Celebrate a season of renewal and reflection.

The theme of bitterness runs through the Bible as a sour reminder of sin’s presence in our world—yet it’s because of this bitterness that Jesus’ grace is so sweet and satisfying. As we learn to turn from our vices and crave real beauty, goodness, and truth through the pursuit of virtues, we grow nearer to God and become more like who He made us to be.

From Tsh Oxenreider, bestselling author of Shadow and Light: A Journey into Advent, arrives a devotional to help you meditate and rejoice in the transcendent miracle of Easter. You will:

• uncover what it means to participate in the liturgical traditions of Lent, from fasting to almsgiving
• experience artwork and music that illuminate the impact—both personal and global—of Jesus’s death and resurrection
• contemplate the wonder of Christ’s redemption of all humankind, especially as this time of introspection reveals your human limitations

Starting on Ash Wednesday and leading you all the way through Holy Week, Bitter and Sweet is an invitation to better understand Jesus’s sacrifice as you delight in His ultimate love for you.

The best biblical scholarship right at your fingertips.

Whether you’re preparing a Sunday sermon, planning a weekly Bible study, or looking for some context to enhance your personal Scripture reading, the Tyndale Bible Dictionary is designed to bring God’s Word to life and make understanding the Bible straightforward.

This Bible handbook features the work of 139 Bible scholars in more than 1,000 informative, in-depth articles. Thousands of cross-references enable users to find additional information and details about other topics that are most important to them. Hundreds of pictures, Bible maps, and illustrations help you visualize historical places and cultures.

Thorough and approachable, the Tyndale Bible Dictionary offers you insight on topics like:

• Manuscripts and translations of the Bible
• Theological concepts such as justification, redemption, and propitiation
• The history of ancient cultures, locations, and objects
• Overviews of the canonical books of the Bible as well as the apocryphal and pseudepigraphical books

With the very best evangelical scholarship on the Bible, this comprehensive, single-volume Bible dictionary is the principal book in the Tyndale Reference Library and will be an important addition to any Christian’s Bible reference collection.

Do you like the direction your decisions are taking you?

Most of us make choices we regret—choices that have moved our lives in a direction we don't want to go. But you have the ability to break the cycle of bad decisions and form better habits.

Drawing on Scripture, story, and the latest psychological research into human behavior, pastor Craig Groeschel reveals the power of "pre-deciding"—the key to consistently making choices that will lead you out of a downward spiral and into the joy and freedom God has for you.

With thought-provoking exercises and questions for reflection, Think Ahead will help you:

• Understand the science behind your decision-making habits.
• Overcome decision fatigue and debilitating fears.
• Diminish the role of emotions in decision-making.
• See how your small choices shape the kind of person you become.

Demonstrating the Kingdom is a practical theology of the kingdom of God. It forms part of a core of three publications around which various other subsidiary publications cohere, to form a larger project. It follows a logical sequence.

It begins with the mission and message of Jesus and his commission to his disciples to announce and demonstrate the kingdom as he did. It then explores Christian identity, the empowering of the Spirit, and the charismatic gifts of the Spirit, after which it gives focus to healing and prophetic gifts that work together to enable power evangelism.

Concluding chapters deal with deliverance from evil powers and how we invite the Holy Spirit in our community services.

For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Psalm 139:13-14

Celebrate the miracle of your baby’s birth and the wonder of God’s love with this Baby Bible for Girls, a treasured keepsake Bible. Featuring the complete text of the New Living Translation, this special edition includes 32 delightfully designed full-color pages with favorite hymns, prayers, Bible memory verses, a family tree, and space to record birth information.

This Bible is a wonderful way to introduce your child to the timeless stories and teachings of God’s Word, and is the perfect gift for a baby shower, christening, dedication or baptism.

Features:

• The complete text of the New Living Translation®.
• 32 Full-color pages with prayers, hymns, special Bible memory verses, a family tree and space to record information on Baby’s birth, christening or baptism and a special prayer from Mom and Dad.
• Presentation page.
• Ribbon marker
• 9.11-point font size

Reghardt du Toit is ’n bekende sanger met die wêreld aan sy voete. ’n Ernstige ongeluk verander sy lewe onherroeplik. As gevolg van gehoorverlies, is sing skielik buite die kwessie. Hy gaan soek na ’n nuwe begin in die klein WesKaapse dorpie van Philadelphia.

