Download or read book God s Lavish Grace written by Terry Virgo and published by Monarch Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best way to understand God's grace is to see it in action. Terry Virgo shares his own story of God's transformative grace in his own life

Download or read book Help Club for Moms written by Deb Weakly and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-05 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dearest Mom, do you ever feel as if this life is just a little too much? It would be so easy to check out on your relationship with the Lord, your devotion to your husband and family, your accountability to supportive friends, and involvement in your church. Take heart, dear sister, your loving Father has something much better for you! He wants you to stay engaged in life!His desire is for you to be "steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain" (1 Corinthians 15:8).The Wise Woman Stays Bible study will encourage you to stay the course that our Lord has set before you. Each day, you will receive a beautiful glimpse into our Savior's heart of love for you and will be encouraged with biblical wisdom and faith-filled ideas.This devotional is absolutely perfect for the busy mama and will deliver bite-sized practical tips and loads of inspiration!Be prepared to dive head-first into a loving relationship with the Lord this summer, and watch as He grows you into the wife, mother, and friend He has created you to be! We cannot wait for you to join us as we walk this path of faithfulness with our Savior!

Download or read book She s Gonna Blow written by Julie Ann Barnhill and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2005-03-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tens of thousands of moms who struggle with anger have found hope, laughter, understanding, and biblical counsel in She's Gonna Blow! With over 100,000 in print, this bestseller now has a fresh cover and a new practical helps section with more resources and step-by-step advice. Gary Chapman, author of The Five Love Languages of Children, tells readers that Julie Ann Barnhill "has learned from her journey, and so will you...You'll identify with Julie's open, honest approach." Straightforward and easy-to-read, She's Gonna Blow! is for every mom seeking here-and-now hope and help to... find healthier ways of expressing anger let go of "control" issues and be more positive draw closer to the God who created moms and mothering

Download or read book Beautiful One written by Beni Johnson and published by Destiny Image Publishers. This book was released on 2010-08-01 with total page 623 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Arise, my love, my beautiful one come away.”Song of Solomon 2:10 (ESV) The insightful wisdom, joy, and lightheartedness of seven amazing women who have pushed through extreme winters only to fall more intensely in love with Jesus will challenge and provoke you to dance, live, breathe, and have your being in the One who created you to arise and come along with Him as His delicate, brilliant one into the bounteous reality of Heaven on Earth. Shed the orphan mindset that keeps you or your loved ones in spiritual poverty, misery, bondage, or rejection and get caught up in the swirl of deeper Father-daughter relationship with Abba Daddy God, who dispatches all of Heaven’s resources concerning you for major help and breakthrough from whatever your cocoon into a lavishly abundantly fragrant “destiny now” season. See how time truly has been on your side! Not one moment has been wasted! Learn how all of these women:—Sue, Heidi, Beni, Winnie, Anne, Nina, and DeAnn—endured and discovered how to push through their painful labor for the birthing and rushing in of new things beyond belief. Your moment has arrived. Daddy is in the building! Say good-bye to Poverty Flats. Hear the voice of the Spirit of Adoption calling His darling beautiful daughter, “Arise! Come with Me child. Your time is now.” Learn how to:· detoxify, filter your reality, and get focused· make it to the place of faith and belief for your circumstances· endure time and overcome the hurdles· observe, focus, shift paradigms· see God on the other side of your pain· get caught up into God’s extravagant plan· embrace Daddy's lavish love

Download or read book Enjoying God s Grace written by Terry Virgo and published by . This book was released on 2008-02-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helping to understand what God has done for us and to rediscover excitement in our walk with God. The book examines the Scriptures and shows us how we can be set free to begin and maintain a brand new relationship with God.

Download or read book How to Stay Christian in Seminary written by David Mathis and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2014-01-31 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminary is dangerous. Really dangerous. The hard truth is that many seminarians enter pastoral ministry feeling drained, disillusioned, and dissatisfied. But the problem isn't with the faculty or the material. Rather, the most perilous danger to the soul of the pastor-in-training is the sin residing deep within his own heart. Drawing on their years of pastoral ministry and seminary experience, David Mathis and Jonathan Parnell take a refreshingly honest look at this oft-neglected—yet all too common—experience, offering real-world advice for students eager to survive seminary with their faith intact. In seven short but challenging chapters, the authors remind readers of the foundational role of the gospel in the life of ministry, equipping them with the keys to grow in their faith while making the most of their education.

