God designed marriage as one of His greatest gifts to us.321 Marriage helps couples discover the hidden gems awaiting them when they let God define how they walk out their marriages. Only when you follow His plan can you discover the true joy and fulfillment He had in mind. Whether you are just laying the early foundation as newlyweds or desiring fresh wind in the seasoned sails of your marriage, we want to encourage you on the journey and help you discover that God's plan for a dynamic marriage is possible!Developed by a couple for couples, this unique 12-week course is designed to encourage couples toward healthy and thriving God-honoring marriages. Session topics cover the foundational areas where most couples struggle, including:¿ Prayer-how to build your marriage on prayer together¿ Kindness-what that really looks like in a marriage¿ Needs-how each partner is different¿ Love-how to provide security and connection to each other¿ Money-how to act as one while thinking individually¿ Family-how to prevent or navigate volatile dynamicsThe leader guide offers exclusive digital content, including supporting biblical commentary for each lesson. You can find it at lifebiblestudy.com.
Bobby Richards thought he'd left the war behind. He was wrong.From the jungles of Vietnam to the mean streets of Oakland to the harrowing depths of San Quentin's Death Row, one man's journey through hell on earth will keep you on the edge of your seat.As a cop in a rapidly changing world, Bobby faces a new kind of battle-one fought not with bullets, but with wits, grit, and an unwavering moral compass. Bobby must navigate a landscape as treacherous as any war zone.But the real test of his strength lies behind the cold steel bars of San Quentin. As a prison chaplain, Bobby comes face-to-face with society's most dangerous outcasts, forcing him to confront the darkest corners of the human soul-and his own past."Three Gates to Hell" is a heart-pounding thriller that delves deep into the complexities of justice, redemption, and the power of forgiveness. With the authenticity that only a former police officer can bring, this novel delivers:Pulse-racing action that rivals James Patterson and Lee ChildIntricate plots worthy of David Baldacci and Robert LudlumA raw, unfiltered look at law enforcement in a changing AmericaA poignant exploration of faith in the face of ultimate evilAs Bobby Richards walks through his personal gates of hell, you'll be right there with him, feeling every punch, every moral dilemma, and every moment of grace.Step into a world where redemption comes at a steep price, and where one man's journey might just change everything.A Cop's Journey Through a Changing World
The Key to Trusting Comes Down to Knowing His Name Trust. Sounds simple. But trust is a complicated and delicate matter. We know we should trust God, yet we grapple with the question: How do we actually do that? Especially when life presents unexpected trials, trusting a God we can't see seems like a big challenge.In Tethered Trust, best-selling author Becky Harling invites you to look at one small yet life-changing verse. In this study, you'll learn how Jesus wants us to know and trust Him as the "Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, [and] Prince of Peace" (Isaiah 9:6).So, what are you waiting for? Gather your girlfriends, open your Bibles, and begin to process together how you can trust God more fully!
Family Is Divinely Inspired¿¿Family is God's design for us. But imagine a world without family. What would it be like? You would never attend a family reunion. You would have no one to invite to your wedding. You would have no spouse to commit your life to. No children or grandchildren. You would not gather with family for special holiday celebrations. You might feel alone. Isolated. As if you didn't belong. But that isn't what God had in mind, so He established the family.In Never Alone, Dr. Albert Reyes explores scripture to help us find God's plan and design for the family. Using the Bible as his guide and stories of real families with his ministry at Buckner International, Dr. Reyes guides you on a journey of discovery. Discover that family is a gift from God with the power to inspire hope. Find God's plan for your family.
And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved. (Acts 2:47 NIV) Every church was meant to grow. Is yours growing?When a local church is a unified, biblically functioning church, tuned in to the power of the Holy Spirit, culturally relevant, exercising church growth principles and practices, and led by spiritually mature, gifted, God-honoring leaders and pastors, it has the potential of being a perpetually growing church.Rick Howerton has spent his adult life networking with, consulting, and learning from influential church leaders whose churches experienced numeric growth for ten years or more. They are perpetually growing churches. Many of them are the most influential churches in America. This book unearths the practices that were consistent in those churches. If you want to lead or be part of a perpetually growing church, this book is for you.
Demolition Suite spins a cautionary tale for the Anthropocene. This innovative sequence engages climate change, environmental degradation, and hazardous exposure with unexpected poetics. From contaminated sites to troubled bodies of water, forest fires to rewilding zones, these poems cover wide ground. Fluid tones shift between grief, wit, intimacy, and beyond. With kinetic diction, these pages stage embodied responses to our imperiled planet. Out of crisis, Carroll forges strange radiance, envisioning ecological restoration.
