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What If . . . God Has Other Plans?

16,99 $

What do you do when life throws you the unexpected?
At some point in all our lives, we will be given a script we never would have chosen. Where do you turn? How do you cope?

Chuck Swindoll, popular Bible teacher, provides hope for those dark moments when life veers off course. Whether you have been hit hard recently or you are watching a friend, loved one, or relative suffer through setbacks, this book is for you. It helps you to see how God can be working through those times when life doesn’t follow your carefully laid plans.

The future has never seemed so uncertain as in recent days. Chuck teaches biblical wisdom that can address how to respond to some of the most unforeseen circumstances.

What if you suddenly lose everything?
What if a longtime friend deceives you?
What if you need a second chance?

Find hope when life throws you the unexpected.

From the flap:
Significant questions have always intrigued me. Questions make us search longer, think harder, and probe deeper. They escort us through mental doors that have been closed for too long, urging us to deal with life issues that are often troublesome to us but are rarely addressed.

So I decided to ask some specific questions about life. Each question began with the same two words: What if . . . ? The questions covered a wide range of situations: from struggling with a disability to responding to God’s calling in our lives to do something great. These are the significant questions that most schools never address . . . but the Bible does.

When I turned to Scripture, I found, not surprisingly, that it holds reliable, understandable, and doable answers for each question. My search led to the book you now hold in your hand. May it remind you to ask significant questions and seek reliable, biblical answers.

-Chuck Swindoll

Church Answers Resources: Journey through the New Testament

12,99 $

Walk through the New Testament with Dr. William Cook, a respected professor at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
With Journey through the New Testament, you’ll gain a grasp of the major themes of each New Testament book. You’ll have at your fingertips

Concise and comprehensive overviews of each New Testament book
The key teachings from the life of Christ in one place
The crucial and practical implications of each New Testament book
A thorough guide to the teachings, outline, and structure of the New Testament, book by book

Journey through the New Testament helps you gain a complete understanding of the teachings of Jesus and how the early Christians thought and lived out their beliefs. It is a solid foundation of biblical knowledge on which you can build a deeper understanding of Scripture and God’s ultimate purposes. Start your journey into the New Testament today.

Church Answers Resources: Journey through the Old Testament

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With Journey through the Old Testament, youll gain a solid grasp of the major themes and stories of the Old Testament.

Journey through the Old Testament helps you

explore God’s original design for humanity;
track the major themes of the Old Testaments prophetic and poetic books;
trace the story of redemption through the Old Testament books of the law, prophets, and writings;
discover the parts of the Old Testament that foretell and foreshadow the developments that occur in the New Testament; and
summarize the grand story of the Bible in the Old Testament in a way that people can understand and apply to their lives.

This book is a solid foundation of essential biblical knowledge of the Old Testament for your personal study of the Scriptures. Start your journey through the Old Testament today.

Church Answers Resources: The Potential and Power of Prayer

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Why is it a struggle to pray? Respected professor, speaker, and pastor Dr. Chuck Lawless explores the power of a praying church and how it can transform your ministry.
Through prayer, we have access to the all-powerful living God. Even so, too many of us are tempted to start our days prayerless and feeling alone. How can this be? We can’t afford to be so negligent, because whether we realize it or not we all face a high-stakes spiritual battle when we step out into our communities. In The Potential and Power of Prayer, Chuck Lawless

illustrates how churches need to take prayer seriously in order to grow;
explores how Jesus and the early church depended on God through prayer;
explains how prayer is essential to preparing for spiritual battles; and
guides church leaders in establishing the priority of prayer and a thriving prayer ministry in their churches.

God chooses to move among Christians who humbly come to him in prayer; who depend on him for strength and guidance.

Parallel Faith

11,99 $

Are you ready to discover how to walk alongside others on their journey to Christ? Learn how to walk parallel with others with purpose and help them discover Jesus from their starting point, not yours.

Everyone takes little steps toward Jesus before they can take big steps with and for him. This is a process that starts long before people ever enter a church building, especially as the gap between the church and culture grows ever wider. This book will help equip you to handle the early stages of discipling others with care, address the stumbling blocks that hold them back, as well as redefine how you see your own identity as an ambassador of Christ.

You will learn how to be better prepared to answer questions about your faith and how to share the gospel in a way that resonates with other people and their culture. There are many ways we can walk with others and point them to Jesus: We can use our creativity to create curiosity, and hospitality can mean so much more than a warm welcome. If we teach like Jesus, then we will use everyday moments to impart Scripture, share stories, and offer next steps to those with whom we’re walking alongside.