Download or read book This Too Shall Last written by K.J. Ramsey and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is not a before-and-after story. Our culture treats suffering like a problem to fix, a blight to hide, or the sad start of a transformation story. We silently, secretly wither under the pressure of living as though suffering is a predicament we can avoid or annihilate by working hard enough or having enough faith. When your prayers for healing haven't been answered, the fog of depression isn't lifting, your marriage is ending in divorce, or grief won't go away, it's easy to feel you've failed God and, worse, he's failed you. If God loves us, why does he allow us to hurt? Over a decade ago chronic illness plunged therapist and writer K.J. Ramsey straight into this paradox. Before her illness, faith made sense. But when pain came and never left, K.J. had to find a way across the widening canyon that seemed to separate God's goodness from her excruciating circumstances. She wanted to conquer suffering. Instead, she encountered the God who chose it. She wanted to make pain past-tense. Instead, God invited her into a bigger story. This Too Shall Last offers an antidote to our cultural idolatry of effort and ease. Through personal story and insights from neuroscience and theology, Ramsey invites us to let our tears become lenses of the wonder that before God ever rescues us, he stands in solidarity with us. We are all mid-story in circumstances we did not choose, wondering when our hard things will end and where grace will come if they don’t. We don't need to make suffering a before-and-after story. Together we can encounter the grace that enters the middle of our stories, where living with suffering that lingers means receiving God's presence that lasts.

Download or read book Embracing Grace written by Scot McKnight and published by Paraclete Press. This book was released on 2005-11-01 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating book explains that the gospel is about the restoration of "cracked Eikons" (fallen humans) so that humans can be in union with God and in communion with the saints. In the candid and lucid style that has made McKnight's The Jesus Creed so appealing to thousands of pastors, lay leaders, and everyday people who are searching for a more authentic faith, he encourages all Christians to recognize the simple, yet potentially transforming truth of the gospel message: God seeks to restore us to wholeness not only to make us better individuals, but to form a community of Jesus, a society in which humans strive to be in union with God and in communion with others.

Download or read book Sensible Shoes written by Sharon Garlough Brown and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2013-02-27 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sharon Garlough Brown tells the moving story of four strangers as they reluctantly arrive at a retreat center and find themselves drawn out of their separate stories of isolation and struggle and into a collective journey of spiritual practice, mutual support and personal revelation.

Download or read book What s So Amazing About Grace Revised and Updated written by Philip Yancey and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2023-10-03 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: OVER TWO MILLION COPIES SOLD! It's the most powerful force in the universe, our only hope for love and forgiveness, and a foretaste of eternal life: amazing, radical, life-changing grace. Millions of lives have been changed by award-winning author Philip Yancey's startling exploration of grace at street level. Grace is the one thing the world can't duplicate, the healing force we need, and the key to transforming a broken world. In this revised and updated edition of his personal and provocative book, Yancey offers true portraits of grace's life-changing power. These stories, set in the midst of life's stark realities, evoke such questions as: If grace is God's love for the undeserving, how do I get it? How well are we dispensing grace to a world that knows far more of strife and unforgiveness than it does of mercy? Can grace make a difference in the midst of such atrocities as the Nazi holocaust, and how can it withstand the brutality of hate? With powerful stories, rich theology, and practical suggestions, Yancey challenges us to become living answers to a world that desperately needs to know, What's So Amazing About Grace?

Download or read book Aging with Grace written by Sharon W. Betters and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2021-01-25 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aging with Grace by the Power of the Gospel Whatever season of life you're in, God has equipped you to flourish—to live in the transforming power and beauty of his grace. As we age, we can easily lose sight of this message as cultural ideals glorifying youth take center stage. In this book, Sharon W. Betters and Susan Hunt offer present-day and biblical examples of women who rediscovered gospel-rooted joy later in their lives. Equipped with a biblical view of aging, Aging with Grace will help you encounter afresh the gospel that "is big enough, good enough, and powerful enough to make every season of life significant and glorious."