In her latest chapbook, How To Keep Things Alive, Beth Gordon continues to explore themes of loss and grief, this time through her relationships with the living and the dead. How does one show up as a child, parent, grandparent, sibling, friend, or lover with the inevitability of death looming behind every corner of life? Are fearless love and joy still possible after loss, both expected and unexpected? Are memory and language enough to raise the dead or exorcise the guilt of our choices "necessary and wrong?" Using a variety of poetic forms and often surreal imagery, Gordon asks these questions but never offers the reader an answer. These poems beseech the universe, but the universe is silent.
See You on the 19th Hole Golf is one of the most difficult sports to play well. But practicing the sport can promote honesty, integrity, and patience. Golf can be enjoyed in an afternoon with your buddies, your family, or even business partners. A golfer can experience both euphoria and disappointment on the same hole. Being good at this sport requires endurance, humility, and practice. The same can be applied to your daily walk with the Lord. Read about what some of the most famous golfers to play the game have to say about the sport, the God they love, and the faith required to hit a hole-in-one on and off the course.
Dr. Nancy Meyer's Defying Fear: Finding Courage to Embrace Your True Value is a beacon of hope for those navigating through the shadows of doubt and adversity.
Can a taste of love cure the scars of yesterday?Single mother and baker Eden Lambert arrives in quaint Village Green looking for a home for herself and her 18-month-old son, Jake. Her warm welcome by her elderly hostess, Mary Jo Piermont, is offset by the cold disdain of Mary Jo's self-appointed protector, Joe Wolfe. At first, the long-legged blonde and her kid look like trouble to Joe. Mary Jo saved the builder's life years ago, and he will do no less for the woman he considers a surrogate mother. But as he keeps an eye on the unwanted guests, Joe's suspicions soon become replaced by admiration and respect for Eden's resolve and dedication to her son. With his background of abuse and abandonment, Joe is aware of the dangers facing the vulnerable and wants better for Eden and Jake. He offers her a business arrangement-he'll build her a bakery, and she can run it. As they join forces to start the bakery, can they overcome the scars of the past to find a recipe for love?
Nothing is more important than our relationship with the Father. But we are a weak, frail, and floundering people. At times our wandering seems endless, and our prayers repetitive and empty. The void within our hearts burns for fulfillment and the desire to feel worthy for a deeper relationship with God cries out. This is when we call to Him. "Meet me where I am, Lord. I must start but the mountain seems too high, the cliffs too steep. I am at the foot, scraping my nails into the rock and reaching." To know Him better, we understand we need Him to take a willing heart in hand and begin at the bottom. In these ninety-days of reflection, you will meet God where you are. Meet Me Where I Am, Lord is a refreshing way to enter the throne room and feel the touch of an ever-present God.
Do you sometimes find it hard to stay engaged in reading your Bible? Or maybe you struggle to know what the Bible is saying or even which part to read? The Readable Bible: Romans will help you overcome those obstacles allowing you to draw close to God and hear His voice of comfort and instruction. This uniquely formatted Bible will change the way you read and understand God's Word. The Readable Bible: Romans is accurate and inviting, and it's easy-to-follow formatting offers a unique way of taking long, copious amounts of text and making them digestible for today's visual reader. The Readable Bible is as accurate as the most trusted translations while maintaining the readability of today's more popular translations. The modern layout gives this precise translation more clarity while it's faithfulness to the original text invites deeper engagement. A quality resource for both newcomers and well-versed Bible students. Distinguishing features found in The Readable Bible: Romans - Special introduction to the book giving historical perspective - Expanded glossary - Book specific charts and tables - Weights and measures - People in each book listed by name, key facts, events, and locations - Subject Index Experience the God of the Bible like never before. Experience The Readable Bible.
Do you sometimes find it hard to stay engaged in reading your Bible? Or maybe you struggle to know what the Bible is saying or even which part to read? The Readable Bible: Mark will help you overcome those obstacles allowing you to draw close to God and hear His voice of comfort and instruction. This uniquely formatted Bible will change the way you read and understand God's Word. The Readable Bible: Mark is accurate and inviting, and it's easy-to-follow formatting offers a unique way of taking long, copious amounts of text and making them digestible for today's visual reader. The Readable Bible is as accurate as the most trusted translations while maintaining the readability of today's more popular translations. The modern layout gives this precise translation more clarity while it's faithfulness to the original text invites deeper engagement. A quality resource for both newcomers and well-versed Bible students. Distinguishing features found in The Readable Bible: Mark - Special introduction to the book giving historical perspective - Expanded glossary - Book specific charts and tables - Weights and measures - People in each book listed by name, key facts, events, and locations - Subject Index Experience the God of the Bible like never before. Experience The Readable Bible.