Hier maak Reghardt ’n boetiekrestaurant oop terwyl die dorpie en inwoners in sy hart inkruip. ’n Dokter met ’n praktyk in die naburige Malmesbury trek ook met sy gesin en ’n geheimsinnige au pair na Philadelphia.

Die plaaslike dominee se dogter is ’n internasionale model en haar pa se enigste kind. Sy weet sy presies wat sy in die lewe wil hê. Sy spits haar toe daarop om Reghardt se hart te verower. Die dowe sanger fokus egter daarop om mentor te wees vir ’n seun wat sy eie sangtalent wil slyp.

’n Skokkende tragedie bring ’n onverwagse wenteling in almal se lewens. Sal Reghardt genoeg liefde en vergifnis kan vind om die ontrafeling wat volg te weerstaan, of sal alles weer inmekaartuimel?

Kaiings wil sê: Waarheid en wysheid is twee karperde wat weet dat dit in die ritme van lewe nie altyd klopdisselboom gaan nie. Mens word ontnugter deur die feit dat waarheid dikwels verpak is in kaiings van twyfel, sinisme, valsheid en oppervlakkigheid. Selfs Pilatus het gesukkel terwyl die Sanhedrin hom woedend aangluur: Wat is waarheid?

Die media beweeg dikwels tussen feit en sensasie. Waarheid word omhul deur skyn en die teendeel van feitelikheid, naamlik bedrog en leuens. Die media laat mens twyfel. So ook is wysheid meestal ‘n masker vir dwaasheid en eie gewin. Veral in publieke kommunikasie en politieke debatte. Ook die waarheid van die Christelike geloof word maklik verpak in kerspapier van kerklike formules en sinodeverslae oor hoe om geloof suiwer te hou en van dwaling te bevry.

Ongelukkig kan geloofsbelydenisse ook met behulp van die kulkuns van interpretasie en kultuurparadigmas, met hermeneutiese ‘spekskiet’ verpak word.

Die titel wil sê: Die waarheid van kaiings braai uit en kierankies vorm harde kastaiings wat niemand weet hoe om uit die vuur te krap nie. Selfs die harde neut van hoe om oor God op outentieke wyse na te dink proe, na baie eeue van ortodoksie, effe galsterig.

Hierdie boek waag nie met definisies oor die wat van geloof en die sin van die lewe nie, maar karring voort oor die hoe van geloof: Om met blomkoolore te skrum (volharding), met derms te geniet (God se vrolike ruil) en empatie te luister (barmhartigheid).

Om weer sinvol te lees en te leef, in bliksemgedagtes met dood te moet worstel en te voorkom dat ek as pastor bloot as ‘n hoëpriester met aparte pyn gebrandmerk word, moet ek soms van Weskus bokkom-spraak, asook van tinktinkietaal en mossiegetjirp gebruikmaak!

I Surrender All - Inspired by the themes of the feature film, The Forge

All To Him I Freely Give

From Priscilla Shirer comes this fervent appeal and invitation to surrender everything to Jesus. To follow Him not just as your Savior but as your priority, your first love, your Lord. To move beyond being a believer to becoming His disciple.

Because there is a difference.

Salvation is a gift of God. It’s free. It’s grace. It’s the cross. Discipleship comes at a high cost. It’s surrender. It’s effort. It’s a daily choice to lay down your life and follow His. Few believers choose this route, but the ones who do will experience the abundance that only the surrendered life can offer. It’s the one choice standing between you and the life of freedom and fulfillment, of peace and purpose you’ve always wanted. I Surrender All is all about making that choice.

The choice that changes everything.

This book will be impossible to simply read because it beckons you to make a decision about the kind of Christian you will be. Prepare to engage, to write, to pray, and be called into a surrendered life. An abundant life. A disciple’s life.

Afrikaanse 2020-vertaling, mediumgrootte volledige Bybel met swart hardeband, kruisverwysings, voetnote, woordelys en kaarte.

• 8.5-punt lettergrootte
• Grootte: 150 x 220mm

This NIV Bible is an ideal ministry or outreach resource for those reading the Scriptures for the first time, or for anyone interested in spiritual issues who is open to talking about God.

Features:
• Full text of the accurate, readable, and clear New International Version (NIV)
• Plan of salvation: "Getting to Know God" reading plan
• Double-column format
• 8-point type size

Understanding God's Unbreakable Covenant with His People and Their Land

For centuries, questions have lingered both within and outside the church: Is modern Israel connected to the Israel of the Old Testament? Do God’s past promises to Israel still apply now? And what does this mean for all Christians today?

