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Free to Thrive: How Your Hurt, Struggles, and Deepest Longings Can Lead to a Fulfilling Life

Free to Thrive: How Your Hurt, Struggles, and Deepest Longings Can Lead to a Fulfilling Life

by Josh McDowell and Ben Bennett

Learn how to uncover your unmet, God-given longings and satisfy them in ways that lead away from brokenness toward spiritual wholeness.Many people today are struggling with unprecedented levels of anxiety, hurt, doubt, guilt, and shame. Medical and mental health professionals confirm that much of the dysfunction and disconnectedness we experience in life ste… Read more…

Free to Thrive: How Your Hurt, Struggles, and Deepest Longings Can Lead to a Fulfilling Life
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Free to Thrive: How Your Hurt, Struggles, and Deepest Longings Can Lead to a Fulfilling Life

by Josh McDowell and Ben Bennett

Narrated by Stu Gray

Learn how to uncover your unmet, God-given longings and satisfy them in ways that lead away from brokenness toward spiritual wholeness.Many people today are struggling with unprecedented levels of anxiety, hurt, doubt, guilt, and shame. Medical and mental health professionals confirm that much of the dysfunction and disconnectedness we experience in life ste… Read more…

The Integration of Psychology and Christianity: A Domain-Based Approach

The Integration of Psychology and Christianity: A Domain-Based Approach

by Mark A. Yarhouse and William L Hathaway

Over the course of recent decades, scholars and practitioners have been working to integrate contemporary psychology-related fields and Christianity. This project continues to move forward, evidenced in associations, publications, degree programs, and conferences around the world. While much progress has been made, there are still foundational … Read more…

How to Build a Healthy Church (Second Edition): A Practical Guide for Deliberate Leadership

How to Build a Healthy Church (Second Edition): A Practical Guide for Deliberate Leadership

by Mark Dever and Paul Alexander

A Newly Updated and Rebranded Edition of The Deliberate Church If churches are the dwelling place of God’s Spirit, why are so many built around the strategies of man? Eager for church growth, leaders can be lured by entertaining new schemes, forgetting to keep doctrinal truth as their driving force. Churches must find a way out of the maze of programs and… Read more…

Thing Beneath the Thing: What's Hidden Inside (and What God Helps Us Do About It)

Thing Beneath the Thing: What's Hidden Inside (and What God Helps Us Do About It)

by Steve Carter

We all have a surface self we present to the world, but our smiling faces often hide our pain that comes from unsuccessful attempts to find relief through harmful choices. How can we keep past wounds from damaging us? Learn to allow God to heal triggers, insecurities, and more so you can experience spiritual health and wholeness.Every driver knows the import… Read more…

Thing Beneath the Thing: What's Hidden Inside (and What God Helps Us Do About It)
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Thing Beneath the Thing: What's Hidden Inside (and What God Helps Us Do About It)

by Steve Carter

Narrated by Steve Carter

Read by the author!We all have a surface self we present to the world, but our smiling faces often hide our pain that comes from unsuccessful attempts to find relief through harmful choices. How can we keep past wounds from damaging us? Learn to allow God to heal triggers, insecurities, and more so you can experience spiritual health and wholeness.Every driv… Read more…

Expository Preaching

Expository Preaching

by David Strain

Expositional preaching is highly regarded in Reformed churches—but do you sometimes wonder why? Isn’t it more efficient to study God’s Word in our own quiet times? Isn’t it more fun to discuss Scripture in a small group? As a means of grace, preaching has a unique sin-killing, life-giving power that brings great blessing into our lives. Past… Read more…

Designed to Heal: What the Body Shows Us about Healing Wounds, Repairing Relationships, and Restoring Community

Designed to Heal: What the Body Shows Us about Healing Wounds, Repairing Relationships, and Restoring Community

by Jennie A McLaurin and Cymbeline Tancongco Culiat

“A rare combination of vivid science, compassionate storytelling, and lasting spiritual lessons. A delight to read.” –Philip YanceyOur bodies are designed to heal. We fall off our bikes and skin our knees—and without effort on our part, the skin looks like new in a few days. But while our skinned knees easily heal, it can sometimes feel like our emot… Read more…

Preaching Difficult Texts of the Old Testament

Preaching Difficult Texts of the Old Testament

by Bryan Murawski

Practical, homiletical advice for preachers on some of the most challenging genres of ScriptureWhat should a preacher do when facing a genealogy while preaching the book of Genesis? How should one handle the geographically rich chapters of Joshua? What about all those laborious architectural details on the tabernacle in Exodus? From the theologically complex… Read more…

The Innovation Crisis: Creating Disruptive Influence in the Ministry You Lead

The Innovation Crisis: Creating Disruptive Influence in the Ministry You Lead

by Ted Esler

If you aren’t innovating, stagnation isn’t far away.Ministry leaders carry the burden of keeping their organizations lean, focused, and relevant. The stakes are especially high for churches and other organizations that fulfill the Great Commission. When souls are on the line, there’s no room for bureaucratic bloat or sustaining a cumber… Read more…

Grace-Based Counseling: An Effective New Biblical Model

Grace-Based Counseling: An Effective New Biblical Model

by Fowler EdD and Ford PhD

You speak God’s truth when you counsel. But do you also communicate His grace?The Christian counselor or pastor plays an important role in helping people process the trauma they’ve experienced. Too often, a client leaves the counselor’s office with feelings of guilt and shame. They feel the heavy burden of what they did wrong. But someh… Read more…

Master Teacher: October- December 2021

Master Teacher: October- December 2021

by RH Boyd Publishing Corporation

Master Teacher is the teacher’s quarterly to be used with Adult Christian Life and College and Career. Each lesson contains extensive biblical exposition and specific instructions for the teacher. The outline of the lesson is reader-friendly, and includes suggestions for maximizing teacher/student interaction and topics for making the study informative and… Read more…


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