Do you sometimes find it hard to stay engaged in reading your Bible? Or maybe you struggle to know what the Bible is saying or even which part to read? The Readable Bible: Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, & Song of Songs will help you overcome those obstacles allowing you to draw close to God and hear His voice of comfort and instruction. This uniquely formatted Bible will change the way you read and understand God's Word. The Readable Bible: Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, & Song of Songs is accurate and inviting, and it's easy-to-follow formatting offers a unique way of taking long, copious amounts of text and making them digestible for today's visual reader. The Readable Bible is as accurate as the most trusted translations while maintaining the readability of today's more popular translations. The modern layout gives this precise translation more clarity while it's faithfulness to the original text invites deeper engagement. A quality resource for both newcomers and well-versed Bible students. Distinguishing features found in The Readable Bible: Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, & Song of Songs Special introduction to the book giving historical perspective Expanded glossary Book specific charts and tables Weights and measures People in each book listed by name, key facts, events, and locations Subject Index Experience the God of the Bible like never before. Experience The Readable Bible.
In Volume Two of The Hope of Glory, Nancy Parker Brummett delivers a devotional guide with 57 new inspired lessons for older adults and those leading devotionals in retirement homes, care facilities, senior centers, or Sunday school classes. These time-tested devotions will restore a sense of purpose and instill the gospel message of hope in all who experience them. They remind us of who we are in God's eyes: people created in His image who still have a life to live, a story to tell, and a future of eternal glory!For individual or group use.
Can an ordinary life leave an extraordinary legacy? In 1977, when nineteen-year-old Allison Middleton receives a proposal of marriage from Westley Houser, she eagerly accepts, having no idea the secret Westley carries--a secret that will change Allison's life forever. But Allison rises to the challenge of raising Westley's toddling daughter as though she were her own. Over the course of their lifetime together, Allison, Westley, and Michelle form the strong bond of family. As Allison struggles with infertility and finding her way during a time of great change for women, others--some she knows and others whom she never meets--brush and weave against the fabric of her life, leaving her with more questions than answers. From teen bride to grandmother, Allison's life chronicles the ups and downs of an ordinary woman's life to examine the value of what we all leave behind.
Who Says Giving Up Dreams Isn''t Success? Ally Cervantes has all she wants in life-an upcoming wedding, a chance to prove herself with a writing gig, and two great kids. But her life turns for the worse when the unexpected happen and she soon finds herself struggling with a rebellious teen daughter, a shaky job, and a shakier engagement. With her newfound faith acting as a life preserver, Ally discovers if you''re in the deep end of the lake, you''d better learn how to swim. Although fiction, The Deep End of the Lake, is written from the authors'' personal compassion for families who have the privilege and responsibility to care for a child with a disability. Having worked with autistic students, Carol has seen first-hand the stress and demands these parents face and wanted to capture in a story those pressures, all while providing the encouragement that a beautiful hope and faith can bring into the struggles.
Is your prayer life stuck in a rut? Do you struggle to stay focused in prayer? Do you feel like you want or need to pray, but don't know how to begin your conversations with God?
¿The D-Life Journal for Old Testament 2 is an excellent tool for personal study or for using the Old Testament in discipleship. By reading one Bible passage a day for five days each week, you will read through Psalms, Proverbs and Ecclesiastes and record a brief journal entry from each passage. The journal provides a weekly reading plan and a weekly study guide with great questions for leading your D-Group in a guided group discussion. Each week you will study and discuss a different Psalm or topic covered in your weekly Bible reading assignments. Psalms and topics for your discipleship group covered in this journal include:: The Blessed Man, Our Majestic Lord, The Perfect Law of the Lord, The Lord is My Shepherd, The Blessedness of Forgiveness, The Angel of the Lord, God Our Refuge, Dealing with Envy and Bitterness, The Death of His Saints, A Lamp to My Feet, Fearfully and Wonderfully Made, Life Lessons from an Ant, Walking with Integrity, The Blessings of a Godly Home, Chasing After the Wind, Going to the House of God, and many more. Whether you use this journal for your own personal devotional time or for leading a discipleship group, you will find this to be an excellent resource for studying the Old Testament.Here are some of the exciting results you will see... More people of all ages will begin reading the Bible daily. Ministry and evangelism outside the walls of your church will increase. D-Groups will engage the unchurched and lead others to Christ. Spiritual strongholds will be broken, lives will be transformed, baptisms will increase, and your community will be impacted. Unexpected leaders will commit to a lifetime of disciple-making. The stories and testimonies of D-Life will reverberate through your church and reenergize your ministries.¿¿
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