Bruce Bickel

Stan Jantz

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Texas

Featuring 42 chapters on the characters and places, symbols and celebrations, and thoughts and feelings of the Christmas season, this edition combines the best features of a devotional with the traditional appeal of an Advent book.

God Is in the Small Stuff at Christmas

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Garry Wills

California

Presents a biblical analysis of the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, evaluating each for their evangelistic style and goals while revealing key differences in how each writer portrayed Jesus.

What the Gospels Meant

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Timothy Keller

New York

The Surprising Truth Behind the Birth of Christ

From pastor and New York Times bestselling author Timothy Keller comes the perfect gift for the Christmas holiday—a profoundly moving and intellectually provocative examination of the nativity story Even people who are not practicing Christians think they are familiar with the story of the nativity. Every Christmas displays of Baby Jesus resting in a manger decorate lawns and churchyards, and songs about shepherds and angels fill the air. Yet despite the abundance of these Christian references in popular culture, how many of us have examined the hard edges of this biblical story? In his new book Timothy Keller takes readers on an illuminating journey into the surprising background of the nativity. By understanding the message of hope and salvation within the Bible’s account of Jesus’ birth, readers will experience the redeeming power of God’s grace in a deeper and more meaningful way.

Hidden Christmas 🎄 

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Beth Moore

Embracing the Passion of Paul

Takes readers on a spiritual odyssey through the life of one of the New Testament's most prominent characters, the apostle Paul.

To Live Is Christ

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Max Lucado

The beginning of the very best 

Suggests ways to be prepared and at peace for the Second Coming of Christ.

When Christ Comes

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Grant Jeffrey

Unfolding Bible Prophecy

War on Terror

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Even with the increase of methods and classes, effective life change resulting from the teaching of Christian truth seems to be on the decline. Seeking to stem this trend, Gregory Carlson looks at the distinctive model of the Master Teacher, Jesus, in Rock-Solid Teacher. This exciting new resource uses the distinctive model of Jesus’ teaching to establish sound teaching principles, and then practically apply them to impact children, youth and adults. Teachers of all ages will gain confidence in their personal teaching abilities by being able to recognize good teaching practices, evaluate their own skills, mentor others, enhance their own ability to write lessons and mirror Jesus’ sound teaching principles.

Discover the Joy of Teaching Like Jesus

Rock Solid Teacher

Sometimes we just feel beat up by life. We don’t realize that Satan is real and he’s doing everything he can to steal our hope, our joy, and ultimately, our life. So instead of taking authority over him, we’re letting him win. But you do have authority in Christ and you can have the joy-filled life Jesus died to give you! In this three part CD series, Joyce shares biblical truths to help you: learn exactly who Satan is according to God’s word. Recognize the authority you have in Christ. Discover eight ways to resist Satan, and how to stop assisting him. Incorporate the weapon of worship into your plan of attack. Don’t let Satan scare you. He’s weak and powerless against anyone who knows and speaks God’s Word.. Discover for yourself that in Christ, you always have the upper hand.

Georgia

How to Defeat Your Enemy Before He Defeats You

Are You Resisting or Assisting the Devil?

How To Be Born Again 

Ted Haggard

Empowering Your Church to Build Community Through Shared Interests

Haggard presents a successful and tested model of a small-group ministry that can be implemented by a church of any size. This need- and interest-based approach redefines the model for powerful church growth.

Dog Training, Fly-Fishing, and Sharing Christ in the 21st Century

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With Christ in the School of Prayer /The Practice of the Presence of  God

The Christian Classics 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Steps To Christ

John Piper

Who is Jesus Christ? You've never met him in person, and you don't know anyone who has. But there is a way to know who he is. How? Jesus Christ-the divine Person revealed in the Bible-has a unique excellence and a spiritual beauty that speaks directly to our souls and says, "Yes, this is truth." It's like seeing the sun and knowing that it is light, or tasting honey and knowing that it is sweet. The depth and complexity of Jesus shatter our simple mental frameworks. He baffled proud scribes with his wisdom but was understood and loved by children. He calmed a raging storm with a word but would not get himself down from the cross. Look at the Jesus of the Bible. Keep your eyes open, and fill them with the portrait of Jesus in God's Word. Jesus said, "If anyone's will is to do God's will, he will know whether the teaching is from God or whether I am speaking on my own authority." Ask God for the grace to do his will, and you will see the truth of his Son. John Piper has written this book in the hope that all will see Jesus for who he really is and will come to enjoy him above all else.--

