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Homosexuality has taken center stage in our nation, churches, and homes. Everyone knows or cares deeply for someone who experiences same-sex attraction, sexual confusion, or practices homosexuality. While the entire world talks about homosexuality, the subject remains taboo in many churches. The fear of being labeled as hateful, a bigot, or ignorant has kept many Christians out of the conversation. The church remains silent, leaving many people who love God confused about what the Bible really says about sexuality.
Did God make people gay? Does God love homosexuals? Will people have to deal with same-sex attraction their entire lives? Landon Schott brings truth and clarity to sexual confusion, using over 400 scripture references to reveal the heart of the Father and mind of Christ.
Gay Awareness exposes false teaching and deception that have created a false identity through the lens of sexuality instead of the eyes of God's Word. Gay Awareness will stretch you and challenge you, but with relentless love bring you comfort and healing.
In Gay Awareness: Discovering the Heart of the Father and the Mind of Christ, top-selling author and nationally known speaker Landon Schott addresses:
- What the Bible actually says about marriage, sexuality, and homosexuality.
- Mistakes the Church makes when addressing homosexuality and the gay community.
- Contradictions between the gay lifestyle and the Christ-centered lifestyle.
- Clear insight into how to genuinely show Christian love to those who practice homosexuality.
- How people can experience deliverance and freedom.
Featuring an extensive interview with highly respected authority Dr. Michael L. Brown, a multiple book best-selling author and expert on spiritual renewal and cultural reformation, Gay Awareness is the book you've been looking for to find clarity, teach you what Scripture says about homosexuality and how to respond to people with love, grace, and truth.
Mini Devotions: Grace for Today features 180 short yet powerful
devotions focused on God’s faithfulness and lovingkindness, reflecting
on His power, presence and promises.
In an age of tourism, the great challenge is to see ourselves at a
deeper level: the dimension of pilgrimage. Being a pilgrim might
involve a journey to distant places associated with God-revealing
events, but it has more to do with simply living day by day in a
God-attentive way. Jim Forest's book assists the reader to see
one's life as an opportunity for pilgrimage, whether in places as
familiar as your living room or walking the pilgrim path to
Santiago de Compostela. Drawing on the wisdom of the saints and his
own wide-ranging travels, Forest leads us to a range of "thin
places," including Iona, Jerusalem, the secret annex of Anne Frank,
the experience of illness, the practice of hospitality, and other
places and occasions where we may find ourselves surprised by
grace.
The New York Times #1 bestselling book by Pastor Rick Warren that helps
you understand the purpose of your life. As one of the best-selling
nonfiction books in history, with more than 34 million copies sold, and
more than 70 translations available, The Purpose Driven Life is far
more than just a book; it's the roadmap for your spiritual journey. A
journey that will transform your life.
"Movie stars and political leaders aren't the only ones turning to Rick
Warren for spiritual guidance. Millions of people - from NBA and LPGA
players to corporate executives to high school students to prison
inmates - meet regularly to discuss The Purpose Driven Life.”
-Time
In The Purpose Driven Life you'll find the answers to three of life's
most important questions:
•The Question of Existence: Why am I alive?
•The Question of Significance: Does my life matter?
•The Question of Purpose: What on earth am I here for?
Living out the purpose you were created for moves you beyond survival
or success to a life of significance - the life you were meant to live.
You will discover the five benefits of knowing your purpose:
•It will explain the meaning of your life.
•It will simplify your life.
•It will focus your life.
•It will increase your motivation.
•It will prepare you for eternity.
The Purpose Driven Life is designed to be read in 42 short chapters
that will inspire you to stop and realize how God uniquely designed you
for a purpose only you can fulfill. It also includes links to 3-minute
video introductions to each chapter and a 30 to 40-minute audio Bible
study message for each chapter. There are also appendixes including
questions for further study and additional resources.
Before you were born, God already planned your life. God longs for you
to discover the life he created you to live - here on earth, and
forever in eternity. Let The Purpose Driven Life show you how.
Confessions of an Adulterous Christian Woman offers a rare and
honest look at the destructive descent into adultery and reveals
the redeeming power of God's grace and His ability to restore a
ruined life. Author Lyndell Hetrick Holtz was a pastor's wife,
Bible study leader, and retreat speaker who never believed she
would commit adultery. She thought her involvement with ministry
gave her extra protection from the temptation to have an affair.
