Spiritual Friendship

Do you really want to meet you? Do you want to know what kind of personality you are and how you can benefit enormously from knowing your true identity? Well, then read on! If you do not understand your true identity you will never be happy! Knowing your weak and strong points and your personality type can give you enormous help on most people who think they know everything, but in the end they are lost and very unhappy. Only by discovering yourself will you be much more successful and, above all, much happier! This is why we made this book.

Mama Jane was a hero! A rock of faith and tenacity, of hope and love, and Chad Norris’ paternal grandmother. She spent her life modeling Christ, loving God and others, and four generations of her family have been eternally impacted because of it. It’s here that we uncover a great secret - that Jesus came to reconnect us to Father, to restore relationship with his children.

Too often our friendships with other women can be marked by drama, competition, betrayal, and unforgiveness. As women, we can cause one another deep pain, creating wounds in need of healing. But we were made for connection and healthy friendships with other women to cheer each other on and fulfill our God-breathed purpose - together.

God interrupted a Bible study to point the author to a way to walk with God which, for centuries, notable saints found and lived. In just weeks, many saw differences (the fruit of the Spirit) in their lives, attitudes, and behaviors. The author did. You could, too!

With a fresh, uplifting perspective on an often-told story, Amy Boucher Pye unpacks the dynamics of Jesus’s remarkable friendships with Mary, Martha, and Lazarus, inviting you to be transformed by the same love that upended their lives. With prayer exercises and reflection questions, Transforming Love is the perfect resource for your personal time with God as well as group discussion.

Many today long for a closer walk with God - a more personal relationship. Amazingly, God desires a personal relationship with every believer. The Holy Spirit of God makes this relationship personal and real. In Friendship with the Holy Spirit: The Revival Relationship, John Van Gelderen shows (from the Scriptures) how to develop a vibrant and personal relationship with the Spirit of Christ.

On average, around 350,000 U.S. students, and nearly one million students worldwide, study abroad every year. Yet since its inception in 1963, only about 73,000 total students from over 1500 colleges and universities have participated in Semester at Sea. It is a truly unique, exclusive, and intimate experience, where students and faculty study, work, and travel to the farthest reaches of the globe.

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.

This Is How We Pray offers a fresh invitation to examine how we pray. This book offers a unique and needed perspective on prayer, inviting you into a more intimate friendship with God. Through personal anecdotes, biblical stories, ancient wisdom, and modern insights from spiritual writers, philosophers, and even cooking documentaries, Adam Dressler walks through the realities we face in the midst of our everyday lives and then reveals how they can direct us toward a deeper friendship with God through our prayers.

Best-selling author Karen Kingsbury delivers another inspiring book in her Treasury of Miracles series. Here, she focuses on the special bonds between friends, and the extraordinary true stories she shares are a testament that God is present in our everyday lives. With God's guidance, we see that good friends never let us down, and often appear just when they are needed most.

We were created to walk and talk with God, but if we cannot hear or understand him well, those conversations are a bit stilted, and good communication is so important to the friendship God offers us. This book explores that friendship and what helps us to develop easy conversations with him. It also looks at the gifts God gives us so we can be a family who help each other to hear, understand, and share his life-giving words.

Jesus loved his friends, and he had lots of them. His friend John baptized him; other friends learned from him. Jesus healed many people, and they became friends, too. Early listeners will gain insight into Jesus' life when they listen to Jesus and His Friends.