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Abortion : The Ultimate Exploitation Of Women
$39.95Add to cart“Abortion: The Ultimate Exploitation of Women” unwinds the cultural myth that abortion empowers women. Not only are men responsible for promoting and legalizing abortion in America, they are the key beneficiaries. Using historical facts, medical research, and emotional personal stories, Fisher provides overwhelming evidence that abortion undermines women s rights, victimizes women, children, and men, and is eroding the very fabric of our society.”
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Gospel In The Marketplace Of Ideas (Student/Study Guide)
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1. Welcome To Athens
2. Was Paul’s Speech At Athens A Mistake?
3. Paul’s Athens
4. Our Athens
5. Paul’s Speech In Acts
6. Paul’s Audience
7. Paul’s Gospel For The Educated
8. The Art Of Persuasion
9. Acting On The Truth
10. Going To Our Own Mars Hill
Resources For Further Reading
Study Questions For Group Discussion
Subject IndexAdditional Info
Our world is multi-cultural, multi-religious, multi-philosophical. It ranges from fundamental monotheism to do-it-yourself spirituality to strident atheism. How can we authentically and effectively present the message of Jesus the Messiah in such a pluralistic and often relativistic context? When Paul visited Athens, as told in the book of Acts, he found an equally multi-cultural and multi-religious setting. From Jews to Gentiles, elite to poor, slaves to slave owners, from olive-skinned Gentiles to dark-skinned Ethiopians–the Greco-Roman world was a dynamic mixture. Religions practices were also wide and varied, with the Imperial cult of Emperor worship being the most prominent. Many also frequented the temples for the traditional Greek pantheon, and participated in the secret rituals of the Mystery Religions. Philosopher Paul Copan and New Testament scholar Kenneth Litwak team up to show how Paul’s example found in Acts 17 provide a practical model that still fits today. They uncover the cultural and religious background of this key episode in the Apostle’s career. With equal facility they show what it means for us who live in an age of competing beliefs and value systems. -
Way We Work
$12.99Add to cartWhen you’re dragging yourself to work, do you ever get mad at Adam and Eve for making us have to toil for a living? If you’re on the clock, is it ok to mentally clock out – even for a little while?Are these things that really matter when it comes to working ‘as unto the Lord’? While many questions face us as we work each day, perhaps the most important is, ‘What difference does it make in my job if I’m a Christian?’ In The Way We Work, Boone offers much more help than simply saying ‘You need to do yourwork well because you are a Christian.’ The WayWe Work provides a thorough biblical examinationof all our labors exploring:. When work is a pain. Laziness on the job. The blessing of work. Work that will last. And much more.
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Let Creation Rejoice
$26.99Add to cartPreface
Chapter 1. Apocalypse Now? Living In The Last Days
Chapter 2. Life On Earth Today
Chapter 3. Global Climate Change
Chapter 4. Why Hope? The Gospel And The Future
Chapter 5. Bringing New Testament Hope Down To Earth
Chapter 6. Cosmic Catastrophe?
Chapter 7. Jesus, A Thief In The Night And The Kingdom Of God
Chapter 8. Revelation And The Renewal Of All Things
Chapter 9. Finding Joy In An Active And Living Hope
Afterword. Practical Resources
IndexAdditional Info
Let all creation rejoice before the LORD, for he comes. Psalm 96:13 The Bible is bathed with images of God caring for his creation in all its complexity. Yet in the face of climate change and other environmental trends, philosophers, filmmakers, environmentalists, politicians and senior scientists increasingly resort to apocalyptic rhetoric to warn us that a so-called perfect storm of factors threatens the future of life on earth. Jonathan Moo and Robert White ask, “Do these dire predictions amount to nothing more than ideological scaremongering, perhaps hyped-up for political or personal ends? Or are there good reasons for thinking that we may indeed be facing a crisis unprecedented in its scale and in the severity of its effects?” The authors encourage us to assess the evidence for ourselves. Their own conclusion is that there is in fact plenty of cause for concern. Climate change, they suggest, is potentially the most far-reaching threat that our planet faces in the coming decades, and also the most publicized. But there is a wide range of much more obvious, interrelated and damaging effects that a growing number of people, consuming more and more, are having on the planet upon which we all depend. Yet if the Christian gospel fundamentally reorients us in our relationship to God and his world, then there ought to be something radically distinctive about our attitude and approach to such threats. In short, there ought to be a place for hope. And there ought to be a place for Christians to participate in that hope. Moo and White therefore reflect on the difference the Bible’s vision of the future of all of creation makes. Why should creation rejoice? Because God loves and cares the world he made. -
Elephants In The Church
$15.99Add to cartWhere Are the Truth-Tellers?
Our world is facing serious problems that pose genuine threats to our safety, our economy, our health, and our very survival. Sadly, partisanship and allegiances to special interests are preventing our nation from taking the needed action on such matters.
And where is the church at this perilous time in history? Instead of proclaiming God’s wisdom on the issues of our day, many of us are either too blinded by political affiliations or too afraid to let our voices be heard.
