As they color their way through comforting Scriptures and encouraging messages, overactive minds will find rest in God's care for them. While the world is ever-changing, God stays the same. He is our rock and our foundation. When we set our eyes on Him, releasing our troubles and cares into His hands, we find true rest. Our worries fade away. Set Your Mind on Things Above: A Devotional Coloring Book provides a wonderful way to turn one's thoughts from worry and fear, and toward God's peaceful gifts. Matching over 75 stress-relieving devotions with beautifully illustrated coloring pages, this "ultimate" coloring book is the perfect outlet for more than creative expression. It helps to quiet the world and bring individuals closer to the Creator..
In this addition to the award-winning BECNT series, leading New Testament scholar and bestselling author G. K. Beale offers a substantive evangelical commentary on Colossians and Philemon. With extensive research and thoughtful chapter-by-chapter exegesis, Beale leads readers through all aspects of Colossians and Philemon--sociological, historical, and theological--to help them better understand the meaning and relevance of these biblical books. As with all BECNT volumes, this commentary features the author's detailed interaction with the Greek text and an acclaimed, user-friendly design. It admirably achieves the dual aims of the series--academic sophistication with pastoral sensitivity and accessibility--making it a useful tool for pastors, church leaders, students, and teachers.
The NIV is the world's best-selling modern translation, with over 150 million copies in print since its first full publication in 1978. This highly accurate and smooth-reading version of the Bible in modern English has the largest library of printed and electronic support material of any modern translation.
Manage your time the way Jesus managed his with a biblical antidote to swamped to-do lists and hurried schedules. “A highly practical road map.”—Mark Batterson, New York Times bestselling author and lead pastor of National Community Church Despite the overwhelming amount of resources for time management and work-life balance, the ability to cultivate the efficiency and equilibrium needed to manage all our worthy pursuits can often feel frustratingly out of reach. The reason for our struggle is that productivity and time-management systems focus on individual habits rather than more meaningful and lasting lifestyle changes. But as it turns out, there is a better way to reach our full potential. We don’t need just another approach to changing our habits. What we need is an operating system that takes into account the full scope of our lives. In these pages, bestselling author Jordan Raynor presents this system, using seven powerful time- management principles drawn from the example of how Jesus lived: 1. Start with the Word: Find meaningful connection with the author of time daily. 2. Let Your Yes Be Yes: Accept only the commitments you can fulfill. 3. Dissent from the Kingdom of Noise: Create room for silence, stillness, and reflection. 4. Prioritize Your Yeses: Confidently maintain your commitments. 5. Accept Your “Unipresence”: Focus on one important thing at a time. 6. Embrace Productive Rest: Live the God-designed rhythms of rest which are productive for our goals and souls. 7. Eliminate All Hurry: Embrace productive busyness while ruthlessly eliminating hurry from our lives. With these principles, you’ll see how Jesus managed his time on earth and how he responded to human constraints much like the ones you face today. More than that, you’ll discover corresponding practices that will help you embrace the best, most Christlike version of yourself possible: purposeful, present, and wildly productive.
Leading Scholar Explores Paul's Teaching on the Mind This major work by a leading New Testament scholar explores an important but neglected area of Pauline theology, Paul's teaching about the mind. In discussing matters such as the corrupted mind, the mind of Christ, and the renewal of the mind, Paul adapts language from popular intellectual thought in his day, but he does so in a way distinctively focused on Christ and Christ's role in the believer's transformation. Keener enables readers to understand this thought world so they can interpret Paul's language for contemporary Christian life. The book helps overcome a false separation between following the Spirit and using human judgment and provides a new foundation for relating biblical studies and Christian counseling.
Reverend Ryan Lamont Jones—a native of Columbia, South Carolina—is the founder and CEO of Ryan L. Jones and Associates, Inc., a successful, diverse personal and professional development firm based in Atlanta, Georgia. He is recognized as a dynamic nationally respected professional speaker, consultant, certified abstinence educator, performance improvement specialist, author, and transformational trainer who conduct personal and professional development seminars for Fortune 500 companies, individuals, churches, educational institutions, government agencies, and nonprofit organizations. He has risen to national prominence by delivering highly penetrating speeches and effective programs that help people shake off mediocrity, destroy personal barriers, and live up to their greatest potential. His words and admirable communications skills have helped countless people align themselves with happiness and create a mindset that attracts success and excellence. His civic and professional involvement includes membership with Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc.; International Association of Christian Chaplains, Inc.; Member Associate of the American Association of Pastoral Counselors; Association of Black Cardiologists; Urban League Guild of Atlanta; and served on the Board of Directors for several organizations. Some of his other accomplishments, achievements, and accolades are: South Carolina’s Communities In Schools Volunteer of the Year (1999); recognized by the Charleston Business Journal as one of the Forty Under 40 (2000); profiled as one of the Trident Black Pages Up-Front personalities; and was named the 2005 Atlanta School Counselors Association “Advocate of the Year.” As a motivational speaker, Reverend Jones has given countless hours and much energy educating, empowering and encouraging youth throughout the nation on the motto “Set Your Mind On Things Above.”
Ever get tired of listening to the lies of the enemy? Or the constant negative thoughts that spiral through your mind and never cease? If so, this book will encourage and help renew your mind to The Word Of God like never before and finally take back what the enemy has stolen! Like David against Goliath, let us run quickly to the battleline and win the greatest war that's ever been fought within our minds. It is written!
