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No Rising Tide
$26.00Add to cart1. No Rising Tide: Religion, Economics, And Empire
2. The Logic Of Downturn: Class Matters In Religion And Economics
3. God And The Free-Market Economy
4. Consuming Desire Vs. Resisting Desire
5. Rethinking God And The Word
Conclusion: The Turning Of The Tide: Theology, Religion, And EconomicsAdditional Info
Even though economic downturns are still followed by upturns, fewer people benefit from them. As a result, economic crisis is an everyday reality that permanently affects all levels of our lives. The logic of downturn, developed in this book, helps make sense of what is going on, as the economy shapes us more deeply than we had ever realized, not only our finances and our work, but also our relationships, our thinking, and even our hopes and desires. Religion is one arena shaped by economics and thus part of the problem but, as Joerg Rieger shows, it might also hold one of the keys for providing alternatives, since it points to energies for transformation and justice. Rieger’s hopeful perspective unfolds in stark contrast to an economy and a religion that thrive on mounting inequality and differences of class. -
Program Management Office Advantage
$29.95Add to cartAlready a best practice for the majority of Fortune 500 companies, Program Management Office (PMO) is being embraced by large and small organizations eager to efficiently manage all their projects. This helpful guide introduces readers to the business reasons for having a centralized project department and explains the PMO’s functions and how to set up and run a PMO. Readers will find detailed information on selecting projects, conducting project health checks, providing program management training to the organization, creating and implementing a standardized program management process, and monitoring and controlling the overall status of all current projects. The book includes key definitions as well as sample forms readers can use in completing administrative tasks and producing reports. This book is an indispensable introduction to this important and powerful trend in project management.
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Who Do I Talk To
$17.99Add to cartGabby Fairbanks’s husband locks her out and disappears with her sons, leaving her homeless and stunned. With her frail mother and a mutt named Dandy, Gabby must take refuge at the women’s shelter where she works, trying to salvage the shattered pieces of her life. There, her new friends-including Lucy the bag lady and sisters from the Yada Yada Prayer Group-prop her up.
But a midnight intruder brings unwanted media attention to the shelter and threatens to undermine Gabby’s chances of getting her sons back. Still hoping to put her family together again, Gabby puzzles over what to do with the warm attentions of a sympathetic lawyer who rebuilds her confidence and soothes her wounded spirit.
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Guys Are Waffles Girls Are Spaghetti
$14.99Add to cartBoy meets Girl; Boy wonders what in the world Girl is talking about and how he will ever keep up. Girl wonders what is wrong with Boy. Enter, Waffles and Spaghetti-every teen’s guide to figuring out the opposite sex and understanding and valuing our unique differences. In a pivotal time of their development and social lives, teens are left to try and understand one another without much guidance. The purpose of this book is to help better understand themselves as well those from the “alien gender”. Guys’ brains are like waffles-they keep their lives compartmentalized in boxes. Girls’ brains are like spaghetti-everything in their life is connected to everything else. This book for teens includes brain development, social habits, differences in emotions, and relationship building skills for teens to develop early in their life. Loaded with humor and fun examples, this is a great way for teens to learn about healthy relationships with the opposite sex.
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Redefining Beautiful : What God Sees When God Sees You
$14.99Add to cartNot feeling very beautiful? Learn what beauty is from God’s perspective. Revolve speaker Jenna Lucado has teamed up with her dad, Max Lucado, to bring girls a fresh perspective on what they need to live a life of peace, joy, and confidence. What does God see when He looks at them? And how does a girl catch that vision? Jenna reveals life accessories that are essential, and which single accessory is a real must-have to give teens a look they love-a look that saysthey are comfortable with who they are and secure and confident. What’sthe all-important accessory? Love from a father. But what happens when there is no loving father in sight, no daddy to tell them they are beautiful? Through conversational “girl time” Jenna reveals that when we look to God as our Father, He can change our focus, our look, and our lives. With affirmation from Max, Redefining Beautiful will change the way girls look at God, themselves, and the people around them.
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Defeating Pharisaism : Recovering Jesus Disciple Making Method
$32.99Add to cartIVP Print On Demand Title
Pharisaism (legalism, dogmatism, separatism, judgmentalism, etc.) is alive and well and a destructive force in too many evangelical churches. This plague hinders effective outreach, burns out professional and lay leaders and has contributed to the mass alienation of tens of thousands of young people from evangelical churches to the point where they have no church affiliation at all or they associate with churches that may have compromised the gospel in their attempt to be culturally relevant.
This book makes the point that the key to defeating Pharisaism is by proactively steering people away from Pharisaism while at the same time showing them the life-giving truth that is found in true kingdom living, beautifully communicated through the Sermon on the Mount. As Jesus trained his disciples, he kept pointing at the Pharisees and saying, Do not be like them.
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Caring For People Gods Way
$26.99Add to cartCaring for People God’s Way presents Christian counseling in a systematic, step-by-step manner that outlines the process as practically as possible. It then applies the process to the most common issues faced by Christian counselors: personal and emotional issues, trauma, grief, loss, and suicide.
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Cloud Of Unknowing
$13.99Add to cartWritten by an anonymous English monk during the late fourteenth century, The Cloud of Unknowing is a sublime expression of what separates God from humanity and is widely regarded as a hallmark of Western literature and spirituality. A work of simplicity, courage, and lucidity, it is a contemplative classic on the deep mysteries of faith.
“Lift up your heart to God with a humble impulse of love and have himself as your aim, not any of his goods … Set yourself to rest in this darkness, always crying out after him whom you love. For if you are to experience him or to see him at all, insofar as it is possible here, it must always be in this cloud and in this darkness.” — The Cloud of Unknowing
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Conozca Los Profetas Menores – (Spanish)
$8.48Add to cartLos denominados Profetas Menores, no siempre tenidos en cuenta como corresponde, hacen de esta presentacion extraordinaria, por el reconocido esccritor biblico, el Dr. Ralph Earle, una obra destacada sobre la vida y los escritos de estos 12 hombres de Dios que lucharon contra la prevaleciente idolatria de sus tiempos.
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Rediscovering Holiness : Know The Fullness Of Life With God (Reprinted)
$20.00Add to cartThere was a time, writes renowned theologian J. I. Packer in this classic book on biblical holiness, “when all Christians laid great emphasis on God’s call to holiness. But how different it is today! To listen to our sermons and to read the books we write, and then to watch the zany, worldly, quarrelsome way we behave, you would never imagine that once the highway of holiness was clearly marked out for Bible-believers.” In this revised and updated edition of Rediscovering Holiness, the highway is once more clearly marked out for a new generation of readers, pointing to true freedom and joy, both now and in eternity.
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Southern Belles Special Gift
$8.99Add to cartFormerly titled Trouble Times Two/Book 3
Skye and Morgan have their hands full when a runaway named Tanya Bell becomes a foster girl in the Chambers’ household. It isn’t until Southern Belle, one of the mares, dies giving birth to a foal that Tanya opens up to the love offered from the Chambers’ family, and she is transformed.
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House Of Dark Shadows
$14.99Add to cartDream house . . . or bad dream?When the Kings move from L.A. to a secluded small town, fifteen-year-old Xander is beyond disappointed. He and his friends loved to create amateur films . . . but the tiny town of Pinedale is the last place a movie buff and future filmmaker wants to land.But he, David, and Toria are captivated by the many rooms in the old Victorian fixer-upper they moved into–as well as the heavy woods surrounding the house. They soon discover there’s something odd about the house. Sounds come from the wrong directions. Prints of giant, bare feet appear in the dust. And when David tries to hide in the linen closet, he winds up in locker 119 at his new school.Then the really weird stuff kicks in: they find a hidden hallway with portals leading off to far-off places–in long-ago times. Xander is starting to wonder if this kind of travel is a teen’s dream come true . . . or his worst nightmare.