While resisting the predictable labels of Democrat and Republican, Bishop George Bloomer holds both sides accountable by boldly examining some of the most polarizing yet important issues of our time:
Abortion
Poverty and income inequality
Gay marriage
Racial relations
War and the military-industrial complex
Gun controlChristians will never succeed in impacting the culture if they remain emasculated by political correctness and afraid to speak the truth. Change is possible only when brave and audacious men and women are willing to confront evil and injustice through their words and their actions.
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Political Vanity : Adam Ferguson On The Moral Tensions Of Early Capitalism
$35.00Add to cartIntroduction
1. Ferguson’s Political Theology
2. The Meaning Of History
3. Action And Human Nature
4. The Peril Of Commercial Society
5. Trappings Of Liberal Democratic CapitalismAdditional Info
Political Vanity aims to illuminate the central debates over the historical, moral, and political legitimacy of market capitalism by engaging central theorists of the Scottish Enlightenment, in particular the philosopher and sociologist Adam Ferguson. Ferguson was a contemporary of philosophers and economists David Hume and Adam Smith, and actively questioned many of the pillars of early capitalism on theological grounds. Namely:* conjectural histories used to justify economic liberalization
* reduction of human action to production and consumption
* the inevitable tendency of capitalist power to undermine political institutions
Ferguson argued that far from equalizing and liberating, the unfettered market left to its own devices takes the form of despot, enslaving civil society in bonds of its own making. His ideas continue to have theological, philosophical, and ethical relevance today.
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Moon Over Maalaea Bay
$14.99Add to cartIn an instant the honeymoon of Lee’s dreams morphs to a nightmare when Jennifer disappears on their wedding night in Maui. An international trafficking ring Jennifer crippled weeks earlier seeks revenge by selling her into slavery. But a more sinister organization wants to buy Jennifer for other purposes.
With the clock ticking toward Jennifer’s impending sale, Lee, accompanied by foster daughter, Katie, and Jennifer’s grandfather, begins his own search. As the search by Lee, the Maui Police, and the federal government intensifies, beautiful Katie ends up in the crosshairs of the traffickers.
Can Lee save both his bride and his future daughter? What if he has to make a choice?
If Jennifer is sold, could she kill herself to avoid a life filled with degradation and unspeakable horror? If she did, would God forgive her? -
Spiritual Danger Of Doing Good
$18.00Add to cartCEO of Large Nonprofit Warns that Charity and Christian Service Can Have a Dark Side
Most Christians today are interested in more than just preaching the gospel with words; they also want to serve others. But what happens when Christian service and social justice lead to burnout, pride, or worse? Peter Greer gives a firsthand account of how this can happen, leaning on his experiences as CEO of HOPE International, a large Christian nonprofit that serves those in need by helping them help themselves. Greer uses stories from his own life and others in ministry to help readers protect themselves from disillusionment and other dangers. He uses the Pharisees as a symbol of how something that starts off with the noblest of intentions can go off the tracks, and how to get it back on again. This book serves as a compassionate warning to everyone who works in ministry or charitable nonprofits, from CEOs to weekend volunteers.
The Spiritual Danger of Doing Good will include end-of-chapter questions for personal reflection or group discussion.
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Public Education : The Final Solution In The Conquest Of Americas Ideals
$18.99Add to cartA SOCIALIST AGENDA RIGHT IN YOUR OWN NEIGHBORHOOD Anyone who watches the headlines knows that war rages in our nation. The liberal agenda to destroy America’s three cornerstones of exceptionalism and to transform our nation into a socialist country grows more blatant by the day. What many parents and educators fail to realize, however, is that this agenda has already gained ground in communities across the fruited plain through an avenue few would expect-our public school system. In pushing your neighborhood toward socialism, the public school system: * Attacks family values, Christianity, and American patriotism. * Erodes America’s traditions and Christian foundation. * Pushes the state religion and a spirit of governmental dependence. * Encourages physical, moral, and intellectual weakness. * Handicaps students from achieving their full potential. Written by an educational insider, this eye-opening expose, a must have for every concerned parent, describes the 235-year plan to hijack American democracy. It also reveals a destructive philosophy, based on Plato’s Republic, America must abandon to avert God’s judgment.
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Cross And Gendercide
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List Of Abbreviations
1 A Point Of Departure: The Cross And Global Violence Against Women And Girls
2 The Numbers And The Stories: The Extent Of The Violence
3 A Short History: The Social, Religious And Political Roots Of Violence Against Women And Girls
4 The Cross And The Promise: God For Us
5 Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Confession And Resistance: A Model For A Church Response To Gendercide
6 Creative Theological Reflection And Activism: Working To End Gendercide
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Violence against women and girls is a human rights epidemic that affects millions of lives around the world. While many Christians are addressing this crisis through education, advocacy and philanthropic support, there has been a reluctance to name gendercide as a theological and confessional issue, a matter that strikes at the very essence of the Christian faith. In The Cross and Gendercide, Elizabeth Gerhardt draws on Luther’s “theology of the cross” to provide a theological basis for naming and responding to the grave sin of global gendercide. She lifts up the work and witness of Dietrich Bonhoeffer as an especially powerful resource for mobilizing the church today toward political action and social engagement. From the perspective of Christ’s cross, the church must raise a prophetic voice against systemic violence and speak up for the myriad women and girls who are invisible and voiceless in the world today. -
Loose My Flesh And Let Me Grow
$13.49Add to cartDaniel McRae is a successful Christian businessman, father, and husband. Daniel decided after losing his first wife to death, and dating his current wife that he was tired of not experiencing all that God had for him. God has had a call on Daniel’s life since a very young age. After running for many years he finally gave in and decided that running was much harder then submitting. God has given him a passion for men “in the battle” of sexual sins-not to judge them but to lend a helping hand to help them get out. This book is his lifeline to men in the struggle of sexual sins. Or to any man that feels he is on the verge of losing the battle of lust. Please grab a hold and let Gods spirit rescue you before you decide to give up in the fight. He is on assignment to pull men back to God, and help them reclaim what the devil has stolen from them.
