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We all want more peace in our lives, but how do we get there? Mindfulness, and positive thinking only get us so far. In this refreshing book, Chad Veach explores a passionate, personal approach to prayer that removes the pressure to "pray right" and replaces it with the calm assurance that God always hears us--no matter when, where, why, or how we pray.

We all want more peace in our lives, but how do we get there? Mindfulness, and positive thinking only get us so far. In this refreshing book, Chad Veach explores a passionate, personal approach to prayer that removes the pressure to "pray right" and replaces it with the calm assurance that God always hears us--no matter when, where, why, or how we pray.

Reframes the discussion between Christian theology and contemporary science, arguing that when Christians treat theology as their first truth discourse, it is good for both science and religion.

In an age where the Bible has been stripped of its sacredness and mystery and functional biblical illiteracy reigns, this book makes the case that we must work to re-enchant the text in order to return the Bible to its rightful place in the lives of Christians.

The world today cries out for a prophetic word to the chaos, unrest, and destructiveness of our times. A leading Old Testament ethicist highlights three key ethical concerns of the Old Testament prophets, showing how they can speak into our world.

Good character produces good quality. By curating our values, we can rise up and fight against cultural instability, family breakdown, and negativity. In his insightful book, Dr. Tony Evans gives you a framework for personal growth and awareness. When we align ourselves with God's ways, that's when real change occurs.

Respected pastor and bestselling author unpacks Philippians 4 to help us choose peace in any circumstance in life, including relational conflict, anxious moments in our personal lives, or difficult circumstances that are beyond our control.

The perfect pocket-sized resource to educate and entertain, this handy book is filled with thousands of Bible trivia questions, quizzes, word searches, and crosswords, and is created by a Guinness World Records Puzzle Master.

A neuropsychologist shows you how to recognize that anxiety originates from a spiritual influence and how to use the weapons God has already given you to fight back and reclaim your peace.

Did you know that your daily habits are instilling in you a false sense of control over your life? This leads to anxiety and broken relationships when things appear to go off track. But God has a solution: trade that so-called control for influence.

As a child, Elias Chacour lived in a small Palestinian village in Galilee. When tens of thousands of Palestinians were killed and nearly one million forced into refugee camps in 1948, Elias began a long struggle with how to respond. In Blood Brothers, he blends his riveting life story with historical research to reveal a little-known side of the Arab-Israeli conflict, touching on questions such as:•What behind-the-scenes politics touched off the turmoil in the Middle East?•What does Bible prophecy really have to say?•Can bitter enemies ever be reconciled?Now updated with commentary on the current state of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, as well as a new foreword by Lynne Hybels and Gabe Lyons, this book offers hope and insight that can help each of us learn to live at peace in a world of tension and terror.

Tired of the constant pressure to impress others? This deeply honest and practical book shows you how to stop performing and start living with purpose through life-giving patterns of soul care God has designed for your emotional, spiritual, and mental well-being.

From his childhood on the streets in Uganda to his life as an adoptive and foster father and work as an international advocate for children, Peter Mutabazi's story will inspire and empower you to find hope in the midst of hardship and live out the call that God places on each of us.

This insightful book helps church leaders identify and address the often overlooked behaviors and signs that point toward division developing in their churches, allowing them to preserve unity and foster strong relationships that glorify God and build up his kingdom.

Offers a robust, full-orbed theology of beauty, showing how it has functioned as a theological concept from biblical times to the present day.

When bankruptcy forces widow Susanna Jenkins to follow her family to New Mexico, what they see as a failure she sees as a fresh start. Owen Turner is immediately attracted to Susanna, but he's afraid of opening up his heart again, especially as painful memories are stirred up. But if Owen can't face the past, he'll miss out on his greatest chance at love.

On the surface, Whitney Powell is happy working with her sled dogs, but her life is full of complications that push her over the edge. When sickness spreads in outlying villages, Dr. Peter Cameron turns to Whitney and her dogs for help navigating the deep snow, and together they discover that sometimes it's only in weakness you can find strength.

Draws on historic, ecumenical practices and the Bible to offer a spiritual formation primer that emphasizes the role of the Christian community.

Reveals the hidden depth of the significance of the resurrection of Jesus Christ for our being, our salvation, Christian life, ethics, and our future hope.

A Cherokee teacher, missiologist, and historian encourages us to reject the many problematic aspects of the Western worldview and to convert to a worldview that is closer to that of Jesus.

This text has been a popular introduction to the Pentateuch for over fifteen years, offering a unique alternative to the critical approaches that focus on the composition of these books rather than the actual content. With this new edition, T. Desmond Alexander keeps the book fresh and relevant for contemporary students by updating the references and adding material that reflects recent pentateuchal research as well as the author's maturing judgments. The result is a revision that will prove valuable for many years to come.

Combining cutting-edge expertise with deeply rooted Christian insights, this text from a leading figure in the Christian counseling community offers readers a comprehensive survey of ten major counseling and psychotherapy approaches. For each approach, Siang-Yang Tan first provides a substantial introduction, assessing the approach's effectiveness and the latest research findings or empirical evidence for it. He then critiques the approach from a Christian perspective. Tan also includes hypothetical transcripts of interventions for each major approach to help readers get a better sense of the clinical work involved. This book presents a Christian approach to counseling and psychotherapy that is Christ centered, biblically based, and Spirit filled.

Christian nonviolence is not a settled position but a vibrant and living tradition. This concise book invites readers to explore this tradition and discover how they might live out the gospel in our modern world.

An ecumenical team of scholars provide a historical overview of how worship developed in three major Christian traditions: Eastern Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism, churches of the Reformation, and evangelicalism/Pentecostalism.

This book offers an accessible introduction to the prophetic books of the Old Testament, grounded in the view that these books should be read as Christian Scripture.

A highly respected theologian sets out a new, comprehensive account of the nature of the atonement, exploring how this doctrine affects our participation in the life of God and in the shared life of the Christian community.

An award-winning author shows that holiness means being radical in our ways of imagining the future, imagining each other, and imagining God, and that reading works of great literature can help us cultivate an imagination that moves us toward holiness.

Congregations often seek to combat decline by using innovation to produce new resources. Leading practical theologian Andrew Root shows that the church's crisis is not in the loss of resources but in the loss of life--and that life can return only when we remain open to God's encountering presence.

Bestselling author Nathan Clarkson explores what it means for young men to take up God's calling, drawing on traditions of honor and integrity to connect modern men to ancient truths.