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10 Commandments : 12 Studies For Individuals Or Groups (Student/Study Guide)
$12.99Add to cartGod’s rules do more than restrict–they give freedom.
They are words of prevention and protection.
They define identity–ours and God’s.
Each of the studies in this guide by Rob Suggs looks at one of God’s commandments and a Bible passage that will help you better understand how to apply God’s law. As you study these laws, you will encounter God himself.
This revised LifeGuide Bible Study features additional questions for starting group discussions and for meeting God in personal reflection, together with expanded leader’s notes and a “Now or Later” section in each study.
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Garden Of The Soul
$26.99Add to cart1. Winter: An Invitation To A More Fruitful Spiritual Life
2. Soil: Submitting Yourself To God’s Cultivating Work
3. Fence: Meeting God In Solitude And Silence
4. Mess: Connecting With God Through Other People
5. Seed: Hearing And Obeying God’s Word
6. Water: Transforming Your Heart Through Reflective Reading, Prayer And Meditation
7. Space: Pruning To Make Room For Growth
8. Rest: Establishing A Sabbath Rhythm
9. Harvest: Celebrating God’s GiftsAdditional Info
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Chores.These words can fence in your life. The demands on your time and energy too often leave you feeling depleted. How do you foster spiritual growth amid the realites of life today?
Confession, solitude, service, studying the Word, praying, simplifying. Keri Wyatt Kent introduces these disciplines–the practices that foster a flourishing, fruitful garden within your soul. In The Garden of the Soul Kent explores how common disciplines of gardening parallel these necessary habits of spiritual life.
As you work with God to create the right conditions in the soil of your soul, growth will follow. And the harvest will be glorious.
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Discovering The Narrow Path
$24.00Add to cartIn a time when competing and often irreconcilable belief systems seem to dominate all religious conversations in Christianity, N. Graham Standish offers an alternative for leading a spiritual and faithful life. Providing models that embrace elements of many spiritual traditions within Christianity, this book seeks to hold all extremist positions in perfect tension by integrating their essential truths yet also recognizing their flaws. In doing so, Standish surveys the wisdom of the mystics, the practice of forming a Trinitarian faith, the openness of healing traditions, and the value of balancing prayer and action, as well as spirituality, theology, and religion. Complete with two appendices, one a guide for group study and one an introduction to spiritual reading, this book is an essential resource for those seeking spiritual fulfillment.
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New Believers Guide To Effective Christian Living
$8.99Add to cartRenowned evangelist Greg Laurie answers questions common to new Christians in this guide. New Believer’s Guide to Effective Christian Living answers such questions as “How should I live as a Christian?” “How do I talk to God?” and “Where should I go to church?” Attractively priced for buying multiple copies to give away.
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Road Home : Images For The Spiritual Journey
$20.00Add to cartIn this highly accessible biblical study, Sara Covin Juengst writes on images of the road found in Scripture and explores their implications for the Christian spiritual journey. Juengst examines contemporary issues like risk taking, uprootedness, loneliness. and change, all in light of what it means to be “followers of the way.”
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10 Secrets For The Man In The Mirror
$18.99Add to cartIf You Do What You’ve Always Done, You Will Be What You’ve Always Been.
Gut-level and frank–short enough to read on a single plane trip!
Best-selling author Patrick Morley shakes up the existing messages about how men find happiness. In this paradigm-busting book, Morley challenges your comfort zone with neglected biblical insights about happiness that many have been afraid to utter in this me-first generation.
You already know that money and stuff won’t make you happy, don’t you? Are you ready for some reality? Ten Secrets for the Man in the Mirror offers life-changing insights about the nature of true happiness and how to attain it. It helps you discover the “blockage points” that can keep you from joy, and it guides you toward success that matters.
Concise and engaging, this book is perfect for the on-the-go man in search of a guiding purpose the rat race can’t begin to offer.
True happiness has everything to do with the kind of man you are and whose man you are.
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Sermons : Biblical Wisdom For Daily Living
$14.99Add to cartThe man Time magazine hailed as one of America’s finest preachers presents a collection of forty timeless addresses to guide us through the year. With his characteristic eloquence and compassion, quoting from scripture as well as from T.S. Eliot and Woody Allen, Gomes offers us the tools we need to understand the wisdom of the Bible and the joy and inspiration it can bring to everyday life.
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Disciplined Life : The Mark Of Christian Maturity (Reprinted)
$13.00Add to cart1. Discipline The Key To Power
2. Discipline The Mark Of Maturity
3. The Perils Of Discipline
4. Discipline And Holiness
5. The Case For Imposed Discipline
6. How To Become A Disciplined Person
123 PagesAdditional Info
With bold, deft strokes, Dr. Richard S. Taylor penetrates the shallowness of our culture and lays bare the dire need for disciplined living. He deals with all those areas of living that hamper Christians from reaching their full potential, such as overeating, moodiness, erratic emotions, tardiness, lack of submission, and weak priorities. But beyond the habits of daily life, the author presents a clear and practical program for being, from the inside out, a true Christian disciple. -
Heart For God
$30.99Add to cartInterVarsity Press Publication
David. Shepherd boy with slingshot, brave warrior, poet-musician, deceitful adulterer, repentant sinner, beloved king, “a man after God’s own heart.” David faced some desperate circumstances and some tough choices. So do you, day by day. In this book Rebecca Manley Pippert shows how you, like David, can choose the good, find hope and grow to be one who hase a heart for God.
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Church God Blesses
$12.99Add to cartIn this second book of a three-book series on the way God wants to pour out his blessings, best-selling author Jim Cymbala describes the kind of church God wants to bless and use mightily for his kingdom. Cymbala, who pastors The Brooklyn Tabernacle and has seen his church grow from a handful of the faithful to a vibrant, multi-ethnic and growing beacon of hope in the city, believes that God desires to bless the church but that the church is often more interested in programs and “fads.” He outlines the qualities that God is looking for in the church and shows how any church can become a vessel for God’s blessings. Through the use of stories from his own congregation and this pastor’s wise insights from Scripture, this book will satisfy the hunger every Christian has to see the church become what God intended it to be.