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Invisible Girls : A Memoir
$16.99Add to cartA casual meeting on a train with a group of Somali refugees leads a young cancer survivor on an adventure that gives her shattered life meaning, brings healing, and leads to the most unlikely of friendships.
Twenty-seven-year-old Sarah Thebarge had it all – a loving boyfriend, an Ivy League degree, and a successful career – when her life was derailed by an unthinkable diagnosis: aggressive breast cancer. After surviving the grueling treatments – though just barely – Sarah moved to Portland, Oregon to start over. There, a chance encounter with an exhausted African mother and her daughters transformed her life again.
A Somali refugee whose husband had left her, Hadhi was struggling to raise five young daughters, half a world a way from her war-torn homeland. Alone in a strange country, Hadhi and the girls were on the brink of starvation in their own home, “invisible” to their neighbors and to the world. As Sarah helped Hadhi and the girls navigate American life, her outreach to the family became a source of courage and a lifeline for herself.
Poignant, at times shattering, Sarah Thebarge’s riveting memoir invites readers to engage in her story of finding connection, love, and redemption in the most unexpected places.
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Corruption Of America
$25.99Add to cartThe America we know and love is in danger as never before in its history. The Land of George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and the uniquely great American Constitution is under deadly attack. It has already been distorted and heavily damaged. America is being assaulted from within and without by forces of atheism, legalized immorality, socialism, communism, and Islam. Some of these forces go by the deceptive names of “progressives,” “social democrats,” “leftists,” as well as socialism, communism, and atheism, but they have their basis in vile hatred of America, and they work assiduously to malign and defame our country, and overthrow it. Their method is constant lying and deception in every form imaginable. We witness preposterous lies every day from these individuals and groups in their quest to defame America, conservatism, Republicans, and any individual or group that opposes them. They have as their goal the revolutionary overthrow of America, and its replacement by socialism, communism, or Islam and Sharia law. All of these forces have a long historical record of inhuman cruelty, genocide, and democide.
The destructive revolutionary activities of the 1960s opened up these avenues of attack, and they have increasingly evolved and been institutionalized since the 1970s and 80s. They run throughout our educational institutions, the courts, the media, entertainment, and have even infiltrated our government. Our universities have been corrupted and politicized by them. Many professors who teach our young people today are avowed Marxists, socialists, and communists. Many of these professors are also radical feminists who are atheists, Marxists, communists, and lesbians. They also express great hatred for America, and seek to radically change it to some form of Marxism, socialism, or communism. The ACLU, an atheist and communist organization from its start in 1920, is now a highly financed organization that actually seeks to legally overthrow Constitutional American liberties, and promote a totally different world of anarchic, atheistic freedom, divorced from God and moral law, and which will be intolerant of anything else. America began as a Christian democratic nation, with Presidents who stood staunchly for liberty under God, Christianity, the Bible, and freedom of worship. They warned us against the results of immorality-tyranny, despotism, corruption, and decline. Constitutional liberties have already been largely swept away by a Suprem
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Generous Spaciousness : Responding To Gay Christians In The Church
$27.00Add to cartCommitted Christians may respond differently to gay and lesbian Christians. How can we engage those with whom we might disagree and navigate our journey together in a way that nurtures unity, hospitality, humility, and justice?
Through her extensive experience in ministering to gay and lesbian Christians, Wendy VanderWal-Gritter has come to believe we need a new paradigm for how the church engages those in the sexual minority. She encourages generous spaciousness, a hope-filled, relational way forward for those in turmoil regarding a response to gay and lesbian Christians. This book offers a framework for discussing diversity in a gracious way, showing that the church can be a place that welcomes a variety of perspectives on the complex matter of human sexuality. It also offers practical advice for implementing generous spaciousness in churches and organizations.
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Grand Central Question
$25.99Add to cartForeword By Josh McDowell
Prologue: What Truth Costs – What Truth Is Worth
Chapter One: Grand Central QuestionsPart I – Secular Humanism Or The Gospel — Which Provides Us With Intrinsic Value And Objective Purpose?
Chapter Two: Secular Humanism – The Secular Search
Chapter Three: Saying Nothing As Loud As We Can
Chapter Four: Will The Real Humanism Please Stand Up?Part II – Eastern & Western Spirituality Or The Gospel — Which Gives Real Answers To Suffering?
Chapter Five: Pantheism And Pain
Chapter Six: Escaping The EscapismPart III – Islam Or The Gospel — Which Tells Us About God’s Greatness?
Chapter Seven: From Whence Comes God’s Greatness?
