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Heaven On Earth
$15.99Add to cartMany approach the Beatitudes as if they were a list of steps to be taken on the road to personal happiness. Or buttons to be pushed to secure God’s favor in pursuit of one’s own agenda.
But when we see what ws transpiring in Matthew 5, we realize the Beatitudes are less about what we do and more about what God is doing – what God values, how God operates, what God is up to in our world.
The Beatitudes are Jesus’ declaration of where “the good life” is. They comprise an invitation to immerse ourselves in the good life and experience a river of joy running through us to transform the world around us.
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Reaching Out Touching Hearts
$14.99Add to cartEncouraging One Another
Are you ever lonely? Do you sometimes wish that someone would call or write or just give you a friendly hug? Don Gossett knows how you feel, and he shares a very special gift in this book-the life-giving gift of reaching and touching a world full of loneliness and despair.
You will learn how to reach out and touch lives through…
*a kind word
*a sincere letter
*a gentle embrace genuine encouragement
*an uplifted prayerOne person is enough to reach out and make the world a better place. And when you reach out to others, you will experience the joy of seeing God work in their lives as they respond to your unique touch.
…not forsaking our own assembling together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another; and all the more, as you see the day drawing near.
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Christian Participants Guide (Student/Study Guide)
$12.99Add to cartWhat does it mean to be a Christian?
Ask 100 people that question and you are likely to get 100 different answers. One reason people have such difficulty defining what a Christian should be is that the Bible never gives a definition. The followers of Jesus did not defer to themselves as Christians, it was a label placed on them from the outside. The early believers called themselves disciples, and the Bible is very clear in defining what a disciple looks like.
Jesus gave his disciples one word that should define them. What if we as his followers embodied this one word? What if our behavior was so consistent with this word that folks around us were drawn to us—and to God?
In Christian, you will learn:
What one word should be descriptive of every disciple
How Jesus followers should treat those who are outside the faith
Why people love Jesus but can’t stand his followersThis study guide with help you dig deeper into the teachings from Andy Stanley on the corresponding DVD (sold separately) and includes discussion questions for individuals and/or small groups, between-session devotions, DVD teaching overviews, and a leader’s guide.
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Through The Year With Jimmy Carter
$16.99Add to cartIn Through the Year with Jimmy Carter, the thirty-ninth President of the United States takes you on a unique journey into the heart of the Christian faith. Based on more than three decades of practical Bible teaching, these readings draw from the riches of God’s Word and the compelling experiences of Mr. Carter’s own life. Whether through fascinating glimpses into behind-the-scenes activity at the White House, or insightful remembrances of his career in the U.S. Navy, Mr. Carter never ceases to connect the wisdom of Scripture with your own crucial place on the stage of life. Frank, honest, sometimes funny, sometimes heartbreaking, and always relevant, Through the Year with Jimmy Carter challenges readers to be more Christ-like every day of their lives.
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Mini Heart Trust (Size 6 Ring)
$21.95Add to cartStunning high polish stainless steel band tapers from a petite 5 mm heart cut top to a 3 mm back. Black enamel filled engraving wraps entire band from one end of the heart to the other reading “Trust In The Lord With All Your Heart Prov. 3:5
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Mini Heart Trust (Size 7 Ring)
$21.95Add to cartStunning high polish stainless steel band tapers from a petite 5 mm heart cut top to a 3 mm back. Black enamel filled engraving wraps entire band from one end of the heart to the other reading “Trust In The Lord With All Your Heart Prov. 3:5
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Mini Heart Trust (Size 8 Ring)
$21.95Add to cartStunning high polish stainless steel band tapers from a petite 5 mm heart cut top to a 3 mm back. Black enamel filled engraving wraps entire band from one end of the heart to the other reading “Trust In The Lord With All Your Heart Prov. 3:5
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Mini Heart Trust (Size 9 Ring)
$21.95Add to cartStunning high polish stainless steel band tapers from a petite 5 mm heart cut top to a 3 mm back. Black enamel filled engraving wraps entire band from one end of the heart to the other reading “Trust In The Lord With All Your Heart Prov. 3:5
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Marriage Of The Heart
$12.99Add to cartThree Kelly Long Amish novellas-available for the first time in one collection.
Christmas Cradles-When Anna takes over for her aunt, the local midwife, Christmas night heats up with multiple deliveries, three strangers’ quilts, and unexpected help from the handsome, brooding Asa Lapp.
A Marriage of the Heart-Since her mother’s death, Abigail Kauffman has lived alone with her father. She longs to escape the emptiness of the farmhouse that has never felt like home. Joseph Lambert is a newcomer in their close-knit community. Only after suddenly marrying do they begin to understand the tender truths of life-long love.
A Perfect Secret-Rose’s betrothed, Luke, is safe and dependable-maybe a little too safe. Or so she thought, until she ran into him into the woods one night and learned there was more to him than she ever suspected. Now his secret haunts her. She wasn’t sure about marrying a man she knew too well. But should she marry a man she doesn’t understand at all?
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Purpose Driven Life What On Earth Am I Here For Expanded Edition (Large Type)
$24.99Add to cartA fresh look at life from a treasured book of hope. This isn’t your grandfather’s Purpose Driven Life. Retooled and newly titled What On Earth Am I Here For? for a new generation, this 10th anniversary edition includes all the wisdom of the original book, plus two new chapters and fresh insights Rick Warren has gleaned since he first wrote his #1 international bestseller. Discover God’s amazing plan for you both now and for eternity as you take a spiritual journey that will transform your answer to life’s most important question: What On Earth Am I Here For?
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Start This Stop That
$18.99Add to cartWe need less conventional wisdom and more creative leadership.
Not all of the advice church leaders have heard on church growth works. Judging by declining membership in many mainstream denominations, most doesn’t. It’s time to reevaluate the standard thinking on how to grow a church, especially considering the number of new voices questioning the worth of church growth.
The Cowarts have an amazing story to tell. Harvest Church has grown from a church plant of four – Jim and Jennifer and their two children – to a thriving community of more than 2,200 disciples of Jesus. Harvest Church is changing the world and having an awesome time doing it.
Learn why conventional church thinking such as pastoral care, long-term planning, stewardship campaigns, committees, and even staff appointments can actually inhibit church growth.
