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PaperbackTen
Words of Life for an Addicted, Compulsive, Cynical, Divided and Worn-Out Culture
by Sean Gladding
To most people living in today's world, the Ten Commandments represent archaic rules dictated by a taskmaster God, meant for a society long gone. Many see them as irrelevant, even unattainable, today. But what if we're not that different from those who gathered around Moses as he handed down God's Ten Words to his people? What if they were never meant to be a set of rules, but instead a ...
HardbackA Non-Anxious Life
Experiencing the Peace of God's Presence
by Alan Fadling
Do you, like so many of us, see anxiety as an incentive to perform? Or a proof of how much you care? Or is anxiety simply an unwelcome shadow over your days, bringing with it clenched teeth and an upset stomach?
Anxiety leads us to succumb to fear and fight peace. Anxious living is a distortion of good motives, blocking the clarity of stillness and rest.
Alan Fadling ...
PaperbackResisting Therapy Culture
The Dangers of Pop Psychology and How the Church Can Respond
by Matthew Loftus
Foreword by Alan NobleLet Churches Be Churches and Therapists Be Therapists
We live in an age where "therapy culture" dominates our cultural milieu. Everywhere we look, therapeutic language and psychological concepts are popularized, misapplied,and lose their medical significance. Therapy and psychiatry are good practices, but when people begin to filter everything in life through a therapeutic ...
EbookHoly Is the Day
Living in the Gift of the Present
by Carolyn Weber
Life pulls us in many directions, sometimes even to the point of pulling our souls apart. We know rest and reflection are necessary for a healthy life—even Jesus took time to get away from the crowds, away from the demands of everyday life, to pray, to spend time with close friends, to sleep.
Carolyn Weber was emotionally and physically exhausted managing her career as a ...
EbookWhere the Cross Meets the Street
What Happens to the Neighborhood When God Is at the Center
by Noel Castellanos
Foreword by John M. Perkins and Wayne GordonMissio Alliance Essential Reading List
The cross means more than we've let it mean.
Proclaiming the gospel and forming the faithful: these are the most practiced disciplines of the evangelical church.As central as these disciplines are, however, they are only part of the story. And as Christian Community Development Association CEO Noel Castellanos has ...
EbookWhat Is Christian Humanism?
Recovering a Human Society
by Jens Zimmermann
Rediscover Humanity’s Worth Through Christ’s Incarnation
In our rapidly changing world, we face a rising tide of threats to our humanity. From artificial intelligence and the erosion of free speech to bioengineering and euthanasia, the humanistic values we cherish, like intrinsic human rights and the dignity of all persons, are increasingly at risk. We are in danger of losing ...
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EbookEvangelism and the Sovereignty of God
by J. I. Packer
Foreword by Mark DeverIf God is in control of everything, can Christians sit back and not bother to evangelize? Or does active evangelism imply that God is not really sovereign at all?J.I. Packer shows in this classic study how both of these attitudes are false. In a careful review of the biblical evidence, he shows how a right understanding of God's sovereignty is not so much a barrier to evangelism as an incentive ...
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EbookThe Freedom of Surrender
Forty Devotions for a Joyful Life in Christ
by Mary DeMuth
Find joy and freedom in surrender
Letting go is hard.
To surrender is to let go of what we tightly grip, the good and the bad. It’s a relinquishing of control, a recognition that God alone can meet our deepest needs. It’s a holy pause that entrusts each hope, each worry, and each pressing concern to the One whose love for us is beyond measure. And in this surrender, ...
