Zip It empowers readers to put into action the advice and commands of Scripture concerning the tongue. The New York Times bestselling book Keep It Shut covered many topics, including anger, truth-telling, people-pleasing, our digital tongues online, and gossip. Because there are more than 3,500 verses in the Bible that relate to our words and our silence, Ke… Read more…
Widely read among the early church for its focus on the teachings of Jesus, the Gospel of Matthew is uniquely suited as a guide for discipleship. Craig Keener expertly presents this first-century work as pertinent to modern believers as well by explaining Jesus’ teachings on how to live at any time.
Introductory materials describe the co… Read more…
Not many books of the Bible have so impacted the movement of church history like Paul’s epistle to the Romans.
Think of Augustine’s heart-rending conversion in the fourth century, or Martin Luther’s monumental rediscovery of justification by faith in the 16th. Think of John Wesley’s conversion and how it influenced the church to re… Read more…
Nothing hinders a church’s witness—and its day-to-day existence—like conflict from within. Paul, in his letter to the church in Philippi, responded to a church body whose personal battles were worsened by outside hostility and adversity.
Paul thus chose to reinforce friendship and morality in his letter, along with their “partners… Read more…
How Can I Pray When I’m Sick?
What should you do when serious illness strikes? What steps can you take to pursue healing? How can you approach God in prayer
when you are sick? Douglas Connelly has gleaned from the biblical record five steps that every Christian should take during
illness. These ste… Read more…
The Bible’s message of God’s love and forgiveness is eternal and enduring, but the life experiences of the people who first received the Word are much different than our lives today. No one needs to explain to us what smartphones and social media are, but a first-century Christian would have no knowledge or frame of reference for them. In the same way, w… Read more…
Following the ascension of Jesus, the strife-torn, ethnically diverse backwater of the Roman Empire known as Palestine was a hostile environment for the gospel. Despite that, the gospel flourished -- from Jerusalem to Judea, Samaria, and the rest of the known world.
In Acts, the sequel to his Gospel, Luke describes how the Holy Spirit tran… Read more…
For readers who both yearn to know God more deeply and desire to know their purpose before God, Ephesians offers an overarching picture of God’s intention for His church, with Jesus Christ at the center. Paul starts out with a beautiful doxology and then exhorts the church to prove its vocal praise with action. Paul’s letter to the church in Ephesus rema… Read more…
Paul’s letter to the Colossians, who were absorbed with legalism and intellectual conflicts, emphasizes the essential need for belief in Christ and the calling of all Christians to demonstrate their faith in right relationship with others. Paul’s solution to a purely individual and intellectualized faith will ease believer’s hearts and minds even today… Read more…
Temptation, by Tom L. Eisenman
How does temptation come to you? What can you do to fight it? What can you do to avoid it? In this brief and helpful booklet, Pastor
Tom Eisenman offers seven key steps you can take to combat temptation. Practical and positive, this is time-tested advice you can't
a… Read more…
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