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Daily Guideposts 2017
A Spirit-Lifting Devotional
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Daily Guideposts 2017 centers on the theme “In God’s Hands” from Isaiah 41:10, and is filled with brand-new devotions from 49 writers. Each day readers will enjoy a Scripture verse, a true first-person story told in an informal, conversational style, which shares the ways God speaks to us in...
by Barbara Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2010
If Barbara Johnson has brought comfort to thousands of women, it’s not because her life has been comfortable. Barbara has known more heartbreak than most of us ever will. But that is why her encouragement truly inspires, why her humor makes us smile, and why her insightfulness can move us to tears....
Spilt Milk
Devotions for Moms
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2009
In a mother’s land of milk and honey, the milk is often split and the honey is usually smeared all over the face of the baby in his high chair. Linda Vujnov has been there and knows exactly what it feels like. As she recounts the continuing adventures of parenting her four children, Maddy, Zack,...
Flowing Streams
Journeys of a Life Well Lived
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
A flowing stream cuts its own channel. —Major W. Ian Thomas, founder of Torchbearers International Over the past sixty years, Stuart Briscoe’s life stream has cut a very deep channel. Thousands of sermons preached. Hundreds of thousands of airline miles flown. Seven continents visited. Thousands...
It
How Churches and Leaders Can Get It and Keep It
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2008
When Craig Groeschel founded LifeChurch.tv, the congregation met in a borrowed two-car garage, with ratty furnishings and faulty audiovisual equipment. But people were drawn there, sensing a powerful, life-changing force Groeschel calls “It.”What is It, and how can you and your ministry get—and...
Ten Stupid Things That Keep Churches from Growing
How Leaders Can Overcome Costly Mistakes
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2009
Based on interviews with pastors of growing churches, as well as personal experience, this book identifies the most common mistakes pastors make that keep otherwise healthy churches from reaping the harvest God has prepared. Each chapter spotlights a common mistake, gives real-life examples, uses...
From Success to Significance
When the Pursuit of Success Isn’t Enough
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
Success Is Great. But Significance Is Lasting.You’ve achieved a measure of success in the first half of life, and it’s been a thrill. But deep in your heart, you want your second half to count for something far more. Something bigger than you. Significance. You’re not alone; you’re in “Halftime.”...
Do They Run When They See You Coming?
Reaching Out to Unchurched Teenagers
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2009
Reaching Out to Unchurched TeenagersFive facts about the unchurched:1. They believe all religions have value.2. They are spiritual, not religious.3. They don’t know what Christianity really is.4. They don’t know what they believe.5. They are looking for something that works.If you want to make...
If I Knew Then What I Know Now
Youth Workers Share Their Worst Failures and Best Advice
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
"Everyone makes mistakes. But why make the same ones that other youth workers have already learned tough lessons through? Whether you’re a youth ministry volunteer or you’ve just stepped into a full-time youth ministry position, chances are that you don’t know everything…not yet anyway....
by Diana Greenwood
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
Fourteen-year-old Elvira Witsil lives in a remote area of Wisconsin with her mother, Connie, who acknowledges Elvira only when chores need doing; her grandma, a cantankerous woman who can’t hold her tongue; and her baby sister, Jessie — who, the family discovers, is a seer. Along with the burdens...
The Scent of Water
Grace for Every Kind of Broken
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Follow Naomi as she talks to women working in brothels in Mumbai; survivors of an Indonesian tsunami in which more than 160,000 lives were lost; a young girl waiting on an operation to save her life; and victims of domestic violence horrifically burned by fire. Be still with her when she realizes...
The Rescue
Seven People, Seven Amazing Stories…
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Seven People, Seven Amazing Stories
A Wall Street broker, a party girl, a student, a homeless man, an addict, a teenage mom, a drug enforcer—all of them spiraling out of control. Each has a reason to despair and a wound that won’t heal. Until something unexpected happens—something that...
Stand Beautiful
A story of brokenness, beauty and embracing it all
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Have you ever been bullied? Betrayed by a friend? Critical of the girl you see in the mirror every day? Born with a clubfoot and enduring intense physical and emotional pain because of it, anti-bullying author and speaker Chloe Howard will help you overcome the pain and struggles in your own life,...
Saving the Saved
How Jesus Saves Us from Try-Harder Christianity into Performance-Free Love
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
White-knuckling can never get you where you want to go. But grace can.
You already know because you’ve tried: repeated attempts to earn God’s love and approval get you nowhere and leave you exhausted. When performance taints our relationship with him, the Christian life can turn into an...