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Broken Heart : A Memoir
$21.95Add to cartHow can you mend a broken heart? Can you die from a broken heart? Kc Hutter thought so. She was given away by her parents; went through two divorces; experienced physical and mental abuse; moved thirty-eight times trying to find a peaceful home; mourned the death of her son and business partner, who died from acute leukemia at the age of thirty-two. In the midst of abandonment, divorce, death, and fear, was there any hope for healing? And if so, where? Kc spent years trying to mend her broken heart. Booze couldn’t do it; material possessions couldn’t do it; throwing herself into her work couldn’t do it. Who of us has not been broken? Who of us has not cried out in desperation for some relief from our pain? Travel with Kc on her journey from heartache to healing. Allow her to introduce you to the Mender of Broken Hearts. Let Him into your life, and you will find comfort, hope, and joy.
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Restart Your Church
$18.99Add to cartRecognize
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Restore
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RebirthAdditional Info
As a result of the near-death experiences of many congregations today, denominational leaders are looking for ways to revitalize churches. The act of revitalization often starts with the assumption that what was once vital can be vital again, if church leaders simply do the same better. So congregations increase programs, budgets, and formulas. They look back in time, trying to recapture a period when the church’s role in society was vital. A church seeking revitalization typically does more of the same, but faster.However, the central story of faith is the story of both death and resurrection. Followers of Christ like to live out the resurrection part of their faith, but they often aren’t very comfortable dealing with what must come before resurrection – death. The church must be willing to live out its entire story, from beginning to end.
The church needs to trust the idea that God brings to life what God wants to. This book suggests shifting away from the language of revitalization toward the story of death and resurrection. Escobedo-Frank focuses on ten specific “re-” words to outline a strategy for dying and resurrecting again – for restarting the church.
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Freedom Of The Heart
$11.99Add to cartA young adult with Down syndrome reaches a turning point at the age of twenty-one. He faces challenging and unexpected life events and changes that place him on a vulnerable state of chaos, depression, and withdrawal from life. Several venues of self-discovery, emotional healing techniques, medical supervision, and spiritual bliss take him to that place of serenity where he used to be. With the unconditional love, and support from his mother, sister, family, and friends, Gaby started to express his journey back to that place of innocence and inner serenity by giving credit to his deliverer, Jesus.
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When A Heart Stops (Reprinted)
$16.00Add to cartSpunky and outgoing, nothing much bothers medical examiner Serena Hopkins–except for the thought of falling in love again. But when a serial killer is picking off her former classmates, Serena’s life becomes intertwined with her old high school crush, FBI agent Dominic Allen. Is the secret she’s keeping putting her next on the killer’s hit list? Can she trust Dominic with the truth before it’s too late?
Intense, emotional, and fast-paced, When a Heart Stops will have readers up late as they race to the finish to find out what happens.
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Grace Participants Guide (Student/Study Guide)
$12.99Add to cartGrace.
We talk as though we understand the term. The bank gives us a grace period. The seedy politician falls from grace. Musicians speak of a grace note. We describe an actress as gracious, a dancer as graceful. We use the word for hospitals, baby girls, kings, and premeal prayers. We talk as though we know what grace means.
But do we really understand it? Have we settled for wimpy grace? It politely occupies a phrase in a hymn, fits nicely on a church sign. Never causes trouble or demands a response. When asked, “Do you believe in grace?” who could say no?
Max Lucado asks a deeper question: Have you been changed by grace? Shaped by grace? Strengthened by grace? Emboldened by grace? Softened by grace? Snatched by the nape of your neck and shaken to your senses by grace?
God’s grace has a drenching about it. A wildness about it. A white-water, riptide, turn-you-upside-downness about it. Grace comes after you. It rewires you. From insecure to God secure. From regret riddled to better-because-of-it. From afraid to die to ready to fly. Grace is the voice that calls us to change and then gives us the power to pull it off. Let’s make certain grace gets you.
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Healing For Your Broken Heart
$12.95Add to cartOlive Press Messianic (www.olivepresspublisher.com)
Publisher Marketing: Is your heart wounded and broken? Are you having trouble picking up the pieces, patching the wounds, and moving on? The authors understand. They have been through it. They know how long it takes and they know what is needed to begin to feel whole again, and to have hope to move forward in life. Come to the arms of Jesus. Drink from His healing fountain and find your heart softening and able to receive love again.
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Start To Finish
$11.99Add to cartThe goal of this book is to lay biblical foundations concerning the discovery of your gifts, the development of them, and the practical implementation of those gifts. It is truth that is simple, attainable, and applicable. It is my goal to present truth in such a way that you are moved beyond intellectual assent to application, which transforms our character and manner of life.
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Song Of The Brokenhearted
$15.99Add to cartAva’s life is full of great things. Her daughter is getting married to just the right guy, her husband’s company has kept them financially thriving for years, her son is a freshman in high school, playing football and doing well, and the ministry she started is keeping her busy as she reaches out to those with “broken hearts.”
Then it all falls apart. Ava’s safe world becomes unanchored, and she is forced to face the childhood she’s run away from her entire life. Just as she’s trying to sift through the pieces, the doorbell rings and Ava is confronted with the surprise of her life.
Ava must set out on a journey that takes her back home-something Ava hasn’t done in twenty years. As she travels across the state of Texas, strangers offer her kindness and remind her of the meaning of hope and forgiveness.
It is in this journey back that Ava discovers God in a new way. She sees she’s been hiding her brokenness behind good deeds and a safe life. Learning what it means to lose it all is just the start of Ava’s journey – as is the new song God is writing on her heart.
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Giants In The Earth
$15.99Add to cart“There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them…” Gen. 6:4 (KJV) It didn’t take long after creation before Satan, in his jealousy toward the newly created humans, found a way to manipulate them into trading perfection for the death that comes through sin. But God still loved them anyway. Satan vowed to find a way to destroy them himself, so he charged one of his most devious minions, Azazel, with two tasks to reach his goal. He was to teach the humans war and corrupt the human bloodlines. This led to the birth of the Nephilim; giants who were to wreak havoc on the people of the earth. Standing in his way was Enoch, a man who “walked with God.” When Azazel devises a plan to kill him, he discovers that he is up against an obstacle even larger than his giant sons; the immovable faith of Enoch and his son, Methuselah. With the help of the Creator and a few giant friends of their own, they are able to triumph over colossal evil in this action-packed adventure set during the pre-flood era of the earth.