Chapter Eight: God’s Greatness And The Preservation Of The Gospel
Chapter Nine: God’s Triune Greatness
Chapter Ten: Greatness IncarnateEpilogue: A Worldview That Views The Whole World
AcknowledgmentsRead More: Http://www.ivpress.com/cgi-ivpress/book.pl/toc/code=3665#ixzz2fBEY4td6
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All religions and worldviews seek to answer the fundamental questions of human existence: Why am I here? What does it mean to be human? Why is there evil in the world and how do we deal with it? But not every worldview places equal emphasis on each issue. The main worldviews each tend to stress a different central question. Secular humanism focuses on: What is the inherent value of human beings? Pantheism emphasizes: How do we escape suffering? Islam’s main concern is: How is God great? Abdu Murray digs deeply into these three representatives of major worldviews of our day: atheism, pantheism and theism. This lawyer and former Muslim brings compassion, understanding and clarity to his analysis, comparing the answers of each view to the central message of Christianity. -
Angels Without Wings
$12.49Add to cartUtilizing personal testimonies to communicate his spiritual wisdom and insight into the world of gang violence and substance abuse, Eugene McDuffie once again delivers a message of hope and redemption in “Angels without Wings”, the follow up to his book “Missing Love Child”. “I already have accepted the fact I was born to raise myself and did everything for me by myself. I am my own father.”
Far from the dry rhetoric of the customary treatment of the issue of gangs, Eugene breaths vibrant life and great understanding into the depictions of his own experiences and those of the children with which he has worked as a youth advocate. Having experienced life on the streets firsthand, Eugene is uniquely qualified and capable of presenting the issues in a manner accessible to people of all walks of life.
“Hope,” who spoke some words to me that I am sure I will never forget as long as I shall live. Her words to me were: “When one door closes….
Attacking the subject matter from all angles, Eugene educates his readers as to how gang violence, and the greater societal problems of which gangs are a symptom, effects all aspects of society, and further suggests a call to action, and how by strengthening families and an individual’s relationship with God, the problem can be addressed at its roots.
Eugene Lee McDuffie’s “Angels without Wings” boldly takes a stand against gangs, and bullies, exposing the pitfalls of entanglement in gang involvement. “Children develop an attachment to those who show them attention and respond to their needs reliably. The bond that a child has with its caregiver will impact the child for the rest of its life.”
We all can do something about this problem, I learned, as I stepped out on faith alone to educate and help children stay away from gangs, drugs and violence. The question is: Are there angels? You and I know the answer is yes! There are definitely angels! Any person, if we choose to be, can be an Angel without Wings!
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Dancing With The Devil
$17.99Add to cartIn Dancing with the Devil, evangelist Melvin Pillay addresses cultural Christianity in America and the adversary’s plot to pull the Church into a deadly waltz of apostasy. This wake-up call will challenge readers to examine one’s personal faith and understanding of biblical Christianity. As a missionary from South Africa, Pillay shares his heart for the American church to turn the tide back toward a nation that is submitted to God’s authority rather than pinned under man-made institutions. Much like C.S. Lewis’ Screwtape Letters, strategies of the enemy are exposed and brought to light. The forgotten pillars of the Christian life are outlined with an honest heart to see God’s people return to their intended purpose and calling. Jesus gave the mandate to discern the times, to watch and pray. This timely word is speaking to the Body of Christ and her need to rise up against the threat of spiritual darkness and prepare for His return.
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Incarnate : The Body Of Christ In An Age Of Disengagement
$20.99Add to cart14 Chapters
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The story of Christianity is a story of incarnation–God taking on flesh and dwelling among the people he created. God appointing and sending people as his body, his hands and feet. Disciples of Jesus bearing the good news even as they bear the marks of his passion. Whatever Christianity is, it is at least a matter of flesh and blood and the ends of the earth. And yet so much of contemporary Christian culture is rooted not in incarnation but in escape–escape from the earth to heaven, escape from the suffering of this world, escape even from one another. Christianity is increasingly understood as something personal, conceptual, interior, private, neighborless. If Jesus was God incarnate, the church is in danger of being excarnate. Michael Frost expertly and prophetically exposes the gap between the faith we profess and the faith we practice. And he offers new hope for how the church can fulfill its vocation: the hands and feet of Christ to one another and to our neighbors, to the ends of the earth and to the end of the age. -
Its In His Hands
$14.49Add to cartHow do I even begin to express the awesomeness of God’s miracles He has bestowed upon me and my family. Every fourteenth year God has proven to the medical doctors that He is the true healer and life giver. His wisdom and knowledge brings to our attention, we need to put our trust in Him. He is our creator and loving Father. This nation as a whole is sick and like sheep has wandered far from the fold of God. We must repent and be cleansed by the washing of Jesus Christ’s shed blood. If only we would obey His voice. He would heal our land and bless us more abundantly by pouring out His Holy Spirit.
You shall know them by their fruits.
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Witness : True Events From A Society Living Working And Dying In Trash
$16.49Add to cartAre God’s actions visible in the world today?
Does He still do the type of works we see in the Bible-provide supernatural guidance, unexplained timely provision and protection, miraculous answers to simple prayer, and physical healing when the doctors have given up hope?
If yes, then where is He at work?
