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The United States stands as the wealthiest, most powerful nation on the face of the earth. But now, in the midst of skyrocketing federal debt, severe economic troubles, political uncertainty, declining morality, a weak church, growing spiritual apathy and apostasy, historic natural disasters, and a myriad of other daunting challenges, many wonder if America’s best days are behind her. Will history’s greatest democracy stage a miraculous comeback, returning to the forefront of the world’s economic and spiritual stage?

Come rain or shine, hardship or ease, confusion or clarity, worship is always a choice. But what does it look like when worship meets suffering? How can God be good when it seems the world is collapsing around you? In this inspiring audiobook, Matt and Beth Redman draw on their experiences to explore how to offer praise even in the face of hardship and pain. Focusing on the psalms, they reveal how difficult or tragic circumstances and the choices you make can propel you toward God or away from him.

This book is dedicated to every Christian who has ever found it difficult to pray in times of stress and trouble. In it, you will find a collection of prayers suitable for Christians of all denominations. Please use these words as your own prayers. Use them also in inspiration; let them help you find the words to pray in challenging times - and find the words to cry out to God. With powerful and uplifting language, this book helps you open a channel to God, build a relationship with him, and be transformed by the power of prayer.

As I wrote this third addition to the series Beware of the End Times, the American election season for 2016 has been transpiring. Neither the Democrat or Republican candidates are campaigning on the basis of restoring the moral compass to society, but despite this, many do not recognize how broken the world has become. Some want to say, "We have righteous leaders campaigning," but meanwhile many undeniable inconsistencies exist with them all.

Dr. Oliver assist the seeker in discovering: Proverbs, Parables, and Maxims, designed to enlighten and benefit the wise in: surviving tough times, winning over adversity, and gaining priceless Biblical wisdom.

Even a cursory glance at the news is enough to convince us that the world is falling into chaos. But we haven't seen anything that compares to what will happen in the final events leading to the second coming of Jesus Christ.

It's not what I lost. It's what I've found. I was only 17, just a girl, when God asked me for everything I had...my health, my hopes, my independence, my dreams, my freedom, and my mobility. He took it all. I was so angry with him that I tried to push him away. God relentlessly held me more closely. Looking back, 40 years later, I understand that God has changed and healed me - my heart and my mind - in the most unexpected ways, giving me rubies of his wisdom about an unbending faith and an experience of his mercy I can now tell you about.

Christians love to fight, and most of the time we fight unnecessary battles. We fight over worship styles, building programs, carpet color, governance structures, use of alcohol, and a thousand other debatable matters of theology or culture. The fuel that feeds the fire are gray issues. What is a gray issue? A gray issue is an area of theology or culture that is either not addressed in the Bible, or while addressed, leaves room for legitimate differences of opinions. Come and join a new movement of biblically sound, theologically solid, and beautifully unified Gray Churches.

When my full-blooded Hawaiian mother was a very young girl, she was hanai adopted by her Aunty Ida. Being a personal friend of Queen Emma, Anty Ida lived in her summer palace in Nu'uanu. It was there that my mother lived and played. Many years later, my brother and I went to visit Queen Emma's summer palace with my mother. The palace was now a museum. I did not understand my mother's subdued spirit and silence. As we walked the palace, I could clearly see emotions welling up within her and then being suppressed.

On April 12, 1945, a fleet of American B-29 bombers flew toward Japan. Their mission was simple: Stop World War II by burning the cities, factories, and military bases of the Japanese em­pire, thereby forcing an unconditional surrender. But it didn't go as planned. Onboard one of the B-29s, the City of Los Angeles, a phosphorus bomb detonated inside the plane. Staff Sergeant Henry E. "Red" Erwin absorbed the blast of burning phosphorus and managed to throw the still-flaming bomb overboard be­fore collapsing from the third-degree burns that covered his body.

En un mundo que parece estar girando fuera de control, necesitamos la esperanza más que nunca. ¿Y si la esperanza que sostiene la vida que usted necesita se encuentra dentro de las páginas de la Biblia?

A deadly medical mistake sent a navy sailor to the presence of Jesus in heaven. He returned from his near-death experience with new eyes to see the kingdom of heaven in this life. Now he wants to help you experience heaven on earth today.

James Spiegel never realized what challenges and adventures he would face in talking about God with his own children. In a book that is witty, warm, and profound, he explains complex issues of the Christian faith in terms that his children can understand and accept.

A day-by-day devotional using selected scriptures from the King James Version Bible. With this guide, you'll begin to structure your day to spend quality time in prayer and solitude.

It's difficult to hear the growing daily reports of evil in our society without a degree of fear. Seen from a human perspective, things appear hopeless. But as we consider the spiritual perspective of those same events, we can - and will - see what purpose those struggles serve in God's plan. In this book, pastor and author Phil Hotsenpiller will help you begin to connect the dots between biblical prophecies about lawlessness with current events.

Never before has this country indeed this world faced such a need for a book that unites people, a book that reassures those disillusioned by faith that they can navigate their way back to God and even experience a profound spiritual awakening. For author and entrepreneur Steve McSwain, such an epiphany transformed his life. In The Enoch Factor, readers discover a kindred spirit in an author who understands how religion can subvert a spiritual life. His story will help them navigate their own spiritual journeys.

The pressures of being a teenager are like ticking time bombs. Ten Time Bombs equips adults with the knowledge and understanding needed to diffuse the most explosive pressures young people face. Through humor and candid discussion, Ron Hutchcraft talks about sex, friends, family, relationships, and those things that make teenagers angry, depressed, hurt, and lonely. Hutchcraft is the host of Alive! with Ron Hutchcraft, the most widely circulated Christian youth broadcast in the world.

Bridget suffers a miscarriage and turns away from God. She spends 10 years angry at him and loses sight of her faith. But God has a plan to show her the way back to him. Her best friend develops cancer as well, so Bridget questions God again. But, God is about to shake her world with a revelation about her lost child.

King Solomon states that God has set "eternity in our hearts." All our desires point to eternity and find their true fulfillment in heaven. But are there actually real glimpses of heaven in this life? Yes! Supernatural happenings take place from time to time as God so designates. Heaven reveals itself in the form of miracles, angels, and even near-death experiences. We also find it displayed in dramatic healings and gigantic answers to prayer. Heaven Sightings contains a rich mixture of amazing true stories that will boost your confidence in God.

For those who declare that Sunday school doesn't work anymore, here is a book that can revitalize this often neglected ministry. Steve Parr encourages churches to re-energize traditional Sunday school by making it intentionally evangelistic, using proven methods and strategies already implemented in hundreds of growing churches. He guides churches through the process of analyzing their present programs and moving in a new direction to fulfill the Great Commission.