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EbookThe Recovery-Minded Church
Loving and Ministering to People With Addiction
by Jonathan Benz
With Kristina Robb-DoverYou want to have vibrant and healthy relationships with those who struggle with addiction in your church and community. But you find yourself wondering how to meet their needs in a wise, helpful and God-honoring way.The Recovery-Minded Church addresses the pressing questions you are facing in ministering to those with addictions. Here you will discover a clinically informed, biblical and ...
EbookExploring the Old Testament
A Guide to the Psalms Wisdom Literature
Exploring the Bible Series
by Ernest C. Lucas
Israel's poets and sages left a scriptural legacy that has powerfully shaped the worship, thoughts and actions of the people of God. In the highs and lows and crossroads of life, we instinctively turn to their poetry, proverbs and discourses for the language we do not possess and the wisdom we desperately seek. Yet there is more to this literature than meets the eye--or fills the momentary need. ...
EbookWho Gets to Narrate the World?
Contending for the Christian Story in an Age of Rivals
by Robert E. Webber
Who gets to narrate the world?
The late Robert Webber believed this question to be the most pressing issue of our time. Christianity in America, he preached, will not survive if Christians are not rooted in and informed by the uniquely Christian story that is the gospel of Jesus Christ.
This is the burden of Webber's final book, Who Gets to Narrate the World?: Contending for the ...
EbookThe New Global Mission
The Gospel from Everywhere to Everyone
by Samuel Escobar
Christian mission is no longer a matter of missionaries from the West going to the rest of the world. Rather, the growth of Christianity in Latin America, Africa and parts of Asia is eclipsing that of the Western church. In the third millennium ofthe Christian era, Christian mission is truly global, with missionaries from all places going to all peoples. Veteran missiologist Samuel Escobar presents ...
EbookBaptism and Fullness
The Work of the Holy Spirit Today
by John Stott
Foreword by Michael S. Horton"The Christian life is life in the Spirit," writes John Stott. "It would be impossible to be a Christian, let alone to live and grow as a Christian, without the ministry of the gracious Spirit of God. All we have and are as Christians we owe to him."The Holy Spirit continues to be at work around the world, as numerous renewal movements attest. Yet much confusion and controversy remain regarding ...
EbookLiving in Bonus Time
Surviving Cancer, Finding New Purpose
by Alec Hill
Cancer confronts us with our mortality. But cancer survivors find ourselves with a second chance for life. We grapple with profound questions: Why am I still here? How did I survive when others didn't? Where is God in all this? And how should I live differently now?Those who experience and survive cancer live in bonus time, a season of grace that can be both disorienting and wonderful. ...
EbookThe Spiritually Vibrant Home
The Power of Messy Prayers, Loud Tables, and Open Doors
Lutheran Hour Ministries Resources
by Don Everts
We all long for homes where we can thrive and flourish. What does it take to have a spiritually vibrant household?Don Everts invites us to contemplate what the Bible says about households and consider what a new research project has revealed by pulling back the curtains on everyday households of faith. Original research from the Barna Group and Lutheran Hour Ministries shows that ...
EbookTrue to His Word
The Story of Bible Study Fellowship (BSF)
by Gregg Lewis and Deborah Shaw Lewis
This gripping history of Bible Study Fellowship (BSF) begins at a dead end--when an unknown, single, middle-aged, British-woman Missionary, was forced to flee China when Communists moved in. Grieving the heart-breaking conclusion of what she'd believed was her life-long calling, Wetherell Johnson's journey home to England collided with a Divine appointment when five California women asked her to ...
EbookRun with the Horses
The Quest for Life at Its Best
by Eugene H Peterson
Preface by Eric E PetersonIn Jeremiah 12:5 God says to the prophet, "If you have raced with men on foot and they have worn you out, how can you compete with horses? If you stumble in safe country, how will you manage in the thickets by the Jordan?"We all long to live life at its best—to fuse freedom and spontaneity with purpose and meaning. Why then do we often find our lives so humdrum, so unadventuresome, so routine? Or ...
