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How To Handle Adversity
$19.99Add to cartThe loss of a job. A rebellious child. A loved one dies. A dear friend has been diagnosed with cancer. A struggling marriage. Financial hardships.The list is endless. When hard times come, we need wisdom to navigate through the shoals of adversity into a safe harbor. And now, in How to Handls Adversity, Charles Stanley offers a practica, biblical approach to help us deal with the troubles common to us all.Adversity is a reality that no one can avoid. Everyone asks why when adversity strikes. Yet Stanley contends, “As much as we all want to know the answer to the why question, it is really not the most significant question. The real question each of us needs to ask is, ‘How should I respond?’Previously published in hardcover (0-8407-9094-5)
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Long Nights Journey Into Day
$17.99Add to cartOn any spiritual pilgrimage, Christians face tremendous challenges to their faith not just from outside forces, but from their own inner struggles. Pastor White (Life-Defining Moments; Rethinking the Church) convincingly argues that the historical seven deadly sins still occupy a prominent position in most Christians’ lives. White describes these pitfalls in a disarmingly personal style that will leave no reader feeling immune to these common human frailties. Specifically, White expounds upon journeying from anger to restraint, sloth to diligence, gluttony to moderation, envy to security, greed to contentment, lust to self-control, pride to humility. His success in communicating the seriousness of each of these pitfalls is balanced with his pastoral heart, which emanates sincerity and care throughout this solid, if not particularly riveting, read. His suggestions on dealing with anger, for example, are helpful but familiar. White tells readers to defuse anger by accepting that things will not always go their way, realizing that no one else causes another person’s anger, and celebrating the fact that it is possible to rule their own emotions. Overshadowing every caution and cure described here is White’s undimmed confidence in the power of Christ to aid those followers who desire to know God more fully and are thereby freely and joyfully transformed.
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Getting It Together
$20.00Add to cartAs modern persons struggle to cope with the many commitments that consume our lives and the increasing–and seemingly insurmountable–demands on our time, Carol Wehrheim offers this much-needed work. In this book she offers a direction toward relief, showing how a Christian foundation of faith can provide a sense of balance amidst the struggle. Chapters include “The Foundation of Your Life,” “Not Enough Time, Too Many Choices,” “Moving Ahead,” “Creative Problem Solving,” and “Keeping On Keeping On.” Each begins with a selection from Scripture and concludes with a spiritual discipline. Including both a participant’s section and a leader’s guide, this book is ideal for group study.
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Power Of Spiritual Alignment
$13.99Add to cart1. First Seek The Kingdom Aligning Your Priorities
2. First Remove The Log From Your Own Eye Aligning Your Attitudes
3. First Be Reconciled To Your Brother Aligning Your Relationships
4. First Bind The Strong Man Aligning Your Authority
5. First The Greatest Commandment Aligning Your Heart With Gods
6. First Cleanse The Inside Aligning Your Inner World
7. First Day Of The Week Aligning With His BodyAdditional Info
In a masterwork inspired by seven of Christ’s priorities found in Matthew’s gospel, Frank Damazio challenges the reader who would aspire to be like Jesus and not deviate from His purpose for their life. Discover what Jesus said we must do if we want to align our experiences with His priorities. Learn to enjoy days filled with meaning, not moods: days filled with victory, not just survival. The author invites us to explore the “first things”, which are the core values we need to discover and follow our individual God-given goals. -
Winning The War Within
$19.99Add to cartA few moments of illicit pleasure, a few dollars of illegal gain – what can it hurt? The aftermath of our pleasures and gains can wreak spiritual havoc when those indictments are bought at the cost of wrongdoing. In Winning the War Within, Dr. Stanley examines temptation from a biblical perspective and tracks its course from desire to sin to death. He clarifies the distinction between a test or a trial (which may come from God), and a temptation (which never comes from God) and explains God’s solutions for coping with the trials and for triumphing over temptations.Previously published in hardcover (0-8407-9036-8).