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Prayers For An Inclusive Church
$22.95Add to cartThe author has prepared a special American edition of his book, first published in the UK, to conform to the calendar of the Episcopal Church.
Prayers are appropriate to conclude the Prayers of the People in the Eucharist
Includes a scriptural index keyed to the lectionary readings
Includes 3 Eucharistic prayers, Eucharistic preface, general confession, and post-communion prayer for each season in the church year.
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Christ The Center
$13.99Add to cartHere is the key to thought of one of our time’s central moral figures. It reveals Bonhoeffer’s deep, firm roots in Christian doctrine, and it relates that doctrine to twentieth-century decisions every Christian must face. Essential for those interested in the developement of Bonhoeffer’s thinking, Christ the Center is as well an important addition to Christological thought and a clear guides to how we are to believe and act in the uncertainty of the times. These lectures originally delivered at the University of Berlin (reconstructed by Eberhard Bethge from students’ notes) have been completely retranslated by Edwin Robertson for this new edition.
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Whose Community Which Interpretation
$22.00Add to cartIn this volume, renowned philosopher Merold Westphal introduces current philosophical thinking related to interpreting the Bible. Recognizing that no theology is completely free of philosophical “contamination,” he engages and mines contemporary hermeneutical theory in service of the church. After providing a historical overview of contemporary theories of interpretation, Westphal addresses postmodern hermeneutical theory, arguing that the relativity embraced there is not the same as the relativism in which “anything goes.” Rather, Westphal encourages us to embrace the proliferation of interpretations based on different perspectives as a way to get at the richness of the biblical text.
About the series: The Church and Postmodern Culture series features high-profile theorists in continental philosophy and contemporary theology writing for a broad, nonspecialist audience interested in the impact of postmodern theory on the faith and practice of the church. -
What Women Dont Know
$14.00Add to cartWhy does the modern-day search for romance so often end in disappointment- especially for women? Is it something women do? Something they don’t do? Are women missing important information about the opposite sex-or about themselves? Is there something wrong with them that they long so desperately for “’til death do us part”?
Sadly, many women today see their ongoing singleness as a weakness or lack of worth. In truth, women’s dreams go unfulfilled not because they do not deserve for them to come true, but often because of wrong assumptions-assumptions that can be corrected by learning a few key truths. In The Unspoken Rules of Love, authors Michelle McKinney Hammond and Joel Brooks seek to clear up these misperceptions, giving women the information they need to succeed in long-term, lasting male-female relationships and teaching them how to find satisfaction, value, and fulfillment in their relationship with God, both while they wait and after the wait is over.
Drawing on both the perspectives of its male and female authors, this book deals with the hard issues and the questions women ponder as they consider the dilemma of how to obtain lasting love. The Unspoken Rules of Love will help women adjust their desires, redefine what they are attracted to, set their values in order, and determine their goals-freeing them at last to pursue the loving relationships they desire.
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Long Loneliness : The Autobiography Of The Legendary Catholic Social Activi
$16.99Add to cartThis inspiring and fascinating memoir, subtitled, “The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist,” The Long Loneliness is the late Dorothy Day’s compelling autobiographical testament to her life of social activism and her spiritual pilgrimage. A founder of the Catholic Worker Movement and longtime associate of Peter Maurin, Dorothy Day was eulogized in the New York Times as, “a nonviolent social radical of luminous personality.” The Long Loneliness recounts her remarkable journey from the Greenwich Village political and literary scene of the 1920s through her conversion to Catholicism and her lifelong struggle to help bring about “the kind of society where it is easier to be good.”
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Kiss Me Again
$18.00Add to cartDo you ever wonder why marriage can seem like the end of intimacy and sexual desire instead of the beginning?
Ever wonder why it was so hard to resist sex before marriage-and so easy to resist it now? If so, you’re not alone! Many married women genuinely want to feel more desire toward their husbands…and can’t figure out what went wrong. But there’s good news. In Kiss Me Again, Barbara Wilson shows how powerful “invisible bonds” from past relationships can cause heartache, disappointment, and distance for couples in the present. Then-with sensitivity, honesty, and hope-Barbara walks you step by step toward healing…and a rekindling of the closeness and passion with your husband that you really want.
You don’t have to live any longer with confusion, disappointment, resentment, or shame. You can rediscover desire. You can say Wow! again.
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Handbook On The Prophets (Reprinted)
$47.00Add to cart“A welcome addition to the books on the Hebrew prophets. It will help readers find their way through the complexities of the writings themselves and also through the thickets of varying interpretations.”–John N. Oswalt, Wesley Biblical Seminary
The prophetic books of the Bible contain some of the most difficult passages in the entire Old Testament and can prove especially confusing for those new to this corpus. Handbook on the Prophets offers a thorough and insightful introduction for the beginning student of the Old Testament prophetic literature. Robert Chisholm guides students through the important and often complex writings of Isaiah, Jeremiah and Lamentations, Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. Rather than attempting to provide a detailed verse-by-verse commentary, the handbook focuses on the prevailing themes and central messages of the prophetic books.
Chisholm begins each chapter with a brief analysis of the social and historical setting of the book under discussion. As he works through each of the writings, Chisholm describes the structure, content, and important concepts found therein. Without becoming mired in overly technical issues or academic jargon, Chisholm considers critical issues whenever they are important for the interpretation of a particular passage. In general, however, he focuses more broadly on the theological themes that characterize the work as a whole. In each case, he considers how the message of the prophets would have been heard in their respective historical communities and the prophets’ continuing importance for contemporary study.
In addition to those who are new to the prophets, seminarians and students of advanced biblical studies will find this volume enlightening and helpful as they forge their way through the prophetic books. Handbook on the Prophets will also be a valuable resource for pastors and teachers to refer to in their teaching and exposition of this portion of Scripture. The value of the handbook is further enhanced by the extensive bibliographies that are provided for continued study.
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Culto Cristiano – (Spanish)
$15.99Add to cartThis book has several purposes: to define worship, the origins of worship, how worship is expressed, what are its common elements, how worship has developed and also degenerated during the cycles of church history, to list the different forms and types of worship that are currently in use, and to propose suggested models for improvement in the 21st century.
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Darkness Yielding : Liturgies Prayers And Reflections For Christmas Holy We (Exp
$29.99Add to cartThis rich resource of ready to use liturgies and reflections for the richest seasons of the Christian year sold out within a year. Its timeless qualities found a ready and eager readership among all looking for fresh inspiration for these annual celebrations. aaThis new edition includes extra seasonal reflections from Rowan Williams and Martyn Percy, and a new liturgy for Maundy Thursday from Jim Cotter. In addition it offers: probing reflections by outstanding thinkers to inspire preaching and personal devotion, complete liturgies for a Christmas Eve vigil, Maundy Thursday foot washing and watch, a Good Friday devotional service, an Easter Eve vigil, a dawn celebration of the Resurrection, a set of meditations on the Stations of the Cross and the Seven Words from the Cross, and seven Good Friday addresses by WH Vanstone.
