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When Wives Walk In Grace
by Steve McVey

Drawing on Scripture and on 40 years of counseling experience, Steve McVey shows you how to rest in your heavenly Father’s transforming grace amid difficult circumstances.  You’ll discover how to communicate that grace to your husband and children in every situation from spiritual lethargy to physical abuse.  As you do, you’ll see the One who loves you most give you and your husband His very best.  (more…)

Glorious Ruin
by Tullian Tchividjian
(Billy Graham’s grandson, author of Do I Know God? and One Way Love)

In this world, one thing is certain: Everybody hurts.  Suffering may take the form of tragedy, heartbreak, or addiction.  Or it could be something more mundane (but no less real) like resentment, loneliness, or disappointment. But there’s unfortunately no such thing as a painless life.

In “Glorious Ruin,” best-selling author Tullian Tchividjian takes (more…)

Why Not Today
by Matthew Cork & Kenneth Kemp

Three hundred million – that’s the number of people subjected to slavery, sex-trafficking, discrimination, and unspeakable poverty in India.  That’s the same number of people as live in the entire United States.  They are the Dalit people, the untouchables.

When Matthew Cork, a California pastor, first encountered the Dalits he was shaken to his core.  He learned that Gandhi’s success at (more…)

Fully Alive
by Dr. Larry Crabb

What makes a man masculine?  A woman feminine?  Did God design the two genders so differently?  If so, why?  The answers to these questions will free women and men to gladly embrace all that it means to be fully alive as gendered bearers of God’s image who can profoundly impact others for good by the way they relate.

Author and psychologist Dr Larry Crabb presents a biblically grounded understanding of gender uniqueness.  His illustration of a (more…)

Taking God Seriously
by J. I. Packer

Catechesis consists of intentional, orderly instruction in the truths by which Christians are called to live – a sort of discipleship in ‘mere Christianity’.

The fact that catechesis has fallen out of the life and practice of many churches today is a major loss, leaving Christians undernourished and spiritually sluggish.  Professor J. I. Packer responds that ‘it is catechesis – vital ongoing teaching and discipling – that hits the bull’s eye’: (more…)

Recovering the Real Lost Gospel:
Reclaiming the Gospel as Good News
by Darrell L. Bock

While some seek so-called lost gospels, Darrell L. Bock suggests the real lost gospel is the one already found in the Bible and reminds everyone of what it means: good news.

“Darrell Bock is one of the church’s finest New Testament scholars.  He has the unique ability to write on both the (more…)

The Cure
by John S. Lynch, Bruce McNicol, Bill Thrall

We thought we were cured.

We thought so, but most of us unwittingly carried an old, dead outlook into our new life.  We couldn’t measure up to the standard we created, so we convinced ourselves it was God’s.  We read his words through our grid of shame and felt ourselves fall farther and farther behind.  We took it out on each other; judging, comparing, faking, splintering.   (more…)

Only God
by Dwight Mason

God’s story is big, magnificent, noble, heroic, beyond your imagination…  Yet He invites you to write with Him, to obey Him and create a story He can use to transform the world.

No matter what has happened to you.  No matter how old you are.  No matter how young you are.  No matter how you have failed.  No matter how broken you feel.  No matter how hard you have already (more…)