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Quiet Spaces : Prayer Interludes For Women
$13.99Add to cartThe intimate relationship with God you’ve yearned for is well within your grasp, despite the chaos of juggling multiple roles, deadlines, and commitments. With Quiet Spaces, you can learn to calm your mind and listen for God’s still small voice in the midst of the tumult around you. Author and professional speaker Patricia Wilson knows what it’s like to struggle with finding a few minutes for herself. Through Quiet Spaces she shows how even a few stray minutes can become a blessed opportunity for a focused encounter with God. Each prayer interlude, which can be completed in as little as five minutes, offers a calming passage from the Psalms, a heartfelt prayer, inspiration from Christ’s words, and an exercise to help readers return to their world. Yes, you can find time to pray, and you can connect with God–let this unique devotional book help you discover how.
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Rekindled Flame : The Passionate Pursuit Of God
$16.99Add to cartAs believers, we have a desperate need to cultivate intimacy with out God, a place of blissful union in His love. Now acclaimed worship leader, singer, and teacher Steve Fry shows us clearly how intimacy is cultivated. “The key to knowing God,” Fry says, “is worship.” From jubilant praise to the very embrace of His heart, the author invites everyone to enter into this mysterious encounter with God’s glory. Here, the reader will find practical instruction on how to meditate in the Scriptures, prepare oneself through praise, and seek God’s face in prayer. If you’re dry, distracted, dissatisfied, drained in spirit–or simply seeking “more”–this biblical praise and worship primer will rekindle the flame of passionate relationship with Christ.
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Christian Imagination : The Practice Of Faith In Literature And Writing (Revised
$37.99Add to cartThe Christian Imagination brings together in a single source the best that has been written about the relationship between literature and the Christian faith. This anthology covers all of the major topics that fall within this subject and includes essays and excerpts from fifty authors, including C.S. Lewis, Flannery O’Connor, Dorothy Sayers, and Frederick Buechner.
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If Jesus Were A Sophmore
$22.00Add to cartIn an open and inviting style, Bruce Main challenges college students to actively embrace young adulthood’s time for identity formation, and intentionally begin to establish habits of discipleship that will create a foundation for a life of radical faithfulness. He raises the question, “How might Jesus want a young adult to use their college years?” and explores potential answers through a number of relevant themes, including dating relationships, relationships with parents, cultivating an “attitude of gratitude,” learning tolerance, and the role of wisdom.
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Reaching For The Invisible God
$16.99Add to cartIn Disappointment With God, Philip Yancey explored how we frequently have false expectations of God and the way he interacts with us and the world. Now he looks at the situation from the other side, asking “How do we relate to a God who is invisible, when we are never quite sure he is there?” With his unflinching determination to explore truth, Yancey investigates how we communicate with an invisible God. He probes an area of faith where theology and personal experience often oppose each other and searches out workable ways for Christians to grow into what he calls “childlike maturity.”
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Self Esteem : Seeing Ourselves As God Sees Us
$12.99Add to cartThe world encourages you to love yourself, believe in yourself and tell yourself that you are intelligent, capable, beautiful, wonderful. But deep down, what do you most want to know? What does God think of you? What is your true worth?
As Jack Kuhatschek leads you through nine Bible studies on self-esteem, you’ll gain an essential understanding of who you are and how God is restoring you to wholeness.
Now available in IVP’s revised LifeGuide Bible Study format, Self-Esteem features questions for starting group discussions and for personal reflection, as well as a new “Now or Later” section following each session.
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Where Is God When It Hurts (Anniversary)
$19.99Add to cart“If there is a loving God, then why…?” No matter how the question is completed, at its root lies the issue of pain. Does God order suffering? Or did he simply wind up the world’s mainspring and now is watching from a distance? In this Gold Medallion Award-winning book, Philip Yancey reveals a God who is neither capricious nor unconcerned. Using examples from the Bible and from his own experiences, Yancey looks at pain–physical, emotional, and spiritual–and helps us understand why we suffer.
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Joy Of Being Forgiven
$16.99Add to cartYou can live in freedom from the pain, guilt, and shame of the past! Andrew Murray’s in-depth study explains the wonderful effects of being forgiven. As you read and follow the principles in the book, you will discover that: your burden of sin is lifted; your guilt is washed away; you know the freedom of forgiveness; you are able to live in God’s presence; and your joy overflows. You can receive the forgiveness you have been seeking!
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Success Gods Way
$19.99Add to cart“Success is defined by a continuing desire to be the person God called you to be and to achieve those goals that God helps you to set,” says Charles Stanley. In Success God’s Way, Stanley teaches God’s principles for success, including ten steps to help you reach God’s goals in your life, and what to do about the seven success blockers that entangle believers.
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Jesus I Never Knew
$19.99Add to cartAn old adage says, “God created man in His own image and man has been returning the favor ever since.” Philip Yancey realized that despite a lifetime attending Sunday school topped off by a Bible college education, he really had no idea who Jesus was. In fact, he found himself further and further removed from the person of Jesus, distracted instead by flannel-graph figures and intellectual inspection. He determined to use his journalistic talents to approach Jesus, in the context of time, within the framework of history.
In The Jesus I Never Knew, Yancey explores the life of Jesus, as he explains, “‘from below,’ to grasp as best I can what it must have been like to observe in person the extraordinary events unfolding in Galilee and Judea” as Jesus traveled and taught. Yancey examines three fundamental questions: who Jesus was, why he came, and what he left behind. Step by step, scene by scene, Yancey probes the culture into which Jesus was born and grew to adulthood; his character and mission; his teachings and miracles; his legacy–not just as history has told it, but as he himself intended it to be.Yancey is not alone in his examination of the “real” Jesus. Publishing today is replete with writers committed to setting the story “straight,quot; joining countless others who, over the past 2,000 years, have determined to discover the truth about Jesus. But where others would deconstruct and discount, Yancey disarms and discloses. We become colleagues with him as he examines the accounts of the life of Jesus. And among the things that we discover is that Jesus himself leaves us few options: either he was who he said he was or he was nuts.
Philip Yancey was awarded the Gold Medallion Christian Book of the Year award for this book in 1996 by the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association. It’s not the first, nor the last, award Yancey has won for his writing. But the writing is not necessarily the great gift of this book. Yancey allows the reader to discover, along with him, The Jesus I Never Knew.
