Gain a biblical understanding of grace to discover the true freedom of living obediently. “Amazing grace, how sweet the sound!” we sing… “For by grace you have been saved by faith!” we recite… “We live under grace!” we preach… But do we really understand grace? Grace has become a part of the basic vocabulary of every Christian. Unfortunately, many believers are abusing God’s amazing gift of grace. They have perverted God’s undeserved gift of forgiveness, making it a license for immorality, self-indulgence, and minimal involvement in God’s kingdom. In the process they are robbing themselves of the joy that comes from obedience to God. In this provocative book, pastor and author Dr. Robert Jeffress challenges you to gain a biblical understanding of grace, and reveals how “good grace” can protect your marriage, church, and relationships from confusion and even abuse. Start experiencing the true freedom of living obediently in God’s good grace. Discover Grace Gone Wild!
Today's teens are being shaped by the pressures and disappointments of the world. But Max Lucado encourages them to take a close look at what can shape their hearts and their futures from the inside out?God?s grace. As Max explains, "God?s grace has a drenching about it. A wildness about it. A whitewater, riptide, turn-you-upside-downness about it. Grace comes after you." Wild Grace gives teens an understanding of how grace can change their lives in powerful ways, even when those lives are messed up, off track, or in trouble. Each chapter describes another miracle that happens when we allow God?s grace to work on us and through us. -- Publisher's website.
The Christian life is built on three seemingly unremarkable practices: reading the Bible, prayer, and fellowship with other believers. However, according to David Mathis, such “habits of grace” are the God-designed channels through which his glorious grace flows—making them life-giving practices for all Christians. Whether it’s hearing God’s voice (the Word), having his ear (prayer), or participating in his body (fellowship), such spiritual rhythms of the Christian life have the power to awaken our souls to God’s glory and stir our hearts for lifelong service in his name. What’s more, these seemingly simple practices grant us access to a host of spiritual blessings that we can only begin to imagine this side of eternity—and the incredible joy that such blessings bring to God’s children today.
Thus saith the LORD, The people which were left of the sword "Found Grace in the Wilderness" (Jeremiah 31:2) If you're waiting behind stain glass windows for God to bust a move you're disillusioned! The next breakout of God's power, purpose and plan will not be done through a single man, but by vans of people who have stopped shouting long enough trying to get their praise on and take it to the streets (Luke 14:23)! It's time for the "glory" to be visible in the wilderness and no longer housed in a sanctuary (Exodus 16:10), everything and everybody has made an entrance while seemingly the church has taken a bow and exited off the scene. Now the thing about it is, their busting out has been with thrust and fervor, "it's a mad house!" Wild and Crazy things are going on! Well, I say it's time for God's grace to no longer be confined behind four walls as we dine in an etiquette manner. No, GRACE IS ABOUT TO GO WILD too! If suicide, sexual seduction and perversion; sin, the spirit of the slayer, sickness, sorcery, Satanism, the spirit of hopelessness; separation and divorce, stress and the social media can go wild; why not GOD'S GRACE? WHERE SIN ABOUNDS, GRACE DID MUCH MORE ABOUND (Romans 5:20)! Are you ready for the Holy Ghost charge to go and take your families, churches, communities, cities and even the nations for Jesus? What are you waiting on? Give that little change to the cashier and delve into this Study workbook so you can be stirred to action and become one of God's conduits he desires to use to "Run After Captives Earnestly." I also want you to know for your convenience the Lord has blessed me to search every verse of scripture in the Bible on his "Grace and Glory." This workbook is not only profitable for your own personal growth; but can also be used to teach at Bible studies, Seminars, Conferences, Revival preparation, Family time devotions and group discussions. You just can't READ ABOUT these two powerful attributes of God; you need to know HOW TO EMBRACE them daily! Because this book has been written with such simplicity; you can and should share it with unbelievers in help bringing them to the Lord.
This book is part memoir, part personal essay, along with journals and letters. I learned from the book, Writing Life Stories: How to make Memories into Memoirs, Ideas into Essays, and Life into LITERATURE by Bill Roobark with Kristen Kechler, PhD. This book is filled with instruction, meaning, how-to exercises and how to get published along with a great deal about sharing my life story.
There is a new movement sweeping the church.It's adherents call it the "Grace Revolution" - a separation between "grace teaching" and "law teaching." It's not a "gentle reformation," they insist, but a revolt against "religious legalism and hypocrisy." However, the problem with this movement is not the grace but the so-called "truth" that accompanies it. To have a grace revolution we must have a truth revolution as well. Grace without truth is really Grace Gone Wild.This book examines the teachings that have come to be known as "Hyper Grace" and corrects the distortions upon which they are founded. It presents a unique Hebraic perspective which restores the integrity of Scripture and demolishes the stronghold of "Law versus Grace" that has been built up in the minds of contemporary believers. Grace Gone Wild is a must read for all believers who love the truth of God's word as well as the Presence of the Holy Spirit.
A pastor's wife's shattering yet ultimately hopeful story of her husband's death by suicide, her journey to understand mental illness, and the light she found in the darkness. On August 25, 2018, Kayla Stoecklein lost her husband, Andrew--megachurch pastor of Inland Hills Church in Chino, California--to suicide. In the wake of the tragedy, she embarked on a brave journey to better understand his harrowing battle with mental illness and, ultimately, to overcome the stigma of suicide. Fear Gone Wild is her intimate account of all that led to that tragic day, including her husband's panic attacks and debilitating bouts of anxiety and depression. Despite their deep faith in God and the countless prayers of many believers, Andrew was never healed of his illness. Turning to Scripture for answers, she discovered that God uses wilderness experiences to prepare His children--including Jesus--for his greater purpose and to work miracles inside our souls. With a clear-eyed acknowledgment of how misguided and misinformed she was about mental illness, Kayla Stoecklein shares her story in hopes that anyone walking through the wilderness of mental illness will be better equipped for the journey and will learn to put their hope in Jesus through it all.
Fifteen psychologists, twelve secondary schools, four expulsions, four rehabs, two house-arrests and innumerable arguments... the cast and plot line for a season's worth of Law and Order? No. This was the real-life drama of Heather Stone's adolescence. Now in college, Heather, the once rebellious teen, has sat down with her father to pen an insider's guide for parents and teens alike. Charles and Heather don't offer Cleaver family ideals or promise Brady Bunch thirty-minute solutions. They, instead, share the realities of their 6-year nightmare, in the hopes of fostering hope for the millions of families trying to survive the years from thirteen to eighteen. Replete with faith, honesty, and practicality, it offers readers nine practical lessons and provides a compass for even the worst tempests of teen rebellion.
Equipped to Tell the Next Generation bridges the gap between knowing and sharing our faith in Jesus by revealing areas of our beliefs and practices which have been syncretized with twenty-first-century American culture: relative truth, consumerism, pleasure, an independent spirit, the victim mentality, and the culture of doubt. These go to the heart of who we are and keep Christians from telling people about Jesus in winsome ways. This book provides the solution: recover the holiness of God, his ultimate characteristic, which holds all his characteristics in perfect unity. Rather than legalism, genuine holiness is the highest beauty which produces wholeness because it balances holy love, holy righteousness, repentance of sin, peace, and respect for all people and all of God's creation. When we meet a holy God, we want to worship and to serve him because the beauty of holiness touches the very essence of our being. It becomes our greatest desire to please him because of the deep love we find there, a holy love unlike what the world offers. This book will take you on a journey to recover the things compromised to culture and will equip you to tell the next generation about Jesus.
