Minister Terry Rush shows how to fill the world with the love of God by exploring the miracle of mercy. If you think it will take a miracle to fill the world with the love of God, you're right, according to popular author Terry Rush—it will take the miracle of mercy. Rush, who authored the gripping God Will Make a Way about the unsolved murder of his future son-in-law, offers a unique view about how the mercy of God, flowing through our lives, will impact the entire world. This very visible host of television's CrossView shares timeless truths and his own hard-earned lessons that will help Christians offer the miracle-working power of mercy to each other and the world.
As a young journalist in the small town of Bay City, Alabama, Mercy Land and her publisher, Doc Philips, come into possession of a mysterious book which outlines the future outcomes of past decisions made by everyone in Bay City.
The gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke are filled with well-known accounts of the miracles Christ performed. Christians love to reflect on Christ’s healing of the Gadarene demoniac, His raising to life Jairus’s daughter, and His bountifully providing food for five thousand hungry listeners. But author Gerald M. Bilkes doesn’t want us to study these miracles just because they are loved or well known. He wants us to value them for what they teach us about Christ. He writes, “When we study the miracles, we should never lose sight of the glorious and magnificent Christ who performed them. He still performs miracles in hearts and lives. These things should astound us no less than the miracles He did when He was on earth.” This heart-warming, experiential look at twenty-two of Christ’s miracles, with questions following each chapter, is an excellent tool for personal or group Bible study and will lead you to the cross, the empty tomb, and the God who purposed and performed these important events of Scripture.
Mercy arrived in Canada in 2009, full of life and excitement following her husband’s appointment as high commissioner (ambassador) of the Republic of Cameroon. As she settled in her new environment, she could not have suspected that just seven months later, her life would take a dramatic turn. She awoke one morning complaining of fatigue, fever, a headache, and blurred vision, and was rushed to hospital with what she thought was a routine ailment. But a medical misdiagnosis would turn her life upside down. When she was placed in a wheelchair upon arriving the ER, little did she know that she had just taken her last steps on her own two feet. She soon slipped into a coma and wavered between life and death for weeks, then eventually made a miraculous recovery after undergoing high-risk open-heart surgery. But this recovery was to simply prepare her for the horror of yet another grim and dreary reality, the amputation of her two arms and two legs. Through fears and further mishaps, and with two prosthetic arms, two prosthetic legs, and two prosthetic heart valves, Mercy emerges and soon finds her stride. She surprises us with grace, strength and ingenuity as an entrepreneur, a diplomat’s confidante, a woman of faith. Despite her ordeal, Mercy shuns bitterness and resentment, choosing to embrace life, love, compassion, and forgiveness as she seeks to shine a light on those in the trenches and throes of despair. Miracle of Mercy is an uplifting true story of courage in the face of adversity. It will make you shed a tear, and then cheer as Mercy charts a new inspirational course for her life guided by faith, fortitude, and the support of her family and community.
A Multitude of Miracles is a compilation of true stories of God's miracles in the lives of the author, her family and friends. Follow Melissa on a journey of the glory, mercy, healing and forgiveness of Jesus Christ. This book is for both Christians and readers who are struggling with sexual abuse, drug and alcohol addiction or even a broken heart. You will see that there are still miracles just as there was when Christ walked the earth. These stories will transform your life and touch your spirit. It is the author's hope that A Multitude of Miracles will help you to see the miracles in your life that may have gone unnoticed and lead you to a deeper relationship with Jesus Christ.
“Anne Lamott is my Oprah.” —Chicago Tribune The New York Times bestseller from the author of Dusk, Night, Dawn, Almost Everything and Bird by Bird, a powerful exploration of mercy and how we can embrace it. "Mercy is radical kindness," Anne Lamott writes in her enthralling and heartening book, Hallelujah Anyway. It's the permission you give others—and yourself—to forgive a debt, to absolve the unabsolvable, to let go of the judgment and pain that make life so difficult. In Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy Lamott ventures to explore where to find meaning in life. We should begin, she suggests, by "facing a great big mess, especially the great big mess of ourselves." It's up to each of us to recognize the presence and importance of mercy everywhere—"within us and outside us, all around us"—and to use it to forge a deeper understanding of ourselves and more honest connections with each other. While that can be difficult to do, Lamott argues that it's crucial, as "kindness towards others, beginning with myself, buys us a shot at a warm and generous heart, the greatest prize of all." Full of Lamott’s trademark honesty, humor and forthrightness, Hallelujah Anyway is profound and caring, funny and wise—a hopeful book of hands-on spirituality.
It's been said that church is not a club for saints but a hospital for saved sinners. Today especially, with issues such as alcoholism, divorce, sexual abuse, homosexuality, domestic violence, and drug addiction as near to us as the next pew---or our own---a typical Sunday school class or Bible study alone just won't cut it when it comes to helping wounded people discover the healing and liberty Christ offers them. Celebrate Recovery fills a long-standing need in the church in its role as Christ's healing agent. Developed by Rick Warren and John Baker of the celebrated Saddleback Church, this program has already proved itself. In just six years, its remarkable, life-changing effectiveness has gained it an explosive, grass-roots popularity. Now Zondervan teams with the program's Saddleback authors to bring churches everywhere the first-ever 12-step recovery curriculum that's distinctively Christian, uncompromisingly biblical, and designed especially for churches. Everything is here: a 45-minute vision-casting video, leader's and participant's guides, audio tapes, software diskettes, and sermon transcripts---all in a tested, groundbreaking program, painstakingly and prayerfully developed to help needy, often desperate people discover new dignity, strength, joy, and growth in the image of Christ. Celebrate Recovery does more than help people resolve painful problems---it does so in the context of the church as a whole. Rather than setting up an isolated recovery community, this program helps both participants and their churches to come together and discover new levels of care, acceptance, trust, and grace. Designed to accommodate churches large or small, this fellowship-based, 52-week curriculum truly is a celebration of Christ in the life of a church and its members.