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Art Of Neighboring (Reprinted)
$15.99Add to cartOnce upon a time, people knew their neighbors. They talked to them, had cook-outs with them, and went to church with them. In our time of unprecedented mobility and increasing isolationism, it’s hard to make lasting connections with those who live right outside our front door. We have hundreds of “friends” through online social networking, but we often don’t even know the full name of the person who lives right next door.
This unique and inspiring book asks the question: What is the most loving thing I can do for the people who live on my street or in my apartment building? Through compelling true stories of lives impacted, the authors show readers how to create genuine friendships with the people who live in closest proximity to them. Discussion questions at the end of each chapter make this book perfect for small groups or individual study.
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Rare Earth
$18.00Add to cartMarc Royce stares down from the helicopter on the Rift Valley slashing across Africa like a scar. Tribal feuds, drought, and dislocation have left their devastation. And he sees a new wound–a once-dormant volcano oozing molten lava across the dry landscape-and clouds of ash obscure his vision. His undercover assignment is similarly obscured. Supposedly dispatched to audit a relief organization’s accounts, Marc finds himself amid the squalor and chaos of Kenyan refugee camps caught in a stranglehold of corruption and ruthlessness. But his true task relates to the area’s reserves of once-obscure metals now indispensible to high-tech industry. The value of this rare earth inflames tensions on the world’s stage as well as among warring tribes. When an Israeli medical administrator, Kitra, seeks Marc’s help with her humanitarian efforts, they forge an unexpected link between impoverished African villages and another Silicon Valley rising in the Israeli desert. Precious metals and inventive minds promise new opportunities for prosperity, secure futures, and protection of valuable commodities from terrorists. As Marc prepares to report back to Washington, he seizes a chance to restore justice to this troubled land. This time, he may have gone too far.
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Art Of Faith
$24.99Add to cartHave you stood in front of a painting and thought, What does this mean?
The Art of Faith answers this question again and again, with insight, wit, and verve, providing a thorough reference to Christian art through the centuries. Practical and easy to read, this book unfolds the ancient world of Christian images for believers who want to enrich their faith, college students studying art history, and travelers to religious sites. With this book in hand, you can visit museums, churches, or other sacred places and identify a work of art’s style and meaning. Or even explore the signs and symbols of your local church.
Whatever your relationship to art or Christianity, open this book when you’re curious about a painting, sculpture, symbol, or other sacred work. It will answer your questions about The Art of Faith.
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Globequake : Living In The Unshakeable Kingdom While The World Falls Apart
$19.99Add to cartBiblically based, practical strategies to stabilize your life, church, home, school, government, and business during global turmoil.
People across the globe sense something big is shaping up. The anxiety is over the fact that they don’t know what. Global collapse? Fiery wars? Worldwide depression? It’s as if the tectonic plates of society and culture are being reshaped right under our feet! Turbulence and change have gone viral, and can only be described as a “globequake.” How can we be stable personally and anchor our families, schools, governments, churches, and businesses in the middle of such upheaval?
People wonder:
How can I protect my children from all the thunderous change?
Who can I trust for leadership in the pulpit, in the schoolroom, in the courthouse, in the CEO’s office?
Where is God in the middle of this upheaval?The good news is that behind the anxiety-stirring uncertainties about the future there are wonderful, strong certainties given by the Lord of history himself! Globequake presents answers to the troubling questions with solid biblical truth on which we can ground our lives when the times are shifting at what seems like light-speed.
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Faith Factor : The Art And Science Of Faith
$17.49Add to cartFaith is a universal principle, simple as perhaps it is complex. In life we unknowingly interact with delicate laws. We plant a seed and expect a tree. Although much science is involved in the transformation, life has ‘user friendly’ packages ready for implementation. A computer’s designer allows man to communicate with machine through the coordination of complex subsystems – anyone who presses the power button gets the same result!
Faith is the law God created by which man accesses sources and resources outside of himself. To every crisis God has programmed a solution. We simply start the process.
Let the seed show you how!A textbook on how faith works:
* Looking behind the scenes of visible miracles
* Perfecting faith at the point of greatest weakness
* Interfaces – God’s supernatural solutions to our problems
* Miracle faith requires miracle ‘hearing’
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It Started In The Garden
$18.95Add to cartDoes God really have a plan for marriage? Can a book written thousands of years ago still be relevant for marriages today? It Started in the Garden invites you to take a biblical journey back to the Garden of Eden to discover God’s amazing design for marriage. This book will help you discover God’s basic rules for marriage, understand communication fundamentals, recognize and defeat five of the major enemies attacking marriage, identify differences between men and women, and their roles in marriage. God, the Creator of marriage, has provided the ultimate operating manual. Are you a newly engaged couple looking to lay a good foundation? Have you been married for many years and just need a refresher? Is your marriage in trouble? Are you ready to give up? It Started in the Garden is a great resource for pre-marriage counseling, marriage seminars, marriage enrichment, small groups, and for marriages in crisis. Individuals, couples, pastors, lay leaders, and counselors will benefit from the wealth of teaching in this book. If you want your marriage to work the way God designed it then start following His plan. After all, it started in the Garden! “Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, The Holy One of Israel: ‘I am the LORD your God, Who teaches you to profit, Who leads you by the way you should go.'” Isaiah 48:17.
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Making Your Small Group Work Participants Guide (Student/Study Guide)
$10.99Add to cartWhether you’re a new or seasoned group leader, or whether your group is well-established or just getting started, the Making Your Small Group Work DVD and participant’s guide (sold seperately) will lead you and your group together to a remarkable new closeness and effectiveness. Designed to foster healthy group interaction and facilitate maximum growth, this innovative approach equips both group leaders and members with essential skills and values for creating and sustaining truly life-changing small groups. Created by three group life experts, the two DVDs in this kit include:
* Four sixty-minute sessions on the foundations of small groups that include teaching by the authors, creative segments, and activities and discussion time.
* Thirteen five-minute coaching segments on topics such as active listening, personal sharing, giving and receiving feedback, prayer, calling out the best in others, and more.Formerly titled ReGroup.
