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Trivial Pursuits
Why Your Real Life Is More Than Media, Money, and the Pursuit of Happiness
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Your life is not a reality show. It's actual reality. But too many of us spend our lives on trivial pursuits--media, money, perpetual youth, and a culture of constant entertainment. We try to avoid the realities of pain, depression, loneliness, and mortality by filling our lives with diversions. Even...
Tranquility
Cultivating a Quiet Soul in a Busy World
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
There's never enough time. So we try to cram as much as possible into what little time we have--work, friends, play, rest. But what if How do I fit it all in? isn't the right question?
Scripture has a lot to say about time. Taking a cue from Ecclesiastes--"Better one handful with tranquility...
Preparing Evangelistic Sermons
A Seven-Step Method for Preaching Salvation
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
When it comes to evangelism, converting the sinner is God's part. Communicating the gospel is the preacher's part. But how is this done effectively? Professor of expository preaching Ramesh Richard offers pastors a simple, do-it-yourself resource for preparing and delivering evangelistic sermons....
Searching for Spring
How God Makes All Things Beautiful in Time
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
The Bible says that God makes all things beautiful in their time, but when we look around today we see a broken and marred world. Our reality is so often the "not beautiful" that it's hard to trust that God can make our mess into something good. So how do we live with hope for a future redemption...
Preaching
The Art of Narrative Exposition
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Because they are speaking to a younger society more attuned to lively dialogue and visual images, pastors need a fresh wineskin for a timeless message of redemption. Calvin Miller, who has preached and equipped preachers for decades, offers a volume of helpful insights for pastors to deliver the heart...
by Craig A. Evans
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
The Understanding the Bible Commentary Series helps readers navigate the strange and sometimes intimidating literary terrain of the Bible. These accessible volumes break down the barriers between the ancient and modern worlds so that the power and meaning of the biblical texts become transparent to...
by Arthur G. Patzia
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
The Understanding the Bible Commentary Series helps readers navigate the strange and sometimes intimidating literary terrain of the Bible. These accessible volumes break down the barriers between the ancient and modern worlds so that the power and meaning of the biblical texts become transparent to...
by Gordon D. Fee
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
The Understanding the Bible Commentary Series helps readers navigate the strange and sometimes intimidating literary terrain of the Bible. These accessible volumes break down the barriers between the ancient and modern worlds so that the power and meaning of the biblical texts become transparent to...
by Robert H. Mounce
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
The Understanding the Bible Commentary Series helps readers navigate the strange and sometimes intimidating literary terrain of the Bible. These accessible volumes break down the barriers between the ancient and modern worlds so that the power and meaning of the biblical texts become transparent to...
Getting to the Other Side of Grief
Overcoming the Loss of a Spouse
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2019
There is little in life that rocks us like the death of a husband or wife. Whether you're feeling alone, drowning under an ocean of emotions, or you've worked your way through to the darkest nights of the soul and are now wondering how to get on with your life, you'll find comfort and guidance from...
by Arthur W. Pink
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
The words Christ spoke from the cross can inform Christians of the purpose, the meaning, the sufferings, and the sufficiency of his death. After an introduction that discusses the nature of Christ's death as natural, unnatural, preternatural, and supernatural, Dr. Arthur W. Pink clearly illustrates...
Intended for Evil
A Survivor's Story of Love, Faith, and Courage in the Cambodian Killing Fields
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
A True Story of Surviving Genocide and Forging a New Life
When the Khmer Rouge took Phnom Penh in 1975, new Christian Radha Manickam and his family were among two million people driven out of the city. Over the next four years, 1.7 million people--including most of Radha's family--would perish...
Life-Changing Prayers
How God Displays His Power to Ordinary People
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
They were just ordinary people--a loyal servant, a woman who desperately wanted a child, an old man who still had hope, and a young teenager who couldn't quite believe God's great love. Ordinary people who prayed extraordinary prayers to an extraordinary God. They weren't always eloquent. They weren't...
Ministry of the Missional Church, The
A Community Led by the Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
In a time when churches are focusing on finding strategies and techniques to guarantee success, a movement toward the missional church is emerging. Missional churches are communities created by the Spirit with a unique nature and identity. Purpose and strategies of the church are derivative dimensions,...