John F. MacArthur

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Virginia

The author explores the final teachings of Jesus and their implications for modern Christians. Original.

How to Survive in a World of Unbelievers

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Edmund S. Morgan

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Draws on Franklin's extensive writings to provide a portrait of the statesman, inventor, and Founding Father.

Benjamin Franklin

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Jim Collins

Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't

The Challenge

Built to Last, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the very beginning.

But what about the company that is not born with great DNA? How can good companies, mediocre companies, even bad companies achieve enduring greatness?

The Study

For years, this question preyed on the mind of Jim Collins. Are there companies that defy gravity and convert long-term mediocrity or worse into long-term superiority? And if so, what are the universal distinguishing characteristics that cause a company to go from good to great?

The Standards

Using tough benchmarks, Collins and his research team identified a set of elite companies that made the leap to great results and sustained those results for at least fifteen years. How great? After the leap, the good-to-great companies generated cumulative stock returns that beat the general stock market by an average of seven times in fifteen years, better than twice the results delivered by a composite index of the world's greatest companies, including Coca-Cola, Intel, General Electric, and Merck.

The Comparisons

The research team contrasted the good-to-great companies with a carefully selected set of comparison companies that failed to make the leap from good to great. What was different? Why did one set of companies become truly great performers while the other set remained only good?

Over five years, the team analyzed the histories of all twenty-eight companies in the study. After sifting through mountains of data and thousands of pages of interviews, Collins and his crew discovered the key determinants of greatness -- why some companies make the leap and others don't.

The Findings

The findings of the Good to Great study will surprise many readers and shed light on virtually every area of management strategy and practice. The findings include:

 * Level 5 Leaders: The research team was shocked to discover the type of leadership required to achieve greatness.
 * The Hedgehog Concept (Simplicity within the Three Circles): To go from good to great requires transcending the curse of competence.
 * A Culture of Discipline: When you combine a culture of discipline with an ethic of entrepreneurship, you get the magical alchemy of great results. Technology Accelerators: Good-to-great companies think differently about the role of technology.
 * The Flywheel and the Doom Loop: Those who launch radical change programs and wrenching restructurings will almost certainly fail to make the leap.

"Some of the key concepts discerned in the study," comments Jim Collins, "fly in the face of our modern business culture and will, quite frankly, upset some people."

Perhaps, but who can afford to ignore these findings?

Good to Great

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Owen Strachan

John MacArthur

How the Social Justice Movement Is Hijacking the Gospel - and the Way to Stop It

"White people should be less white."
"Whiteness is white supremacy."
"Silence is violence."
"You can never overcome your racism."

You've heard these baffling views--but do you know where they come from?

The "wokeness" that emerged from the social unrest of 2020 has swept through schools, businesses, and even sports. Driven by the radical ideologies of Critical Race Theory and intersectionality, it has destabilized public and private life--including the Church.

Many evangelicals have joined the crusade. Gripped by a desire for justice and rightly grieved by past evils like slavery, many pastors are preaching the woke gospel--identifying "whiteness" (an imaginary concept) with "white supremacy," calling bewildered Christians to repent of their supposed guilt for the sins of past generations.

But as theologian Owen Strachan makes clear, this is not true justice, nor is it true Christianity. While wokeness employs biblical vocabulary and concepts, it is an alternative religion, far from Christianity in both its methods and its fruit. A potent blend of racism, paganism, and grievance, wokeness encourages "partiality" and undermines the unifying work of the Holy Spirit. It is not simply not the Gospel; it is anti-Gospel.

As Strachan traces the origins of wokeness, lays out its premises, and follows them to their logical conclusions, the contrast of that false faith with the Word of God stands out unmistakably. This succinct but groundbreaking work reveals that wokeness, like other heresies, is not really new. Nor is the antidote: Christ crucified for us.

Christianity and Wokeness

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Maureen L. Bradley

Don Kistler

Joel Rishel

Puritan Poetry in Honor of Christ

Worthy Is the Lamb

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Smithmark Staff

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

This book is just one of many titles in the Classic Library series. It includes Black Beauty by Anna Sewell and Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin.

Black Beauty - Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

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Profiles of Prophesy 

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Don't Know Much About History 

J. Kerby Anderson

Biblical Perspectives on Contemporary Ethical Issues

In this penetrating book J. Kerby Anderson asks just how much we modern Christians can embrace emrging scientific and technological discoveries and still be true to our Lord. Kerby frames biblical answers in the light of Christ's lordship.h

Moral Dilemmas

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John Stott

Understanding the Bible

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What Christ Thinks of the Church

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Walter C. Kaiser

The Message of Job

The Majesty of God in the Midst of Innocent Suffering

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A. N. Wilson

This acclaimed biography charts the progress of the brilliant, prolific writer, C. S. Lewis. C. S. Lewis was a deeply complex man, capable of inspiring both great devotion and great hostility. This acclaimed biography charts the progress of the clever child from the 'Little End Room' of his Ulster childhood and adult life, exploring Lewis's unwilling conversion to Christianity, the genesis of his writing, and the web of his relationships.

C. S. Lewis: a Biography

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Do All For The Glory of God

Paul David Tripp

People in Need of Change Helping People in Need of Change

In many ways, the church today has more consumers than committed participants. We see church merely as an event we attend or an organization we belong to, rather than as a calling that shapes our entire life. Many of us would be relieved if God had placed our sanctification in the hands of trained professionals, but that simply is not the biblical model. God's plan is that through the faithful ministry of every part, the whole body will grow to maturity in Christ. All of his children are called into ministry, and each of them needs the daily intervention this ministry provides. God uses people, who need change themselves, as instruments of change in others. Tripp explains how his work follows an "all of my people, all of the time" model. If you followed the Lord for a thousand years, you would still need the ministry of the body of Christ as much as you did the day you first believed. This need will remain until our sanctification is complete in Glory

Instruments in the Redeemer's Hands

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K. P. Yohannan

Your Life Can Make a Difference

Yohannan, founder and president of Gospel for Asia, challenges Christians to realign their lives in the light of eternity. From his Asian perspective, the author observes differences between the lifestyle of millions of Westerners and how Christ called them to live. Yohannan asserts that each Christian can make a difference in a world of hatred, suffering, starvation and spiritual need.

Living in the Light of Eternity

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Norman L. Geisler

Options and Issues

A clear, biblical perspective on pressing issues such as abortion, euthanasia, divorce, and others.

Christian Ethics

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Donald MacLeod

Donald Macleod

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Donald Macleod reinforces the church's historic doctrine of the person of Christ as a centerpiece for theological reflection. In the Contours of Christian Theology.

The Person of Christ

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JOsh McDowell

The Best of Josh McDowell

Sixty vital lines of defense for the Christian faith. An extraordinary compilation of the very best of Josh's research. Includes information on why trust the Bible; other religions compared to Christianity; and the most-asked questions about the Christian faith.

A Ready Defense

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Andrew Gray

Sermons of Andrew Gray

Be Reconciled with God

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Norman P. Grubb

Yes, I Am

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Randy Pausch

Jeffrey Zaslow

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.

The Last Lecture

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The High Cost and Infinite Value of Following Jesus

Going beyond Jesus' life to include the crucifixion and resurrection, MacArthur shows readers that Jesus modeled the commitment and loving obedience he requires of Christians by making the ultimate sacrifice for humankind.

Hard to Believe

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Unlock the Door to Spiritual Maturity

How to glorify God as He wants, utilizing meaningful modes of prayer, the divine rewards of hope and obedience, the Christian way of confession.

Keys to Spiritual Growth

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Dave Poiles

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