Christian Living
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Bold Love The kind of love modeled by Jesus Christ has nothing to do with unconditional acceptance or manners. Learn to love others with a Bold Love that will help them change. |
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The Wounded Heart These powerful pages bring the realities of damaging human experience into the perspective of a loving God. With professional skill and spiritual insight from the crucible of experience, Dr. Allender blends a keen understanding of the dynamics of sexual abuse with the practical application of Christian truth. An excellent and timely book! |
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How Children Raise Parents We often realize that we learn as much from our children as they learn from us. So why don’t parents approach the task of child-rearing as a learning experience, rather than a mandate to make sure their kids succeed in life? |
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How to Really Love Your Child Written from a Christian perspective, this acclaimed bestseller - with more then 1,000,000 sold - helps parents manifest love toward their children in all situations of child-rearing. It covers topics such as physical touch, effective discipline and spiritual nurture. |
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Each for the Other Wielding his biblical scalpel with careful thoroughness, Bryan Chapell cuts to the heart of selfishness, irresponsibility, and abuse that mar so many supposedly Christian marriages today. More than that, he marks out the path of self-denying love in marriage with a firm hand, and provides discussion questions to ensure that couples who have read the book have grasped its message. This exposition can do nothing but good. |
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Reasons of the Heart Apologetics has a deeply human side that is concerned with the whole person, say William Edgar. This book bears that out in both tone and content. While affirming the importance of reason in answering unbelief, Edgar invites us to make full use of the diverse forms of persuasion aimed at the unbelieving heart. |
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Stop Dating the Church God has designed us to build our lives around a local church; we cannot be indifferent or uninvolved. Rather, we must be in love with and committed to God’s plan and purpose through the church. Are you dating the church, or are you committed? |
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The Mystery of Children This is not a book about how to parent; it is a book about how the experience of being a parent can bring a person closer to understanding the grace of God. Mason offers chapters arranged by half-years, roughly chronicling his own spiritual development as his daughter, Heather, morphed from a baby to a toddler to a wise-beyond-her-years school-age child. |
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From Fear to Freedom Rose Marie writes as both a skilled teacher of the Scriptures and a living epistle of God’s grace. Her book is a dangerous collection of insights into the liberating power of God’s love. Like a Trojan Horse, this seemingly harmless grandmother offers stories calculated to bring freedom to prisoners (like me) of unbelief, legalism and self-pity. |
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Finding God at Harvard In Finding God at Harvard, Kelly Monroe Kullberg reveals a different picture of Christian faith in a secular intellectual setting. She presents the compelling testimonies of forty-two faculty members, former students, and distinguished orators at Harvard. Their candid reflections explode the myth that Christian faith cannot survive a rigourous intellectual atmosphere. |
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A Long Obedience in the Same Direction In the Songs of Ascent (Psalms 120-134), Peterson discovers an old Hebrew songbook used by pilgrims on their way up to Jerusalem. He seizes on these verses to teach lessons on discipleship and encouraging us to grow in joy, service, humility, and community. For 20 years Peterson’s discipleship classic has been encouraging Christians to persevere. Now this revised edition, featuring the Psalms of Ascents in The Message paraphrase, can do the same for you! |
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Stepping Heavenward Follow her on her poignant journey from sweet 16 to adulthood as she struggles to become obedient to God’s will. Her discovery that true happiness comes from giving oneself to others will immeasurably enrich your own spiritual walk. |
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Still Bored in a Culture of Entertainment Richard Winter uses the latest historical, physiological and psychological research to probe the nature, causes and effects of boredom. He explores why some people are more likely to get bored than others, the indifference and the loss of meaning among youth, the attraction of extreme sports, how advertising promotes apathy, and the link between boredom and addictions to violence and pornography. Not satisfied with mere description and analysis, Winter offers practical ways to counteract boredom by learning to live with passion and wonder. |
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Perfecting Ourselves to Death Perfectionism can be a motivating force that pushes us to achieve great things and become fuller people in Christ. It can also be a detrimental force that drives us to unhealthy patterns and obsessions. When does being good become bad? In this book Richard Winter explores the positive and negative effects of perfectionism on our lives. |
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The Jesus I Never Knew The Jesus I Never Knew takes a fresh look at the Gospels. In it, Yancey discovers a Jesus more passionate and ultimately more satisfying than he ever imagined. Disappointment with God, also a Gold Medallion Award winner, tackles why actual Christian experience often falls short of our expectations. Viewing faith through the eyes of doubt, Yancey first explores the Bible to determine what we can rightfully expect from God. Then he applies his findings to real-life situations where we’re often disappointed. |