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Experiencing Christ Within Workbook (Workbook)
$18.00Add to cartImagine your life overflowing with never ending passion. Sound impossible? Not when you’re Experiencing Christ Within says Dwight Edwards. A companion to his book Revolution Within, this workbook will show you how to experience fresh power and purpose by drawing on the supernatural resources within every believer. The author will guide you on a fascinating examination of these life-changing biblical truths and their practical outworking. The result: You’ll tap into a vibrant eternal reality and experience refreshing intimacy with God, new liberty, a deeper sense of community with other believers, and a greater capacity for ministry – all with a passion for God’s glory.
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What Matters Most
$16.99Add to cartDo you want to be challenged to deepen your understanding of the characteristics and requirements of Almighty God? The Understanding God Series contains the bulk of Pastor Tony Evans’ compelling and hard-hitting resources on the essentials about God, Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, Spiritual Warfare, and prophecy. Now available in paperback, readers will not want to be without a single book in the series by this popular and powerful speaker and author.
What are the central precepts a person should know to fully follow Christ? As only he can, Tony Evans very clearly presents what he terms “four absolute necessities” to following the Lord. Readers will be led into a more intense, passionate walk with Christ as they come to understand what’s required.
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Returning To Your First Love
$16.99Add to cartDo you want to be challenged to deepen your understanding of the characteristics and requirements of Almighty God? The Understanding God Series contains the bulk of Pastor Tony Evans’ compelling and hard-hitting resources on the essentials about God, Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, Spiritual Warfare, and prophecy. Now available in paperback, readers will not want to be without a single book in the series by this popular and powerful speaker and author.
Addiction, immorality, broken relationships – we all suffer spiritual setbacks. In Returning to Your First Love, readers will learn how to return to God and keep working out the most important relationship in our lives.
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7 Rewards Of Problem Solving
$8.00Add to cartHow To Examine And Solve Your Problems Through The Wisdom of God. 4 Keys To Recognizing The Problems You Were Created To Solve / 6 Keys To Establishing Your Legacy As A Problem Solver / 12 Rewards Received When You Solve Problems For Others / 5 Important Keys To Remember When You Face A Problem.
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Power Of Personal Prayer
$15.99Add to cartin 19 Chapters
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God intends for every believer to have a great prayer life, but few do. Although we may pray fervently when we face a crisis, many of us find it awkward-even impossible-to have a meaningful prayer life at other times. In an easy to understand and encouraging manner, Jonathan Graf presents the keys to a dynamic prayer life. He teaches the foundational truths of what prayer is and how essential it is in our relationship with God. He tackles tough questions about different types of prayer and when to use them. And he offers practical tips on how to pray more effectively.Whether you’re a new believer or one who has struggled with prayer for years, this book will help you grow in your prayer life. Through his knowledge of the Scriptures and his broad experience in the subject of prayer, Jonathan Graf will disciple you in the practice of prayer. He will help you experience more of God through prayer-the believer’s lifeline to God’s heart.
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Jesus The Pastor
$22.99Add to cartThere are times when the best training, the wisest principles, and the most effective procedures break down in the face of the realities of pastoring. How often have you wished not for a method, but a mentor? Someone caring enough to join you in the trenches and wise enough to guide you unerringly through your most impossible problems? A pastors’ pastor. There is such a person: Jesus. Remember his promise never to leave you or forsake you? He’s ready to take it personally if you are. Jesus the Pastor may well be the book that transforms your ministry. Read it if you’re ready to admit that your toolbox of personal resources is limited. And prepare for one of the most wonderful surprises of your life. Because the Good Shepard stands ready to equip you with his power, his insight, his very heart–so you can fulfill with undreamed-of effectiveness the calling he himself placed within you.
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More Ready Than You Realize
$18.99Add to cartThe words “evangelizing” and “postmoderns” and “matrix” are all buzzwords and are heard in the same sentence quite a bit these days. Now that evangelicals are alerted to the presence of change in our culture and discovering ways to adjust to that change, the next step is to take initiative and meet the new society head-on. We are talking about emerging-culture evangelism.
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8 Critical Lifetime Decisions
$12.99Add to cartWho will my friends be? What will I do for a living? How will I handle money? How will I deal with temptation? Who will my Master be? The quality of your life can be substantially improved by making good decisions in these and other key areas. In 8 Critical Lifetime Decisions, Ralph Palmen reveals principles that will help the reader discover new confidence, direction, and drive. The truths resulting from these eight decisions can be applied starting today. Regardless of age, occupation, previous setbacks, or unfulfilled dreams – change is possible starting with the next decision. Learning to make wise decisions helps make the rest of life’s choices easier, toppling impulsiveness and creating the freedom to be all that God intended.
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Lit : Living Christs Character From The Inside Out
$16.95Add to cartIn this provocative book, nationally recognized speaker David Edwards delivers thirteen chapters on how to ignite the fire within and learn what it means to live out your faith in a postmodern world. After reading just a few pages, you’ll discover that Edwards’s pen blazes with the same passion, enthusiasm, and humor that have made him a highly sought-after national speaker. Practical “Spotlight” exercises at the end of each chapter are designed to help you transfer the truth of each chapter into your everyday experience, and thought-provoking questions for both groups and individuals will help you ignite the light within your hearts and teach you how to live the lit life.
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Men Mentoring Men Again
$21.95Add to cart“And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, ‘… Go therefore and make disciples….’ “
The need for mentoring has never been greater in our society. Men Mentoring Men Again helps meet that need by effectively challenging and equipping men to take their roles as spiritual “fathers” and “brothers” in Christ seriously.
Bill McCartney
Founder and President, Promise KeepersThis guide goes beyond Men Mentoring Men to consider pressing issues men face. How does a man overcome habitual sins? How do men cope with the busyness of life? What’s a godly man’s role in the workplace? Men using this resource will develop a spiritual growth plan, as well as learning to wage spiritual warfare, to fast and pray, and to walk in obedience. Best of all, Dr. Donovan’s teachings are presented in terms that any man can understand and apply.
Men Mentoring Men Again is a resource designed to assist Christian men in fulfilling Christ’s commission. It is 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 daily journal as well as being committed to regular Bible reading.
