Promise In My Pocket, God's Word on the Go is simply a way to keep God's life-changing promises with you as you go through your day. Each edition is a concentrated dose of God's Word on a specific theme to remind you of His goodness and faithfulness. This edition, Promises of Guidance and Direction, holds 49 verses that will confirm God's willingness to lead during times of uncertainty.<br><br>If you are enduring a crisis or know someone who is,...
From the kind of coverage Islam and Muslims receive in the media you would think it is an irrational and violent way of life, adopted by a bunch of lunatics. There are lunatics and terrorists in the Muslim community, but it is not possible that the more than one and a half billion Muslims around the world are all lunatics and terrorists.<br><br>It is important that you find out what these people really think and believe because they live in your neighborhood. They are teachers in...
Education–check. Experience–check. References–check. Questions–what questions? Potential employing churches or para-church organizations have already thought about what questions to ask an applicant. As an applicant, have you considered what questions to ask the church or organization? This book serves as a resource by providing questions an applicant may consider asking throughout the interviewing process to determine if the church or organization is a right fit.
Do you want your life to be a vigorous, purposeful, and liberated journey? That is exactly what an encounter with Jesus Christ offers. This book presents a way to engage Christ through a detailed yet accessible look at the four major events of his life and provides suggestions about living out the implications of those events on a daily and practical level.
If you are seeking a clearer understanding of some Bible subjects, this little book has been compiled to help you put things into context, join the dots, and bring clarity to help you understand the good message that God has for you.<br><br>Thirty Bible topics are explained with the use of biblical quotations taken from five different English translations of the Bible, ensuring clarity of language and compelling scriptural verification of the truth.<br><br>Have you ever...
Death. Illness. Divorce. Unexpected. Undeserved. In this world there is going to be suffering and pain. As a person of faith, we are not exempt from that undeniable fact. What do we do? Where is God when the pain is unbearable and the night so long? How do we reach out to others with something more than platitudes? "It has been said that theology begins in the experience of suffering. At the very least, debilitating suffering challenges our images of success and security, and invites us...
For many today the issue of homosexuality is easily and clearly settled in scripture. The issue, for them, is one of scriptural authority. One either obeys the command found in scripture or one does not. Yet for others, the scriptural commands are not nearly as clear as claimed, and the issue is not obedience, but rather interpretation. It is not whether one will obey God's will, once known, but determining if, in fact, traditional interpreters have discovered God's will. Joe...
Jody Neufeld shares from her heart «ordinary moments with an extraordinary God.» Upon her retirement from nursing and then beginning into ministry with her husband Henry, a Biblical teacher, Jody felt the Lord urging her to share a daily devotion with people she knew still in an outside workplace. «I know that when I was working in a hospital or a doctor's office or in homes delivering hospice care, I wish someone had sent me an email devotion each morning that would give me a focus and a...
What is the church? What does it look like? What should it look like? For answers to these questions David Alan Black looks to the first century church and our founding documents in the New Testament. What were the characteristics of a Christian assembly in the first century? In his study he finds seven things that defined the church then: Evangelistic Preaching, Christian Baptism, Apostolic Teaching, Genuine Relationships, Christ-Centered Gatherings, Fervent Prayer, and Sacrificial Living. Dr....
What is the good news? If the gospel that Jesus taught is so good, why are Christians so bad? How can Christians relate to people of other faiths or of no faith at all? Bible teacher Henry Neufeld wrestles with these issues in this book. This is not a book of theology. It is his personal testimony of what Jesus means in his life, and how one can be both a serious, committed Christian and a strong proponent of diversity and dialogue. In fact, he finds in the gospel not just permission to be...