The Israel Decree provides compelling answers to these questions and more by meticulously tracing the historical, legal, and scriptural foundations of Israel's God-promised right to the land. Writing with clarity and commitment to biblical truth, bestselling author and native Israeli Amir Tsarfati helps you:

• understand how today’s Israel is a continuation of the ancient biblical nation, fulfilling a divine promise made millennia ago
• live with greater expectancy and hope in light of what Bible prophecy says about the rapture and tribulation
• be encouraged by God’s wonderful character as you see it on display in the ways He cares for Israel—and for you

As you grow in your understanding of God’s steadfast promise to both bless Israel and to bless the world through Israel, you will be inspired by His wonder-working power and equipped to carry out your unique role in His plan with hope and confidence.

The dramatic story of the Jewish Bund—a revolutionary movement from a vanished world—and its radical vision of solidarity in an age of division.

In the aftermath of the Holocaust, Sam Rothbort created “memory paintings” with the hope of resurrecting the vanished world of his shtetl childhood. Decades later, his great-granddaughter, the award-winning artist Molly Crabapple, discovered these paintings and one stood out: a girl, her dress the color of sky, hurling a rock through a cottage window. Itka the Bundist, Breaking Windows.

Itka is how Crabapple met the Jewish Labor Bund. Once the most influential Jewish political force in eastern Europe, the Bund was secular, socialist, and uncompromisingly anti-Zionist. The Bundists fought for dignity and equality, not in an imagined homeland in Palestine but “here where we live.”

In the first popular history of the Bund, Crabapple re-creates their extraordinary world through dramatic portraits of insurgent poets and antireligious rebels, clandestine revolutionaries and lovers on the barricades. The Bundists live deeply within this violent, volatile, and somehow hopeful period, as their stories interweave with the Russian Revolution and the Holocaust. The Bund’s rise and fall raises the vital question: What can we learn from a movement that, for all its toughness, imagination, and moral clarity, was largely destroyed?

Here Where We Live Is Our Country reanimates a band of idealists who broadened our global political imagination. As we once again contend with nationalism, repression, and the struggle for belonging, the Bund’s remarkable story and message—that liberation, dignity, and solidarity must begin where we stand—reaches across time as a guide to our own urgent moment.

In ’n wêreld wat nooit ophou verander nie, moet suksesvolle leiers ook deurgaans die koers aanpas en veranderinge aanbring. Dit wat gister gesorg het vir sukses, werk nie meer vandag nie. Maar hoe lyk suksesvolle leierskap vandag?

In Leierskap 101 bespreek Stephan Joubert en Johan Smith 101 aspekte van hoe leierskap vandag lyk. Hierdie unieke blik op leierskap bevestig dat leiers God se gestuurde dienaars is. Deur te kyk na sake soos integriteit, visie, leierskap in die kerk en gehoorsaamheid wys hulle dat leierskap nie ’n lyding hoef te wees nie, maar ’n heerlike en vervullende voorreg.

Ontdek ’n heel nuwe waarheid oor leierskap en word die leier wat God bedoel het jy moet wees.

From the bestselling author of Big Panda and Tiny Dragon comes a new adventure featuring a wise cat, a curious kitten, and the Zen wisdom they uncover on their journey together.

This is the tale of a cat wise in the ways of zen who hears of a solitary ancient pine, deep in a maple forest, under which infinite wisdom may be found. So begins a journey of discovery. Along the way he meets a vivid cast of animals: from an anxious monkey and a tortoise tired of life, to a tiger struggling with anger, a confused wolf cub and a covetous crow.

Each has stories to tell and lessons to share.

But after a surprise encounter with a playful kitten, the cat questions everything . . .

This warmhearted and moving prequel to the New York Times bestselling Baxter Family Series follows the family members as they face rising tensions during a wedding and a colossal storm.

A terrible storm builds in the early morning sky over Bloomington, Indiana, as Elizabeth Baxter prepares to celebrate her daughter Kari’s wedding to Tim Jacobs. It’s supposed to be the happiest of days, but Elizabeth can’t shake a growing sense of dread. Is the storm a sign? Something bad is about to happen. Elizabeth knows it.

Indeed, there are dark currents of conflict and doubt coursing through the Baxter family. In the midst of them, Kari Baxter is starting to panic. Is marrying Tim a mistake? And what about her family? Her brother Luke is angry and resentful of their sister Ashley, who has recently returned from Paris, a single mom with a son she too often leaves with their parents. At the same time, Ashley and their sister Brooke have lost the faith that is the family’s glue. Against all this, Kari sees Ashley rejecting her longtime love, Landon Blake, who clearly cares for her, no matter what happened in Paris.