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Saint Benedict On The Freeway
$18.99Add to cartHow can we heal the rift between our daily lives and the sacred? How can we live a life capable of hearing “the still small voice” of God while experiencing the speed and sensory overload of modern life? This book is Ware’s answer to these questions. She acknowledges that others have addressed the questions; on the one hand there are books which have significant depth but speak in academic or “in-group” language and provide little help adapting these insights to everyday life. On the other hand, there are practical “how-to” exercises which assist in very particular spiritual experiences but which do not offer integrated, sustainable, life-changing patterns. St. Benedict On The Freeway fills this gap. It “translates into twenty-first century life spiritually formative practices worked out in the past, creatively adapting those disciplines to contemporary daily life.” This adaptation is the heart of Ware’s book. She attempts first to draw attention to our own awareness of God. She discusses how a “Rule” functioned for Benedict’s time, and how it can function for us as a liberating reminder of God instead of another repressive and burdensome taskmaster. Ware also asks how the hours of prayer–vigils, lauds, prime, terce, sext, none, vespers, compline–can increase our spiritual awareness even if our ‘community’ does not stop for prayer at designated times during the day. And, Ware explores prayer in dimensions beyond the spoken word.
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How To Keep A Spiritual Journal
$14.99Add to cartThis revised edition of a thorough guide offers steps for anyone interested in keeping a spiritual journal, from recommendations for notebooks to ways to work through common frustrations and writer’s block. Ron Klug relies on his experience as a workshop leader, journal keeper, and author to create a book that is both helpful and wise.
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Reaching For The Invisible God Study Guide (Student/Study Guide)
$12.99Add to cartIn the book Reaching for the Invisible God Philip Yancey steers clear of trite detours, inviting readers to travel through the most difficult parts of pursuing a relationship with the transcendent God. Making use of his wide experience and a rich well of stories, Yancey considers honestly the predicaments of human existence, that we are distracted with daily routines like work and school, we open up the computer more than we open our Bibles, and we seek success instead of God. We forget God and become guilty of worshipping the impossible while failing to believe in the possible–that the relationship of the grace God extends to us daily. In the Bible we can and will encounter God’s loving and gracious personality. Without cliches, Yancey reminds us that doubt and difficulty, two seeming foes of friendship with God, can actually spur intimacy with him.
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Growing Through Lifes Challenges (Student/Study Guide)
$7.99Add to cartRejection, overwhelming responsibilities, doubts, grief, anger. These are areas of struggle for all of us. This studyguide explores 11 challenges common to people in the Bible-and to us. By observing how these biblical characters brought their fears and frustrations to God, you can receive help and hope to do the same, and discover again that God’s character and presence offer constant strength in any difficulty. Fisherman Bible Studyguides offer:
* Penetrating questions that generate discussion
* Flexible format for groups or individual needs
* Helpful leader’s notes
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Streams Of Living Water (Revised)
$15.00Add to cart1999 GOLD MEDALLION WINNER
In this landmark work, Foster examines the foundations of Christian experience, growth, and renewal found in six historical movements: contemplative, holiness, charismatic, social justice, evangelical, and incarnational. Using profiles of biblical and modern characters who exemplify these traditions, he offers suggestions on how to integrate them into your daily life—leading to authentic Christian experience.
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Speaking Of Sin
$13.95Add to cartIn Speaking of Sin, Barbara Brown Taylor brings her fresh perspective to a cluster of words that often cause us discomfort and have widely fallen into neglect: sin, damnation, repentance, penance, and salvation. She asks, Why, then, should we speak of sin anymore? The only reason I can think of is because we believe that God means to redeem the world through us.
Abandoning the language of sin will not make sin go away. Human beings will continue to experience alienation, deformation, damnation and death no matter what we call them. Abandoning the language will simply leave us speechless before them, and increase our denial of their presence in our lives. Ironically, it will also weaken the language of grace, since the full impact of forgiveness cannot be felt apart from the full impact of what has been forgiven.
Contrary to the prevailing view, Taylor calls sin a helpful, hopeful word. Naming our sins, she contends, enables us to move from guilt to grace. In recovering this lost language of salvation in our worship and in the fabric of our individual lives, we have an opportunity to take part in the divine work of redemption.
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Secret Place : Passionately Pursuing His Presence
$16.99Add to cart240 Pages
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You hunger to live in the presence of God. You yearn to know the Father’s heart in an intimate way. You desire revelation and passionate encounters with the Almighty. You long to spend time in the Secret Place, getting to know the Father in a deeper way. This book will lead you into that place of revelation, the place that will satisfy your hunger for more of God. If you long to experience a greater intimacy with the Father, The Secret Place will draw you in and change your life! -
Maximize The Moment
$24.00Add to cartUsing ageless biblical principles, Bishop T.D. Jakes teaches that every moment of every day, God provides all we need to achieve success. In Maximize the Moment, he explains how to release ourselves from damaging relationships and debilitating fears, how to face and conquer obstacles that may stand in our path to success, and how to move beyond our painful pasts.
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Steps To Freedom In Christ (Reprinted)
$10.99Add to cartContrary to the fairy tales, receiving Christ does not mean that we won’t have conflicts in our lives. However, we can overcome them because of our position in Christ as children of God. The Steps to Freedom in Christ helps Christians reclaim the promise of freedom that Christ offers all who come in His name. It includes a spiritual inventory to help identify and break free from condemning thoughts, compulsive behaviors, personal conflicts, spiritual struggle and despair, and any type of personal or spiritual bondage. The Steps to Freedom in Christ is a comprehensive process to help Christians resolve personal and spiritual conflicts in Christ. This smaller version of the new and revised Steps to Freedom in Christ makes it easier and more convenient to take the steps with you everywhere you go.
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8 Life Enriching Practices Of United Methodists
$9.99Add to cartThis resource is a summary study of the eight life-enriching practices that are part of the series–prayer, Bible study, evangelism, community, worship and the sacraments, outreach, justice and others. Questions for discussion are included with each chapter.
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Decisions : Seeking Gods Guidance
$12.99Add to cartDon Baker begins this guide by saying, “God has given me free will, and while I appreciate his confidence in my ability to choose, there are times when I wish that he would make the decisions for me.” Unfortunately, the Bible cannot give us the answer to every choice we face either. But the Bible does teach us how to make decisions. And these studies will help you to learn those principles and apply them to your life. This LifeGuide Bible Study in the new revised format features questions for starting group discussions and for meeting God in personal reflection, as well as a new “Now or Later” section in each study.
