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Kay Marshall Strom and Michele Rickett tell the stories of persecuted Christian women from around the world. They also provide specific prayer points and practical action steps to equip us to respond.

A companion to A Fragile Stone, this study guide offers nine sessions for individuals or groups that highlight how the apostle Peter provides a model for our own transforming relationship with Jesus. (Written by Michael Card with Dale and Sandy Larsen.)

Writing from his own rich experiences--both successes and failures, Paul Tokunaga addresses the needs, difficulties, gifts and abilities that Asian Americans struggle with in leadership.

Don Everts calls you to reclaim an understanding of the seriousness of sin (which Jesus taught so clearly) and to celebrate the difference that this knowledge can make in your daily life. More poetic, narrative theology from the author of Jesus With Dirty Feet.

Examining the Genesis account of Jacob, R. Paul Stevens reveals how we can encounter God in the ordinary, boring stuff of daily life.

Phillip E. Johnson highlights the deficiencies in science and the philosophy (naturalism) that undergirds and outlines a cognitive revolution.

Do you feel stuck?Are you trying to find a way to do the right thing?Do you long to overcome sin?Everyone faces barriers and difficulties at some time in life. Everyone has a history including mistakes and failures.But sometimes you may feel as though you cannot go on. Or you may think that your choices are limited, your actions curtailed.If you are ready to see true and lasting change in your life, Raymond Causey will help you find your way in his book Changing for Good.He points to the truth--that there is freedom in Christ. And that there is power from the Spirit to overcome everything that holds you back.

Richard Winter's critique of our "culture of entertainment" explores the nature, causes and effects of boredom and counteracts it with practical suggestions for living with passion and wonder.

David, a shepherd boy with slingshot, brave warrior, poet-musician, deceitful adulterer, repentant sinner, beloved king, "a man after God's own heart."David faced some desperate circumstances and some tough choices. So do you, day by day. In this book Rebecca Manley Pippert shows how you, like David, can choose the good, find hope and grow to be one who has a heart for God.

As relations between Islam and the West grow more polarized, many Christians are nervous about meeting Muslims. How can we possibly overcome years, if not centuries of mistrust?Christine Mallouhi, who married into a Muslim family and has lived much of her life in the Middle East, suggests we should emulate St. Francis, who during the Crusades went to be with the Muslims and even shared the gospel with the Sultan.We should start by seeing Muslims as people, she suggests. "When Muslims are skeptical of our creed, confused by our message and wounded by our warfare, the most credible witness left is our lives. Muslims need to see Jesus, and the only way most of them will see him is in us." Here is a book that gives history, insight and much of the author's own story in offering the Prince of Peace to Muslims.

Peter Kreeft imagines what would happen if Socrates woke up today and enrolled in divinity school. Kreeft's new introduction for this edition highlights the inspirations for the book and the key questions of truth and faith it addresses.

Richard Dunn shows how to mentor today's teens by setting the pace--physically, intellectually, emotionally, socially and spiritually--with sensitivity to the unique issues of adolescent development.

In this practical handbook for families and churches, Dr. R. Timothy Kearney shows how the healing touch of God can come, frequently through God's people, to children who have experienced sexual abuse.

Mothering infants and small children can be exhausting, mind-numbing work. Yet moms need God in this time more than any other. Keri Wyatt Kent offers down-to-earth ideas and thoughtful encouragement to help along the way.

For anyone contemplating marriage, discerning compatibility with another, seeking guidelines for finding a life partner or struggling with commitment, this updated version by M. Blaine Smith provides biblical counsel and wise advice.

Cliffe Knechtle responds to some of the toughest questions people have asked him about Christianity.

Kay Marshall Strom brings compassion and practical advice and support to anyone caring for an elderly parent or other adult relative.

Dan Taylor affirms a call to throw off the paralysis of uncertainty and to risk commitment to God without forfeiting the God-given gift of an inquiring mind.