When the storm reaches a terrifying crescendo, a shocking moment of danger brings important truths to light. At the end of the long day, can the Baxters remain a family, tested but stronger?

The Baxters is an unforgettable testament to the power of love, family, and faith.

Recently voices have been heard saying that the Bible is not literally God's word, but rather the word of God in ordinary Human language. Sometimes people say that the Bible is nothing more than words about God.

Izak Spangenberg attempts to formulate a contemporary perspective on the Bible. He shows that the Bible is a book that can greatly assist us in our reflections on God and in our quest for meaning in life. If we use it wisely, it can indeed serve as a guide.

Essentially, however, in the author's opinion, the Bible is not intended as a book of law with which we are to judge other people.

Ten spyte van getroue kerkbywoning, Bybel lees en gebede is dit opvallend dat ons geloof dikwels nie ’n verskil in ons lewe maak nie. Hoe kan ’n mens dan in ’n nuwe kragtige geloofsrat inbeweeg? Deur 'n ware konneksie met die Here te maak. In hierdie 250 onopgesmukte dagstukkies deel Susan alledaagse stories uit haar lewe wat jou sal help om die Here se nabyheid oral tasbaarder te ervaar. Die boek is daarop gemik om geestelike groei aan te moedig deur nuwe maniere van dink en doen te kweek.

Joyce Meyer help vroue al jare lank om hulself te verbeter deur emosionele hindernisse en fisiese en geestelike struikelblokke in hul lewe te identifiseer.

Ons samelewing het 'n onsekerheid-epidemie, veral onder vroue.

Kompensasie deur voor te gee om veilig te voel – 'n algemene reaksie – lei slegs tot gevoelens van skaamte. Gebrek aan selfvertroue veroorsaak groot probleme in alle soorte verhoudings, en in huwelike kan dit selfs tot egskeiding lei.

In Leef met selfvertroue ondersoek Joyce die sewe eienskappe van 'n vrou met selfvertroue, wat 'n vrou insluit wat weet sy is liefgehê, wat weier om in vrees te leef, en wat nie haarself met ander vergelyk nie.

Joyce verduidelik dat selfvertroue spruit uit positief wees in jou aksies en eerlik leef, maar belangrikste van alles uit geloof – in God en in onsself.

God het elkeen van ons geskep om groot dinge te doen. Maar hoe kan ons seker wees dat ons werklik God se roeping vir ons lewe gevind het?

Geliefde skrywer en TV-persoonlikheid Joyce Meyer nooi jou uit om saam met haar te reis na vertroue, vryheid en vrede in die wete dat jy die pad loop wat Hy vir jou bestem het. Sy verken God se karakter, sy liefde – en sy doel vir jou. Hierdie boek deel ook praktiese stappe wat help om jou vertroue in God te bou. Dit wys hoe jy sy leiding kan soek en die vrees dat jy sy beste vir jou gaan misloop kan oorkom.

Ontdek God se wil vir jou lewe sal jou vul met vrede en selfvertroue sodat jy met vreugde in God se liefde kan leef.

Frank Rautenbach left South Africa for Los Angeles with stars in his eyes. After having great success with Egoli, 7de laan and movies like Faith like Potatoes and The Bang-Bang Club he thought the world was his oyster.

After years of trying and driving more than 10 000 kilometres to one failed audition after the other Frank had to find a job - a proper job that could put food on his table. He ended up driving a taxi in Los Angeles, just to lose that job too.

Eventually became the church's janitor.

But Frank felt betrayed - God promised him a life of abundance - why hasn't he received it yet? Frank felt like all God’s promises had come to nothing; he felt angry and embarrassed.

Frank had to learn that he couldn't ask God to make all this dreams come true, he is in God's service, not the other way around. Life is not about him, it is about God.

Helene de Kock se eerste Inspirasie-omnibus is nou beskikbaar, met twee lekker verhale: Kruispad vir Kara en Engel op die drumpel.

Kruispad vir Kara: Kara Geertse is Tukkies se skatryk joolprinses met die wêreld aan haar voete. Dan sterf haar pa en sy en haar ma word sonder 'n sent gelos. Sy staan voor 'n kruispad, en sy is sielalleen.