Standing in the middle of a landfill just over five years ago, Brett Durbin was confronted with a reality that has been described by many as being the closest thing to hell on earth that exists in our post-modern culture. Children and families that have nothing scrounge in the trash dump for a few scraps of metal to pay for their next bowl of rice. But what could be done to help such a forgotten society?
Witness is the compelling true story of Brett’s experience as he obeyed the call to reach out to the least, the lost, and the forgotten through the formation of Trash Mountain Project, the organization he founded. It is the story of an amazing God, whose actions are very much visible in the lives of the organization and the people they co-labor with and serve around the world.
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Awakening : Why America Will Turn From Liberal Destruction Back To Gods Ble
$36.00Add to cartRalph Reed is a perennial commentator on CNN, NBC, CBS, and Fox News, who has a support database of 18 million voters. He has advised presidential candidates for the last six election cycles. Highly respected by conservatives and liberals alike, Reed outlines why and how our country will awaken from its current destructive path and return to a new age of blessing.
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Visions Of Vocation
$20.99Add to cartIntroduction. On Learning To Be Implicated
Chapter 1. The Most Difficult Task
Chapter 2. If You Have Eyes, Then See
Chapter 3. The Landscape Of Our Lives
Chapter 4. Knowing Is Doing
Chapter 5. Come And See
Chapter 6. Vocation As Implication
Chapter 7. The Great Temptations
Chapter 8. Learning To Live Proximately
Epilogue. But Are You Happy?Read More: Http://www.ivpress.com/cgi-ivpress/book.pl/toc/code=3666#ixzz2fBExKaIb
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Can my life matter? How can I thrive? The answer to both questions is vocation. Vocation is more than our job. It is our relationships and responsibilities woven into the work of God. For decades Steve Garber has traveled the world, coming alongside a wide range of people as they seek to make sense of their world and their lives. We meet, with Garber, leaders from the Tiananmen Square protest in China and a group of musicians who called themselves Jars of Clay. And we meet ordinary people too, like: Jonathan who learned he would rather build houses than study historyTodd and Maria who adopted creative schedules so they could parent better and practice medicineD.J. who helped Congress move into the Internet AgeSusan who built a home business of hand-printing stationary using a letterpressSantiago who works with majority-world nations in need of capitalClaudius and Deirdre whose openhearted home has always been a place for people Vocation is when we come to know the world in all its joy and pain, and still love it. Vocation is following our calling to seek the welfare of the world we live in. And in helping it to flourish, we find that we flourish too. Garber offers here a book for parents, for those in the arts, in the academy, in public service, in the trades and in commerce–for all who want to discover the virtue of vocation. -
Keep It Professional
$24.99Add to cartThis handbook was written to truly educate, motivate and inspire you to develop a servant’s heart, apply the customer service principles to your everyday life and become a true professional at serving others. In 23 years as a beauty consultant, image enhancement technician, entrepreneur and owner of Eleth Beauty Palace, word of mouth has been my sole form of marketing so I have been able to build my business on the customer service principles in this book to create a satisfied, excited, enthusiastic, loyal client base.
These principles have been instrumental in my success attracting and maintaining clientele. I not only still have the handful of clients that started with me when I moved to Florida in 1994, but more than 80 percent of my current clients have been with me for at least 10 years, which speaks volumes about the experience they have each time they come to the Palace. Our goal is to add value to each person who enters the door; we have been successful in doing so year after year.
Additionally, I have used the enclosed communication, telephone etiquette, teamwork, cultural sensitivity, character qualities, conflict management and self-development principles to develop, train, empower and prepare young ladies in an internship program, helping them to develop these leadership qualities and a servant’s heart so that they can become successful in their respective fields. The self-esteem, self-confidence and personal growth that come from giving excellent service at all times and being the best you can will cause you to be respected. Also, the value you add to your business, your family, your company, your team and your organization only adds up to profit you in every area of your life, which is true success.
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Christian Higher Education
$39.99Add to cartThis book offers a fresh report and interpretation of what is happening at the intersection of two great contemporary movements: the rapid growth of higher education worldwide and the rise of world Christianity. It features on-site, evaluative studies by scholars from Africa, Asia, North America, and South America.Christian Higher Education: A Global Reconnaissance visits some of the hotspots of Christian university development, such as South Korea, Kenya, and Nigeria, and compares what is happening there to places in Canada, the United States, and Europe, where Christian higher education has a longer history. Very little research until now has examined the scope and direction of Christian higher education throughout the world, so this volume fills a real gap.
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Extremist For Love
$24.00Add to cartIn an era where people are often sorted into the categories of ‘thinker’ and ‘doer’, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. stands out – a rare mix of the deeply profound thinker and intellect who put the fruit of that reflection into the service of direct social action.
In this helpful telling of King’s life, Dr. Rufus Burrow knits together the story of King’s family, his intellectual journey, and his experience of the pervasive racism of America in that era in a way that highlights the onnections between King’s thought and his actions.The result is a renewed understanding of the roots of King’s actions and a fresh appreciation for how intellectual activity can impact our world in surprisingly direct ways.
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Faith Rooted Organizing
$22.99Add to cartThe bible of social action, Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals, mobilizes people around self-interests and common enemies. This strategy is troubling to people of faith. So here historian Peter Heltzel and community organizer Alexia Salvatierra offer a vision for social action that values loving God and loving our neighbor as ourself.
