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Touching the world for Jesus can happen in the most unlikely ways, and through the most unlikely people. This fun-to-read, nuts-and-bolts guidebook proves readers don't have to be perfect to Faithprint, leaving Jesus's lasting impression on the world. Faithprints: Touching Your World for Jesus paints a portrait of Jesus--a Faithprint--to help others know him. Matching opportunities with Holy Spirit insight and practical tips, author Rebekah Binkley...
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Jesus spent a chunk of his ministry eating and drinking with the "sinners and tax collectors" of the world. If we strive to be more like Jesus, shouldn't we do more of what he did? Hospitality involves more than the domesticated event we have grown accustomed to practicing. It is an embodiment of all the Christian life stands for: a gesture of love, opening up our hearts and lives, and sacrificing luxury and security for the chance to display God's...
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We're living between Eden and Heaven, and it's going to hurt. When trials come, will they defeat you or strengthen you? It all depends on which questions you ask. We have lots of different ways of asking why God allows suffering. The Bible shows us that it is human to question God when trials come, but it isn't very productive. God hasn't answered the why me questions, and if we get stuck on them it can distance us from the very one who offers us...
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This book opens up and makes practical the basic Christian doctrine of justification, showing how it enables Christians to live with confidence and enjoy life in Christ. God desires an abundant life for you. However, the biblical truth most likely to help you live abundantly has been tragically neglected by the church. Many Christians do not understand their status with God, and this leaves them with perpetual guilt. Every believer is declared righteous,...
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Jon Walker engages Bonhoeffer's classic work on Christian life in community, presenting its rich and vital themes for Christians in the twenty-first century. Christians were never meant to live life alone. Only "in visible fellowship" do we learn to love one another and to live like Jesus is real. Can you go it alone in this world and live out the Christian mission and life? Can you possibly live out the full life Christ promised with all of its power...
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Discover the daring faith you are called to live out. Randy Harris and Greg Taylor lead you through the pages of the Gospel of John to inspire daring faith in Jesus. The Gospel of John was written so people would believe the unbelievable. This unbelievable story John tells is that God became man and lived among us. These claims got Jesus killed. And ever since, people who believe the claim still lose their lives. If you believe that Jesus is truly...
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What does minimal human ethics look like? Can Christians really be followers of Jesus in the way they live today? In his own unique style, Randy Harris wrestles with these and other ethical issues facing Christians and all humanity. In a world gone crazy, what would basic human decency look like? Are there principles that all humans could follow to make their neighborhoods, countries, and world more just and peaceful? Randy Harris, from his long experience...
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There's a danger in following a God we don't even know: we become vulnerable to the idea that we must constantly try harder to please God. This book exposes the myths that keep us feeling like God is always judging and condemning us.If you've ever felt that it's impossible to please God, this book is for you.Too many of us are following a mythical god who we think is always mad and always looking to catch us doing something wrong; or even worse, condemning...
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How can wounded people come to believe that God deeply loves them? Many have enjoyed William Young's The Shack, even if they puzzled over the book's actual meaning and theology. While some were quick to dismiss it as fiction, The Shack isn't really fiction at all. It's a modern day parable. Meeting God at The Shack shows hurting people how to read this story with profit and come to know God more fully.
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This book is a manual for divorce recovery. The author writes: "Wherever you are on the mid-life divorce trail, take a deep breath and realize there is a plan for you after divorce. Radical Recovery is a resource guide to help you survive those first awful days, weeks, months, and, of course, all the nights of a mid-life divorce." The goal of this book is not just survival, it's life-transformation. Suzy writes: "You can change absolutely everything...
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This book addresses five of the deadliest threats confronting the faith community today, and presents the keys to vibrant spiritual living in the face of unique twenty-first century challenges. The twenty-first century is a crowded convergence of cultures, ideas, and beliefs. The once clear "black and white" of faith seems to have fallen into a bucket of gray. What's really going on in today's faith community, and more importantly, how does it impact...
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Originally, the faith of Jesus was considered a distinctive way of life rather than a sophisticated theological system. Pilgrim Heart re-imagines discipleship as - first and foremost - a particular way of life guided by a set of simple, but powerful, daily practices known to the earliest disciples and the saints through the ages.
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This book gently invites you into four (not forty) spiritual practices. They are basic practices of Jesus who habitually lived in ways that opened his heart to God's work. In a busy life, he made time for solitude and silence. He practiced simplicity. He enjoyed Sabbath. He served with the wisdom and strength God gave him.
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Bolstered and trained in love and female friendship, the vulnerable, sleep-deprived, tender, and ferocious Mama Bear inside each of us can bring forth beautiful havoc on our world. Mama Bear's Manifesto is a practical, compelling book about devoted friendship and unbridled passion. Leslie Klipsch employs the stress and beauty of motherhood to guide readers to discover life's marvelous momentum and the ways in which mothers can carve out community,...
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Women have a desperate longing for a stress cure-a revitalized perspective and re-energized faith. STRESSED-LESS LIVING offers life-changing, heart-renewing, long-lasting remedies that will bring peace, even when things feel out of control. Life is tense and offers no easy answers or quick yes. The good news is that in a world of unrest and stress readers can find the peace for which they hunger. Tracie Miles, in this breakthrough book, helps women...
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God's answers for the hard questions women ask. Just think of it-women are given the chance to come into the presence of God the Father and ask him questions that have been burning in their hearts for years. Down and dirty questions that must have answers, and God is the only one who can provide them. Facing overwhelming life circumstances, readers come face to face with the Creator of everything. Imagine hearing God respond to the most gut-level...
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We hear people say we should love God with all our hearts, souls, and minds, but what does that mean? Or more importantly, what could it look like to fall in love with God? "Chad, jump on the gator's back!" In a split second, a decision had to be made. Did Chad love his future brother-in-law enough to help him control a powerful seven-and-a-half-foot alligator? Ultimately, there was a subconscious devotion that affected his decision. We all face decisions...
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Being new is never easy-especially when it comes to finding your faith. But you don't need a big neon sign to point the way to God. Instead, you need a friend to tell it to you straight, equip you with information, and provide some much-needed encouragement along the way. Indeed, you need guidance from a woman who has already walked a mile in your shoes. Jenny Lee Sulpizio invites you to silence those doubts, experience God's grace, and breathe in...
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A story about shipwrecks, snakebites, beatings, meetings, and other church events. When was the last time you saw crowd control at a church? If you ask most people--at least Western people--what they think about Christianity, they will probably give you a pretty domesticated vision of church. Almost half of Americans think that religion is at best irrelevant and obsolete, and possibly a way of making the world a worse place. But I have a hunch most...
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Words That Change Everything offers hope and practical strategies to help women speak God's truth to their unbridled and often debilitating emotions. Worry, anxiety, and fear saturate our world today more than ever-from acts of terrorism to economic downturns. But many women face real fears in their own homes-death, illness, job loss, betrayal, rejection, and dozens of other threats that challenge their family's well being. As women recognize and...
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