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Real Conversations Participants Guide (Student/Study Guide)
$10.99Add to cartFor many teenagers, sharing their faith in Jesus to their friends is an overwhelming and scary prospect. Outreach is inviting their friends to a fun event once a year. In this entertaining DVD training, Jonathan McKee ignites the passion of Christian teenagers to live authentic lives and gives them tools to reach out to their friends in ways that won’t give them cold sweats! The message is simple: an authentic faith creates opportunities to talk about Jesus. In this dynamic DVD training, students will discover the secret to sharing the reason for the hope that’s within them.
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With My Whole Heart
$13.99Add to cartAs James Jones waited for his heart operation and began to recover from it, he had the Psalms with him day and night, and these are reflections based on each occasion the word ‘heart’ is used in the Psalms (70 times). These reflections invite the reader to make a new relationship with the psalms, and with the familiar translation of them in the Book of Common Prayer. They include a prayer to say in response to each meditation.
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Intercessory Worship : Combining Worship And Prayer To Touch The Heart Of G (Rep
$16.00Add to cartA glorious spiritual awakening is on the horizon, sparked by the combustible mix of worship and prayer. Dick Eastman calls this combination “intercessory worship,” and in this one-of-a-kind guidebook, he explains how worship-saturated prayer rises like a fragrance before God’s throne to declare His glory and reign over all circumstances, relationships and governments. He shows readers how to engage in life-transforming intercessory worship. He also reveals why intercessory worship is the greatest last-days prayer movement in history and invites believers to join the worldwide Body of Christ in fanning the flames of revival through biblical worship and scriptural prayer. The world will be transformed as the presence and power of the Spirit pour forth from the heart of God.
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Leader After Gods Own Heart
$15.99Add to cartFrom the author of the bestseller A Man After Gods Own Heart (more than 100,000 copies sold)a survey of God’s priorities for leaders as exhibited in the life of Nehemiah.
The Bible is filled with amazing people, and Nehemiah stands out prominently among them. What made him so effective, so influential? It starts with knowing what God desires in a leader. From Nehemiahs example, readers will learn 15 ways to lead with purpose. Among them are:
giving direction to your leadership by cultivating a vision for the future
solidifying your leadership by recognizing the value of conviction
refining your leadership by acquiring problem-solving skills
validating your leadership by pursuing personal integrity
extending your leadership by understanding the power of motivationBecause it is God who enables us, these great qualities are accessible to every believer. Readers will experience real fulfillment as they take steps toward becoming Gods kind of leader.
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Liberal Arts For The Christian Life
$19.99Add to cartFor over forty years, Leland Ryken has championed and modeled a Christian liberal arts education. His scholarship and commitment to integrating faith with learning in the classroom have influenced thousands of students who have sat under his winsome teaching. Published in honor of Professor Ryken and presented on the occasion of his retirement from Wheaton College, this compilation carries on his legacy of applying a Christian liberal arts education to all areas of life.
Five sections explore the background of a Christian liberal arts education, its theological basis, habits and virtues, differing approaches, and ultimate aims. Contributors including Philip Ryken, Jeffry Davis, Duane Litfin, John Walford, Alan Jacobs, and Jim Wilhoit analyze liberal arts as they relate to the disciplines, the Christian faith, and the world. Also included are a transcript of a well-known 1984 chapel talk delivered by Leland Ryken on the student’s calling and practical chapters on how to read, write, and speak well.
Comprehensive in scope, this substantial volume will be a helpful guide to anyone involved in higher education, as well as to students, pastors, and leaders looking for resources on the importance of faith in learning.
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Unglued Participants Guide (Student/Study Guide)
$12.99Add to cartUse this participant’s guide in conjunction with the Unglued DVD to dig deeper into learning how to acknowledge, understand, and manage raw emotions that are commonplace to the average woman. According to author and speaker Lysa TerKeurst, each time we feel a raw emotion coming to the surface it’s an opportunity to either fall back into patterns that make us wallow in guilt or choose more wisely and make progress.
Let’s choose today to progress! Session titles include: Why A I So Emotional? What’s Really Going On? Roadblocks Sucker Punches Putting on My Big Girl Pants I’m the Boss of My Emotions
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Cure For Troubled Hearts
$14.99Add to cartLet not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. (John 14:1)
Jesus Christ loves us as no one else ever has. But do we love Him as we should?
We hear sermons about Him; we sing about Him; we read about Him; we even try to speak to Him. And yet, for far too many, Jesus is not real. Is it no wonder that our hearts are troubled by the worries, pressures, and sorrows of this world?
Best-selling author Dr. Herbert Lockyer reminds us that Jesus’ willingness to receive us is the cure for our troubled heart. But His reception of us depends on our reception of Him. Through his teachings, Dr. Lockyer challenges us to enjoy Christ’s fullness, and to give Him the place of preeminence in every part of our life and being!
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Brand Real : How Smart Companies Live Their Brand Promise And Inspire Fierc
$18.95Add to cartCompanies are forever being more creative in their branding strategies, building identities ranging from the warm-and-fuzzy to the ultra-cool and edgy. But it seems that many of these enterprises forgot that a brand, at its heart, is a promise to deliver. If the brand experience does not live up to that promise, customers will take their business elsewhere. Brand Real is a business strategy guide for making a brand’s promise stand up at every customer touch point. Packed with proven, repeatable management practices, the book shows how to establish a clean brand architecture while avoiding the needless complexity that has tripped up many promising companies. Author Laurence Vincent presents cautionary tales of supposed brand superstars as well as instructive case studies of genuine brand giants like American Express, Apple, Cisco, Google, Qualcomm, Virgin, and others. Readers will learn how to connect the outward-facing elements of their brands-logos, advertising, imagery, communications-directly to the core elements of business strategy and forge a powerful and lasting connection with their customers.
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Heart And Soul
$24.99Add to cartFighting crime by helping criminals and their families.
Read five true stories of criminals who are Heart and Soul Survivors. The best way to fight crime is to improve the community. The quality of a community is seen in how it treats its marginalized people. Statistics show that the percentage of marginalized adults in custody is considerably higher than the percentage of their representation in the overall population. Marginalized people include the poor, the mentally ill, the learning disabled, and drug addicts. Warehousing these people is a community’s shame. This book is urging a ministry involving volunteers working with criminals and their families. It will provide you with the tools necessary to help some people and thereby reduce crime. Chaplain Elsey writes from his experience and the knowledge gained working with hundreds of these families.