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Gift Of Forgiveness
$18.99Add to cartCharles Stanley, one of the most influential spiritual leaders of our day, shares the key to personal and even world peace in The Gift of Forgiveness. as Stanley points out that no sin is so shockingly evil it blocks God’s forgiveness nor so trivial it negates the need for God’s mercy, he shares the specifics of how to go about receiving and giving forgiveness.The Gift of Forgiveness reflects the heart of Stanley’s teaching ministry. In this markedly helpful book, Stanley addresses such questions as how to pracitse a life of forgiveness in all you relationships and how to make forgiveness an ongoing, practical experience in your life. Previously published in hardcover (0840790724).
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Eternal Security : Can You Be Sure
$19.99Add to cartIs it possible to know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that I am going to heaven? If my salvation really is secure, can I commit any sin and still go to heaven? Dr. Stanley helps believers understand the issues of grace and works in a compassionate, straightforward manner. Previously published in hardcover (0840790953).
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Secret Of Happiness (Reprinted)
$16.99Add to cartHappiness. It9s what we all long for, what all human beings seek in our jobs, our relationships, our activities. We try so hard to be happy, and all too often we end up empty and unsatisfied. Why? Because, says Billy Graham in this classic work, we are looking for happiness in all the wrong places. Instead of looking for happiness in the temporal pleasures of this world, we need to learn the secret Jesus taught in the astounding set of teachings we call the Beatitudes _ that true, lasting happiness is a by-product, a bonus that comes when we seek what is really important. Presented with Dr. Graham9s characteristic simplicity, this landmark book teaches us to live above the circumstances of life and rest in the true happiness God wants us to have.
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How To Listen To God
$19.99Add to cartAfter becoming a Christian, believers discover the joy of God’s voice, but often the purity and freshness of that initial experience becomes clouded by the daily routine of life. In How to Listen to God Dr. Charles Stanley helps readers rediscover how to distinguish God’s voice from all other voices around them, and how to joyfully and obediently respond. Dr. Stanley uses personal experiences from his life and ministry to discuss: why God wants to communicate with us, how God gets our attention, how God communicates with us, and how to listen to God and enjoy His presence.Previously published in hardcover (0-8407-9041-4).
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Relentless Love : Gods Faithfulness In The Face Of Human Failure
$13.95Add to cart(When placing your order, please mention that this is a Lightining Source book.)
If you are honest enough to admit that you aren’t perfect, this book will guide you to a Redeemer whose love for you isn’t bound by your behavior. If you need to know that God’s love will remain steadfast and true – no matter what – this book is for you. He is pursuing you at his very moment. Are you ready to be found? Open the pages of this book, and open your heart to His relentless love.
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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
IVP Print On Demand TitleWork.
Parenting.
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
$7.99Add 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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Drawing Near : Daily Readings For A Deeper Faith
$24.99Add to cartWe know that we must nourish our bodies every day with food and water or our health will decline. But we may forget that’s true spiritually as well. When we neglect to regularly feed on the Scriptures, our faith becomes weak and we start to lose touch with our Savior. But a diet of fast food is bad for the body, too. Likewise, your soul needs more than a quick fix. John MacArthur offers a solution–and an alternative to the typical thematic or topical devotionals–by taking an in-depth approach to Bible exposition in this daily companion. Stimulating and instructive, the selections take you on a well-crafted, guided tour of dynamic Bible doctrines and their application to life. There are also practical suggestions for prayer, ideas for further exploration, and an easy-to-use guide for prayer, ideas for further exploration, and an easy-to-read guide for reading through the Bible in a year. Through this daily devotional you will gain a firm grasp of many of the great texts of the Bible. And just as importantly, you will learn how to feed on Scripture on your own, developing the study skills needed to open up the Bible and enjoy its rich, marvelous truths.
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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
$19.99Add 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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Success Gods Way
$14.99Add 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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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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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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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.