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Word Is Very Near You Sundays
$31.99Add to cart“For the many thousands of clergy, readers and lay preachers who, week by week, seek inspiration as they prepare sermons on the set lectionary readings, here is an expert, wise and extremely down to earth guide. He may have a PhD and have taught at the University of Cambridge, but John Pridmore’s preaching skills were forged in a parish in one of the most notorious areas of London’s East End where there was absolutely no room for platitudes or escapist readings of the Scriptures. He quickly learned that in such a context, the Bible actually did have some real, gritty meaning for today or it had none at all. With this approach, and with his outstanding gifts as writer, he has written on the lectionary readings each week in the “”Church Times”” for the last three years. Wisdom, strongly tempered by reality, shines out from every paragraph as he skilfully explores, interprets and applies the set readings. Many such lectionary commentaries and companions exist already, but John Pridmore’s contribution to this genre will be widely welcomed.
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Journey With God
$14.99Add to cartThis is a Journal of a trip of faith with God. This trip took place in various parts of the world. One thing in common, among all of the stages of the trip, was God’s presence before, during, and after the trip. This book is not fiction or a story of coarse confession. It is not a conversion of convenience, either. It is a gathering of true stories of interactions with God and a pure choice of unconditional acceptance without ambiguities; the Word of God in a non-contradictory manner. The search took me around the world until God’s plan came. The love of God not only enhanced my spiritual experience, but also made me eager to serve His Word. The Son of God came to guide me throughout this Journey with His wisdom and love, to complete my salvation.
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Righteousness Exalts A Nation
$10.99Add to cart“Righteousness Exalts A Nation” is a call to battle against the forces of evil that threaten to destroy America’s Christian heritage. Through this book, you will be challenged to fight this war by first equipping yourself with the armor and weapon of KNOWING God’s love for you. This is the key to victory in your own personal life as well as America’s Christian future. Chapter nine will challenge you to understand 2 Chronicles 7:14 from God’s viewpoint. This is critical revelation for our nation to experience the healing of our land. America’s destiny, as a nation, needs you to KNOW God’s great love for you, please don’t disappoint her.
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Her Name Is Happiness
$17.99Add to cartIf you have ever felt like giving up, or that life is too hard, this book is for you. It will encourage you to not give up on God; it will strengthen your ability to see God’s hand upon your life, and it will inspire you to cling to the Lord through every storm that comes your way. For a young Nigerian girl named Happiness, life’s journey became almost unbearable. She endured refugee status in the Biafra War, an arranged marriage to a man she had never met, being smuggled across the U.S.-Mexican border, experiencing the toll of a physically and mentally abusive husband, standing in food lines, and living in a homeless shelter. Through it all, Happiness learned to draw closer to God and today owns her own business and understands her life’s purpose. This is a compelling story of the power of destiny on a life surrendered to God, and what amazing things God will do, if we just trust him.
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Life In The Faith Lane
$23.99Add to cartHave you ever wondered what life must have been like for Abraham and Sarah? God called them to pick up and leave everything they knew to go to an unfamiliar place, to live a nomadic life, all the while being totally dependent on God for all their needs. Would God possibly call a present day Christian family out of the comfortable, conventional, American lifestyle to do exactly that? In Life in The Faith Lane, Jennifer shares her experiences of following her husband’s lead in the calling to leave everything behind and follow Jesus. Day by day as she and her family stepped out in faith, God met them in supernatural ways, taking them through many adventures, full of blessings and challenges, to teach them how personal God can truly be. On this journey, not only have their lives been deeply enriched, but they have received a glimpse of how powerful the Creator of the universe really is.
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Year Of The Rapture
$15.49Add to cartThe Year of the Rapture, a trilogy of fantasy, fiction and fact is . . . UNIQUE ! The fantasy section of “The Year of the Rapture,” begins as the author takes an imaginary journey into heaven via a dream as a boy of eight. While there he morphs into an adult and finds himself viewing a strange scene on earth. Though curiosity and creativity are rampant throughout, the integrity of the scripture is maintained.
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God Didnt Say That
$16.49Add to cart“Apologize for sin.” “No consequences.” “Obedience is optional.” God Didn’t Say That! Too many Christians misunderstand God’s principles, even the simple ones. When you misunderstand God’s principles, it causes your spiritual life to become stagnant. Spiritual growth cannot take place where true understanding has not occurred. Pastor Mikaela Cade uncovers commonly misunderstood spiritual truths and challenges those misundertandings head on by telling you, “God Didn’t Say That! What You Really Need to Know to Live a Life of Radical Faith and Real Power.” God’s Word is designed to be life producing, yet many times there is a disconnect between the Word and personal experience. This doesn’t have to be your reality. Get connected and learn how to live according to the Spirit. Let greater spiritual understanding propel you to new levels of commitment and obedience. This life transforming book is radical, thought-provoking, and interactive. God Didn’t Say That! reveals the spiritual insights needed to move you from intellectual Christianity to powerful faith-filled living. * Discover the spiritual reality behind God’s Word * Overcome erroneous thinking that keeps you stuck * Learn to truly walk by faith and not by sight * Tear down strongholds in your life * Experience a more intimate relationship with the Lord Renew Your Mind… Transform Your Life
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Mercys Reach : Deep In The Darknes Lurks An Evil That Will Test The Boundar
$15.49Add to cartWhile driving home one night on an unfamiliar highway, suddenly, they’re stranded with no one to help them. Much worse, they have driven into an unimaginable nightmare. Are Amy and Jeremy ready to face what lies ahead? Can they survive the evil they will have to endure? Will they see their need of God through their hopeless circumstances? Will they even get the chance to find the Lord?
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God Hides In Plain Sight
$24.00Add to cartHave you ever had a conversation that went far deeper than the words spoken or an experience where you felt you had participated in something sacred? Although these situations may seem unexplainable, they are reminders that God’s grace surrounds us constantly and shows up in manifold ways. In this colorful, story-driven introduction to sacramental living, veteran journalist Dean Nelson offers all Christians a way to see the presence of God amid the chaos and monotony of everyday life. Each chapter emphasizes a different kind of sacramental moment, showing how it can be a lens through which we can see more of God.
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Understanding English Bible Translation
$20.00Add to cartAn expert, up-to-date clarification of the issues underlying modern Bible translation, combined with sound argument for an essentially literal translation philosophy. From the KJV to the NIV, NLT, ESV, and beyond, English Bible translations have never been as plentiful as they are today. This proliferation has also brought confusion regarding translation differences and reliability. This book brings clarity to the issues and makes a strong case for an essentially literal approach. Taking into account the latest developments in Bible translation, Leland Ryken expertly clarifies the issues that underlie modern Bible translation by defining the terms that govern this discipline and offering a helpful Q&A. He then contrasts the two main translation traditions-essentially literal and dynamic equivalence-and concludes with sound reasons for choosing the former, with suggestions for using such a translation in the church. This book will appeal to thoughtful readers who have questions about Bible translation; individuals, churches, and ministries in the process of choosing a translation; and college and seminary students and faculty.
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Facing Justice
$14.99Add to cartFormer Federal prosecutor Diane Munson and former Federal Special Agent David Munson draw on their true-life experiences in this debut suspense novel about Special Agent Eva Montanna, whose twin sister died at the Pentagon on 9/11. Eva dedicates her career to avenge her death while investigating Emile Jubayl, a member of Eva’s church and CEO of Helpers International, who is accused of using his aid organization to funnel money to El Samoud, head of the Armed Revolutionary Cause, and successor to Al Qaeda. Family relationships are tested in this fast-paced, true-to-life legal thriller about the men and women who are racing to defuse the ticking time bomb of international terrorism.