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Hearts Safe Passage
$17.00Add to cartAll Phoebe Lee wants out of life is to practice midwifery in Loudon County, Virginia. But when she refuses to accompany her pregnant sister-in-law to help save her husband from an English prison during the War of 1812, Phoebe finds herself pressed aboard a British privateer.
Captain Rafe Docherty promises to get Phoebe’s brother-in-law out of prison in exchange for information Rafe needs to exact revenge on the man who destroyed his family. As he realizes his attraction to Phoebe, she determines to get ashore before her patient goes into labor–and before her own heart is in danger. But an enemy in their midst threatens to end their plans–and their very lives.
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Heart Of Gold
$16.99Add to cartAgainst Shannon’s wishes, love stakes its claim in her heart. Will she discover treasure or treachery?
When Shannon Adair accompanies her minister father to the western gold rush town of Grand Coeur, she’s certain she’ll never be happy away from her beloved Virginia, even though the South is still gripped in civil war.
Wells Fargo driver Matthew Dubois isn’t sure the lovely Shannon belongs in Idaho Territory either, but he is a desperate man. His widowed sister is dying and leaving her young son, Todd, in his care. If Matthew ever wants to return to driving coach for the express company–and he does mean to return to it–he’ll need a wife to look after the boy when he’s away.
Shannon is determined not to lose her heart to a man who is neither a Southerner nor a gentleman. But love stakes its claim. Now, will her heart survive learning the truth behind the courtship?
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Song Of My Heart
$14.99Add to cartSadie Wagner has always been devoted to her family. So when her stepfather is injured and can’t work, she decides to leave home and accept a position as a clerk at the mercantile in Goldtree, Kansas. Goldtree also offers the opportunity to use her God-given singing talent–though the promised opera house is far different from what she imagined. With her family needing every cent she can provide, Sadie will do anything to keep her job.
Thad McKane comes to Goldtree at the request of the town council. The town has been plagued by bootlegging operations, and Thad believes he can find the culprit. After he earns enough money doing sheriff work, he wants to use it to pay for his training to become a minister.
Thad is immediately attracted to the beautiful singer who performs in Asa Baxter’s unusual opera house, but when he hears her practicing bawdy tunes, he begins to wonder if she’s far less innocent than she seems. And when Sadie appears to be part of the very crimes he’s come to investigate, is there any hope the love blossoming between them will survive?
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CATCH Small Group Participant Book (Revised)
$11.99Add to cartPerfect for the entire church, the Catch Small Group Participant Book takes small groups through Bible study and intense evaluation designed to help your church attract visitors and then welcome them into the life of your community. Half of the workbook will train the trainers, while the second half will include training material for volunteers. These small-group style sessions will inspire the teams around the mission and give them the tools they need to get started. This four-week adult study includes prayer, Bible study discussion; DVD (sold separately) viewing, action steps and personal reflection homework and helps the whole congregation prepare to be truly outward focused.
Topics include:
1. Becoming relentlessly outward focused
2. Deciding what makes your church unique
3. Welcoming and inviting people in
4. Ways you can help
Newly revised and updated, Catch: A Church-wide Program for Invitational Evangelism brings you a comprehensive four-week program for implementing the proven marketing and visitor follow-up techniques from Church of the Resurrection-one of the biggest and most influential churches in the U.S. -
Captive Heart (Reprinted)
$14.99Add to cartRavaged by disease, preyed upon by ruthless bandits, the Bender family’s second year in Mexico has taken a grievous turn. Faced with impossible choices, the expatriate Amish discover, more than ever before, what it means to live by faith and not by sight.
But it’s Miriam who must make the hardest choice as her heart takes her on a new and dangerous course. Domingo. “He is gentle,” his sister said, “until someone he loves is threatened.” Is Miriam that someone?
“Cualnezqui,” he often calls her–the Nahuatl word for Beautiful one. The chiseled native has proven himself a man of principle, grace and power, yet is he the pearl of great price for whom Miriam would sacrifice everything, or is he merely a friend? Tormented by conflicting emotions, she’s haunted by vivid dreams: Dressed in the coarse cotton pants and shirt of a peasant, she stands on the precipice of a sun-washed ridge searching desperately for Domingo. Domingo the fierce. Domingo the protector.
Domingo the forbidden.
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Circle Maker Participants Guide (Student/Study Guide)
$12.99Add to cartThis six-session video-based study with participant’s guide (sold separately) will help participants gain a deeper understanding of prayer and, in turn, make a more consistent practice of prayer.
It will give viewers new vocabulary and methodology to pray with a holy confidence. It will help participants dream big, pray hard and think long.
The six video sessions combine a teaching element with a creative element to draw viewers into the circle. Through this combination, participants will gain old theology and new methodology for prayer.
The six-week study will not only revolutionize the personal prayer life of each participant, but together the group will form a prayer circle around each other’s challenges, opportunities and dreams.
Each session wraps up with a practical application called ‘Draw the Circle,’ giving participants the opportunity to put the prayer principles they have learned into practice. Session titles include:
The Legend of the Circle Maker
Circling Jericho
The 1st Circle-Dream Big
The 2nd Circle-Pray Hard
The 3rd Circle-Think Long
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Martin Luther King
$19.99Add to cartMartin Luther King’s public life lasted only 13 years – yet in that time, he changed the USA’s attitude to civil rights forever and continues to inspire human rights movements today. Richard Reddie has written the first book on King since Barack Obama became US president and considers whether Obama is the fulfilment of “King’s dream”. Reddie seamlessly melds King’s religious, social, political and racial ideas in ways that are understandable, yet sophisticated; and captures his legacy and impact on both sides of the Atlantic. Reddie uses copious photographs throughout to chronicle the great man’s life and times. As the first Black Brit to write a book on Martin Luther King, he brings a fresh new perspective.
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Set Apart For God
$16.99Add to cartHoliness is a priceless gift from God that most people never unwrap. What they miss!
Why does just hearing the word holiness make many of us uncomfortable?
*We think holiness means restrictive rules and regulations.