Download or read book Putting a Face on Grace written by Richard Blackaby and published by Multnomah. This book was released on 2006-04-04 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complete the Cycle of Grace How sweet the sound–it saved a wretch like you. It’s amazing. But has God’s grace changed you? Is it changing others through you? Richard Blackaby explores what may be causing you to miss out on an abundant life of grace, and how simply knowing about it is a far cry from embracing a grace-filled lifestyle. Once you fully experience and grasp its essence, you can’t help but “practice” God’s undeserved favor by passing it on to everyone around you. Grace shares a close relationship with love, is never static, and is always searching for those willing to receive it. This book focuses on pointed and practical life application so that you can attain the power of gracious living today! Let God’s Grace Flow Through You God’s grace is so boundless, so contrary to human nature, and so unconditionally given that you will never understand it… …until you give it away. Get ready to be washed in pure joy, renewed by a fresh sense of gratitude for the rich, undeserved favor God continually bestows upon you. Dr. Richard Blackaby explores what it means to make God’s grace a lifestyle and how it will become personal, practical, and recognizable in your life. You’ll discover: What genuine grace is and what it is not The power of life words and the devastation of death words The secret to establishing a grace-filled home How to recognize grace-giving opportunities Ways to extend grace when you don’t think you can Unable to deny His unconditional love, or even to keep it to yourself, soon grace will have a face. And the reflection in your mirror will tell its story. Amazing Grace, How Sweet the Sound It’s a living, breathing testament to the depth of God’s love. You don’t deserve it, but you’ve got it. So, what are you doing with God’s amazing grace? Many Christians sing of its sweet sound, but fail to extend it to others–missing the point entirely. Putting a Face on Grace provides practical ways you can become a conduit of God’s grace to those around you. Dr. Richard Blackaby’s personal stories will have you nodding in agreement, laughing with empathetic understanding, and eagerly embracing a new life worth passing on. You will become the essential element that keeps God’s life-giving grace flowing. And if you think you’re unworthy of such an honor, that’s good. That’s grace… Story Behind the Book Much has been said about God’s grace. Observing it, defining it, soaking it in. But little has been said about bringing it full circle, to the point where we freely receive and give it on a daily basis. This is what lifestyle grace is all about. Richard Blackaby’s book hits a market in need, and “reinvents” grace for us all–exploding our understanding of this tremendous gift and bringing it into a new, tangible dimension.

Download or read book Escape from the Land of If Only written by Martha E Menne and published by Martha E Menne. This book was released on 2021-02-04 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You CAN Live without Depression and Shame Do you yearn to be free from depression and shame? Do you wish you could erase certain traumas from your life? Or do you believe you would be OK if you could only reverse one bad decision? You’re not alone. Many Christian women struggle with some level of worry, fear, and depression. Each chapter of Escape from the Land of If Only: Biblical Hope for Hurting Hearts helps you discover biblical truth and promises of God to apply to your hurting heart as healing salve. Whether your pain is the result of mere scratches or hemorrhaging gashes, God offers you hope through his Word. Escape from the Land of If Only also chronicles the transformations of both clinically depressed and marginally dissatisfied women into free and victorious individuals. Their stories show how God’s love and power can bring hope to those who find themselves living under a cloud of guilt, shame, unresolved anger, or depression. Unique features of Escape from the Land of If Only Biblical truth to combat lies you may believe about yourself or your past Promises of the Bible to use as weapons in the battle for freedom and joy Procedures to apply God’s biblical truth and promises to your specific needs True stories of individuals God has freed from the Land of If Only Attributes of God, who is your infinitely good, loving, and powerful Father In short, everything you need to live a fulfilling and godly life (2 Peter 1:3-4) “This Book is filled with treasures from God’s Word, written down and applied to life so we can benefit from them. The real-life stories illustrate biblical truths that can move us out of the cycles of brokenness that keep us trapped in the Land of If Only. They point us to Jesus who can rescue us and enable us to live a new cycle of life and truth! May God use this book mightily in setting many captives free.” ~Sharon Rose Wilcox, Director, Hope Cottage Women’s Shelter “Martha connects the tried-and-true solutions given in God’s Word of truth with real life people who have worked through overwhelming problems as they learned and applied God’s solutions. Wherever you fall on the spectrum of trials, you will find practical answers to your “if only” questions.” ~Steve J. Cole, author of The Christian Home, God’s Light for Dark Times, Pastor Emeritus, Flagstaff Christian Fellowship