But, in her forties, her life began to crumble, and suddenly
adultery seemed to be the solution for an unhappy life and
marriage. With emotion and conviction, Lyndell reflects on the
disillusionment and faulty beliefs that led to destructive
decisions. She tells of the heartache and pain she experienced when
her affair was discovered and the resulting consequences, including
the loss of her 25 year marriage, her beautiful home, her witness
in the community, her friends, and the respect of her four adult
children. It seemed as if her life was over and her relationship
with Christ forever ruined. But it was here, broken and sprawled in
the dust of shame and defeat, where Lyndell encountered love unlike
any she had ever known. With worship and humility, she shares how
God lovingly embraced her shattered life and began to redeem,
restore, and rebuild it in miraculous ways. Confessions of an
Adulterous Christian Woman gives women a first-hand look at the
destruction of adultery and provides the awareness needed to avoid
assuming that Christian women are immune to adultery's snare. This
powerful story examines the devastating effects of adultery, but
more importantly, reveals a God who continues to write His story of
redemption, restoration, and reconciliation on the broken lives of
humanity, taking us, from utter despair to undying devotion to Him
and the unconditional, healing love He gives.
A delightful call to a vibrant spirituality that celebrates the
everyday elements of our physical lives, reminding us that our
faith began and must continue as a way of life.
The faith of Jesus was once considered a distinctive way of
life, rather than a complex theological system. Seeking to recover
such a model, Pilgrim Heart re-imagines discipleship as a way of
life guided by a set of simple daily practices known to the
earliest disciples and the saints through the ages. Proven to
transform lives for two thousand years, these practices include
friendship, Sabbath rest, hospitality, confession, forgiveness, and
storytellingall part of an in-the-world spirituality, one that
embraces the God-given embodied human experience.
This is more than a book it is a blueprint of what God is saying
during this hour. Bill Vincent is an anointed Prophetic writer that
releases powerful fresh revelation in this book. In THE PROTOTYPE
CHURCH you will be able to see into God s heart of a new type of
Church coming forth. The body of believers not caught up in this
new move is against it, criticizing it as dangerous phenomena and
preaching dire warnings about control, manipulation, and mental ill
health. Any one whom is a critic is criticizing the Holy Spirit in
this move. It is easy to speak against something you don t fully
understand. Listen you need to be open to what God wants to do. You
have never seen such a level of power, grace, and holiness of God
all at one time. The church is outgrowing itself month by month.
Are you ready for miracles as commonplace; the amazing and
incredible presence of God to be everywhere. The team that you are
part of, which is caught up in the epicenter of all this activity,
is the most profound experience that you have ever encountered. Of
course, there are problems problems that often are huge and
time-consuming. However, as you pray for wisdom, the anointing to
move forward is so great that godly insight seems to spring into
your conscious mind with ease. During the moving forward to
becoming a prototype Church you will find oppositions. Every day
brings a pressure cocktail of more people, more needs, greater
opposition, further demonic attacks, fresh misunderstandings,
calculated misinterpretations, added responsibilities,
supplementary clerical problems to overcome, and extra requirements
for advice, leadership, and ministry. Everything is strained to the
limit of personal and physical ability. One thing that will surely
cause a quicker finished Church is Revival. Revival seems to be
concerned with endurance and stamina as much as it is preoccupied
with anointing and empowerment. You are in the midst of constant
attack and blessing; of tiredness, pressure, and opposition; of
trying to keep everything going smoothly so that more people can be
touched and reached; of not losing people to poor organization and
mismanagement. You do not want this move to blow through society,
touching thousands of lives, but not see church built at the end of
it. Indeed, it shows no signs of tapering off! Are you getting
excited about a new move of God? The need to develop leaders and
train people to look after others, the need for more prayer, and
the demand for more workers is huge. You are caught up in the whole
wonderful and demanding, exhausting mix of a move of God. The
implications and repercussions are going to hit everyone, hard. You
don t need this pressure right now. We know you will enjoy this
powerful book THE PROTOTYPE CHURCH."
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