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Is your church facing the difficult decision to sell property?
Consider using church buildings and land to further the gospel mission. Mark Elsdon, author of We Aren't Broke: Uncovering Hidden Resources for Mission and Ministry, revisits questions of church resources with a team of pastors, scholars, developers, urban planners, and more. This collection of essays sheds light on how church communities can transform their properties to serve...
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When Lenny Peters was a boy playing marbles among the lush mangrove trees in impoverished India, he had one wish: to be the best at everything he did. Born into a Christian family and part of a minority population in that part of the world, Lenny was innately aware of the hurdles he faced. Lenny embraced a simple philosophy: hard work and prayer. In Barefoot to Benefactor, Lenny tells the uplifting story of how the youngest son from Kerala, India,...
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"God's got a plan for your life" is an aphorism frequently heard by Christians. But how do you discover that plan? The Spirit Said Go is designed to help believers find God's will. Using Paul's journeys in Acts as examples, Wilson discusses twenty lessons on guidance drawn from these journeys. Using his firsthand experience traveling along these routes in the Eastern Mediterranean, he reads between the lines offering additional insights into Luke's...
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Patrick Bisher's career as a Navy SEAL should have ended after a parachuting accident nearly crippled him. But overcoming adversity, even an injury as serious as a broken hip, was nothing new for him. He'd spent a portion of his childhood in leg braces. Doctors told him he'd never walk again thanks to a degenerative hip condition. He wasn't about to give up then, any more than he was in the wake of that parachute training accident. Instead, he went...
27305) Is Divorce a Sin?
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Is divorce a sin?
Millions of people across the world have suffered through a misinterpretation of Jesus' statements regarding divorce. Faulty translations and ignorance of Jewish culture have led to a mass misunderstanding of the Bible's true stance on this topic.
This book is designed to offer salve for the wounds caused by this confusion and help those suffering know that they're not second-rate citizens of the Kingdom.
Divorce is always a...
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Chief of Police, Scott Silverii, PhD shares over twenty-five years of life behind the thin blue line. He understands firsthand that danger, destruction and despair on the job leave many of America's finest broken.
Broken and Blue: A Policeman's Guide to Health, Healing and Hope is the nation's leading resource for brothers in blue. Written by a cop, specifically for cops, Chief Silverii is not only an expert in police culture, but has overcome a...
27307) Written That You May Believe
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Each of the four Gospels tells the story of the life of Jesus Christ. But there is something uniquely different about John's Gospel. For one thing, the "Disciple whom Jesus loved," claimed to testify as an eyewitness of these events, and even goes so far as to declare,...".and we know that his testimony is true."
Come along as Bible teacher Rodney Boyd examines the 21 chapters of the Gospel of John. You will be enlightened, inspired, and encouraged...
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An object by means of which any construction floating in the water is attached to its position is called an anchor. An anchor provides stability, a settled, predictable position in a random flow of currents.
Beginning with a simple rock connected with rope to a boat, man has continued to engineer the anchor to include teeth and greater and greater mass. Today, the anchor is an integral piece of equipment that can secure the largest of vessels. In...
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Prepare your heart and home to serve not only family and friends, but neighbors and strangers too! Make any space a haven of discipleship, connection, and comfort.
As Christians, we sometimes forget the power of an open door to a lost world. Using our homes to live out our faith in the true model of the Great Commission is challenging in our busy, over-scheduled lives. But having a home that is always open and available is key to living in community...
27310) Finish Line
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Five years ago, Ralph Bryant had what would be considered by most a "perfect" life. He lived in the greatest city in Canada, worked for a Fortune 500 company, and had a beautiful wife and children. Yet, he was in the darkest place anyone could imagine. Shackles Lost: A Poetry Mixtape is a raw and unflinching look at the impact of childhood trauma and abandonment, as well as three generations of mental illness. Poet and essayist Ralph Bryant painfully...
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Is praying for your unsaved spouse leaving you weary? Do you feel as though your spouse's breakthrough will never arrive? Are you one of the many believers living within an unequally yoked marriage who feel discouraged, even confused, as to why God remains silent to your pleas for your spouse's salvation.
There's good news!
Marching Around Jericho is a brand-new blueprint and supernatural battle plan to equip you to war in the Spirit for your unsaved...
27312) Freedom to Ascend
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Every day is a gift, given to us so we can give to others. We impact other lives by first forging a path for success in our own lives. With our daily words and actions, we need to be the best version of ourselves so we can leave a legacy that touches other lives.
Take steps to live a more intentional life. Surround yourself with excellent individuals who will help you grow and hold you accountable each day.
In these pages, stories from teaching,...
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When I entered the convent, I was eighteen, heavyset, and lacking self-confidence. I planned to stay forever, living an idealistic life devoted to God. Perhaps deep down I was looking for one solution to all of life's decisions and ambiguities while forging ahead. But the years I spent in the convent transformed me in many ways. Without "dieting" at all, I practiced time-tested weight management principles because that's just part of convent life....
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Discipleship guidance from the writings of Kierkegaard
Genuine Christian character often runs counter to prevailing notions of Christianity-as much in today's era of nationalistic religiosity as in the staid Christendom of Søren Kierkegaard's time. Kierkegaard responded to the hypocrisy around him by becoming a missionary of sorts in the Western world. Through his writing he exposed the illusions of conventional wisdom while advancing a compelling...
27315) The Bull Didn't Win
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Susan and Jacob Browder wrote their book, "The Bull Didn't Win," from their perspectives. You will get to know the mom, Susan, as she lets you see her son's injury and recovery through her eyes. You will learn so much about Jacob, the young man, who suffered a traumatic brain injury at a bull riding school, as he takes you on the toughest ride of his life. This mom and son will leave you with an inspiring story that will motivate you to get through...
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¿Alguien ha visto mi tiempo? Lo he perdido.Tenemos horarios, calendarios computarizados, teléfonos inteligentes y notas adhesivas para ayudarnos a organizar nuestros asuntos y nuestra vida social diaria. Pero ¿qué pasa con la organización de la otra parte de nuestras vidas, el lado espiritual?Uno de los grandes campos de batalla se encuentra dentro del interior de cada persona. Los valores de nuestra cultura nos ha hecho creer que las personas...
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Incarcerated numerous times "for the defense of the gospel" (Phil 1:16), Paul wrote several letters from the confines of prison. Letters from Prison, Part One explores the letters of Philippians and Philemon in four sessions, explaining the reason each letter was written and addressing various themes such as joy, unity in Christ, reconciliation, and the close relationship between Paul and his communities.
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Do you ever feel like you're going through the motions of every day, living your life on autopilot, but not really sure why you're doing what you're doing or even if you really want to be doing it? Have you ever lost sight of who you are in the process of trying to help everybody else? Do you tell yourself that your family is important to you but then miss out on time with your family because of that pressing work assignment?
Most likely, you have...
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Touching God, provides a daily short saying from the ancient sheik, Job, from King David's psalms, and from his son King Solomon's Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Song of Songs. Job lived some thousand years before David and Solomon; yet we see the same wisdom of God shines forth in every millennium of mankind.
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Marriage is a ministry, and when, accepting a proposal, we need to see beyond a male's natural talents, possessions, gifts, and abilities, in order to see the spiritual man inside.
One of the main-focuses of this book is about making right choices. God wants women to understand that there is so much more to relationships than what we see on the surface, and He wants us to understand just how real they are. Our relationships with parents, relatives,...
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