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Orientacion Basica Para Recien – (Spanish)
$12.99Add to cartThis revised and updated edition of “Orientation for New Believers” is a very useful tool for pastors, leaders, and anyone else helping newborn Christians, as well as for those who used the previous edition. In its nine chapters, the reader will find reviewing exercises and others to consolidate specific terms and concepts. Even though this work can be read by the new Christian, it is much more effective when used as a study manual for the first week’s preparation of new members. The central focus of the book is the newborn, but every Christian can benefit by reading it- even if you are an active member in your church.
This manual will help you review key concepts of basic Biblical principles, and expand your knowledge of Christian-living. All this … and much more can be achieved through this practical and concise manual, yet vast in spiritual resources.
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Feeling Fooled : How To Stop Letting Your Negative Emotions Wreck Your Life
$20.49Add to cartRead of Solveig. Share in this Norwegian immigrant’s true adventures and lifetime story. See how special an everyday common person’s life can be when dedicated early and diligently to Jesus. With God, ordinary and painful days can be filled with extraordinary blessings and miracles. Placing full trust in her Lord, miraculous healings, visions, and angelic interventions interrupt and impact her life. Petitioning God, going through opened doors, and trusting completely in Him are rewarded. Solveig’s life gives evidence of God’s awareness of and faithfulness to all of His children. Written as a legacy to her grandchildren, Solveig recounts a confused and disappointing childhood; the traumatic Nazi Occupation of Norway; meeting and marrying Arne; immigrating to America; and seasons of family growth, trials, lack, and loss. The evidence of God’s faithfulness to Solveig encourages others to choose and remain determined to follow God’s paths for their lives.
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Biografias De Grandes Cristian – (Spanish)
$15.99Add to cartThey need to do some thing that will challenge their courage. They had to win a battle that will mine the trenght of the most intelligent. But they accept the challenge… Vida Publishers, present the edition of Biographies of Great Christians in a brief way, simplify biographies of some of the most distinguish character in church, from the past and present. Many wonder to whom they can attribute the great success of servant of God like Luther, Bunyan, Wesley, Whitefiled, Finney, Carey, Judson, and many others. Certainly no to their talent nor to their strength of will. The true mystery of their greatness of the christian are, and is, the prayer. For those that walk with God in prayer, like they did, there are no mystery on this. And to many, the life of these men’s has a lot to talk about, their biography inspire us and show that they victory of the Christian depend on the prayer.
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Humility : The Journey Toward Holiness (Reprinted)
$8.99Add to cart12 Chapters
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The Journey Toward HolinessWhen Jesus “made himself nothing…taking the nature of a servant,” He modeled for all believers true humility. Andrew Murray calls this “our true nobility” and “the distinguishing feature of discipleship.” With insightful, penetrating clarity, Murray calls all Christians to turn from pride, empty themselves, and study the character of Christ to be filled with His grace.
Often called the best work on humility ever written, this edition has been edited for today’s reader.
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Clouds And Glory
$21.95Add to cartClouds and Glory is one of a three-volume collection of prayers, scripture readings, and blessings based on the Common Worship Lectionary, used in many parts of the Anglican Communion. Written in the Celtic style for which the author is known, and linked to the Sunday readings for Year A, these prayers and intercessions may be used by congregations for the Prayers of the People, as well as by those who seek to supplement their own daily devotions.
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Exito Ala Maner De Dios – (Spanish)
$14.99Add to cartEl exito genuino, desde el punto de vista de Dios, esta arraigado en la categoria en que Dios nos ha puesto, en las metas que Dios quiere para nuestras vidas. Mientras que el mundo tiende a definir el exito en terminos de fama y fortuna, el Dr. Stanley cree que Dios resume los exitos en terminos de relacion, caracter y obediencia.
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Wasting Time With God
$35.99Add to cartWhen it comes to developing a deep, trusting relationship with God, efficiency and productivity are not the answer. It’s far better to “waste” time with him, to just enjoy being with him. After all, that’s how any friendship grows. But making room for God in the midst of our fast-paced lives is not an easy task. Just as time with our best friends can get squeezed out by the rush of activities, so can time with God. Even “wasting time” with God means making a commitment and setting priorities–whether it’s something we enjoy or not. Beginning with the supposition that God desires friendship with us, Klaus Issler encourages us to consider seven character traits and to develop their companion disciplines: friendship, humility, faith, commitment, communication, apprenticeship and partnership. Here is a full-orbed model of Christian spirituality that will be of lasting value.
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Poder Vivo – (Spanish)
$14.99Add to cartIt’s time for us to get hold of the Holy Spirit-or rather, to let him get hold of us. Pastor Jim Cymbala of the Brooklyn Tabernacle cuts through the theological clutter about the Holly Spirit with this fundamental truth: We need the Spirit desperately. All our cleverness can’t transform a single crack addict, heal the heart of a rape victim, or draw a jaded businessman to Christ. Only God’s Spirit can do that. Drawing examples from the Bible and from the sidewalks of New York City, Fresh Power show what happens when the Spirit of God moves in your midst. With passion and convictions, Pastor Jim Cymbala of the Brooklyn Tabernacle reminds us that in this sin-torn, heart-broken culture, we cannot do without the Holy Spirit. And we can’t afford to presume his presence. We need to seek him with the same fervor as the early belivers. Discover what happens when the Holy Spirit moves in power. Jim Cymbala shares with you the witness of Scritpure and the stories of men and women whose lives have been transformed. From the healing of the lame man in the book of Acts to the stirring conversion of serial killer David Berkowitz, better known as “Son son Sam” you’ll see how the Spirit accomplishes what no human wisdom or power can produce. Fresh Power will expand your vision of what God can and will do and inspire you to pray like never before of the power of the Spirit in your church – and in you.
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Celebrate Change
$17.99Add to cart1. An Invitation To Change
2. Beauty For Ashes
3. A Minister, A Mouse, And A Miracle
4. Now What?
5. Complications
6. The Path Of Most Resistance
7. Hidden Treasure
8. Party Time!
160 PagesAdditional Info
Celebrate Change is your ticket to joy on your journey to your destiny.Our purposes on this planet if it is to be birthed, will take us through uncomfortable times. Changing seasons are God’s invitation to witness His Glory. By embracing change, we embrace Him.
In these pages, you will find the keys to preparing for, understanding, and adjusting to changes in your life. You will find out why you should cheer about every change, not just the ones that feel good.
