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The CSB Outreach Bible is designed to be accessible and affordable for churches, ministries, and individuals to provide seekers and new believers a Bible of their own. Included are extra tools and resources to answer common questions and help readers to better understand and apply the truths found in God’s Word.
Features include: Two-column text, 7.25-point type, Topical page headings, “Where to Turn” section with Scripture references for common life issues, “Frequently Asked Questions” with answers, Table of weights and measures, “Titles of Jesus” with Scripture references, and a Topical Micro Concordance.
The CSB Outreach Bible features the highly readable, highly reliable text of the Christian Standard Bible (CSB). The CSB stays as literal as possible to the Bible's original meaning without sacrificing clarity, making it easier to engage with Scripture's life-transforming message and to share it with others.
Ruth Haley Barton's award-winning, practical introduction to the
spiritual practice of silence and solitude is an invitation to you
to journey into the real presence of God and hear and his voice.
Much of the Christian faith is about words - preaching, teaching,
talking with others. But the hectic demands and noise of daily
modern life can drown out God's words, and keep us from fully
meeting him. Taking the story of Elijah the prophet as inspiration
and example, Invitation to Solitude and Silence explores the power
of quietness and stillness in connecting with God. Filled with
practical exercises that draw on Ruth's own experience, it
encourages and challenges us to rethink how we see silence and
solitude and to use them to invite God deeper into our lives.
Invitation to Solitude and Silence is ideal for anyone looking for
spiritual disciplines to help them connect more fully with God and
practices to aid their spiritual formation. Ruth's gentle wisdom
will expand your idea of what prayer can be, and help you find time
to rest and renew your faith so that your relationship with God is
strengthened. Helpful and hopeful, this book is a reminder that God
does not push himself where he is not wanted but waits for us to
respond from the depths of our desire. Will you say yes?
We are living in the Business Age. The historic role of nation states is rapidly being replaced by the corporation. Like never before, Christian business leaders have the chance to play a pivotal role in transforming society and spreading the gospel. But seizing this opportunity requires thinking differently about God, about his kingdom, about his purposes in the world, and about business.
While some Christian professionals dream of being “freed from business” to go into the ministry or see business as enemy territory to be invaded for Christ, others are convinced that Christian principles simply don’t work in the “real world.” In Business as Mission, Michael Baer challenges each of these positions.
He rejects the unbiblical thinking that ministry and business are by definition separate activities — that our lives can be compartmentalized into the sacred and secular. Instead he guides business leaders in developing the vital characteristics of a kingdom business — the kind of business that will free them to live fully integrated lives and lead organizations that significantly impact the world.
40 Days with the Holy Spirit will inspire you to encounter God in
fresh and surprising ways. You'll develop stronger spiritual
muscles as you breathe, read, reflect, and pray-all with an eye to
cultivating a relationship with the least familiar member of the
Trinity. The book is interactive, offering the opportunity to write
and pray each day; intelligent, rooted in a rigorous study of
scripture, from Genesis to Revelation; and inviting, with 40
insightful, well-planned 20-30 minute daily exercises; and
prayerful, with 40 original prayers that capture each day's insight
into the deep, spiritual work of the Holy Spirit.
In this small but masterly-crafted book, Richard Rohr addresses
what Christianity views as the three traditional sources of evil -
the world, the flesh and the devil - to encourage us to look beyond
our personal moral failings and give us principles for resisting
evil on a wider scale. Exploring how Christianity has focused
almost exclusively on individual evil, or the sins of the flesh, he
offers a gripping interpretation of Jesus' teachings and the
writings of Paul the Apostle to show how vital it is that we also
understand the often subtle and well-disguised evil of the world
and the devil. This book offers no easy solutions. Yet, skilfully
distilling half a century of teaching and preaching, The World, the
Flesh and the Devil will leave you with a greater understanding of
evil and its role in the social issues of our time, and better
equipped to recognise and fight it. With his characteristic wisdom
and compassion, Rohr offers us principles for resisting the social
evils pervading our lives, in which we are all complicit, through
Christian contemplation and by reaching out to one another in love.
Squarely challenging a culture obsessed with success, an acclaimed
philosopher argues that failure is vital to a life well lived,
curing us of arrogance and self-deception and engendering humility
instead. Our obsession with success is hard to overlook. Everywhere
we compete, rank, and measure. Yet this relentless drive to be the
best blinds us to something vitally important: the need to be
humble in the face of life's challenges. Costica Bradatan mounts
his case for failure through the stories of four historical figures
who led lives of impact and meaning-and assiduously courted
failure. Their struggles show that engaging with our limitations
can be not just therapeutic but transformative. In Praise of
Failure explores several arenas of failure, from the social and
political to the spiritual and biological. It begins by examining
the defiant choices of the French mystic Simone Weil, who, in
sympathy with exploited workers, took up factory jobs that her
frail body could not sustain. From there we turn to Mahatma Gandhi,
whose punishing quest for purity drove him to ever more extreme
acts of self-abnegation. Next we meet the self-styled loser E. M.
Cioran, who deliberately turned his back on social acceptability,
and Yukio Mishima, who reveled in a distinctly Japanese
preoccupation with the noble failure, before looking to Seneca to
tease out the ingredients of a good life. Gleefully breaching the
boundaries between argument and storytelling, scholarship and
spiritual quest, Bradatan concludes that while success can make us
shallow, our failures can lead us to humbler, more attentive, and
better lived lives. We can do without success, but we are much
poorer without the gifts of failure.
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