00Add to cartDon Capps challenges the church, its theologians, and its pastors to address seriously-and without moralism – the malaise that afflicts us, the mood of “wrongness” and incompleteness of self, of victimization, hunger, alienation, bitterness, the melancholic form that sin takes so prevailing in our day. This book is an effective example of the postive mirroring, more empathy, or acceptance, that Capps recommends as the means of empowering the depleted self.
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Mi Companero El Espiritu Santo – (Spanish)
$13.99Add to cartYou can enjoy a relationship with the Holy Spirit. Dr. Cho sees himself as the junior partner of the Holy Spirit in his daily work of accomplishing the portion of God’s plan assigned to him. Learn how to be guided by the Holy Spirit every day, receive inspiration through the testimony of David Yonggi Cho, understand and receive the gifts of the Holy Spirit.
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Celebrating The Disciplines
$18.99Add to cartFor those who want to develop a deeper, more joyful inner life through the practice of Christian spiritual disciplines, this one-year journal-workbook helps readers find new ways to reflect on, experience, and integrate the disciplines into their lives.
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Su Manifesta Presencia – (Spanish)
$17.99Add to cartContents
Introduction
Part I – The Heart Cry Of The Lord
1. God’s Desire – To Dwell With His People
2. God’s Fire – His Means Of Preparation
3. God’s Ministry – From The Sanctuary
4. God’s Plan – His Word Within
5. God’s Type – Solomon’s TemplePart II – Moving To Solomon’s Temple
6. God’s Provision – Fulness Of SalvationPart III – Fit For The Master’s Use
7. God’s Workmanship – Changing The Inner Realm
8. God’s Goal – The Restoration Of Hearts
EpilogueAdditional Info
His Manifest Presence is:
* Abiding intimacy with God
* A refuge from the coming storm
* Where genuine worship touches God
* His fulness manifested in Solomon’s Temple
* Where the constant miraculous is experienced dailyWe must move from David’s Tabernacle worship to Solomon’s Temple, where His Manifest Presence is experienced, if we are to live in His fulness and in His protection through the tumultuous days ahead. Here are some ways in which you can enter His presence.
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Following The Master
$24.99Add to cartWhat is it that makes a person a true disciple of Jesus Christ? Following the Master clarifies the objective of Jesus in making disciples by focusing on the historical context of Jesus’ ministry and then finds the perspectives of the different biblical authors. The pragmatic type of book on discipleship that has abounded over the past fifteen years has tended to cause much confusion in the church. Although most authors have sought to be objective in their treatment, the imagined needs of the church often take precedence over objectivity. The author’s experience as a pastor, professor, and scholar has prepared him to provide the objective treatment that is needed. He avoids the theological and pragmatic agendas that have characterized most books on discipleship and instead relies on biblical and historical data to reveal the intentions of Jesus.
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Yearning To Know Gods Will (Workbook)
$17.99Add to cartA desire to know the will of God is, as it should be, the top priority of any serious Christian. But how are you to find out what God’s will is? Who hasn’t agonized, questioned, and then doubted and questioned again? But here is Danny Morris to the rescue with an eight-week workbook on knowing God’s will. Each weeks’ exercise begins with an account of a personal experience of the author from which he brings forth biblical, theological, and historical principles to help you in your search. As you respond, God’s will is certain to become clearer. During the first five weeks, you will learn about the nature of spiritual discernment, discernment for the individual, spiritual intuition, ways in which God communicates with believers, and discernment as a spiritual gift. In the second part, the author shifts his focus to corporate discernment; that is, discernment within and for the church, the body of Christ. At issue here is consensus: how consensus is possible, why it is difficult, and how it works in church boards and committees. Danny Morris insists that consensus is not only biblical but practical, despite skepticism on the part of those whose experience would lead them to believe that disagreement is a way of life in church. Some maintain that consensus would never work in their congregation. But the author points the way to diminish and eventually eliminate such conflict. The third part of the workbook details a workable plan for church retreat, a time away from phones and schedules, where your group will learn how to make decisions by consensus, by group discernment of the will of God for the congregation. What better way to help move forward the work of God?