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Introducing The Lessons Of The Church Year (Revised)
$35.95Add to cart3rd edition of a known and trusted guide to Scripture for pastors, deacons, and lay people.
Thoroughly revised and updated to the Revised Common Lectionary by an Episcopal and Lutheran scholar and church leader, author of many books.
A one-volume resource with multiple uses: sermon preparation, public reading of scripture, sermon discussion groups, lectionary Bible study, Christian education planning, bulletins, and web sites.
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Christianity In Action
$30.99Add to cartThis meticulously researched yet engaging book traces The Salvation Army’s history of service from its beginnings in Victorian England to its present-day mission in all parts of the world. / A phenomenal religious movement, acclaimed for its compassionate service, The Salvation Army now works in no fewer than 118 countries, yet no contemporary book has chronicled this high-profile organization – until now. Henry Gariepy’s well-written, comprehensive account effectively fills that gap.
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Jesus Research : An International Perspective – The First Princeton-Prague
$38.99Add to cartThis collection from the first Princeton-Prague Symposium on the Historical Jesus gathers twelve papers from international scholars evaluating the state of Jesus Research, seeking to represent and comprehend Jesus of Nazareth within his historical Jewish setting in Galilee and Jerusalem.
Each internationally renowned scholar examines different aspects of Jesus’ life and thought both in his historical and geographical setting and also within his religious and cultural context. They then suggest what, therefore, we may learn from Jesus’ teachings. In the process, readers are also made aware of the Palestinian Jesus Movement before 70 ce when Jerusalem was burned by Roman soldiers directed by a future emperor.
Jesus Research is a comprehensive collection from the luminaries in this area of research and provides a focus to the issues currently confronted by seeking to re-create Jesus in his world.
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Politics Of Discipleship
$32.00Add to cartIn this fourth volume in the Church and Postmodern Culture series, internationally acclaimed theologian Graham Ward examines the political side of postmodernism in order to discern the contemporary context of the church and describe the characteristics of a faithful, political discipleship. His study falls neatly into two sections. The first, which is the more theoretical section, considers “the signs of the times.” Ward names this section “The World,” noting that the church must always frame its vision and mission within its worldly context. In the second section, “The Church,” he turns to constructive application, providing an account of the Christian practices of hope that engage the world from within yet always act as messengers of God’s kingdom.
Ward’s study accomplishes two related goals. First, he provides an accessible guide to contemporary postmodernism and its wide-ranging implications. Second, he elaborates a discipleship that informs a faith seeking understanding, which Ward describes as “the substance of the church’s political life.”
Ward is well known for his thoughtful engagement with postmodernism and contemporary critical theology. Here he provides a broader audience with an engaging account of the inherently political nature of postmodernity and thoughts on what it means to live the Christian faith within that setting.
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New Testament : A Way Into The New Testament
$56.00Add to cartThe SCM Core Text: The Gospels – A Way in to the New Testament is a comprehensive and distinctive undergraduate textbook for use on modules introducing the New Testament. The book provides readers with a way in to the New Testament by offering a framework for understanding the texts within it. Where most introductions will follow the pattern established for the Bible as a whole, by examining the different types of writing, this book tries to do something different and cover both the history of the New Testament era as well as the literature which testifies to it.
The book is split into 6 sections. In the first part the author sketches out the approach, arguing that the New Testament reflects four streams of apostolic tradition, reflected in the 4 gospels. In parts 2-5 the author looks at each tradition in turn, and the final section focuses on Jesus. There are clear bibliographies at the end of each section to guide the reader to the most relevant areas for further research in any given subject area.
The text is deliberately broken down into smaller sections with headings and sub-headings to assist students reading around this subject for the first time. It also contains end of chapter lists of questions for personal reflection which can also be used in tutorial groups and for revision, textboxes, introductions and chapter summaries, as well as a Whos Who in the New Testament.
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There Must Be Something More
$17.99Add to cartAs a young Jewish businessman, Sid Roth’s goal was to be a millionaire before age 30. At age 29, he realized that was not going to happen. Sid left his wife, family and job at Merrill Lynch to look for happiness. Instead, things got much worse. Sid s search took him into the New Age,where he became suicidal and almost lost his mind. He knew the demons attacking him were real.Where could he go for help? No psychiatrist could solve his problem. No rabbi. Not even his devoted parents. On the worst night of Sid s life, a tangible presence entered his room and filled him with an indescribable peace. Learn the easy way what Sid chose to learn the hard way– life can be lived abundantly and joyfully, no matter your circumstances.
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Baptism : Three Views
$28.99Add to cartIn Baptism: Three Views, editor David F. Wright has provided a forum for thoughtful proponents of three principal evangelical views on baptism to state their case, respond to the others, and then provide a summary response and statement. Sinclair Ferguson sets out the case for infant baptism, Bruce Ware presents the case for believers’ baptism, and Anthony Lane argues for a mixed practice.
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Commentaries On Galatians–Philemon
$70.99Add to cartThis ACT volume is the second of two volumes that will offer a first English translation of the anonymous fourth-century commentary on the thirteen letters of Paul. Widely viewed as one of the finest pre-Reformation commentaries on the Pauline Epistles, this commentary, until the time of Erasmus, was attributed to Ambrose. It was Erasmus who gave the author the epithet Ambrosiaster (“Star of Ambrose”).
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Fabulosa Reinvencion De La Esc – (Spanish)
$17.99Add to cartThe Fabulous Reinvention of Sunday School lives up to its name, with transformational concepts and resources for classes of every size and setting. Create excellence for kids through four key values. Unleash creative techniques that foster powerful teaching moments. Consult a veritable handbook of twenty creative methods guaranteed to bring Bible stories to life.
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Measure Of Mercy (Audio CD)
$19.59Add to cartLauraine Snelling Returns to Her Popular Red River Valley Setting
Eighteen-year-old Astrid Bjorklund has always dreamed of becoming a doctor. She had intended to study medicine in Chicago or Grand Forks, but when a disaster wiped out a major portion of her family’s income, Astrid stayed home instead, receiving hands-on training from Dr. Elizabeth.
Joshua Landsverk left Blessing two years ago, but he’s never forgotten Astrid. Returning to town, he seeks to court her. Astrid is attracted to him, and when the opportunity unexpectedly opens for her to go to Chicago for medical training, she finds it difficult to leave. Love blossoms through their letters, but upon arriving back home, she makes a heartbreaking discovery. Will she have to give up love to pursue her dream?
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Pricing For Profit
$19.95Add to cartMany small business owners are trapped by industry pricing and market misconceptions, when they could be compensated for the true value of the product or service being offered. The low price they feel compelled to offer limits their ability to generate profits which, in turn, slows their response to changing customer needs. The good news is that a business can command almost any price it chooses by focusing on the value-not the cost-to the customer. Pricing for Profit shows businesspeople how to break out of the stranglehold of industry pricing and charge more for their wares (regardless of the competition) without alienating their customers. Readers will learn how to: * Quantify the value of their products or services * Distinguish between price buyers and value buyers * Bundle their offerings for competitive advantage and increased customer value * Craft a powerful marketing message that communicates value * Generate more unit sales and close more sales overall, at higher prices * Make more money with less effort Filled with easy-to-use formulas, sample scripts, clear examples, instructive exercises, and more, this accessible and practical guide is a must-read for businesspeople who want to be well-paid for the value they provide.
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Philosophy Of Religion (Revised)
$26.99Add to cartWith over 40,000 copies in print since its original publication in 1982, Steve Evans’s Philosophy of Religion has served many generations of students. In this new edition Zach Manis joins Evans in a thorough revamping of arguments and information, while maintaining the qualities of clarity and brevity that made the first edition so appreciated.
