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Going for Growth
Learning from Peter
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
Volatile. Cowardly. Slow on the uptake. As a follower of Jesus, Peter didn't have a lot going for him. Yet he became a passionate preacher and an extraordinary leader, and the rock on which Christ built his church. Bishop Ken Clarke believes that Je
What Kind of God?
Responding to 10 popular accusations
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
This book started life as a series of lunchtime talks to non-Christians, and the author has taken on board further questions and discussions along the way. Here is an attempt to answer real, and often difficult, questions honestly. 'Most of the questio
Undivided
Closing the faith-life gap
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
Lets be honest: there are gaps everywhere in life - the gap between who we are and who we would like to be; the gap between the Christianity we profess and the Christianity we practise; the gap between us and those we love; the gap between the world as it is and the world as it should be. We feel disconnected...
I'm a Christian, aren't I?
Growing in confidence with God
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
Popular ideas about what being a Christian means dont always help us see the full picture: * 'A Christian is someone who believes in God' * 'I've been christened - so I'm a Christian' * 'I attend church' * 'I try to lead a good life' * 'A Christia
The Minister's Wife
Privileges, Pressures and Pitfalls
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
The Minister's Wife will show you how to make perfect cupcakes, turn out well-groomed children every Sunday morning and rise to the lofty heights where criticism cannot reach. In short, you will quickly become the model minister's wife. Unfortunately n
Cara
A Hope and a Future
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
'You know,' I whispered, 'if you really want to go and be with God, it's OK. We will manage; don't worry about us.' For nine and a half years Cara had been her family's heartbeat. But one morning in late summer she was gripped by an epileptic seizure f
Resistance Fighter
God's heart for the broken
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
One woman opens her heart and life to an extraordinary God, stopping at nothing to take him at his word. Susie Howe mobilizes others to fight injustice against the poorest of the worlds poor: those with HIV, orphans, street children, and persecuted 'c
The Amazing Cross
Transforming lives today
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
The cross of Christ is the heartbeat of Christianity. It is a place of pain and horror, wonder and beauty, all at the same time. It is the place where our sin collided gloriously with God's grace. But do we really understand what the cross is all
Alive!
What could Jesus' resurrection mean for you?
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
If someone came back from the grave, they would be able to answer some big questions: * What happens when we die? * Is there anybody out there? * Which religion, if any, is true? Christians claim that Jesus Christ did just that: was bodily resurr
Our Father
Enjoying God in Prayer
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
Our Father in heaven Hallowed be your name ...' When Jesus' disciples asked him for help with prayer, he gave them a beautifully simple but spiritually profound outline known as the Lord's Prayer. This utterly extraordinary prayer has been cherished b
Out of the storm
Questions and consolations from the book of Job
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
Why does a good God allow innocent suffering? Why does a just God act unfairly? Why does a sovereign God let disease and evil run rampant? These are not questions asked from the onlooker's armchair, nor from the academic's desk, but from the anguish o
by Michael Card
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2013
"You are the salt of the earth . . . You are the light of the world." Matthew 5:13-14 "I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church." Matthew 16:18 The world tries to define us in different ways. We try to define ourselves one way or another. But...
God Speaks
Hearing, connecting, relating
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
God speaks. By his Spirit. Through the Bible. About his Son.This is one of the most crucial things for any Christian to get to grips with. If we understand how God speaks, then we can truly know him. Everything else slots into place. We see Jesus clearly. We fall in love with him more deeply. We make...
Real life Jesus
meaning, freedom, purpose
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
Forty pilot whales lie stranded on Darlington Beach, Tasmania. Marine conservation biologist Andrew Irvine knows he must act fast... The Bible teaches that as the whale was made for the ocean, men and women were made for God. Our relationship with him