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Unshakable Hope
By Max Lucado

*NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* What feels shaky in your world?  Are you overwhelmed by the problems you’re facing or the pain you’re feeling?  Maybe you feel hurt by the past.  Disappointed by the present. Worried about the future.  If so, you are not alone, but there is hope.  You can live with security and purpose.

In Unshakable Hope, Max Lucado unpacks 12 of the Bible’s most significant promises, equipping you to overcome difficult circumstances by (more…)

Even Better Than Eden
By Nancy Guthrie

God’s Story Will End Better than It Began . . .

Experienced Bible teacher Nancy Guthrie traces 9 themes throughout the Bible, revealing how God’s plan for the new creation will be far more glorious than the original.  But this new creation glory isn’t just reserved for the future.  The hope of God’s plan for his people transforms everything about our lives today.  (more…)

Remember Death: The Surprising Path to Living Hope
By Matthew McCullough

Life-expectancy worldwide is twice what it was a hundred years ago.  And because of modern medicine, many of us don’t often see death up close.  That makes it easy to live as if death is someone else’s problem.  It isn’t.

Ignoring the certainty of death doesn’t protect us from feeling its effects throughout the lives we’re living now.  But this avoidance can hold us back from experiencing the powerful, everyday relevance of Jesus’s promises to us.  (more…)

Fake Or Follower
By Andi Andrew

We live in a culture where many identify as “Christian” without fully embracing what it looks like to follow Jesus day-in and day-out.  After gathering on a Sunday, do we simply go about our business, void of true transformation?  Is the gospel simply a self-help tool, the church just a place where our needs can be met?  It’s time to ask ourselves, “Am I really following Jesus?  Or am I just faking it?”

With eye-opening personal stories, Scripture, and thought-provoking (more…)

The Prodigal Prophet
By Timothy Keller

Most people, even those who are nonreligious, are familiar with the book of Jonah: a rebellious prophet defies God and is swallowed by a whale.  Less familiar to most people is the second half of this Biblical story – what happens after Jonah is released from the belly of the fish.  Yet it is in this second half of the story that one of the most powerful and important lessons of the Bible is hidden.  (more…)

Quit Church
By Chris Sonksen

Let’s face it.  Church isn’t working.  We hear sermons about the abundant life Jesus promised, but how many of us are actually living it?  How many of our churches are thriving?  How many people in our congregations are experiencing God’s blessings?  Maybe it’s time to call it quits.

Quit church?  Well, not exactly.  (more…)