Spiritual Growth Love

This 40-day devotional based on the classic best-selling novel Redeeming Love leads you on a personal, six-week journey into God's all-consuming embrace.

John Piper invites you to experience deeper intimacy with God through these thought-provoking and soul-enriching meditations. Whether you are just discovering the divine richness of Scripture or have long been a passionate student, you’ll find a deeper understanding of God and renewed insight for your journey.

Adam Hamilton explores how, with God's help, we can make love last. Drawing upon a survey of thousands of couples and singles, interviews with relationship and marriage therapists, the latest research in the field, and wisdom from the Bible, Hamilton looks at what it takes to create and sustain healthy, meaningful, and romantic relationships across the course of a lifetime.

Through Redeeming Love, millions have experienced the captivating love story of Angel and Michael Hosea that illustrates God's power to redeem even the most lost among us. Redeeming Love: The Companion Study invites you to enter more fully into both the classic novel's eternal message and the biblical story that inspired its writing.

Written by a retired family physician with 15 years experience as a lay servant, Spit Out the Apple looks in detail at how humans embrace the self-sovereignty given by the apple from the Garden of Eden. It describes in detail how corrupting that embrace is, and recommends several strategies in rejecting that choice for a much fuller, joyful, and loving life. The book speaks to the atheist, the agnostic, the new Christian, and disciples seeking a closer relationship with God.

Learn how a successful Christian book publishing business began with a vision from God on the side of a busy interstate highway. The Prayer God Loves to Answer is a fascinating story of a man who said “yes” to God, which led to extraordinary opportunities in the spiritual and physical worlds. Through powerful personal stories and biblical encouragement, author and pastor Don Nori Sr. shares how God’s plan and desire is for you to say "yes" to Him, no matter what.

In her most powerful book yet, beloved best-selling author Holley Gerth inspires her listeners to become the stronger, braver, truer women they long to be by sharing personal stories of her own struggles and victories. As listeners join Holley on this journey, they'll discover a freedom they never imagined could be theirs: the freedom to experience life, love, and faith to the fullest because fear can no longer hold them back.

In All Will Be Well: Receiving The Keys To Strengthen Your Faith, Bukky Agboola gives us powerful and proven spiritual keys to overcoming life's challenges. Using scriptural references and personal insights, Agboola's small but mighty book gives us the courage and assurance to triumph over adversity and live our best lives.

What if I told you that you and your not-so-perfect story have been invited to experience the joy of second chance living? Your critics and naysayers and those negative voices in your head have defined who you are and stolen your hopeful future for far too long! The insecurity, shame, and judgment... That. Stops. Today. This simple guide will show you how your imperfect life matters in ways you never thought possible.

Emmy Kegler has a complicated relationship with the Bible. As a queer woman who grew up in both conservative Evangelical and progressive Protestant churches, she knows too well how Scripture can be used to wound and exclude. And yet, the stories of Scripture continue to captivate and inspire her - both as a person of faith and as a pastor to a congregation. So she set out to fall in love with the Bible, wrestling with the stories inside, where she met a God who continues to seek us out - appearing again and again as a voice, a presence, and a promise.

For anyone who has ever struggled with their identity, Landra Young Hughes has a radically simple message: give up. Specifically, give up your need to be in control of how other people see you. Instead, let God's words - not yours and not others' - define you. Through her own deeply personal story of trying to control her circumstances and others' perceptions of her through an eating disorder, Landra points the way toward a life free from self-obsession and self-resentment.

Alcanzar el conocimiento de lo que somos es reconocer que somos una unidad indivisa con Dios, en Cristo. La reunión de nuestra naturaleza humana con la divina, o mejor dicho el hacernos conscientes de ello, es aceptarnos tal como somos en verdad. Somos una nueva humanidad. Un nuevo ser en el que se reúne lo humano, lo crístico y lo divino en una sola realidad santa. Vivir en armonía con esta verdad nos permite vivir en paz con nosotros mismos, y por ende con los demás y el mundo entero. Somos Cristo humanado.

An enemy is, in simplest terms, an estranged son or daughter of our Father. We may not like them, they may be evil or unworthy, but God has declared enemies “good!” by the peace of his cross. Listening to this book is a win for you if: • An enemy or betrayer has caused you deep pain. • Living in a way that is life-giving and dynamic is important to you. • All the division, online-hatred and political correctness rhetoric saddens you. • You believe that Jesus has spiritually powerful answers for our hardest problems.

During a trip to England, Sophie Broadmoor falls head over heels for Wesley Hedrick, a wealthy widower who promises her the world. But Sophie soon learns that Wesley's promises are nothing but words and finds herself in a very compromising situation. Why does it have to be Paul Medford, the stringent young minister who works with her father, who shows up during her worst moment? Paul is full of promises, too, and it's clear that he has feelings for Sophie. But after all she's been through, can she trust him?

In focus on the moment and trust in God's love, Deacon Gene presents an intimate account of his experience in hearing God speak a phrase into his life that continues to hold true throughout every minor and major life event thereafter. Through raising a family, repeated medical diagnoses and career changes, through all manner of similarly daunting and/or pivotal moments, the phrase continues to apply. This book is designed to encourage others to hold it as a motto as well, and to remember that God has a plan for everyone.

With warmth, honesty, and biblical wisdom, Terry Moss guides you on a journey to become the kind of person who can love—freely, wisely, and well. This isn’t about perfection before connection; it’s about wholeness that transforms every relationship you touch. Because the greatest gift you’ll ever bring into a relationship… is a whole you.

Are you working harder to please God? Are you trying to pay back God for all He has done for you by your service? Perhaps this comes from a misinterpretation of the Great Commandment. In LOVE, Love, love, Prudence redefines the order of the Commandment by clarifying the way it is written in contrast to the way that it has always been taught. God has commanded us to love Him, ourselves, and others in that order.

Positive Bible Affirmations for Black Christian Women is jam packed with faith-building scripturally based affirmations, relatable stories, and simple prayers, and is a vital tool to help you overcome every self sabotaging thought and fill your mind with soul-nourishing faith.

Far away from fast food chains and Starbucks coffee, with no access to Amazon Prime or 24-hour fitness centers, experience life set in a simple yet beautiful village in Tanzania, East Africa. In The Absence of Excess, Natasha Brown Watson takes us on a spiritual journey where the heart of God is revealed in the simple truths of this rich African culture and its powerful and authentic Christian tradition.

The manifestation of the Holy Ghost features scenes and personalities of explosion. The prophet Joel compared the explosion of God’s endtime Church with the sound of galloping horses. 4 The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses; and as horsemen, so shall they run. 5 Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array. Joel 2:4–5