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Our lord repeatedly instructed us: "Be not deceived". That is an imperative: A command, not simply a suggestion. But how? What are the tools to prevent our being deceived or misled? The context of a passage is always a primary consideration in the search for understanding of a passage of scripture. It is often cited, "A verse out of context is a pretext". And, indeed, one must always maintain an awareness of both who is doing the speaking and the audience being addressed. However, this foundational emphasis can also be a restrictive blindfold to some of a passage's deeper implications.

In this beautifully crafted memoir, best-selling author and business leader Joe Sweeney weaves a remarkable tale of friendship, spirituality, and even some of the mischief that characterizes the unlikely 32-year relationship he enjoyed with a modern-day saint. She had a way about her, he said, and it was unlike anything he had encountered as a lifelong Catholic with honest questions about his faith, spirituality, and the meaning of life. A Light Shines Through Us guides listeners of all faiths, and those claiming no faith, on a journey of spiritual exploration and discovery.

When her husband, Mannard, unexpectedly passed away at just 50 years of age, Sheri Hunter was devastated. With her whole world falling down around her, she turned to her friends. Years before, she and these Dare Divas had gone on a whitewater rafting trip. Now they sought out other adventures - zip-lining, skydiving, mountain climbing, and more. Through these death-defying activities and the unwavering support of her friends, Sheri slowly found the strength to move forward in life.

How do you change the world? Dr. John M. Perkins says the answer is friendship. Find out why in He Calls Me Friend.

Go behind closed doors with the sons and daughters of modern world changers, as the next generation shares personal stories of what it was like growing up being the children of key leaders in the modern-day revival moment. Even though we are here for only a moment, our legacies carry on through the ages. Sons and Daughters of Revival unravels the secrets to building your spiritual legacy that will powerfully impact generations to come!

Loving your neighbor as yourself would be easy if your neighbors were all people you understood, people you agreed with, people like you. But what about playground bullies, colleagues, refugees, online adversaries? They're all our neighbors, and Jesus said to love them. Every one. But how? Lauren Casper believes the key is the lost art of empathy, stepping into other people’s shoes and asking what if? - what if it were my child? What if it were me? Learn to connect in simple but life-altering ways and shine God’s unconditional love into a dark world.

Nearly everyone has someone in their circle of acquaintances who struggles - an out-of-control friend or relative whose habits or relationships are in chaos. Is there any hope, or is he or she doomed to self-destruction? Pastors Rob Cowles and Matt Roberts say God is equal to the challenge!

SQuire Rushnell and Louise DuArt have practiced daily prayer together for sixteen years. Now they offer listeners step-by-step advice on why and how to pray with another person. The 40 Day Prayer Challenge answers the question they hear daily: how do you pray with someone else? The authors also explain how Partnered Prayer - which sounds like a new idea, but comes from ancient biblical promises - restores relationships and revitalizes families.

Even though we acknowledge God as owner of the universe and ourselves, we do not live out that belief in our daily lives. C. S. Lewis and others alluded to God's ownership and acknowledged it, but this is the first work to explore the details and explain its importance and impact in-depth. The author uses a hundred verses of scripture and his knowledge of the original languages to enlighten and illuminate what first-century Christians knew, but has been lost for centuries and hidden by our own desire to avoid knowing what God really wants from us.

In today's culture, it is becoming evident that the person who tells the best story and captures the heart of the audience will have the greatest influence. As Christians, we hold in our hearts the manuscript of the greatest true story ever told-the message of the Gospel. Additionally, God has given each of us our own stories of divine redemption and miraculous victories. Yet, far too often, we fail to articulate these God-moments to others with clarity and conviction.

You promised yourself you'd never fall into the same sin again. You've prayed about it over and over, but it has tripped you up at the most inopportune times, knocking you back several steps. Will you ever be victorious? Maybe like Aaron Davis, among thousands of pastors, and millions of Christians around the world, you have felt powerless to overcome the same one or two pitfalls that have plagued you your whole life.

I believe that we're in the beginning stages of the greatest revival this world has ever known. In order for us to carry out the plan of God, we must realize that divine intervention and not human effort will usher in this end-time revival. Christians must know that their lives with God can be full of new experiences every day. Instead of merely enduring our salvation, we can enjoy the fullness that God has provided in the Holy Ghost. You need to realize that these gifts and callings were not placed in your life to lie dormant.

The degradable state of affairs in the world has bothered me for a long time because the true sons of God, who are supposed to be the pacesetters for the world, are in hiding. They have stayed on the sidelines to watch as God's inheritance to his children slips further away from their hands. But what can they do to bring the Earth under alignment with the will of God? Know their rights!

From the new Cherub Wings series, here is an audio that the little ones will love and want to listen to over and over while at the same time learning basic Biblical teachings. More than anything else, Cherub wishes to share Heaven with children everywhere! What a surprise when Jesus commissions him to do so, resulting in a fun-packed delight!

"Conspire", from the Latin conspirare, means literally to "breathe together". This book is about the Church learning to breathe together the Kingdom of God - using the ubiquity of the Internet to release the power of the Church's collective intelligence. Concepts like blogging, Web 2.0, Generation C (creative), and Open Source are here unpacked in light of the author's desre to engage church leaders in seeing the potential that exists in the pews - and in learning how to unlock that pontential.

Heaven is closer than we realize. Its boundaries overlap our own, and angels move in and out of our daily lives. If that reality seems dim to us now, it beamed for the early Christians. Through their writings, sermons, songs, and art, the ancient faithful confessed a powerful and vivid belief that angels help carry us on our journey to God. Lifted by Angels helps modern listeners glimpse angels as these early Christians did.

Experience an unforgettable revelation of worship that presses into God's throne-room presence and releases his power into your life!

God wants only good relationships, health, and prosperity for you. So if those aren't happening in your life, there can be only one cause - hidden spirits of harm, like locusts destroying the harvest God wants you to have.

Through powerful personal testimony and keen biblical insights, Sergio De La Mora invites listeners to experience a heart revolution and start living life from the inside out. His passionate 40-day plan will bring individual readers and entire churches on a healing journey through pain and forgiveness to new hope, purpose, and ultimate victory.

When a disaster happens; when personal tragedy strikes; when we are perplexed by world events, Christians begin to doubt that God is either truly good, or truly in control. Christopher Ash faces these questions head on, without flinching at any of the difficulties. First he looks at six different ways people have answered this question both as Christians and from other religions and none. He then reveals the Bible's answer - the revelation of God's character and purposes throughout history.