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There is no easy answer to the meaning of life-even when you believe in God.
The book of Ecclesiastes seeks to answer the question: "What do people gain from all their labors at which they toil under the sun?" The book's central character is Qoheleth, who wants to understand the meaning of life as far as he possibly can with the tools of his own empirical observation and reason. He struggles to reconcile the beautiful world that we love and enjoy...
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Is America the next missionary graveyard? Or is it ripe for spiritual revolution? The statistics seem grim. Every year, the decline of Christianity continues at a rapid pace, especially among young adults. Churches across the country are closing their doors, dying, or are being "adopted" by nearby larger churches. What is the story church leaders hear? We've lost the next generation.
But this decline in religious affiliation has not made us less spiritual....
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As fewer Christians read the Bible daily, fewer understand what a marvelous revelation it is from God to man. How to Read the Bible (as If Your Life Depends on It) offers believers and nonbelievers alike a new appreciation for the Bible, helping them to read it for understanding, not just as the storybook they remember from childhood.
There is no other book like the Bible. God used at least forty human writers over more than 1,600 years to compost...
4) The Field Guide for Small Group Leaders: Equipping Everyday Believers for Life-Changing Community
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The Field Guide for Small Group Leaders provides basic training and support to help small group leaders succeed in the critical mission of leading others toward spiritual growth and transformation.
The premise of serving as a small group leader sounds simple: Invite people to join you in studying the Bible. But the real-world implications of that role are incredibly complex. Today's small group leaders are asked to function as semi-experts in theology,...
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An essential guide in the art and instruction of issuing Christ's invitation to the lost.
Historic denominations are dying. Church memberships and baptisms plummet with every passing year. Pastors and church leaders are concerned about their churches plateauing. Why? One of the major reasons is because congregations aren't being publicly called to faith in Christ. A growing number of evangelical pastors have opted for non-confrontational approaches...
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When you are worn-out, when you feel discouraged, when you think you don't have what it takes, what is the one thing that Jesus wants you to never forget? When Your Way Isn't Working equips you to discover authentic connection to God and others so you are free to live the life you long for.
In some of his final words to his closest friends, Jesus didn't suggest a five-year plan for success or a checklist of things to do. Instead, he offered a metaphor...
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Many of us spend our lives chasing happy. We chase happy in our relationships. We chase happy through our successes. We chase happy through the next adventure, our next paycheck, or the next escape. But maybe we've been chasing the wrong kind of happy. The book of Philippians shows us where true happiness and joy can be found. We find happy when we chase God's joy, His purpose, His encouragement, and His peace. Together, let's chase happy so we can...
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The original and bestselling story of the miracles and message of Medjugorje, the little town in the hills of the former Yugoslavia that has become a global phenomenon. Journalist Wayne Weible tells how his life was forever changed by what he experienced there. With refreshing candor and self-deprecating humor, Wayne Weible (1937-2018) takes readers with him on the adventure to Medjugorje that radically and permanently changed his life. You will discover...
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Evangelistic book answering questions about evil and suffering and how Christianity offers hope.
Suffering and evil affect us all, both at a general level, as we look at a world filled with injustice, natural disasters and poverty, and at a personal level, as we experience grief, pain and unfairness. And how we think about and process the reality of pain is at the heart of why many people reject God.
Dr. Amy Orr-Ewing is no stranger to pain...
10) The Gospel Crux
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The Gospel Crux is a fresh look at the teachings of Jesus in the context of their Hebrew origins.
The current versions are not working. If they were, the world around us would not keep going to pieces every now and then. Lost in translation, disoriented through cultural appropriation and transmitted across millennia, the versions handed down to us are both enhanced and redacted, far removed from its original context and blurred by the passage of...
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In Ancient Wisdom for the Good Life, Ralph K. Hawkins turns our attention to the Bible's Wisdom Literature (Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Song of Songs) and how it can correct us, train us in righteousness, and ultimately empower us for successful living. These are some of the most inspired writings on the Good Life the world has ever known, in which ancient Israel's sages wrote about how to live stable, harmonious, productive, and joyous...
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For here we have no continuing city, but we seek the one that is coming. – Hebrews 13:14
Is heaven a reality to you, or does it still appear far off and uncertain?
The goal of this book is to whet your appetite for heaven. A careful look at Scripture reveals that heaven is what every born-again believer is longing for. Our time on earth is only in a temporary dwelling place, and heaven is the true home of all God's children. A study of heaven can...
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This four-volume work entitled Treasures from the Book of Mormon, was originally prepared as a university course, but each volume is easy and comfortable to listen to and has therefore proven highly popular with seminary students and those preparing for missions. It is also used extensively as a "Come Follow Me" course of study for adults. This audiobook is a narration of the Book of Mormon along with historical commentary by W. Cleon Skousen, who...
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The modern church is immersed in a competitive, polarized, and status-driven society. It's hard to have conversations about important issues when so many are defensive and unwilling to learn. Too often, Christians fall into these same traps. The health and witness of the church urgently depend on recovering an essential biblical virtue: humility.
New Testament scholar Dennis R. Edwards illuminates humility as a, if not the, distinctive identity marker...
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"No one goes to hell by accident!" were the words I heard as the vision opened before me. The scenes that followed forever changed the way I saw the often-controversial subject of Hell. This experience confirmed that hell is a real place. It also served to confirm that it is very difficult to go to hell, although many will end up there. You have to work at it. Jesus is constantly getting in your path to redirect you to heaven. The Bible records hundreds...
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Los valores espirituales son las nociones que permiten a los seres humanos establecer una relación con una o varias deidades. El ser humano desarrolla estos valores a lo largo de su vida conforme recibe una formación moral, ya que estos se traducen en el buen comportamiento y costumbres avaladas por la cultural.
17) Worte des Glaubens (Das Hohelied der Liebe / Das Johannes Evangelium / Das Buch Hiob) (Ungekürzte
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Auf diesem Hörbuch: "Das Hohelied der Liebe", "Das Evangelieum des Johannes" und "Das Buch Hiob". Gelesen von Claudia Urbschat-Mingues, Christian Schmidt und Traugott Buhre.
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In our culture today, the preoccupation over self-identity-or who we are-is hard to ignore. But the pursuit of self-understanding has been a recurring theme throughout human history. How many times have you asked yourself, "Who am I?"
The desire to answer this question-whether it manifests in self-enhancement strategies or self-serving biases-is part of being human. Yet, through a Biblical lens, we know something has gone terribly wrong with our...
19) Las cruzadas: Un apasionante recorrido por un acontecimiento de la historia cristiana que tuvo lu
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Así que cree saber lo que ocurrió durante las cruzadas. Pero, ¿lo sabe realmente?
Es una buena pregunta, ya que existen muchas ideas erróneas sobre las causas de las cruzadas, por no hablar de lo que ocurrió realmente durante las mismas. En este libro pretendemos aclarar muchas de estas cuestiones y ofrecerle una historia concisa y precisa de las cruzadas. Gran parte de la historia de las cruzadas se ha visto oscurecida a lo largo de los años...
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Buy now to get the key takeaways from Dane C. Ortlund's Gentle and Lowly.
Sample Key Takeaways:
1) Gentle and Lowly introduces you to Christ, who he really is, and how he feels about you. It answers necessary and legitimate questions through biblical text.
2) Thomas Goodwin, Richard Sibbes, and John Bunyan have given us insight on what the Bible beholds, and these Puritans are what drove Gentle and Lowly to fruition.
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