*We believe it is an outdated concept that doesn’t fit in today’s world.
*We fear we could never live up to what holiness requires.The more we think of holiness in terms of what we must not do, the more control these activities seem to have over us. The beautiful secret revealed to us through Christ is that true holiness means peace, freedom, and strength as we live according to the Spirit and shed the weights that hold us back, so that we can receive all the blessings God wants for us.
In his trademark clear and compassionate approach, best-selling author Derek Prince reveals the beauty and power of holiness. He explains that as we seek holiness, we will understand how deeply our holy God loves us and be continually drawn closer to Him.
Join Derek for an adventure into holiness as you discover…
*How God predestined you to be holy.
*What holiness is and what it is not.
*God’s provisions to bring you into His holiness.
*How to apply God’s promises and “participate” in His divine nature.
*How to become what God created you to be.
*The practical outworking of holiness in your life.
*How holiness enables you to fulfill your calling from God.“Worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness.”
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Forever Strong : The Greatest Victories Are Born In The Heart (DVD)
$19.95Add to cartHotshot rugby player Rick Penning (Sean Faris) was the star player of his Arizona high school team until a fateful brush with the law forces him to ponder the consequences of his actions in a Salt Lake City juvenile detention center. Then, the warden (Sean Astin, Rudy) helps the talented-but-troubled player get a second shot by landing a coveted spot on the famed Highland High School rugby team. Now, with help from Coach Larry Gelwix (Gary Cole), Rick sets out to redeem himself and lead his team to the national championship, but first, he’ll have to defeat his old team, which is coached by his father.
Inspired by actual events, Forever Strong is a coming-of-age story that sets one teenager’s spiritual and emotional growth against the fierce world of rugby. With nothing left to lose, Rick discovers that the greatest victories aren’t born on a field, but in the heart.
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Fireproof : Never Leave Your Partner Behind
$17.99Add to cartINSIDE BURNING BUILDINGS, Captain Caleb Holt lives by the firefighter’s adage: NEVER LEAVE YOUR PARTNER. Yet at home, in the cooling embers of his marriage, he lives by his own rules.
Growing up, his wife Catherine always dreamed of marrying a loving, brave firefighter . . . just like her father. Now, after seven years of marriage, she wonders when she stopped being “good enough.” Countless arguments and anger have them wanting to move on to something with more sparks.
As they prepare for divorce, Caleb’s father challenges him to commit to a 40-day experiment: “The Love Dare.” Wondering if it’s even worth the effort, Caleb reluctantly agrees, not realizing how it will change his world forever.
Surprised by what he discovers about the meaning of love, Caleb begins to see his wife and marriage as worth fighting for. But is it too late? His job is to rescue others. Now Captain Holt must face his toughest job ever . . . rescuing his wife’s heart.
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Hearts Communion
$12.99Add to cartJeremy “JB” Edwards dreams of one thing: Having a loving wife and children of his own. Not a surprising ambition, since he was raised at the heart of a large, tight-knit family. Monica Kittelski spends her days at Sunny Horizons Daycare Center pouring her heart and faith into other people’s children. But Monica harbors one impossible dream: Having children of her own someday. JB and Monica seem the perfect match, but what will come of their electric, sassy relationship when Jeremy learns of Monica’s infertility? Hopes and reality collide when they must confront the idea of finding God’s plan and following His will when a dearest hope is destined to remain unfulfilled. Can these two loving, passionate hearts survive a communion of dreams and reality?
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Max On Life Participants Guide
$14.99Add to cartAddress your biggest questions about life and faith with guidance from Max Lucado.
For 25 years men and women have turned to Max Lucado for answers, encouragement, and insight into every facet of their lives. Together with Max they’ve journeyed through life’s most exciting and challenging times-births, deaths, financial ups and downs, spiritual quests, and relational adventures. And Max has become a trusted advisor, pastor, and friend in times of need. Now, more than ever, Max’s wisdom is needed to help readers navigate the tumults of every-day life. In the Max on Life DVD-based study, Max addresses questions about the role of prayer, the purpose of pain, and the reason for our ultimate hope. He responds to the day-to-day questions-parenting quandaries, financial challenges, difficult relationships-as well as to the profound: Is God really listening? Designed as a companion to the DVD, and perfect for study for both new and mature believers, this participant’s guide can be used for journaling or as a prompt for open-hearted discussions with your small group.
Features:
Daily readings
Questions for personal reflection and group discussion
Additional questions and answers from Max Lucado -
Heart Divided : A Novel
$17.00Add to cartIt is 1878 and the Caldwells and Wainwrights have been feuding for decades. Still, Sarah Caldwell has misgivings when her father pressures her into distracting a ranch hand while he and her brothers rob the Wainwright place. When it becomes clear that hand is actually Cord Wainwright, Sarah realizes she needs to lay low. But Cord spots her in town and, with the sheriff away, makes a citizen’s arrest, dragging her off to the Wainwright ranch until the sheriff’s return. As the feud boils over, Cord and Sarah make a most inconvenient discovery–they are falling in love. Can they betray their families for love? Or will their families betray them?
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To Win Her Heart (Reprinted)
$14.99Add to cartHaving completed his sentence for the unintentional crime that derailed his youthful plans for fame and fortune, Levi Grant looks to start over in the town of Spencer, Texas. Spencer needs a blacksmith, a trade he learned at his father’s knee, and he needs a place where no one knows his past. But small towns leave little room for secrets…
Eden Spencer has sworn off men, choosing instead to devote her time to the lending library she runs. When a mountain-sized stranger walks through her door and asks to borrow a book, she steels herself against the attraction he provokes. His halting speech and hesitant manner leave her doubting his intelligence. Yet as the mysteries of the town’s new blacksmith unfold, Eden discovers hidden depths in him that tempt her heart.
Levi’s renewed commitment to his faith leads Eden to believe she’s finally found a man of honor and integrity, a man worthy of her love. But when the truth about his prodigal past comes to light, can this tarnished hero find a way to win back the librarian’s affections?