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Gods Divine Instructions To End Time Saints
$19.99Add to cart(Revelation.1:1-3) 1. The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John: 2. Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw. 3. Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.
In God’s Divine Instructions to End Time Saints you will learn of:
* God’s salvation plan for mankind from Eternity Past to Eternity Future
* What the weather and environment will be doing in the last days
* What mankind will be doing in the last days
* What nations will be doing in the last days
* What religions will be doing in the last day
* Events of the last days chronologically revealed from today into Eternity Future
* The Tribulation Period, rise of the antichrist (the beast), last day kingdoms, and Armageddon
* Daniel’s prophecies of world ruling kingdoms
* A concluding word from the prophet Fred Simmons Jr.
* And much, much, moreAs you study “God’s Divine Instructions to End Times Saints; Discerning the Signs of the Times” and look at our world today, you should be able to easily discern that the prophetic end time events God said would happen in the last days are transpiring now. However, what has happened in the past few years are nothing compared to what is about to happen.
(Matthew.16:3B) 3. ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?
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Raw Christianity The Way Jesus Christ Expects All To Know It
$31.49Add to cart27 Chapters
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Raw Christianity – The Way Jesus Christ Expects All to Know It!Look around you. Doesn’t the world seem to be getting more chaotic? Scary? The more I talked to people, the more I realized that many of them, even some who call themselves Christians, aren’t getting what Christianity really is. The real scary part is that many people are sitting in churches every Sunday and they probably won’t be going to heaven. Is that you? It doesn’t have to be. Come see what Jesus wants all of us to know:
* Information that will empower and comfort ones faith in Christ
* How the love of God can change our thinking
* How to overcome the many obstacles to true faith in Christ
* The three types of faith
* The Master Teachings of GodThis book will teach you how to read that Bible that’s been gathering dust on your shelf or how to go buy one (really, you can do it!). God’s Word is beautiful and amazing and well…we all need to know it the way Jesus Christ wanted us to know it. Join me on this journey! I promise you, you’ll never be disappointed in what Jesus wants you to know!
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Raw Christianity The Way Jesus Christ Expects All To Know It
$20.49Add to cart27 Chapters
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Raw Christianity – The Way Jesus Christ Expects All to Know It!Look around you. Doesn’t the world seem to be getting more chaotic? Scary? The more I talked to people, the more I realized that many of them, even some who call themselves Christians, aren’t getting what Christianity really is. The real scary part is that many people are sitting in churches every Sunday and they probably won’t be going to heaven. Is that you? It doesn’t have to be. Come see what Jesus wants all of us to know:
* Information that will empower and comfort ones faith in Christ
* How the love of God can change our thinking
* How to overcome the many obstacles to true faith in Christ
* The three types of faith
* The Master Teachings of GodThis book will teach you how to read that Bible that’s been gathering dust on your shelf or how to go buy one (really, you can do it!). God’s Word is beautiful and amazing and well…we all need to know it the way Jesus Christ wanted us to know it. Join me on this journey! I promise you, you’ll never be disappointed in what Jesus wants you to know!
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Beast Tech : Is The Mark Of The New World Order Secretly Under Development
$17.95Add to cartMost people today are familiar with radio-frequency identification (rfid) technology that is increasingly expanding within public and private firms as a method for verifying and tracking inventory and people.
Yet how many know a plan exists for widespread adoption of human microchipping beginning in the year 2017?While testimony has been given that safeguards are in place to ensure privacy in connection with implantable biometric identification, some believe confidentiality is the last thing internal radio transmitters will protect-that in fact the plan to microchip humanity smacks of the biblical mark of the Beast.
Has an end-times spirit indeed been pushing for adoption of this technology this generation?
Students of eschatology (the study of end-times events) find it increasingly difficult to dismiss how this all looks and feels like movement toward fulfilling Revelation 13:16-17: “And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.”
Now, as newer versions of rfid-like transmitters become even more sophisticated-adding other “prophetic” components such as merging human biological matter with transistors to create living, implantable machines, the authors of this book-a former police detective and a bestselling prophecy writer-have come to believe the possibility that the mark of the Beast will arrive through a version of this technology is substantial.
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Inhabiting Eden : Christians The Bible And The Ecological Crisis
$22.00Add to cartIn this thoughtful study, respected Old Testament scholar Patricia K. Tull explores the Scriptures for guidance on today’s ecological crisis. Tull looks to the Bible for what it can tell us about our relationships, not just to the earth itself, but also to plant and animal life, to each other, to descendants who will inherit the planet from us, and to our Creator. She offers candid discussions on many current ecological problems that humans contribute to, such as the overuse of energy resources like gas and electricity, consumerism, food production systems-including land use and factory farming-and toxic waste. Each chapter concludes with discussion questions and a practical exercise, making it ideal for both group and individual study. This important book provides a biblical basis for thinking about our world differently and prompts us to consider changing our own actions.