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Designed To Be Like Him
$21.99Add to cart32 Chapters
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Against the flow of consumerist Christianity, Dr. Pentecost reminds the reader that the Christian Life is not primarily about Jesus being our friend, finding the keys to happiness, or just making it to heaven. In this insightful look at godliness, one of America’s most respected and practical theologians discusses the essential principles that encompass every aspect of life.
Our life in Christ redefines our purposes and reshapes our perspectives. With our eternal destination secured, we embark on a lifelong journey toward godliness, being changed into the image of Christ as we live a life empowered by the Holy Spirit. Centered on Scripture, Designed to Be like Him takes you step-by-step through a theologically sound pattern for maturing in Christ. Fellowship, conduct, conflict, and maturity are all discussed in detailed, yet understandable, language. -
Companions In Christ Journal (Reprinted)
$9.99Add to cartJournal writing is a sharing between our true selves and God.”
It’s a powerful yet simple spiritual practice. Journaling goes beyond the near-constant inner conversations we have with ourselves every day. The mere act of putting our unedited thoughts on paper, in our own handwriting, leads to eye-opening insights, clarity of thought and deeper reflection.
That’s why a journal is an integral part of Companions in Christ.
Respond to exercises contained in your participant’s book. Highlight the answers or questions you want to share with others in your group meeting. Reviewing and writing in your journal will be an important part of preparing for each group session. The Companions in Christ Journal complements the entire Companions in Christ series.
The 160-page journal features clean, open pages with faint lines to guide your writing. The book’s binding (layflat, in print terms) is flexible and conducive to easy handwriting and yet strong enough to withstand a well-thumbed lifetime. Thoughtful single quotations designed to guide your reflection are included in the margins on every other page. An introduction by journaling expert and Upper Room author, Anne Broyles, will inspire both the new and experienced diarist.
This beautiful journal was designed exclusively for participants of Companions in Christ, but it can be used by anyone.
As one of the quotations contained within the pages of this journal says, “Silence becomes like a creative space in which we regain perspective on the whole.” Let this journal be a bridge between you and God so that you may be whole!
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Race Set Before Us
$39.99Add to cartIn this explanation of the biblical theology of perserverance and assurance, Thomas Schreiner and Ardel Caneday weigh and consider all of the relevant New Testament texts. Applying sound principles of biblical interpretation and conversing with recent evangelical thought, they give us a foundational study with profound spiritual implications for Christian living and pastoral ministry.
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Divine Conspiracy : Dallas Willards Study Guide To The Divine Conspiracy (Studen
$15.99Add to cartThis study guide expands the discussion begun in The Divine Conspiracy, focusing on and clarifying key issues and encouraging a fuller understanding of Christian discipleship. Here you will find:
Overviews and summaries of each chapter of The Divine Conspiracy
Scripture meditations to enhance your understanding of the text
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7 Checkpoints Student Journal (Student/Study Guide)
$16.99Add to cart1. What’s It All About? The Seven Checkpoints
2. Checkpoint #1: Authentic Faith
3. Checkpoint #2: Spiritual Disciplines
4. Checkpoint #3: Moral Boundaries
5. Checkpoint #4: Healthy Friendships
6. Checkpoint #5: Wise Choices
7. Checkpoint #6: Ultimate Authority
8. Checkpoint #7: Others First
9. Conclusion: Set In StoneAdditional Info
What if you were told that the secrets of the most awesome life ever could be yours if you just knew seven principles? What if you were told that these seven checkpoints were simple to understand and that you could start living them within a few short days-though they would take a lifetime to master?
You would at least wonder about them. You might even ask to know them. Well, they are yours. These seven checkpoints are in the book you are holding right now; in fact, they are written down just for you.
So what are you waiting for? You have a life to build. Open this book and get the seven. -
Women Gifted For Ministry
$19.99Add to cartAn interactive workbook to help women realize their gifts and use them effectively.
*Presents the 9 tasks gifts–evangelism, helps, teaching, exhortation, giving, administration, showing mercy, prophecy, shepherding
*Recognizes that women may exercise their gifts in different ways from men
*Gives a biblical example of a woman with each of these gifts
*Identifies dangers or weaknesses associated with the gifts
*Shows what these gifts look like in today’s world, by giving individual examples
*Provides study questions for each chapter, tied to inductive Bible study
*Includes a “Spiritual Gifts Questionnaire”
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Meeting God : 12 Studies For Individuals Or Groups (Student/Study Guide)
$12.99Add to cartWhen you meet God, you will be changed. Meet him now as J. I. Packer, author of the bestselling Christian classic, Knowing God, leads you through twelve key passages from the Old and New Testaments. These inductive Bible studies will engage your heart and mind. And enlarge your vision of the God you worship and serve. Now available in IVP’s revised LifeGuide Bible Study format, Meeting God features questions for starting group discussions and for personal reflection, as well as a new “Now or Later” section following each session.
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Breaking Free From Sins Grip
$14.99Add to cartIs there something keeping you from breaking through to the life in Christ you want? Sondra’s family lived in a pitiful wooden shack that basically consisted of a front porch and two small bedrooms. Tiny beams of sunlight filtered through the holes in the walls. The toilet was in the back yard. When Sondra discribed the beautiful home her father dreamed of building for his family, her classmate Frank Moore never really believed the family would ever move into that dream house. Then one day Sondra invited him to come see her new house. They drove across a dirt path through the field behind the shack. There in the middle of the field stood a big, red-brick Southern mansion with four white columns setting off a two-story front porch. A father’s dream had come true! Your Heavenly Father looks down through time and dreams big dreams for you. He dreams of the holy life you will have through an intimate, personal relationship with Him. With candor and honesty, and humor, Dr. Frank Moore delves into the issues of holiness that all of us need to know to live free of sin’s condeming power. God has not called you to an impossible task. Dr. More helps you see how to achieve your holiness goals and live in harmony with your Lord.
