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The God Impulse
The Power of Mercy in an Unmerciful World
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
For Jesus, truth and mercy went hand in hand. Where he preached he also healed. He didn't outsource one or the other to biblical scholars or nonprofit ministries. He presented the truth of the gospel through his words and his actions, and he did it all in a hands-on, relational way. And the reaction...
Glorious Mess
Encountering God's Relentless Grace for Imperfect People
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Despite God's call on our lives, most of us spend a fair amount of time running in the other direction, chasing after our own plans and desires. Like Jonah, however, we eventually discover we've made a mess of things; we're rowing against the storms God is using to pull us back on course.
In...
Grace Is Greater
God's Plan to Overcome Your Past, Redeem Your Pain, and Rewrite Your Story
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
The writer of the letter to the Hebrews said, "See to it that no one misses the grace of God." Over the centuries much ink has been spilled on the subject of grace. Yet perhaps nothing is as hard to explain as God's grace. It doesn't make sense. It's not fair. It can't possibly cover over...
Your God Is Too Glorious
Finding God in the Most Unexpected Places
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Most of us are regular people who have good days and bad days. Our lives are radically ordinary and unexciting. That means they're the kind of lives God gets excited about. While the world worships beauty and power and wealth, God hides his glory in the simple, the mundane, the foolish, working in...
A Place Called Heaven
10 Surprising Truths about Your Eternal Home
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
If any of us learned we were going to move to a foreign country, we'd do everything we could to learn about that place so that we'd be prepared when moving day arrived. As Christians, we know some day we will leave our familiar country and be united with God in heaven. And yet many of us know very...
Hidden Treasures in the Book of Job (Reasons to Believe)
How the Oldest Book of the Bible Answers Today's Scientific Questions
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Arguably the oldest book in the Bible, the book of Job has a surprising amount to say about some of the newest scientific discoveries and controversies. Far from a book that is just about suffering, Job is filled with rich insight into both ancient and modern questions about
the formation of...
by David Snoke
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2006
The present creation-evolution debate is often cast as a choice between two positions: naturalistic evolution over millions of years or miraculous creation six thousand years ago. When simplified, this choice is often presented as one between science and the Bible, a choice that leaves much ground...
A Desperate Faith
Lessons of Hope from the Resurrection
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Why did Jesus spend forty days on earth after his death when he could have returned home to the majesty of heaven? And out of all the people on the planet at that time who could have helped him get a major religious movement off the ground, why did he seek out those who had run the other way when...
The Stage Is Set
Israel, the End Times, and Christ's Ultimate Victory
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
Even a cursory glance at the news is enough to convince us that the world is falling into chaos. But we haven't seen anything that compares to what will happen in the final events leading to the second coming of Jesus Christ.
For anyone who longs to know what the future holds--and especially...
Place at the Table, A
40 Days of Solidarity with the Poor
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2012
In a culture built on consumption--especially of food--it is easy to forget the poor that Jesus cared so much about. Following the pattern of his successful Advent Conspiracy, Chris Seay invites readers on a journey of self-examination, discipline, and renewed focus on Jesus that will change their...
Church in an Age of Crisis, The
25 New Realities Facing Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Knowing the signs of the times, and how then to live as people of faith, has never been more pressing for the church. Though many of the signs are disturbing, we ignore them at our great peril. Combining the very best attributes of a biblical prophet and a modern-day reporter, James Emery White offers...
The Gospel Commission
Recovering God's Strategy for Making Disciples
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Many churches in America today want to be powerful, relevant, and influential in personal and social transformation. But whose kingdom are we building? God's? Or our own? A plethora of programs for outreach, discipleship, and spiritual disciplines are available at any bookstore and on countless websites....
Ordinary Hero
Becoming a Disciple Who Makes a Difference
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Christians today are on a rescue mission. Each of us is called to get involved in God's plan to make disciples. A former California lifeguard, Neil Cole weaves together his personal experiences of saving lives with biblical principles for how to make and multiply disciples. Cole shows how to create...
The Cross Is Not Enough
Living as Witnesses to the Resurrection
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
If Christ had not risen from the dead, if God's plan for redemption had ended at the cross, what would our faith look like? Have we become so fixated on the cross that we have lost an understanding of the centrality of the resurrection? And if we ignore the resurrection, what effect does that have...