Spiritual Growth Love

Do you feel stuck in your faith? Are you searching for purpose? Do you desire a more authentic life? If your faith experience has been in the Western church, you have probably missed an essential part of spiritual growth without even knowing it. For decades the church has been focused on personal piety instead of the needs of the world around it. But Christians have not been entrusted with the story of the Gospel to simply manage building campaigns and run church programs. Rather, we are meant to bring the world the message of hope and love.

Even when you follow all the rules, life can go very wrong.... Dennis Mansfield and his wife, Susan, planned for and expected every parent's dream, but instead lived every parent's nightmare. This haunting memoir tells the story of a father who diligently followed all the parenting rules that he learned from conservative Christian "experts" - yet life with his son Nate went terribly wrong when the young man died at 27 of drug-related causes.

How would you describe your walk with God? Fresh and passionate? Vibrant and full of life? Stagnant? Nonexistent? No matter where you are on your walk, that's exactly where God promises to meet you - even if it's messy.

What happens when we replace courage with compromise? What happens when we replace honesty with likability? What happens when we replace conviction with cliches? What happens when we replace discipleship to Christ with a devotion to nice? We live in a culture that prizes niceness as one of its highest virtues. Niceness keeps the peace, wins friends, gains influence, and serves our reputations well, but it also takes the teeth out of our witness and the power out of our faith.

What is real? Do you ever wonder if something is truly real? Can real things become more real? In More Love-More Real More Real-More Love, we will explore answers to the question. The exploration will begin with excerpts from a popular old children’s story, The Velveteen Rabbit.

Vince Antonucci, a pastor who reaches out to people on the Las Vegas Strip, has seen it all - and, more important, he has seen God's love in action on each and every street corner. Is God for the people who are left out? Is he for the guy who betrayed his wife and left his kids? Is he for the doubters? The skeptics? The atheists? The answers to these questions can be found in the lives of people Vince meets and ministers to.

Go deeper than superficial self-care with the religious secret sauce you didn’t know you were missing In the chaos of today’s world, we’re all searching for meaning. The wellness industry has sold us a promise that we can find it if we just buy the right products, attend the right retreats...

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.

All you need is love. If you think that sounds too simplistic, you’re right… but you’re also wrong. Jesus' command to love is simple! Yet living a life of biblical love for God and others is not always straightforward. With good humor, grace, and wisdom, author Chris Cipollone clarifies the why and how of love as the driving force in the life of a Christian.

As followers of Christ, each of us is called to participate in pro-life activities, whether in an active ministry group or individually. We are called to respect, protect, love, and serve every human life. Above All, Love will set you on an in-depth personal journey, helping you to cultivate your own pro-life attitude and activities through relatable stories, Scripture verses, and thought-provoking questions. The book culminates with an examination of conscience and prayers focused on pro-life ministry.

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.

WALKING IN LOVE. Nobody did it better than Jesus. Love ultimately led Him to the point of laying down His very own life for the sake of others. He set aside His personal preferences. He overlooked the wrongs He suffered. He was quick to forgive and quick to to restore. He prayed for those who despitefully used Him. And what a difference He made because of that. Multiplied millions of lives have been changed because this one Man dared to obey God and walk the Love Walk.

How do you make sense of life? Who are humans—in our deepest, innermost core? Where did we come from? Where are we going? Why? People pretty much everywhere, for all of time, grapple with these age-old questions. Is it important to come to grips with the answers—or are there answers? Many of us quit asking the big questions. We give up on finding answers. We go through life hoping for the best, and then it’s over. For over 75 years, Jerry Moldenhauer has pondered the big questions. He’s just a common man with a generally normal American upbringing, but he’s found reasonable answers.

Love One Another is a Biblical study on the First Epistle of John. This extensive multi-chapter work offers a comprehensive analysis of God’s love for everyone through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. Throughout the text, John emphasizes specific truths and facts to the listeners, aligning them with the Divine will and desires of God. Aware of the ongoing societal pressures faced by the early church, John aimed to reassure believers that they serve a God who is vastly greater than any peril they might encounter.

Somewhere along the way, there develops within the soul a yearning that can no longer be ignored—a craving for the great Love affair. We feel it drawing ever closer. It is the greatest of them all. It cannot fail. It is all-consuming. It is incomparable. It is the love affair with our own true nature and the source from which it comes. The desire is in all of us, but it is mainly ignored for other interests. We wrestle with each interest, trying to make it work, growing with each adventure until the light has grown bright enough for us to reach for it.

Love. It's that thing everyone talks about but very few will ever truly put into action. It's the fuel with which we are called to live, and it's the very reason Jesus' body was brutally broken upon that splintered cross. It's unbeatable, unrestricted, and hands down the greatest attribute of God. It will transform the way you see life, and it will radically invade the way you see others. The question is, have you discovered and harnessed it the way God intended?

What do you want your life to look like? What's holding you back from getting there? The Dunes is an immersive faith-based journey of revelations, inspiration, breakthroughs, and transformation. Part allegory, and part journal, The Dunes helps listeners explore issues surrounding fear, forgiveness, commitment, trust, grace, surrender, and gratitude. The Dunes is a journey for those ready to step out of their comfort zone, examine the issues holding them back, and overcome them.

God has a place of profound influence for each of us. Penny Tucci shares her life with us in a way that is both vulnerable and challenging. She lets us in on the intimate details of a journey that is filled with painful obstacles and miraculous outcomes. She gives insight into the characteristics and qualities that open doors of influence in every relationship in our lives.

This profound exploration delves into the foundational concepts of belief in Jesus and the significance in following Jesus. Through a blend of theological depth and practical wisdom, Blessing Others invites readers to reflect deeply on their truth journey and embrace a life of love, relationship, obedience, and service.

The White Feathers chronicles a series of extraordinary events that followed the funerals of our beloved sister Rosie and brother Henry—events that continue to unfold to this day, eight years later, in 2024. At its core, this book is a narrative bridge between realms, a gentle invitation to explore the depth of faith, the reality of God's existence, and the omnipresent love that envelops us all, believers, and nonbelievers alike.