Jesus said, "A time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks."What did his words mean to the listeners in his day and what do they mean for contemporary believers in our modern and very different world? Just how are Christians today supposed to worship the Father in spirit and truth?The quest to find answers will set you on a path to discovering your ultimate purpose in this life—to learn how to experience true, deep intimacy with the Lord and to be boldly empowered as His ambassador to a broken world.Come take a journey you will never regret... to become one of "God's Most Wanted" worshipers!
This book is for parents, parents who care deeply about passing on a legacy of faith in Christ, parents who invite their children to "ask Jesus into your heart." Pastor and author Charles F. Boyd found that many children don't understand the symbolism in this phrase. They believe Jesus steps into their chests to live there. This book bridges the gap between a grown-up's metaphor and a child's understanding.
"This is a book I'll be recommending for years to come." -- Lysa TerKeurst, New York Times bestselling author Do you believe God is just not fair? If you're like Jennifer Rothschild, you wrestle with questions when you experience painful circumstances. Does God care? Does he hear my prayers? Is he even there? Blinded as a teenager, Jennifer overcame daunting obstacles, found strength in God, and launched a successful speaking and writing ministry. Then in her 40s, everything changed. Jennifer hit a wall of depression and discontent that shook her to her core, undermining many of her past assumptions about her faith. She wondered who God was and why he continued to allow her to struggle and doubt. Where, she pleaded, is his hand of healing and hope in my life now? This is a book about finding more than just answers. It's for anyone who needs hope when life doesn't make sense--for all who reach for a God who feels distant. As Jennifer tackles the six big questions of faith, she will help you: Trust God more than your feelings. Strengthen your faith when you feel beat up by life. Embrace your obstacles and start experiencing their purpose. Face your disappointment and grow stronger from your loss.
A half-starved young Russian man claiming to be a devout Muslim, an idealistic young German civil rights lawyer, and a sixty-year-old scion of a failing British bank based in Hamburg form an unlikely alliance as the rival spies of Germany, England and America scent a sure kill in thelian"War on Terror," and converge upon the innocents.
A fresh, big-picture approach to teaching kids what it means to ask Jesus into your heart: Did you know that what God has always wanted is for you to become one of His friends?
Are You Experiencing an Abundant, Victorious Life - The Life You Always Wanted? Does your life experience line up with what you know to be what God offers through the Bible, or do you sometimes feel lethargic and distant from God? Too often, we settle for far less than what God wants to do in and through us. Debby Sibert walks the reader through the answers to many questions that plague Christ-followers who feel like there must be more to the Christian life than they are experiencing. ◆ Do you lack peace or joy in your life—feeling stuck in your Christian walk? ◆ Do you find yourself wondering if there is more to the "abundant, victorious" life? ◆ Do you sense that there may be more that God wants to do in and through you than you are currently experiencing? ◆ Do you want to take your life experience to the next level? ◆ If your answer is "yes" to any of these questions, then this book is for you. ◆ How do you get to experience the victorious life – The Life You Always Wanted? ◆ That's the question this book answers on many levels. Every chapter ends with "Diving Deeper" questions making this a great book for a small group study. EDITORIAL REVIEW: "I am so thankful for Debby Sibert – for her writing, for her teaching, and for her life! She is the real deal. She loves God's Word, and she loves helping people experience abundant life according to God's good design. You will be blessed, encouraged, challenged, and ultimately changed by God's grace through her." ★★★★★ David Platt, New York Times Best Selling Author, Lead Pastor, McLean Bible Church
What you believe about God sets the foundation of the person you will become. In God Has a Name, pastor and New York Times bestselling author John Mark Comer invites you to rethink many of the prevalent myths and misconceptions about God and weigh them against what God actually tells us about himself. After all, what you believe about God will ultimately shape the type of person you become. We all live at the mercy of our ideas, and nowhere is this more true than our ideas about God. The problem is many of our ideas about God are wrong. Not all wrong, but wrong enough to form our souls in detrimental and disheartening ways. God Has a Name is a simple yet profound guide to understanding God in a new light--focusing on what God says about himself in the Bible. This one shift has the potential to radically alter how you relate to God, not as a doctrine, but as a relational being who responds to you in an elastic, back-and-forth way. John Mark Comer takes you line by line through Exodus 34:6-8--Yahweh's self-revelation on Mount Sinai, one of the most quoted passages in the Bible. Along the way, Comer addresses some of the most profound questions he came across as he studied these noted lines in Exodus, including: Why do we feel this gap between us and God? Could it be that a lot of what we think about God is wrong? Not all wrong, but wrong enough to mess up how we relate to him? What if our "God" is really a projection of our own identity, ideas, and desires? What if the real God is different, but far better than we could ever imagine? No matter where you are in your spiritual journey, God Has a Name invites you to step into a fresh and biblically rooted vision of who God is that has the potential to alter your life with God and shape who you become.
One in a series of twenty Old Testament verse-by-verse commentary books edited by Max Anders. Includes discussion starters, teaching plan, and more. Great for lay teachers and pastors alike.
An amazing story of a missionary couple's journey into the toughest places on earth is combined with stories about remarkable people of faith they encountered to challenge and inspire those curious about the sufficiency of God.
