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Pastoral Recommendations
Counterfeit Gods
Success, true love, and the life you’ve always wanted. Many of us placed our faith in these things, believing they held the key to happiness, but with a sneaking suspicion they might not deliver.
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The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism
Timothy Keller, the founding pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City, addresses the frequent doubts that skeptics, and even ardent believers, have about religion.
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Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God’s Work
New York Times bestselling author of The Prodigal Prophet Timothy Keller shows how God calls on each of us to express meaning and purpose through our work and careers.
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Forever: Why You Can’t Live Without It
Is this all you’re living for? For years, pastor Paul Tripp understood we were “hardwired for forever.” But he didn’t understand that it was more than a valuable insight.
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Sex in a Broken World: How Christ Redeems What Sin Distorts
Sexuality is a fundamental part of what it means to be human—part of God’s beautiful design when he created all things. And yet, sex in our world today looks nothing like the way that God intended it to be.
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New Morning Mercies
Mornings can be tough. Sometimes, a hearty breakfast and strong cup of coffee just aren’t enough. Offering more than a rush of caffeine, best-selling author Paul David Tripp wants to energize you with the most potent encouragement imaginable: the gospel.
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The Christian Life: A Doctrinal Introduction
Christian doctrine matters for Christian living.’ This is ‘one of the most important growth points of the Christian life’, writes Sinclair B. Ferguson.
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Devoted to God: Blueprints for Sanctification
Christians are transformed by the renewing of their minds. They understand that in large measure how they think about the gospel will determine how they will live for God’s glory.
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Core Christianity: Finding Yourself in God’s Story
For many people, words like doctrine and theology cause their eyes to glaze over, or they find them difficult to understand and struggle to see how they are relevant to daily life.
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Pilgrim Theology: Core Doctrines for Christian Disciples
In this book, Michael Horton reviews the biblical passages that give rise to a particular doctrine in addition to surveying past and present interpretations.
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The Valley of Vision: A Collection of Puritan Prayers & Devotions
The strength of Puritan character and life lay in prayer and meditation. In this practice the spirit of prayer was regarded as of first importance and the best form of prayer.
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Shattered Dreams: God’s Unexpected Path to Joy
Using the Biblical story of Naomi, Dr. Larry Crabb shows you how to look through life’s tragedies to see the lavish blessings God has for you in Shattered Dreams.
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The Meaning of Marriage
This book shows everyone—Christians, skeptics, singles, longtime married couples, and those about to be engaged—the vision of what marriage should be according to the Bible.
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Ministries of Mercy: The Call of the Jericho Road
Like the Samaritan who found a dying man by the Jericho road, we’re aware of people in need around us – the widow next door, the family strapped with medical bills, the homeless man outside our church.
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The Ragamuffin Gospel
Many believers feel stunted in their Christian growth. We beat ourselves up over our failures and, in the process, pull away from God because we subconsciously believe He tallies our defects and hangs His head in disappointment.
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A Praying Life: Connecting with God in a Distracting World
Prayer is so hard that unless circumstances demand it―an illness, or saying grace at a meal―most of us simply do not pray.
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Walking with God through Pain and Suffering
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Prodigal Prophet Timothy Keller comes the definitive Christian book on why bad things happen and how we should respond to them.
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When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor . . . and Yourself
With more than 300,000 copies in print, When Helping Hurts is a paradigm-forming contemporary classic on the subject of poverty alleviation.
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The Pressure’s Off: Breaking Free from Rules and Performance
Is the pressure getting to you? Do you try to make everything work, only to find that your best efforts are largely ineffective?
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Making Sense of God: An Invitation to the Skeptical
We live in an age of skepticism. Our society places such faith in empirical reason, historical progress, and heartfelt emotion that it’s easy to wonder: Why should anyone believe in Christianity?
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Why Do We Baptize Infants?: Basics of the Reformed Faith
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Prodigal Prophet TimothyBiblical and pastoral, simple and accessible, this booklet explains in a nontechnical style why we should baptize the infants of believing parents.
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Chosen by God
With nearly 200,000 copies sold in its 25 years, Chosen by God by Dr. R. C. Sproul is a contemporary classic on predestination, a doctrine that isn’t just for Calvinists, says Sproul.
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Recapturing the Wonder: Transcendent Faith in a Disenchanted World
When we’re young, it’s easy to believe in the supernatural, the mysterious, the enchanted. But as we grow older, we learn to be more “rational” and more confident that reality is merely what we can see.
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Proper Confidence
Looking to end the divisive conflict that has raged between Christians who attack each other either as “liberals” or as “fundamentalists,” Newbigin here gives a historical account of the roots of this conflict in order to begin laying the foundation for a middle ground that will benefit the Christian faith as a whole.
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The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith
The New York Times bestselling author of The Prodigal Prophet uncovers the essential message of Jesus, locked inside his most familiar parable.
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Extravagant Grace: God’s Glory Displayed in Our Weakness
Why do Christians—even mature Christians—still sin so often? Why doesn’t God set us free? We seem to notice more sin in our lives all the time, and we wonder if our progress is a constant disappointment to God.
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A Grace Disguised: How the Soul Grows through Loss
In an instant, a tragic car accident claimed three generations of his family: his mother, his wife, and his young daughter. While most of us will not experience such a catastrophic loss in our lifetime, all of us will taste it.
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Ruthless Trust: The Ragamuffin’s Path to God
In his sequel to The Ragamuffin Gospel bestselling author Brennan Manning shows how true and radical trust in God can transform our lives.
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Closer Than Close: Awakening to the Freedom of Your Union with Christ
How many times have you heard someone say, “I want to be close to God,” or “I feel far from Jesus?”
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Searching for God Knows What
In Searching for God Knows What, best-selling author Donald Miller invites you to reconnect with a faith worth believing.
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Bold Love
We’ve come to view love as being “nice,” yet the kind of love modeled by Jesus Christ has nothing to do with manners or unconditional acceptance.
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Women’s Ministry
Grace for the Good Girl: Letting Go of the Try-Hard Life
Popular (in)courage blogger writes candidly to good girls and helps women see that a relationship with God is not another performance-based role, but a safe place to be yourself.
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Strong Women, Soft Hearts: A Woman’s Guide to Cultivating a Wise Heart and a Passionate Life
Recently updated with an expanded study guide, Strong Women, Soft Hearts has quickly become an important study for women of all ages.
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Youth Ministry
Children’s Ministry
The Jesus Storybook Bible
The Moonbeam Award Gold Medal Winner in the religion category, The Jesus Storybook Bible tells the Story beneath all the stories in the Bible.
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The Garden, the Curtain and the Cross
This beautifully illustrated hardback book takes children on a journey from the garden of Eden to God’s prefect new creation.
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The Biggest Story: How the Snake Crusher Brings Us Back to the Garden
The Bible is full of exciting stories that fill children with awe and wonder. But kids need to know how all those classic stories connect to Scripture’s overarching message about God’s glorious plan to redeem his rebellious people.
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The Ology: Ancient Truths, Ever New
What adults might describe as a beautifully illustrated storybook of systematic theology, the kids discover to be a story of adventure, mystery, and wonder that leads them to the truth about God, themselves, and the world around them.
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