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Birmingham Revolution : Martin Luther King Jrs Epic Challenge To The Church
$16.99Add to cartFrom time to time prophetic Christian voices rise to challenge our nations “original sin.” In the twentieth century, compelled by the Spirit of God and a yearning for freedom, the African American church took the lead in heralding the effort. Like almost no other movement before or since, Christian people gave force to a social mission. And, remarkably, they did it largely through nonviolent actions. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.s words and historic efforts as the Moses of this civil rights movement stand out as perhaps the most significant instance of a modern Christian leader acting in a prophetic role to instigate political change. In many ways “The Letter from Birmingham Jail” stands at the center of that movement. In this book African American journalist Edward Gilbreath explores the place of that letter in the life and work of Dr. King. Birmingham Revolution is not simply a work of historical reflection. Gilbreath encourages us to reflect on the relevance of King’s work for the church and culture of our day. Whether its in debates about immigration, economic redistribution or presidential birth certificates, race continues to play a role in shaping society. What part will the church play in the ongoing struggle?
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Transition Movement For Churches
$15.99Add to cartThe Transition Town Movement is a fast growing social movement with hundreds of local groups which aims to prepare communities for the impact of peak oil and climate change. Many Christians are involved already, but this is the first book to equip local churches to engage with the movement towards greater simplicity.
It provides:
* the main tenets of Transition
* a theological vision of the Church as a Transition movement by showing the commonalities that already exist
* signs that the movement is grounded in the visionary and prophetic
* examples of green Church initiatives and Transition projects
* suggestions of how to incorporate Transition ideas into worship and pastoral practice and policy
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All Things To All Cultures
$53.99Add to cartAll Things to All Cultures sets Paul in his first-century context and illuminates his interactions with Jews, Greeks, and Romans as he spread the gospel in the Mediterranean world. In addition to exploring Paul’s context and analyzing his letters, the book has chapters on the chronology of Paul’s life, the text of the Pauline letters, the scholarly contributions to our understanding of Paul over the last 150 years, and the theology of the Pauline corpus.
There is no comparable introduction to Paul that integrates the Jewish, Greek, and Roman influences on him and the letters that make up a substantial portion of the New Testament.
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Wall In Jerusalem
$21.99Add to cartMark Braverman reveals the true nature and shocking consequences of the conflict between Israel and Palestine, explaining why Zionism is not a true Christian response to the conflict and offering clear-cut solutions for peace at home and abroad.
The conflict between Israel and Palestine is at the center of a firestorm of political controversy, religious zeal, and bloodshed in the Middle East. Many American Christians feel that they have a biblical obligation to “stand with Israel”–but do we really understand the conflict? And is Zionism really the path to peace?
An American Jew, Mark Braverman was transformed by witnessing firsthand the occupation of Palestine and the devastating consequences of the struggle of Israelis and Palestinians to bring justice to their land. In THE WALL IN JERUSALEM, Braverman:
*Clearly outlines the origins and major tenets of the conflict and of Zionism
*Demonstrates how Christian Zionism conflicts with Christian values of justice and compassion
*Gives Christians biblical and historical basis for supporting both the state of Israel and Palestine
*Offers a clear course of action both at home and abroad to bring peace
Illuminating and provocative, this book will challenge what Christians think they know about Israel and Palestine, and inspire them to help bring God’s peace to the Holy Land.Illuminating and provocative, this book will challenge what Christians think they know about Israel and Palestine, and inspire them to help bring God’s peace to the Holy Land.
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Map For The Middle
$9.99Add to cartWHERE AM I?
HOW DO I GET WHERE I WANT TO GO?
For many students, the middle-school years represent a harrowing journey. As the landscape around them changes rapidly, many students lose their way. That’s because the path through the middle winds through difficult terrain:
– The quicksand of popularity
– The rapids of sexual awakening
– The forest of insecurity
– The bustling metropolis of electronic media
How teens navigate this journey is crucial. Those who embark without clear direction steer their lives in a direction they never intended, and end up in places they never wanted to be.
A Map For the Middle is written to offer direction and insight for the middle school journey. Through personal stories, observations, and warnings, this book seeks to help early teens understand exactly where they are, and how they can safely arrive at the place God wants them to be. -
When Helping Hurts
$16.99Add to cartWith more than 200,000 copies sold, When Helping Hurts is a paradigm-forming contemporary classic on the subject of poverty alleviation and ministry to those in need. Emphasizing the poverty of both heart and society, this book exposes the need that every person has and how it can be filled. The reader is brought to understand that poverty is much more than simply a lack of financial or material resources and that it takes much more than donations and handouts to solve the problem of poverty.
While this book exposes past and current development efforts that churches have engaged in which unintentionally undermine the people they’re trying to help, its central point is to provide proven strategies that challenge Christians to help the poor empower themselves. Focusing on both North American and Majority World contexts, When Helping Hurts catalyzes the idea that sustainable change for people living in poverty comes not from the outside-in, but from the inside-out.
