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Belinda Bauman was living a comfortable life as a wife, mother, and nonprofit leader - but her soul was checked out. Then she met Esperance. An assault survivor living in one of the poorest, most dangerous countries in the world, Esperance and other Congolese women shared their harrowing stories with Belinda. Their vulnerability set Belinda on a path of embracing empathy. If Esperance could love in the face of so much pain, maybe there is hope for the world, too.

At the gathering of a new group of young people in 1973, Larry Barrett felt God tell him to "go home and start keeping a diary, because some day you will write a book about this experience". Larry immediately went home and started that journal. He thought the journal would be full of glorious miracles, mighty accomplishments, and victories. In the first entry, he wrote: "This is the account of how God's Holy Spirit works."

Prophetic Fishing is evangelism for today's world. As you lay aside formulas and move at the whisper of God's word, He will release the gifts of the Holy Spirit through you. Your part is simply to do the "natural". God will supply the "super".

The Art of Marketing Jesus is an easy-to-understand spiritual growth process that has helped many believers internalize the life-giving promises of the new covenant and produce an abundance of love, joy, and peace in their lives - which is precisely the attitudes and characteristics required to attract people to Jesus. If you want to live free and attract more people to Jesus, perhaps it’s time to become a new wineskin. It’s time to say goodbye to old thoughts that keep you in bondage and place your light on the lampstand of spiritual freedom.

In this beautifully crafted memoir, best-selling author and business leader Joe Sweeney weaves a remarkable tale of friendship, spirituality, and even some of the mischief that characterizes the unlikely 32-year relationship he enjoyed with a modern-day saint. She had a way about her, he said, and it was unlike anything he had encountered as a lifelong Catholic with honest questions about his faith, spirituality, and the meaning of life. A Light Shines Through Us guides listeners of all faiths, and those claiming no faith, on a journey of spiritual exploration and discovery.

When her husband, Mannard, unexpectedly passed away at just 50 years of age, Sheri Hunter was devastated. With her whole world falling down around her, she turned to her friends. Years before, she and these Dare Divas had gone on a whitewater rafting trip. Now they sought out other adventures - zip-lining, skydiving, mountain climbing, and more. Through these death-defying activities and the unwavering support of her friends, Sheri slowly found the strength to move forward in life.

How do you change the world? Dr. John M. Perkins says the answer is friendship. Find out why in He Calls Me Friend.

We all have "weeping years", seasons where the trials seem to come one after another. For Ashleigh and her husband, their weeping years included miscarriage, multiple job losses, feelings of betrayal, panic attacks, anti-depressants, cross-country moves, and even suicidal thoughts. Loss is a constant of life, but the intensity of those years changed Ashleigh, altering how she understood and responded to grief. This book tells her story.

SQuire Rushnell and Louise DuArt have practiced daily prayer together for sixteen years. Now they offer listeners step-by-step advice on why and how to pray with another person. The 40 Day Prayer Challenge answers the question they hear daily: how do you pray with someone else? The authors also explain how Partnered Prayer - which sounds like a new idea, but comes from ancient biblical promises - restores relationships and revitalizes families.

This timely repackaged edition of The Ancient Portals of Heaven reminds believers that they are citizens of another world - heaven. Your life and your world need heaven's solutions! Ministering in and traveling extensively to Israel and other Middle Eastern nations, author David Herzog has conducted significant research on the connection between the wisdom of the ancients, Israel, and the supernatural. He will show you how to unlock heaven's supernatural solutions and release them to transform your everyday life.

You promised yourself you'd never fall into the same sin again. You've prayed about it over and over, but it has tripped you up at the most inopportune times, knocking you back several steps. Will you ever be victorious? Maybe like Aaron Davis, among thousands of pastors, and millions of Christians around the world, you have felt powerless to overcome the same one or two pitfalls that have plagued you your whole life.

Experience an unforgettable revelation of worship that presses into God's throne-room presence and releases his power into your life!

When it comes to Christ-centered recovery, we, the church, have work to do. Our legalistic, box-checking, one-size-fits-all programs produce astonishingly high failure rates—which means far too many people are left to fight addiction, mental health problems, and suicidal thoughts on their own. The goal of The Uncovery is to help the church—and the world—see recovery through a grace-laced, gospel lens. Every single one of us has some trauma or issue from our past that may still be affecting our life today. This book offers listeners nudge to go deeper in the recovery space.

Bible study teacher Colleen O'Steen's From Will to Power offers listeners a collection of tips and stories that help them align their lives more closely with God and his teachings. Each of the seven chapters examines the challenges today's Christians commonly face and the most impactful strategies for triumph.

In a world where crises are becoming more frequent and devastating, the Church has an unprecedented opportunity to partner with God and to be a beacon of light in every city around the world. In United in Crisis, Daniel Geraci shares gripping stories of God's miraculous power and provision working through a united network of churches in the Greater Austin area that grew to over two hundred churches in the midst of sixteen major disasters, demonstrating how God uses trained and prepared Christian volunteers to reveal the love and hope of Christ in the darkest storms.

Grant Windle invites pastors and Christian leaders to reflect on their approach to leadership. He Counted Them offers an unflinching glimpse into the journey of an Australian pastor reflecting on over four decades of church leadership. Windle confronts his own struggles with the profound paradox of being both a servant and a leader, as taught and exemplified by Jesus himself.

Racism. Immigration. Gun violence. Sexuality. Health care. The number of ethical issues that demand a response from Christians today is almost dizzying. How can Christians navigate such matters? What are faithful responses to these questions? Edited by two theologians with pastoral experience, this volume invites engagement with these issues and more by drawing on real-life experiences and offering a range of responses to some of the most challenging moral questions confronting the church today.

Do you ever feel like your spiritual life is incomplete? That makes sense because we can tend to separate things God always meant to go together. If you’re feeling like you’re missing something on your spiritual journey, this segmented view of relating to God could be the problem. In Whole, journey along with Kathryn Maack and Aaron Williams (founders of Dwell Ministries) as they explore the spiritual change that’s possible when learn how to reunite these areas of your Christian life: head + heart, being + doing, truth + spirit, sinner + saint.

Even though we acknowledge God as owner of the universe and ourselves, we do not live out that belief in our daily lives. C. S. Lewis and others alluded to God's ownership and acknowledged it, but this is the first work to explore the details and explain its importance and impact in-depth. The author uses a hundred verses of scripture and his knowledge of the original languages to enlighten and illuminate what first-century Christians knew, but has been lost for centuries and hidden by our own desire to avoid knowing what God really wants from us.

In today's culture, it is becoming evident that the person who tells the best story and captures the heart of the audience will have the greatest influence. As Christians, we hold in our hearts the manuscript of the greatest true story ever told-the message of the Gospel. Additionally, God has given each of us our own stories of divine redemption and miraculous victories. Yet, far too often, we fail to articulate these God-moments to others with clarity and conviction.