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Unquenchable Flame
$16.99Add to cartA raw hunger gnaws at the soul of theWestern church. Where are the prophets who will discern the emptiness that has crept silently into the body of Christ in the last one hundred years? We long to burn with a passion inside that never ceases.We yearn for the undying flames of revival that Jesus died to give us. But how can we have a revival that never fades out? How can we burn inside and never lose the passion? There is only one way. It s not what you might expect. It s not a new revelation. It s as old as the Bible, but we have simply overlooked it. You ll find it on a lowly hill where the blood of God spilled down upon this earth…
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Live Your Dream
$16.99Add to cartLiveYour Dream is an inspiring and practical handbook for no-holds-barred strategic living. In-depth and energizing, it revives the aspirations while it fuels purpose-driven living and lifelong learning. In one easy-to-read volume, Dr. Mark Chironna uncorks the power of a dream…the hope of new beginnings…and the promise of God s plan…not as theory, but as real-life portals to all the Creator calls possible.Thought-provoking incites, essential truths, relevant anecdotes, and engaging interactives help readers tap the life-stream of potential handwritten into their DNA by God and become partners with Him in drafting a clear blueprint for destiny fulfillment.
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School Of Seers
$15.99Add to cartJonathan Welton is a fifth generation believer and a second generation itinerate minister. He has a master’s degree in biblical studies and earned the National Herald of Christ award. His profound teachings have been warmly received in Lutheran, Baptist, Brethren, Mennonite, and Charismatic churches as he shares deep truth with a simple, engaging, and memorable presentation.
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Waterproof Bible
$39.95Add to cart* Extremely Durable Synthetic Pages
* 100% Worry Free
* Stain Resistant
* Ultra Clear Text
* Dry Highlight
* Write and Underline
* No Bleed ThruThe durability of the Waterproof Bible gives you the freedom to take God’s Word with you anywhere – lounging, traveling, exercising… with worry free confidence that your Bible will withstand the test of time.
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Understanding The Destructive Power Of Assumption And How To Control It
$14.99Add to cartAssumption is a real problem and frequently ignored. Being aware of the negative impact it can have, will allow you to head in the right direction towards making less mistakes and encounter fewer disappointments. In this enlightening book, you will obtain a practical understanding of how to identify and control assumption. You will discover how to eliminate worry, doubt and fear through the principles of the Word of God.
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Few Minutes With God
$14.99Add to cartA Few Minutes With God is a collection of devotions that have been written for the Washington Daily News in Washington, North Carolina. Doug Gibbs is a minister and currently works with the Pleasant Grove Church of Christ in Fairfield, North Carolina. The devotions have been designed to help readers experience a quiet time with God.
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Top 10 Laws Of Respect
$13.49Add to cartRespect, a word that is often thrown about very loosely, as much as it is often used very strongly, is a very important concept in life. Everyone desires respect; however, we do not always show it and sometimes we do not receive it. In The Top Ten Laws of Respect — A Personal Guide, author and continuous improvement expert Niyi Taiwo unveils the long awaited top ten principles that govern respect between people. Taiwo thoughtfully introduces the foundational laws first, principles that govern the essence of respect; the influential laws second, principles that govern fundamental factors that explain the way you gain and lose respect; and the sustaining laws last, principles that govern factors and practices that enable a person to maintain respect. Taiwo masterfully deploys a series of powerful stories all through the book that facilitate a clear understanding of the subject and that make the reading experience enjoyable and enlightening. The timeless principles that make up these ten laws will serve as a guide for anyone interested in personal and professional development for years to come.
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Shattered Life An Amazing God
$20.99Add to cartDivorce broke his heart, abuse crushed his spirit, and betrayal shattered his life. Before he was five years old, Cody experienced physical, verbal and sexual abuse. He would witness his mother’s sexual immorality and drug abuse, and then she would be removed from his life. Her choices would adversely affect his young life and would send him into a pattern of fear, hopelessness, rebellion, and rage that would take him into a world of darkness he could not escape. His behavior was easily interpreted as malicious and devious, but those were just symptoms of a wounded spirit, a crushed heart, and a lonely little boy who desperately longed to be loved, but was terrified to be loved. God’s love would be poured out on Cody in an attempt to reach behind the wall that had been built around his broken heart. Years of destructive tendencies, despair, and fear would be ever so slowly penetrated, and a young man would begin to appear. Come walk through a five-year attempt to change a heart and redeem a soul. Step into a spiritual battle for a life. In a world that trivializes God, come experience His presence as He equips a family to put on the full armor of God and to step into life the way God meant it to be. Learn how to reach out in love and grace while proclaiming the truth of the Living God.
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Sonlight For Living
$10.99Add to cartThis book is not about me. It is about God and how He worked in every detail of my life to confirm that He is real & available every minute. Is He really concerned enough to provide a quarter out of thin air to get out of a parking lot or prevent an electrical cord from burning the house down? Yes! The purpose of this book is to bring Glory to God and to give you hope that nothing is impossible with God. Psalm 66:16,20 “Come and hear all of you who reverence the Lord, and I will tell you what He did for me. Blessed be God who didn’t turn away when I was praying and didn’t refuse me His kindness and love.” He will do the same thing for you too!
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Tithes And Offerings
$14.99Add to cartIn the book of 1 Chronicles is a story about a King named Solomon. King Solomon burnt 1,000 offerings to God. It was such a big offering that it moved God. He was moved so much he himself came to visit Solomon. Imagine how awesome it would be to have God himself come visit us because we did something to touch his heart. How much more awesome would it be to hear him say to us, ask anything of me. When we give to the Kingdom of God, the windows of heaven will open. For Solomon, God himself came to him, he didn’t send a messenger. God loves a cheerful giver and he gave Solomon the opportunity of a lifetime. Don’t tithe to be blessed. Tithe because you’re already blessed! w w w . t i t h e s a n d o f f e r i n g . c o m Israel carried God’s presence in the ark. We carry His presence in our hearts.
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Shattered : One Mans Journey From Sexual Abuse
$14.99Add to cartShattered. There is no crime more devastating than childhood sexual abuse. It steals the innocence and soul of its victims and leaves them in a world of silence and shame. Attempting to live in safety, survivors create a world of false security praying no one will ever discover the ugly secret and no one will hurt them again. For too long, these stories have hidden in the shadows, countless souls longing for freedom from the pain and suffering in their hearts. This is just one story that speaks for millions who are holding on to hope.
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Signs And Wonders
$16.99Add to cartGod revealed at the beginning He created all things in His mighty Work with signs and wonders. Signs and wonders, are miraculous events that occur in daily life, which are apparently unexplainable, except through the supernatural power of God. In this wonderful book those powerful theological conceptions and meanings of the Scriptures are blended with true-life experiences of Mirae Park’s life and ministry. Now this living model will continue to be a signs and wonders, and a blessing to all those who read it. “God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will?” (Hebrews 2:4) The Scripture will spring to life and become valid to you as you read Signs and Wonders.