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Making Neighborhoods Whole
$20.99Add to cart11 Chapters
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Already with decades of experience speaking prophetically into the charged racial climate of the American south, John Perkins began to see a need for organized thinking and collaborative imagination about how the church engages urban ministry. And so the Christian Community Development Association (CCDA) was born, with Wayne Gordon an immediate and enthusiastic participant. Nearly thirty years later CCDAs eight key components of community development still set the bar for how churches, parachurches and nonprofits engage cities with the whole gospel. RelocationReconciliationRedistributionLeadership DevelopmentListening to the CommunityChurch-Based DevelopmentA Wholistic Approach to MinistryEmpowerment In Making Neighborhoods Whole Perkins and Gordon revisit these eight commitments and how they’ve played out in real communities, even as they scan the horizon of urban ministry to set a new tone. With profiles of longstanding and emerging community development ministries, they guide a new conversation and empower disciples of Jesus to seek the welfare of their cities to the glory of God. -
Bishops On The Border
$22.95Add to cartEcumenical examination of immigration issues drawn from engaging, first-person narratives. A group of bishops (Catholic, Episcopal, Lutheran, and United Methodist), all based along the US-Mexico border, found common ground to jointly address some key immigration issues, especially those being played out in the state of Arizona. The bishops worked together on behalf of local immigrant populations to address theological and pastoral concerns-and prayed for those whose lives were being directly affected. This book grows out of their shared work and the relationships that developed among them.
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Global Public Square
$17.99Add to cart1. The Golden Key
2. For All The World
3. A War Of Spirits
4. First Freedom First
5. Death By A Thousand Cults
6. Dueling Visions
7. Looking In The Wrong Place
8. A Civil And Cosmopolitan Public Square
9. Last Chance?
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What kind of thing must freedom be to be guaranteed to every human being? In this conflicted world of competing ideologies and religious differences, the threats to human dignity are terrifyingly real. Offenses and misunderstandings can spark riots and wars. Governments and religions battle over the right to exist. People are crushed by contemporary dictatorships of mind and heart, whether secularist totalitarianism, religious authoritarianism or Western illiberalism. Is there any hope for living together peacefully? Os Guinness argues that the best way to ensure freedom and justice for all is to champion the freedom of the soul-the inviolable freedom of thought, conscience and religion that promotes and protects human dignity and fosters stable societies. English Puritan Roger Williams wrote of “soul liberty,” a freedom of belief that acts as a bulwark against abuses of power and the oppression of humanity. In contrast to religionist voices that impose their beliefs on others and secularist visions that exclude all religious perspectives, Guinness offers a vision for advancing liberty and civility in the global public square. This constructive vision charts a course for the future of the world. If we are to make the world safe for diversity, we must learn to negotiate deep differences in public life. For a world desperate for hope at a critical juncture of human history, here is a way forward, for the good of all. -
We Can Do Better Part 2
$4.99Add to cart“His intent was that now, through the church, the manifold wisdom of God should be made known…” Ephesians 3:10
Churches have been uniquely called to impact our society for good. In this timely book, Dr. Tony Evans offers “the plan” we have all been looking for to not only bring about racial unity in our country but to also restore our communities. He unveils a local model for the church that will impact your community and effect change in the lives of many. This step-by-step plan is sure to transform communities, and our nation.
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We Can Do Better Part 1
$4.99Add to cart“That they may be one even as we are one” – Jesus the Messiah
In a response to today’s racially charged climate, Dr. Tony Evans speaks from a spiritual perspective and discusses the need for racial healing in our nation and in our churches. He proposes that at the core of racial disunity lies the failure to understand and execute righteousness and justice from God’s perspective. In this timely book, which concludes with a personal challenge to all believers, Dr. Evans calls readers to be intentional about embracing God’s desire for oneness.
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Gray Matters : Navigating The Space Between Legalism And Liberty
$21.00Add to cartFollow-up book from the author of the much discussed Hipster Christianity. Helps readers live with the tension between legalish (law) and license (grace). Shows how positive engagement with culture enriches lives and honors God and includes a “Checklist for Christian Consumers” for use by groups, classes, and individuals.
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Running Lean : Shes Holding On With Everything She Has In Hopes Hell Never
$14.99Add to cartRunning Lean [run-ning leen] A term referring to a deficiency of fuel in the fuel-to-air ratio of an internal combustion engine. A physical condition where not enough caloric fuel is present for optimal performance of the body. A spiritual condition in which a believer relies on his own strengths. Equilibrium. That’s what Stacey and Calvin found in each other. He is as solid as his beloved vintage motorcycle and helps quiet the constant clamor in Stacey’s mind. She is a passionate, creative spirit—and a lifeline after Calvin’s soldier brother dies. But lately the balance is off. Calvin’s grief is taking new and more dangerous forms. Voices of self-loathing are dominating Stacey’s life. When struggles with body image threaten her health, Calvin can’t bear to lose another person that he loves. Taking action may destroy their relationship, but the alternative could be much more costly.
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Finally Free : Fighting For Purity With The Power Of Grace
$14.99Add to cartIf you have struggled personally against the powerful draw of pornography, or if you have ever tried to help someone fighting this battle, you know how hard it is to break free. But real freedom isn’t found by trying harder to change. Nor is it found in a particular method or program. Only Jesus Christ has the power to free people from the enslaving power of pornography.
In Finally Free, Dr. Heath Lambert, a leader in the biblical counseling movement, lays out eight gospel-centered strategies for overcoming the deceitful lure of pornography. Each chapter clearly demonstrates how the gospel applies to this particular battle and how Jesus can move readers from a life of struggle to a life of purity.
If you or someone you care about is fighting this battle, there is good news: No matter how intense or long-standing the struggle, Jesus Christ can, will, and does set people free from the power of pornography.