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Gods Word : Power To Shape Our Lives (Student/Study Guide)
$12.99Add to cart1. Longing For Christ – John 1:1-5, 14-18
2. Food For Life – Isaiah 55
3. Applying The Word – Matthew 13:1-23
4. Gathering Around The Word – Acts 2:42-47
5. Knowing The Mind Of Christ – 1 Corinthians 2:6-16
6. Guided By The Word – Psalm 119:97-108
7. Strengthened By The Word – Joshua 1:1-9
8. Passing The Word On – Deuteronomy 6:1-9
9. Reflecting The Word – 2 Corinthians 3Additional Info
You love God’s Word. You want Scripture to inform you daily life and seep deep into your soul. Yet too often Bible study becomes a mere fact-finding exercise or a dull, spiritless routine.How can Bible reading shape you and transform you?
How can you meet God face to face while pondering his message in the Old and New Testaments?
Cindy Bunch has written this practical study guide to help you experience the variety of ways that Scripture can meet your desire for spiritual connection and growth. Utilizing the revised LifeGuide Bible Study format, God’s Word features questions for starting group discussions and for meeting God in personal reflection. A helpful “Now or Later” section at the end of each study offers you suggestions for further study, prayer or application. Notes for group leaders are also included.
Here is help for loving God’s Word–and living it.
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Christian Beliefs : 12 Studies For Indiviuals Or Groups (Student/Study Guide)
$12.99Add to cartChristian beliefs are vital to Christian living. They are the foundation of your relationship to God – and even with others. So… what do Christians believe? In this study guide, Stephen Eyre introduces one by one twelve key tenets of the Christian faith. Here is what you need to know (and tell others) about God, Christ, the Holy Spirit, human nature, sin, salvation, holiness, the church, mission, revelation, and last things. Now available in IVP’s revised LifeGuide Bible Study format, “Christian Beliefs” features questions for starting group discussions and for personal reflection, as well as a new “Now or Later” section following each session.
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Donde Esta Dios Cuando Sucede – (Spanish)
$15.99Add to cartSuffering: its stubborn inevitability prompts our deepest doubts about life_-as well as a profound search for meaning. Why do we suffer? Why must we lose the ones we love? Why must each of us face sickness and death? If God exists, where is God when these things happen? International evangelist Luis Palau has seen desperate suffering in the lives of millions of people all over the world and has experienced it in his own life, especially with the early death of his father and with his wife’s painful fight against breast cancer. In this book Palau helps those in pain come to grips with the crushing adversities of life by pointing them to the limitless resources found in God. Helpful to readers already committed in their faith, this book is an empathetic exploration of divine action in the midst of terrible pain.
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Stages Of Sanctification
$22.99Add to cartThe book defines seven stages of spiritual maturity for Christians. It explains how the process of sanctification works in each stage and involves the power of the cross and the resurrection to defeat the power of sin and bring new life. Each stage has special challenges, opportunities, and dangers.
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Renewed Mind : Becoming The Person God Wants You To Be (Expanded)
$13.00Add to cart14 Chapters
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Becoming the person God wants you to be . . .
Have you ever tried to break a bad habit? By sheer willpower you set your mind to overcome it . . .but suddenly, there it is again! Do you ever have thoughts rise up in your mind that would make you blush if they were suddenly broadcast over a loudspeaker?
Experiences like this express the gap that exists between what we are and what we want to be. This book is all about bridging that gap! In a vivid series of images and parables, the Christian life is depicted not as a drear duty, but as an adventure of faith – living each day by the guidance and power of Christ’s indwelling presence.
The Renewed Mind touches on five major areas of spiritual experience:
-Dependence on God
-Facing challenges with the authority of Christ
-Patience
-Discipline
-Prayer
Includes new selections from Larry Christenson’s other memorable teachings – Back to Square One and The Notre Dame Football Talk – plus new study questions. -
Sacred Thirst : Meeting God In The Desert Of Our Longings
$19.99Add to cartJesus once said, “Whoever drinks of the water that I will give them will never be thirsty.” So why are Christians still thirsty? We throw ourselves into church work, Bible studies, prayer, missions, fellowship. Yet still we search restlessly for something more. What are we missing?
Perhaps the answer is, more of Jesus. Church meetings and programs, ministry, Christian counseling, and home groups are all good, but they are not him. It doesn’t matter how devoted we are to these wonderful activities; they are not the same thing as communion with Jesus. Our souls crave him alone.
In Sacred Thirst, author and pastor Craig Barnes brings us face-to-face with our desperate longing for God. Like the woman at the well, we have tried to satisfy our parched souls with so many other things – even religious things. But when we get to the bottom of our desire, we find Jesus quietly waiting with his living water – intimate communion with the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
This book is filled with unique insights into human experience and the character of God. With his keen understanding of the needs of contemporary Christians, Barnes points to the only way our thirst will ever be satisfied. Drawing from his rich background in the Bible and his tender insights as a pastor, he leads us into a new understanding of ourselves and the uncontrollable but gracious God we seek.
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Battle Techniques For War Weary Saints
$5.00Add to cartYou Will Wonder How You Ever Triumphed Without This Concise, Informative Book. Renew your faith and learn…
Your Battle Is For A Reason And Only For A Season
Your Most Powerful Weapons Against The Enemy
4 Forces That Shorten Your Seasons Of Struggle
20 Key Principles And Techniques About War
This book could make you feel brand new. -
Prayer And Devotional Life Of United Methodists
$14.99Add to cartThis volume in the United Methodist Studies series challenges United Methodist to engage in life-transforming practices. The author explains a theme and underscores major emphases within the United Methodist denomination. This adult study is divided into four sections with suggestions for groug discussion, and can be completed in 4 to 8 sessions. No leaders guide is needed.
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Faith On The Edge
$20.99Add to cartDo you want to live for Jesus but struggle with what that means day by day? The deep desire of our hearts to be close to God is so easily sidetracked by daily realities. This book is designed to cover the areas of faith and life that you most want to bring together under God’s leadership such as: decision-making, dating and relationships, suffering, experiencing God, hope for times of failure, and emotional healing.
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Hard Work Of Rest
$9.99Add to cartCorporate America is certainly one of the greatest testing grounds for personal faith and conviction. With an increasing number of believers across the globe seeking to integrate their faith into the workplace, the editors of Life@Work have targeted five key areas in work in which Christians can apply God’s Truth. Looking at the topics of Ethics, Calling, Ambition, and Coaching, each book provides relevant quotes, illustrations, principles and life application questions. These books are excellent for individual study or group interaction and discussion.