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Lifestyle Choices Up To You
$34.99Add to cartChoices! … Choices! … Choices! The Battle for Your Health Begins in Your Mind Are your choices leading you toward health-or toward disease? Why are lifestyle illnesses escalating so rapidly today? Find answers to these and many other questions! * What determines your health choices? … habit, convenience, marketing ploys, or time-tested truths? * Understand why your choice of foods, body-care, and home products is a spiritual issue. * See how Biblical truths can help guide you out of the food-product-disease maze. * Learn the basic differences between the Conventional Medical Model and the Natural Health Model of health and healing. * Expand your knowledge of the many dangerous but disguised ingredients in your food. * Become more alert to marketing techniques, the steps to mass-mindedness, and how these strategies can affect your health decisions. * Learn how some corporate and governmental agendas can compromise your health. * Discover the latest scientific information about the important mind-body connection. * Understand the essential importance of thoughts and their impact on your emotions. * Learn what a thought looks like, how it is formed in your brain, and why this is important. * Understand the nature of the stress response and implement strategies for a more peaceful, productive, and healthy life. * Explore the myths about vaccinations and discover their dangerous dark side. * Make Lifestyle Choices your choice for small-group study. Enjoy its user-friendly, workbook-style format with helpful summaries, stimulating discussion topics, and ample space for recording your new decisions and progress.
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Lifestyle Choices Up To You
$22.99Add to cartChoices! … Choices! … Choices! The Battle for Your Health Begins in Your Mind Are your choices leading you toward health-or toward disease? Why are lifestyle illnesses escalating so rapidly today? Find answers to these and many other questions! * What determines your health choices? … habit, convenience, marketing ploys, or time-tested truths? * Understand why your choice of foods, body-care, and home products is a spiritual issue. * See how Biblical truths can help guide you out of the food-product-disease maze. * Learn the basic differences between the Conventional Medical Model and the Natural Health Model of health and healing. * Expand your knowledge of the many dangerous but disguised ingredients in your food. * Become more alert to marketing techniques, the steps to mass-mindedness, and how these strategies can affect your health decisions. * Learn how some corporate and governmental agendas can compromise your health. * Discover the latest scientific information about the important mind-body connection. * Understand the essential importance of thoughts and their impact on your emotions. * Learn what a thought looks like, how it is formed in your brain, and why this is important. * Understand the nature of the stress response and implement strategies for a more peaceful, productive, and healthy life. * Explore the myths about vaccinations and discover their dangerous dark side. * Make Lifestyle Choices your choice for small-group study. Enjoy its user-friendly, workbook-style format with helpful summaries, stimulating discussion topics, and ample space for recording your new decisions and progress.
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Forgiven But Not Forgotten
$15.49Add to cartBeloved, do not avenge yourselves, but rather give place to wrath; for it is written, “Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,” says the Lord. (Romans 12:19) Is it possible to forgive and forget when others intentionally hurt us? The author posits that it’s possible to forgive and forget if God is at the center of the rebuilding process ….and the following steps are practiced…. Praying for the ability to recognize perpetrators’ motives. Acknowledging that perpetrators have issues with jealousy, envy, sense of entitlement, or whatever in your God-given wisdom you determined their problem to be. Asking God to renew a right spirit within perpetrators, as well as ensuring that you do not possess similar characteristic. Dialoguing with offenders to increase awareness of the painfulness of their actions. In praying, through God you are able to forgive…..realizing that the battle is not yours…but the Lord’s. Accepting apologies, and praying with perpetrators immediately thereafter to remove the yoke of unforgiveness. Mabel is a young girl, whose parents’ reckless decisions dealt her a cruel blow in life. She embarked on a journey, trying desperately to escape a dysfunctional and abusive home, but the journey took her through ill-treatment and neglect. It was only through others that she learned to bask in droplets of mercies and at times showers of blessings. Mabel practiced the art of forgiving, so as to lessen the crippling weight and burden of unforgiveness, but just as she thought she would triumph and master the art of forgiving and forgetting, disaster struck.
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Kingdom Of The Son Of Man On Earth
$17.49Add to cartThe Word of the LORD God came to me in a dream the first time in 1982, and I was told to proclaim the coming of the Son of Man for seventeen years. My full testimony, biography, and the lessons God had taught me throughout those years are written in the book “The Witness to the Coming of Jesus Christ,” published in 1999. The LORD God spoke to me a second time in a dream and said, “TELL MY COVENANT PEOPLE THEY WILL NOT BE HARMED!” The third time, the Messiah had come. He awakened me from a deep sleep and released the Seventh Seal. These three prophetic events were given to make known, to the church and the world, our current position in Biblical Prophecy. The LORD God has also led me through a series of events which revealed that the invisible Kingdom of the Son of Man had come. Although it is concealed, the Messiah revealed it two-thousand years ago through many parables in the Holy Bible. Now, I have been called to reveal its existence so that others may prepare to enter into it. Further studies will leave no doubt that this kingdom is on earth now. You will see and understand… The unseen Kingdom of the Son of Man The Kingdom through the faith of a child What will be required to enter His Kingdom How the dead in our Messiah will enter in first When the faithful saints will be transferred into it The warnings and consequences of being left outside What will happen to the world after the Kingdom doors close .
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Jesus Christ : In His Own Words
$15.49Add to cartFor the first time, united and illustrated in one volume, The gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Thomas, Philip, Judas, and Mary Magdalene. Jesus Christ In His Own Words is a unique collection that juxtaposes the familiar canonical gospels with the unfamiliar apocryphal, ms Wallace’s sensitive illustrations and accessible format present a valuable contribution to spiritual knowledge. Bryan Aubrey, PhD in German Mysticism. Durham University, England Author of English Romantic Poetry. I love this book. The quotations from the Gnostic Gospels of Thomas, Philip, Mary Magdalene, and Judas–rejected by the early church–are placed in context with the familiar Canonical Gospels of Matthew Mark, Lue, and John. Each section is brought to life by drawings appropriate to the chapter’s context, giving the reader pause to reflect.
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Call Into His Presence
$18.99Add to cartCall Into His Presence is a book that will inspire and empower you to pray! Have you ever wanted to experience a life-changing occurrence in prayer? Have you ever wanted to pray beyond the human mind, understanding and logic? Have you ever wanted to pray until your mind, body and soul is united as one in the Holy Spirit? Have you ever wanted to pray until your Soul clings to God? If so, A Call Into His Presence, will take you there! Come journey with us to a place in God that no human being can take us, only God Himself. He is waiting just for you! A Call Into His Presence is a book, a tool that will enhance your prayer life. There is a prayer that was prayed in this book which was a tailored prayed just for you! All the prayers were prayed through the leading of the Holy Spirit. No prayer is the same. No day is the same. No human being is the same. We all are uniquely made with our own life experiences. There is a change, a shift in the Spirit in prayer! Come experience it!
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Angels : A Story About Fannie And Freddie The President Blackmail And Murde
$17.49Add to cartAngels: A Story about Fannie &Freddie, the President, Blackmail and Murder THE NOVEL THAT SAYS GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL… NO MATTER WHO LIVES IN THE WHITE HOUSE Matt Davidson’s real estate company is being taken down by the busted housing bubble and the economic crisis of 2009. As a prayerful believer and ordinary family man, Matt has prayed for help to survive the economic downturn and he is given a gift that lets him see into the spiritual world. The gift is the ability to see angels and demons on earth. He can see them in the world, on television and in photography. Matt sees patterns of demonic activity around certain politicians, some more than others. He prays to find out why and for what purpose he has been given this ability. This leads him on a spiritual mission and he is shown where evil forces lie in the highest offices in American government. Matt is used, with the help and protection of angels, to reveal an Iranian plot to control the American presidency. Matt remains faithful and with the help of a fellow believer friend, they go to “seek out” the one who is revealed to him to be at the center of the plan. Fast paced, romantic, political, intense, funny, tender, dark and spiritual. John C. Bieber takes the reader from modern day Valley Forge, to the New Jersey shore, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Paris, Monte Carlo, on board Air Force One, Detroit, Tehran, New York City and into the White House. The momentum builds and builds to a dramatic conclusion.