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Fine Art Of Insincerity
$19.99Add to cartThree grown Southern sisters have ten marriages between them-and more loom on the horizon-when Ginger, the eldest, wonders if she’s the only one who hasn’t inherited what their family calls “the Grandma Gene”: the tendency to like the casualness of courtship better than the intimacy of marriage. Could it be that her two sisters are fated to serially marry, just like their seven-times wed grandmother, Mrs. Lillian Irene Harper Winslow Goldstein Carey James Bobrinski Gordon George? It takes a “girls only” weekend, closing up Grandma’s treasured beach house for the last time, for the sisters to really unpack their family baggage, examine their relationship DNA, and discover the true legacy their much-marrying grandmother left behind . . .
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Create In Me A Clean Heart
$16.49Add to cartAs you read these pages and do the Bible Study at the end of the book, allow God to speak to you. Allow Him to purify your heart and wash you clean from all of the filth that has invaded your life. Allow him to change the way that you think. Allow Him to strengthen you, encourage you and restore you to the life you desire and the life He wants you to live!
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End The Book Part One
$19.95Add to cartNot a cloud in the blue Atlanta sky, Jeffrey Ross made his morning visit to the Dunwoody Starbucks, expecting this day to be like any other. It wouldn’t.
Samarra Russell left her meeting at Emory Medical Center after receiving the strange call and wondered if it had anything to do with her immunology research at CDC. It was a secret, or was supposed to be.
Going home as instructed, Samarra opened the box of Valentine candy on the kitchen counter and collapsed. Before losing her balance, Samarra recognized the small finger, severed and still wearing the tiny ring she gave him for his 7th birthday. Her precious son.
She opened the note after regaining limited senses and read. If she didn’t want to receive young Thomas Russell’s head in a box, she would do as instructed.
And she did.
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True Courage : Emboldened By God In A Disheartening World
$14.99Add to cartMay your God, whom you serve continually, rescue you!
Daniel 6:16Bestselling author and Bible teacher, Steve Farrar, reminds us through the story of Daniel that true courage can be ours daily and it comes from the one true Sovereign God.
Everyone can recall as a young child having the courage to head out the door-whether it was to your first day of school, your first game in little league, or your piano lesson. Then life takes over and you lose your bravado, giving in to the fears of the world around you.
In True Courage readers will discover a God who provides incredible courage to us in the midst of uncertainty, even through treacherous, evil days, and the courage to face lions in their den-or an unexpected job loss, the diagnosis of a sick child, or the return of a debilitating cancer.
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Wild At Heart
$19.99Add to cartJohn Eldredge revises and updates his best-selling, renowned Christian classic. God designed men to be dangerous, says John Eldredge. Simply look at the dreams and desires written in the heart of every boy: To be a hero, to be a warrior, to live a life of adventure and risk. Sadly, most men abandon those dreams and desires-aided by a Christianity that feels like nothing more than pressure to be a “nice guy.” It is no wonder that many men avoid church, and those who go are often passive and bored to death. In this provocative book, Eldredge gives women a look inside the true heart of a man and gives men permission to be what God designed them to be-dangerous, passionate, alive, and free.
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What The Heart Sees
$16.99Add to cartTogether for the first time, three Amish romances from Kathleen Fuller.
“A Miracle for Miriam” from An Amish Christmas
Miriam fell for Seth, but he broke her heart. Years later, after he’s nearly killed in an accident, Miriam sees him at a Christmas party and notices something is different about him-not just how he looks, but how he acts. When Seth pursues her, she must decide whether to guard her heart or accept his love.
“A Place of His Own” from An Amish Gathering
When Josiah left Paradise the first time, he didn’t even say good-bye. Now he’s back, ten years later, and he’s changed. Why is he so distant and bitter? Where is the boy who used to be Amanda’s best friend? Amanda is learning that there are things even a capable Amish girl can’t fix. But can she stand there and watch him walk away…again?
“What the Heart Sees” from An Amish Love
A tragic accident rocks a peaceful Amish community, leaving Ellie Chupp blinded and Christopher Bender’s future shattered. But they find love and forgiveness in a place they least expect.
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Christian Future And The Fate Of Earth
$22.00Add to cartLike no other religious thinker, Thomas Berry has been a prophetic voice regarding Earth s destruction and the urgent need for human response from the Christian community. This book collects Berry s signature views on the interrelatedness of both Earth s future and the Christian future. He ponders why Christians have been late in coming to the issue of the environment. He reflects insightfully on how the environment must be seen as a religious issue, not simply a scientific or economic problem.
In powerful and poetic language Berry presents a compelling vision of the sacredness of the universe and the interrelatedness of the Earth community. Drawing on Thomas Aquinas and Teilhard de Chardin he brings the Christian tradition into a cosmology of care for the whole of creation.
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Sacred Rhythms Participants Guide (Student/Study Guide)
$12.99Add to cartA learning experience in spiritual formation that incorporates teaching on the spiritual disciplines from trained spiritual director Ruth Barton, this six-session DVD curriculum combines teaching and modeling of the disciplines with opportunities for group members to engage in meaningful discussion of their experiences as they practice the disciplines in community.
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New Heaven And The New Earth
$10.99Add to cartThis book Is a prophecy of things to come. The intention is to show you what direction God is going. And to have you ask yourself are you following God? Are you on the right path to salvation? This is an informational breakdown of what is happening in the world today, and what will happen in the years to come. Backed up by facts and figures to show you there is a plan, bigger than us, and we need to prepare ourselves by accepting Jesus Christ into our hearts so we will move on with God for all eternity. Please do yourself a favor and read this book. Drink in the knowledge of what the Lord has planned. And pass it on to those you hold dear.
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Contemplative Vision : A Guide To Christian Art And Prayer
$25.00Add to cartWhile working as a docent in an art gallery, Juliet Benner began showing people how to meditate on Christian art treasures that are rooted in a passage of Scripture. She taught a way of encountering the Word behind both the words of Scripture and the artist’s meditation on Scripture. This became a way of seeing art as an aid to contemplative prayer. This process resulted in her much-beloved “O Taste and See” columns that appeared in the spiritual formation journal Conversations, now expanded into this book. In each chapter you’ll encounter a passage of Scripture and a corresponding piece of art. You’ll be guided into deeper levels of meaning and reflection through the text and the questions at the end of each chapter. In the process you’ll find yourself entering into a new experience of prayer and meditation in God’s presence.