Most of us would rather have a root canal than ask for money.Raising support is one of the most difficult challenges facing Christians in ministry. Fears of rejection, concerns about biblical validity, feelings of not being deserving, anxiety about limited resources can all block us from obtaining the means to fulfill our calling.This book both affirms that God uses the Christian community to send us into ministry and demystifies the process. This down-to-earth handbook offers a clear, biblical perspective gives step-by-step instructions on how to assemble the tools unique to each person's support-raising task helps you know what range of gift to ask of a potential donor outlines the how-tos of holding a home promotional event tells the four predictors of church support is aware of the diverse ethnic contexts of today's new mission candidates includes a chapter by a woman for women on their unique challenges in support raising shows how to build a base in a strong church when you don't have one explains exactly why people do and don't giveThe relational strategy in this book has proven valuable for those who serve Christ on campus, in the city or in other special ministries at home or abroad. It is not necessarily the quickest approach to raising money, but it is the most lasting and fulfilling for those who give and receive.

Paul Basden leads bewildered churches through the worship maze, showing how they can find a faithful and fitting style for their own services.He believes worship should be the occasion of praise and celebration, not conflict. In this book he insightfully leads all of us bewildered church folk through today's worship maze. First he carefully delineates five prominent approaches to worshipliturgicaltraditionalrevivalistpraiseseeker-sensitiveThen he lays out the essential hallmarks of genuine worship (of any style), sifts out the strengths and weaknesses of each major style, and shows how churches can arrive at a faithful and fitting style for their own worship.Nothing we do is more important than our gathered praise of God. This book will help confused congregations restore worship to its rightful place.

C. John Sommerville argues that even at its best the news is beyond repair, and lost in the tidal wave of information is our ability to discern news of true significance.

Here are the stories of twenty-two Christian faculty who tell in their own words the difference that Christ has made in their lives and work, offering thoughtful models of how faith can not only survive but thrive in the university.

F. F. Bruce examines the biblical evidence for who Jesus was, what his ministry was like and how he related to others.

This three-month Bible study guide covers sin, evangelism, relationships, knowing God's will, spiritual growth and many other topics.This book provides you with a 30-minute daily workout with God. Along the way you'll get practical help with issues you are concerned about,likeworkpersistent sinyour emotionssexforgiving otherswhy God seems far away at times

John White examines how God's good gift of sexuality has been defiled in contemporary culture, and he challenges the church to respond.

Prayers are windows--windows on eternity.Through the prayers in the Bible we look into the profoundest issues of life and death, and the deepest longings of our own hearts. And we learn about the God to whom we pray, the one who wants to talk with us, the one who takes the initiative in our relationship with him.In this classic book on prayer, John White helps us listen to Abraham plead for Sodom and Gomorrah. We watch Jacob wrestle with the Angel of the Lord. We hear David confess his sin. We also see him dance before the ark of the covenant. We hear Hannah ask for a child. Finally, John White shows how Jesus' prayers on the cross present a model for facing our last hours as well.The ten prayers in this book will take you near to the holy one of the universe, the personal God of each person in the world.

Editor Alvera Mickelsen presents a collection of essays from twenty-seven evangelical scholars which address the biblical view of women's roles in church and society.

John White offers comfort and counsel to the parents of children with severe problems like rebellion, alcoholism, drug abuse, homosexuality or suicide.

For a century the reigning scientific view has been that God is not necessary to account for the existence of the world and of life. Evolutionary theory is said to be all that is needed to explain how we got here. In addition, many theistic evolutionists contend that God likely used many of the mechanisms of evolution to achieve his will.In this book J. P. Moreland and a panel of scholars assert that there is actually substantial evidence pointing in a different direction. First, they consider philosophical arguments about whether it is possible for us to know if an intelligent designer had a hand in creation. Then they look directly at four different areas of science: the origin of life, the origin of major groups of organisms, the origin of human language and the origin and formation of the universe.Their data and their conclusions challenge the assumptions of many and offer the foundation for a new paradigm of scientific thinking.