Download or read book Almost Christian written by Kenda Creasy Dean and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-07-16 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the National Study of Youth and Religion--the same invaluable data as its predecessor, Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers--Kenda Creasy Dean's compelling new book, Almost Christian, investigates why American teenagers are at once so positive about Christianity and at the same time so apathetic about genuine religious practice. In Soul Searching, Christian Smith and Melinda Lundquist Denton found that American teenagers have embraced a "Moralistic Therapeutic Deism"--a hodgepodge of banal, self-serving, feel-good beliefs that bears little resemblance to traditional Christianity. But far from faulting teens, Dean places the blame for this theological watering down squarely on the churches themselves. Instead of proclaiming a God who calls believers to lives of love, service and sacrifice, churches offer instead a bargain religion, easy to use, easy to forget, offering little and demanding less. But what is to be done? In order to produce ardent young Christians, Dean argues, churches must rediscover their sense of mission and model an understanding of being Christian as not something you do for yourself, but something that calls you to share God's love, in word and deed, with others. Dean found that the most committed young Christians shared four important traits: they could tell a personal and powerful story about God; they belonged to a significant faith community; they exhibited a sense of vocation; and they possessed a profound sense of hope. Based on these findings, Dean proposes an approach to Christian education that places the idea of mission at its core and offers a wealth of concrete suggestions for inspiring teens to live more authentically engaged Christian lives. Persuasively and accessibly written, Almost Christian is a wake up call no one concerned about the future of Christianity in America can afford to ignore.

Download or read book Strength for Today written by John MacArthur and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2002-04-05 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "How blessed is the man whose strength is in You. . . ." —Psalm 84:5, NASB What a wonderful opportunity you have as a Christian in this modern age to open up the Bible and, with the leading of the Holy Spirit, glean its rich truths for yourself. Your vitality as a Christian depends on doing just that. For only through consistent Bible study and prayer do you gain the spiritual strength to navigate each day with wisdom, grace, and integrity. Offering significantly more than the typical thematic or topical anecdotes of some other devotionals, the in-depth Bible exposition of this daily study gives you a firmer grasp on many of the great passages of Scripture—passages that speak at length of Christian character, the meaning behind Christ's death and resurrection, and how we benefit from life's trials. After a year in God's Word with this book as your companion, you will find that both your walk with Christ and your faith have grown stronger—all because you committed yourself to a daily, in-depth study of the Scriptures, and to learning more about the God who is your Strength.

Download or read book The Spirit Filled Church written by Terry Virgo and published by Monarch Books. This book was released on 2011-06-08 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lucid account of the function of the Spirit in the growth of the church. Through the history of God's people the constant element has been the presence of the Almighty. The baptism in the Holy Spirit, which so galvanized the young church, equipped and empowered the believers, boosting courage, fostering fluency and granting insights to ordinary men and women. Terry Virgo was baptized in the Holy Spirit as a young believer, and delighted in the experience. 'As we began to welcome the presence of the Holy Spirit, our church life was transformed,' he explains. 'The presence of the Holy Spirit changed everything.' As the Spirit moves, so there are healings, often dramatic. But there is more: a discovery of God's grace. As people discover grace for themselves a far more profound healing takes place, leading first to worship, then a recognition that we are a prophetic people.

Download or read book Leading the Way Through Ephesians written by Michael Youssef and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the book of Ephesians, Paul refers to “the riches of God’s grace,” “our riches in Christ,” and “the riches of His glory” as he reminds believers of the spiritual treasures they already possess in Christ. Leading the Way Through Ephesians applies these great truths in such practical areas of the Christian life as enduring trials, suffering, and persecution maintaining the unity of the church through Christian love living out the gospel in our marriages and family relationships praying with power maintaining our armor against the attacks of Satan Through sound teaching, vibrant illustrations, and a brisk conversational style that applies God’s truth to the realities of the twenty-first century, Leading the Way Through Ephesians will show readers the way to a stronger, more active, more dynamic faith.