Seeing and Savoring Jesus Christ

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Erwin Raphael McManus

An Unstoppable Force will excite and inspire readers about being part of the Church that God had in mind! A "force" created to change the world. A Church that is engaged with its community, daring to cut itself free from atrophied practices and programs to flourish in creative and compelling worship. A Church that risks reaching out to our jaded culture with "outside the box" expressions of faith and love.

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Daring to Become the Church God Had in Mind

The author offers a vision of the church taking its rightful place as an unstoppable force created to do nothing less than change the world, and therefore, daring to cut itself free from atrophied practices and programs to flourish in creative and compelling worship. He offers a place where teaching the Word reaches out to the culture with sculpture, painting, dance, music, films and other unique expressions of love and faith.

An Unstoppable Force

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Oregon

Reaching Out in Love

Edward Sri

Maryland

Be Transformed as a Disciple of Christ

In the ancient disciple-rabbi relationship, the disciple would follow the rabbi so closely that he would be covered in the dust kicked up from his rabbi's feet. Thousands of years later, though we walk on roads of pavement and not dust, we are still called to be disciples--to follow our Rabbi, Jesus Christ, so closely that we are covered with his life, changed, and made new.

Into His Likeness provides an approachable but in-depth exploration of how to live as a disciple and experience the transformation Jesus wants to work in our lives. We might desire to live more like Christ, but we know we fall short. This book simply helps us follow those initial promptings of the Holy Spirit, so that we may more intentionally encounter Jesus anew each day and be more disposed to his grace changing us ever more into his likeness.

Into His Likeness

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The New Johnny Cash

Religious Vocations in the New Millennium 

And Mary's Yes Continues

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Michael Todd

It's Only Crazy until It Happens

"The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Relationship Goals and pastor of Transformation Church is back with a new, robust, life-changing message for readers"--

Crazy Faith

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Truth from God’s word to set you  free 

Who Am I  In Christ

LeRoy Koopman

Twenty-Six Vital Issues

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#Christmas #scriptures #Bible #Jesus #Christ #NewTestament #Christianitu #religion

The Practical Dreamer and Other Stories to Tell at Christmas 

John Lindell

Nevada

Experiencing God's Best for Your Life

Too many of us visit the land of God's blessing but never live there. What if what you have grown accustomed to is far less than what God has for you? What if what you call "normal" falls tragically short of what you were created for? What if the difference between you living in God's best and where you find yourself today is simply your willingness to rise up and fight to experience the new normal--He has for you? The truth is far too many of us visit the land of God's blessing but never live there. We spend much of our lives feeling like we are on the outside of His blessing looking in, but never knowing a sustained experience of God's best. The reason for our sporadic acquaintance with the fullness of God's goodness is that we are not willing to wage the battle necessary to inhabit that new normal. This book explores the pathway into the Promise Land that Joshua and the people of Israel trekked and provides spiritual principles for fighting the spiritual battles that unlock a life of walking in God's best. In New Normal, John Lindell invites you to join him on a life-changing journey following Joshua and the nation of Israel as they find out what it takes to live in the land of blessing God has prepared for them. Through these pages, you will discover an existence where you no longer view God's best as a passing reality but as the place where you live. This book will help you discover an existence where you no longer view God's best as a passing reality but as the place where you live. You will experience God's best for your life.

New Normal

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Retired library book #hardcover #fiction #annerice#christ

A Novel

A second volume in the author's chronicle of the life of Christ begins prior to his baptism in the Jordan River and concludes with the miracle at Cana, as he leaves Nazareth to confront his destiny and the call to be Israel's liberator from Roman occupati

Christ the Lord: the Road to Cana

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