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Audacious
By Beth Moore

Thirty years in the making, Audacious is a deep dive into the message that has compelled Beth Moore to serve women around the globe.  Glancing over the years of ministry behind her and strengthening her resolve to the call before her, she came to the realization that her vision for women was incomplete.  It lacked something they were aching for. Something Jesus was longing for.  Beth identifies that missing link by digging through Scripture, unearthing life experiences, (more…)

Simplify
Ten Practices To Unclutter Your Soul
By Bill Hybels

Exhausted.  Overwhelmed.  Overscheduled.  Sound familiar?  Today’s velocity of life can consume and control us . . . until our breakneck pace begins to feel normal and expected. That’s where the danger lies: When we spend our lives doing things that keep us busy but don’t really matter, we sacrifice the things that do.
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Making Peace With Your Father
Revised & Updated
By David Stoop

In this revised and updated copy of his best-selling book, Dr. David Stoop encourages readers to celebrate the positive influences their dads had on them and to make peace with their fathers for the difficulties and problems they may have caused.  “Making Peace with Your Father” offers a comprehensive look at the role of the father, a study of father-absence, and a thorough description of the impact of abusive fathers.  Readers will learn the 11-step (more…)

Tough Questions About God and His Actions
In the Old Testament
By Walter Kaiser

Practical, scriptural discussions of tough topics such as polygamy, genocide, and the role of women in the Old Testament .  The God of the Old Testament can seem very foreign to Christians.  His actions appear to starkly contrast with the God of grace in the New Testament and with modern notions of justice and propriety.

In this short volume, Old Testament scholar Walter Kaiser devotes (more…)

The Holy Spirit – An Introduction
By John Bevere

The Holy Spirit is often portrayed as something weird.  But the Bible makes it clear that the Spirit is not something.  He is someone – a Person who has promised to never leave your side.  In this interactive book, John Bevere invites you into a personal discovery of the most ignored and misunderstood Person in the Church: the Holy Spirit.  Interactive book includes: daily devotions, group discussion questions, and a bonus chapter with answers to (more…)

Theology For Preaching
By Ronald J. Allen, Barbara Shires Blaisdell & Scott Black Johnston

The heart of the postmodern mind-set is an awareness of the relativity of all human thought and action.  In Theology for Preaching, three authors collaborate to discuss the implications for proclamation when the culture behaves as if all human thought and practices are relative.  Tips for sermon composition and theme are proposed.  Sample sermons are supplied to demonstrate awareness of the cultural shifts that make preaching a worthwhile challenge in a postmodern ethos.

How To Preach Without Notes
By Charles W. Koller

This is a classic that has stood the test of time.  For forty-five years, seminary students and pastors have benefited from the principles found in this book.  Two of Koller’s popular texts, Expository Preaching without Notes and Sermons Preached without Notes, are combined in a single volume that allows preachers to prepare and deliver sermons without being tied to a manuscript or even outlines or notes.

Among the eighteen topics discussed are the biblical conception (more…)