Wat, of wie, gaan haar help om staande te bly? Kruispad vir Kara is 'n roerende liefdesverhaal wat jou weer hoop vir die lewe en die liefde sal gee.

Engel op die drumpel: In Huis Exodus geld net een reël: moenie jou probleme myne maak nie. Marli Jooste ontdek dit sommer met haar aankoms. Sy word heen en weer gesleur tussen dit wat sy nog altyd geglo het en nuwe, opwindende dinge. Totdat Marli op 'n dag moet besluit oor die lewe of die dood. 'n Storie van liefde en die hoop wat nooit beskaam nie.

Ontvang genesing vir jou emosionele wonde en ontdek jou lewensdoel as God se kind in hierdie 90-daedagstukkieboek.

Genesing vir elke vrou 90 oordenkings delf diep in Joyce Meyer se eie lewensverhaal en haar reis na genesing. Ten spyte van jare se mishandeling, verwerping en verraad deur die mense die naaste aan haar, glo Joyce dat elke vrou wat diep seergekry het deur lewensomstandighede, ten volle genees kan word in hart en siel. Haar onwankelbare aanspraak het ontstaan uit haar eie reis na genesing, en ook die pad wat sy gestap het met soveel vroue wat nie wou glo dat hulle hul pyn ten volle sou oorwin nie.

Joyce neem jou op ’n 90-dae-reis om jou te bemoedig deur die lewe se struikelblokke om jou ware lewensdoel te bereik. Die Here kan jou pyn genees, en Hy wil dit in jou hart doen sodat jy die wonderlike, vreugdevolle toekoms wat God vir jou beplan het kan leef!

The global church is facing a discipleship crisis. Here's how we move forward into transformative discipleship...

Pastors and church leaders want to see lives changed by the gospel. They work tirelessly to care for people, initiate new ministries, preach creatively, and keep up with trends. Sadly, much of this effort does not result in deeply changed disciples.

Traditional discipleship strategies fail because they only address surface issues and do not go deep enough into the emotional health of individuals.

But transformative, emotionally healthy discipleship is a methods-based biblical theology that, when fully implemented, informs every area of a church, ministry, or organization. It is a discipleship structure built from the center that:

• Slows down our lives so we can cultivate a deep, personal relationship with Jesus.
• Challenges the values of Western culture that have compromised the radical call to follow the crucified Jesus.
• Integrates sadness, loss, and vulnerability, that, when left out, leave people defensive and easily triggered.
• Acknowledges God's gift of limits in our lives.
• Connects how our family and personal history influence our discipleship in the present.
• Measures our spiritual maturity by how we are growing in our ability to love others.

In Emotionally Healthy Discipleship, bestselling author Pete Scazzero takes leaders step-by-step through how to create an emotionally healthy culture and multiply deeply-changed people in every aspect of church life.

Bekommernis, twyfel, verwarring, depressie, woede en gevoelens van veroordeling is alles aanvalle op die gemoed. Bekende outeur Joyce Meyer sal jou help om hierdie belangrike gevegte te wen. In hierdie opgedateerde uitgawe leer Joyce ons hoe om ons gedagtes te fokus op die manier waarop God dink. Sy deel persoonlike stories uit haar eie lewe, saam met Bybelse waarhede en aanmoediging om jou te help om doelgerig te dink, die gevegte in jou gedagtes te wen en 'n vreugdevolle lewe te begin.

Leer die geheime van ’n suksesvolle huwelik by die topverkoper Joyce Meyer. Of jy nou dertig dae of dertig jaar getroud is, jy wil ’n huwelik hê wat in moeilike tye floreer. Maar ons huwelike lyk nie altyd soos ons gedink het dit sou nie. Miskien het jy nie probleme in jou
huwelik nie, maar jy wil jou verhouding so sterk as moontlik maak. In Die sleutels tot ’n gesonde huwelik, leer die geliefde skrywer Joyce Meyer jou om kragtige waarhede uit God se Woord vir jou en jou huwelik te ontsluit, struikelblokke na gesonde verhoudings te oorkom, in vrede met ’n onseker persoon te leef en die fokus van jouself en jou gade af te haal en eerder na die Here te kyk. Joyce Meyer se leeftyd van Bybelse wysheid en haar praktiese en persoonlike ervaring sal jou help om in jou huwelik te groei. Ongeag in watter
stadium van die huwelik jy is, jy kan hoop en moed ervaar in God se beloftes van genesing, herstel en ’n lewe vol van sy goedheid!