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Warring For The Lord
$18.99Add to cartThis book is a clarion wake-up call to all nations! It is an explosive, revelatory, and strategic end-time war plan for Yahweh’s governmental system, which is commissioned to remake, remold, renew, refresh, and refine the mind of His creation. Eveyone who reads this book will be inspired, motivated, and compelled to stand for salvation or fall for devestation.
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Building A Firm Foundation For Business Success
$15.99Add to cartDr. Titshaw holds a PhD degree in Business Administration. He has over 20 years experience in the field of Human Resource Management and has owned his own business-consulting firm. He has taught numerous courses in the field of Business Administration at the graduate and undergraduate levels. He also served as a small business consultant at the University of Georgia, where he advised and assisted prospective entrepreneurs and business owners in all areas of business management including planning, organizing, leading and controlling. Dr. Titshaw also served on the Business School Advisory Council at Lee University, Cleveland, TN. He and wife, Mary Nell, currently reside in Westminster, South Carolina. They have 4 children and 6 grand children. Through this book, Dr. Titshaw provides a great service to small business entrepreneurs, both current and future. Many fail due to lack of preparation, unrealistic expectations and incompetence. This need not be with books like Titshaw’s now available. He provides an overview of all aspects of starting and operating a small business, including sample forms and practical tips from his many years of work and teaching experience. This book is ideal for the individual entrepreneur, small group or large class study. You will find no better help for this worthwhile challenge than this book.
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Storyteller : Comparing Jesus Stories
$12.49Add to cartThe Storyteller looks at the parables of Jesus as told in Matthew, Mark, and Luke. By comparing the parables in each gospel we may be able to conclude why the writers of the gospels selected to tell the identical story. Is there a diverse meaning for each one, or do they all communicate the same message. We can definitely tell that some of the parables had multiple meanings and some were surely intended for a specific audience. A parable can be over analyzed, however, knowing to whom they were written and why they were told is a compelling study.
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Kingdom Shift : A Breakthrough To New Horizons As You Shift Your Thinking I
$13.49Add to cartThe Kingdom Shift brings insight to God’s ultimate will for creation to become a true extension of the Kingdom of God, therefore reversing the curse of sin. The Kingdom Shift reveals the fact that mankind has a mandate to pursue the Kingdom of God. It also gives the reader insight how to unlock their potential. The Kingdom Shift reveals God’s will for marriage based on kingdom principles. The Kingdom Shift will reveal how true servant hood is the key to effective leadership. Have you been interested in how to be victorious in spiritual warfare? Then the Kingdom Shift is your answer. This is a book that will open your eyes to the truth and self-aggrandizement which is the work of sensationalism. The Kingdom Shift is pertinent to 21st Century believers who do not want to be sifted but shifted.
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Mercys Reach : Deep In The Darknes Lurks An Evil That Will Test The Boundar
$23.99Add to cartWhile driving home one night on an unfamiliar highway, suddenly, they’re stranded with no one to help them. Much worse, they have driven into an unimaginable nightmare. Are Amy and Jeremy ready to face what lies ahead? Can they survive the evil they will have to endure? Will they see their need of God through their hopeless circumstances? Will they even get the chance to find the Lord?
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Assassination Of Human Potential
$14.99Add to cartFinally, some help for educators who believe that competency is not only for testing; but for life! As a result of reading this book, you will be energized in knowing how to: * Teach competency through affective methods * Strategize in order to reach the hard to teach student * Turn kids on to Teacher ” Parent ” Peer Coaching.
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Promesas De Dios Para Cada Una – (Spanish)
$13.99Add to cartThere’s nothing that sets our minds and hearts at ease like the promises of God. In Promesas de Dios offers comfort and hope found only in God’s Word. No matter what your situation, God has a promise for you!
Some promises found in this edition are:
Courage
Patience
Comfort
Forgiveness
Fellowship
SecurityNo hay nada que tranquilice a nuestros corazones y mentes como las promesas de Dios. Promesas de Dios ofrece el consuelo y la esperanza que solo se encuentran en la Palabra de Dios. No importa cual sea su situacion, !Dios tiene una promesa para usted!
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Week That Changed The World
$17.95Add to cartThis devotional for Lenten and Easter meditations is a synthesis of the four gospel accounts of the eight days of Jesus’ passion and resurrection.
Uses the popular and contemporary TNIV translation
Includes maps, notes, and user guide
Preface by Robert Webber, noted evangelical scholarBeginning with Palm Sunday, the gospels record every day of Jesus’ life up to the time of his death and resurrection. These eight days are unparalleled in the canon of Scripture for their narrative power, their detail, and their focus. A unique synthesis of the four gospel accounts of the passion and resurrection of Christ is provided in this seamless and elegant narrative account of the Easter events, including every detail mentioned in all four Gospels, but without any unnecessary repetition or distracting references.
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Why Did God Give Us Emotions
$16.95Add to cartLifeSkills Publications
Emotions are such a mysterious gift. They take us to heights of ecstasy. They dash us on the rocks of despair. They can bind us together and tear us apart. They can move some to noble acts of courage and self-sacrifice and in others, they are the force behind terrible acts of evil and destruction. Why did God make us this way? How are we supposed to manage this wonderful and mystifying gift we call emotions? In his new book Why Did God Give Us Emotions?, author Reneau Peurifoy takes a detailed look at the many sources of our emotional responses and the role emotions play in our thoughts, actions, relationships with others and relationship with God. Peurifoy holds a Masters in counseling and attended Fuller Theological Seminary. Why Did God Give Us Emotions? is a book twenty years in the making, based on Peurifoys focused study, counseling experiences and growing maturity in the faith. From the very start Ive had two goals: I wanted to look at what science has learned about emotions from a biblical perspective and I wanted to do it in a way that would strengthen the readers walk with God, Peurifoy states. Over the last two decades I’ve seen the strengths of science and psychology in helping people and making our lives more comfortable. I’ve also become acutely aware of the inability of science and psychology to address the true source of human misery: sin and our separation from God. I believe that God has helped me write a book that will be useful to many. Peurifoy stresses the importance of recognizing how the individual aspects of emotions interconnect. He focuses on four main aspects of emotions: their subjective nature, their physical side, their mental side and their spiritual side. He then shows how each of these aspects must be addressed if true healing of emotional issues is to take place. Why Did God Give Us Emotions? addresses topics like:
Are some emotions good and others bad?
The role of medications in treating emotional problems
How our core beliefs affect our interpretation of events
How emotions are the true window into our souls
How to stop hiding from taboo emotions
What keeps us from hearing GodThe role emotions play in becoming the person God wants us to become There is certainly no shortage of counseling and self-help books lining the shelves of Christian bookstores today. Why Did God Give Us Emotions? is destined to distinguish itself from the rest. With simple, straightforward verbiage no p
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Relational Leadership : What I Learned From A Fisherman About Leading A Chu
$11.99Add to cartThis engaging and insightful book contains a baker’s dozen of realistic expectations written for those who desire to lead in the local church. Based on principles from his father, a shrimp boat captain, author Kerry Willis guides readers on a journey to discovering some simple yet profound rules of relationships.
With solid biblical examples, Relational Leadership outlines thirteen expectations that leaders should use to clearly communicate to and with their teams support systems. These non-negotiable rules of servant leadership, as Willis calls them, are designed to help guide leaders as they effectively model and communicate leadership.