Church Answers Resources: How to Launch a New Church Site

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Explore the Ten Crucial Questions about Launching a New Church Site

One of the most powerful and effective ways to reach our world for Jesus is to plant new churches. Establishing a new church site focuses a congregation outward-on the spiritual needs of the people in the surrounding community. That, in turn, energizes church members and fuels healthy church growth in both the sending church and the start-up church.

Jess Rainer, an experienced church planter, will guide you through the key conversations that church leaders and members must have when launching a new church site.

Do we have the vision?
Who will be on the launch team?
How much will it cost to get the new site going?
What’s the plan?
Where are the people?
Are we ready to launch?

How to Launch a New Church Site is an indispensable tool to help you examine with your congregation the possibility of starting a new church site.

Church Answers Resources: Money in the Light of Eternity

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You Are Created for More.

Our hearts are filled with all types of longings-yearnings for contentment, satisfaction, and happiness. We all want to be part of something greater than ourselves. Yet our biggest temptation is to try to satisfy those longings by seeking after more money and more stuff. That is junk food for our souls, full of quickly fading pleasure that leaves us unhealthier than we were before.

We deeply desire God and the good gifts that come from him alone. It’s the way we’re wired.

Does your heart long to be a part of something greater than yourself? God’s most ambitious mission is ready for you to join. When was the last time you used money in a way that brought about deep, refreshing happiness and satisfaction for yourself and for others?

Money in Light of Eternity helps you see money the way God views it. When you follow God’s design for your life, you will find what no large bank account, big house, or fast car could ever provide. You will find your true heart.

You were created for so much more.

Ordinary Discipleship

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God wired your brain for transformation.

Jesus told his followers, "Go and make disciples of every nation," but a lot of us stop before we start-because we feel like we don’t have what it takes. But Jesus didn’t ask spiritual superstars to make disciples. He invited ordinary people into the adventure of following Him.

Jessie Cruickshank learned how to be a disciplemaker in the wilderness. When she connected her training in outdoor adventure ministry with her Harvard degree in neuroeducation, God showed her a pathway for ordinary disciples of Jesus to experience profound spiritual growth.

You can help someone choose to go somewhere they have never gone before and to be brave enough to choose to change.
You can model a new way of living.
And you can share your own hard-fought wisdom on the journey of faith.

Jessie Cruickshank will help you navigate the terrain, be inspired by the vast sky, and move toward the hope to which you are called. With Joseph Campbell’s iconic hero’s journey framework as a guide, you’ll discover how a spirit of adventure, brain science, and passionate faith can equip you for the greatest adventure of all.

Centering Jesus

10,99 $

What happens when Jesus becomes obscured from our point of view?

With all the hostility boiling just under the surface of our world, we need a renewed vision of Jesus as the Lamb of God who can lead us in the peaceable ways of the Kingdom. When we fail to keep Jesus at the center of our lives, we lean into the desires of our hearts more than the desires God has for us. As a result, our entire spirituality becomes driven by the self and for the self. We need renewed practices of centering Jesus in our hearts and minds.

In Centering Jesus, Derek Vreeland invites you to imagine what it looks like to keep Jesus as the Lamb of God at the center of three key areas of our lives-our spiritual formation, our moral lives, and our common life together. With the deep divide in American culture and the polarization that continues to grow, we need a renewed focus on the Lamb so that we might blaze a path forward into civility and kindness.

Learn how to

identify the problems that occur when Jesus is obscured from our view;
walk through some of the key biblical descriptions of the Lamb;
describe a Lamb-shaped and Jesus-centered approach to the Christian virtues of faith, hope, and love, the foundation of our moral lives; and
experience the Lamb at the center of common life together, specifically worship life, participation in acts of justice, and political life.

Deconstruct Faith, Discover Jesus

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Writing this book put me in some dangerous, irreverent territory. I was surprised to find Christ there.

After countless hours of interviews with people who have deconstructed Christianity, Preston Ulmer found that many were told they weren’t Christian before they chose to leave their faith.

Exiled before exiting.
Pushed out for wrestling.
Called "trouble" for calling out the tension.

If you look closely, you’ll find that Jesus lived out his faith this way too, deconstructing the parts of religion that we had gotten wrong in order to portray God more clearly. Some people loved him for it. Others crucified him. And his followers are experiencing similar reactions today.

So how do we relate to friends and family who have become skeptical of beliefs they were taught in church? In this case, we renew our minds, which might include rethinking everything we thought we knew for the sake of the unconvinced (Romans 12:2). Are you ready to deconstruct your faith and discover Jesus?