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Lord I Want To Know You (Student/Study Guide)
$17.00Add to cartEnjoy the expanded and updated editions of the best-selling “Lord” Bible Study Series from Kay Arthur. Discover the Limitless Power of God’s Name. So much of our confusion and pain results because we don’t know God — who He really is, how He works in our lives. Let Kay Arthur guide you through the Scriptures in this deeply insightful study. Your daily time with God in His Word will introduce you to the limitless treasure available to you as His child. And these are truths you can share easily with others, individually or in small groups.
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Still Listening : New Horizons In Spiritual Direction
$32.95Add to cartInterest in the practice of spiritual direction has grown in recent years. With the increased number of people seeking direction have come a number of new issues confronting spiritual directors. This volume of essays by seasoned spiritual directors form a variety of faith traditions addresses issues of concern to directors today such as direction with: abused persons, the poor, church drop-outs, and gays and lesbians. Other essays look at spiritual direction in new contexts, such as the congregational setting, the corporate arena, spiritual direction and genera- tional issues, and direction at the turn of the century. The final section of the book addresses some specific circumstances: working with the addicted, with those who are dying, using art in spiritual direction, and direction and social justice.
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Searching For A God To Love
$18.99Add to cartSearching for a God to Love reaches out to those seeking a new understanding of God–apart from preconception, institutionalized religion, or pre-packaged agenda. Throughout the book, Chris Blake divides the mystery surrounding who God is and reveals the powerful, infinite, and loving relationship God seeks to have with mere mortals. With chapter titles such as “Beyond Mother Nature” and “The World’s Greatest Lover,” Searching for a God to Love offers a fresh perspective for those seeking a God in whom they can believe.
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Full Life In Christ
$18.99Add to cart32 Chapters
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Experience full life in Christ . . .
Experiencing abundant joy and dynamic power is possible for every Christian today. But first, we need to focus on the life and personality of Christ. Andrew Murray paints a portrait of the Son of God that will arouse your desire to be like Him. Depicted in these pages are many characteristics of Christ, including His compassion, His self-denial, His oneness with the Father, His prayer life, and His use of Scripture.
You will discover how you can have a full life in Him and how you, too, can reflect the life and love of Jesus in your daily walk. -
Encountering God : Christian Faith In Turbulent Times
$23.00Add to cartChristian doctrine gives order to the Christian life – what people believe, know, and what they do about God’s message of salvation. In this clear and helpful introduction to doctrine, Purves and Partee focus on the basic issues of Christian faith as filtered through contemporary experience: the mystery of faith, justification and sanctification, salvation, sin, the sacraments, hope, and joy. Useful for both group and individual study or in the classroom, this guide brings the doctrines of the Christian faith to life, and helps readers understand the relevance of these doctrines in day-to-day experience.
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What Christian Living Is All About (Student/Study Guide)
$12.99Add to cartGrow spiritually as you learn how to apply God’s Word and meet the daily challenges of living your faith in this indepth study of James. Meditate on scripture and take action in a practical and biblical way with regard to money, conflict, speech, prayer, etc.
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Vida En El Reino Romanos – (Spanish)
$9.99Add to cartVida en el Reino: Para un crecimiento constante en la fe (Estudio de Romanos) forma parte de una serie de guias de estudio que se caracterizan por cubrir de manera atractiva y esclarecedora un libro de la Biblia y temas del poder, enfocados a provocar la vida dinamica llena del Espiritu Santo.
Vida en el Reino: Para un crecimiento constante en la fe (Estudio de Romanos) is one of a series of study guides that focus exciting, discovery-geared coverage of Bible book and power themes-all prompting toward dynamic, Holy Spirit-filled living.
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Sabbath : Finding Rest Renewal And Delight In Our Busy Lives
$19.00Add to cartIn today’s world, with its relentless emphasis on success and productivity, we have lost the necessary rhythm of life, the balance between work and rest. Constantly striving, we feel exhausted and deprived in the midst of great abundance. We long for time with friends and family, we long for a moment to ourselves.
Millennia ago, the tradition of Sabbath created an oasis of sacred time within a life of unceasing labor. Now, in a book that can heal our harried lives, Wayne Muller, author of the spiritual classic How, Then, Shall We Live?, shows us how to create a special time of rest, delight, and renewal–a refuge for our souls.
We need not even schedule an entire day each week. Sabbath time can be a Sabbath afternoon, a Sabbath hour, a Sabbath walk. With wonderful stories, poems, and suggestions for practice, Muller teaches us how we can use this time of sacred rest to refresh our bodies and minds, restore our creativity, and regain our birthright of inner happiness.
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Tesoro En Vasos De Barro – (Spanish)
$15.99Add to cartIn this book, Freidzon invites us to visit God’s workshop and become His vessels to be broken and reformed. Although this may be a painful experience, the reader will understand why it is a necessary step towards spiritual growth.
A traves de las paginas de este libro, el pastor Claudio Freidzon invita a visitar el taller de Dios y ser parte de esa obra transformadora que ocurre cuando el alfarero rompe el vaso y lo hace de nuevo. Aunque la experiencia resulte dolorosa, el lector compredera que para tener un crecimiento espiritual es necesario hacer una cita en el taller de Dios.
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Sacred Romance Workbook And Journal (Workbook)
$19.99Add to cartThe Sacred Romance touched thousands of readers and left many hungry to apply its material to their own lives. John Eldredge feeds that hunger with this innovative workbook and journal.
In The Sacred Romance John Eldredge told readers, “It is possible to recover the lost life of our heart and with it the intimacy, beauty, and adventure of life with God.” Now, in The Sacred Romance Workbook and Journal, Eldredge shows readers how to do that. This highly innovative workbook features Eldredge’s profound writing style and guides readers through an experience of personal assessment and soulful reflection. Readers will gain a more passionate and personal relationship with God through interactive exercises that help them apply material from The Sacred Romance, a journaling section to document personal reflections on the thought-provoking questions raised in the workbook section, and even recommendations of film, music, and art to help them make emotional connections with the material. Readers will be guided away from a religion of duty and obligation toward a more deeply felt relationship with God.
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Secret To The Christian Life
$12.95Add to cartA book that lives up to its title. It reveals the one central secret to the living out of the Christian life. Nor does the book stop there. It gives down to earth, practical assignments. The secret? The Father and Son know that secret long before creation. The book has no peers, and contains nothing of what is usually found in other books on Christian living.
