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We love God. We love our country. What does it look like to love each properly and well?
National tensions are at a record high. People on all points in the political spectrum care deeply about their country, although they differ wildly in their opinions about what it looks like to serve that country well. As Christians, we love God and seek to follow him. At the same time, nothing shapes us and tugs at our loyalties quite like the place we live....
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Since the Reformation, Protestants have confessed that the church is reformed and always reforming. But do we really believe this? Why, then, are we so shocked to hear that the church itself needs a sexual reformation? That the church has been fighting to uphold biblical distinction between the sexes against a culture that is rapidly and aggressively challenging this, is certainly one reason. But in trying to be faithful to the beauty of God's design...
1203) 7 Family Ministry Essentials: A Strategy for Culture Change in Children's and Student Ministries
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With decades of ministry experience, Michelle Anthony and Megan Marshman capture the guiding essentials of life-changing family ministry.
These seven essentials for children and student leaders emphasize:
1. Empowering families to take spiritual leadership in the home
2. Forming lifetime faith that transcends childhood beliefs
3. Teaching Scripture as the ultimate authority of truth
4. Understanding the role of the Holy Spirit to teach and transform
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In the same spirit as his previous book, Big Jesus, Watson takes us on a journey through the Gospel of Luke with a touch of humor and a wheelbarrow full of insights and information. Watson believes nothing is more pretentiously self-pious than to write something and call it a "devotional" unless one has already been canonized as a saint. An Undevotional is not a spoon-fed offering of theological niceties, but rather a head-spinning array of possibilities...
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What led a thirty-year-old carpenter/builder from an obscure village in Galilee to abandon his trade and become the itinerant preacher, teacher, and healer described in the Gospels?
Many Christians—including even some ministers—if asked precisely what outcome Jesus was hoping to achieve from his earthly ministry, are more likely to utter gasps of astonishment or admissions of ignorance (“I've never thought about it”) than to give a considered...
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Explore the Bible alongside daily insights from pastor-teacher Dr. John MacArthur
For more than 50 years, Dr. John MacArthur has helped Christians gain greater clarity and insight into Scripture. Now you can read through the Bible in a year while learning from wisdom gleaned from a lifetime of study with “The MacArthur Daily Bible”. This Bible offers an achievable approach to reading the entire Bible with readings from the Old and New Testaments,...
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In order to help pastors and other Christian leaders to lovingly lead God's flock to Jesus Christ and into God's mission, Scott Thomas and Tom Wood clarify a process of coaching and shepherding that is rooted in the patterns of the Good Shepherd himself, a process in which leaders stir up the gifts, passion, and calling upon others' lives. This book addresses the needs of the leader, his or her sinful tendencies, and church leadership issues. It directs...
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Struggle well. Fight for progress. Know the one who has fought for you.
You don't have to live in this world long before discovering that the pursuit of intimacy with God occurs within the context of adversity. It is a fight. Yet it is a fight in which our King has won the decisive victory! You have been set free... into a raging battle!
But there's good news: your struggles do not mean you're doomed, rather they're actually a sure sign that you are...
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Everyone loves a good story-one with interesting characters, an intriguing plot, lots of twists and turns, and a surprise ending. Jesus was a master storyteller, teaching primarily through a technique we call parables. In fact, over one third of the gospel material in the New Testament is parabolic in nature. Examining the parables of Jesus, Living Water views parables as a wisdom genre belonging to mashal, the Jewish tradition of sacred poetry, stories,...
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En el evangelio de Lucas podemos encontrar varias enseñanzas relevantes sobre la educación del trabajo:1. Humildad y servicio: Lucas resalta la importancia de la humildad y el servicio a través de las enseñanzas de Jesús. Él pone énfasis en el servicio desinteresado a los demás, animando a sus seguidores a no buscar la exaltación personal, sino a estar dispuestos a servir a los demás en su trabajo.2. Ser fieles en lo poco: Jesús enseña...
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Discussions of Jesus' words and actions as he went to the cross are fairly common. What about the other players? How do their reactions connect to the critical, final action of Jesus?
Dr. William Powell Tuck, who has previously written about the centrality of the cross in Christian faith (The Church Under the Cross), and the last words of Jesus (The Last Words from the Cross), takes a look at the reaction of others who were involved, leading up to...
1213) Getting God Wrong
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Reading a tone of voice into printed words, especially the personal experience of an email or text, can disconnect two people, even friends. Having one friend reinterpret the way another "heard" the words with their own tone of voice may lead them into discovering how Jesus seems to hear God differently, even though he read the same Bible.
In Getting God Wrong, the reader is invited into a conversation on how they taught themselves to misunderstand...
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"An in-depth look at what it means to be created in the image of God and how our bodies serve as icons that illuminate God's purposes instead of ours. The human body is an amazing gift, yet today, many people downplay its importance and fail to understand what Christianity teaches about our bodies and their God-given purposes. Many people misunderstand how the body was designed, its role in relating to others; and we lack awareness of the dangers...
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Saint Augustine once described the Sermon on the Mount as 'the perfect measure of the Christian life.' Taking his cue from Augustine, Frank Matera provides an exposition of the sermon for contemporary readers who wish to use the sermon as the standard by which they live their lives every day. Matera shows how the Sermon on the Mount summons believers to single-minded devotion and wholehearted service to God. He unfolds the historical and theological...
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The teaching of Jesus of Nazareth is unparalleled and universally acclaimed in the history of our world. Born into relative obscurity and poverty, no one has impacted the world to the same extent as Jesus.
Amidst all he said and did, his close friend Matthew (a former social outcast) captured his teaching--delivered on a hillside just above the town where he lived, overlooking the Sea of Galilee. The fifth, sixth, and seventh chapters of Matthew's...
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Many people think that while living our daily lives can be difficult--even challenging--following Jesus is actually pretty easy. All we need to do is say "yes" to Jesus and our lives can go on without interruption. But is it really that easy to follow? Is he a Jesus without cost or requirement?
At some point, we all need to ask ourselves, "Who is this Lord that I'm serving?" Our culture encourages us to think of Jesus as a good friend who will not...
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Fifty-two readings to spark weekly group discussion on putting Jesus' most central teachings into practice.
Jesus' most famous teaching, the Sermon on the Mount possesses an irresistible quality. Who hasn't felt stirred and unsettled after reading these words, which get to the root of the human condition?
This follow-up to the acclaimed collection Called to Community: The Life Jesus Wants for His People taps an even broader array of sources, bringing...
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Discipleship is movement. Being a disciple is a progression on the way toward a fuller understanding of who Jesus is and what is involved in following him. Along the way that Jesus guided his disciples they encountered disappointment, suffering, death, and ultimately were led to new life.
Everyone was unseeing as to who Jesus was and neither did they anticipate the form his kingdom would take. The questions that Jesus asked his disciples and the...
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Does following Jesus feel confusing? It doesn't have to. Many people have walked the path ahead of us, and we can learn a lot from them. In this 18-lesson Bible study, learn what you'll need from some of Jesus' earliest followers. Paul, John, and others will make sure you're ready for the journey. Beginning the Walk provides you with a packing list-supplies you'll need along the way, including your identity in Christ, faith, the Word, prayer, the...
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