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Tattoos On The Heart
$17.99Add to cartHow do you fight despair and learn to meet the world with a loving heart? How do you overcome shame? Stay faithful in spite of failure? No matter where people live or what their circumstances may be, everyone needs boundless, restorative love. Gorgeous and uplifting, Tattoos on the Heart amply demonstrates the impact unconditional love can have on your life.
As a pastor working in a neighborhood with the highest concentration of murderous gang activity in Los Angeles, Gregory Boyle created an organization to provide jobs, job training, and encouragement so that young people could work together and learn the mutual respect that comes from collaboration. Tattoos on the Heart is a breathtaking series of parables distilled from his twenty years in the barrio. Arranged by theme and filled with sparkling humor and glowing generosity, these essays offer a stirring look at how full our lives could be if we could find the joy in loving others and in being loved unconditionally. From giant, tattooed Cesar, shopping at JCPenney fresh out of prison, we learn how to feel worthy of God’s love. From ten-year-old Lula we learn the importance of being known and acknowledged. From Pedro we understand the kind of patience necessary to rescue someone from the darkness. In each chapter we benefit from Boyle’s wonderful, hard-earned wisdom. Inspired by faith but applicable to anyone trying to be good, these personal, unflinching stories are full of surprising revelations and observations of the community in which Boyle works and of the many lives he has helped save.
Erudite, down-to-earth, and utterly heartening, these essays about universal kinship and redemption are moving examples of the power of unconditional love in difficult times and the importance of fighting despair. With Gregory Boyle’s guidance, we can recognize our own wounds in the broken lives and daunting struggles of the men and women in these parables and learn to find joy in all of the people around us. Tattoos on the Heart reminds us that no life is less valuable than another.
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Shelter Of Gods Promises Participants Guide (Student/Study Guide)
$12.99Add to cartIn a world of uncertainty, pain, and struggle, where do you find solid assurance and unshakeable truth?
In The Shelter of God’s Promises DVD-Based Study, gifted Bible teacher and inspiring speaker Sheila Walsh primes Scripture for what God has promised us, what God’s promises mean, and how these promises provide the foundation for daily confidence, joy, and hope. With engaging video and rich Bible study content, Sheila weaves powerful personal testimony with Scripture to help you gain a trust in God that will sustain you for a lifetime.
The Shelter of God’s Promises Participant’s Guide expands on the teaching and stories explored in the video. Using Scripture, in-depth biblical teaching, life application, and questions for personal study and group discussion, this guide will encourage and guide group members as they journey deeper into the material.
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Lets Get Started
$16.99Add to cart“Let’s Get Started” is a faith based preparedness manual written to Christians, but invaluable to anyone. The body of Christ is to be a light in the world! How bright will that light shine to help others, if ill prepared to help ourselves, in a time of disaster or tragedy? What does God have to say in his word about being prepared for today? With emphasis on the spiritual and the natural, this manual is a must have for every believing home that is trusting in God for the future. Living in the Tulsa, Oklahoma area most of her life, Veda Byers has been married to Phil Byers, a successful General Contractor, for 45 years. A mother, grandmother, teacher and prayer leader, she has been active in ministry since 1980. She graduated from Victory Bible Institute in 1991 located in Tulsa. Her love for Jesus and people, with a calling and passion for prayer, has led her to reach out further. She and her husband, Phil, attend Newspring Family Church in Jenks, Oklahoma, where she continues to lead a group of Intercessors.
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Made To Crave Participants Guide (Student/Study Guide)
$12.99Add to cartIn this six-session video study, Lysa TerKeurst helps women realize God created us to crave so we’d ultimately always desire more of Him in our lives. Many of us have misplaced that craving towards over indulging in physical pleasures rather than the desires God gave us to consume food – without letting food consuming us!
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Citizens Of Heaven Residents Of Earth
$14.99Add to cartIntroduction
1. The Meaning And Means Of Heavenly Citizenship
2. The Nature And Challenge Of Earthly Residency
3. Heavenly Citizenship In A Culture That Is Becoming More Adversanial
4. Human Philosophies That Shape The Culture Of This World
5. Be Submissive – Citizenship Recognizes Heaven’s Jurisdiction
6. Be Aware – Citizenship Calls For Discipleship And Disciplines (Part 1)
7. Be Aware – Citizenship Calls For Discipleship And Disciplines (Part 2)
8. Be Aware – Citizenship Calls Fo Rdiscipleship And Disciplines (Part 3)
9. Be Diligent – Citizenship Calls For Mission To The World (Part 1)
10. Be Diligent – Citizenship Calls For Mission To The World (Part 2)
11. Be Courageous – Citizenship Has Its Hardships
12. Be Encouraged – Citizenship Provides Power For Endurance
13. Be Faithful To The End – We’ll Be Going Home SoonAdditional Info
What does citizenship mean, and as Christians, where is our citizenship located-on earth or in heaven? Like foreigners who come to America and don’t want to go home, we have lost our deep love and longing for the homeland of heaven. Explore the benefits and responsibilities of heavenly citizenship as you learn how to live ‘in the world’ and carry out our God-given mission ‘to the world,’ while not being ‘of the world.’ -
Pretty Smart For A Girl
$11.95Add to cartJewell E. Myers May is a 81 year old retiree and “Pretty Smart For A Girl” is her first published book.
* Some of her personal essays have been published in magazines, her hometown newspaper and church bulletins.
* Jewell decided she wanted to be a writer when her high school English teacher read one of her essays about the movie “My Friend Flicka” before the class.
* In addition to writing Jewell enjoys painting outdoor scenes, reading, sewing, singing and writing letters.
* Jewell resides with two of her six children in Hermitage, Tennessee, with a calico cat named “Sunny” and a mix breed dog named “Maggie” -
Straight To The Heart Of Acts
$14.99Add to cartA powerful new devotional commentary series designed to inform and inspire
Straight to the Heart is a series of devotional commentaries for those who appreciate the insights and sound research found in commentaries but find scholarly writing dry and lacking in personal application. The Straight to the Heart series does not cover the whole text, but focuses on key sections which communicate the main themes of each book. Although the tone is light, the text is full of useful application and backed by substantial scholarship. Its clear, thoughtprovoking insights will feed both mind and soul.The Straight to the Heart Commentary series will total 25 volumes covering both the Old and New Testaments.
