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Christmas Uncut: What Really Happened and Why It Really Matters

Christmas Uncut: What Really Happened and Why It Really Matters

by Carl Laferton

The nativity story is often seen as cute and cuddly and for kids. But that’s because some of what really happened at the first Christmas has been edited out of popular retellings! The full, unabridged, uncut story is full of twists and turns, controversy and mystery. This best-selling book, now revised and updated, tells reader… Read more…

The Christmas Promise Sunday School Lessons: A Three-Session Curriculum With a Family Service Outline

The Christmas Promise Sunday School Lessons: A Three-Session Curriculum With a Family Service Outline

by Carl Laferton and Lizzie Laferton

This three-session Sunday School curriculum is based on the best-selling storybook The Christmas Promise and shows children how God promised, centuries before the first Christmas, a unique forever rescuing king, as well as the joy it is to live under the loving rule of King Jesus. Featuring age-differentiated lesson plans for 3-5… Read more…

5 formas de orar durante una crisis global: Oranciones que transforman en tiempos de tribulación

5 formas de orar durante una crisis global: Oranciones que transforman en tiempos de tribulación

by Rachel Jones and Carl Laferton

La pandemia del coronavirus nos ha dejado a la mayoría inquietos, preocupados y más conscientes de la fragilidad humana. Nos ha llevado a muchos de nosotros a nuestras rodillas, y es un problema tan abrumador que podemos estar inseguros de cómo orar o por qué. Este librito ha sido escrito especialmente para ayudar a los cristianos en es… Read more…

Spiritual Healthcheck: 16 steps to a thriving Christian life

Spiritual Healthcheck: 16 steps to a thriving Christian life

by Carl Laferton

We all need a spiritual healthcheck from time to time. These 16 devotions will help you to see where and how to grow in faith and joy. These devotions will help you to honestly diagnose how you’re doing in your faith, remind you of how to thrive, and point you to the Holy Spirit who can enable you to grow. Useful… Read more…

Easter Uncut: What really happened and why it really matters

Easter Uncut: What really happened and why it really matters

by Carl Laferton

Most are boring. This one isn't. Easter Uncut takes readers to one man's account of a week of his life: a week of great plans, shattered dreams, nightmare scenes and renewed hope. It's what we call Easter, without any of the fluffy bits. This accessible, faithful book will engage, infor… Read more…

Tricky: The hardest questions to ask about Christianity (and some answers)

Tricky: The hardest questions to ask about Christianity (and some answers)

by Carl Laferton and Michael Dormandy

This book does not try to sound clever, or win an argument. It does aim to introduce people to Jesus and the answers he gives to the hard questions we ask. Many Christian young adults and teenagers have hard questions about their faith. Many non-Christians do, too. Michael and Carl take nine of the hardest, such as "Doesn't Jesus ruin … Read more…

Christmas Uncut: What Really Happened and Why It Really Matters...

Christmas Uncut: What Really Happened and Why It Really Matters...

by Carl Laferton

Scandal. Controversy. Massacres. Mystery... Christmas? This is a book about the real Christmas; the one that has been lost by being turned into a children's nativity play. The one that's been buried under made-up details about donkeys and innkeepers and kings. And this is a book about why what really happened at … Read more…