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Living The Christian Year
$25.99Add to cartBobby Gross presents chapters on each season of the liturgical year, accompanied by weekly devotions based on the Sunday readings of the lectionary cycle. His book offers a flexible weekly format, designed to let you break the devotions down any way you want to.
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Healing Words For The Body Mind And Spirit
$28.95Add to cartMultidenominational appeal
Easy to use in a variety of ways, Healing Words is complementary medicine for the mind, body, and spirit that has a history of proven efficacy for people of all faiths on their journeys to healing and wholeness. Every two-page spread is a “chapter” headlined by one of 101 words that relate to healing the mind, body, and spirit as a process or event. The word is followed by a definition, a personal reflection or a story that relates to the healing power of the word, quotes, and an affirmation for the reader to use on his or her healing journey. The quotes include contemporary excerpts as well as words from the sages, plus proverbs, psalms, and more. -
Smart Selling On The Phone And Online
$18.99Add to cartBecome a true sales warrior by learning how to open stronger, build trust faster, handle objections better, and close more sales. Smart Selling on the Phone and Online pinpoints the 10 skills essential to every salesperson’s high-efficiency, high-success performance.
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This Odd And Wondrous Calling
$26.99Add to cartWhen it comes to ministry, there are plenty of books about how to do this work better – everything from church growth to fundraising to managing conflict to the latest small group technique. There are books about what is difficult in ministry and the toll it can take. There are books about the ministry from those who have left it behind. This Odd and Wondrous Calling offers something different: a book both honest about the challenges of the vocation and reflective of its joy from two people still pastoring.
Anecdotal and extremely readable, this book covers a diversity of subjects revealing the incredible variety of a pastor’s day. The chapters move from comedy to pathos, story to theology, scripture to contemporary culture. This Odd and Wondrous Calling is both serious and fun and ideal for any who are either considering the ministry or want a better understanding of their own minister’s life.
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House Where God Lives
$39.99Add to cartIn large parts of the Western world, institutional Christianity is becoming a thing of the past. Yet most contemporary theological discussion on the church still deals with technique and process. Gary Badcock here moves beyond that how-to approach to address the much more fundamental question of why there should exist a church at all.
The House Where God Lives makes the case for a constructive and explicitly theological understanding of the church as a problem of doctrine. Ecclesiology, Badcock argues, should keep company with the great creedal themes of the triune God and of human salvation. He begins by considering the place of ecclesiology in theology in general, and deals with the church as a mystery of faith. Surprising insights emerge both from the scriptures and from the Christian theological traditions on each of these accounts. He further examines the themes of community, proclamation, and sacrament.
Badcock’s conclusion is that, in order for the church in the West to be renewed in our time, it must escape the narrow confines of individualism that currently surround it, instead becoming reacquainted with the staggering claim that its fellowship, its teaching, its worship – indeed, its very roots – reach deep into God.
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Taking Your Church To The Next Level (Reprinted)
$20.00Add to cartAll local churches experience a predictable life cycle of growth and decline. But if a church is on a downward trend, how can it turn around? Taking Your Church to the Next Level explains the impact of age and size on churches and outlines the improvements that must be made at each point for a church to remain fruitful and faithful to its mission. McIntosh deftly describes the cycles of fruitfulness and the importance of continual improvement to diminish destructive forces that keep a congregation from its mission. Church leaders, pastors, and all who care about the church and desire to see it experience biblical growth will benefit from the sage wisdom offered in these pages.
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Quick Reference Guide To Marriage And Family Counseling
$32.00Add to cartWe all know of families or marriages in crisis. When those suffering in such situations turn to us for help, where do we turn? The Quick-Reference Guide to Marriage and Family Counseling provides the answers. It is an A-Z guide for assisting people-helpers–pastors, professional counselors, youth workers, and everyday believers–to easily access a full array of information to aid them in (formal and informal) counseling situations. Issues addressed by Clinton and Trent include affairs and adultery, communication in marriage, parenting, sibling rivalry, and many more. Each of the forty topics covered follows a helpful eight-part outline and identifies: 1) typical symptoms and patterns, 2) definitions and key thoughts, 3) questions to ask, 4) directions for the conversation, 5) action steps, 6) biblical insights, 7) prayer starters, and 8) recommended resources.
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Apprenticeship With Jesus (Reprinted)
$17.00Add to cartAsk a crowd of Christians whether they believe in Jesus as Lord and Savior, and all hands will go up. Ask the same crowd whether they live like Jesus, and most of those same hands will come down. Why is this? Why is it so hard to bridge the gap between belief and real life?
Respected author, professor, and psychologist Gary W. Moon thinks it has to do with our hyper-intellectual but non-experiential method of living the Christian life. In this winsome book Moon provides a thirty-day apprenticeship with Jesus, whereby readers will actively practice being with Jesus day in and day out. Each day’s reading uses compelling stories and scripture to illustrate a point and closes with a suggested apprenticeship activity.
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3 Weddings And A Bar Mitzvah
$16.00Add to cartThis final installment in the 86 Bloomberg Place series, Three Weddings and a Bar Mitzvah, follows the four roommates through the high dramas of their romantic relationships. Newly engaged Lelani has returned from Maui with her toddler anticipating a simple, beautiful wedding to Gil, but his Latina mama has other ideas–and the willpower to make them happen. Kendall, who accepts her “Maui Man’s” proposal of marriage, finds her wedding plans turned upside down by her absentee parents and cruel sisters, who don’t think she’s capable of making a single smart decision on her own. Marcus takes a trip to Africa, leaving Megan uncertain about the future of their relationship, and Anna risks losing Edmond to a flirty young intern at their office. And to complicate matters, Megan and Anna need to find another place to live.
With only two months to pull off both weddings (on the same day), the pressure is on, and the stress just might kill all promise of happily ever after. Are their friendships strong enough to weather the hassles and heartaches?
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Fools Rush In (Reprinted)
$17.00Add to cartBella Rossi may be nearing thirty, but her life is just starting to get interesting. When her Italian-turned-Texan parents hand over the family wedding planning business, Bella is determined not to let them down. She quickly books a “Boot Scoot’n” wedding that would make any Texan proud. There’s only one catch–she’s a country music numbskull because her family only listens to Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin. Where will she find a DJ on such short notice who knows his Alan Jackson from his Keith Urban?
When a misunderstanding leads her to the DJ (and man) of her dreams, things start falling into place. But with a family like hers, nothing is guaranteed. Can the perfect Texan wedding survive a pizza-making uncle with mob ties, an aunt who is a lawsuit waiting to happen, and a massive delivery of 80 cowboy boots? And will Bella ever get to plan her own wedding?
Book one in the Weddings by Bella series, Fools Rush In is fun, fresh, and full of surprises. Readers will love the flavorful combination of Italian and Tex-Mex, and the hilarity that ensues when cultures clash.
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Garden Of God
$27.00Add to cartFor Garcia-Rivera our spiritual life with God is less about building the City of God than creating the Garden of God. The Garden of God takes Christ’s self-revelation that he came to bring us life and “life abundant” as a clue to that enduring, habitable world. While Teilhard de Chardin focused on the growth of consciousness as the essence of the evolution of matter being raised to the spiritual, Garcia-Rivera probes the conditions and process that lead to “life abundant.” In doing so, The Garden of God offers new insights into the question of evil and suffering, the doctrine of the resurrection of the flesh, the nature of matter and of spirit, the Incarnation, the role of the Holy Spirit in creation, the end times, the role of evolution in theological thought, and a new spirituality of creation.
